Power of the Shofar: How Animals Can Teach Us the Secret of Life

okay good morning everybody welcome back after a very long break it's great to be here and I want to wish everybody a an amazing New Year to you and all of your loved ones should be an amazing incredible blessed year on all levels in all aspects all of your heart's desires should be fulfilled materially and spiritually with health happiness Prosperity knock us Yeshua to all of us but Claudia Israel in the whole world on Maine so next week we'll also have a class be also a Rosh Hashanah class the week afterwards as well be a Yom Kippur class the question I have is and that's the nationalists have to tell me is Yom Kippur is Monday so the question is if the day afterwards there should be a class or not I'm fine giving a class yeah okay what okay I'm glad [Laughter] thank you [Laughter] okay fine perfect so next week there'll be a class based your Hashem and the week after and the week after because there won't be a class okay they tell um there's a source sheets on the Bimmer if you want there's one source on the beam uh text that we're gonna use they tell an old anecdote about uh about an immigrant Jew who came from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean settled in this country didn't know much of the language or much of the culture and one day an old friend an old pal came to visit him and they spend time a few hours catching up they haven't seen each other many many years since they parted ways back in Eastern Europe anyway at some point the visitor the guest the friend asked him what uh what time it is do you have a clock on the wall he says no you can't afford a clock he says do you have a watch he says no we can't afford a watch he's a poor immigrant she says how in the world do you know what time it is so he says I'll show you takes out a chauffeur and he starts blowing dude suddenly he has a neighbor are you crazy it's three o'clock in the morning so that's how I know what time it is so uh it's of course a joke but uh sometimes certain things can tell us what time it is the show is one of the things that can tell a person what time it is and not just the time on the clock but also the internal rhythm of time and that's what we're going to be addressing today we all take for granted do not take for granted but we're all very very familiar with the fact that as the missioner says the main myths of Rosh Hashanah is blowing the chauffeur hearing the chauffeur once a year under shashanah even in a year when Rosh Hashanah falls out on Shabbos so the second day Rosh Hashanah Schaefer is blown on Sunday in fact as the missioner says even Rosh Hashanah that was they used to blow Schaefer because the terror doesn't make a clear distinction between Shabbos outside of the base the hakama made a decree because of people carrying the chaifa possibly to go hear it to go learn it but uh in reality the second day of Rosh Hashanah everybody has sheifer what we want to explore today is one of the inner meanings of that Mitzvah what's the significance of it it's an instrument it's not a very musical instrument in the sense that I never saw somebody uh at a wedding choose their band and say main fingers have somebody blowing chauffeur there's a certain rough sound to it they'd say that during the Spanish Inquisition it's an old Story the sandwich Inquisition there was a Jew they used to call them the moranos who officially converted to Catholic to Christianity and he did a composition on Rosh Hashanah for the church that he was a Jewish composer and he arranged chauffeur blowing the middle of the symphony but generally speaking it's not a very musical instrument it's not a violin or a cello or a guitar what's exactly the message what's the theme what's the underlying energy behind taking a Ram's Horn and making all of these sounds how are we supposed to understand it so throughout the generations many many mufarsha many commentators sages have offered different perspectives the Toyota doesn't give a reason the terrorist says the first day of the month of tishire the first day of the seventh month of the year starting with Nissan should be a day in which we Sound the Horn with all of the different sounds whether it's a simple blast or the sound of a groan or the sound of a sigh it's called the sound of acai which the gemara says at the end of Shana represents the psy or the grow the grow the groan the Sigh the cracks in Yiddish or the sobbing and then you have the simple sound but if I do it with my mouth if these sounds are so significant so we can all stand together and show and and start viewing you know to open up the poly Vegas nerve and allow the connection to flow so we can all Vu we can go which is which is apparently very healthy on different levels you could do it with your mouth and utter the sounds but if you blow it with your mouth it's not the Mitzvah we need to take the Horn of the animal usually we use the Ram's Horn and that's what we blow and that's the main mitzvah rishashanah gone one of the great Guardian he offers ten different reasons that He suggests for the Mitzvah blowing Schaefer the most famous one is when you coronate a king they would blow horns trumpets call out long live the king like we have the story in the navi when bathsheva goes to her husband David and asks him to appoint shlim as a successor and at the end she says the King David live forever so when they would coronate the king and that was not even on the day of Coronation that was already at Denver but when that was at the end of his level they would coordinate a king see him long live the king with concertos and trumpets and horns and that was that's one one interpretation the rambam says in the laws of truva that KIA schreifers a decree of the Torah that it doesn't give a reason but Ram is yashboy there is a hint there there's there's an illusion people to wake up for people to wake up that's the guy who was screaming it's three o'clock in the morning it's not time to blow chauffeur now is that cinnamon that chaifa wakes you up that's another another theme still we have to understand so we can all scream why the chauffeur why the Rams aren't as many other interpretations that KW took the horn the Karen the Horn of the ram of Yitzhak one of the reasons we use a ram and the sheifer That Was Heard by Martin Turner and other episode himself gives 10 reasons in this class I want to explore another dimension in Schaefer which touches on a very profound psychological emotional and spiritual idea and it comes from the teachings of the balhatanya the alter Rivera the author of The Tanya explained also by his grandson known as and I should say yesterday the 18th of Ella was the birthday both of the balsham and the balatanya of 1698 the balatonya 1745 and really a very powerful explanation about the idea of chaifa and Rosh Hashanah and the connection to Rosh Hashanah and what it means in a person's life it's a profound explanation that has many many layers of significance but basil Hashem let's delve into it and at least touch on some of these aspects I'm going to start off with a question and we've probably all thought of this question because it happens on a daily basis to so many different ways maybe you can answer that question but here and what we're going to learn there's a very very powerful answer to this question and that is what's the difference between children and adults at what point do I say I'm not a child anymore I'm an adult what's the sign of maturity what age is the age of maturity today in today's culture nobody's sure exactly when do I stop being a child used to be in Ontario 12 13. on one hand there are 60 year olds who say I still have to be a child and then they're six-year-olds who turn to the mother say what do I look like a baby I'm already six years old I'm eight years old I'm 11 years old what are you gonna tell me what to do so the demarcations the borders between childhood and adulthood are blurred and it has a negative element it says a positive element one of the differences we see between children and adults will say well adults are mature they're supposed to be mature they're supposed