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Zohar - Parashat Shemot - The secret of Yechezkel's prophecy - Part 3 - Rabbi Alon Anava
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we are going to continue exactly where
we left off we're in
parot uh page two site B and we gave a
very quick and uh General
preparation for the verse that the sons
of yakob they went down to me
I gave a very quick explanation I don't
want to repeat it now you can find the
videos online why the dka specifically
the sons of yakob went down to MIT we
give a thorough explanation about the
structure of the Tree of Life in the
sphere of Bina and explaining that from
there comes 12 souls and they come down
this to this world this is the 12 tribes
we explain why dka 12 souls and uh this
is the the the when all the midot are
included one inside the other the
cabalistic term for that is called the
12 the 12 sides like we I I don't
remember the name that he said yesterday
when you have a cube it's six sides but
when you have 12 sides it's a t
something like
that whatever it
is but whatever you have 12 sides so
that's the where it's coming from but in
simple words I gave a reference to the
book where you can find information
about it but that's referring to the
when all the midot are included one
inside the other this is called this 12
sided form and that's the source of the
12 Souls that came down to the world
which of course are the 12 uh
tribes but we gave that explanation to
explain why it says in the beginning of
the parasa and in the beginning of the
book these are the names of the sons of
yob they went down to MIT why you
telling me the D the names of the 12
kids I mean we know 70 people went down
including yob why are you telling me all
the names why are you telling me just
the 12 names so we give a short
explanation to explain that these Souls
they came down to the world below this
is a manifestation from the world above
coming from the Tree of Life where he
explained how it's full of infinite
amount details when it comes down to the
SP of will give it over to the of Mal
where the of Mal will so to say
transform this infinite amount of
details from the world above in the
spiritual world into the physical world
and now we're going to continue to
explain the idea behind the behind the
fact that the 12 Souls 12 tribes went
down to MIT to Exile and what does that
going to do with
us cuz after all you know we are also in
Exile in case you didn't notice and uh
we do know based on many different
sources that whatever happened in the
Exile of MIT right now we're having a
replica and exactly what happened then
this is exactly what's going to happen
in this in this
Redemption and that is very close to
come last week I gave a
class in h New York which was which was
broadcast so it's already posted on H on
Facebook but the the original sh footage
is not yet on the on
the YouTube but it's also was filmed by
Tor any time so it's also on Tor any
time but you can go and see that class
is very very powerful with a lot of lot
of sources so showing exactly what's
going on now how it's corresponding to
exactly what's going on in our days
what's going to happen very
soonm and what we need to do the bottom
line so we want to learn more thoroughly
what is the Exile in Egypt what it means
and how we can take something from that
so again we are in page two side B the
line starts with RAB Shimon R
Shimon starts explaining what it says in
the book
ofel and or in in English
Ezekiel and this can be found in chapter
1 chapter a verse three and there's a
ver there that
says once there was the the word of hem
and this was said byel the the prophet
who is known
as he was a Cohen in the land of
Kim now comes a question why are you
saying hay was once was even though the
translation in English never makes sense
but in English in Hebrew says once there
was why you saying twice the
word it says as
follow why are you saying twice the word
and also in Hebrew if you're looking at
it without pronunciation the the dots
that's written the same so he says why
are you saying it
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twice not only that there's another
question I can ask ask on this verse
in is a trustworthy
Prophet why did he reveal everything
that he saw I mean who says that the
prophets have to tell us what they know
we know many cases that the prophets
they know things something they don't
say who says that they have to say
actually now today heard very very
interestingly I don't want to side track
off the the class but I heard something
so powerful that if you remember in the
six 60s there was a plane an L plane
that was kidnapped from London and it
was taken to
Africa and uh anyways they negotiated it
was one of the first kidnapping and they
negotiated and what they wanted is they
wanted prisoners and they got 24
prisoners little
did these kidnappers knew that on this
plane on this flight was supposed to be
a very important individual who was at
the time was a general and that's arik
Shon arik Shon who was later on uh prime
minister was supposed to be on that
flight oo if he would be on the flight
what a ticket to bargain now this is not
24 prisoners anyways I knew the story
