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Thank You for the Tension | Torah Ohr Noach Mayim Rabim#4
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Okay.
A good morgen eaten, a good out of
Shabbos, a good Shabbos, a good chodesh.
A good gebentshte yahr, a gesunte
vinter.
A healthy winter to everybody.
So yesterday was a very important sheer.
I think
in the Baal HaTanya explaining
why it is and how it is
that our tov, our goodness,
we discover through our angel of life.
But our me'od,
our infinity, our ein sof,
our bechol me'odecha,
we discover
in our encounter
and confrontation
with
our
lowest angel, angel of death, angel
which seems to want to undermine
everything that is that is alive and
vibrant in us.
Which is why the Medrash says vi'ahavta
es Hashem Elokecha b'chol sh'rasecha
u'vinei tov, tov zeh malach chayim,
and tov me'od,
me'od zeh malach hamaves. It's not the
same tov.
Yes, I am in a kosher.
The light that's born from
from the darkness.
There's always a struggle with this
because
if the darkness would say this, it
wouldn't be dark.
In other words, if the darkness would
learn this my mirror
right?
He would actually be your best friend.
Like me?
Now, the truth is that the darkness
knows this my mirror cuz he's talking
about it.
But
you have to know that your darkness
knows the my mirror. That's a little
hard.
To be able to see it, to see our
darkness, our inner Malachim oids, so to
speak
not as dark essentially
and not as evil and monstrous, but
essentially as the my oid. It's the
beginning of my oid.
And the word my oid is extremely
relevant here because the my oid as he
says, my oid is not a definition.
My oid means whatever definition you
have, it's something beyond that. Right?
That's my oid.
My oid means very. What's very?
Whatever there is more.
Very very much. Very very very.
So, you're loving a sham with your very
ness. There's no such a word in English.
Love a sham with your very ness. V E R,
I don't know why hyphen N E S S.
Even Webster who's been recently making
up words
this word you won't find.
Maybe if the sheer goes around enough,
they'll include it in the dictionary.
What does it mean? Love a sham with your
very with your very ness.
And and the point is that that's exactly
what the Nikuda of my oid means.
Bleegval means if something looks a
certain way,
it's a finite
reality. Finite means something I can
measure,
I can taste, I can see. It's structured.
It's finite.
This table is finite. Right? The earth
is pretty big, but it's finite.
Finite means it has properties, it has
measurements that can be defined, they
can be
controlled, they can be manipulated,
they can be owned. You can wrap your
hands around them, or at least you could
wrap your brains around them. I can't
wrap my hands around the planet Earth.
I can wrap my hands around a tree and
hug a tree, but
on some level my brain can wrap itself
around certain realities, at least a
certain level of it.
Blickvool is that which is always it's
always beyond that. If I could define
it, if I could pinpoint it, "Oh, this is
what it is."
It's not blickvool.
How do you touch that in your life?
I never touch that through my toyiv.
I reach that through
my toyiv ma'oid.
And that I can't touch through my malach
achayim.
That I touch through that which seems
the exact opposite
in terms of what it looks like. It looks
like the exact opposite.
And yet really the reason it looks like
the exact opposite is
because it comes from a much more
infinite and deeper place.
As I as he put it, it's from the shvira,
from the from the breakdown of olam
atzilut.
Which is really
comes even from a deeper place than the
nefesh elokus.
And when I encounter that,
I'm encountering a paradox. On one hand,
it seems like such intense darkness,
such intense choshech.
Such a negative reality, a malach
hamoves, you just want to run away from
it.
But on a deeper level,
this is really a manifestation of
something that's infinite, infinitely
good.
But it's it's so infinite
that it doesn't have the finite
structure of goodness. It doesn't even
look that way.
And you have to be able to have the
courage and the resilience and the
wisdom not to be afraid, but on the
contrary, to realize that this
allows your sublimation, your aliya. He
says the neshama goes from ziv hashchina
to atzmus, from the radiance of the
shchina to something even deeper. You
have for sure achas betzuvah um
sometimes.
So now let's continue inside.
And as he put it in the last line of the
first paragraph of the maamar,
ideah skafya nasa tchiya samecha.
The resurrection of the dead. Malach
hamavess is death.
The resurrection of the dead, spiritual,
emotional death.
So what seems like emotional death,
that's what shviras hakelim is. Shviras
hakelim is Shviras hakelim is a term of
kabbalah. It means breaking of the
vessels.
It's a very famous term in the writings
of the Arizal. Anybody who's even a
little familiar with kisvei Arizal
and any sforim that are connected to
kisvei Arizal, shviras hakelim is a very
big sugya.
It's what happened pre-creation, the
breaking of the vessels.
In in chassidus, especially by the Baal
Hatanya, the whole idea of shviras
hakelim is a very a very personal
element in avodah.
In avodas Hashem, there's shviras
hakelim. Every breakdown in life is
essentially a form of shviras hakelim.
The keli is structure. Shviras hakelim
means the structure is gone. Whatever
that looks like.
It could be in your family, it could be
in your marriage, it could be in
yourself.
And any any way keli is safety, you
know? Keli is boundaries. A breakdown of
boundaries, a breakdown of safety, a
breakdown of structure,
which can create the greatest forms of
trauma.
The brain also has kelim. When that
breaks down, that's called shviras
hakelim.
That shviras hakelim
holds those broken Sakhalin holding them
the sparks
and the lights
of infinity of to you that couldn't be
contained in these Sakhalin.
So these in the in the in these broken
Sakhalin you have access
to that which seems like a Malachi Mavis
it went through a near death or
emotional death experience.
And when I can actually see that and
with compassion hold its hand
and say
what happened to you? What happened to
you? Come.
Let's find out your true story. You
literally created some ice. You can
almost feel it. If you do this work, you
can almost feel
dead parts saying thank you for giving
me life.
Now he continues the next paragraph.
This was just a summation of yesterday's
sheer. If you didn't hear it, it's good
I to hear it because it's a very
fundamental idea in life.
The Zahav my mirror Zahav, so now we
come back.
You see where this page 17 the second
paragraph test column one of Zahav my
mirror Zahav.
Zahav my mirror Zahav this is what it
says in PKA office your first shot is
between my son table and my son table
and my son table.
One hour
one moment
of chuva and my son table in this world
is your first it's more beautiful it's
it's greater than the whole life of my
son table.
Can this killer and the question is how
can you say that?
So you already said in the previous
column on the first
column dollar
the answer is because you used to know
my son table because in the my son table
there's something called chuva. That's
why it says
but chuva. Why doesn't
show my some show mitzvahs, show Torah?
Why chuva?
Cuz that's the quick That's the key.
It's not
of good things we do in
cuz in there's chuva. And chuva is
always confrontation
with with the darker part. That's what
chuva is. Chuva is I'm returning. I'm
returning from somewhere. I was lost.
I got lost somewhere. I got stuck
somewhere. In there's clarity. There's
and there's a lot of it.
In there's no blockages. In there's a
lot
there's a lot of blockages.
That's why he explained there's the
concept of Gehenna. Gehenna is not just
a punishment. It's a lot
Gehenna is a process
of removing blockages to be able to
experience your own
to be able to experience it.
I cannot experience real pleasure in
life if I'm blocked. We all know that.
You could be There's people at the
happiest moments, you know, sometimes a
person marries off a daughter or a
child.
And it it's really an amazing thing cuz
it's the future of generations.
But there's a blockage and in those
moments, you know,
and it happens often.
It happens often in the height of what
you would think is a tremendous moment
of ecstasy.
All your insecurities also pop up
cuz everything is focused. It's really a
It's It's really a funny thing. A person
once told me that uh
sometimes at a wedding, you know,
the guests are more happy than the
than the
people that you would think would be
happy. I said, "Why? Cuz they have to
pay the bills afterwards."
He says, "Not that. There's sometimes a
lot of deeper stuff that come up."
And it's really it's it's very sad.
Because uh you know, that's why we maybe
break the glass under the hook, just
realized. Sometimes at the height of uh
of joy also comes the height of
everything else and it blocks it.
So, I have to
I have to really go through a cleansing
to be able to sit and bask in the Ziv
Hashchina. That's what Gan Eden is.
It's not a world of blockages.
But, it's the radiance of the Shchina.
In this world you have chuva.
What's chuva? Chuva is that I have
blockages.
That there are blockages. That things
are not as they seem.
That there is a malach hamavet. That
there is choshech. And he said, "And
from that comes the yisurim or arayot of
the Shchina achas bechuva and maasim
tovim." Because also the maasim tovim in
this world are different maasim tovim.
They're different good deeds.
Because they're informed by the process
of chuva.
As he put it earlier, the thirst, the
the the creativity that comes.
The yearning, the yearning that comes
from the opposite. It's always much
deeper. It's same as nafshi same as
basari.
And the fact that you're dealing with
the shviras hakelim.
With the with with with blikul.
U'l'zeh nikra mayim rabim al mayim
nayach.
So, now he comes back to the beginning
of the mayamar. That's why the mayim
rabim. What are the mayim rabim? The
raging waters. Which raging waters? The
flash floods of tension.
Of anxiety that flood a person's mind
and flood a person's life.
That's why they're called paradoxically
mayim nayach. In this week's haftorah
tomorrow, Shabbos.
The navi Yeshayahu, I think it's perek
nun dalet, calls the flood mayim nayach,
the waters of Nayach.
It's not fear. They weren't his waters.
He wasn't responsible for the water.
On the contrary, he's the one who saved
humanity from the water.
So, the Baal Hatanya said, "Mayim nayach
is why?" Because the marble didn't just
come to punish the marble came as a
mikvah
a cosmic mikvah you remember that was
the first year we learned it on Monday
the first year of the myman the marble
came as a mikvah mem sa off 40 sa mem
yom 40 days
so if the marble came as a cleansing
process so he says the marble created
may noach the waters of noach noach from
the word serenity and menucha
vayishbos bayom hashvi'i
we say tonight in kiddush vayishbos
bayom hashvi'i the targum onkelos says
venoch bayom hashvi'i
the word vayishbos is venoch noach noach
is menucha zeh yenachameinu
he was named noach because zeh
yenachameinu me'itzvon me'etzvon yadenu
from the sadness from the difficulties
of our hands
so how could that be how can raging
waters how can a flood create may noach
and that was the toichen of the mymer
that the marble came to create menucha
and the shibud parnasa of avraham avinu
chose it instead of gehennom hashem gave
him a choice gehennom or shibud
malchiyos or galus and avraham chose for
his children not gehennom but galus
so it's not just that he chose a
punishment in this world rather than
next world that's how most people learn
but the Tanya says no just like gehennom
is the beginning of gan eden
so shibud is the beginning of real avoda
and that's why he explained the whole
concept of chuva and oilam hazeh that
was the whole emshech so now he finishes
so now we understand why the marble the
mayim rabim
which in spiritually emotionally
speaking that's the shibud the the
subjugation
and the stress and the tension and the
anxiety is called may noach lefich nasa
al yadam naichas deruch
because they create a different level of
serenity so you'll say really
lo meduvshach velo meyuktach don't give
me your honey and don't give me your
sting I don't need your serenity
How is it that they create a serenity?