to be responsible take accountability leadership you know cotton it says the obligation in mitzvah's accountability is something that's connected to adulthood Etc there's a fascinating difference we see between children and adults and that is in terms of keeping grudges consciously and that is children get into fights constantly they even get into fights with their siblings not even particularly with their siblings especially if it's Barack Hashem a large family an act of family and even if it's a home in Muncie where everybody has their own room there's enough shared space and not enough ice cream in the freezer to create various moments of Discord and contention there's even moments a child will tell his father or mother about how they don't like them you're not a good mommy you're not a good tattoo you can't have a piece of my birthday cake I'm not going to play with you Etc yet we see that as fast as those negative grudges come they leave equally Swift with equal swiftness and alacrity child says I'm not your friend but five minutes later especially if I give him a good piece of ice cream a good ice cream cone you're my best friend with adults it's not so simple with adults we can Harbor grudges for many many years I would say for many decades if we would live long enough for many centuries child says I'm never talking to you again or you can't come to my birthday or you're not my friend or I don't like you a little kid 12 minutes later you're best friends again with an adult if somebody says I'm not I'm not talking to you let's hope 12 years later they they're on speaking terms now you would think adults are mature if we're mature we should be able to let go of these things children know how to let go swiftly adults don't or at least it's much much harder for us so it's fascinating give a very very profound really a really meaningful and profound explanation for this but I don't want to jump ahead of myself so let's begin with a text here you have a double-sided Source sheet on one side you see it says liquite look what the title is a is a classical work by the balotanya on the parshis and the yamam so this is impartius emmer speaking about the the carbon of schwas the offering of schwas where they brought to sheep special two sheep with two loaves of bread that will offered as a carbon slum and they would eat the bread and he says these words known very very Grand words the purpose of all of creation is to align the Yash with the iron to reconnect the Yash with the Ayan and in each world the Bittle the Nullification and the alignment of the Yash is experienced according to its level what does this mean the purpose of the whole creation is Leo's Hayes what does that mean that the Yes means something iron means nothing should be nullified or connected or realigned with nothing what is that supposed to mean so it doesn't sound simple and it's not simple or maybe it's very simple but what it means as follows the word nothing in English we say is nothing means nothing right like nothing is going on but really it's a combination of two words no thing no thing is nothing but no thing doesn't mean nothing sometimes no thing is more something than something it's just no thing it's not tangible it's not something that I can Define and say oh this is a thing I call it nothing because I have no way of describing it I have no way of grasping it I have no way of wrapping my brain around it physically or conceptually but sometimes it's more of a thing than anything in fact it's the source of all things the source of all things can't be a thing right every child asks their parent at some point usually between four and seven who created Hashem right not every child but many children I sometimes get emails actually pretty frequently how am I supposed to answer this question who created Hashem for the world of creation needs a Creator so why doesn't the Creator have a Creator the answer is no thing the Creator is called iron iron means nothing but iron doesn't mean nothing as in nothing it means no thing in other words the only one that could be responsible creating the world is some something I'm saying something but it's the wrong word I just don't know what to say if I say someone it's also the wrong word but it's a re even reality is the wrong word because for us every reality is a something it could be a tissue box it can be a piece of paper it could be a stand it could be a mic it could be a human being but it's a thing but the Creator must transcend transcends matter space and time because if the Creator was made up of matter or existed in space or existed in time there's no way that all matter all space and all time could come from there so the Creator is something that transcends matter space time and if it doesn't have to be created it's an essential reality that precedes creation that's called iron we we call it iron because the way we identify no thing is nothing it's the source of all things what is Yash Yash is the way the iron gets articulated in very limited realities and that's the world we perceive here's a squirrel here's a deer here's a plant a shrub a bush here's a musical composition here's a piano here is a bed here is a person here is a star here is a groundhog here's a beer any physical or spiritual reality that's articulated so it's already taking infinite no thickness and articulating it and compressing it into a finite image and definition at every moment of life we we make a choice do I detach the Ace from the iron or do I connect the Asia to the iron what does it mean to detach to detach means I live only within my finite self whatever that looks like at the moment what does it mean to connect the yeast to the iron that there is a flow constantly from the source of no thickness into thickness let me give an illustration that will make it a little easier imagine you go to the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean and you're standing at the ocean I don't know if you ever took a cruise in the middle of the night you go out at the deck right and you see the infinite expansiveness gazal called it Mayim Shane let him so if water that doesn't have water that doesn't have an end of course it has an end but it doesn't look like it has an end the the grandness the exquisiteness it it does something to a person or people love going to the beaches looking at it any body of water a lake a river but specially when you go to the ocean it just you the grandness of it is is extremely overwhelming and Powerful in a positive sense so you have this this ocean right now there's a bottle a bottle in the ocean you have a bottle there well let me have you a bottle of water it'll be easier thank you I just like to be visual you know me I like to be visual okay so you have a bottle and the bottle is in the ocean right the bottle is open so the bottle fills up with water now imagine I'm that bottle so somebody asks me what's this water you say this is me this is this is me if I take a cap and I put it on the bottle and I close the bottle so now you have this limited bottle in the ocean what's one of the most tragic things the bottle can do sink and right right now on another level okay let's just imagine for a moment that that ocean is just a physical metaphor that ocean is the source of reality it's the ion of reality it's the Divine reality the energy comes in and gets contained in the human body which is like a bottle it contains the water so essentially I'm part of the ocean that's who I am I am part of the ocean it's just my water is being contained and channeled through the bottle and that's what the bottle does if I close the cap and I separate the two and all I acknowledge is that I am a bottle of nothing else I turn myself into an extremely limited limited human being depriving myself from the truth and the truth is I'm in the ocean I'm part of the ocean however the world was created in a way that the energy is bottled and contained in what looks like a yesh when he says the purpose is means every day I want to open the camp of the battle and connect the water from the bottle with the water over the ocean so that a person doesn't see themselves only as