before but there wasn't uh uh enough or
more sources but recently I found out
very interestingly that the night before
that flight aric Shon was visiting the
Lich rebi and the laab he told him don't
go on this
flight why he says just don't go on this
flight okay so he doesn't go on this
flight and sure enough the flight gets
kidnapped later on there was somebody
else I want to get into details right
now because it's totally off the subject
but later on somebody approached obichi
who was the chief of the rabinal Council
of the United States and told him if you
knew something is going to happen why
didn't you warn everybody not to go on
this flight if you knew to tell AR Shon
not to go on this flight how come you
didn't warn everybody you should call
out and tell they cancel the flight so
the answered I didn't know that they're
going to kidnap the flight I just knew
that something that he should he should
not go on that flight but nevertheless
what am I trying to say here that
sometimes the prophet knows something
who says he has to say that who says it
was obvious that the in his in the
divine inspiration he knew something who
says that he has to say that where does
it say that the prophet has to say
everything that he knows not always
sometimes the prophet says exactly what
needs to be said and the story and the
rest the prophet has to keep his mouth
shut look how many sikim how many great
people at the time of the
Holocaust knew what's going to happen
and they didn't say anything they didn't
warn they do nothing why because that
was the the will of the K you know
speaking of the the
previous his daughter was murdered in
the Holocaust what he did know he also
Hades but you know sometimes the will of
the sadik is to he knows what hasem
wants to happen and he doesn't say
anything same thing here we're saying
here was such a trustworthy Prophet why
did he say everything that he saw which
comes a different question that's my
question who says he says everything
that he saw maybe he didn't tell us many
things that he didn't see we're talking
about the the famous prophecy of M about
the Chariot so my question is who says
that he told us do everything maybe he
knows much more than that but
nevertheless this is the question what
the zor is asking if is such a
trustworthy Prophet why did he tell us
everything that he saw
right the the zor says that anyone that
the king referring to Hashem will enter
will bring somebody into his into his
chamber to reveal to him some secrets
that he says there the decides who he
brings into his chamber to to reveal to
him whatever Secrets he wants to so he
answers then what do we learn from that
for sure that the
prophet he was trustworthy and he did
exactly what hasem told him to
do everything that he saw he was
trustworthy the Kosh says I'm showing
you and I know you're not going to
misuse it hem knows who to show what
some people they will misuse the
information but nevertheless no question
here was trustworthy and hasem revealed
to him what he needed to reveal to
him and you think that would say
something that he wasn't instructed what
to say what not to say obviously hasm
says this is what I want you to know
this is what I want you to
say in the permission of the he revealed
exactly what he was supposed to
reveal and everything was that he saw he
had to
reveal that's why it says
twice to teach
us the reason why it says twice the word
to teach us that whatever was revealed
was never revealed before
that
nevertheless even though usually the
prophet
doesn't have to say everything that he
knows in most cases the prophets know
much more just that they keep it to
themselves that's
it allowed him to reveal exactly what he
saw and now we're going to explain why
and what was the reason now R Shimon
continues
Shimon a person that is used to a hard
life or is used to
suffering even though that now he will
get a new suffering then he doesn't
really suffer more because he's used to
suffering if a person has a hard life
and he's used to a hard life then
another challenge another challenge I'm
used to it already not such a big
deal but a person that is not used to
living sorrow and hard
life and he lives like a a spoiled
individual in a mansion in Beverly Hills
and never had to work in their life and
they're used to everything being catered
to them and everything is
good but now they have something to deal
with the person is not used to sorrow or
to a hard life and now when something
happens then that's a good reason to
start crying they're not used to that if
you take a person they grew up in a hard
life and how do you say Hard Knocks
orever you say the term in English the
School of Hard Knocks you grew up in a
the a bad neighborhood bad life tough
life always had to work always had to
struggle you know another challenge
another challenge no my life anyways is
hard take somebody who's spoiled and all
their life they they they were CED now
they have to go through something they
don't have the right vessels how to deal
with it and then what happens the sorrow
the SAR is greater and then it causes
them great great sorrow and they
cry and now he's explaining why are you
telling me
