Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: Nature of Shabbat, Hashem and Life Itself

[Music] welcome everyone back to back to the event at bay midrash although we're not really physically in the bait midrash but we have everybody on skype so we feel like we're here and welcome home to torah a warm welcome home to torah tonight's class first of all i just want to introduce the idea well maybe i have to uh mute whatever my thing here there we go okay uh what we do here is we use the clear car as the um as a template for the discussion and we're partial to bray sheet and we are going to discuss well actually we're in chapter two just to give you an idea verse three we're going to have some insights into shabbos right the topic of shabbos into creation itself the nature of hashem and his ways the different names of god the nature of the soul and how to properly serve hashem and we're going to do all this and hopefully i don't know just a little bit over an hour i don't really know how long it will take we will find out that's a lot to cover so we're not going to cover each one of these topics inclusively meaning every concept every detail but we're going to skim the surface and go deep in in certain aspects in certain parts so the first verse that we're going to start with interestingly enough is part of what we say on friday night and kiddish and i'll just read the verse before we're in verse three but i'll read verse ones and one and two right when we say kiddish friday night we're sanctifying we're using our lips we're using our body we're holding a cup of wine and we're saying right the heavens and the earth were completed and all of their hosts and hashem completed on the seventh day milato whatever that means his work i share also which he did the ishmael and he rested on the seventh day mikhail from all of his work i which he did and i'm reading this because when we read verse three we're gonna say what what's going on here so verse now verse three sorry is the avarex god blessed the seventh day via khadejoto and he sanctified it or separated it because on it he ceased he rested from all of his work which he created who who's he the name elohim la sot this is mind-boggling what in the world does la salt mean so in the english here it says right he sees from all his work which god created to do i have to stop here and just wonder what is going on what does it mean if you really have a feel for the hebrew which i expect you guys to eventually come to this point and those who already have what does it mean la sot so look at the rashi just to give us a little bit of a clue that god created to do the work that was fit to be done on shabbat or for shabbat for the sake of shabbat so as rashi continues he doubled up and he already did it on the sixth he god gave us on the sixth day a double portion of mana and today we show that we use two loaves of bread friday night also shabbos day but right now we're talking about the kiddush on friday night so but la south what in the world does it really mean i understand rashi is trying to tell us that the work that was fit to be done for the sabbath when i read it i would have thought that he ceased from doing the work which he created to do which everything in the past so in a certain sense rashi makes sense that whatever he's going to do he did already before shabbat that is rashi we're going to use the clear car to get a deeper understanding as i mentioned about shabbos itself so he begins we're on page lamin olive i think that's number 13 according to what i gave you okay what is shabbos and shabbos teaches us more it it instructs us it reflects it is to enlighten us about the creation of the world as we say just let your ears hear the words yes something yes from nothing what do you mean something from nothing first i don't like that translation if you've heard my sharing before you understand that i like to translate it as physicality from spirituality there obviously was something before god created the world and that was him whatever he is pure spirituality and yet he created the world yesh something me so we would just translated something from nothing ex nihilo there was nothing and then there was something but the word nayan is similar to the got one of god's name which is the aim sof meaning there is no end not nothing but everything ain't self so there's we'll call it spirituality right that's a better way to try to understand it that's what shabbos teaches us and instructs us instructs us regarding the whole of creation as yesh miyan it's specifically from that type of creating that god ceased from meaning god ceased creating something from nothing he stopped bringing in the uh the physical world from a purely supernal spiritual world that's what he's that's what he stopped doing on shabbos so the first six days that's what he seems to have been doing and then shabbos he ceased from doing that yes but actual creation of something from something else lo shavat god did not cease from doing or creating okay and what's the proof he brings us a proof there are many plants that continually to grow and germinate and sprout on shabbos meaning that they are a creation that is coming from something that is the simple way of trying to understand what he's saying in other words creating yeshumiyan he ceased but shabbos like all the other six days creation continues to happen but it's a different type of creation it's creation from something else nothing new hashemi menu nasa azadova because he created all the raw materials already really on day one but let's just say for the six days of creation the raw material comes into being and all those um raw materials can be used to be made into something else that is what creation is doing after from the six days onwards is a continuous process of creating from something that already exists and that's why it says that's why our verse says that god created to make right god ceased