Where is Where do they create a
serenity? They create problems.
Shana may have tables not yet.
Fascinating words. From them, from these
waters, the table of Noah is made.
The ark of Noah is made. What does this
mean? Show who can I stay with that
feeling?
The word table
This comes from the word table means an
ark.
The boat that Noah built but the word
table actually means a word.
Like you say Russia tables. The
beginning of a word of words.
Unless you can say when you want to say
a word, you say table is a word. Table
is our words.
So he says what's the table? The table
is at the filler.
It's the words of the oven egg. That's
the table.
Come on and it says in Noah by after the
whole base color table.
I shall tell Noah you and your whole
household bring into the table.
So the Tanya says what does that mean?
There's a flood. There's a flood.
There's a raging flood. What does that
look like?
It looks like there's tension in me.
There's anxiety in me. There's
discontentment in me. And it's a flood.
So he says but there's a table.
The table are the words. Table is at the
filler. The words of the oven egg. Go in
and bring everybody in.
For whole base come means all your bring
in all your faculties. Bring your full
presence into the relationship of the
filler of the oven egg.
The zoo and this is the meaning of the
music. By
a Maya my aid.
The water comes down for 40 days and 40
nights. But it's not just rain.
This is a tsunami. This is a torrent.
This is powerful. It's ferocious. By a
Maya my aid. The waters were raging.
They were ever increasing. They were
powerful from the word giver strong.
Come on and say I am a mile and a mile
and a giver of a Maya my aid. But
It says that the tallest of the
mountains was submerged in the water to
the point that the water reached 15 15
cubits above the tallest mountain.
15 would be approximately 30 ft.
Or a little less depends how you measure
an foot and a half or 2 ft. So imagine
the size. You're talking about the
tallest mountain.
The water is so so overwhelming. It's
the flood is so powerful that even the
tallest mountain is flooded by the
water.
What does this mean? So listen what he
says.
He says sometimes you know you can have
a flood in your life and sometimes you
can have a massive flood. We all know in
the houses when there's a flood you
know.
Sometimes there's a little flood.
So you take a map and you clean it up
but sometimes you know
you ever had a flood in your basement?
That's a marble.
So he says this is sometimes in life
there's a flood with the
animal consciousness.
Has this flash flood. It overpowers and
becomes so strong and it overpowers the
but
in your
life.
It could be in the livelihood. A person
becomes so stressed and overwhelmed that
you don't recognize yourself anymore.
Or in your life means any aspect of
life.
This could be any aspect of a person
trying to live from their own personal
life to their relationships to their
livelihood to whatever is going on.
He says a person feels one clap and
another clap and another flood and
another flood to the point
you want you want to have your head
above but the water is always higher and
higher and and even if you think you
come on top, the water is higher.
That's what he's describing.
What what happens at such a moment?
So,
it goes without saying
that as Jews, we like to blame
ourselves.
Right?
You say uh
What's left to
I want to make a fishman on the fish.
What did I do?
I'm laughing cuz it's a very Jewish
thing to do. Right?
But the Bal Tanya doesn't say that.
Not because a person shouldn't improve
themselves.
Cuz you're dealing with such intensity
that it's it's extremely intense and a
person has to be able to
to to to feel
to be able to acknowledge how painful it
is.
The worst thing that can happen in the
flood is to say there's no flood.
There's no flood. Everything is good.
How you doing? It's perfect.
It's perfect.
It's like a house is flooding. There's
no flood here. So, it's a dangerous. You
have to know there's a flood.
And and and when there is such a flood,
the person has to be able to obviously
you do whatever you can to do.
But he says the real could be here is
that with tremendous empathy,
the person now has to understand
something. And I guess the word is not
understand,
but just open themselves up to the fact
that in the breakdown of everything, in
the disintegration of everything, in a
world that's consumed by water,
something new is being opened up,
which I will not understand. In other
words, if I could wrap my brain around
it, it's not a flood.
A flood means I'm overwhelmed by it.
If I can If I can control the narrative,
if I could say, "Ah, you know what?
People love explanations why."
I went to a Shiva house uh not long ago,
big tragedy.
Somebody was saying, "They want
explanations."
That's going to make you feel good,
yeah? Why?
Answer is, if I can explain it, it
almost feels like I could control it.
There's a sequence, so I could figure it
out.
I remember a few years ago Ilan Ramon
went to outer space.
For the little safe for Toda.
You remember? From Israel.
It exploded over Palestine, Texas. Have
you heard of a city Palestine, Texas?
From all cities in the world it had to
explode over Palestine, Texas.
So, I was in Shul that Shabbaton in Boca
that week. So, somebody comes over to me
and tells me the news. I guess he read
it in the Whatever it was, Shabbos.
And he looks at me and he says, "Of
course it was Shabbos."
What was the question? It was Shabbos.
And I said, "That makes you comfortable,
right?"
"Cuz I keep Shabbos. I'm not going to
explode in a spaceship."
I said, "You know that 70 years ago
there was 6 million Jews and 3 million
of them kept Shabbos. You know that,
right?"
Why Why do people do it? Why do I have
to do it?
Maybe I don't know. You don't Maybe you
don't know what happened to you. Well,
I want to feel safe.
If I'm safe, I'm good. The main thing is
I want to control life. The marble
doesn't allow me to do that.
I have to touch something that's
infinite inside of me. What What does it
mean bleak will? What does bleak will
mean emotionally? Biegel will means
I have to let myself go. I have to let
it go.
I have to open myself up to a reality
that transcends everything I'm familiar
with including every last conception of
self.
Cuz anything I'm holding on to is
already defined by my brain by my
analytic by my analytics which we love
doing and if you're dealing with
mathematics or you're an accountant you
have to do that.
Analyzing is very good. It's a wonderful
thing to analyze but not when you're in
a flood.
Cuz this is actually a gateway to
something that I can't wrap my brain
around. That's why it's flooding me.
So can I just open myself up to the fact
that I don't know?
But not with fear with courage.
With commitment with curiosity.
And with pain and with a lot of pain.
It's a very painful to go from gvul to
biegel will.
You know stretching is painful anybody
here stretches?
Stretches is pain stretching is painful
and that's in the finite world. Imagine
the stretch the exercise when your
personal trainer says we're going from
the finite to the infinite.
That's a stretch. It's going to hurt.
Don't expect it hurts.
And you could say ow wow that hurts that
hurts.
On the contrary because it's such a
stretch it hurts more.
It hurts more because it's such a
stretch.
And when you're experiencing that
resistance to the pain so what do I want
to do? I want to go back into the gvul.
I want to go back into the comfort zone
but I'm being flooded. It's being that's
not that's not working anymore.
If I can give some part some type of
explanation I can control it so it's not
a flood anymore.
But then first of all I'm lying to
myself it's going to come back to haunt
me and second of all I'm depriving
myself from the gift of toiv and aid.
So the balatanya says you're with me
everybody's with me.
I can't explain it. You have to
experience it. I mean, I'm trying to
explain it, but it's
Huh?
Depriving.
What? Was?
Huh?
Tchiyah Meisim. That's what Tchiyah
Meisim is.
What looks dead becomes alive. What I
was saying is, besides the fact that I'm
lying to myself, I'm like, oh, I can
make sense of this. It's going to work.
Oh.
And that's
I'm denying reality. I'm like, oh, my
house is not flooded.
My marriage is perfect. Me and my kids,
it's Gan Eden Mamash. Gan Eden, Gan
Eden.
Gan Eden.
I'm wonderful.
I'm not coming I'm not saying from a
place of of Rabbi Akiva.
I'm saying when I'm in a place of
denial.
So first of all, whenever you're
fighting reality, it comes back to bite
you.
Cuz it's real Emes is Emes.
But there's there's something else. I'm
also depriving myself.
Lito Etz Chaim. I'm I'm taking I'm
taking I'm depriving, which means I'm
robbing myself from a gift. There's a
gift here.
My personal trainer, the Ribono shel
Olam, is stretching me.
And it's a very intense stretch.
And I'm like I'm like so uptight.
Cuz I want to control the stretch, but
that's not a stretch.
It's not opening me up to Toiv u'Marid.
But one has to appreciate the pain here.
There's a tension here. It's not that
there's no tension. There's a flood. He
says the Nefesh ha'Bahamis overpowers
the Nefesh ha'Sichlis to the point that
it's 15 Amos above my head. It's not
just in water. It's 15 hours submerged
in the water, even if I'm a mountain.
And if I'm a plane and if I'm and if I'm
a valley, I'm a good day.
But through this water, through this
water
always
light that comes from darkness is a
different type of light. It's a
different quality of light.
The Zoa, now he says this. I'm waiting
to
What happened with the table? No, you
had a table. You had the
What's a table words? Well, something
says table is words. So, you have a
table that's flowing very nice. What
happens with the marble? The water is so
intense. The flooding is so powerful. It
says what table my table.
The table was elevated from the word
laharim, truma, right? To pick up.
The table was lifted up all the way to
the top.
To the point that the table went all the
way to the top cuz it was the boat that
was floating.
So, the table I'll play on mine. The
table doesn't go inside of table doesn't
drown. The table goes on top of the
water, but not just on top. It gets
lifted up through the water.
The table was much much higher because
the water was so high.
So, as the water goes 15 hours above
from the mountain, the table goes with
it. Through the water, the table goes
higher.
Rashi does say that the table was
submerged 11 hours into the water.
Right? But the table was
was 30 hours high, so much of it was
still out of the water. 11 hours
Actually, makes a when when it landed on
the mountain you design seven. He makes
a and it works very interesting Rashi.
Proving how the table was submerged 11
hours in the the
Let me say that there's a break the
analysis that there it's not a clean
elevation? There's always some slime
that remains according to what Rashi
says.
Very good. Beautiful. That's beautiful.
That That's I I I think that I'm I'm I'm
bringing it up to illustrate the point
that this is a serious flood. It's not
like a It's not like I'm just above the
water, you know, sometimes I'm just
glossing over, huh? I'm sloshing. I'm
inside.
