THE CHABURAH Tomer Devorah: Chapter 3 Emulating Chochma - Merciful to All

Okay, friends. We're continuing to have a time with the Vayera perek shelishi. We're talking about the sphere of chokhmah. And the various influences, the various aspects of chokhmah oil yona. We mentioned chokhmah is disseminated, is spread to all of creation, all of reality, although it's very hidden. Like it says marbeh maskil Hashem kulam b'chokhmah asisa. Therefore, a person's chokhmah should be found and available everywhere to teach people, each one according to their level, whatever you can be mashpia on them. And the Tanya of the Rebbe said that chokhmah has two vantages to it. The upper one which we see is from kesser, the lower one that disseminates to the other sefiros. So too, a person should have two, so to speak, aspects to his own chokhmah. You have secluded meditative uh time where you could add to your wisdom corresponding to the upper level of chokhmah, and then time to teach to others and to be mashpia on others, just like chokhmah is mashpia to all the sefiros. So, then the Tanya of the Rebbe began to describe various aspects of chokhmah that you pointed out is within the lower aspect of chokhmah that is influencing and disseminating uh there are many different aspects of chokhmah. First, he says to oversee all of reality. Like the machshava of Hashem that's always trying to think to ensure that people don't veer off. So, a person should have his eyes open to help people, bring them closer, to benefit them, and to guide them in the right path. That's one aspect of chokhmah. Another one is being mechaya everything. Like it says chokhmah techayeha. So too, you should try to instruct life to the whole world to bring them oil and massage and to bring them oil and massage life. So there's the dissemination of life. So one is to think about to have people in mind to draw them closer. One another aspect is to try to influence life. Then last time being like a father figure is like Khokhmah is the source of all reality. All reality was you and it came from Khokhmah. So too, you should be like a father to all of Hashem's creations. Especially to call you so well. And he very poetically said at the end of this parak. That those who are forgotten, you should remember them. Those who >> What is this? >> The small sheep, you should search for them. The broken, you should heal. The weak, you should sustain. The lost, you should return. And be marachim on call you so well and tolerate them. The savior upon him your face like a of a rahaman. You should not worry. You should not ignore. You should not be disgusted and you should guide each one according to their need. So let's see if this week we could finish up Khokhmah. Do do do do. And then when we come back, we will do bina. Bina. Oh you sorry rahaman of prusima call rahim also. You need your mercy to be spread over all of creation. You need your mercy to be spread over all of creation of a rahim. You should not disgrace them of them. You destroy it. God's celestial wisdom is spread to all of creation. Doymam, inanimate, tzimayach, plants, b'chai, living objects, umdaber, those that speak. So, since Hashem's chachma is found and spread everywhere, we had all the way in the beginning the the idea that because Hashem's chachma is in everything, you should try to influence your chachma everywhere. But, this is a different nekuda. That is, since Hashem's chachma is everywhere, don't disgrace anything. Don't destroy anything. Therefore, we're warned not to disgrace food. And this is fitting to be careful. Just like the upper wisdom doesn't disgrace any creation. Everything was created from Hashem's upper chachma. So, if it was created from Hashem's chachma, certainly chachma is not mevazeh it. Kidaksiv, kulam b'chachma asisa. Therefore, kein yi'ye rachamei ha'adam al kol ma'asei Hashem baruch. Therefore, a person's mercy should be all on all of God's creations. For this reason, haya onesh Rabbeinu Hakadosh. Rebbi was punished. Rebbi had a toothache for 13 years. Why did he have a toothache for 13 years? Cuz there was once a cow who saw a shochet, and cows don't like shochets. Because, let's say, you know, this week in Eretz Yisrael is parshas Chukas. Next week is parshas Balak. I I don't know I have to figure find a minyan to that's going to lane in Eretz Yisrael next week Chukas Balak. But, cows don't like shecht them. So, the cow ran away from the shochet and ran into Rebbe's jacket and Rebbe said, "Go! Lecha noitzarto, you were created to be