from his work that he created to make he created to make the creation is in order to create the the creation itself is in order to make things make things from something else in terms of yeshmia and x nihilo that's already finished finished comes shabbos the break between the end of the sixth day and the beginning of the seventh day is brand new it's only it's gonna cease from creating from nothing as we said that's not a great translation and he will create or continue to create and allow us to create whatever that means the creation will still exist as yesh miyesh something from something it will continue to draw out and be built up like the plant life that he described earlier him yes myesh he actually created them in other words the six days of creation was created in order for what for creation to continue to multiply and expand and darver yom biyoma meaning each and every day nothing to do with shops anymore in other words all seven days from now on there will be yesh meisha will be creation from something um therefore what's different about shabbos that there is no creation of yeshmian that's ceases yes miesha will continue but the one thing that shabbos proves that shabbos is a sign for including this we're going to learn that shabbos is a multi a sign regarding new creation x and hilo finished yes and he says if that's not the case then what what's different about shabbos so the difference about shabbos is there's no creating something yeshmian okay but yes yes we'll continue that's the first paragraph now notice that in all the other six days it says there was evening and there was morning right but what happens on shabbos it doesn't say it doesn't delineate it doesn't make this very important point that there was evening and there was morning it's just missing why is it missing from shabbos these are questions i never asked myself and thank god i have now asked because the clio car brings it up oh i see michelle join well we have a lot of people today so just to show you that what we normally do is we work during the day and we rest at night in case you didn't know just in case you didn't know there's in psalms chapter 104 versus 20 through 22 and 23. i mentioned right it's just it's number two on the sore sheet when the sun rises they come home and couch in their dens men then goes out to work to his work to his labor until the evening so what's the difference between day and night day is for malacha and knight lila is from manuka is for rest let's use that assumption right that's pretty much what we i mean today things are a little different with cities and international business right we know that people are doing business all over the world at any time of the day now but the way it worked back then that's the simple understanding the day is for work and the night is for resting so based on these two verses tisrah hashemish and the other verse yates that man goes out to work during the day ah but what about shabbos chavez doesn't mention the words it was evening and it was morning right you have six well called repetitions but six distinct days where each day it mentions in a repetitive way repetitive way that it was evening and it was morning but on shabbos it doesn't say that so he gives a little bit of a sing song it's oh this oh that oh cool now i have to explain these words he's saying since it doesn't say there's a division we don't know is it is it considered like day or is it considered like night because it doesn't say it's part like all the other days have part day part night but shabbos is what is it it's going to be either all manuka all resting from labor or maybe it's all melaka but he doesn't mean malach in the normal sense he's going to infer melaka being involvement in torah okay how does he describe it like this eem kane if that's the case that it's got to be one or the other right it's all or nothing so then in kane aimbo hevdel bain error of the volcker because there is no difference between evening and night evening and morning when it comes to regular work if you're doing a shabbos if you're doing a cessation of work that means it's all minutes all rest but if it's from the aspect of involving yourself in torah then there's no ceasing you have to learn torah the whole shabbos wouldn't that be marvelous well guess what he brings uh he brings this idea that's what i'll tell us that's what we should be doing with our shabbos yes at the table while reading sharing it for torah singing shabbos songs which involve torah and learning and there's a verse in joshua chapter one verse eight right usually when i ask anybody what's the mitzvah where do we know we have an obligation to learn torah almost everybody the i should say uninitiated uh people who are not well versed they always use this verse they think this verse is the proof that you have to let them that a man is a jew is obligated to learn torah all the time because it says you should contemplate it day and night okay we don't that's not that's not the source the source for learning torah is the shall teach your son and we all know that you cannot teach if you don't know so even though the torah says you have to teach your children where do we know you have to learn from there and just to wrap our heads around the idea that everyone who's into learning if you love learning torah you and you you fulfill the torah because one of the myths is to learn torah that the truth is you have to be willing and ready and able to teach it this this is what learning is about whether they ask the rabbis who do you learn the most from your own rabbis your comrades your fellows or your students they all said we learned most from our students because the real life the real ishmael is to be learning torah in order to give it over to someone else okay enough said about that but this idea in joshua chapter 1 verse 8 what could be talking about you should contemplate in it day and night meaning there's no