The Baal Shem Tov. His life and legacy. Lecture 9, Rabbi Yossi Paltiel 5772/2011

we're talking about the sheets and the ashkaphas of the bashemtiff at least the kids and Emirates and the points that I want to touch on today are the idea of simcha and the idea of other image which are very very basic changes in dashikov of the helicopter okay then call foreign obsessed over Joy and he saw azus and Maurice as being essentially Clipper as being from the Yates and I suppose the source of this particular idea the source of the concept of this is everybody knows Allah what's what's weird about it is that this arizal is actually a rambam the rambam said almost exactly the same thing where he asks the question why does the authority quote exactly the same thing that ambam says but he does them without simcha he deserves for this is rights all of the incredible madriguez that are these are rich was all because it says that is never bonded over the price of a midsom whatever you told him he paid he says I miss you have to do and this is and here's another example yeah 50 times you know 310 times did ever asked fried you know there's a meaning to see the minute you go to the mixer three times and uh did not go to the mix for three times and um I think it was the rabbit hashab who said I saw toulashanus was and the other lotion was indicated that we're not looking for schoolers you know for magic tricks for Spiritual shortcuts that's how I understand that vertices they both are in the devils and humans I repeated this three times in other words we have to go to the Metro but the idea of Mikvah which by the publisher was much much more I mean if you go back into the history of Mobility you'll discover that the pain went to the mix every day for Monday Thursday I saw this I saw this maybe from zizlin that's me that somebody mentioned to the debit they were making a new branch of time and she said and they were talking about that in order to have a Yeshiva you have to have a lake so the bottle should be able to table Monday Thursday out of Shabbos so he said sometimes the person needs to go to a mix of other reasons um but what we what we do follow is this even simple that the reasons was unbelievably uh primary what's interesting is this we have one page one blood there's one piece of paper that's known to exist on Planet Earth which is that piece of paper is in the devil's Library and it's a letter to the told us to tell us that letter is printed with the news was written very close to the time while Trump is passing away it was published 40 years later but it was written very closely until the passed away and in the ship Hashem that letter is quoted a little bit different than the gear set which is printed by us I don't know how to explain it but we had to push of the Savage it's printed in a lot of places and the title of that letter is about something it's a very very big person and like I mentioned to the other day there's a yeshaven that he was much older than the bashanti and he was from the first great sadikim to join the movement like I told you negotiated and it took him his holy see his whole 26 years as it ever to collect his 60 Warriors or 60 Giants from the first to join this movement towards they told us and they told us if I would like him stop fasting stop being depressed to the told us to have your base the service and it's it's over there it's a fact that the bashems himself personally by him the idea of sin was very very important and there's a very interesting psychological way to say it the girl they've only gone who was a mass mid nifla because our smother is impossible to understand it's shoot literally the villagon used to learn 18 hours a day learn 18 hours a day that means to say the other six he ate and slept and took care of his deeds his mother was DeGraw used to board up his windows so the sunlight shouldn't come into his room and he would learn by day with Candlelight it reveals the most of the person that kind of a person is a person who's a master development he's naturally diligent the girls are smaller was Bleak rule but he needed a fetch the place he couldn't deal with life he couldn't deal with openness he couldn't deal with Freedom it interfered with his foreign would sometimes light hundreds of candles and by David he had windows so of course the detail that we all forget I think pushed literally break ice and table in an ice cold River yeah but he would push a light candle and says I lift it or something went out lift the kite and there's a correlation between joy and and Light and and melancholy and darkness and you see clearly the pressure of the personalities of the people the directions in which their lives went once mentioned once went to table and you need to have candles the candles are burning out of Hashem reached out and he grabbed icicles there were ice you know ice can form if it drips it a long long strips of ice he broke them off and says there's candles they stuck them in the snow and they lit them and they burned but the point is this was a symptom of his shita of the ability and of course but if a person wants to solve problems one of the ages to solving problem is which I don't know all the details of at the momentum but the kitchen of the myself was that the middle at Abba had a a whole complicated and very very sophisticated order in labavage the middle of Calvary and horses horses are stable of horses do Maneuvers they would do tricks which was an orchestra and a choir and by the Midlands give incitement about something he would come out and he would ask they would play and he would sit and listen but I'm sure it wasn't entertainment and all that the moon of the horses came out one day onto his porch and he said that the younger life the sedan would do the Maneuvers on the horses should do their thing and they started to perform in the Middle episode we should sing and dance and um and he encouraged very much and as the event progress someone came right into the middle of and told the middle of it that they have knocked him his own son had fallen from his horse and he was trampled come on top of the horse which meant to say that he was in a massive a very very serious and the middle of his only response was and they kept on telling him how dire is the matter his son is and his reaction was and the end of the story was they finally came and told them that they don't know how but was feeling better she said okay now he could stop and the middle