a finite ego but rather you were a manifestation you're a wave you're part of the infinite ion I'm channeling the infinite iron through my body through my life through my circumstances only to bring Infinity into finite that's what it means to connect the Yash to the iron I can also detach it like how do we capture a Mikvah right Mikvah is only essentially has to be natural a natural body of water like rain water but our mikvahs are hot like many of them are like Spas what do they do so if you notice at the side of every mixer under the Mikvah there's another boy or another sister that has Rainwater and they have a a stopper in between there's a hole and they have a stubborn they take out the stopper and the two bodies of water it's called an Aloha they kiss each other hashaka they kiss each other so the the water that came from the faucet which is hot and warm or warm water or whatever the temperature is is kissing the natural body of water so the whole mixer becomes culture so when I take over the cap and the water in the bottle can connect with the water over the ocean it's an extension of the water of the ocean not a separation from the water of the ocean and that changes the way a person experiences themselves because when I'm making a decision or I'm having an instinct which part of me am I experiencing am I experiencing only the part that's contained in a very little bottle and this has very very little water and I really have to protect my water because without this bottle I don't have water or I could really see no this is a bottle in an ocean you really don't have to protect yourself you have a lot a lot of water now bottles of water are very very good especially if you're going on a hike the long hike or Bear Mountains it's good to have a bottle of water but what happens when I Define my entire identity by this bottle of water not realizing that I'm essentially part of the ocean the soul the nashama pre-birth and after death is just part of the ocean when we're born the soul is channeled into a container which now I have to make a choice every day if I am a manifestation of infinity or I'm just a very small bottle that really has to protect itself constantly so balatanya says what's the tackles the purpose of creation is to always go back to Oneness to always bring every Yash back to the iron don't detach your battle from the ocean let the bottle be a conduit a channel like a pipe through which the water flows rather than putting on a cap tight and saying no there's nothing else here so the Mikvah we don't mind if the Mikvah is wonderful warm good water but there's a Shaka you want to connect it to the source of the water not detach the water in the in the Mikvah the warm water in the microwave from the other part of the water the same is true in a person's life so at every single moment they're separating the Yash from the iron and then I'm just busy protecting my little Turf and there's bitterly iron which means I allow the self to see itself and experience itself as literally part of the ocean which is a metaphor for the collective Divine reality the eye and the no thingness that I'm a part of I don't get stuck in thickness I can always reconnect to no thickness which is the source of all things this is important when we talk about Hashem right one of the greatest challenges is that the moment we say the word Hashem it sounds like it's an existence outside of me so there's me and there's Hashem and the question is what's the nature of our relationship that's all a conversation of yesh in the conversation of Ayan it's not two separate realities like the balchem whose birthday was also the 18th of evil used to say got this out on outs is got what did he mean what did he mean he says don't put yourself don't lock yourself up into a bottle you are the ocean I am the ocean you are the ocean the ocean is flowing through you you're a conduit you're a manifestation your body is a manifestation of it but it's a yes because it can be interpreted differently pre-creation there was no other interpretation it was just all Iron everything was no thickness infinite Oneness now I can have to choose that interpretation and I have to make a choice because there's instincts in me that want to take me away they want to just put me in a bottle shut me off whenever I shut off from other people when I shut down what I'm essentially I'm doing I'm putting the cap Tighter and Tighter and Tighter all separation all fragmentation from myself or others is that form when I open up the yes to the iron there's always Harmony there's a singular Essence that connects everything because there's no separation that's the idea of Hashem Hashem means Oneness it doesn't mean only there's one Hashem and not two hashems that's also true but it means something even deeper Hashem where there's Hashem the presence of eye and there's always Oneness because everything is part of that everything we say when mashiach comes malar is there the Earth will be filled with Divine awareness like water covers the sea when you go to the ocean you see one bed of water that covers and connects everything even though there's a whole universe under the water but what we perceive is a connectivity and a holistic integrated Connection in the entire ocean outside of the ocean everything has its own identity and its own image even from our hour to perspective so that's the idea of tacos Calabria is the daily battle for Transcendence the daily work to be able to wake up in the morning naturally my instinct is to go into ayesh to go into a bottle and put on the cap but to be able to breathe in the source so it says when you blow you're blowing from your inside so it's much harder to blow than to speak when I speak some people could speak for a long time Look Who's Talking and they don't stop they barely pause blowing like blowing ship it's not so easy right foreign it's hard you have to you can train yourself but it's not so simple because it exerts much more energy it comes from like a deeper place so it says the whole it says Hashem spoke the world to into existence by the soul that says he blew wasn't it Hashem talking and blowing when I speak it's more external energy when I blow it comes from the inside so the soul of a person which means the Breath of Life is that breath that was blowing into the bottle but it's that breath of infinity so I want to be able to be a conduit for that breath a conduit through my body through my instincts through my emotions and then the whole issue of insecurity am I good am I not good am I beloved am I not beloved how talented am I do they like me don't they like me that's if I'm trapped in my yes if I'm in the iron there's an inner peace because there's an inner Oneness but it's a struggle that's why he says the tankless Calabria is to create the bit foreign okay now let's go a little further the third the second one the sword streets on the Bima Julia's um foreign become one he says an example is the body and the soul in the body a healthy body what's a healthy body the limbs are not struggling to listen to the brain it's not like if my brain tells my hand it's time to lift up time for takeoff pick up your hand or put down your hand man says you're going to dictate my behavior and my own creation then it means you have to go to the emergency room very very fast very very fast a healthy body means there's Oneness my arm doesn't see my brain as a competitor as a dictator as a tyrant as a ruler there's a Oneness that's what Bittle means Bittle means that the body experiences itself as one with the Consciousness they're working together there's a symbiosis to the point that you can't even distinguish between the two it's so profound that today there are those who want to erroneously dismiss the fact that we have a soul that we have an inner Consciousness we want to turn the body just into a machine that's based on electrical currents That's How deep the unity is that you can even error and say there's nothing else outside of the body when you die that's it just the machine went off the machine went down that's how deep the unity is so this is a metaphor really the whole world is one body