break just like the measure says and the measures basically says that one should study torah on shabbat that's one of the main activities besides eating and eating and sleeping we should be learning as much as we possibly can and go back to our verse and this is why it says kivo because in it shabbas he rested mikhail milato from all of his work from all of his labor from all of his work ashara bara which he created now what are we talking about in that verse in that first part that's talking about malacha that's talking about the actual labor that hashem did but what about what does it mean lassoed la sotus to do is to create hainu he says what what kind of activities would even though the word lasso implies work or labor what kind of work he says like a factory like a carpenter who's working on the eight's cayenne what's the eighth cayenne the tree of life right you're carving it you're i don't know you're etching in i love so-and-so right when we were kids we put in little uh things into the trees um but to to create something with the wood and i don't mean to show him belittle the torah he says which is the torah itself the eighth kai and the tree of life that is what we should act like a carpenter and like a mason who's working on the lujosa heaven luchos meaning the stonework of the tablets that's what we should be doing on shabbos la salt in this verse is a new idea so god ceased from doing everything that he did creating we're called yesh miyan something from nothing and on shabbos we're creating from something that's already created which is the torah which is our involvement in the torah okay now verse four says ayla toledo sasha maya baram right these these are the chronicles todos these are the the history the progeny of the heavens and the earth when they were created in their creation bihibaram if you look closely in the safer torah right you have do i have it here i don't have to say for torah but nevertheless uh it's a small hay so if you have a proper hummish that has a very small hay okay now why is there a small hey why is it pointed out why is it there's an expression um of a hazy era right there's a small hey for a reason this is part of our tradition we never change from the very first day foretold that moses wrote down till today there is a small hay why is the hey tell us in the medrush with the hey um with the hey god created the world which world this world by the way with the world to come we'll find out what which letter he used but i want to make sure i want to plug right now i will bizrat hashem linator put below in the description box which i encourage everyone to open up now and again if on youtube you just click on below to the description box i will put a link to last year's class on bray sheet which i discussed the good and the hay at length so today we're not going to spend that much time on it but i wanted you to know you can use that as a reference a resource material to go back and learn more about what we're going to talk about today so it's a small paragraph but nevertheless the hey hashem created this world with as he says shalom so this world the physical world we're right now was created with the letter hey where as the world to come was created with the letter yud nira it seems according to the author of the madrish that all she wrote all songs that are written in the torah actually all songs that are in this world he says all the songs of this world were mentioned were spoken about balash in the keva in a feminine language meaning is going to be for the future but shirakh shah is ola it's feminine because this the hay represents feminine femininity the yud represents masculinity and that doesn't mean you have to read you have to go back to this other uh shear to get a full view but in the meantime he mentions that in shirakadasha it's to facete right you have the hey at the end hey is feminine every time you have the hay it didn't refers it really teaches about the feminine aspect just by the way the word ish and the word isha is the same two letter root of aleph shin it's not really the root but anyway it's the two consistent letters between the two words so you have olive shin hey that's for a woman olive your chin is a man so the difference the masculine has the hood the feminine has the hay so you can't argue it it is a fact okay we don't want to get down and dirty with any uh you know we're not chauvinistic we're not uh what do you call those people who are i don't know if you know their names anymore uh we're not racist against women you know what i mean so but it's a fact so leficia calls simcha this is the most fascinating statement he's going to make tonight i think at least in this paragraph i should say that all joy true joy in this world is in this world is our viagon is somehow mixed up and mingled with sar which is pain and yagon which is not just sighing but distress kinnekeva like now we're talking a femininity we're not talking about person you know i'm not pc i'm just reading the words here that like a woman she is fem women the the half the species on the planet they go through or they possibly you know potentially can go through a process called birthing process and it i've been told it is painful but hashem hashem somehow produced this beautiful baby and causes the woman to forget all that pain and all the things she said about her husband and who knows what and she'll have another child this rat hashem but it's not it's not easy it's not easy but it's um what's the word it is so satisfying when that child comes sober hashem but any simple in this world is mixed in with tsar and yagon like a woman who gives childbirth that is the fact that is the truth that is what everything related in this world is even when we talk about the birth pangs of the mashiach right until the very end because hashem we're in it now will be painful it's just the way of this world when we talk about the world to come never beyond