Shocking: From Adam To Messianic Era & the 613 Connections of Body & Soul | Life’s Hidden Purpose

The says that we have a mitzvah to put fringes, strings on the corners of our garment and that we should look at them and remember all of the mitzvot of the Torah. And here is the base where we bring up how sit somehow connect to all of the mitzvot. Now the sit themselves have a rem to this concept of the 613 mitzvot in that the strings. So if we count up the strings so the word seat itself equals 600 if you do the math and spell it correctly. Then there are the then you take with this this we're taking only one of the fringes and we have eight strings that dangle from them that's eight and we have five knots that comes to 13. So the the tit themselves the word sit which is the garment with the strings the whole thing itself represents again 600 plus 13 equals 613 and that's what the rabbis bring as a raz how the tit represent all of the mitzvot that's that's the the technical and then of course the p connects the tit by saying you will look at the tit and remember all of the mitzvot now again when the Torah is speaking it means it with a blue string. And this whole class is going to be now about solving the riddle and mystery of the blue string. And in order to do that, we're going to go first to an interesting gamarra. It's a gamarra in and the author or the rabbi speaking in this gamarra is Rabbi Mayor. Rabbi Mayor essentially asks what's so special and unique about this blue color that it was chosen from all the colors in in in in the world to be this symbol in our seat. Why blue? Why this blue string of and that's his question. And his answer is the reason is that the blue that you're looking at on your seat is similar to the blue ocean and the blue ocean is similar to the blue sky and the blue sky is similar to the blue sapphire stone of the on God's throne of glory. This it's a the Nvi says that there's this blue sapphire type of throne. Again, we don't mean a physical throne. We mean a spiritual blue type of sapphire throne. And so says that this blue throne, this the blessess in the in God's throne of glory is connected with the blue sky which is connected to the blue ocean which is connected to the blue on my street. That's the whole idea of this blue system. I had this this this feeling this thought that maybe we could connect the mitzvah of to the body and soul and my first hunch or thought was that there's a kazal that says that the souls of Israel and there's another sort language used in a different book uh or from an earlier source that it's the the souls of the righteous. So we have two lon that that people mention today. It's the souls of the righteous or all Jewish souls that are that the our souls essentially come from under this throne of glory, God's throne of glory. It says they're they're carved out from under God's throne of glory. That's where all of our souls come from. And so here it's interesting. We have a connection between our soul and this throne of glory that's blue which is connected ultimately to the sky that's blue and the ocean that's blue and my blue string. So I wanted to suggest that this blue string on my seat seat when it was when we have it or for those that have it is the rem or connected to my soul. Now, I'm not such a scientific genius or I'm not as good at solving riddles, but I did suggest in my mind at least that if the blue string is my soul, then the white strings must be my body. I connected it of with the idea of my soul being spiritual and my body being physical. And then I got to thinking that my body is physical and comes from earth and that the earth is really coarse after this of course after the sin and it really hides and covers over uh the the thing. It's not see-through but it's the earth is not see-through. And then that got me thinking about soul and what does a soul possibly spiritually look like and body and here's here's what here's the line of thought that I was thinking I I was basing it on on a cabalistic idea that the uh the we call him and his re reversh one of the great Jewish leaders in the four 15 or 1600s he writes from Kabala this all brought from Kabala. He explains that before Adam and Eve sinned and again this is from Kabala he's not the source of it but he brings it in his safe beautiful which I recommend anyone looking at when they can if they can. So he he explains that before the sin body and soul were both on the level of light. There was a body of light and a soul of light. And after the sin that's when God changed this body of light which again the word light starts with the letter olif a body of light and change it to a body of flesh which starts with the letter in or flesh in Hebrew. So originally Adam's body was a body of light and then it was switched to a body of flesh the fleshy skinny that we have today. What's the difference between a body of light and a body of flesh? A body of light shines like the soul. And a body of flesh is opaque