Sefer Tomer Devorah: Chapter 2 - Emulating the 2nd Middah of Kesser - Dedicating Thoughts To Torah

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good afternoon everyone shawn welcome to uh today's sheer we're continuing in safer tama devaira and yesterday we began the um yesterday we began the second chapter of parikh bays and parikh bays began that a person needs to develop the conduct where one emulates what is called midas hakasa which is the highest of all the midos and the term of the var says that the meat of caster is primarily noticed and recognized in the rush in the head and that is because the media of caster being the closest to the ibanez does not look back and up at the ribbon but rather looks down at the lower spheroids and furthermore it's always looking down to be native and nothing is beneath its dignity so in order to follow that we emulate hakadosh baruch through the middle of an even to the media of humility that nothing that somebody does should mitigate or should weaken our dedication on and our devotion to showering on other people now we're up today to the second meda and the sad the first media was more the position of the rush the rush should be positioned so that there's a noticeable humility where one does not look down on anybody but instead is focused on them in other words one does not raise their head high it's not really the literal positioning of the head but it's more of the figurative positioning of the head that one has an attitude that it is not beneath uh my dignity to bestow kindness on anybody and now we talk about more the penemius of the rush the internal of the mind and that is the thought once thought should emulate the thought of me just like tommy does not cease the mode of operation of kessler is it's always thinking good thoughts the haraloi kaneba evil does not enter in the realm of kassar rennes because nida of kassar is complete mercy they ain't shumdin no judgment delay sham kaishiklal there is no difficulty there in other words the middah of kassar is only pure mercy complete khasir and rahman person's mind should always be clear me called from any unseemly thing in other words one should guard their mind now we're always used to guarding our mouth what we say we know we have to guard our eyes from what we look at now we have to guard our mind from impropriety don't allow improper thoughts to enter your mind don't allow unseemingly unseeming uh unseeming thoughts to enter your mind unseemly thoughts enter your mind be careful what you read be careful what you who you talk to be careful what ideas enter your mind because you want your mind to emulate the meda sakesa and the middle of kassar's pure hattawa and pure khasid rav goldberg brings from his zeda rabbi siv yehuda black and his shire das in the maimer bihiro sadas he says if we were to conceptually paint the development of thought in hakadosh baruch and in a human being so when a person has a new idea it's like a small dot that encompasses the entire thought and then the matter widens and from there after you have the thought comes ratson the desire to carry it out and then mingle within it the details of how to carry it out and it's the same thing with when he had the idea to create the world it began with the nikuda the data of what is called kasar and that thought process and that original idea and motivation and notion was purely god created the world purely for now sometimes the details of how he carries out certain um functions in this world and phenomenon in this world may have to be bemidaz but if we would go back to the nakuda katana that little dot of where it all began the the kudo katana that little dot that encompassed everything the ibanezham intends to carry out is kuloika likewise one's mind should always be occupied with me even if sometimes the way we implement it sometimes it will have to be din sometimes the person has to take a strong stance sometimes a person has to reprimand sometimes the person has to uphold the halacha but in terms of the motivation and the nakuda katana from within of where it all originates from it should originate from the meda the point of kassar which is now today's limu is a very big challenge just like this is the secret of the wisdom of the original torah there is a concept that which is the world which is closest barco the world of torah which is the place of complete rakhamim and here if goldberg brings down he heard from rewind trab that that's why in the gemara we find that the torah is called rakhmana that torah was original was he preceded even the lama is even oil mahatsilas so that means in midas hakasa what we have is in meeta we have the secret of the earliest torah the yaksa torah there is no secret of torah missing there in other words in the realm of kassar it's just torah kassar again is that point of thought from which all of creation came from all the details and all the manifestation of creation originated in that point of kassar that point of cast is the earliest concept of creation and that is where the torah is that means torah occupies fully what is called the realm of kassar so likewise if we were to emulate hakadosh baruch the way we emulate that is we don't allow our mind even momentarily at any point to deviate from thinking about torah this means not when we're learning of course when we're learning that means when we're walking down the street we're walking down the street that means we have committed to memory a page of gemara to review while we're walking down the street or a little gemara so that we could glance at and occupy our mind with tara while we're walking while we're in a store while we're waiting online while we're lying down when we're getting up that is the way we emulate midasakasa and if a person finds that hard to do pick a good kasha or a good turret and and have go-to ideas and thoughts to think about