it was created with the letter uh zachar which is somehow connected and associated with the masculine shane lo tsar leda he does not experience to say he could be empathetic it can be sympathetic he can be standing right there through the whole process and i'm sure he's obviously involved in the very beginning i'm talking about the end right how how close i think carol burnett said it that giving birth is like taking your top lip and pulling it over behind your head i would have to ask the women if that's what it's like but maybe maybe she was exaggerating i don't know let's just take her for her word there is no birthing process there's nothing happening after mashiach after we go to omaba the sham hassem will be full perfect and complete alkane shame you didn't hey that's why we understand why there's this partnership between the yule and the hay when it comes to bainiche lisha that because god created the world through the udemy and in every other place where the usage is with a uid it's always masculine and the shimu shrimp the hay is through is a feminine aspect okay that's that part of dalit we're going to continue in the the whole verse beyond so hashem elohim in the day or on the day that hashem god now think about this it's hashem elokim uk elokim he did what he um he made the earth and the heavens now we spoke about this before but we'll mention it now because it's going to come up then the very first chapter of genesis the six days jude k bufke does not appear at all right as if and if you know the medrash that god had sought to create the world with strict merc with strict judgment which elohim represents and in chapter two which we are now in he's talking about who created the heavens and the earth hashem elokim uk elokim so what is it confusion so now if you want to look you can look at the very first verse of chapter one right how the torah begins in the beginning in the beginning of god's creating uh the heavens and the earth and bharatiya bara elokim just elokim the ettarats what is listed first in in chapter one verse one it's the heavens and the earth so when it says elohim it's heavens and then the earth over here in uh we're in chapter two verse four right it says in the day or on the day that god made again god is two names here yud kevke and elokim that aspect of god which we're going to discuss he created eretz first the word eretz appears next to god's name and then shamayim whereas in chapter one it's the other one shaman varets so if you turn this off right now you probably won't get to sleep tonight because how could you live not knowing the answer to this question why shouldn't it bother you okay well let's see let's see if we can make some headway so that you can get to sleep tonight so he says like this the clear car right in the middle of page lamidbet right hikdem shamayim laritz so he says lamala if you go back to verse 1 chapter 1 verse 1 it says heaven before earth in our verse it says aretz first and then shamayim why because khazal tell us in the madrish that what did the kardash bar who want to do libero hashem really wanted to his desire was to create the world through or with strict justice strict justice the wrong but hashem saw meaning before he even created anything in his own mind whatever that means shaina miss kaye that it would not last that it wouldn't function that it wouldn't be healthy it wouldn't be good so he retracted his mind he thought twice and he decided in the end that he would combine both aspects when he created when he actually created the world he created with both so chapter two is a how do you say it's like a a redo of what we just read in chapter one but from another angle okay that he wanted to originally create it just with me to sedan strict justice but when he actually created it he changed his mind now you're going to stay well who is god to change his mind we have a verse we have a verse that says in um i'm not mistaken it's in um i'm going to stick to here i'll stick to here numbers 23 19. am i right here low ish kale here where do vietnam have it on the point on the page here it is number nine god is not a man that he should lie nor is he immortal that he should relent he's not a man that he would change his mind okay so what's going on here that's a principle so what does it mean that he thought like this and then changed and did something else it's a great question i'm glad that you asked so he says mikara my savar so what was he thinking what was he originally thinking what was god thinking elisha ahmet that really in truth that the hashemiyan the cults of the truth is this is what god was thinking that the the things in the heaven and all their hosts their pure spirit and being pure spirit they're actually able to exist they're able to exist with pure justice just strict justice certainly more than the that's us in the lower world who is our foundation is of dust and if you want to look in job chapter 4 verse 19 so it's just a verse just a verse surely those who dwell in mud houses whose foundation is in dust meaning the hebrews same hebrew hashem that's who we are god knows that so strict justice the heavenly forces could all survive they don't even have free will they don't sin they got nothing like we got however knowing he's going to create us tempered it he tempered it he tempered it with two names listen to this alkane therefore he he put his name meaning in chapter one elokim closer to what heaven but in chapter two in our verse he took aritz first and he combined the name of k hello king the only way for this world to exist is to have both from the very beginning from the very beginning you don't need any uh false saviors coming our way right like the christians want to i just can't even get over the ridiculousness of of these other religions but okay i'm not going to go there and spend any time on that we can look at some my other sharing on that but from the very beginning hashem