Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Last Essays Number 9 “The Magical 24 Hour Silent Meditation”

welcome to tonight's tiny class and as you all know tonight is a very very very special night for each and every one of us and for the whole community in Southwest Florida because we are studying tonight the last chapter and Tanya that's been a over four-year study session when we study a chapter a week and we are holding by literally the last chapter we're going to finish the book tonight and it's really really exciting and very very special now so we're gonna say focus on the class because we want to learn a chapter and afterwards we'll go into like a for bringing style all about mysticism and Tanya pending on how much time allows and how you guys are holding with the spirits which I'm sure it's gonna be all great okay so tonight again we learned there's five different sections of Tanya this is the fifth section in the fifth section is there's nine chapters so this is the ninth chapter in the fifth section which is basically the last chapter of all the five sections of Tanya now because it's the Bible of mysticism so every single chapter has a theme and really independent even though everything is really connected so the theme for tonight really is and it's a really really a tremendous gift and I'm happy you all here because you're gonna walk way hopefully with a nice gift and that is the al-tohra speaks over here about in this chapter amongst many things but I think the theme and the takeaway message is now I call it the magical 24-hour silent meditation who loves meditation although meditation there you go so we're gonna learn today about the weekly though weekly 24-hour magical meditation that's we're gonna learn about tonight so the October begins at chapter niece is like this that we know that it says in the Bible hi f to ACR SME Sahara which basically means that rebuke you should rebuke your friend now every word in the Torah is very specific so first of all we're dealing with a friend if someone's not your friend so obviously don't rebuke him or her it only applies to a true friend if someone's not a true true true friend there's no room for rebuking it's actually gonna cause problems so if you want to follow the Torah as promised that's first we gonna make sure the person is our friend and we don't only mean friend you know you go out to lunch with you go to Starbucks with or someone that you just hang out with but a true friend someone sincere friend someone as we say that you can think out loud in their presence and you feel safe and they feel safe so a true friend or actually more specifically the commentaries say a friend that's a friend with you in tow Rapids folks some of the studies with use on this myth so could you some of you work on your love for God and so on and so forth so if that person's a friend so the Torah says hold hey Octavia rebuke should you rebuke and we all know the Torah is very specific so it says a friend which we really explained what that means but then it says rebuke twice why twice once we'll do it then why second and then two why stop at two so actually a Talmud says that the person's really a friend you should rebuke him up to 100 times now obviously if it's not a friend the acne it passed the first in a second maybe a third writing your out but if it's a good friend you know because you're doing the out of love and the person's gonna want it and the person to say please I'd love to hear more so you can rebuke them up to 100 times now obviously we're dealing with over here can't welcome come on have a seat so we're dealing over here with the alter rebbe who he considers every one of his disciples as a friend because it's not just a physical relationship it actually adds to it the fact that it's what a spiritual relationship so the altar is obviously reaching out to his students and anybody wants to be associated with Chabad and he says like this and he uses actually pretty hot pretty intense emotional words and he says as follows and he says and he says to his students which is obviously hopefully including all of us and he's pleading with us he's pleading with us hi welcome come have a seat he's pleading with us to have pity pity is rock Manute we know that in the attributes on the road you have has a guru Farris but then you have Ramona's Rahman note is a center Sphero comes from TFRs where you have compared Shin he's pleading with us thought was pleading with us in a compassionate way that we should have pity on our souls why because the fact that God gave us a soul and just like for example when a person physically needs to eat if you don't eat you're gonna be hungry if you don't drink you're gonna be thirsty and all of a sudden you know you're gonna start you're gonna look for food you don't for something to drink that is your physical body but your soul also needs to eat also needs to drink so the author is pleading with us to have pity on our souls and he addresses three areas the three areas redresses will do one at a time the first area he dresses is the idea of prayer now why are you dressed idea prayer first he explains because we all want to have a relationship with God and we know in the world of Kabbalah that something which is called service abode ah Avada is the way we serve God we have a connection with God relate to God in in Judaism what is called serving God not just serving on an external level but serving God with your heart because you can serve a God with your physical body by doing physical mitzvahs anytime you do a physical mitzvah that's something that's serving our with your body if you're studying Torah then you you're serving not with your brain so how do you serve God with your heart cuz a heart that's really where it's at the way we live is with our heart so you want your heart to relate to Shem how does a heart served odd and that happens walked through prayer so the service of the heart is called prayer and since prayer is very very important start over saying hey guys you gotta have pity on yourself you