what my body is to my soul the entire Cosmos the entire planet in the entire universe is a large goof and it's in symbiosis it's a relationship with the Oneness the Consciousness the eye in the Divine source that animates it [Music] so he says for the balotanya says further you see you see in the source it's one two three four five six seven eight eight months from the tops Shane Taylor is in our world in the human world this type of Oneness is not something that we intuitively grasp intuitively I am my own person and I'm gonna fight for it I have an ego I have my ego to protect you have your ego to protect so this concept of real Oneness is not something that we experience Naturally by us it's an avoidance sometimes it can even be misconstrued and abused that's what a dictatorship is what's a dictatorship dictatorship is you don't exist you exist for me it's like the symbol of the pyramids the symbol of the pyramids is you have the ones on the bottom and they support those on top all the way until the Pharaoh a demigod who's all the way on the top and my sole purpose is to be able to be a foundation for you to be able to step on me that's a horrible horrible thing that Humanity experienced throughout the history and what happens there is the word nullification Bittle is used but in a terribly corrupt way the concept we're talking about is freeing up the battle allowing the water to be part of infinity but the opposite concept is when I misuse it and therefore we often want to protect ourselves and remain separate but the balatanya says we do see this Nature by animals by animals you see it for example you have a horse we're talking about again a healthy animal none of the horse is sick the horse doesn't tell you one day you know what I'm not interested I decided I have another life that I want to live it usually doesn't happen unless the horse is sick or the horse is experiencing something the same is true with the ax who says I'm not plowing anymore when you're talking about behemoths you see naturally this Teva habital you can have a whole herd if you go to these farms in the Middle East you can have a whole herd of sheep hundreds of sheep all being directed by a 10 year old boy 10 year old Bedouin Shepherd laughs because animals genetically it's not their choice genetically if they know that you're not endangering them if they trust a Shepherd that he or she is going to take him to the right postures and give them the irrigation and the hydration and the food that they need they completely completely surrender the Sheep just follow the Bahamas follow why so he says they have naturally ingrained in them this state of Bittle this state of not struggling struggling with this one who is leading them as this competition I'm not really in the mood but I'll do it anyway because I'm going to get a paycheck it doesn't even cross their mind their home at Sea is their whole entity their very DNA is programmed in a way that this is what the acts does this is what the horse does this is what the donkey does this is what the Sheep does etc hmm so you could say Well they're animals they're animals they don't have our intelligence to revolt or to Rebel their behemoths balatanya says that's true but there's something much deeper the high number is the reason is everything in the world is rooted in Divine energy in iron so he says behemoths come from a very lofty place in Divine energy where the sense of Oneness is consciously felt there's no ego why is there no ego because everything is infinity not there's no ego because I'm a shmatter there's no ego because I don't want to be small I'm infinite ego is easing god out or easing greatness out that's a new one easing greatness out I'm turning my water you're the Pacific Ocean and you say oh no no no I'm just a little bottle you're the Pacific Ocean For Heaven's Sake don't turn yourself into a bottle the bottle is a channel so that when people go on a hike they can take you with them don't reduce your whole entity into a bottle so the soul is infinity it comes into a body so that you can contain and channel it into the world not to reduce yourself to that the animals the Bahamas are rooted in a very lofty space huh in that sense they come from a higher source you'll see in a moment that's why we have in the Chariot of the Maison Mercado sees right remember the Charities is the face of a lion and the face of an eagle and the face of uh ax and the face of a play area and these represent the face of the ax represents the gemara says that the Bahama the ax is the king of all the domesticated animals just like the lion is the king of the undomesticated animals so the energy of an animal is rooted in very profound Divinity and in a place where the animal energy is complete Bittle and Irene so from the light of Infinity but it went through on the Fila part of the creation Kabbalah it's known as SRI Calum the vessels were broken so the energy of the animal it falls down and now what does it represent itself in the fact that it surrenders to the human authority now human authority sometimes people could be kind to animals and people could be cruel to animals [Music] so he says don't mistake it the Bittle that you're seeing in the animal that sense of complete surrender of ego is rooted in a very lofty spiritual energy of iron [Music] exactly exactly that's why their loyalty is completely not compromised and whatever the Creator wants from them they're always in tuned with it wake up four in the morning and you'll see how the birds are dominating I never heard the bird say I'm not in the mood today there's birds by me they do a concert every morning I'm waiting one day they should sleep in like me somehow they don't get lazy ever see bees get lazy you know bees live for 30 days you know why because they're working 12 hour shifts I can't sit tuck they're running to your garden getting nectar bringing it back to The Beehive back and back and back and back all for the queen to live after 30 days they're done boom so on one level we look at it and we say yeah this is their DNA they're just programmed they don't have the Consciousness to say what if I was a cat not a bee I really need therapy I want to be a cat I don't want to be a bee to piddle or not to piddle that is the question so on a surface level you say well our Consciousness is more developed the cognitive revolution in human beings however you want to Define it the balatonya says on a much deeper level what you're seeing in them is really a picture of Bittle the way it's translated in our physical world is they're just animals doing their thing because means the energy is not visible anymore as Oneness with infinity it's now visible as an animal who could be controlled by a person who can actually be very arrogant and very egotistical and very cruel and very selfish towards the animal and he says that's why so much of Judaism is focused on animals Animal offerings what's this obsession with animals and the carbonis the sheep in the morning and a sheep in the afternoon what's this carbonis a carbon is you take the animal they brought it to them is back to the altar the oil is [Music] the energy of the animal was sublimated back to its pristine source and what does its source it sources pure Divine Consciousness pure Oneness with Divine infinite Consciousness the way it comes down in our world where it goes through Gets Lost in Translation it goes through a transformation where you don't recognize its source it's an animals but really this Behavior this babe its energy is rooted in a very lofty level the carbon brings the Bahama back to that place that's why it's such a central feature in in in in in avoiding the service of the base I make this on a person is only from Bahamas domesticated animals only a few oxen cows or bulls sheep and goat and that's it sheep different ages you have sheep ramp goats different ages acts in different ages but that's it only three types why he says because you could control but it's much harder don't try it's not easy the behemoths they surrender easily they're domesticated they come completely under you under you and there's no and there's like a symbiosis