I'm not detached. Sometimes you think
you're detached He's not talking about a
detached aloo. Things don't get to you.
That's not what we're talking about. The
teivah was in the water.
And because of that, it was uplifted
through the water. If the ark was just
somewhere, you know, on the on on a
planet aloof, it wouldn't be uplifted
through the water. It went into the
water. In other words, it confronts the
water.
And then it allows the water to pick it
up. So, the Baal HaTanya says that the
tefillah the teivah, the words of
tefillah
the words of Torah, but specifically
he's talking about the davening, the
relationship.
From the mabul, it's a different type of
word. It's a different type of teivah.
Then he says something in the maamar.
Very very rare for the Baal HaTanya to
speak this way, but you can see that
he's speaking to people. This is a
maamar to people.
He says, "V'zeh to'us baalei asakim."
This is a very rare expression in the in
the maamarim.
"V'zeh to'us baalei asakim." This is the
mistake of everybody who's in business.
Baalei asakim in his days
there was no online businesses.
You sat in your basement and you
and you did zooms zooms with your with
your with your clients, with your with
your sales.
A baal eisek, it's a world. The baal
eisek is a world. The one who's immersed
in the in the tumultuous
vicissitudes of olam hazeh with all of
the stress. So, he says they make a
mistake. What's the mistake? "She day
they believe she ain't
going to follow
come out of your show home.
They can't govern.
Like your show like to me the home.
People who dwell in the tents of torrent
feel all day. They can govern.
Why? Cuz their lives generally
were much more serene and tranquil
and completely focused on spirituality.
Turn and feel it. So, they can govern.
But, the ballistics has so much going
on.
He can't govern the same way. That's the
mistake. Key added up. Not with the
opposite. She ain't going to follow me
or you
they can govern much more.
Because the greatest air comes from the
air.
He's really describing what governing
is.
We do we understand what is governing?
Governing is
and it's certainly true to a certain
degree. Governing is I'm I'm
stress-free. I'm I'm blissful.
I go into a place of silent meditation
or mindfulness or cover.
And you just soar away with those words.
That's the
In a broader sense, that's what a good
relationship is.
There's no tumultuousness here. There's
nothing pulling me in a thousand
different directions. So, they say I
can't govern. You have to know what's in
my head. You know what's happening in my
life. I can't govern.
It's you have to understand my brain is
not capable for this. I'll do it. I'll
go through it, but it's not a real
governing. That's the mistake.
Obviously, they told us to the ball of
Tanya or he felt it in them.
So, he said it's a mistake. They can
govern much more. They can govern much
better.
Because
the flood makes the table.
The flood makes the table.
If there's a big marble a now that told
me my table
the Mayan is what makes the table.
Bring your attention into the
relationship. Bring your anxiety into
the davening. Don't take Don't separate
it. Your relationship with God Your
relationship with Hashem, your
relationship with yourself is not
detached from your anxiety. It's not
detached from your insecurities. It's
not detached from your traumas, fears,
wounds. It's not detached from the
tensions in your life. Don't detach it
and say, "Oh, I can't." That is your
davening. That's is the davening.
You understand what he's saying. That's
is the That's the table. He said, "From
the marble becomes the table. The marble
makes the table." Now, you couldn't You
wouldn't have built a table without That
makes the That makes the table. And he
says, "And if the greatest light is the
light that comes from darkness, so then
their davening is much deeper."
Now, obviously, he's not talking Yeshiva
alum and baal eisek with this absolute
mechitza between them, the one who
learns and the one who makes a living.
It's a model. We know people could learn
all day and have a lot of anxiety.
I just want you to Yeshiva alum is a
model of somebody who's just in a in a
very innocent place.
And a baal eisek is somebody who
confronts things that are difficult.
So, traditionally, it's called Yeshiva
alum, somebody who's, you know, doesn't
have to deal with tirdas haparnasa.
And remember, this is He's talking about
in a little shtetl where the standards
were bechlal very different. And if you
had an apart If you had a house that was
more than one bedroom, it was a
chiddush. And the Gemara says that the
definition of wealth is that you have a
beis akisa near your table.
You don't have to go outside of the
city, so you're a wealthy man. A beis
akisa samuch lashulchan.
Which means today, the biggest schnodder
is a bigger usher than most people when
this maamar was said. This is This is
just before the Industrial Revolution,
so there's no running water in your
house, either. I just want you to
understand when he's talking about a
baal eisek and a Yeshiva alum. Right?
The baal eisek also was nishtaze.
But it's the model of somebody if I care
to had to deal The stress of parnasa was
overwhelming in these places.
You have to understand. We don't even
understand what it means. People
struggle with parnossa, tuition, and
mortgage, but they don't understand in
Russia in the early 1800s, 1807, the
struggles of parnossa. It's not
You understand? To have bread on the
table was a chiddush. It's not These are
not uh
I'm just explaining to you. So, when he
says about Isaac,
it wasn't He keep Somebody asked you,
"Why is he talking about parnossa?" He
said the main tension is psychological.
I said, "That's today."
Then, it was about survival. He said,
"Today, we all have extra hours in the
day in which we can get upset at our
mothers."
You understand? Cuz laundry is done
fast.
Huh? By your mother. By your mother.
Whatever it is. Kol chada from shuda
delay.
The tirdus then were push it survival.
It was very It's
survival.
But But But But it's a tirda. It's a
real tirda. It's how you approach it.
So, the maila
So, he says, "The mistake is they can't
daven.
I can't have a taiva." He says, "Forget
the maba makes the taiva, and the maba
picks up the taiva, and it's a
completely higher taiva."
What What What is the Bala Tanya saying
here? Bala Tanya is saying is don't go
into davening without all the parts of
your life.
And this is a very profound idea because
we want to go and let's take on a
relationship.
I'm going out with you. I'm going out
with a friend, or you're going out with
your spouse, whatever. You're You're
taking a walk together. What do you talk
about?
You want to talk about the good stuff,
no?
Now, what if your filled Your head is
filled with with meshugasen?
So, it It destroyed It destroyed the
meeting. It destroyed the meeting. I
can't be here. That's what they told
them. We can't be here. The Bala Tanya
says, "You don't understand what the
happening is."
You thought it's a fake relationship.
That's exactly what you bring into the
relationship. That's what makes it
powerful. That's exactly what you want
to bring in.
I'm not going to sit with you and tell
you how everything is is perfect. Oh,
then I can't govern it's a fake govern.
For a carrot, you could govern much
more.
Cuz you're bringing up everything.
You're bringing up your dark you bring
bringing your darkness into it.
And then you have you shouldn't know.
And that's going to give you access if
you really bring it in.
It gives you access to the ultimate
darkness which is your ultimate light.
Why?
Oh.
Right.
Right. Right.
Yeah.
Now, we have to acknowledge that this is
hard because
literally if I get up to govern and
there's a lot of tension in me and
anxiety, it takes me away. It pulls me
away from the religion. How you do
Kaddish my no no there's no there's no
there's no Kaddish my.
Let me tell you about all my
appointments. Let me tell you about my
bills. Let me tell you about what's
going on here. Let me tell you about
what's going on there. I'm a clown now
in the mood. I'm bored. I'm exhausted.
I'm overwhelmed, right?
You know, let me check here the next
somebody sent me an email. Okay, there's
something to do.
You don't relate to him, do you?
So now I'm at CSN and I love I was a
little bit soggy.
Somebody once came to the of Lublin and
he said I have
hours during governing.
So he said so I said no no no no no no.
Those are my shoulders. You're governing
is a my shoulders. Haha.
Yeah, what he said.
You're governing is a my shoulders.
You you my shoulders are normal.
You just continue. What was he trying to
tell him? He was trying to tell him
you need a paradigm shift. Your whole
out you're governing is a my
It's disturbing you.
That's the challenge. There has to be a
lot of trust in a marriage, right? When
you're talking to your spouse, do you
talk about your do you talk about your
If you're overwhelmed with insecurities,
it took away from the conversation. It
was so not enjoyable.
Unless the relationship is truly honest.
And then wow, it was the most meaningful
conversation. I got it off my chest,
right? Those are the most meaningful
conversation. Those are the
conversations that create growth.
The conversations that create growth are
the conversations when I can talk about
my
So so he says
don't undermine your
This is the real
That's the
Tava.
That's the Tava. The real Tava comes
from the Bible.
The
highest Tavas come from the Bible.
As long as you can bring it into the
conversation. Really bring it into the
conversation.
But for that, there has to be a lot a
lot of trust. You have to trust Hashem.
We have to be able Can I really bring
that all in? Can I bring all Can I bring
in my
office?
And it's not going to let.
Cuz the tension I told you the tension
doesn't say this. If it says this, it
wouldn't be such tension. It's not going
to It's going to pull you away.
But that's why you have a
to say come.
Let's do a little
come with me.
Let's see what you really want.
And you'll see that's amazing.
What about saying here?
Is it the same idea like me Makhim.
Yeah, in that sense that's the mimar
makhim. Mimar makhim has a sham is
I can bring in my full depth to it, my
full honesty to it.
So, you're saying you have more time to
dive in the issue here?
I don't think he's talking about time
here.
They said, "We're busy, we're
overwhelmed, mainly we're stressed. So,
we have How can we daven?" Davening, you
need menuchas hanefesh. Yeah, you ever
saw the Mishnah in Berachot, right? You
know the Mishnah of the Rishonim or you
shayin shaa achas, right? They davened
for 9 hours a day.
They meditated an hour.
People think meditation is not from
Judaism, but there's a Mishnah in
Berachot
that before every Shemoneh Esrei, they
meditated for an hour before and an hour
after. What did that look like?
What did the shuls look like? The
Rishonim, 9 hours a day. Shacharis
needed a meditation an hour before and
an hour after. Mincha meditation be an
hour before and Maariv also meditation.
So, besides davening for 3 hours, and by
the way, Shemoneh Esrei taking an hour
means that every word every word of
Shemoneh Esrei, I believe is 9 seconds.
Try that.
By Magen Avraham, it'll already be
already be after Mincha.
Okay, but that's davening itself. But
now there's an hour before and an hour
after. I heard somebody giving a shiur
and he said, "It means they were
learning an hour before and a learning
after." And I was wow, he missed the
point.
Cuz he couldn't wrap his brain around
the the concept of meditation in
Judaism.
So, he says they were learning They
learned Gemara an hour before and an
hour after. It says the Rishonim how you
shayin. You know what shayin means?