chapter two right it's just a redo of chapter one that what god did was he involved mercy kindness and mercy from the very beginning okay so let's go on kila molly melo keem meaning lamala in chapter one he uses just the word elohim and that's close proximity to the heavens hamar because that includes all of his hosts meaning the heavenly spiritual beings they that they could they were created would just me to sadden just strict justice alone the kind his key shame but here in our chapter 2 he was combining he combined his attributes together with meaning mercy and that's that is in close proximity to the word earth because on account of us those who dwell on the planet earth we require it and he knew it we need his mercy and therefore both names appear and regarding this king david what do we say about the the prophets the prophets it was also prophet he's in the writings because it's not prophecy but none of the tanakh right what we call the bible there's nothing new from joshua onward there's no such thing the prophets only came to tell us what we already know and to get in shape to give us rebuke you don't rebuke somebody about something new you rebuke something about something you already know you're not doing right and that's what the prophet's job were and king david could not make up anything new what is he saying amazing look in chapter 62 of psalms chapter 62 verse 12 and 13. it says over there god spoke one thing what is this talking about but king david says i heard too for god has strength and you o lord have kindness for you repay a man according to his deed now let's go into the hebrew a little bit deeper elokim god spoke one thing staying i heard two things so what does it mean originally in the beginning meaning in chapter one there's only one character trait one attribute that comes through through elokim and that is meet us and that's what it means when it says bereishi bar elokim god created the universe right god created the heavens and the earth he uses the word eloquene that's chapter one i heard two things stay middles i heard two character traits two attributes when it says biomasso tashima that's what our verse says in the day or on the day that god hell yudhkevke elokim and what is it what does it hint when he said two things these two things i heard shtayam what's the word zoo it means this but it also is a zion which is a seven and a six the seven is right above seven and six is stein what's 13 times 2 you'd give up k 26 hashem's awesome name zoo i heard this i heard you'd cave off exactly the name of mercy but one second we just said zoo is 13 and it says i heard it twice so what does it mean i heard 13 two times because 26 divided by 2 is 13 right so what's the word echad 13. what's the word also 13. where do we find the word and love together we say it a few times a day right israel hashem and right away so the echad and love is together 13 13 26 the word echad and the word love is the same as the god of mercy then the expression of his name for mercy and both of these ideas echad and and you'll find them in proximity one word after the other in deuteronomy chapter six verse four and then verse five the last ver the last word in verse 4 and the first word in verse 5 of israel and you shall love the lord your god the not on tom ledavar and now he wants to give even deeper understanding to what we discussed lamalo baru bashem elokim levan why didn't god just go ahead and create the world with elokim levad right we said that represents strict justice king david is going to tell us in his statement which we said was in the psalms 62 verses 12 and 13. we only read some of them we only read some of the words but let's go into a little deeper because it says ki oz leilo kim for the strength is to god which name the strength which is uh pure justice that's to elokim the the uh lethe should call her because all the strength and power is the shame eloquene that relates to that nature that um attribute of god say to us because us the creation the the lower mankind doesn't have the ability to withstand or to accept that this power and might of hashem completely it needs to be tempered toned down a vow what the hell the word says but to you means to you that's how you talk to hashem you in the earlier verse says all the strength is to god we call that third person but to you you're talking first person to be able to talk to god first second person right it's mastery it's true but i want to break the word down because we don't use the uk vault k we don't say it we think it when we pronounce the word in other words when we read when we our eyes gloss over a yud and the hain of and hey in most cases like 95 percent of the cases otherwise i'm not going to get into it now but it's elokim it has to do with the validation but in most of the cases we use the word ado nai instead of pronouncing the yud and the hain of other nay and so what does that name mean so the way i was taught was the middle part dalid nun is judgment okay don as we have been using all along din but what's the elephant that you'd represent because that's also part of the name it's a don i with the youth at the end so the aleph remember what the aleph is it's a vav with two yuds it represents hashem's mercy because it's 26. okay so the aleph always represents one hashem but it also is a if you can picture it every time you see the olive it's the number 26 as well because it's the with two yards right unit is ten two times two plus the valve is just six and the yield on the end is also representing the utk valve k so in other words the don what we call the judgment is tempered on both sides by mercy okay so keep that in mind so he says to you king david says to you name it's the name of mercy nick shame this is to you it relates to kindness and mercy and then when the time eventually comes where god desires the shalem leech comma say who to pay to repay a man according to his deeds these are