this the nation of Israel when they went
down to they were used to living in in
hardship and in as they say t means
sorrow and
hardship and there were already there
were they were acquainted to this
lifestyle they knew it they weren't it
wasn't such a big deal for them why
the look at the fathers of the sons of
Israel look at the life of Jakob he had
a hard life was prosecuted by his
brother he went to Lavan who cheated him
worked there for 22 years then
he what happened with Dina then the the
kidnapping of ysep and look what yob had
to go through so he had a hard life and
if you look at all of our forefathers
they didn't have such a good life when
you're looking at it look at AB AO Chief
R vasim and he was you know all the time
lawsuits and attacks and then he had to
leave he got evicted for m not such a
loss but nevertheless then not having a
child for so many years then having the
whole story with ish kicking out of the
house I mean also had his share but
never less look at our forefathers they
had a hard life so B is the sons of yob
when they went down to MIT they said big
deal our fathers also suffered we will
will easily digest this
sorrow therefore they didn't H they
didn't really get him so overwhelmed
from the galut in MIT okay hard work I'm
used to hard work so doesn't matter if I
work here hard if I work here hard so
they didn't look at the Exile as is such
a a bad thing and more than that they
didn't lose their faith or they never
they didn't fall into despair by being
in in Exile they knew we have a promise
we have a promise from abrah ainu that
we're going to be redeemed we have a
promise from YF we're going to be
redeemed okay so when it comes it comes
so so we have a promise that we're going
to be redeemed we're surviving for all
1,950 years we're surviving in this
exile and what how why are we surviving
because we know we have a promise and at
some point it will come not only that
the nation of Israel they survived the
Exile in because they
knew they knew that the hardship is
coming from hem not from the
Egyptians and he's the one who's feeding
them to believe to have faith and
also they knew that hem is going to
redeem them they had
promises but this is the Exile
of but in the Exile of babyon of B in
the second
temple but sorry I said the second
temple or the first temple what did I
say I said a second the first temple
sorry I correct myself but in the Exile
of
B this was a huge
sorrow why
it was not such a it wasn't a regular
Exile there was great sorrow not only in
the world below also there was huge
sorrow in the world above you know why
there was sorrow in the world above
because even the angels in the world
above was used to getting so much action
going on they had a bet mikdash every
day was sacrifices there was you're
talking about 410 years that the Angels
got already spoiled because when we do
things certain actions in this world the
world above gets
affected if I'm doing here what I'm
supposed to do so much more so when I
have a beta mikdash and we're doing here
sacrifices and all this energy that goes
up to the world above the Angels were
spoiled already all day long getting
these MIT coming from down below so now
when the destruction of the temple came
the temple was destroyed so also the
spiritual sustenance of the Angels
stopped so they all also suffering it
wasn't only us were suffering
here and he explains Eline the world
above how do we know that the world
above also suffered well we have a verse
from the prophet yesh chapter 33 verse 7
where it
says meaning the Angels the of the world
above they're also crying for the
destruction of the temple not only that
it continues and he says T the the ones
in the world below also cried about the
Exile how do we know it says
in on the Rivers of Babylon we were
sitting there and crying this is not who
sings it ABA who sings there in the
river of
Babylon no Bon who bonm or ABA who sings
by by the Rivers of
Babylon Marley no no it's either Bon
bonm or
ABA by the rivers of who is this
bon bon whatever anyways you think they
invented that when I was a kid I thought
they invented That Then I then when I
became observant I opened the book of I
was like oh wow they took our
words so so from the Rivers of Babylon
so how do we know that the the ones
below also had sorrow because we we we
know in
we were sitting on the Rivers of Babylon
sitting there and crying for the
destruction of the
temple the entire universe the world
below and the world above everybody was
crying on the Exile of B and crying not
because only because we lost beta
mikdash because there were Japs at the
time Jewish no I can't say Jabs that's
Jewish American princess there were gips
jewi Israeli princes they got spoiled in
Israel sitting there have bet mikdash
going and seeing whenever they want I
mean of course they saw prophets they
saw the I mean you get that you taste to
that just imagine the one who were born
into that era you know whenever they
want they go to Beta mikdash in the
first temple they saw they saw the with
their own eyes so for them the Exile was
100 million s worse because they didn't
know the reality of an exile we were
born into Exiles okay we're used to this