of explained later that he saw pustachitrog on his own son he saw that that was a second and he decided that simcha paid it together that he's going to Sal he's going to conquer is going to defeat this the fact of the matter was he lives many many many many many many years so it worked in her works does anybody know what is the mocker of the so-called Miami who said it first together everybody assumes it may be a man because I don't know if if there's such a meditation or even from the restraining because well if this was one of the most important and of course as you guys know the twin the corollary the other side of the coin of simcha is a connection between and this of course you read in the language famous for the free decade which he wrote to the Davidson was printed the freedom of Rights of latitude that Everson and he says to that Everson that give it to the mother she'll only need it for a few days to read a whole letter and she'll have a lot of nachas if he had written it up it's in a long long letter he never finished it so when the letter was written he gave it to the debits and unfinished and he said to the rabbits and to his daughter do me a favor show it to my mother and of course in that letter you have this closet um whose name is and he has two friends one of his new friends is and he goes to find the prime and he wants to be my kind of intercedus it's incredible in that story dreams that he had that defeated camera writes and the spirit of Eros he means of crime the crime has blindness on his eyes cotton in his ears he saw something up his nose he should have known and he sits and when he meets his old friend he says to him it's 20 something years that I'm sitting here but preachers come on element stop it be a person the essence of the issue was that when a person serves the ability but such of a question he's pushes so fully consumed with himself well it's not the age of you as opposed to when you allow yourself allows you to forget about yourself and as the long letter develops you see the prime developing a a respect his friend and it expresses itself is these were real Jews 24 hours a day they fought they served they dance they dance to celebrate the you know the idea of makes you forget about it and of course they're serious you know I suppose you could say that the the most powerful example of the you know and what's so interesting about it is that the Devil Himself said of himself that is a person and but everything about that ever was you know changing that nature the devil was a man who had unbelievable and he oozed and he radiated then he roused and other people the salvation so this is one thing I wanted to mention and of course the other thing I wanted to mention was the idea of Josef Taz avime the famous that a person is going to exam for this is also by the way in the language a person has gone to examine his own his own gosh that your goof hates you with your enemy you want to serve the Irish dead and you're hell of a has said what doesn't allow yourself is your goof y so you're gonna think that the way to come closer to the abiston is by punishing the gulf by making yourself suffer by by fasting and all kinds of other afflictions of the body in the belief that if I punish my goof I'll get the Goof out of the way the nesham will be able to shine if the Goof is weaker then the Sham is going to be stronger you have to watch your health you have to work with the goof you have many many examples first of all you have the mice told us the letter that I mentioned to you before that he writes to the told us that he should stop fasting and of course the the most powerful Dogma for this is the struggle that went on between the musician maggot and his son and he fasted constantly and he did all kinds of I heard from our Palace that I know that what did the malach eat every day for his food the skin of a pigeon pigeons are not very big that's more than chickens and he ate the skin now how forget about taste how nutritious is that what kind of nutrients do you get from the skin this was my the man ate nothing and he punished his goof and he was a he served the shaman and the fact of the matter is when he passed away how old maximum maximum 36 maximum 36 years old passed away very very young and the Magid used to protest the fact that he didn't watch his health they didn't take care of his girlfriend you have to watch your goof and the malach one said one said I don't have an obligation put aside the wishes of my Father in heaven for my father of the flesh absolutely referred to his father the Magid she cried how could you call the position spoke the maggot left itself for his son it was spoken and not written and wrote it down and endorsed it they signed it and we culturally notarizing it yeah and in that tavar you have many different details and one of them was you have to watch your health father claim luckily goof is a Grace Allah a small hole in the body is a huge gap in the storm in other words if the Goof is not healthy then you can't serve the Apes the properly the Gustav zangat says we don't believe in punishing the body and suffering you have to be healthy one of the baham asked me last night how do you reconcile that with the fact that a baby won't fasting they were telling us and I promise don't know the explanation but the data and the sheet of this is a person has to watch his house and forget it when you're healthy conserve the abusion that ever always quoted that I'm okay this democracy Hashem you have to be healthy because how could you show the ability if you have a mirrors and you don't feel well and so forth and so on these two sheets you know by the early days they believe that you have to punish the body and you have to fast and you have to sit on nests of mediating ants and you have to roll in the snow all kinds of your students the person is foreign so those are two points that I wanted to mention and I already told you the story there's no point but I couldn't stand but I told you the story about the this is so he learned from a visitor from a passerby from the way to open up your mind to Theta is to make yourself suffer she would go he would work a half a day in the shop and then he would go out into the forest and sit on the nest of ants and say till him and cry and the bashant have met him I should have asked him what he's doing so he told them that he's punishing his goof because he's hoping that this will affected said this is not a good