the words the king david used le shalem meaning what you hashem you're going to pay him you're going to pay us in your merciful side not in your in your in your strict judgment according to our ability to receive which we already know we cannot receive pure judgment only a tempered version lokthi is brock not according to your almighty power you know you created us from the dirt from the unlike the word dirt from the dust from the soil you create us lowly beings you know we have uh taivas you know that we have desires you know you created us you know more than anybody else the expectations you have of us okay so he will repay us according to our deeds but according to the way of mercy tempered mercy okay now knuckles notice that it was what we call second person because it says it to you is the mercy belongs whereas lasha nistar bashem elokim when he used the name elokim in king david's psalm 62 ki oys because the strength is to god it's third person it's right it's not second person because at the time of hashem's anger meet a sadden should let us bola this meet us at din which we're going to call strict justice has control in the world veneer hashem it's as if hashem removed his face his countenance and hid it from us from from creation we spoke before about what actually is a bracha when there's a continuous flow of god's goodness because that's all he is okay then we get the bracha and when he stops that flow which we'll call now the hiding of the face so then it's removing the bracha and it allows what we'll call the opposite right you can call it a curse if you want but it's it's not directly the curse does not directly come from hashem it comes as a result of his ceasing of the bracha that's not for now but anyway so he basically he's saying that the minister then when god and gets angry the media said in the judgment uh fills the world and um it's as if he is hiding his countenance from us at that moment but when there's mercy and kindness elenu hashem is shining his countenance upon us and he ends by this paragraph by saying kalavin this is easy to understand okay now we're going to go to verse 7 which means like this and god breathed into his nostrils the breath of life keep in mind the word mishma we're going to be dealing with that it's the breath of life and man became a living being we're going to also deal what's the difference between the the nishmas khayim which he gave to us and what is called a nephesh which is a a living being and all the other animals there's plenty of living beings on the planet earth i mean you just have to watch uh what's called national geographic right you wouldn't know because you live in cities i mean when you see a dog and a cat and maybe if you live a little bit further you see a few goats but there's a whole world out there there really is there's animals some beautiful creatures and dead deep down in the sea jack cousteau you can see animals and fish that you've never even even imagined and guess what they're also called nephesh right these beasts so rashi says even a bahama look at rashi rashi says even animals have what we call a living they're basically a living being but rashi says but the human being has something that is more alive like what is it about us that is more alive than all the other animals on the planet that rash is explaining you know what it is about a human being that we have da daya day is intelligence and uh dibor's speech so that's what we have that's what separates us from all the other animals in the in the world but the clear is not half the clear car is not happy with this he says meaning that it is tenuous at best no kilo pour mikra itself doesn't describe us as being so unique the verse itself so he breathed into us but in the end man is just a nephesh so we're we're in the verse does it explain that we're like any better than the animals so the cleo car is not so happy with that he brings a book called the ikeda the safer al-qaeda that explains what is it about this breath of life it's called nishmas khaim it's a breath of life that this is we'll call it like the intrinsic life force that was put into man at the onset when he was first created okay very nice so according to the safer al-qaeda that man will develop as with this five levels of our soul five levels true but we're talking about the three lower levels which are called the nephesh the ruach and the neshama so according to the safe rakeda from the aspect that as a man develops these additional levels of his soul will come into him and the clear car is still not satisfied he would think that rashi that's a great way to explain rashi okay so perhaps that's what rashi's talking about according to the clear car the way he would understand the safer arcade game according to the clear car he's not satisfied he's not ready to accept this this answer because you have to if you look throughout there's other examples the word nephesh is used to describe the other animals right you can look in genesis chapter 1 verse 20 chapter 1 verse 24 chapter 1 verse 30. is used for other beings therefore what you're saying that that's the ultimate perfection of man just to be like an animal it doesn't make sense especially since the same language is being used by all other beasts of the of the earth so now we're on our last paragraph and this is going to be a life changer hopefully for everyone including myself right i want to absorb this torah like no other because this is really what life is all about the ficac i cannot believe my heart is even imagining this but what i'm about to say the clear car says is the opposite the complete opposite of everything that it was just said why because the words nishma which we translate as the breath of life is what is the nephesh hamas is a rational eternal soul that's what it is and that's what we have that's what it is so we're not even talking about the the uh the idea of nephesh we're strictly now focusing on what