Torah insights Parshas Lech Lecha - Bris Mila Class Ten , Rabbi Yossi Paltiel 5781

I want you to see what I've been doing we're doing bris I've been doing bris for a while there's a there's a trajectory okay first of all we explain the two timing of the ra the time of the and then also gave explained the time of mil how did explain the time of mil you removing a blockage took it to a new level told us things that the nigla doesn't tell us for example that there's two parts of the there's a which spiritually means removing a basic blockage which is I guess you could call it psychological and a very fine blockage which we call spiritual to avoid usem right Al did that in Tanya if you remember and then we began to explore I I suppose you could say what's unique about mil what makes mil special Vis other Mitzvah I suppose that's how you would put it okay so if I had to summarize it let's just say we have a reason from the we have two reasons from the from offers us a reason for Milo um which is Milo that whole thing and then we have what's difference between mil and other Mitzvah so the first thing we had in the regard of what's the the difference between and other mitz is that there something called Already says there's a there's an aspect of which makes it higher than other mitzvah for which then we learned something else this is very very important it dominates the incredibly it's so important to the and that is was before was before and the was the Gaz for him only for the right that's how it works was before page 53 it's the last few pages of St was before was for just for this MIT and of course the proof is uses the this is what we learned okay so here's how I want to present this first of all we learn and then we learned what's unique about what's unique about that something called what else is unique about the second thing which is unique about we started it yesterday I'm hoping to finish it today it's you know it depends on how quickly we read the second thing about unque about is that we throw back we we we say in the when we do a mention and we have a problem with this the says this question I didn't make this question up the's question is that the r establishes as a cloud the r teaches us a policy a rule that that means MIT from before the was given do not count and again the place where this becomes contentious is because is only mentioned in and wrote that after the was given so we have a rule that anything written in unless it's written after is not in theion of why do we do BR we do br because it says in the is repeated again in other words if you took all the must be if you all the out it wouldn't change us at all it would change the but we would have the because we do not learn we learn five word here comes the question we shouldn't say we should we have a it's not the same it's a different so why do we hold on to the terminology we both Command right but we have our are predicated right on three Expressions which I've said 10 times at least and the third is Right correct so we have different we have a very why do we continue say so yesterday we learned one and today we're learning a second what did we learn yesterday yesterday a fascinating idea we're not saying because we do what did we're saying because we're the same as we're not saying we're doing his did AIS we're doing the same BR he did why how so the Reb gave us this philosophy called opening up a new channel of was the first and there's a rule the first person opens up the channel of everyone that comes after him is special because he was the first I told you yesterday the story with the who were listening to their the rejects that the mag did not accept who were discussing what was special about one said other one said and the third one said that was the first and brought us quoted it in the so the says when a baby was 8 days old does a you he cannot say precedent he doesn't know if an adult does something and he knows that before him other people did it you can speak about precedent you can speak about but if you're eight days old n you have no choice you have no awareness so what happened before has no impact on what you doing so the said in that this is that what makes every child of cuz that child is the first person to do a this period because when you're eight days old there's no concept of Precedence now if you're going to argue back the child doesn't have any choice he's really doing nothing so the answer is somebody actually mentioned yesterday in the class where the says that when it comes to you don't want the child doing it in our relationship with Hashem we have to do things in with our relationship with Hashem we have to make Free Will in our relationship with Hashem we need to have some kind of a partnership but in the bond in the Covenant in the connection the best way to be connected to God has let him do all the connecting why it's not complicated he's infinite and if an infinite God makes a connection it's an infinite connection so it's advantageous it's better that the baby not know what's going on but there's more than one advantage when the baby doesn't know what's going on when he's making a briss that makes the briss hashem's Covenant which makes it an eternal Covenant and when an eight days old baby makes AIS he's the first there is no precedence he never going to say somebody came before this child and did bris to set up this bris because when it comes to a child of such an age there is no before so why do we say not because we're doing we're saying because every child is okay this is a summary and a review of what we learned until now questions or comments s mes and me Moses and Mees oh my bad so is there is there a chorus yes what tell me the words I've got a little bit of say it again I've got a little bit of Moses in me I've got the power to break through river is me which river blood River the bloody River blood I get it what else does anybody know where this is written in Tanya pic what does it say B Every Generation that the says says all you have to do is fear God since when is fear a small thing and is a small thing so says but I'm not so what answer I got a small piece of Moses and me take a look chapter 42 you brought it up look it up but here we're saying I got a small piece of Abra it's a different thing people yeah they're both very important very very important okay I'm going to tell you what the is going to say first I'm going to tell you about the we're going to learn today then we're going to read it inside the that we're going to learn is that there were actually things higher than there were things above Judaism the we're going to learn today that there are things that are higher than T Mitzvah in the words of the re there are are certain things was there was never a Gaz in the first place right this whole conversation is predicated on the idea that there's a they separate Heaven from Earth and by broke that