and covers up the soul with it. That's the essential difference. Okay. So So now let's go one step further. So the body comes from earth which is opaque but the soul and a soul of light would be clear and transparent. We actually have a custom connected to this and we have a body part that's there to remind us of it. In havdala we we when we go to doda we take our nails and we point our nails to the light in order to see the reflection of the candle on our nails. Now the technical thing we're trying to accomplish is to use the light, benefit from the light. But the reason why we and an added benefit is why we take it to our nails is because our nails reflect that light and then that's how we could see the reflection on our nails and we've used the light. But at the same time the rabbis discuss and there's a zohor coalistic work that gets into it. What's with these nails? So they explain that these nails are remind us of marishon's body before he sinned. these nails, your nails also nails. And that's very interesting because that's bizarre when you I don't I think you know coming from a contemporary perspective a modern world and when you hear that Adam's body was like our nails it sounds weird. I in my opinion at least I don't know you all agree with me it sounds a bit weird. >> Yes. No. Maybe. So okay >> still figuring it out. >> Okay. So let let it absorb. So what what it doesn't mean is that that that there was once upon a time a diff a new an un unheard of superhero called nailman. It doesn't mean that you know whatever you might nonsense that you might think it means they're trying to teach us a very deep concept. What color are my nails? Everybody what color are your nails? >> Clear. >> Translucent. Transparent. They're they they're see-through on whatever level they are. >> That's the message. No, opaque is the opposite. When I see pink underneath my nail, that's the flesh that's making it look pinkish. The the the white part on top is is a different part. It's not as see-through as mom is transparent, but the fact that the skin color underneath the nail comes through my nail where the nails are attached tells me that there's a level of of transparency to the nail. And I think that's the message. Meaning this, we're being told that before Adam sinned, just like the the the say before Adam sinned, his body was on whatever level it was transparent, translucent. It was see-through and it was on a level of light. It was its own light, but at the same time, the light of the soul was able to shine through the body. And when we look at our nail, we're remembering once upon a time again because moz Shabbat is when the world goes back to its unfortunate not so perfect world. Shabas is a moment of perfection. We we all rise to this world of Shabas is almost like a level of before the sin of of ganed. So after Shabas we right away remind ourselves what was but where we're stuck. We look at our nails to remind us that there was an Adam before this sin. Adam and Eve, male and female, human beings. There was a level that humanity was on before the sin. And there's a level now that we're on which is after the sin. And there's a reason why we're looking at this at Abdullah. It's because we have to understand now where we are. We have to know what to do about it. We have to there's what to fix. The whole deeper concept from a spiritual and even a more ide ideology type of perspective. The reason why we have to work six days a week is interesting. The Torah actually says you will work six days a week and you'll rest on Shabas Shabbat. And that's a actually a big question, big problem. We're not obligated to work. So why does the Torah language say you will work six days and you'll rest one day? Because whether you're rich or or and and on vacation [clears throat] all your life or you're poor and you need to work six days a week, there's a spiritual work that we're all obligated to do. the real six days of the week which correspond to the 6,000 years that we're here correspond to the the the the the world that we live in and the 6,000 years which is all encompassed in the title for these 6,000 years. It's called the world of ma of action which also means the world of tikun rectification. We are here to work and rebuild and repair the broken world that we are a part of and the broken us that we have to deal with. That is the sixth days of the week that we must work on. Six days you will work and on the seventh day which is when Mashiah will come we will be we'll have reached that potential and the world will be will be fixed and we'll live forever in that perfect world as we're fixed. But so the Torah when it says you will work six days and rest on Shabbat, it means we need to work six days but not because we need to have money to have a car and a house. We need to work spiritually on this world to fix this world in ourselves. And so that's why we work six days and on the seventh day we rest. And now when we're doing havdala, so we're