exactly is the nishma it's this rational extra eternal soul hashem even though hashem breathed into man the beginning of man how many begins when he's created it's true he is just like any other living being an animal kasha balikayam ki if you go to job chapter 11 verse 12 it talks about man being so like a wild donkey when he's born that's what the cli yakar is saying we're like everyone else however vickers but the difference is the way that man can become complete can become fulfilled if you want to use the word saved you can use that word too i don't care but the way that a man will find his perfection is depending on his diligence in his efforts by his good choices when his eyes begin to open into like he expands intellectually and he comes of age meaning he gains wisdom man you got to just be patient right we all have kids some of us have kids and it takes a while right still there they develop intellectually and spiritually and emotionally okay but the firstborn all they are in diapers pooping and spitting and you know what else they do and here we had sucking here we have right now hopefully we see the process and it's beautiful life is beautiful it's painful right and it's our girdle body it's not just a physical aspect of giving birth but also the birth pains of bringing children into the world meaning up educating them okay to be human beings and not animals right so this is where he's going with this that this is the ikea muto this is how a man a person reaches perfection perfection it's talloid on his diligent efforts and his good choices when his intellectual eye opens in his well coming of age and it doesn't mean you have to wait till you're 70 years old till you get to that point we're talking about the process even though in the very beginning of his life there was given to him what we we keep referring to as this um this um this rational eternal soul mikhoma kum ain't it hasn't yet been activated it's not activated yet it only is there in potential it's there in potential every human being i believe every human being has this in potential alone the yeshanes nay but if he doesn't gird his loins meaning tighten his belt zrizuto and meaning if he doesn't take this diligent effort to become part of the vanguard of the pioneers of the warriors in the war for god harehu kabahemoto nimshoku bahima then all he is and he remains an animal and that's why he is compared to and resembles an animal as we said by the donkey uh well sure okay um whenever these other we as he just mentioned domesticated animals such as an ox a sheep or a goat as soon as they're born the otto young they're almost basically complete okay they still need their mother but they basically can walk you ever see just within hours of a deer a cow all these you know giraffe as soon as they're born you can basically watch they're already yeah they're stumbling they're not yet fully steady but soon within hours and certainly within days they're they're jumping around they ain't both there is no any additional completion needed for them but human beings i mean i don't know exactly the time period anywhere between like nine months and a year and a half you know till till a child can can walk and maybe even then he still can't walk on his own i certainly can't run up steps anyway to finish off he says the gila lana katutovar the actual passage is revealing this this point to us remember the clear card disagreed with rashi he disagreed with with the balakeda he's focusing on this idea of not um of the the nepheshim being something that is only in potential and is activated as time goes on maybe it's not really such a contradiction if you think about it because you're talking about the other aspects of your soul coming in maybe just another perspective then anyway he says like this this is very important a person should not make a mistake to say to himself the following thing so don't make this mistake should that without any effort and without any toyo i can reach my perfection i share kevor no turn the ammo because i already was born perfect don't say this the ism because someone is relying on this advantage shin nimsa beats hirato that he thinks and is claiming that he already has from the davis birth ki everything is dependent on you and your actions your deeds what are you going to do what are your choices going to be your dove tomi because you're constantly faced with the choices between alternating or exchanging what we call nature for intellect or working it the other way around exchanging your intellect for nature right the base nature that we have the the body is calling us or the soul the spirit the intellect is called what am i going to choose how am i going to live my life every decision i make is going to be between it's going to be between my soul and my body and that's going to make all the difference in the world and he says that's why it does not say by the creation of man god saw that it was good it doesn't say these words the elohim when specifically man was created why the fee should be yours because at the actual creation of man he still did not yet recognize become apparent what is considered good and what is considered nice it's only a matter of time and growth and hopefully good education loving parents a good school system you know all the good stuff in life what else can you want right so with that we will end today's lesson i invite you if you want you can join us you can just send us an email all that is listed below and you can join us live every now and then we stop the camera and we take questions usually and uh sometimes i just keep running on and on and on but we're very happy that if you subscribe and hit the notification bell and then you'll know when uh new uh videos are uploaded but um this is it this is what we have and we welcome you home to torah until next week signing off all the good stuff khodeshtov all the good stuff may have a great winter [Music] yes is