taste already but nevertheless it says
everybody was crying for the destruction
or the Exile of destruction of the
temple and the Exile Babel and it's
talking about he saying everybody K
means the world above the Angels were
crying and the world below the people
were
crying my what's the idea behind it
begin because in the land of Israel at
the time they were like kings at the
time before the temple was destroyed
just imagine you have to go back before
that the era of David then the era of
SCH who builds bet mikdash and they have
have a whole good run for 40 years that
they're living in Israel like kings no
Wars no attacks no problems no issues
they see mikdash whenever they
want and they were it says they were
living like kings
as it says in the book of 4: B that the
sons of Zion are yarim they're dear
which means the ones who saw the the
glory of yush they who were living like
kings at the
time and it says here as a side comment
here that the sons of Israel the nation
of Israel they lived in a great wealth
they all had great
vineries they had a lot of real estate
and Shalom they were they lived in peace
where in history did we have peace for
so
long suddenly in one shot they fell from
all the way high from a great place to a
very low Place therefore their sorrow
was much much
more now we continue we have
learned said
say it says in the book
of Jeremiah
9:9 that on the mountains I will carry
you but it will cause you great sorrow
and great
h crying be is
crying what is these mountains that
you're talking about Mr
Jeremiah these mountains these great
mountains of this world we're not
talking about the Himalaya or the
Everest who are these huge mountains
that you are referring
to these are the sons of Zion Zion ision
is one of the names of
yush but these great mountains that it's
referring to it's referring to the sons
ofion they
were so uh adorned with great PES like a
kind of like different adornments or
jewelry of course it's not necessarily
talking about the physical Jew jewelry
but when a person is covered with
jewelry you see okay that person is
covered with wealth and very comfortable
physically same thing
here and now what happens is they went
down from great wealth and and
prosperity and happiness they went down
to like being like uh prisoners you know
how they carry them they had these
things on their neck I don't know how
you call them in English in in Hebrew
it's called that they they do it to
animals that they have on there how they
called yolks yolks guilts Yol yolks you
know you see it with animals when the
animals are pushing heavy things like an
ox or a donkey they have this thing on
their neck that's how they carry the
prisoners out of yush they had these
things on their neck it's
called now what is this hinting to us
this is hinting to us that the kipot
become much much stronger it's called
kipot when the kipa gets much more
powerful
sometimes I don't even notice that but
there's around me a lot of kipot kipa is
a husk and a husk is a negative energy a
negative form that opposes Kusa holiness
and it's existing around me all the time
but sometimes with my action I can
empower the kipa if I do a sin right now
I take now the my my power of Holiness
and I give it to the kipa and I empower
the kipa to go against me that's the the
the the joke of when I sin I feed I
actually take my energy and I feed it to
something to go against me this is the
exactly what's going on with Israel and
and the Palestinians the Israelis are
giving the Palestinians cement so they
build tunnels against them the Israelis
are giving the Palestinians steel and
fuel to use it for missiles against them
that's the the the the the craziness
here this is the exactly what's going on
with me in my kipa I do a sin and I give
all my energy to the kipa to go against
me so sometimes there's what's called
that the becomes so powerful that it can
turn me upside down like that now the
kipa the metaphorical verse here is when
the kipa reaches to the neck then it
means it's too much power to the kipa I
once explained in more in length if
you're looking at the cabalistic
structure of the body then you have here
some big bubble where the brain is in
and then you have this lumpy body where
the heart is the midot but between the
head the m and the body which is the
midot there's this little stick here
this uh this neck now what happens is
that the moin is if you're looking at
the head physically if you would take
something in the size of the head and
try to put it through the neck to down
to the body it would not fit because the
head is too big so the moin the
intellect cannot go down into the midot
just because the channel or the canal is
way too
skinny so the way for me to affect my
midot my my attributes then I have to
know how to so to say contract this
called to contract the mo to be able to
go down through this
little path and affect my mid and affect
my body now what happens is if the kipa
is way too powerful what does the kipa
do it will grab me through my neck this
is the kipa of amalik amalik has the
same numerical value of or or is the
back of the neck that's what Amal does
he grabs you from behind like an animal
like a predator I don't know if you ever