approach I'm sorry I have a better way told them give me all of your wealth and I'll teach you the whole Tater and that was the end of the story that he became I told him story a few weeks ago but this is a personal example on the Ruby is with this idea the person has to watch his health a person is not allowed to destroy his girlfriend gave you a goof it's it's a potato you have to watch your goof and of course is because the Goof is okay the follicles and so forth now another thing that I want to mention is of course the preciousness and this of course lies at the very very heart of hasidus yeah I'll say it through this way I am a Dutch fight your speeches he makes speeches so when you that's where you have to find provocative ways to say a simple things such as enough to say it and say the way they get people's attention and this is one of the ideas which I really believe is true if you wanted to get at people are still not sure what citizens I mean citizens you know if the birth date of hasidis is uh is 270 years old almost 280 years of 278 years old because this has been around for a very very long time without of course it's almost 280 years old people have a very hard time saying so what really is and I think a legitimate way of articulating the very essence of hasidus is the following statement s shifted the center of gravity and yiddishkite and gravity of course means weight but gravity also means seriousness shifted the center of gravity of yudeshkite away from Taylor mitsus foreign but you were a year because of your daily mixes and as a result the most precious thing is it doesn't make a difference what kind of Aid he is doesn't make a difference but there's any mix whatsoever because the the Indian of yiddescribe is not the tayden mitsues the Indian Navy is a secondary Inn the river spoke a Seeker in the sum of foreign that you're going to go out on a war against your enemies of course she says you're going to a war Casita says engaged in a war is into this world and he's involved in the Muhammad it's a muhammadased the purpose of an ashama coming into this world is to be here if on top of being here then the Sharma doesn't that's that's already gravy it's it's a dividend it's a prophet in other words and a Sharma comes into this world and doesn't learn one word after the single Mitzvah that's the cover honor because the most powerful thing in the english's purpose is not to take the midst of the Universe I told you this before this is for one more second so and see that's the most important thing the target ever yet and the truth of the matter is it's a murder like a revolution it's an unbelievable Revolution some might indicate Revolution and the river has a seat there is sad that there's three madriguez said you have to love a Jew that you never saw you never met Maybe it took turns serving him and during the truthful that you were the mashada all the time so during this is because it's not just saying you have to love every Jew if love ever do the same and after that episode in other words it's not the shot that you have to love the Russia like to try that there's no such thing as a Russian inside they're all the same in procedures the preciousness and the Jew is believable and of course it's never been more revealed than the last in our generation so many even went away from you describe and in the beginning of this movement of going away from you the sky you could claim and argue that even if not because people went away from you this guy on principles Judaism is the cause of all their Exodus and it's all superstition the communities in the in the so-called the world they tiny not allowed to work out of the many development and so forth and so on so of course the famous words from the free to kill everybody knows you came to the Philipp said how could you makata this person this person is in the category that you have to bring about his he's a bad guy has four sections foreign I haven't reached that yeah and then there's a story which went around also a very nice story that the um that ever came downstairs from feeding him upstairs and he saw two box of them standing under the steps said this about himself I heard this myself many times in there but the representative never told them something new that sooner or later the whole world is going on the repeating Awards so the devil came downstairs and he sees he walks up to them and he tells them I'm coming enough and I want to tell you what I just heard that the people came into 770. and they complained to that ever how come the free decade is involved with all kinds of people amongst the people whom the devil was involved with they were eating that you could say it's a child of them so he complained this person who went to that but how come that was okay so they never didn't know what to say so we went into the flea to get Abbott and you asked the free to get up and buff how the feet to get out he said feed again but gave him a Dogma he says parents have children he says take them call the nature of the love between parents and children as such that if you have many children it doesn't diminish the love for an individual child because if you have a lot of children it's not you have to spread the love in many parts you love each child legal because the nature of the law for parents the children is such that it said and you have more children so you love them more believable is not well he's missing an arm or you cannot see or you cannot walk so the reality is that although every parent loves every child when you have a child has to show him who's ill there's a special kind of love in other words he was trying to be diet it doesn't mean that the children's the other children's love is less it's also believable but it's still special and he said the name show if you have an arm foreign [Applause] but you have to have a very very special love for this is the idea of loving every do no matter what I'll just finish with the story that was told it's a story with the devil it's not a story from the malshevity but it's perfectly apropos it says the story was printed the week after gimmel Thomas the first fact about that came out that the game of Thomas had this touch a long long story and the story of publishes a story and he quotes a man by the name of Greenwald he has a name the name of the story it's a long story that happened over many many years and The Story Goes Like This that this man gleamed out's father and he was related