reminding us about ourselves about all of this. We're saying, "Okay, Shabbat is over and it's time to get back to our current reality. There was a a shattering of the vessels and there's a brokenness in the world and there's a fixing that needs to be done. And it's our time to focus on bringing the power and energy and holiness of Shabbat of of the Shabas. Bringing it into the weekday and using it to instill my week, my work week with holiness and actually to to find the hidden holiness within my weekly activities and to elevate them and harness them. That's what the whole work week is all about. It's not really so I could be some important big shot boss or some some real estate guy that owns owns a whole city. It's it's it's because I'm here to repair the spiritual dimension that that work is related to. Okay. Now, back to our particular discussion with theit again. We're going to go back to that. So, now we understand the nail represents the idea of a body that was once transparent, see-through, right? And the soul represents this idea of the light of the soul that comes from underneath the throne of glory. And now let's go back to Rabbi Mayor's teaching and see I think what we're going to see is unbelievable. Okay. Rebeer says why did God pick blue to be the color of the the string and the sit? Because it's the same color as the blue ocean and again same color as the blue sky and the throne of the Lord. But there's a problem with this whole scenario. There's one huge practical practical problem and what that is anyone from the or anyone from this audience what's the problem with Rebe's idea >> when you look at something to think of something that makes you think of something else that makes you think of >> excellent excellent >> journey of your mind >> one of the answers from the students is that why is Ruby Mayor taking us on this tour is what is he is he like a what do you call that again I can't my mind is he a tour guide. Yeah. What's he do? He's taking I would love to go to the beach, but it's not. So, why is he taking us to the beach then? He's taking us on a trip in a wonderful uh one of those floating uh balloons. What? Just get to the point. Look at your blue string and there's a throne of glory that's blue. We could That's all he had to say was there's a blue string and it's and you know what? So, is the throne of glory blue? That's all he had to say. Why are we going to the ocean and the sky? So, there are reasons according to the simple understanding of the Gamarra. For example, uh we're talking about what's a closer match. So the turquoise or the of my string is more like the ocean, less like the sky. So I want to go to the more accurate match and then I want to go to the sky. And then I ultimately want to get to this conceptual throne of glory that is also blue. That's one answer. Another answer is levels of expansion. Meaning what ultimately that wants us to do is expand our minds and understand expansiveness. What does that mean? That means I live in a physical limited world and in my physical limited world I don't see how grand the spiritual worlds are. So I want to start with what seems to be the most expansive thing on my ground level world is when I go to the the shoreline of an ocean and it seems to go forever and ever and ever. That's very expansive. And you know what's even more expansive? When I see the end of the ocean and it meets the sky and I look at the sky. Wow. The sky is like wow. There's no end to the sky. And now I can I'm prepared to think about the expansiveness of the spiritual realms that are infinite in comparison to this these limited physical realms and this throne of glory of gods [clears throat] that is also in this bless unbelievable that's those are the tuphat answers but I'm looking for a bit of a different answer and therefore I have a question and a problem one of them is why is he taking me to all these places but there's another more practical obvious problem that maybe you'll think we would skip but I don't want to skip Anyone here feel another problem with remor taking me to a blue ocean? >> You don't wear the tail. Some people don't wear it. >> No, we covered that. We're talking about the essential mitzvah or for those that wear it. >> They're not blue at night. >> The ocean. >> Yeah. >> Excellent. We're halfway there. So the ocean is not blue at night. It's black at night. So it's a so it's a schizophrenic ocean. It's blue during the day, black at night. >> Okay. There but there's it's one >> one step deeper. And I'll ask you all and we'll get to the answer. I think why is the blue black at night and not during the day? >> Cuz we don't wear a t. [clears throat] >> Excellent. We have our answer reflection. And that's what we want to get at Mayor. He was one of the deepest rabbis. One of the deepest deepest rabbis. And they say that why we don't follow him is because we we didn't fully understand him. Not because he was maybe wrong, but that we couldn't reach the the