spare ribs, you know, get go go to shchita." Why? Al yedei shlichusa al ben habakar. He didn't have mercy on the cow. Shai imsacha be yatzrai. That was hiding by him, but amar lei izil, he said, "Go! Lecha noitzarto, that's what you were created for." Says the Gemara Bava Metzia peh hei. So, bo lei yisurin. Why? Yisurin are shehi mitzad hadin. Yisurin are from the middas hadin. Sharei harachamim meginnim aleihem. The middah of mercy protects din. V'chasharichim al achud al achudah. And, when Rebbe uh he the shifcha of Rebbe was clearing out the house and she wanted to remove the weasel and Rebbe said, "No." Amar rachamav al kol ma'asav, he said, "The mercy of God is on all of creation." Nitzol min hadin, he was saved from middas hadin. Bnei shepeiras or hachachma alav. Because the light of the sphere of chachma was spread upon him. V'nistalku hayisurin and the yisurin disappeared. So, in emulation of chachma, just like once all of reality comes from chachma, therefore, there is chachma in all of reality. And, because everything comes from chachma, chachma therefore, does not disgrace anything because if Khakhma made the ant and Khakhma made the mosquito and Khakhma made the lowest creature, if that's what brought it about, so Khakhma will never look down upon it because it's its maker. Therefore, the meat of Khakhma is not to disparage anything but to have Rakhmanus on everything. What would be an example of not saying you know, that that ocean that lake that mountain that's ugly. That's and not actually breaking the object. Meaning not like you know, >> So what about killing bugs in the basement? >> So it depends. If you're doing it as like a hobby, let's say you come home from work and you take out a BB gun and you start shooting. That's no, you shouldn't do that. Um By the way, he brings over here that um the grid Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik once told the following story. One time the Hafetz Chaim invited him to eat Seudah Shabbos and when they got up to Hamotzi, he saw the challahs were of black grain and the grid I'm sorry, the grid said over that Rabbi Naftali Silberberg said that he was at the Hafetz Chaim and he made like "Ugh, you know, I only eat sour dough or something, you know." No, they didn't have and the Hafetz Chaim said "Shvartze broyt is zehr gut. Shvartze broyt is zehr gezunt." And if you say it's not good, you're speaking lashon hara on the challah. What does that mean? There's no issur lashon not having challah. It means it's just you're being mevater the food. What's wrong? >> It's the same idea of covering challah by praying. >> Hm? >> Covering the challah by kids. >> Oh. So, again, the Goldworth points out that Rebbe Yisrael wasn't a punishment for a sin, but because he was not noig brachmanus, the light of chachma did not shine on here on him, which is the light of rachamim, and therefore Hashem dealt with him b'midas hadin, and therefore he he had to suffer yisurim because who could stand up to the midas hadin? >> Is that what you understand? If someone does something even though it's not a vera per se, but in a way it just comes about. It's not that you did a vera per se because you didn't do a vera, it's because since you're retracting that midas rachamim, midas hadin now has is able to shine through. >> Yeah. Here, he brings a story. The Rebbe Yitzchak Elchanan Spector, Rebbe Shach said this story, once went to vacation in a summer resort area near Kovno, and Rebbe Yaakov Lipshitz, who is like who is the secretary of Rebbe Yitzchak Elchanan Spector, think Rebbe Mordechai Kamenetzky is related to him, uh came to visit him. And once Rebbe Yaakov Lipshitz was on his way home, Rebbe Yitzchak Elchanan Spector ran after him, and he said, "I forgot to tell you that there's a cat um by my house that I used to feed every day, and I I I don't have somebody to take care of the cat now that I'm gone. So, I ask you, so please be my mamala makam to take care of my cat." And to this Rebbe Yitzchak Elchanan said, you know, he was worried on his vacation who's going to care for his cat. Granted, in my backyard I have a a whole slew of cats that I have uh other customers who take care of it. Okay. So, that's another aspect of Hochma that to be a Racham Rachamon on all the ram and primarily not to be Mevaza them. Okay. The way you shouldn't name someone and someone in this fashion you should not shame any creation. Even clothing. The Yalkut Shimoni says that when David Hamelach was old he tried to cover himself with big garden and he wasn't