gotta pray now the altar of obviously wants us to pray wants us to be successful in prayer see he sets out what should you pray that you'll be successful in prayer she does first of all we all know that this personal prayer and this communal prayer now this personal prayer which is great but we know the communal pray is much more powerful that's the holding of a minyan at least a minyan when you play the community and down to it outlines how we surprised the communities first of all that brother says that we should pray it all together like when you coming to shul not this one holding this page and I'll now page and this one thinking we should all pray together we should all be holding the same page the same prayer we should all be saying it together focus together exactly second thing is that when you pray since prayer involves meditation so you can't speed through it you have to say one word at a time say one word think about the thing to think about the word that's why it's important to know and Hebrews called Petersham you know you have to know what the words mean because you don't know what it means what are you thinking about so you have to read it you have to know what it means and you have to meditate on what you're reading now we all know it says that one thing the hardest thing to do is pray why is one of the hardest things to do to pray because what happens like this action we can do we cannot do so you can sit still speech you can talk you can be silent we have the option our mind is working 24/7 mm-hmm so you don't have an option to shut your mind down as he put it on pause all don't put it on pause or go back and delete the mind is working it's 24/7 it's open so what happens is you're trying to pray you trying to focus but the mind wanders the wanders off so one of the important things in prayer is to make sure the autumn sayings not the dream you can stop praying and you think about God and all the sudden you're thinking about oh my gosh let's because my kids are poor have to go what am I going here and waiting for whatever we start thinking about it can be a million things that the mind is always working so to make sure not to dream during prayer it's like you said stay focused don't dream like this and the other thing stay focused on what you praying in meditation and the connection to God that's another thing he gives another another idea he says about prayer is not to speak if you're middle of praying Molson you having conversation with someone else I mean people have conversations themselves that's another issue but don't talk to you so don't talk to anyone else focus on what you're doing now so those are force four steps outputs out number one is we should all pray together number two is say one word at a time number two is not the dream and number three and before is not to talk don't talking now so the author addresses issue what's the problem the problem is very simple that when you pray together there's a leader to the service I don't really use the word Kazan Kazan is a cantor I can't or someone that you know does cantorial stuff I'm doing a about Fela and Hebrew is called basically someone that leads the prayer service leading is different than a thousand someone that leads the prayer service now so the problem is maybe there is you don't have people to lead the prayer service in that fashion because the leaders not gonna leave like that how can anyone follow that way so the algebra says that he's gonna create a solution guess what hey he says you're gonna find capable people there are people are capable of leading a service you got to find them and or what happens you don't ya feel okay but they want to do it you know it's hard to lead a prayer service to lead it right he says then if you have capable people and they don't want to do it you have several people's you make a lottery and each one will get his turn it doesn't pray three times a day so you make a lot of dilution on the prayer service now the and once you pick that person the requirements are the one leading the service should be she says number one is the person say each word don't just run through it say each word second thing is the person praying the service shouldn't be interesting shouldn't be too slow or too quick there's a medium pace something which is you know medium calming soothing running is no good and too slow is also a good it's not a medium pace and the person leading the prayer service to say it out loud say the words out loud so three things the husband has to have one is again he has to say each word he has to say it in a medium pace and also you say it out loud and then what happens when he leads the prayer service the people should be sitting in close proximity and when the people are sitting in close proximity they should pray the same way also now they sir pray another would say each word they should play in a medium pace the only difference they should pray in a drop lowered voice in the Kazan you don't want the people following doing it the same voice or even higher because then no one's getting here the fuzz up now why is dr. who say this is so important and he said he spells it out black and white he says because unfortunately all the problems and all the struggles and all the challenges and all the illnesses and all the downfalls that we have on any level physical spiritual mental financially on all levels comes because you don't pray they were supposed to and the authors have if we take upon ourselves and we pray who are we supposed to all our problems will go away so think about that dedicate how much time do you need pray or day let's say an hour for chakras let's see 20 minutes a month huh see another 20 minutes Myers so we talk then I don't see other prayers a max two hours their prayer service that is 24 hours a day not even 10% you pray to a supposed to guess what your whole days being blessed and all levels at work at home with your friends social life everything will be great it's worthwhile investment and then the algebra finishes off in this area prayer and he gives