Shayin means you're in one space and you
looks like you're doing nothing.
In Yiddish, shayin is fazam. You just uh
But I show them I say, "Open up a
Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim Siman Samech
Ches and see how the Mechaber of
Shulchan Aruch understood what they
did." He says, "How you magi'im kariv
leshpashut hagashmi'us, kariv lema'alah
min hagashmi'us."
That's what he writes there.
It was almost a state of prophecy.
Now, you have to understand what all
this means, but in other words, there
was an experience of oneness with the
universe and with Hashem that allowed
them their brains to become conduits for
a divine energy. It's a very deep
experience. My point here is, so
naturally you think serenity is the main
thing for this. So, the Yosheva Yael
say, we could dive in the ballet can
dive in. I have an appointment in a half
an hour.
It's not just in a half an hour, it's
now. Now I already have the appointment
cuz it's overwhelming.
Now he has an appointment.
What's so funny? And now he's going to
dive in and have an appointment.
Of course.
He's talking about diving at this moment
when the flower is in Yeah.
So, the altar never was comforting the
ballet Isaac.
This is the famous ballet Tanya
comforting the ballet Isaac and saying
for carrot you could dive in much
better.
Maybe not much longer, but much better.
Does
Does that mean that
that they have to do something different
or No, they're
The answer which is
all volume is that is the thing.
Right, but if you can really incorporate
this, it's not going to be so also
flagan. It maybe will begin also flagan,
but if I can gently
Having this in mind, then it changes the
answer. Yeah. It's not just having this
in mind, it's it's it's learning how to
experience it.
It's not just a machshava.
Is it possible to do both? Uh
Is it possible to do both?
I mean, time in the day.
Physical time in the day is
Okay, so that's every person, you know,
according to, you know, that every
person has to evaluate their schedule
and their priorities and what's
necessary. Is that saying that the
ballet
has 9 hours of diving? No, they don't
have 9 hours. They're not the
Marishonim. Who has 9 hours? Same that
he's saying that they're they're
5-minutes it has the has the quality of
something weird. Yeah.
That's what he means.
It's the quality. It's It's the quality
of the relationship. Could have.
Huh? Could have.
It could, obviously.
He says it's a though they make a
mistake, they see themselves as this is
not my world.
the most in that.
And he's saying no, this is this is more
your world.
Huh? This is more your world. So, that's
the idea of Mayhem Mable becoming May
Noach.
What's Noach? Noach is serenity.
But this is not serenity. This is the
opposite of serenity.
That's the chiddush.
That when the neshama comes down into
the mayim rabim it reaches a different
type of serenity. It's not the regular
serenity of olam haba, you're right.
That's the
that comes through the entanglement with
the mayim rabim of the nefesh habahamis
where you confront the olam hatoyeh that
we spoke about in the previous shiur.
And the blee gvul and the toev ma'od and
the malach hamoves and the teivos
elevated because it's a different type
of menucha. The menucha that comes after
that is a menucha that's born from the
confrontation with darkness which gives
a different type of serenity.
It's a very mature type of serenity.
It's a serenity that's not detached.
It's a serenity that doesn't disregard
all of the pressures of life. It's a
serenity that incorporates it.
So, it's a different type of serenity.
There's serenity where I you know I
distractions. We all have distractions.
Why do people binge or people drink or
people go onto their screens?
Cuz they want a little menucha, right?
Everybody wants menucha. You just want
to get your mind off problems. And we
have a lot of distractions for that.
That's not the That doesn't come from
the mabul.
That's a distraction.
This is a different type of menucha.
This is a menucha that's born from the
mabul, May Noach. The mabul makes the
menucha. How can a mabul make a menucha?
Because it's serenity serenity that's
born from my engagement
and my working with the angels inside of
me
that are the cause of the anxiety.
Accessing what their true true true
spiritual meaning and core is.
What are you thinking that my shoes off?
You could say it as is no filters.
The anxiety
The difference is if the anxiety is the
the emotional talking to the spouse.
That that's not I don't think that's
what it
that's what it means.
You're dealing with a husband or wife
you don't want one to protect us talking
to the protect us. You want the mean
talking to you about my protect us.
Right.
I'm talking to the emotional
from the anxiety.
It's my anxiety talking to somebody
else.
She's talking about I talking about
Right. That that that's the the nefesh
like that. And I am being involved in
Right. the dealing with the sickness.
Right. It's scafia.
It's scafia. Even in a scafia it's true.
In other words, it's not my anxiety
talking to your anxiety.
If you if you let's say you between a
husband and a wife, right? If his
anxiety is talking to her anxiety
so now his anxiety triggers her anxiety.
So now her anxiety talks to his anxiety
which triggers both of their anxieties.
By the time the conversation is over
they're both in purgatory emotionally.
You understand?
You want him talking to her about his
anxiety and her talking to him about her
anxiety. In other words, their core eye
which is called the nefesh elokus can
bring into the relationship the anxiety.
As we take a walk or we enter in
conversation, we can talk about
everything that's dark, but not your
darkness is talking.
The you which is not dark.
The teva is not the maba.
The teva are the words of davening.
But when I the maba is brought in,
when the teva is is
is connected to the maba, it's inside
that maba,
so then it becomes much more powerful
cuz now my I connects to you,
not just from a place of light, but also
from a place of darkness.
Now my connection to you is not
superficial, it's deep, it's thorough.
It's all pervasive. It includes even
those parts that essentially would make
us drift apart. That's also part of the
relationship, and that's what makes the
most powerful relationship. When you
could bring in the weakest link into the
connection, it becomes the most
powerful.
Like in halacha you have star she also
love eero, becomes more powerful than a
star that there was no eero.
You have a star, right? And somebody
denies it, then you bring it to best in
and they they confirm it, it's a much
more powerful star than an innocent
star. Why?
Because this star was about to be torn
into shreds.
And and and you built it, so it's a much
more powerful star. If the relationship
can
can include everything that
that drives us apart from each other,
our anxieties, our fears, our traumas,
if I could bring that in, now it's
unbreakable. Yeshua no min a choshech.
It's a whole different It's a whole
different level of connection. It also
touches parts that are different, that
are much deeper,
which is why it was so dark, like we
learned yesterday, al lo matoyu.
So in davening also,
and that's probably one of the biggest
challenges, to be able to step away from
a conversation coming from my anxiety to
a conversation coming from me.
Cuz the anxiety is so intense, like my
anxiety will take over the conversation,
like
And the anxiety speaks very not nice.
It's It could be nasty, you know, when
anxiety speaks. You ever hear it speak?
You know what I mean? It's not going to
say nice things cuz it's anxious. It's
trying to survive.
It's going to tell you how you are the
source of all my problems.
So, the real challenge is in davening
also.
Can I find that part that is deeper than
the anxiety, which is always there?
And then bring in the anxiety into the
relationship. That's what you were
saying.
Depends. Depends who's davening and how
you daven.
The whole journey of davening is a
relationship. It's an experience. It's
not They didn't just
Okay, let's put another You know,
davening is too short. Let's put in
another capital. Oh, it's still too
short.
That will really Oh, it's too short.
Let's do
you know, why not?
Of course. Why not?
It wasn't structured that way.
I know sometimes it feels that way.
A little more, you know.
Huh? Not kaddish. Not kaddish.
They say a joke. There was somebody who
would say kaddish constantly.
Constantly.
So, somebody started to scream at him.
He
You're not supposed to say extra
kaddish. He says, "That's a
The guy says, "Yeah." He says, "Okay,
you got to say kaddish." He said,
So, I'm saying, you know,
davening has a rhyme, has a rhythm.
Yeah, I think.
I think.
I'll tell you what's hard. It says in
Shulchan Aruch that before you start
davening, you find atzmi mikol
hamachshavos hamatridos v'hamvalbalos.
You have to remove your brain from all
confusing thoughts.
And I know somebody's going to ask me a
question, the Baal Hatanya here says,
"Why?"
Bring it all in.
But he didn't You're not toifes what
he's saying.
If I'm just confused in my thoughts, my
confusion is going to be davening. I'm
not going to be davening.
And that this is the hardest part. Do
you have something that's deeper than
your anxiety?
This is all based on the premise that
your soul is not anxious.
Your soul is actually in a relationship
with Ein Sof at every moment. I may not
feel it because of my anxiety. I may not
have access to it, but it's a very real
reality.
Talk again about a marriage.
Is this marriage only about anxiety or
there's a connection that's deeper than
I know there's anxiety. I know there's
challenges. I know you're making me feel
You You You You cause me pain or hurt or
anger, whatever it is. I make you feel
that way. I know that. There's There's
There's darkness. But is there something
that you want to connect to that's
deeper than the darkness?
That many people
right, don't know how do I even go
there? Do I even have it?
That's key. So when it says remove the
machshavos hamvalbalos, it doesn't mean
remove them in the sense that they don't
exist.
It means you first have to connect to a
part that wants a real relationship.
And I trust that there's something here.
I know that I'm overwhelmed by a crazy
flood. I got that. I'm not denying any
of that.
And now I want to bring that in to that
connection, to that conversation.
Because because if I don't have that
core,
so so
so the relationship is just going to be
it's going to be very negative.
I'll scream at you and you'll scream at
me.
And and I'll tell you not nice things
about you. You'll tell me not nice
things about me and it's my anxiety, my
depression, my my wounds, my fears, my
insecurities talking. I get it and it's
your fears and your insecurities. So
your triggers are talking to my triggers
and my triggers talking to your triggers
and at some point I'm going to tell you,
"Why don't your triggers give my
triggers your telephone number and email
and why don't they go to uh
you know, the zoo and and have a good
time with each other?"
And you're going to be left orphaned. So
that's a that's an important idea.
On a practical level, might be as simple
as the difference between saying
"I don't trust you. You're a liar."
on the one hand and on the other hand
saying, "My anxiety is telling me not to
trust you. My anxiety is not Beautiful.
You just heard the marriage tip?
You could say,
"I don't trust you. You're a liar."
Or my anxiety is saying not to trust you
because my anxiety claims you're a liar.
Now I have to say, if the other person
is not working on themselves,
it may not make a difference.
But if the other person is working on
themselves, it's going to make all the
difference.
And if the other person is going to
eventually learn If the other person is
Hashem, he's always working on himself.
Cuz he's in a relationship with me. You
got to work on yourself a whole time.
In a shamoso, yeah, I could say
I say you're you're this and this or
this is what my anxiety is saying.
And you don't have to be afraid of that.
It could be that can also be scary, you
know, to say my anxiety says this, I
have to acknowledge that I have anxiety.