noticed how Predators how they attack
their prayer if you're looking at lines
or t ERS how they attack their pray they
grab them in the in the back of the neck
or in the front to kill them through
choking them or they grab them in the
back of the neck and they paralyze them
I mean you know what a bite of a lion is
it can Crush
bones that's exactly the kip of it grabs
You by behind and it paralyzes you I
mean we don't even notice that we think
that life is all a better Rouses but the
kip grabs me from behind it paralyzes me
this is called
becomes way too strong and then I'm a
prayer for the prayer to the kipa so it
says here when there were LED out of Y
with these things on their neck that was
a a metaphorical explanation that the
kipa became so powerful that their neck
was so to say h contracted and and and
controlled more than
that and they LED them like prisoners so
their hands were in the back like when
you have a a prisoner they handcuff the
hands in the back what is that
representing this is representing on the
and the which is the first two mid that
we know if you remember in we learned
that already couple
times is in some people read every day
some people read Shabbat but he explains
there that the mid are the structure of
the body and is the right hand and is
the left hand so when you take both
hands and you put them in the back
you're bending so to say both and to be
behind the back now what does that mean
that the in the is feeding the kip it's
feeding What's called the what's in the
back not not fitting in the front why is
the hands naturally the hands go forward
why cuz and has to feed the the front of
the body when you bending the hands to
the back what is that you can move but
mystically representing that the and the
is giving throwing the energy
backwards this is called
a is what's behind me and it means the
energy is going back to the kip the
energy is not going forward
to now when they went to the Exile of
Babel they didn't know how long they're
going to they thought that's it they're
gone that's it we're going to be now in
exile for
eternity and they thought that the
K deserted them now it's it what can you
imagine you have to go back to the mind
of these poor people when they have a
beta mikdash and they're born into that
this reality peace prosperity beta
mikash seeing with their own eyes who
saw such a thing and now they're getting
a slack to their face and they're
getting exiled out of Israel they
thought that's it Hashem completely
deserted us forever and
ever and it says there at the time this
is says in the in the talmud this is not
saying here in the Z it says in the
talmud and attracted sanedrin in
page 105 it says that 10 men came in
front of yzel jezel was the prophet at
the time one of the prophets at the time
and they and he told them you have to do
chuva you not going to do Chua you're
not making a U-turn you have to do Chua
so they told him a a slave that the
master sold then the master doesn't have
control of the slave anymore and not
only that a a man that divorce the wife
he doesn't have control in the wife
anymore so they told him what is what is
our chuva worth Hashem already divorced
us he sent us
away what might what would my
cha uh uh make a difference but he told
them no don't worry if you do chuva
Hashem will accept your chuva why you
think they were exiled from to start
with idol worship forbidden relations
and bloodshed this is the three famous
sins that they failed at the time of the
first temple and that's caused them to
be
exiled nevertheless
the the told them you have to do chuva
you do chuva you'll get a U-turn you'll
come back and that's exactly what
happened let's just go a little bit more
so we're not going to stop in the middle
of the of the and we have
learned at the time Shimon said at the
time when they went down to the Exile of
B called all his all his ENT which is
referring to all the angels in the world
of and all the holy
is like a chariot but all the holy
chariots which that means all the souls
from the world of Bri so first of all he
called all the angels from then he calls
all the angels
from and all the armies the it's called
The Heavenly
armies this is all the angels
from and all the camps where the is
dwelling on
and these are all the ministers and all
the generals of angels of course of all
the camps in the world
above and all the army of the world
above which is all the soul all the
angels of the world of AIA just imagine
here you're talking about billions and
billions of
angels and he told
them what are you doing up
here there's an exile down there and you
all just sitting here no
and the same way that my loved ones my
kids are in Exile down there get
up all of you we're all going to
Exile we're all going to B the sons of
Israel out there my beloved ones I'm
going with them and you're coming with
me everybody's going out to bavil you
think we're going to be sitting here in
a camp while they're in Exile we all
going get up all of you and you go down
to and I'm coming with
you as it says in the book of yes
chapter
43 this is how hasem
said for your sake I have sent you to B
meaning it says for your sake I've sent
you to
it's talking about that sent himself