us a blessing that sins how do you pray with your heart to the heart has to be pure say give us a blessing that God to purify our hearts to serve them in truth why because the fact is like this how do we pray with our hearts if our hearts are not pure if they're dull and if they're stubborn you're not gonna pray so he gives us a blessing that walk that we should pray and we should have pure hearts and I should serve God with truth with MS yes correct okay so that is one area the first area dr. addresses in this chapter and that is prayer which is very very important it's a big part of the Jewish life it's bill to pray and pray in a real way and develop a loving relationship with God with our heart then the alter egos over to another it's another topic and that is about the importance of Torah study and the algorithm says like this that one of the biggest gifts God gave us is the Torah why God's infinite we are finite how can a fine at you and being connect to the internet it's almost impossible so God gave us a medium that we can connect to him how can we connect am i studying Torah now I specifically doctor was talking now about signing of helmet and we know the comet is huge is 60 the staff know this there's 60 values and and some of their bigger something smaller some have just dismissed NASA Mishnah and Talmud and so on and so forth the author who says that every single person should take upon himself to study attractive Tom hood for the whole year now what happens to be part of a community and if every person takes on one track date the whole community study the whole Talmud's because when you prod the community if one person does and this one does we take it all together collectively guess what as a community as a whole we all studied as elements and therefore he said it's important to study the Tama is a community now what happens if there's a huge community is hundreds of people so everyone's gonna have a page - there's no the do multiple groups this group will do in the nuts group and you can have you can finish to a you know if it's a big community ten 20 30 40 50 people can come finish the Solomons now what happens if you're a small community you don't have enough people to finish the whole Talmud then Excel you should group together a bunch of small communities but the point is that everyone should be part of some kind of cycle that you have some kind of participation that you're able to study the Talmud one section and therefore that group within one year should study the whole Talmud a matter of fact up until today every single year which is actually this week holiday is the anniversary after his passing they were divided and people would take a section here section and people would you know participate in being able to study Talmud throughout the year the altima says that whoever studies Talmud which hopefully is everybody so at least once a week you should recite in Psalms you know with the Book of Psalms from King David is 150 Psalms the biggest Psalm is which one anyone know I think most important they're all important the lowest one very good is one one nine the longest one is one one nine one nineteen cookie tests in the air in the air in there they have for every one of the 22 alphabets they have eight verses that start with that alphabet so for example olive is the first alphabet so there's eight verses a start with Alice Bayes is the next alphabet is eight verses a start with maize so so whoever studies Thomas is once a week some people do it on Shabbos a mule during the week whatever it is once a week read Psalm one night get together yourself it's not a big sigh I mean it's not that big well chapter 119 it has 8 verses ok so that is the second theme that he talks about in this chapter at first we said it was about prayer and the second law is about Torah study the third the third it's it's not more exciting the third thing doctor says that it's important for again back to the original idea is to have rock Manute compassion our souls our souls need need need the oxygen our souls need water our souls needs nourishment so the third thing he discusses is fasting fasting why because we know that you know since we're human present company excluded fine I get it but humans humans by definition make mistakes angels don't make mistakes you must make mistakes you always make mistakes we humans down the other hand God made us human but he also gave us opportunity to fix the mistakes it's not mind you a mistake movements for over you fast this fasting and we remember we learned in when we studied them garrachova the letters of repentance in chapter 3 they list over the year the different amounts of fast depending what you did wrong you did this wrong so many fasts this wrong so many fast so you can add up to all of a sudden you're doing a lot a lot of fasting you pray you so then stop sitting yeah there you go so you could before you know it you can be fasting almost every day of the year like one of the sense what was it 80 for fast oh and before you know it hello you can be faster daily right lose out of weight exactly but you stop behaving also okay now so so the third thing that River says guess walked is fasting now one things we know is doctor was a holy man and he has on us just like he wants us to monitor ourselves he also has Romanus on us now the art of a good rabbi is not someone got to be that one to punish you but not somebody wants to hurt you the art of a good rabbi soand that loves you that wants the best of you and wants to help you so here is you see and it's fastening this is the last chapter and Tanya here as you see with the author of expresses his real love for us because the fact is if you did something wrong you got fast and often went through how many fasts and everything and the opera's is guess what I'm gonna give you a loophole a loophole another what's the loop only says like this he says since I know that people don't physically don't have the strength like you say it's very hard to fast people don't have the strength to fast so he says we can use the