I have to acknowledge that my anxiety is
ugly.
And I have to be able to describe it.
That's that's a lot of courage.
What if you get smacked in your face?
A lot of times people never go here
because
it's very vulnerable.
It's vulnerable for you and it's
vulnerable for the other person.
You know, it's pain
Remember it's painful for the other
person, too. I'm going to hear things
that are hard for me. I have to be able
to contain
it. That's also hard.
In a healthy relationship, the anxiety
is a catalyst for growth. Yeah. Like the
Frankl concept of logotherapy.
You know, if if you don't use the
opportunity if the Yeah, exactly.
the opportunity whatever the opportunity
was. Beautiful. Yeah.
The anxiety is a catalyst for the
deepest growth like the flood was a
catalyst for the most elevated teva.
Now, the word teva becomes so
beautifully cuz teva means conversation,
dialogue. All this happens in
conversations.
It happens in words.
So, it's almost like he's analyzing a
conversation. Teva is dialogue. Teva,
conversations are made up through words.
You have your teva.
I have my teva.
What's our conversation made up of?
If you could look at a conversation
between two people, you could see what's
the conversation made up of.
Does the conversation include the flood
or not?
If the conversation includes the flood,
it becomes elevated by the flood,
informed by the flood, enlightened by
the flood, sublimated by it.
But this is very mature. This is it
takes a lot of maturity.
If you try this at home today,
right? Make sure you know what you're
doing.
Cuz if your anxiety is telling you to
try it at home,
right?
If your anxiety is telling you to try it
at home,
so I could put her in her place, or put
him in the his place, and finally say
the truth,
right?
So the bazillion says, "Oy vey."
In other words, when you're having a
conversation on this level,
it has to be done with a lot of
sensitivity to differentiate
between the Mayan rabbin
and the nefesh between the nefesh of a
hamas and the nefesh of a lukus.
So now he says, "Let's Let's Let's go
another few minutes. I want to finish
the paragraph."
And now we'll understand why Noach is
defined as the shabbos.
Essentially, this is what shabbos is.
It says "Kivoi shabbos mikol malachto."
As I told you, the Targum Unkulus says,
the Mayamar said earlier, "Vayishbois"
is "venach".
"Venach beyom hashvi'i." So Noach is
shabbos.
In Medrish it says, Noach is Noach cuz
"naiche derucha". "Naiche derucha" means
the ruach is relaxed. It's "menuchas
haruach". Like we say, "menuchas
hanefesh". "Naiche derucha".
What's the connection to Shabbos?
The six days of creation, Sunday through
Friday, what happens? Hashem's malchus,
which means Hashem's creative energy.
The word malchus means Hashem's creative
energy. Cuz that's what malchus is.
Malchus is leadership. Malchus is taking
charge. Malchus is nobility. What's the
job of a melech? The job of a melech is
to really lead, to care for his country.
So when you say Hashem's koach malchus,
it means his creative energy
that is responsible for all of
existence.
So during the six days of creation,
Hashem's creative energy is actualized.
That's what hamshacha l'matah means. I
just want to explain these words cuz
they're mystical, you shouldn't should
understand them. Hamshacha l'matah means
when an energy is actualized in a real
way, that's called hamshacha l'matah. It
comes out in a concrete way. L'matah
means down.
It doesn't remain in potentiality.
Hashem always has creative energy before
creation also. But creation is Hashem's
creative energy comes out. How do I know
it comes out? Here, look at me. Look at
you.
Right? You are God's energy concretized.
That's called hamshacha l'matah. It's
concretized. Planet Earth, the cosmos,
that's called hamshacha l'matah. Come
over here and I'll explain to you what
I'm looking at here.
First day is light. The second day, y'hi
rakia, let there be a heaven separating
the waters. The third day, tache
ha'aretz deshe, vegetation and produce.
Chuly, all the way. Wednesday is the sun
and the moon, the galaxies, the planets.
Thursday you start having the living
organisms, right? The fish, the birds,
the insects, the water creatures.
You have the mammals, you have the fish,
and then you have Adam.
So he says shnei krain y'mei hamisah.
They're called y'mei hamisah. Why are
they called y'mei hamisah?
Not only because we're allowed to work,
because those are the the days when
Hashem's creative energy came out in a
universe, came out in ma'aseh, they came
out in action.
And so, that's why they're called y'mei
ha'ma'aseh. Our life is a replica of the
energy. This is a very powerful word.
Y'mei ha'ma'aseh is not just a halacha,
you're allowed to work, that's true. But
the reason is cuz by Hashem it was y'mei
ha'ma'aseh, it is y'mei ha'ma'aseh.
It's days in which his creative energy,
called malchus, is concretized in a
universe.
Shabbos u'chinus shvisan um'lacha.
Shabbos we call rest, shvisah,
vayishbos.
V'nayichah d'ruchah. What happened on
Shabbos?
Shehu aliyah so olamos l'ma'alah k'adam
mashiv es hanachah um'lacha.
Shabbos is called in Kabbalah and
Chassidus and Machshavah aliyah so
olamos. The worlds go up like a person
who relaxes from melacha. What does this
mean, aliyah so olamos?
If a person is exerting energy, let's
say, I'm sweeping, I'm mopping, I'm
writing, I'm running, I'm I'm whatever
melacha you're involved in, whether
it's, you know, labor with your hands,
labor with your feet, labor with your
mind, you're completely immersed in it.
What happens afterwards? You finish
and you relax, you're shvis. So, so to
speak, your energy is now not being
projected, you reclaim your energy.
You reclaim your energy.
There was a very big lecture, a speaker
once told me that he he finished his
lecturing, so it's projecting energy.
It's a lot of energy, you come on.
He says, I right away have to run into a
private room and not see anybody for a
few hours.
Because
you have to re you have to reclaim your
energy. It's a very important idea. It's
called boundaries.
You understand? Cuz you're giving and
giving and giving and everything is on
the outside and then you become depleted
at some point. You get cut off from
yourself. So, Shabbos says
you sit back. It's not just you
physically relax. It's spiritually. Your
energy now comes back. It's called
aliya. When you're working, it's yerida.
It's going outwards and now it comes
back to you.
Whatever you're involved in, a person is
a writer and he's writing and writing
for hours. His energy is outwards and
now you need a moment that energy to
come back into you.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. And it's an important thing
because people don't recognize the
importance of it.
Right? You gave and gave and gave. Your
energy was in a of yerida, hamshacha,
actualization and now you need a we call
replenish. So, what does it mean
replenish yourself? Right? At some point
you have to replenish yourself. You
know, the car needs gas. You also need
gas. You you you need to reclaim that
energy. The Baal Shem Tov says this is
what Shabbos is. Hashem six days a week
the energy was being projected from the
ein sof and concretized in a real world.
What's the avodah of Shabbos? Remember
rest? What does it mean he rests? He had
to work hard. He has hands. He has feet.
What? He doesn't have enough energy? Why
did he have to rest? Is he going on
vacation? He doesn't like
The idea of rest is not the idea of
rest, you know, oh I worked so hard and
I'm going to kill myself and I want to
retire. The idea of rest is it's also a
briya.
It's also a briya. And we have to
understand what what it means. Rashi
says it says
byom hashishi he finished on the seventh
day. So, Rashi says he didn't work on
the seventh day. He finished the sixth
day. So, Rashi, one of the psukim Yeah?
That chazal it comes from the medrash
that
chaser menucha the world was missing
something. The world was missing
menucha. Ba'Shabbos ba'menucha. So, so
why is that on the seventh day?
Cuz on the seventh day there was also a
creation. What was the creation? The
creation of menucha. What what does that
mean there was a creation of Manucha?
The pshat is this is this is a very very
powerful word.
The kodesh is that Manucha is part of
creation.
Creation needs serenity.
It's not this creation, you work and
then there's something beautiful that's
called Manucha. Hashem put into the
fabric of existence
that it needs Aliyah Salima Susa. It
needs to be reclaimed by by the divine.
That the energy has to go back to the
source and because of that there's a
yearning in the world for meaning.
Without Shabbos there was no you would
be no yearning for meaning. It's just a
world good. Vayechal bayom hashvi, part
of creation was that creation has a
concept of what it looks like
pre-creation.
It has a concept of what the energy was,
where it came from.
It's called Aliyah Salimas. That's
Shabbos. Shabbos the worlds go up. What
do you mean the worlds go up? In all
Kabbalah citizens Aliyah Salimas, right?
But nobody knows what does it mean
Aliyah Salimas? What happens? What
happens? The worlds go up.
What goes up? Roller coasters go up, gas
stations go up, potatoes go up, cholent
goes up. Cholent goes down, not up.
What goes up?
Aliyah Salimas is
the question is if I if I feel it or
not, if I'm sensitive to what it means
is that every aspect of the world goes
up on Shabbos. It's like when you sit
down after the malacha and you reclaim
your energy, so the energy now goes from
the outside back into the inside. Vav
yimay hamayseh and Shabbos is the same
world but it's a completely different
world. The six days of creation, the
energy is projected into maysa. On
Shabbos, the energy is reclaimed but
there's a big difference between the
creator and another person reclaiming
their energy. If I painted a picture for
4 hours or I spoke for 4 hours
and then I sit down on the couch, the
picture remains on the wall. But since
by the world the energy is the world.
So, when I sham reclaims his energy,
what comes with him?
The painting comes together with him.
The world is also I love you,
understand?
It's not there's his energy and there's
a world. The world is the energy.
In In Hebrew, it's interesting. In
Hebrew, what do we What's the word for a
thing?
Davar. Davar means dibur. Why is a thing
called a word?
You understand why? Cuz there's no
thing. Everything is words. What would
we What What We found out in the 1950s
about DNA.
There's no body. There's no life. It's
words. It's a program. It's DNA program.
That's by
Nivera Olam. It's It's divine DNA. So,
every davar is a dibur. It's a dibur.
Shaha koil niya.
Bidvoroy.
Shaha koil niya bidvoroy. So, when the
dibur goes back, what else goes back?
The davar goes back. So, the world is a
higher world.
Somebody told me went to Eretz Yisrael.
Yeah, and he felt the earth is not the
same. They
just learned
that my rhyme used to kiss the the
earth. Why you kissing the earth of
Eretz Yisrael?
Why going to kiss the earth of JFK
Airport?
Ben Gurion Airport is so much better
than JFK Airport. The same bureaucracy
in both airports. It's much worse in
Israel.
You're not kissing the airport
bureaucracy. The earth of Eretz Yisrael
is different. Why?