down to B also we know that we
say the nation of Israel goes to Exile
the goes with them to Exile there a very
big reason for
that what does it mean that the went
down toel
the the of the world of comes down to
Exile too and what is that for it's only
for the sake of the Jews it's not for
any other sake
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I have taken all of you down to B and
what did I do I have broken all the
gates of B of Babylon so you can go into
Babylon what does that
mean all these holy Chariots of the
world above all the souls of the world
of
and everybody's going down to
B why now we're going to find
out when they all went down to B the
Angels the heavens were empty there was
nobody there everybody goes down to
Babel all the Angels go up and left so
what happens when the heavens
opened as it says in the beginning of
the prophecy ofel what it says in the
beginning the heavens have opened
and I saw the visions of God that's how
the book ofel starts if you remember if
not then go to chapter one that's what
it says the heavens open just imagine
theel standing there and the heavens
open and he sees
everything I saw the visions of God but
he doesn't says
says this
is and the power of Prophecy dwells on
the not the power rather the spirit of
prophecy dwell down
onel and he was able to see everything
in the consolation of the world above
this called the structure of the
Chariot and he told to the nation of
Israel the prophet told to the nation of
Israel the is also in B he also went
down to Exile he didn't just send you to
Exile he came with you as it
says it says I am in the in the Exile
and I am the and it says here that the
letter V of and I am this is the hinting
that the well went down also into Exile
so even now this is not G but
nevertheless we're in G but nevertheless
the is with us too don't think for one
second we're by ourselves here not only
that not only the kadh is with us
all the army of the world above all the
angels all the generals all
the the Heaven's army they also came and
down with you in
Exile they didn't believe that in the
darkness of the Exile and what they they
couldn't see any any Godly Revelation a
minute before that they're in bet mdash
and they're seeing G they seeing the the
with their own eyes and a second later
they're out of Exile they Into Darkness
they couldn't believe that a minute
before that when they're seeing this
unbelievable visions and in one second
they're
out here it says something very
interesting it
says
is it means and I will see and is the
acronym of an
I am first and I am last talking about
the I am first and I am last to to say
to teach us that in all the the is that
when there's a concealment when there's
a darkness when I can't
see even though there's complete
darkness spiritual Darkness the is there
is there now we're looking now at what
we're what we're going through this is
the very powerful Darkness this
is is not a regular darkness is a double
and a double on that Darkness this is
called I don't see I don't see what's in
front of me but nevertheless it says
here that even when there the darkness
of the Exile so thick is with
us and if he would reveal much more than
what he was supposed to see talking
about the prophet revealed what they
were supposed to hear and because they
heard that I'm talking about the nation
of Israel then they had some hope the
prophet came and told them don't worry
you're not by yourself in Exile hasem
went ex went to Exile with you don't
worry so they had
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hope once they heard these words of
comfort from the prophet yzel they
weren't so scared okay so we're going to
be in exile for 70 years big deal okay
no whatever we're not going to be so
comfortable and they accepted on
themselves the Yoke of the
Exile as long as they knew that hasm
didn't desert them that hasem didn't
completely let them go so they knew that
the K is with them and the supervision
of hasem was not removed therefore they
had the the excitement and they uh had
the expectation or the anticipation to
the G to the
Redemption and everything that that the
prophet revealed it was came with aem's
approval says go ahead and tell them
everything that I wanted to tell
them now we just read one more paragraph
and we're
done and we have learned and tracked
mea page 29 29
a in any place that the nation of Israel
went out to to
Exile went with them so everywhere that
we go whether it was Babylon doesn't
matter which Exile we went to the goes
out with
us and the same way in the Exile of
Egypt why we saying all this preparation
we need to understand the Exile of Egypt
mtiv what does it say in the beginning
of the
book these are the names of the sons of
Israel the sons of
jaob and of course it's naming the 12
tribes now it has a question
here since they said the sons of Israel
the sons of Jacob
mob so why they're saying that here
these are the names of the sons of yob
of the sons of B Israel and then it says
at yob
from yob why is it saying that why are
you adding yob you just told me the sons
of Israel of course I know it's yob why
you
saying they should have said the sons of
Israel they went came with
him and he