advice of the Talmud he didn't make it up because he can't make things up he says he comes with a brilliant idea he says in Talmud says as follows now quoted in Hebrew I'll translate it call hash Rhema Shabbos kill hustle he moist lingly alcohol of a new soul who wants to take a dip in translate anybody God and good okay so the translations like this whoever observes Shabbat according to its laws are you ready for this are forgiven for all their sins so the algorithms like this the Talmud says whoever observes Shabbat according to its all the laws you're forgiving for the shins that's what does in the Talmud software says guess what the Altima says one sets out who says very simple love - you have all that you why are you why are you fasting because you did this sin dance and the other sin and you have all these fast you have to do but what happens if I were able to get you - for God forgive you for all the sins you don't the fast so you observe Shabbos kill you don't the fast I mean you're in there you go you like it we all love it right so the optimist says guess what you have to fast a solution a beautiful solution observe Shabbos kyoko side the Jewish law and guess what you have no sense you're like totally white we're totally free all those facts you have to do dun dun dun dun this is good okay so now the October says one second so let's analyze it what are the Talmud say if you observe Shabbos but it adds an extra word kill hustler corn to Jewish law and according to the laws of Shabbat so therefore so the first thing you have to learn all the challah Holt is if you want to observe Shabbos according to Jewish see they explored it means to learn how long had observe some odds if you're not going to learn how you know how observe Shabbat so the first thing you have to take the Sahara and the talmud and mr. more importantly surf on earth where they haven't kissed American the algebra so you have to learn a lot go to smart and this way you'll know how to observe Shabbat and because if you want if you want to again the goal is and shouldn't the fast so hey you're not gonna first you have to get all your sins taken away how you need a license taken away by observing Shabbat how do you observe Shabbat you got to learn the hallow hot now so why do you throw her locker because you have to know two things you have to know what's forbidden knows those things which are forbidden yeah I'll do a lot you have to know what you need to do on Shabbat and also you have to know how to prepare yourself before Shabbos so you don't come desecrate the Shabbos not the Shabbos Oh Chavez's here hello if you didn't prepare how you how's it gonna work so you have to learn beforehand to know how to peer that Travis should be successful like anything you do it's all the preparation that's an expression if you fail to plan you plan to fail right so you got you got you got to plan it out now so let's let's hold tight so again let's stay focused so the author is said again that its third issue doctor said was about fasting the autumn so how do you avoid fasting if God takes we sense house you take away sins if you observe Shabbat so now and the other one says learn halakhah but now the Altima comes along and puts down something very very powerful in reference to how to keep Shabbat and The Alchemist is like this that on Shabbat we should be careful not and this is what we spoke at the beginning of the class about the 24 hours silent meditation then on Shabbat we should not speak any unnecessary words on Shabbat and the optimist says specifically god forbid this is very this is now we're entering a whole this arranging the meditations on and pay attention as it's really powerful again what's that what we're saying and Shabbat we should not speak any unnecessary words obviously they're necessary where it's fine but anything which is unnecessary that come out about Shabbat which we stopped practicing now [Music] so no you couldn't even handle this for a second right no speaking any on necessary words it's funny I just met someone this week actually told me literally last week or two weeks ago they did a 24-hour non-speaking fast they didn't talk a whole month and they said it was phenomenal and they didn't do it for religious reasons they were doing meditation they didn't realize what it was you know the connection is jamaat's they happen to be Jewish so I guess they're killing two birds one stone once the let him know they were feeling okay okay so the first against the outer sense again don't stay focus it's very very important not to speak any unnecessary words god forbid God not and this is he's not saying this is like an extra you want to observe Shabbat so go learn the laws fine you'll learn what to do what not to do how to prepare I get it and now he's spelling it out he's spelling it out watching spelling out don't speak any unnecessary the bots that is huge now the uppers explain where do we get that song what is it based on so the Optima goes on to say he says that it's known and he uses the term I'll say it in Hebrew and I'll translate Lajoie de Seine lado de means to those that know pain is the two letter words but actually it's an abbreviation it stands for hokhmah in Stara the hidden the hidden wisdom which is referring to Kabbalah mysticism Siddhartha was going to tell us is teaching us something which is known to walk to the to the hidden city hidden wisdom and explains like this it's know it's known to those that know the hidden wisdom enters Kabbalah that every single Mitzvah every single mid-span we know there's 630 commandments 248 positive 365 negative every one of these mitzvahs have I'll say it in Hebrew I'll translate it something which is called put me me it of the mitzvot and keep saying it of the mitzvot what is the what is pre-made on one discrete sonia's so there's something which is the physical component and the spiritual component so in other words every single one of this 613 commandments whether it's from the 248 positive or the 360 865 negatives there's the physical component to the mitzvot