It's plain of Shabbos.
The earth is different on Shabbos. The
gefilte fish is different on Shabbos.
Your wife is different on Shabbos.
You're different on Shabbos. Your couch
is different on Shabbos. Why is your
couch different on Shabbos? The same
couch you fall asleep there Sunday, you
fall asleep there Shabbos. Shabbos you
have more time to sleep.
The visionary was a child. I told you
once you were learning about Shabbos
the asks, if you get lost in the midbar,
you don't know which day is Shabbos.
What do you do? You don't you you don't
have a calendar.
The cell phone is not charged. That's
what I'm saying Amara. You forgot to
charge your cell phone. And uh you don't
know which Shabbos. So it's a machlokes.
Machlokes of here about if you do
Shabbos right away, if you count six
days and then you do Shabbos, you do
Shabbos then you count six days. Kibbud
ya'aseh shalom, kibbud ya'aseh shalom.
So the Ruzhiner Rebbi Yisrael of Ruzhin
always Yahrtzeit is today. Gimmel
Cheshvan the Rebbi Yisrael of Ruzhin.
I didn't realize yet his Yahrtzeit is
today. So he was a little child. Uh say
again Elena, Gimmel Cheshvan, yeah. I
think tough ratio tesara. In any case,
so the Heichal Keruzhin there turns to
his mother, he was a Yosef. He picks up
his hand and he says "Washteinis the
Gemara?" So he explains it again. I
don't understand. Again he says,
"Yisraelik, vos vashteist in this? What
don't you understand? It's not so
complicated." He says, "How does a
person not know when Shabbos is? Megita
cook." He says, "Megita cook of the
himmel um zeitas is Shabbos."
You take a look at the sky and you see
it's Shabbos.
He was so in touch with his body, with
his somatic experience, it was aligned
with emes.
There's a different energy on Shabbos.
Why is there a different energy on
Shabbos? The world is a different world.
Obviously my eyes have to be perceptive
to energy. Because if I just played
basketball for 3 hours, it didn't
happen, but if I did play for 3 hours,
right? And I'm exhausted. I'm exhausted.
And now I sit down on the couch and I'm
like
my energy is coming back to myself. A
person who's looking at me at that
moment, if he doesn't know me from
outside, he doesn't know
what I did before. I know what I did.
I'm feeling it. So I could look at the
world on Shabbos and I don't see a
difference. But somebody who knows the
world from within,
somebody who knows energy, right away
Shabbos, he knows it's a different
world. It's a different world. That's
Aliya Salima. That's uh
What's Shacharit Gemara?
You also see when Shabbos is. Okay?
But there's some people who don't.
Some
people don't.
We look at the calendar to see what Yes,
money money season money. Yeah, money
season money.
Huh?
Yes, when you speak about my holy
Shabbos, the foods of Shabbos, people
sometimes misconstrue it. They think
Shabbos is a mitzvah to to to
to be a glutton. That's not the word.
The word is for cat. You understand?
Somebody was once enjoying the kugel a
little too much. So there was a Hasid,
he was a deep person. He said, "What's
what's after the Hamas?" He says, "It's
my haba." And and every bite of the
kugel you get more
you get more
he says, "Well, you don't believe it?"
He says, "No, I believe it, but the way
your is going to smell, oh my god."
The point is sometimes we take things
with in a very in a very brute way. It's
a very it's it's a English Shabbos.
So he says like this,
"Who did this for
you guys when you go to my room,
the stress
of living life in this world with
physicality, which is called my room."
So now we understand why Shabbos.
When you can take Shabbos is not a
different world. It's that same world
that's in a different space in an
elevated space.
There's a Jew who told me he's a very
big fundraiser, and he told me he only
fundraises on Shabbos.
Cuz people are in a different mood.
He says, "I'll never fundraise not on
Shabbos. He says, "Shabbos you get
triple the amount." Interesting.
It's a big fundraiser. He said, "Only
ask people for money on Shabbos."
Interesting thing. He says, "You go into
their house, they're relaxed." He says,
"Sunday is not the same person."
He says, he he tells you he I get triple
amount of money. Most people don't think
that, right? You fundraise on Monday,
you don't fundraise on Shabbos.
So, what's the good idea? That Noach is
Shabbos. Why is Noach Shabbos? Because
when you take the Mayim Rabim and it
gets uplifted and sublimated through
Tfillah B'chinus Elokus.
Those are the words. I take my anxiety
and I bring it back to Elokus, to
godliness, meaning I reveal the shoresh
of my anxiety in Elokus. That's the key.
The shoresh of my anxiety is Elokus.
Remember, it's Olam HaTohu.
Olam HaTohu is divine. There was just a
breakdown. So, you want to bring back
the anxiety to Elokus. That's called
Chiyas HaMeisim. When I do that, that is
Shabbos. As he says, every Tfillah of
the six days is a glow of Shabbos.
How does Shabbos happen? Cuz every day
there's Shabbos. Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
What's the Shabbos of every day? The
Tfillah of that day.
The six The six days have a gray of
Shabbos. We learn this also in Likutei
Torah Behar as chapter 6 I said this
earlier.
So, when you have the Tfillah of every
day, then you have a Shabbos. Meaning,
Shabbos is the cumulative energy of all
the Davvenings of the week. Why is
Davvening Shabbos? Cuz what's Davvening?
Davvening is the time when you take the
world of the day
and you make an Aliyah Olamus. You rest
up. In other words, you bring it back to
its source. You bring everything back to
its source.
So, you have to have an Nikkudah,
compass, an essence. And then I take all
the tension and all the appointments and
all the experiences of the day, right?
You wake up in the morning, so you have
the previous day, you have the next day,
and you bring it you try to bring it all
into the relationship.
You try to bring it all
into the source. You don't deny it
anything. It all becomes part of the
experience. That's what Aliyah says.
So that's Noah, that's Shabbos. Every
day there's a little Shabbos.
He says, "I call this a Shabbos tata."
You have to understand this is the lower
level of Shabbos.
There's Noah Noah. There's two times
Noah. So it says, he said in the
beginning of the memoir, "The Shabbos
tata, the Shabbos there's a lower level
and there's a higher level of Shabbos."
So this is Shabbos tata. Why is it
Shabbos tata?
It's a bad Shabbos. It's not a bad
Shabbos. Because this is the Shabbos
that's created from tension.
This is the menucha that's created from
the marbles. So it's called Shabbos
tata.
There's a higher level of Shabbos. So
how much of a tiny little Shabbos.
And this is the Shabbos of when we say
a tiny little Shabbos.
Means the day is going to be all
Shabbos. That's Shabbos the higher
Shabbos. So it says in the of Noah, I
shall not
have Noah
on earth.
Hashem says, "I made an oath that the
waters of Noah will not pass through the
world." If we just explained that the
waters of Noah are so big, so why make
an oath that may Noah shouldn't pass
again on the earth? The answer is
I have shame on you.
Even though they came to cleanse
Not every time do you need that
cleansing.
If there's tension, if there's anxiety,
yeah, I need the cleansing. But I don't
always need that
cleansing.
So the
passage continues in the
I also made an oath that I won't be
angry anymore. I won't scream at you.
What does this mean?
This means there comes a place
of a relationship
where you don't have to bring in the
negativity cuz you don't need it.
You have to understand there's even a
deeper love.
It's not taking away anything we said.
We spoke about
other that comes through the rabim. But
there's a love that's even deeper than
that. Which comes from above.
And that's even deeper than the love
that comes through the raging waters.
The says in Shiram his right arm
embraces me.
This love even though it's always
present in the most revealed way
permanently.
It's going to come out in the future.
The
says in
the same after. It's all the same after.
The mountains will move.
And the mounds will falter.
Yet my kindness to you will never move.
And the covenant of peace with you will
never weaken, will never falter.
Earlier
This is the love that comes from above
which is a full embrace where there's
never a separation. Nothing can be
moved. What's the saying?
All this love we're talking about is
amazing. But it's the love that comes
from darkness. It's the love that
cleanses. Why is there a need for
cleansing? Because I'm in a state where
I need cleansing and the will cleanse
me.
He says but then there is
a Yom Shekulo Shabbos. And that's where
the relationship
is completely devoid
of anything that's tense and anxious,
not because of denial. When I'm in a
world of a mabul, then I need a mainach.
That's what creates Shabbos. But there's
a whole different type of Shabbos, and
this is the Shabbos that comes from
above.
When there's a flow of infinite love
from above, where there's absolute
oneness without any separation that is
all blissful.
And the blissfulness comes from the
bliss itself, from the relationship
itself. There's absolutely no dissonance
whatsoever. There's no tension that can
create a gulf that I have to overcome.
Why? Because the flow of love is so
powerful that there's absolutely nothing
outside of the relationship. Complete
intimacy, complete oneness. And we have
glimmers of that. When people you can't
get to Shabbos Elov without Shabbos
Tata. Cuz if I don't work through
Shabbos Tata,
the anxiety is going to separate us. But
after I work through Shabbos Tata, then
there's a gift. And the gift is the gift
of love that comes from above.
The first gift of love comes from below.
For example, it comes from from the
mabul. It comes from oids and malachim
omes. And then there's the gift that
comes from above, which means it's
liberated from any negativity, from any
darkness. And he says, "And that's
eternal. And it's essential. And in that
relationship there's absolute oneness."
And we could see that sometimes you have
a relationship that's worked through.
Afterwards, they come to even a deeper
relationship. The relationship that's
even deeper than trust. It's complete
complete oneness. That's Shabbos Elov.
That's Yom Shekulo Shabbos. That's
Geulah. It's beyond tension. You don't
need the tension to fuel the
relationship. Why? Cuz I worked through
the tension. Now there's just
celebration of oneness. This is
celebration of oneness without tension.
Dalay tension. Dalay trauma. Not
everything has to always forever be
about trauma.
When there's trauma, you got to talk
about it.
You know, I'm accused of talking too
much about trauma. That's why I'm saying
it. Yeah.
Uh somebody came over to me said stay
there. I promise you.
I want you to make a resolution this
year that you're not going to talk about
trauma. There's no trauma. There's no
darkness. Everybody is good. Everything
is light. And I said, "Oh man, can you
hear Hudson?
If your words can take a blitz rate all
trauma, I'm in."
So now I think
this person was to the mind Shabbos in
law.
Right?
It's an important word because sometimes
we romanticize darkness. He says, "Don't
romanticize it. Don't romanticize it.
Darkness has a role."