depth of his wisdom. And I believe he's teaching us something very deep and very unique in this teaching. And and this is my first question again beyond the body and soul connection. I'm saying why can't I just look straight up to the sky or just go straight to the throne of glory because I have the blue blue. Why is he taking me to me to an ocean that's not even really blue? Because once you get in an ocean and you start playing with the water, you realize there's nothing blue about an ocean. So why is an ocean blue? because it's reflecting the blue of the sky. So it makes this question even stronger. Why go to a not blue ocean that's only getting its bless from the sky first instead of going straight to the source of the blue, which is the sky. And then even better, let's go straight to the throne of glory, which perhaps could be the source of the blue sky itself. Because if there's a throne of glory that's spiritually blue, that's probably why the sky is blue. So just get right to the point. I have a blue string on my on my clothing to remind me of God's throne of glory which is blue and then I'm I'm done. I can remember all of the mitzvah that come from my king God and do them. Why do I even need the sky and the ocean in there? And furthermore, I certainly don't need the ocean. And so here's what I think Rebe is hinting to is this. He wants me to go to something that's transparent and that reflects because what are we talking about here with the titus? We're talking about the body and soul. And when we talk about body and soul, we're talking about what body was. Body and soul, what it was and what it is and therefore what we're trying to get it back to. That's what's really going on over here. What is the purpose of the mitzvah? Why do the cities represent mitzvah? And why am I going to the ocean to the sky to the throat? Because I want to understand and appreciate the real relationship of body and soul and how these 613 mitzvah are going to solve my body and soul problems. And what it essentially means is to go from where I am now, a level of separation, a level where body and soul are enemies and they work against each other and body covers up the soul. And I want to remember that's not how it always was. It wasn't always such a hard story, such a sad story. There was a time before the sin where body and soul were beloveds. They were in love with each other. They were partners in life, not partners in crime. They they they they were bonded in a oneness, in a unity, the great light and the smaller light, body and soul, two great lights, uh transparent reflective body that facilitated shining the light of the soul, not that covered it up. And that's what Mary wants us to see. He says, "You're on earth right now. You're you're you we're not but another question. We're not earth we're not ocean creatures. We're earth creatures. We walk on earth. We don't walk on water. Excuse funny statement. Let's continue. We we we walk on earth. >> So >> So the point is he wants to tell us there's a problem with the earth that we walk on. It's opaque. The earth the way it is cannot reflect the the blue sky because it's opaque. It's it's tarnished. It's a flesh body that we have in a and a coarse earth. But once upon a time, the earth was able to reflect the heavens and the body body of light was able to reflect the soul. They actually shine together as this unbelievable greater than great light. And that's what he's teaching us. You have a body. The body is is is coarse. It's opaque. It's a body of flesh. But once upon a time, you had a body of ore, a body of light. And how can you remind yourself of it? The same way we look at our nails at Abdullah, go look at the ocean that's clear. Clear. It's the It's the only physical thing we have in the world that's clear. Well, we have other physical things that we can make this clear, but the ocean represents this great body that's clear. Not like the earth that's opaque. That's what was and this is what is. And look at where you are. And look where I'm trying to take you. I'm trying to take you to where what once was. And that reflects the sky, which reflects the the throne of glory, which is our soul. And that's the lesson that Ruby Mayor is teaching us. And why Rebe mayor? This is this is a very interesting point. Very interesting and and a little bit of an odd story. Rebeer [snorts] had a safer Torah that he wrote, his own safer Torah. And in the place in the Torah where it was written or with an iron, our [clears throat] Torah has or with an iron or really if you have to have that safari pronunciation or may had a unique Torah. Whether it was kosher or not, I assume it was kosher. how and why and whatever works out. He had in his Torah an olive where it said that God made for Adam and Eve a fle a body of flesh. In Rime's Torah it said God made a body of light for Adam and Eve. What was he doing with a safety Torah that had the the word light instead of the flesh? So essentially he had a seat