whether it's do or don't do whatever the physical component but then there's the spiritual component so now we're gonna talk now sniffing about Shabbat so in other words shabana's like this what is Shabbos mean Shabbos come soon where to shove us shove us means to rest what happened when I shouldn't created the world so the six days he created the world and in the seventh day of create seven day of creation I've shown will shove us Hashem Restless so again Hashem physically worked however we understand work for God's he was creating and the seventh day he did not he rusted via for the Thomases six days we were obligated to work productive and make things happen and the seventh day was supposed to rest so therefore I shall rested on the seventh day and we're supposed to rest so the Sony is the physical component to Chavez's resting physical relaxation just like a sham rested now so that is the key so Gnaeus of Shabbos what is the previous of Shabbos what is the internal part of Shabbat and what is worth the spiritual part of Shabbat the spiritual component of Shabbos is when we pray and we study Torah not for any other reason other than to cleave Tashia people study Torah they want understand and they want to you know give a class and they want to become famous and so on and so forth for people of a job what it may be but the previous of Shabet is I want to start a study Torah you pray and the reason why I'm studying and praying is I want a clean session and we all know the verse says in the Torah this is very fascinating what I say in the Torah it says Shabbos Hashem a local which means Shabbos tigran that's a little translation so Kabbalah translates that Shabbos you want to observe Shabbos you have to observe Thomas in a way that your whole Shabbos comes that you become Lashon little puffy to come closer to our Sun so the way you're observing Shabbos is by becoming closer to Hashem and you reconnecting tells gentleman so that is what the previous of Solace now we know Shabbat there's two Commandments reference to Shabbos one is za Clure which means to remember their Shabbos now Zahra is the positive commandment of za her to remember that the way we observe Shabbat what a sucker mean to remember so what's the premium shop as we said is the study Torah and to pray in order to cleave Taschen so that's sad why's the previous the internal part of cleaving session now do there's also command we know the references about summer Shama means to observe literally needs to watch what means to observe this this Shabbat so had what is some or what's the what's the spiritual part of summer so the optics planes it's very simple in other words the shomer Shabbos is not speaking the supper of Shabbos is studying Torah praying to cleave townshend that's the supper you remembering you're getting close to - young summer is on a spiritual level not doing and that's speaking more part not speaking anything unnecessary in other words what's the Suetonius of summer no work you have too many workers I'm didn't work you don't work what supreme is not work it's not saying anything unnecessary and the optimist finishes off the chapter and this is very profound because it grows it's not just the end of this chapter it's the end of the whole time healer and the author finished off the chapter and he brings a famous quote from King Solomon we know King Solomon wrote many books and one of his most powerful book is silly a sneeze and the author and the the quotes the verse the verse says over there as follows Z I'll say to me bro translated there lucuma Z which means - M me made one apps for the other and other words like this ash uncreated Zi Luo Mazda there's always a counterpart in other words there's two ways to click to come close to Hashem of Shabbat one way is the proactive which is the positive energy by praying and studying Torah and the praying and the study Torah does what gets you to cleave touch' that's the proactive what's the way of summer Lumas and the opposite side is what is by doing nothing not speaking any extra words and when we take 24 hours and the only thing we do is pray what we're supposed to with the goal of cleaving there SEM and study torah with the goal of cleaving there sham starting coming from inside to discussing the past or whatever maybe and not speaking anything that's not necessary we will be then experiencing Shabbos in a real way and we explain in Chaves in a real way that will allow us the gift that God says he's gonna forgive us more sins we're not gonna have since we're not going too fast so another than this traffic adulterer outlines three ways important ways that we need to work on ourselves one is to come closer to God one is to be started with a prayer to pray to pray with the community and to pray properly second is to study study Talmud and once weeks read psalm 119 then fasting but again right away he says you don't the fast just get God forgive you all the sins go for the go for the lottery winning lottery tickets how about observing Shabbat so he says two parts one I get to learn the hallow whole to know how to observe Shabbat but then he says there's the physical part is the physical the fraternities of Shabazz we don't do work and we do different prayers and so on and so forth but then there's a spiritual part of Shabbat which is by prayer and Torah study with the goal is to cleave to sham but also as well to spend 24 hours not speaking unless it's necessary now it's just interesting is that this verse of the ultimate coasts from King Solomon so it's a very powerful verse and the verses like this the verse says that when life is great you feel blessed you feel happy everything's going your way so what you do should be grateful what is going great in your life physically spiritually and mentally emotionally be grateful Wow this is look what's going on I mean bless with this and great with that and the family the community everything whatever all my areas in life I'm blessed for what happens when you don't see the light well I'm fortune some as you see the darkness so