0:00 / 0:00
The Baal Shem Tov. His life and legacy. Lecture 9, Rabbi Yossi Paltiel 5772/2011
360 views
To donate or for dedications to continue the holy work לנדבות והקדשות להמשיך את עבודת הקודש https://square.link/u/czg46iBz
Comments(0)
Transcript
Auto-generated transcript. Not time-synced to the video.
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