we're going and they're going so they're they they're rooted in a deeper place of bittel of Oneness the most popular carbonus most common were from sheep by them you see the greatest surrender of ego more than any other even domestic an ax if it gets aggressive on you be careful they're very good they plow and plow and plow but if it gets aggressive it's you have to be careful you know you don't want to deal with an angry Ox search it can Gore Etc sheep again again all animals can get wild and so forth and sometimes they can become stubborn and defy but generally speaking something is bothering them or something is unhealthy or they're threatened or they're afraid they want to survive but you have this quality with this 11 year old child with this thick is controlling all of these sheep on one level there's nothing sophisticated about that he says that's exactly the point it's rooted it's a reflection of that place of Oneness in the nashama of these animals in the source now what does this mean for us so let's go to the next step okay if you could turn around your if you could turn over your page please this is Emma based on the same amount of he says as follows on the top Shah Adam s a person is always defined by choice if you want to rebel you Rebel and you don't listen if you want you listen this is part of how Hashem created a person that we constantly have to ask myself should I listen should I not doesn't make sense does it not make sense what's in it for me what's not in it for me machine can be Bahamas Club the Bahamas don't know that they have this choice no but they never got the memo their DNA doesn't give them the memo wait wait wait their brain doesn't work that way they don't have these identity crises like a human being this choice that I can rebel I could say no no no [Music] this represents the person's power of Independence a person is but in a way a person in that sense can become lower than an animal because my choice can take me into some dark places or unhealthy places after the parentheses there's a certain lack of self-consciousness that animals have much more than people he says not completely when you're living in the physical world there's some form of self-counter but much more much less self-consciousness than people that they're just following the direction of the composer without any Consciousness and struggle and contention huh yeah there's no clothing there's no self-consciousness what do I look like what don't I look like right okay classes he wanted to cross the river and the river says sorry I'm not splitting you're doing you're the will of your creator I'm doing the will of my Creator by not splitting so he says what the river is saying is the Bittle tashem I'm not inferior to you I've been but what doesn't mean the river spoke to him everything in the world has energy everything is energy everything is I am what the river is saying is this is not a mistake that I'm a river this is exactly a manifestation of my role in The Cosmic Symphony I'm not supposed to split my my tough kid is not to be dry land he has this whole fight with Republicans foreign because in the source again before the breaking of the vessels in the source of their energy they were completely completely one with infinity and therefore Even in our world that residue that character trait remains a few lines later the line starts rabba the juvenza gamkin now let's take this to a person himself or herself why are we talking about all of this foreign you see where I am children get angry at each other see this is not something from the 21st century even in the 18th century in the 19th century and even earlier children get upset at each other but somehow in a moment's time they make up they make peace and they have love and brotherhood like they were never separated you see two brothers they got into this crazy fight you're the worst brother ever I don't want to see you I don't want to sleep with you I'm moving into another house you're not my brother 50 minutes later they make a play together they're singing together they're terrorizing mommy together whatever they're doing they're in cahoots they're Brothers you would have never said there was a fighter they're best friends so we all say yeah that's what babies are that's what immature children are they fight and they make up and they fight and they make up and somehow two brothers you know sometimes parents get alarmed look at this fight in 20 minutes they're best friends when it comes to adults when they get into a Mac like it's a fight or anger resentment anger iron grudges kosher had over it's difficult actually it's hard for them to come back to that place of true Brotherhood and love it needs work sometimes it needs mediation there's some kind of contemplation and self-consciousness should I should I not does it make sense does it not make sense do I have to say face who's coming to come first we don't have to elaborate on this the same two brothers when they were six years old 10 years old they made peace in five minutes the same two brothers a few decades later as Anand developed the same two sisters the same Two Brothers cousins Partners friends Neighbors it's a whole different world says something extremely moving he says I'll tell you the reason it's based on what we discussed and I'm going to put it succinctly and then we'll see it inside children shoes being happy over being right adults will often choose being right over being happy children instinctively know that attachment connection breeds happiness when it says in the theater the first thing about a person the first psychological statement about man and the first thing the terrier says is not good the whole creation Hashem says is good good good good finally the title says something is not good what light remember not good for Adam to be alone that no goodness is the first thing the terrorist says not good it's fascinating you would think there's other things that are not good first while it's not good to transgress God's will it's not good to sin it's not good to murder it's not good idolatry these are all not good things obviously but the first light which means it's the source of all the other light types the source of all that no good is I told you numerous times the antithesis of addiction is not sobriety the antithesis of addiction is connection attachment the great tragedy in the human soul is when at some point I felt compelled to isolate to detach to disassociate bottled water completely I put a cap and then I put a second cap and then I build a fence and then I need a nice fence so I invest in a better picket fence and then I build an alarm system and I put Barbara and then I show everybody what a beautiful bottle I have look at my fans geovaldik and I invest 50 60 years in glorifying it so that it should be able to be on display when really the whole Pacific is me the hopeless but I know I I detached and it's not necessarily a choice that I made these are the forces that work within the human being in a very very powerful way when I get older I can become aware of this so the child knows that relationships attachment breeds happiness so he or she wants to be happy and it's more important for them to be happy than to be right with adults we can confuse ourselves we can build a new philosophy and the new philosophy is I would rather be right and be miserable but I'm going to be right even if it compromises my happiness why is it what happens to us we should be smarter no I've been in a body for so many years I have experience I should get smarter [Music] so this is what he's going to explain is foreign the answer is children experience the iron in a much more acute way as we grow older the battle starts becoming and taking itself so seriously so that the Yash could forget its connection to the iron and I start investing in a life of separate of separateness and fragmentation on a very practical level we call this the ego what the ego really means is I Define my existence by my ego and because that's what I have and I want to survive I invest in my ego so much I build a philosophy around my ego I build a psychology around my ego I build