is going to say in this that there were certain ideas there's no divisions right I'll give you the dumbest argument for this of all right where is God must he answer to that question how do you answer the question where where is he not right that's how that's the the only way you could say it sufficiently is to say it negatively where is he not yeah so what do you mean God's in heaven bom so the answer is yes that's the whole in the bathroom the said and we said absolute and then we accus each other of being they called us how could you put in the bathroom we call how could the bathroom exist the discussion is very very involved but the is is everywhere including in the is everywhere the abish is everything so now wait now wait now wait if the abish is everywhere how could you speak about heaven and earth how could you speak about high and low of the abish everywhere the t is the high and the low with a level with light of the abish when it comes to the is everywhere so the says you know why we say is it's above the now I want to tell you honestly the is never going to mention the in this doesn't mention the question about the I'm making he's going to talk about BR and he's the end of the is going to be that bris has three levels the highest level of this is a level which was no EX in the first place it's above the whole idea of a divide between and low and I'm applying that to this concept you know why we say why we attribute because the only aspect of that we have that's different is the place there was a there was there things about never touched this is why we're still saying go ahead no I'm not getting the didn't touch I gave you a simple example where is God said so so in so the relationship between the and the there's an aspect let's call it the ASP of was never exed in the first place you understand let's read yes sir why do you have to wait to do a breth always oh that's such a good question that's cic so there's several answers first of all he only reached that when he was told but I'm going to give you a more sophisticated answer because he wanted the lower ideas also he wanted the Mitzvah level he wanted the lower level AB could have done the higher level of own let's say for the sake of argument but he would not have had the idea that the was this is three things you'll see one of them is a mitzah another one is some called Mitzvah and the third is this thing that there was no if does that by himself he has the highest in him he doesn't have the lower ones and he wants the lower ones also they're necessary you understand okay let's read page 53 the din is that chabas is pushed away by but there are three different sources for this there three sources for this that the pushes away shabas three are in the and one is in now we're not learning all three because what does is the shows that this one did that you make a is going to say the reason there were three different sources for because has three levels in other words each source is speaking to a different level of the first is speaking to the mitz on the level of mitz is stronger than the Mitzvah shabas the second is speaking to what's called the CL of and the third is what we're going to be learning about Theos of so I'm only doing one of them other words if you look at your pages you'll see I underlined very little because I'm just singling out the highest aspect of mitz okay we learn from compare words you have in one place the words and the word means a sign for a covenant means Generations in a different place it says a sign for a covenant in generations and we make a it says and then it says so by have the word the word by have the learned from this that is not greater than that's okay now go to the next underline bottom of the page this is why we're learning the because points out does not learn the the of he doesn't learn he learns it from in other words there's three sources for this that is stronger thanas but two of them are either shabas says desecrate the shabas or says learns it from the Turn the page on page 54 the reason the bring three different sources for while you do depends on why why is there were three because three different wise and what the does in brilliantly is he shows it's not three three opinions it's three the lest m is called the second m is called CL the third m is called each one of the is bringing a different for they speaking on it in a different okay turn to page 55 that the source of this that the section of says comes out the fact it's in the times of why before before the T was given before the entire shabas was given according to you know why you doab because when the mitah was given there was no shabas didn't have shabas kept shabas kept all the 630 mitz but kept the 630 Mitzvah because he chose to keep them not because he was commanded to keep them he was commanded so you know why it's because there was a time and there was a and there was no shabas go ahead how is he commanded if only by m we only got the MIT because the wasn't the exception right we just learned two that answered that question thatu had one Mitzvah which he was commanded that's why he waited to do it till he was told and all the rest because this was the only Mitzvah which was for him like M so now the that you should ask is CU When did there was no shabas when chabas comes along later it should become a question again you know why because in the times of there was no shabas but we have a shabas so how can you learn how can you learn how can you learn that from a who didn't have shab I'm on page 55 five lines end the page according to this listen carefully saying we learned from you should know that the reason for his opinion is because this is not a like one of the learned it's not a like another T learned listen to these words carefully a high above the measure of the it's completely above the category of shabas now I learning this and I'm connecting it to the fact that we make this even though the doesn't bring that up in the but I think it's it's a kind of obvious comparison Turn the page page 56 okay and I'm reading it inside listen carefully okay the content of the Mitzvah of underscores which means we were killed for all day long for you we were killed all day long how many times can a person be killed once what does it mean all day long every day we're killed for for and it means so the says what is this saying that the phenomena of the phenomen of is a phenomena of of Now understand is one of the it's one of the 63 MIT but in addition to being one of the 63 Mitzvah is also concept of let's continue There is a concept of Jews being Martyrs Jews sacrificing their lives for the sake of AES and I want to point out that there's two different Expressions one expression is called and the other expression is called what's the difference between and difference between okay that's adal you've put me in a very uncomfortable position I'm I'm not going to say