to it foreign father but the mechanical version they will spend time together when they ever got married I would ever get married class and he took along his nephew this Greenwald during the Hassan found a few minutes to talk to the rabbit learning people were speaking at the lab is a big God that was a man Shapiro asked the level permission if he could come to him the next day in his hotel to continue the conversation and did I agreed so the next day this green value this came with his uncle to that hotel we were staying but get the money he didn't understand the learning very much when the conversation finished this is my nephew and his taco when two Jewish people meet someone ask you a question he'll never be on Shabbos so he says he doesn't know he said because the fifth night of Hanukkah shows on the greatest Darkness left is that no matter how deep a person may find himself in seeing in London but he's living in he's living in London lived to schlep him out of that darkness and bring him into a moment got married and had a family and then the working the Holocaust came the show you came and he lost everything he was his wife he lost his children after the war is a republican America shared and he was living in New York was a relative here is going to get married again especially under the current conditions if you go to the rabbit together so he was brought by an uncle of his to 770. um and he went into the field again ever and I'm sure it was very very emotional and then he mentions my son was here go downstairs and say charmelegh so he went downstairs and he went into Philadelphia and he gave Shalom and they never recognized him right away right away 20 years past we meet again and they talked a few minutes and then they repossessed him you know when you didn't meet them how come the fifth night of Hanukkah can never be shot the man was he says in the greatest Darkness left me so strong that no matter if see in New York see in London whether you're living in New York you're living in London anyway this person got married and he moved to Toronto fast forward 20 years and his son is getting married I met the rabbit by my Fastener I'd like my son but in Toronto he was involved in this and there was big kindness to the neighbor you may forget about to join us they felt he knowledge you know who needs them their whole it's a different and he called up 7-7 and he asked to make an appointment to the devil and of course he was told it's not Chinese and he told Robert of this connection he had to represent so many years before and he was told he has a right to go into they'll give him permission but I'm going but one minute just he shouldn't ask any questions there's not a lot to say anything just all right none of this he came to New York he took his son into the lab as soon as he walked he'll have a smiled and says another 20 years have passed it's time that we meet again and then he says to the Reba I was warned by the mosquitoes that are not lasted any questions but can I ask the question anyway so the devil says to him that I have to answer your questions ask Ed so he says to the rabbit that he lives in a satnik hill and although he has very warm feelings he has incredible pressure level says to him dying shock at the kanoi from whom he was hearing this timing if it was his child Hood would he say is don't neglect your own children your own family someone the man's about to walk out the Bible says why can't the fifth American the man with ice Mensch and they repeat exactly the same today that it's it's Joe's in the greatest Darkness and he said in Toronto in London he was living at Toronto and he leaves 10 or 11 years later he's traveling to London to akhasana and he's approached by that neighbor who had complainted the same neighbor complained to him are you talking about that guy approaches him and testimony from your favor he says nobody here knows this it's a secret but I have a daughter and she's living in London and I don't even know where she is going to be in London and you have a cyclist with labavage indicative if you can do something to help my daughter I would be very appreciative anyway he goes to London what does he know about finding a girl who's living with a guy he was a very interesting Jew it was put in contact with this person and he told them I'll see what I could do he stayed in London because nine ten days a few days later we could call him and he says to him come to my house right now sure she comes to his house and the girl is sitting there and she's crying he has no idea how he found her there's no idea what he did the bottom line is he talked to her out of marrying this boy and he looks over and there are five times let's finish it but the story doesn't finish I forgot to mention to you that when he went to the devil he went with his son's Castle as it was afraid that he should celebrate the hasnavy's grandson and to give us survivors a Survivor should marry if his kid to China this he should be with the cast of an indigo Memphis he came to New York for his grandson's wedding he was an old man by this point and he got online for dollars and he comes up to the level recognize him right away it's time to see each other again I don't know how he did this by dollars but he somehow managed to tell that everybody this story that didn't mature for 50 years never told my mice about his passionate remember was 27 years old yeah the number was 26 years old and the Deborah told them I said that material has matured to myself okay there's no such thing as a bad Jew and you know what it's very very hard to raise yourself to this Madre that's how that looked at him you know they used to travel to him on Shabbos with his car and he parked his car a few houses The Story Goes that one year he came late Rosh Hashanah and the rabbit waved him for the kiss and Lakewood was burning burning I mean there was no love from liquid to labavage to start with but it was known it was it was it was a double but waited for Mahalo Shabbos to come with his car for Tears and the devil was told about this that he's causing himself trouble in my car was I mean people don't understand my people I heard this from my feet from him Robert Lipscomb that he used to come to that also with a car and one Shabbos that ever said to him put the keys on the table that is no longer going to drive on Shabbos she put his keys in the table and he died that week before the next challenge the first day mices okay