fences around my ego I invest in my ego so much and sometimes I don't even know there's anything else the child closer to birth is more in touch with the essential nature of reality the essential nature of reality is that ego is a bad joke it doesn't exist it doesn't really exist it exists as a substitute reality when I'm not in touch with my real reality I say it doesn't exist I don't mean it doesn't exist it can have a lot of power but it doesn't really exist it doesn't really make me happy because it's not who I am it's not what I need it's not who I am I tell myself it's what I need and what I am because this is my only source of identity so what do you want so I'm going to build it up so I always have to ask myself and this is not an easy question to answer because the forces inside are often unconscious but I have to ask myself is this response coming from my need to be ego oriented or is it coming from my need to be one that's a very very powerful question the ones who can challenge us most with these questions helping us and the Justice our spouses and our children because people whom I meet infrequently they will never trigger me in the same way but your child is going to trigger this Choice constantly but I always tell fathers before you answer your teenage son or daughter they told you something they did something before you understand breathe breathe you always have to breathe why breath is the source is the it's the umbilical cord it's the it's the lifeline to ayat so breathe so you get more in touch with that Breath of Life and now say ask yourself the following statement I'm going to tell my son or daughter what is it going to cause is it going to make them feel closer to me more trusting of me is that they're going to create more emotional attachment in our house more safety more security More Love and therefore better results on every level or is it gonna create a wall friction separation mistrust and therefore all of the things that come as a result of somebody being alone the moment I can answer that question most people usually know the answer to this question but like I lost control it's too much pain pain yeah so now the question is will I Surrender to my external fake self because of pain or will I be able to embrace and have compassion for the pain and understand this is right now a fight between yesh and iron our instincts our thoughts our words our actions can either be guided by one or the other or we can constantly try to bring them together to bring the yes closer to the eye and to bring the iron closer to the Yash so the tamak says the child's ego has not developed yet what he calls it enough is the sense of Adam I with all of its negative ramifications of separateness I'm gonna fight with my brother you know I don't want to be in a fight I don't want to be in a fight with anybody I don't want to have anybody in the world and speaking terms with I don't want to have anybody in the world that doesn't I don't want that so of course we're best friends again we fought now we're best friends again huh right of course it's not really ego but with an adult in other words the nature of the Behemoth is I just want to be close as the Netflix as the rational soul of the human being develops from I and I articulate myself more into Yash now as we said the animal down here you don't see its spiritual nature there's also the advantage of adulthood of maturity because the iron of the Behemoth you don't see it for what it really is but in its source it's an extremely lofty reality by the person who grows and the Yash becomes stronger and stronger and stronger that becomes also a source of Discord of contention of separation I'd have to emphasize sometimes a person needs to create boundaries for survival or a person needs to create boundaries for their Serenity or for their health or for their Mental Health especially if there's a situation that's dangerous or there's a situation that's triggering a memory of danger sometimes the child may not be aware of these things what happens with so many children is they're so trusting and because they're so trusting they can be hurt in ways that adults would not be hurt as some of you know so well unfortunately the six-year-old didn't know to be able to to say this is not this is not good for me I'm allowed to tell I'm a lot of scream I'm allowed to run it's that sense of trust that can hurt us like the animal can get hurt I'll have them as as adults we differentiate we can discern we can identify and say no I'm not going to surrender to dictatorship but this is the choice as an adult as an adult I have to choose between yet Shanaya as a child I'm more in the place of eye and I can be hurt but we can also be very close the child is like a wet sponge that absorbs the relationship so deep and that's why the way parents behave in the earliest years and other people behave affects the child's brain and shapes the brain and crafts the brain and the neural pathways as adults I get to choose because of them yes and say okay will Mayes be a trap or omayesh be an opportunity it becomes a trap it's when I'm now scared and defined by my ego so I'm forced to create boundaries that are unnecessary and that are scary that will undermine me rather than choosing those boundaries that will actually create the attachment in the most powerful way that there is so an attachment by an adult must incorporate the yesh it can't ignore it because that's who I am I'm not a sheep I'm not if I make myself a sheep it can be very very abusive it can be very very damaging so the idea of the carbon is to be able to bring that and recognize that element in the Bahama based on all of this will understand what blowing that KIA Schaefer is now we'll understand what Kia Schaefer is so I'm going to ask you now to turn around the page again sorry for the being wishy-washy the second paragraph that's why Hashem gave us a Mitzvah to Blow shuffle with the Ram's Horn why you want to blow blow him the ram remembering bodies from all animals the greatest Bittle of the yes the greatest nullification of the ego negative it's not even a thought let me Rebel let me not Rebel his entire its entire entity DNA genetic makeup is one where it works in a symbiotic relationship with its master location um when a person takes a Schaefer and blows it there is now a synthesis between the two qualities the quality of the human and the quality of the animal is to elevate my ability to choose and want as a person to a place of connection that goes beyond my rational limitations so the person is blowing the Ram's Horn the person takes the animal's horn and incorporates it and cries out not with my own mouth but with the Ram's Horn here we have the ultimate purpose of creation being fulfilled because we're not animals we weren't designed to be animals obviously the child is a child and it's very very precious and we want to protect the child the child is also going to grow up it's nice sometimes to remain nine years old forever depends how life was when you were nine years old or seven years old or four years old but as the gemara says the nicest place to be is in Mom's womb the gemara says in neither there's no life as Blissful as in Mom's womb she does the worrying she does the eating she does the drinking she does the sleeping all you gotta do is watch her anxiety just joking all you got to do is sit back relax and enjoy the show [Music] but we don't stay there comes time you got to be born Hashem created the world he didn't leave it in a place of I need to be he built the eye and into a yes he blew the soul into the body into the Bible can the human being incorporate the animal Consciousness into the human consciousness that's what Kia Schaefer is because on one hand we discern we make choices that's the beauty of the human being you're the only person that's reflective of the Creator the Creator chose you choose the creator has Freedom you have freedom the Creator is not pre-programmed you're not pre-programmed you can discern you can distinguish you can say yes you can say no you can create boundaries you could say I'm going to listen I'm not going to listen this is a good