what does King Solomon say he says just stop and look look what I mean look you don't see what it is but if trust me if it's my sham it's good wait I might take a day a week a month a year who knows how long we'll think maybe I'll ever see it but just know it's coming from a sham it's all good and I would lear that's what he says he's a little might say everything from our shaman when you see it's good it's a mushroom when you think it's not good it's also a Russian everything comes from a Shem and when what happens when you realize that everything comes from a sermon everything comes from the loving her Sam then life is really really great so in other words when life is great so then you grateful town shown you make blessings you thank God what happens when you don't see how great it is so you're not really grateful for that I mean you could be so what does King Saul was saying equines like Shabbat knows this a part that we praise God they're probably do nothing quiet and that's what the power of silence comes in the power and silence is when does when there's a struggle you stop you don't see anything you take it in and guess what happens connect to the deeper part of the show because speech is limiting non non speech is infinite and that's really the real power the real power is in the silence and again as King Solomon says el lummus that are both important is the component way and we're grateful and his opponent when were quiet just like instrument when we pray and we study I'm a cleaving to God and then it's a time the word do we sit back and we just take it all in so I think this chapter has a very very practical an important and a profound lesson and that is a Shem loves us Shem wants the best for us we have ways to connect in many ways if you like praying you can strengthen your prayer service Hashem the service of the heart if you're more of an intellect obviously you can study a lot of Torah it's another way to connect that sham if you're a doer so you can pair of beautiful Shabbos and then on Shabbos if you really want to connect touch them in a very powerful way you have the opportunity to both prepare beautiful Shabbos tour thoughts prayer but also more importantly the gifts of silence and I think the gift of silence is really really a tremendous gift because it allows you really to connect to the infinite ocean in an unlimited fashion because when words are limiting it's only gonna take you so far on the other hand without words the sky's limit so borrow some I think it's huge huge that we finished the tanya the last chapter so join the celebration and actually there's no words to describe it it's by divine providence this week is the anniversary of the altar is passing and we actually finish the tanya here in fort myers we went to the whole five sections you look it's a tremendous tremendous blessing let's run this blessing to be able to finish this and we all know what judaism and Judaism is one of the rules is torah never ends this one you finished you finished his own finishing you finish and you ready start something new so we're gonna have a discussion in the community here what we should start the next thing but just that we shouldn't finish that without starting something so i'm just want to talk about a short idea about mysticism in general listen in general and that is one one small idea that we know that the alte Rebbe he he unfortunately passed away while he was running away so a long story back many wanted a whole long into the story which is a interesting point he he he which he was he was running away from Napoleon because it was in October very very much wanted there was a big debate you know the rabbi's who they wanted to win the war you know Russia or Napoleon and most of the robbers actually wanted Napoleon's win because they felt like financially much better than Jewish people and doctoral agreed but he felt like that spiritually you'd be terrible to the Jewish people so he will very very much wanted that's Russian women because even though will be hard you know financially and other levels but he felt spiritually be better for the Jewish people so he prayed for Russia to win and because of that when Napoleon came into Russia doctor about to run away for his for his life and he ran from town to town and then at one point it was you know if it's not easy to Russia those days it wasn't like it was air-conditioned cars air-conditioned chuubo heated cars and trains and he was running around and in the winter and was very very cold unfortunately at some point he became very very ill and he passed away but I read a very very powerful story it's when I finished off with the story I think it's important to finish over the story and in one thought and Alto and the story goes like this that when the author was in his last place where he was he was making far like an inn called piano and some someone put him up at a cottage us from those it wasn't Jewish yeah but he saw a holy man and he put him he gave him a cottage to live in and he stayed there and then what happens in the Alto was getting so gentle and he saw that you know his time is up so the this person that hosted him asked him for a blessing he wasn't Jewish he asked them give me a blessing who would want to bless him from a holy person so the altar was set to him he gave him a blessing give him a big blessing and he told him he told him like this that which is an interesting blessing he gave him a blessing he told him that when a Jew comes through and doesn't behave the way he's supposed to you'll know what to do with him that was a short while a daughter passed away and he was buried little the next closest cemetery in honde CH which actually we did the completion of the previous section the fourth in habits which is very very moving very powerful and [Music] after doctor passed away many years later this person that got the blessing to the altar be he this cottage doctor was stayed in was very very special to him because the holy man stayed this he wouldn't let anyone stay there for Juke came by and he felt the