answers these are the names of the sons
of
Israel the when it says the sons of
Israel these are all the Heavenly camps
all the angels and all these great
beings in the world above they also went
down to MIT with yob not only yob and
the shim went everybody went down to MIT
Hashem says I'm taking you to Exile
coming to Exile too I'm also there it's
almost like you know those teachers that
they put the child on they punish the
child that he doesn't go home but the
teacher stays with them there too
remember I was that child that always
got punished you staying you're staying
after class till 3:00 and I always
negotiate with the CL with the teacher
listen Mele me here but you here too so
if you let me go then you go too I was a
good negotiator I was the one the child
that always gets punish all the time so
I knew how to there was one teacher that
I kept telling her you're punishing
yourself I understand you're punishing
me but why you punishing yourself you're
also staying she was like I'm staying to
make sure that you stay too I was like
okay you know they say in Hebrew m
whoever is the donkey it's straight so
you want to punish me you punishing
yourself so I would do reverse
psychology on the on the teacher I was
like eight don't think that I was like
17 I knew how
to nevertheless Kosh says I'm taking you
to Exile I'm going to don't complain but
nevertheless so so we know that went
down
to Egypt to with all the
angels and he said says Shimon says RAB
Shimon at the same time when the nation
of Israel had come heard comforting
words from the
prophet they had a
great joy that they understood that the
is with them
and each and every one of them had the
Good Will in their heart and love great
love to do to give their their their
life away on sanctify sanctifying the
name of
hem and therefore revealed everything
that he revealed to them saying in other
words what we need to take from that
this is the end of the paragraph
tomorrow we'll continue the rest what is
he saying in other
words when they went down to
Exile at the time of bavil they weren't
used to this type of life so for them it
was a disaster we grew up in Exile the
half of us are even kids or grandkids of
Holocaust Survivors we already grew up
with this mentality that we came into
the world and we're already were
prosecuted and murdered and and we're in
Exile so for them just imagine they grew
up 400 years you know 400 years it's a
lot of generations they grew up in in
peace in Isel Prosperity happiness peace
no problems suddenly they're uprooted
from Isel just imagine the shock for us
we just grew up like that so comes the
prophet and he tells them listen the
skies have opened I've seen everything
and what does it mean that hasem went
down with you to Exile and all the
angels went down to Exile later on we're
going to learn this is what we're going
to learn in the next couple days is that
there's a very good reason why we're in
Exile Hashem says I took you to Exile
it's for your benefit we don't see the
benefit here but the fact that we are in
Exile it's only for our benefit it's
only to to use this time to rectify and
to bring us to a much greater place we
need to rectified for our sins the Exile
is for us to be refined and for us to be
elevated now we're looking at it as a
great torture but will come the day that
we're going to look back and we're going
to say that we're in Exile the Exile is
to get us in the program so to say get
us in shape so it's almost like taking a
very sick person and you put him into a
hospital or rehab or some type of a
program and for him it's kind of like
jail he can't leave the hospital and all
day long is's being a Fed medicine or
whatever it is and he doesn't know that
it's for his own benefit but after that
when he gets up on his legs he says oh I
actually see that this time in this
rehab place or the hospital was for my
benefit so comes and he says says to the
nation of Israel don't lose your hope
Hashem is with you now we're also in
Exile and we don't have a to tell us
don't lose our hope but we have enough
prophets that told us don't lose your
hope the G is coming the Redemption is
coming it's good for you right now
instead of whining on the Gula get get
into the program do what you need to do
while it's Exile because once Mia comes
that's it the stop supper stops you're
not going to be able to do chuva after
mhia comes the time of the Redemption
we're going to look back and see how
good the Exile was and we don't
appreciate the Exile I know the Exile is
hard I also wish for it to finish very
soon but as long as we are in Exile take
advantage of every moment because every
moment in Exile I actually get rewarded
for all my hardship and for all my
challenges when mhia is going to come
we're going to still do mitv but you
think you're going to get the same
reward we're not going to get the same
reward of putting F in mashiah is here
cuz what's the big deal I'm going to see
mashiah with my own eyes so now it's a
it's a challenge now it's hard we have
to understand that we also have the
promise that Hashem is going to take us
out of Exile we have the promise that we
are also going to be out of this Exile
very soon we have to understand that we