You see the how the altar never could
shift us away from one extreme to you
know, till here in the mind everything
was mind mind mind. Then he says, "MS,
but there's something also higher than
that."
Can you celebrate the relationship
itself? Can you become one and celebrate
the relationship itself? But I'm telling
you why didn't he start the mind in this
way? Just start the mind and get in the
normal because there was a marble.
You understand? It's that that's that's
where it's a sensitive issue.
You know that
the altar never does is not saying this
cuz he's not ready to talk about the
first thing. He's ready to talk about
the first thing.
It's a very big difference.
Huh?
After Shabbos there's also Shabbos in
law.
Why is it called a Shabbos? Called a
Shabbos means it doesn't need the marble
to make Shabbos. Called a Shabbos, it's
all Shabbos. The first Shabbos is not
called a Shabbos. It's Shabbos that
comes from it's not yet that comes from
the mind. It's Shabbos that comes from
the mind. The second Shabbos, it's a
gift. It's a gift it's something just
pure pure. It's pure. It's the innocence
of oneness that is absolute and
non-negotiable.
And that's even a deeper, deeper level.
It's the Tikkun HaKlali.
And that's why Hashem makes an oath that
one day there won't be any more Mayim
Because there won't be any separation.
Cain is Shabbat Me Erbach in the
Haftarah. And that's Chesed Me'eit
Hashem Oish that never moves, it never
budges, it can't be challenged because
it's from a place of absolute absolute
oneness. And he finishes in the
parentheses V'zeh V'gavoha Me'od
Sheb'chinat B'chol Mo'adecha B'chinat
Gavoha Yoteir. Wow.
You have to see what he says. It says in
Yeshayahu Navi
about Mashiach. He says Im Yaskil Avdi
V'yarum V'nisa V'gavoha Me'od.
I'm going to have a a servant who's
going to become great V'gavoha Me'od and
that's Mashiach.
So the Alter Rebbe V'gavoha Me'od most
people take it to go he's going to be
very tall, very elevated. But the Alter
Rebbe says V'gavoha Me'od it's going to
be higher than the Me'od.
We're talking about Me'od Zeman Hamoves,
Me'od B'chol Mo'adecha. So he says
V'gavoha Me'od Sheb'chinat B'chol
Mo'adecha B'chinat It's going to be
Gavoha from the Me'od. Usually you talk
about Me'od that comes from the
darkness, from the antithesis. The
Chiddush of Geulah, Geulah consciousness
of Mashiach is V'gavoha Me'od
Sheb'chinat B'chol Mo'adecha B'chinat
Gavoha Yoteir. It's going to be a higher
B'chol Mo'adecha. So it's it's
K'vayachol in Ein Sof itself. It's not
the Ein Sof of Tohu that comes out in
the darkness through which you touch
infinity. It's a different type of
Me'od. It's a higher Me'od. It's also
Ein Sof, it's infinite, but it's a
completely different type of Ein Sof
because it's rooted in the absolute
oneness where there's no separation and
therefore it's Kulai Avah. This is the
Avah Rabbah, Me'eit HaKlali, the hug.
And the hug is important because a hug
when you hug somebody they're in a grip
and they can't leave.
All other forms of love expression the
person could leave.
Right? If I kiss somebody, I talk to
somebody, I look at somebody. But in
Hebrew, when I hug you, you're in my
grip. So, physically, you may want to
leave, but spiritually, what does Hebrew
mean? Hebrew means that there is an
inseparable
oneness. You're in the grip. You're in
It's It's It's complete connection.
There's no Hava Mana for disconnection.
That's why the words are you mean it to
have I. So, this is the deeper Hava and
that's why there's an oath that one day
the world will be cleansed even from the
main act, even though that's also
cleansing, cuz it'll be cleansed from
the need of being cleansed. Because he
says, "Not always do you need that
tire." Sometimes you're cleansed from
the need of being cleansed. And you have
to be able to accept that with grace.
Sometimes people are invested in having
skeletons.
Can you ever look in the mirror and say,
"You know what?
Everything is good.
Everything is good."
By the way, that's hard sometimes for
people. They're so used to uh
They're so used to uh
And I'm talking about an elevated
person. They're so used to dealing with
with with darkness.
You know that that's almost like what's
what's going to be my life now?
I have no problems.
Okay. So, Baruch Hashem, I don't know
that we're all there that moment at the
moment.
So, that's why, you know, you have to
deal with what you have to deal with,
but it's a it's a very important idea
to be able to sometimes say
maybe it's not such a Jewish thing.
To be able to say, "Wow, this is good.
This is amazing.
This this this this This feels right."
And without saying, "No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no. There's a
secret. There's a secret. Why don't you
talk about the secret?" There's no
secret.
Sometimes that that's that's a different
avoid. It's like graduating from Galas
into Gullah. It's hard. Because I'm so
invested that I have problems. So, what
does it look like to wake up and say
Huh? What does it look like to wake up
in the morning and say, "I don't have
any problems."
This year.
You have to open yourself up to that
opportunity.
Huh?
What's the subconscious reason you have
to go?
So it's a different
It's not that there's no challenge, but
the challenge is of a different level.
It's a different level.
In other words, don't worship
trauma. Don't worship that you have
skeletons. You have skeletons, work with
them. But don't become addicted to the
fact that you messed up. You know, some
people are a little bit of addicted to
the fact that they're messed up. It
makes them feel good.
It gives them purpose.
No, no, I messed up.
Now, I'm You have to be sensitive with
this because we are messed up, at least
some of us.
So So we shouldn't ignore that. We
shouldn't ignore that. But the point is
we're also not messed up.
And you have to be able to to to
graduate. And you have to be able also
before you graduate to be able to
to celebrate the beauty of a
relationship that's not messed up.
In other words, sometimes the flood has
to end.
Sometimes the flood has to end.
Huh?
Yeah.
An inner vanic inner vanic affiliate.
Okay.
So everybody have an amazing Shabbos, a
Shabbos of of Noach.
Baso Hashem Shabbos we have the regular
sheerum.
And uh
we're going to continue Monday morning
the last piece of the mind. Huh?
Huh? Havakuk? Hibuk. Very nice. Havakuk
is his amazing hibuk.
The tsunami.
Havdalah Hebrew, very nice. Very nice.
Please help me, sir.
Huh?
Uh-oh, yeah.
You know what? Shabbos, we use it over
there.
Shabbos, we use it in 20.
Oh, okay.
Fine, no problem. You leave.
Uh-oh, what a smell. What is that?
That also That also is an addiction.
Right.
Yeah.
Don't hold on to that.
Who Newton?
Who you say? Newton?
Isaac Newton.
Yeah, yeah.
Gravity. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The light trauma. The light it means
enough.
No.
Of course. My name is Robin. My
Huh?
Okay. You said about the
them they should be like saying like the
person that works in Times Square, he's
the one who could be be the doing his by
by this I know but it's It's not it's
not possible. You're going to be Yeah,
unless you go with blinders. Right right
driving in the city is not shai'cha to
you.
No, he's talking about
No, they felt that there's so much by
them. There's so many tear this.
They were stressed out by parnossa, so
washing machine Yeah, but they were
but they were they were
they were
They were them.
The the Bal Tanya had a of his.
I once said from the
for bringing he said that the Bal Tanya
had a his name was Benjamin Klatsker.
Klatsk a klotz in in in Yiddish is is
lumber wood. He was a big merchant of
lumber.
And he was very very very affluent and
wealthy person at least the standards of
the time.
And the said that Benjamin Klatsker at
the end of the year he was going through
you know all the checks and balances,
every sale, every purchase, what came
in, what went out.
Everything, every single transaction of
lumber from the
to him and from him to his clients.
And then he said he finished and on the
bottom was the last entry. So he wrote
ain't no water.
Ain't no water. That's the mice. The
said doesn't have a Havana. If ain't no
water
So then the whole thing you should have
written on everyone ain't no water.
Elema, there are dollars and cents.
Yeah, there's rubles, there's cup cuz
there's something called business. So so
so what's this joke then?
Huh?
So he said he said I've added this
dollars and this cents and this
transactions, but what's the circle?
What's the summation of it? In
I've added it's all
That was the fun.
So I'm saying that's the Bal Sukum. He's
talking about a Bal Sukum.
Everything was different under.
But but this
Remember
But remember lifespan was very short.
Mortality death of children was very
big.
So there were many
It wasn't
Because there was a Malchus.
Yeah, Jewish blood was sometimes half
good.
No, I'm saying it was you know.
It was tough. It was tough.
Maybe they didn't know how tough it was
because their standards
No, I'm saying when you know wealth, you
know what poverty is. If if this is the
only reality, it's not called poverty,
right?
The more choices people have, the more
miserable they become.
If you don't have choices, this is it.
I'm saying it was you know, life wasn't
uh
It's we don't we It's hard for us to
imagine.
Yeah.
Ah, Baruch Hashem by you.
Wow.
Wow. Wow.
your name?
Really?
Really? Is it his name?
What's his first name?
You went to Jerusalem?
The neighborhood? So you don't have a
bus ticket?
So you have a car but you don't have a
bus ticket?
It's all good.
I have a bus ticket. What's his first
name?
Okay. We felt his heart.
Cancer.
Really?
I have the website. I have to have the
website.
Wow.
Some of them are good guys. I wish you
all the best and good health.
I was giving you Yeah.
I sent him a gift, yeah?
Huh? I did this.
Okay, good job. It's a pleasure to have
you.
It's a pleasure to have you.
Yeah.
The sham you say that.
Rashi says in Beitzah, yeah? That
doesn't mean you can eat more on
Shabbos.
A honey, a honey, a honey, a honey.
A Shabbos lay a honey avada avada avada.
Avada the sugar with toddy and the
carbona avada.
A honey, a honey on top of a middle of
Yeah, a honey.
Yeah.
Tora is really Right, so Shabbos is is
so so we want we want the light of toyo
but in the vessels of tikkun.
It shouldn't be just toyo that breaks.
We want it in the vessels of tikkun.
You understand? So it's integrated.
Yeah.
Right, I hear you. Do you have an
answer?
Okay, I'm going to have to ask them.
It's a good China.
It's a good question, yeah.
It's a good question.
Right.
Right, right.
I hear you.
Right.
Okay, we have what to think about.
Pleasure to have you. It's like a
rubber.
You and your father-in-law.
Regards at home.
A honey of other, yeah?
Yeah, so the color of yeah, yeah.
Actually says in case shame Shabbos on
them, yeah? It's working so the color of
It's different, different, yeah.
Beautiful.
It's saying that
So the color of yeah.