person was like holy he would let him stay in the cottage otherwise he wouldn't really let anyone stay there now this is ten years later and he got like a little in so two Jews came by and you know yes they help you or anything one they said you know yes sure they want me he have like special kosher dishes and kosher food I said you know want me to come and get you kosher and they go that we don't care about kosher now he's like what do you look like Jews you dress like Jews running on the road because no one sees I mean you don't care about kosher and a flash went off in his head what the altar had told him when you see a Jew that's not behaving like a Jew you'll know what to do with him so he right away said oh this must be my calling so he went out and he called the guys towards the cottage of the alter rebbe and he said he pulled out a big axe pull out a big axe and she listened that is the cottage with the altar we stayed here and I suggest you that you guys go do your last prayers because your life is over and it's what are you gonna do it's not like you know what do they have and he's a there no protection or anything so they said okay sure and they went and they realized oh my gosh when I start to do real tuvo he started really really weep oh my gosh what we doing we're like it's cause we're on the road we can just ignore you know our tourists face and everything and they like they were like really really sincerely repented and then he walked and he saw there was like a change of heart a real chain you can tell him someone is transformed and he said to them okay I guess your repentance is accepted now go to the alter rebbe and pray in his grave and life will be good and then obviously he they came and he fed them kosher food and so on and so forth and I think the story has many messages I'm sure you can all call me almost as you want but I think that the the the many messages one message is that if you if you have if you're a Jew and you have a certain set of values and rules you know people respect you not when you desecrate them people respect you when your honor your rules this man wasn't Jewish but he he why are you respect someone doesn't respect their own rules so he was able to he was able to respect someone that respects their own rules he respected the object as he saw a holy godly man and then when he saw people not behaving in a godly way hello this is not a way behaved but here you see the power of truth Oh if someone someone can do something terrible look the guy was going to kill him but he did real chula the guy forgave me but I think on a more of a spiritual all i want to talk about is we know the alte Rebbe taught us this part of her brain the part the guys that ran away missing the forebrain and all right that's fine they're watching the video see ya you'll tell the story [Laughter] so what are the one of the officer I became into the world and we know he transformed the world in a huge way in age way and the author he taught many many powerful teachings now one of the pet most part I mean he teach many we're gonna talk about a few we'll see how much time permits one of the teachers he taught us was that you know the world is light as darkness some place isn't lighter somebody's just doctor now light and darkness this physical light in darkest this spiritual light in darkness there's emotional light in darkness you know I'm gonna light them in the dark I mean it depends what you referring to could be in any year if you like to you going through now what happens is you will really want to be in the light you want clarity you want focus you want honesty you want love but these are all levels of light where it's hot you see it is open energy is flowing darkness not a place you want to be but the fact is what you minute so sometimes we don't rely on some darkness one of the teachings on territory is a lot only confront light and darkness they're busy a whole day or they put a lot of energy in getting rid of the darkness don't do this and don't do that I'm not saying it's not correct the author he came and he revolutionized the way you deal with darkness and what he said was yeah the truth is for example if you have a room that's dirty and you want and it's dirty and it's decrepit and old furniture and it's broken and smelly so the proper procedure what do you do take all the junky furniture out clean the place down you sanitize the place fresh and clean now you bring in the new furniture you know whatever you want to bring in there that's the general way of doing things and that's where generals we can people have a struggle they in the dark get rid of the dark I can't handle these negative stuff in their doctors no no let's change things around let's do things a little differently and what do you say don't bring in the light and eventually a darkness will go away because sometimes you've so busy with the darkness you never get to the light so the same example would be in a dark room I get it's dirty and everything you know what guess what it's a big job let's start bringing in some light some new furniture some new things well keep it no one's gonna make it dirty right and then slowly you'll be easier to get out the stuff because you see the light sometimes if you don't see the light you can't get ahead of yourself and that's one of the most powerful teachings out there we focus on the light focus on things that you could do focus on the talents that you do have don't focus on my gosh I missed that you know the times you have a beautiful picture and it can be worth who knows what and there must there's a small blanked out there what do people why do we notice did that hello 99% of the picture is gorgeous what most people see the see to that and litter wheel drives them crazy verse says you have ninety-nine percent you can focus on beauty no I have two right so the powder because it oh stop let's do with the opposite focus on the good part whether it's day or night it's irrelevant focus on the light and eventually the darkness will go away and I think it's really really an