place this is not a good place this is healthy surrender this is unhealthy surrender this is a relationship that is glorifying and enriching and meaningful this is a relationship that's toxic this situation should be embraced this situation should be wrecked rejected this is called PIRA this is called ratson This is called but I can fall into the Trap and the trap is the cap around the bottle the Trap Of Separation where the ego now takes over instead of my choice is a choice to choose love to choose connection to choose attachment to choose Transcendence to choose the iron of the Behemoth but from a place of internal Choice which means that I bring the whole world back to its source because the whole world it's like you have a symphony and then you have the conductor of the symphony the conductor of the symphony if you ever went to a symphony brings together all of the musicians and all of the vocalists so that's the human being who chooses to see the world as one and then brings the whole world back to that Oneness that's a choice the human being has to make Hashem recreates the world every year rosh hashanah's anniversary of creation were created the sixth day of creation world is created 25th of Elle but who is the but everyone everything is pre-programmed the Sun and everything is pre-programmed it's all the manifestation of the Divine Design there's only one being that has to make conscious choices every single moment every single day that's the human being that's what Rosh Hashanah represents so Hashem says coronate me as your king [Music] realize who you are realize our Oneness our symbiote symbiotic is the word thank you symbiotic connection and Oneness as partners in repairing the world and healing the world so when that relationship is rebuilt every year what's the most powerful way of doing it the chauffeur and from all the animals we take the ram who captures that Oneness in the deepest way and we blow from the depth of the heart two two two two two two two in other words we're expressing our deepest yearnings and desires for attachment to escape my shell to escape my battle and to become one but one with what one with the source of no thing nothing no thing Miss in other words the source of of everything because Adam's Soul was blown into him and into Java remember the world is a speech and the nashama is blowing and that's why the soul is sensitive to the nimius of the world to the deeper energy of the world the whole world is hashem's speech the soul is hashem's breath so we connect to it through breathing specifically through blowing to the cipher which is like a replica of Hashem blowing his soul into existence into the human being so what did Hashem do the first president he blew schaeferime he blew a soul into Adam's nostrils I'm using the physical illustration because that's what I know how to do so when I blow Schaefer I'm blowing in that soul it goes one step further and this is a teaching of the magnet of Ms rich he says as follows Hashem tells you Shaya hanavi harem lift up your voice Like A Schaefer and tell my children about their mistakes their transgressions their sins so the magnet of misrich says why lift up your voice like a chaifer just say lift up your voice I don't have to tell you you know if I say give a passionate speech I don't say lift up your voice and should sound like a chaifer lift up speak with passion for so the market says something very powerful the only way a chauffeur can emit a sound is if it's Hollow if the chauffeur is stuffed or stopped or plugged no sound is going to come through the chauffeur doesn't create the sound the chauffeur is a channel for the sound who creates the sound the blower so if I go to it's my own sound my own voice if I take a chauffeur I use the instrument of a Schaefer as a conduit as a channel from my voice from my sound but the chaifa needs to be Hollow if you stop the show from one side of the other side you take it away from the mouth it's over the power of a chauffeur is it's connected to my mouth it's right there I don't move it away even a half a foot or a foot because then nothing will happen I'll go ooh the chef is sorry I didn't get the memo I put it by my mouth so it detects the sound it's open it's Hollow that's why Shafer has to be hollowed out you'll see every show if it's hollowed out the sound travels through the chauffeur narrow on one side broad on the other side I mean I made sakuras the other side [Music] so the market of Ms Rich says says that's exactly what all of creation is every one of us is a chaifer we're a channel I don't want to bottle up My Chauffeur I'm a channel what are you a Channel of you're a channel love iron I'm a Channel of the true infinite energy of love compassion and empathy the energy of the Creator the moment I'm a chaifer i Channel everything whatever is coming I channel the moment I take away this show and say no who are you I'm going to make my own reality so now the chauffeur is busy investing in its own reality but it doesn't have so little so it has to create fake sounds and it has to manufacture all types of pseudo qualities and talents just bring the chauffeur back to its source and Hollow make it Hollow and everything comes through it the hardest thing is to make myself Hollow try it I'm telling myself because there's resistance how do I but but it's it's really the most powerful thing in the world that's what bittel Hayes means making myself Hollow means I can empty out my Schaefer I can Empty Out My Chauffeur from any need of ego I can Empty Out My Chauffeur from the stress of trying to control but it's so hard I want to control I'm not a sheep That's The Power of a person I'm not a chaifer I'm not a dead lifeless instrument I'm not even a living Ram's Horn I'm a human being For Heaven's Sake that's why we can give this class sheep can't give this class they just know it they don't give it so that's what Kia Schaefer is it's the choice to become the chiffer it's a whole different experience then you're god-like you're free and then you become the one who brings the whole world together the whole world is now under hashem's sovereignty that's what we say Rosh Hashanah Coppola the human being the conductor of the symphony brings in all together so I become a channel for that energy of the shyfus Hashem you want to rebuke the Jews about their sins lift up your voice like a chaifer never rebuke somebody if you're not a chaifer the moment my ego and anger is involved it's going to be completely counterproductive because it's now my ego versus your ego my defense mechanisms versus your defense mechanisms my defense mechanisms went up and I trigger your defense mechanisms and walls are built between us if I can't be a chauffeur I can't speak to people I can either use them exploit them even in a benign way use them for my own ego for my own arrogance I'm not really speaking to people why because I'm busy trying to do whatever I need to do for my validation and survival make sense what I'm saying I had a mentor who once told me I have a mentally once told me he says you get up to speak he told me don't prepare no preparation I can't say I listened to that but he said let ruach speak through you what do I don't have Roach let the energy of Hashem speak through you nothing else there's no other objective no other intention the ego doesn't like that what's in it for me it's because we don't understand how great the me is we think the me is a is a little bottle and if you validate me and you give me an Applause you tell me how good it is I feel good for 20 times two minutes but you'll see 22 minutes later I need something else to feel good why because if I would really feel good it would be before middle after when it's not really feeling good it's fake feeling good it lasts for half an hour and then the next half an hour I need something else and then more more more more more more because it's filling you know a bottomless whenever when you have a a hole in the cup right or a bottomless pit you could pour it you could pour the whole Pacific Ocean it's not enough you know why there's a hole you have to the chauffeur has to be whole the chauffeur can't