to Torah that was before the sense of Torah. He had a safety representing what was not what is. And I think that's why he specifically is the one coming to teach us here in the mitzvah sits about this body of light because it's he had that level connected to it. He taught about he had a Torah of that level and he's telling us that the mitzvah of which is the 613 mitzvah which are connected the 613 limbs and senus of my body corresponds to the 613 limbs and senus of my soul which ultimately correspond to the 613 limbs and senus limbs and senus of this image of God this divine image in the higher spiritual worlds in the throne of glory that's what he's teaching us that's what he's telling us. So this is it's very powerful and that's why the mitzvah are connected to the tikun, the rectification of everything. But there's more to the story. This is really what going to take it to another level right now. And that is right now we would understand that the body is from the earth and it's coarse and it's horrible and it's anim animalistic and it's it's not good. And the soul is great. Soul is spiritual. It's lofty. it comes from the higher worlds. But there's a little bit of a piece of information we want to add. Right? Now, the truth is there is another rabbi that kind of says some of what I just said and I didn't I found about it after I found this book. The the safer from one of the rishonim he writes when he discusses the mitzvah of he says the same thing. He says that his heart was telling him that the mitzvah of the tit corresponds to body and soul. Similar to what I said I I said it on my own. So I said it first then I came across this book. So I'm mentioning it now. He mentions that the the body and soul correspond to the tit. The blue string is the soul and the white strings are the body where I only just said I I only assumed it does but I didn't know why or how. He's a great he's a great Torah sage or one of the rishim. So he proves it and I'm going to share with you now what he adds to this idea because he's going to explain to us why the white strings are body and where these white strings come from where the body ultimately comes from. And he says like this. If you look at two places in Kazal, one is a pir and it says this that ultimately the the body of man comes from the earth right after the sin. It comes from the earth which is opaque and coarse. Where does earth come from? Believe it or not according to rebel the body itself comes from snow. That's the real source of our body is white snow. And guess where that that white snow comes from. We don't have that many options in the way in the way our talks go. >> Go a little higher than the sky. >> The throne of glory. Rebelzar teaches us that there was aside from the blue souls that came from the under the throne of glory. So also underneath that throne of glory there is white snow which is the source of the earth and the source of our bodies. So it comes out unbelievable what we call flip the script idea. We think that the body is garbage and the soul is is is amazing. No, it's all about potential. The the soul is amazing before the sin and after the sin it wasn't affected the same way. But the body was equally amazing. It was it was also a great light. And this is what it means. Originally the the body comes from this white snow which was also underneath the throne of glory. So my body is [snorts] as holy as my soul in potential. It has the same place in the higher worlds underneath God's throne of glory. There's white snow which is my body and blue which is my soul. And they both shine a unique light together which is this unbelievable light that we can shine it elon in the image of God the divine image the 613 limbs and senus of the mitzvah the the zar already says that the six the 248 commandments positive are ultimately 248 limbs of the king of hashem each mitzvah corresponds to a divine expression and each a corresponds to something else they're not literally In that case, maybe it's because of the negative misses, but but the totality of the 613 is the totality of the spiritual worlds and how they're formed and shaped. And ultimately, our soul is built in that same manner in the likeness of the Eljonim. And our body is just a suit that's also customtailor made to fit that exact soul that is built the same way that the Eljonim were built. So, it's all a match. It's all an exact match. And that's why these 613 mitzvah are what are going to reunify body and soul and bring them both back to the level of light and oneness and unity when Msiah comes. And that's the secret and story that's going on over here that Rebe is showing us. It takes the mitzvah of and revolutionizes. This is an unbelievable mitzvah that connects to the essence of creation and the entire purpose of what we're here to accomplish. And it's these 613 keys that are going to open up all those locks and bring body and soul and world and God to an absolute oneness when Msiah comes. >> Amen. Amen.