Okay.
but I'm going back to hold too. So Ruby
said that What's your name? Menachem
Gruner. Gruner? Yes, I love you.
Ruby said that Hashem to define Hashem
is undefined is also a definition. So
just like there's infinite undefinedness
is also infinite fineness. But we find
in a lot of ways that Hashem is defined.
Hashem can't die. Hashem can't kill
himself. Hashem can't become finite
being.
So why is it
The definition of infinite is that's
fine. Let him Let Hashem just be
infinite. Why does he also have to be
finite?
My Ruby's asking Hashem can't become
corporeal being or Hashem can't die. All
right, that's that's definitely one of
the laws.
Well,
if we're if we're if we're employing
logic here, which may be make may be a
mistake, but if we're employing logic
here,
if infinity can become finite,
it's only because it's infinite.
So the finiteness won't obliterate
infinity. It's just an expression of
infinity.
So it's not a contradiction.
In other words, when you say he can't
make another god
or he can't, you know, the famous thing
where he makes a stone that he can't
pick up or
or can Hashem kill himself,
right?
If this other god, so to speak,
if it's it's because he's doing it. So
then it's him.
If it's his limitation, then it's him.
So it's infinite.
So it's not really a contradiction.
In other words, if the finite is an
expression of the infinity, it's not
really finiteness.
It's an expression of the infinity. If
we're using logical concepts,
So you're you're asking me that Hashem
can't be finite in the way that would
contradict the infinity.
But as long as the finiteness is an
extension of the infinite, it will still
be infinite as far as that goes.
If we're using the word of logic If
we're using the world of logic, then the
word can't make sense.
Cuz if the finiteness is coming from
infinity, it's an expression. It's a
continuum of the infinity.
Again, if If we're using seichel, right?
Even if he becomes a physical being,
it's him becoming a physical being. So,
it's not finite. It's infinite.
The physical being is a manifestation of
infinity. So,
what's bothering you about a physical
being shouldn't bother you.
You understand what I'm saying?
You're looking at a physical being
as finite. I'm mortal. I'm frail. I'm
weak. I'm limited.
But if the physical being is a
manifestation of infinity, it shouldn't
bother you.
There's a machlokes It is. The machlokes
in the Rambam and the Raavad about this
in Hilchos Teshuvah.
The Rambam says that somebody who
believes that Hashem has a guf, he's a
baal guf, is a min. He's a heretic.
The Rambam writes this. Right. Right.
So, the Raavad writes, this is an
unbelievable Raavad.
I quote verbatim, "There were people
greater than the Rambam.
Many people greater than the Rambam who
believed that Hashem is a baal guf."
Really?
Take a look. Rambam, Hilchos Teshuvah,
perek gimmel, halacha same as Raavad.
L'chora, right? The Raavad says this.
from
the No, for crying out loud. The Rambam
says, "Ain like ain't
You hear? So, what's the Havannah?
This is what the I would the I would is
not saying that the I would is wrong.
He's saying to call them minim.
That I I also hold that I shouldn't have
a goof, but the but the those who did is
interesting, no?
Fascinating, I
So, I want to
take a look, yeah. You'll see a Sugas I
would. He doesn't just say other he said
good
with
me men.
I would is very sharp.
would know of this or the surrounding I
would they would have a field day.
It's not me gay to not just show them
because
Huh? Rashi says that in this week and
last week about the feeling and the blah
blah
the
the men of the king whatever who came
and they looked at the women of the
earth and they had children. Thus,
that's my mission.
I want to show them the I would show
them he was discussing it. So, he says
what's the Havannah with this?
Good with the toy with the I would. Good
with the toy with the I would. The I
would knew who the I would is greatness.
It wasn't uh
I would is considered good with the toy
with the I would. You could say that he
wants to say they weren't up of course.
There were such a
The pile of the clay you show it's not
the scabbard I ain't like goof and like
moose I could but it's an unbelievable I
would. So, I want to show them the
I would this is what
that that is that because of real
infinity
it has no limit so it could be
manifested in a goof also. Don't put a
limit on it. Don't say it can't be a
goof. By definition of line it could be
Because it's completely inside.
saying that I shouldn't create a rock he
can't pick up.
So, that's what I'm discussing. So, I'll
be say her.
I'll be say her if it's a manifestation
of infinity
so you don't have to be scared of a
goof.
That's what he really wants to do.
Don't limit even the fact that he's
unlimited. That's how he touched the I
would.
That's how the I would touched the I
would.
Then he said good with the toy with the
I in other words, that they felt that
this is deeper than the Rambam. The
Rambam is saying ain like guf, and the
Raavad is saying I'm not saying he has a
guf.
But the world of the world, and he
touched on my little guy, the world of
the world, that it's deeper than the
Rambam.
So why is that not a discussion for the
next room then? Why is that not a
discussion
that they're they're all things Cuz
they're not looking to follow the Rambam
or the Raavad.
If you're looking for the Rambam or the
Raavad,
because it has nothing to do to take a
person who was born from a mother and to
say that he's God, that that
You understand?
Why? If God wanted it, could he do that?
If God wanted it, so what? Hashem told
Moshe Rabbeinu that he's taking a person
who was born in the year zero to a
mother and he's turning him into Hashem?
If you have such a possuk, you're right.
If there was such a possuk, K'vayochol,
according to the Raavad, and Hashem
would say in this and this year there's
going to be this, and I'm telling you
that's me, fine.
The Raavad says, but that's not what
happened. There's a person who was a
regular person, and they turned him into
a deity. That's Avodah Zarah.
The Raavad is talking if Hashem could do
it, he says.
You understand? Not not to compare Not
This is supposed to be This is a whole
story about a person you decided that
he's God.
My brother told me I have a brother
Simon. He told me he's once sitting with
a bunch of cardinals.
And uh
and it was a very warm conversation.
They got into it. Just doing to ask him
a lot of questions.
Finally, it was like a little intimate.
They turned to him and said,
"So,
who do you believe is the Messiah?"
And he knew this is very
So, he thought for a moment and he said,
"Well, it's one Jew or another."
They all burst out laughing, and they're
like,
"It's one Jew or another."
The emes is that deep down deep down
it says on Yaakov, "Vayikra lo Kel
Elokei Yisrael.
Vayikra lei Kel, he called Yakov Kel
Elokei Yisrael. Rashi says
the front of Megillah Hakadosh Baruchu
Korrei lei Yakov Kel.
He called Yakov Kel.
You have such a chiddush. In Zohar it
says man pnei Adonai Hashem dorash bi.
In Yerushalmi it says
Who's Hashem? Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. A
Zohar.
In Yerushalmi Bikkurim it says Hashem
Beheichal Kodsheiha Vakik after of
Shavuos.
This is the Rabbi Yitzchak bar Elazar
Bevei Kenishta deKeisarin. One of the
big Amora'im when he was in his Yeshiva
in Keisaria, that's Hashem Beheichal
Kodsheiha. What what all these things
mean?
Right, but it's a
So Rabbi Nachman bar Yitzchak writes a
passuk as Kisei Sod Hashem im Yirei'av u
Vrito L'hodi'am.
And the shliach nikra Hashem sholchai. A
person sometimes is a complete con-
conduit for Hashem, you could call him
Hashem. Like Moshe says in in Shma u
Nasati mitar artzechem. Sefer Devarim is
not Moshe repeating, it's Moshe speaking
himself. Moshe mippi atzmo amra. U
Nasati, I'm giving rain. I'm giving
rain. So there's a frisa chinam
midaberet mitach grona. Moshe's eye
was a conduit for Hashem.
But that could be the neshama.
Here the chiddush is the guf.
The Rebbe Rashab, the first Rebbe Rashab
writes that a maskil,
a secular enlightened Jew came to the
Tzemach Tzedek
and he said, "Can Hashem make another
god?"
So he said, "Vayikra lei Kel Elokei
Yisrael." He called Yakov Kel. It's the
pnim in Kabbalah called Tiferes de Zeir
meaning sometimes
in emes, where you have to be very
sensitive with this,
when it's going to be in this gala and
Messiah comes and ain't no more valid in
Amish.
And that every person is mom and she
look of a sham. So could be that's the
beginning of the driver is talking
about.
But it's it's it's it's it's it's it's
deep stuff. It's deep stuff and it's
very sensitive.
very dangerous. Huh? And it's very
dangerous.
It's dangerous if you don't have the
right agdomas. If you have the right
agdomas, it's not dangerous.
It's dangerous when it's
amaretzes. Yeah, amaretzes is dangerous.
That's lucky Rama. Yeah.
But you understood?
A little bit. A little bit.
The rabbi was saying in the sheer that
Shabbos is
just
that Shabbos is
Rabbi I don't know if
the thing I don't this is not a right to
watch necessarily to watch uh
You're saying you're saying that Shabbos
has a collect to to change everything.
Yeah?
That is theory but it's not a right to
say.
No, we were just on Shabbos Aliyah
Salomas. That Shabbos the world is in a
different space. The world Oh, the the
original he said that you just look into
the world and he
And I lost it also.
I lost it also, yeah.
I'm saying this time that you bring If I
drink wine on Monday night, I'm not the
kind of mitzvah, right? It's a different
wine. Yeah, it's a different drink. Set
up the table. I have a suda. Even the
physicality really learning tired on
Shabbos for steak. It's always a
mitzvah. But you're eating food on
Shabbos.
You make a tish talk on this. You put on
clothes. It's a different thing in the
body is different than It's not just
something that you're
pretending to do like the Gamora by
Rabbi in the Latin innocent So Messiah
is the Messiah is different.
The essence is an under essence, yeah.
Tavlin shma despite it's the food is
different. The the food is different
with Kaya. They say the Gamora it says
ain't no dimer
ain't no dimer madrasas ain't no dimer
upon of shalom bashabas to
the body.
It says in madrasas
ain't no novel shalom ain't no mayor
coil.
Ain't no novel mashabas madrasas ain't
no mayor coil.
The middle of the summer time is the
Torah coil.
She says I heard from a big doctor he
was doctor living living living fallen
Russia.
That the day thick the pulse of a Jew on
shabas is different than the pulse of a
whole year. Doctor told him.
He says you had from a big hey echo the
daily
he says one of the biggest doctors in
Russia testified that the day thick
the pulse of a Jew on shabas is
different than it is.
And he says it's called the hour of
shalom ain't no shabas huh?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah the ball thick huh?
I hear you.
The middle of the day wasn't shy after
that.
Okay, I was taking a shower again.
Okay.
In the hearts in the hearts.
Yeah, hot slug.