warmed. I'm Rabbi Yosi bar Chanina. Anyone who's Mevaza big garden big garden won't work for him. Won't keep you warm. Shakulam the Hochma. Now, this is very interesting. The way you may not allow to say that you're walking by, you know, you're walking down the street. You just want You want to pull off a leaf. You want to pull off a branch. No, don't do it. Don't do it. Don't uproot it so you may not unless you need to. Because if you uproot it, what are you saying? The message is this is not needed. I could just, you know, break it off. What means not needed? Hashem made it with tremendous Hochma. It's like in a way it's a bee's void to that creation. The way you almost lost don't kill a bug. And answering Shmuel's question, Shmuel was are you allowed to just kill a bug? And for the time of No, the way you almost lost your life. Only if you need to. Let's say you have a pesky nuisance, you know, a snake. >> That's more than just a nuisance. >> Let's say there's a you have a cobra or a rattlesnake coming up the steps. You should try to kill it. That that would be It's sayer. That would be a legitimate need. The you have a rule of me say after you should choose a good death. Um a second Baduka, use a check knife. Don't, you know, don't take a hammer and hit the snake over the head. Do Shita on the snake. The Rahim come my chef sure. So it's interesting here it's not sure the Indian of a second Baduka is to be my mate the Tsar. Like the Rabon says that one of the reasons for Shita is Tsar ballet Jaime the Raisa. And by Shita the be a man is a Tsar. Like a lot of people really don't know. They don't say that. They're trying to give a reason for Shita. That's In fact the some sofa has an achiva similar to valid. Even though there's no we're not mature to wish height to eat. So why don't we make a brocha on Shita? The brocha on Shita based on the Rabon is a sure condition that says we're not allowed to Rahim a brove. Even though we don't say that we say a lot Shita. The shot in a lot of Shita we mean a lot of Shita. We're not mature to a lot of Shita. We're mature to do it in a nice way. Zaha claw. Here's a rule. Ha come la I'll call him some show a little problem to you the Hachma. Mercy on all of creation so as not to destroy it is dependent on wisdom. So lost a lot of some email or mail or mail unless you're doing it to elevate the species. We know there's an idea that when you eat a vegetable, you know what a vegetable is? Are you with the These vegetables are things that grow from the ground. They're healthy. So when you eat it, what do you mean? You're you're destroying the vegetable. No, you're elevating the vegetable from a vegetable to a human. Or may Jaime a Madaba. If you eat If you eat steak >> That's the Shita that I hold. >> thing last week on the >> Yeah. >> Yeah, I was telling you about the food elevating. That's what I remembered right when you started the video. >> Me hi element of from what's living you elevate it to the level of speaking. So as much as like then you could uproot a piece of corn cuz you're changing the corn into a person. You could kill a living thing cuz you're elevating it. You're bringing it temporary detriment to be able to to you're doing it a favor. When the cow says moo, what's the cow what's what's the cow saying? Cow is saying I want to be in your talent. Cuz now I'm just a cow, I'm just a hi. I want to be a mad over I want to be a straw. You're doing the cow a big favor. The cow is saying please shuck me and put me in your talent. >> So why did he run away? >> [laughter] >> Cuz he didn't give you the reason of the star. >> And also it sounds like here that >> By the way, the Gamarra says in Am Aras is not eating meat. You know why? Cuz the cow is like no no no, it's going to be a downgrade if I go into that guy. >> So >> Call I think but tell him I'm going to bust him a bit him of life. Cuz she ain't no guitar also like a >> Oh, yeah. It says in the latest says cuz he's not going to be able to have that. >> Can't elevate him. Can't elevate him. So this is Hachma. You ready? So Hachma is be mashpia your wisdom to everything like the sphere of Hachma. The two advantages of Hachma to be mikabel from Kesser and to disseminate so to in to have personal time to study and teaching. Being a life force for everything, being an for everything. An of and being Rachamim not to be Mevater anything. Yeah? That's the third Sefirah. Should we go to the Kabbalah? We should finish the whole thing first. Okay, we'll hold it here. >> Oh, I'm waiting.