have holes inside the energy goes out the chauffeur has to be whole a real conduit a real Kaylee so Andre shashana Hashem blue his energy into the person we do the same thing we become that chaifer so we become the blower and we become a conduit for the energy and they would create the synthesis between the human being and the Behemoth so to speak The Best of Both Worlds can you be a child even as an adult that's the way to live you go to a wedding you're a child you know children are free if we see them when they're free they're not busy oh I'm gonna be stupid my two years old and my two-year-old number says oh but I'm self-conscious I don't want to jump on a table I don't want to walk around this way that way to be able to have that freedom of expression as an adult that's the Kia Schaefer that's a very profound experience now it's not words I could say it in words and words we're talking about the internal experience there may be so many blockages to hollow myself out from the yes and allow the iron to flow through it that's what I could learn from the show for I could cry out I could speak I could communicate from that place of the chauffeur I want to conclude with a story about it you all heard of he was a RAV in three cities and he was expelled from those cities now you would think why would any normal Community expelled oblivious from their community the answer is unfortunately those were the days where there was a serious opposition against the khasidam and the Hasidic movement the students of the balsham and the magadh there was abandoned excommunication we'll talk about ditch suffered terribly from it and even though he was a gone Islam he wasn't all he's known to be a spiritual Master he was also a an unbelievable mind he was the avbezden in big communities including by ditcha which was a big community but he was mistreated terribly once the middle of the night his family was expelled anyway he came to baduchev badichev accepted him which is in Ukraine and he was there till the end of his life till his passing he passed away toughkov I in 18 1809. any case there was one man in the community very affluent very very arrogant very haughty very wealthy who despisable now how can you despise such a man when you're brainwashed and you have a big ego and you don't work on yourself and you're insecure and you're threatened and you have some trauma whatever it is and you have a nice hate Sahara you can hate it but it's even the music of Aditya and he always tried to prove that he's a charlatan and he's a low life and he's a degenerate and he's immoral but how are you going to prove it was a Kurdish alien he was uh he was a Malachi some people are very Sinister you're not going to relate to this I hope I know you won't relate to this but some people are very Sinister so this is what he did a review keeper he came to the badditch river and he said you know if you ask forgiveness I want to ask mahila for everything I did to you so the body didn't blink he said of course I forgive you he said I think we have to drink to that so he says okay he had a ready vodka it was extra 96. you know what's X to nine secures 96 alcohol you drink a cup of that yeah you sleep for a couple of days he gave him zaxonites [Music] he thought she was naive he like he spilled he poured it out in his kapota and his pants he was ready to do that he tells about ditchever making peace with a guy like me deserves a second let's do it a second time then he says I think it needs a third that's what Detroit says okay three times drank three cups of zaxonites okay this guy didn't drink at all he said I'm so happy a good yamtif a good bench John he left what was his plan you understand kolnidre would come and they would wait for the rabbi and they would go looking for the rabbi and what would they find that he's sleeping somewhere in the mud outside of his house under a chair and immediately you'll be able to prove what type of Rabbi bardichev has and he will rest his case imagine what a person does out of him kid but this is what he was thinking about he just didn't notice if some people have different levels of self-control their bodies are one with their souls drank whatever happened happened but for col Nidra he was in Shull with his Talus the man comes to show he thought he's going to have simcha and he has Tish above the badicia was in front with his Talus with his kittel they start calling on time okay his plot was foiled there's a custom in many communities Yom Kippur at night after mairev to say the whole tehilament show used to be the khazan fatah after Cognito he would go to the extender and he would say the whole to Hill him and he'd he would say word for word until the end of tehilam till today many communities it's a minute to say the hotel some of the Hasidic communities and others the badiciver was saying to hella this man was sitting also and saying tell them 41. I put it here in the source Street the last line literally it means says with this I will know that you like me that you desire me you will not allow my enemies to triumph over me urea one of the meanings of urea which is like truer is triumph you will not allow your enemies to triumph over me to defeat me that's how I know you like me that's what it means literally the body said the pasak three times and then he translated the Posse into Yiddish and he gave an original translation I'll tell you what he said Allah fight with this I will know Hashem that you love me you will not allow my enemies to suffer because of the evil they try to do to me how do I know you love me you mad from the word you will not afflict my enemies with evil because of me because of what they try doing to me that's how I know you like me he said it three times in Yiddish this man he lost he lost it this he couldn't deal with anymore he his ego busted he ran over to the Buddhist River and he said I asked forgiveness not just for everything but what happened today and he became one of the greatest and disciples now I just want to I want I want to clarify one point I think an important point there the reason is because I'm going to get a few emails about this matter his confidence was rooted in Infinity so this person couldn't traumatize him we get affected by people and we have to respect that we have to respect the fact that we get affected very heavily by people and forgiveness is not simple was an Infinity he was not disconnected [Music] the worst thing you could think is that this man's actions affected him his actions didn't affected it's like never never you have to live in a world where your success is based on my downfall I'm fine there was no pushover he wouldn't surrender his life towards a program of negativity and evil but that it affected itself it was it was garnished he's rooted and ain't safe but he didn't even have he didn't even have time he didn't have the it was once I love who spoke about something very negatively about the laboratory and he realized he made a mistake so he wrote a letter of apology and he wrote it you know what paid this didn't hold a grudge against me so he wrote back to him I don't have time and mental space to be able to deal with grudges his forgiveness therefore came from his deepest deepest form of confidence of connection and then he realized that this person himself is also a conduit he just doesn't know it this person himself unintentionally like David amalek said about Jimmy Ben Gator Hashem Hashem told him to Christmas I've never done to curse them says what happens to me in my life that those people are conduits they chose what they chose and they have to do truth if they have to do truva but that's the power of realizing when you're Infinity when you're one with the source nobody can really hurt you at your core said but what I really want if you really love me is don't harm him because of me it's not going to be that's not what I want it's not what I want that he should suffer it's not going to help me and that transformed that person that the person even that person who we could appreciate how Sinister he was could it remain apathetic to that have a wonderful week we'll see you next week 9 30 Tuesday