important lesson or life let's focus on the on the light because when you focus on the light yes what you know have to run away because you find the light most a lot of people unfortunately it's like the glass is half-full half-empty when a glass is half-full half-empty which one is true it's half-full or half-empty they're both so how come some people are focusing on the half-full half-empty so that could be again it could be many reasons it could be you were born that way it could be you're trained that way I don't know it could be many reasons but it Z relevant why some people just see the half-empty and they can't get ahead of themselves some people see half-full and and guess what they enjoy the half-full and they'll worry about later how to fill the other half up now I guess it's not easy it's easier said than done but the point this doctor gave us a path focus on the light focus on the light that's one powerful teaching and since you know with just you know we don't want to finish you want to like start so we'll saw but we're gonna start by just want to share and importantly give in the beginning of the book of Tanya we're starting we're always starting know life is a circles but I want to show you one important revolutionary idea from the beginning important time which is really really very helpful nets as follows the author explains the beginning in Tanya this is also part of the brilliant part okay the author says and beginning Italian like this that Hashem gave us a mind and he gave us a heart know Hashem also gave us a godly soul and Sun gave us an animal soul and we need both we need our mind we need a heart you need our godly soul animal soul we're is the lounge where does the hang out with the godly soul hangs out anybody know in the mind glad the godly soul hangs out in the mind where does the animal soul hang out in the heart with the other animal souls in the heart now that doesn't mean that the godly soul doesn't visit because in the ugly heart and doesn't mean that the animal soul isn't try to creep into the mind now so what happens like this the mind tells us what's right when it's wrong and it's 100% objective we all know if you ask yourself and someone ask yourself you ask yourself you know let's get me emotions out what is the right thing to do if you have clarity of your mind without getting emotionally excited if you're able to say let me stop and think what is the right thing to do I can guarantee you every one of us will tell will say the right this right thing to do because why I mind knows one plus one is two your heart can feel I can learn today let's make it one respond 23 and we do it a lot with a heart but our mind knows one plus one is two and that will never change in your heart what number do you want to be right and that's the number you get but our mind knows the truth the same thing also our godly soul knows what God what Russian wants so the minds objective the heart on the other hand wants to have a great life and we should have a great life what happens the mind will tell you you want a great life so do this live this life will be great the hottest event right now what I have fun so Tanya it says babe the basic argument between right and wrong between the godly soul and the animal soul is always going to be right or wrong versus good time bad time now what happens like this let's say you struggle you know what the right thing to do is we all know whatever you whatever the saundra we know what the right thing to do was but they were struggling he wanted do this one do that so how do you get the strength to overcome the struggle so it's 50/50 who's gonna win and one of the powerful teachings also teaches us is there's something which is called Moya Charlotte AHA lays that the intellect has more power over the heart the intellect has more power over the heart in its nature that means that if if there's a struggle between doing right and wrong and the Animus almost wants to do what makes feel good and right now if you're persistent the interrupt has edge over and in other words the godly soul has the edge over the godly so has the edge over and because the godly soul has the edge over you will eventually do with the God Ilan's and just to finish off that you know we know that we're getting ready now we're before this shibata's me Travis embark on I'm on the spot and in a good spot is the the day that the previous ready passed away and the ready took over leadership and seven years ago there became the Rebbe top some units and now it's tough sometimes to seventy years and one of the main themes that the Rebbe taught which is all based obviously from the author it's all connected is that God wanted to make a dwelling place in this world meaning to say is it's not enough to meditate and do like you know spiritual stuff it's important to do physical in its folds it's important to be spiritually grounded that means that we have to do physical myths fault I mean it's not just to love being Jewish which is great but we also have to translate into actions so if it's for a man to put on tefillin and the ladies like Shabbos candles like to keep kosher all the practical laws why because when you do the physical mitts vote you're literally bringing God into the physical world and the goal is to bring God down into this physical world and that's another beautiful teaching and gift of Judaism mysticism is to be able to bring God down into this world anyways I'm really really blessed and grateful that we work from finish the whole book of Tonya here and God willing we'll continue to grow and most importantly we just said it should have a real effect else in a great way it should hopefully affect us in a meaningful way it should show in our prayers and our Torah study in our midst vote in our excitement I love for God I love for people I love for helping people and we should all be conduits for great and powerful things Mazel Tov I just want to say that I remember four years ago I said to the rabbi let's do some time yet four years later we're done thank you to this unit