yes or no I'm just going to tell you my piece technically the difference is is from and are capable of it also is from and only a Jew is capable only a Jew is capable okay what's the difference means I Die For A Cause because I believe in it if I'm devout if I'm or or a crazy Muslim today who's going to blow himself up and take people with because they think that if you believe in a cause you lose you kill yourself but you can't help yourself a Jew is connected to hem and they can't cut himself off so the the phenomenon of is a Jew doesn't believe he doesn't even believe in it he's not when you bring a Jew to a point where Jew has to tell himself not you not the go a Jew has tell himself I cross over this line I'm not Jewish anymore I can't do it that is called he's not doing it for himself he's doing it to sanctify the name of God and in this is I think I mentioned to you earlier I I love to say this I heard this from the in my own ears and it's it's one of those moments that I'll never forget it was a simple moment I remember where I was standing it was a weak day and that was on a mic it was very easy to hear him and the was talking about the Nazis they spoke about the Nazis from time to time to bring out the point that if you believe in God but you create your own version of God so then God does whatever you want God tells you to do what you think is right you know that's the whole point so in the middle of the pauses and he says I I object to the illusion to the sh however he worded it to the Holocaust as genocide or Holocaust whatever you genocide means the mass killing of a race and then the said with Incredible it wasn't genocide that's the C six million Jews went to sanctify the name of God in public the problem is they were not given a choice it wasn't like in in medieval times that there was the cross or the sword they just killed Jews but the Reb said I am it's not genocide it's six million Jews being come from the m so continues where come from not from not from says look inside idea the power of which exists inside each Jew it's an inheritance from our fathers look at the next words if you look in footnote 38 it brings different sources but we just learned it in the previous that we just encountered open up the gate so listen to this what's the of says has nothing to do with has nothing to do do with has a property of is not let's keep reading look at the look at play with words here thees explains what happened when hasem gave us the T and I'm reading inside everything I've been telling you for the last week and a half wase those who are high should not come low those can't come up in other words you can be spiritual you can be physical but you can't be both you cannot take a physical thing like an es or a lul or a dollar bill or a check or a pen and make it sacred you can't take a piece of parchment right under and it has a the words are holy the ideas are holy but the paper I'm reading please look inside when the gave us the on this the degree was nullified was says I'm the first one to break the decree first of allem comes down on the mountain so the alien comes to the and only afterwards does it say in the tells to come up so the learns when the he acts first and we act second firsten came comes down and S the goes off to the now look at the next words please look at the bottom of the page page 56 however if you speak about categories a higher Cate atory and a latter lower category any kind of category any kind of criteria is a worldly phenomenon I'm going to ask you a dumb question how many gods are there one how many parts does God have none so where does high and low come from of course the answer is high and low is not a part of the high and low is part of the world high and low is not a part of the abish high and low may be a part of the to which is the blueprint with which the abish created the world but you cannot say that if in the to there's a high and a low in the is's a high and a low cuz is one so the idea of higher and lower in to not just in the world is a worldly criteria I'm reading on when it comes to please look inside which is altogether higher than Turn the Page the whole phenomena of higher and lower says it's impossible to say that as far as this is concerned there is a division and in the language of is not here more than a place where where is God the answer is where is he not he's not high he's not low he's Universal he's everywhere just like when it comes to you cannot say that there's a difference between one place and another place you can't say a difference from one time in a different time namely before gave after those criteria of time and space have to do with with categories when it comes to the himself there's no categories accordingly move on it understood the Jews had after the was given but the we have today is not attributable to the we have today continues to be was an inheritance from our fathers including specifically because the essence of the Jewish people is not Judaism the essence of the Jewish people let's use the words of your song is not the Moa aspect the essence of the Jewish people is the aspect talk about there's no categories of higher and lower and that's comes from so the end of page 57 now says we learn that to do not from not fromy the reason is we're talking about this category of page 58 now it's all together in other words that from the level of which has to do with there is in every Jew the nature the sacrifice his life for the of one of the things that talks about which I'm sort of skimming is that there are times when a person is not required to when the sent into fire there's a whole sh if he was allowed to do it the sometimes expresses itself in things which are higher than the to and this we learn from let's finish page 59 near the end of the page we have three about why you're allow to do there's three parts to a number one I'm at the bottom page 59 any other it's a and if I don't have time to give that but are called every one part of the body amongst the it's higher than them pushes away theah shab the is than another idea which is a general MIT and making it a general mitvah makes it it includes all of the which is why we do even on because it includes all of the it affects a wholeness a Perfection a peacefulness in the Covenant the people but then there's gim this is the point the idea that is totally above not it's not it's a it's not [Music] a has to do with the Covenant and the essence Bond what Essence Bond means the way you're connected to yourself is Essence when you say a has a Essence bond with hasem is it saying your connection to Hashem is like your connection to yourself this connection Express and I'm telling you that in my humble opinion this is another reason when we make because the that we're Mak is not it's the that we're making is not it's God and this comes from okay so next week we're gonna do I want to do big I'm gonna try