now this this requires practice because the human mind is very weak today but rev goldberg brings that robichesque labramski testified about himself that from the time that he was 20 years old he was made he never diverted his mind from the torah not when he was walking now when he was traveling not when he was lying down not when he was sleeping now when he was breathing now when he was eating from age 20 now we're not talking about 2000 years ago we're talking about 25 years ago 50 years ago he says before 20 i can't tell you but from age 20 and on i could be made and we find that the base yosef had a magid who would learn with him and he reprimanded him when he allowed his mind to wander he said to to for one to emulate code in the fullest sense obviously we're not on this madriga that we can do this at every spare moment but whenever we can we are implementing and we are practicing emulating hashem in other words we're developing our mind to emulate and you have to know the mind was created in the paradigm and in the model of akades barco so by thinking taro while you're walking this is a great way to emulate midas barco don't allow the mind to wander if nia do not allow the mind to wander to any alternative concept except for thoughts of torah the doulas hokkail okay if you don't want to think about torah think about the greatness of the creator walk down the street think about what the greatness of the creator what a master chemist he is where he was able to create a chemical called air air is oxygen nitrogen hashem was able to create water he was able to take two atoms of hydrogen and combine it with one atom of oxygen if you're thirsty and you inhale ox hydrogen and ain't gonna do anything for you if you're thirsty and you inhale oxygen it's not going to do anything for you if you're thirsty and you inhale double the hydrogen to your to oxygen it's also not going to do anything to you other than you would pass out and your voice would sound very squeaky if you inhaled too much oxygen and yesterday some takes two gases mixes them together and produces water this is thinking about the greatness of the creator think about his good activities ula think about how to benefit others this is all an emulation of midas here's the upshot do not let a stranger enter your mind a stranger refers to improper thoughts ubautel don't let empty thoughts enter your mind so you say it's so hard so god did you a favor there's no baseball okay so there'll be a half a season but at least until it starts you don't have to waste your mind you can emulate akades barco hashem did us a favor there's no professional sports nothing happens in the news maybe once every four weeks there's something new if you want to know the news for the next month i'll tell you right now today hydrochloroquine is good tomorrow it's bad the next day it's good and the next day it's bad also eggs are healthy for you today tomorrow they're bad the next day they'll be good for you that's all you need to know that you're good for the next month in terms of the news uh anything else all the all the uh democrats in the state are are decreeing anti-semitic laws against the jewish people and you could do anything except for go to shul and go to camp that's all you need to know you're good right now you're good until november until the next elections so don't allow empty thoughts tsar our improper thoughts ubattel are empty thoughts and if you think this is impossible think there is a human being alive in our century rabbi jessica labrams you said from age never even once did he let his mind wander so if you're walking down the street listen to a shirt or commit something to memory or even do it for one block how's that even if you do it for one block because then after a hundred and twenty then you could say you're banished to him june 24th at 5 30 i went outside and for one minute i thought about what it means to emulate the meet us wow you're already ahead taller than 99 percent of everybody else so even if you don't do it even if you just do it one time it's a very big madrega the zuhay and his friends that they never allowed their minds to wander they committed they were dedicated to utilize again we're not talking about learning time we're talking about downtime line time waiting for verizon to answer your phone call so anyway they're not going to get to you for 17 minutes so you might as well use your time to think about torah or a i need to fix up your image of hashem because you're not contemplating your mind is wandering now and then rabbi yoshi went back to contemplating torah and rabshema said okay now you resemble akadeshbacho by the way so you say how could i do this at all times i can't learn in a base hack he say i can't learn in the bathroom so the rav goldberg brings down from the nephesh that even though you're not allowed to think about torah in the bathroom but to have correct thoughts to cling to tahara to dedicate yourself to good medicine you're even allowed to think in a base like kisei and he brings from a brine trap in the name of the altar of calm that even though you're not going to learn torah in the bathroom but to think what are the reasons that i have to love akadeshwar that you're even allowed to think about in the basa kise so this is a great challenge of emulating hashem bimakshaftenu and even though somebody may look at another human being and not recognize even how they're emulating hashem but know that even if you could walk a few footsteps thinking about torah besides the fact that the scar for learning is la in sheer but you are completely transforming your entire being to be more selem i like him okay so thanks so much for listening have a great day and yaakov grant in uh manchester united and in uh london you can have a great night okay okay thank you bye everyone you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com