can't lose our faith we can't lose our
hope we can't lose our excitement and to
understand that any second mashiah can
come the same way that they're in Egypt
for 210 years in hard
slavery even though nothing has changed
they were working they were slaves we
also slaves they were slaves to par
we're also slaves to all these desires
and lust that we have from pH physical
Pleasures some people are slaves to
their iPhone another person is slave to
his car another person is slave to to
his job we're also slaves nothing is
different and everything that happened
then we is happening to us the same
thing but we have to understand we're
going to continue we're not done yet we
just want to explain what was the idea
why why has to had to reveal so much
information to tell them don't worry the
Exile is actually good for you I know
it's hard I know there's a lot of
hardship I know there's a lot of
challenges but just keep your head up
high saying in in other words don't lose
your hope don't lose Faith don't L your
happiness this is the exactly what the
wants to to take away your hope to take
away your happiness and your sim but the
Exile is good for you if you go now to a
a gym and you pay top dollar for the
best gym in town and you're just going
to sit down on the bench like that then
nothing's going to happen has to be some
type of a workout you have to push and
pull and Pull and push and this is
called resistance if you're just going
to go with your hands like that
nothing's going to happen has to be a
lot of weight so you have to push and
quetch and sweat
and same thing the Exile if we're just
going to be sitting like this then what
type of exercise a spiritual exercise
there is has to be resisted has to be a
that's scatching me if I just going to
wake up in the morning and run to sh so
what's the challenge here what's the
resistance here so the Exile is only
good for us we don't realize that yet
but we're now being pushed to our max if
there wouldn't be an exile we would stay
in a very low place the Exile is just
for us so comes the prophet and he says
don't worry AEM came down to Exile with
you he didn't desert you Shem didn't
just throw you now to the to the dogs
he's with you here and all the angels
are here it's empty in sh there's
nothing there they going and knocking
nobody's hair where's everybody well
they're down in Exile here too so the
point we want to take from that even
though we're not
even down with what we're learning but
for today we want to understand that we
are also in Exile and there's a reason
for that and instead of crying I mean we
can't Shalom for one second not complain
we have to cry to Hashem we talked about
it in the morning you have to cry to
Hashem to end this but as long is it's
we're already in Exile then you do the
best out of the bad situation on one
hand we have to scream to the Kosh that
we had enough but if I'm already here if
I'm already destined and I'm now this is
the situation I'm already in Exile then
do the best you can because every second
in Exile you can achieve what you will
never achieve once mashia comes we know
that once mashiah comes we don't accept
converts anymore there's no Bal cha
anymore that's it out you you ran out of
options now is the time to do that
second mashia comes like uh you know
they stop the the clock that's it stop
whatever you grabbed it's yours so
that's what people don't understand that
any second now is an opportunity I don't
know mashia will come tonight whatever I
grab today it's like a you know how I
see that imagine how somebody will come
to you now and tell you see that diamond
store on across the street they're
having a a promotion there and you can
take whatever you want they give you a
whole hour to run into the store take
whatever you want so some people come
and say you know it's fine look I have a
nice watch I have nice earring I don't
need this promotion I have enough of my
own this is the stupid people then
there's the ones who come in and say oh
you know I'll take that bracelet and
that watch and thank you so much and you
know what the smart person does he goes
home brings a lot of duffel bags and he
goes into the store and start filling
the duffel bags full of diamonds and
jewelry same thing is the Exile some
people looking at the Exile and says I'm
fine I'm good with where I am don't
bother me I'm very happy with my life
these are the stupid ones some people
say okay I'll do a Mitzvah here and a
Mitzvah there and I'll come to show once
a week and uh once a month I'll give my
uh $18 to my favorite organization okay
so you get something but some people say
I'm already in Exile I'm already here
let me grab whatever I can all day long
and from morning toight all they care
about is doing mitv learning Tor acts of
kindness because that's it that's the
opportunity now you're taking diamonds
yeah we have Darkness it doesn't look
like such a good opportunity but this is
the opportunity when you start filling
your duffel bags with MIT and Tor and
acts of kindness second mashia comes
that's it the everything stops whatever
you grab that's yours and once mashia
comes we're going to continue learning
Tor we're going to continue doing mitv
but there's not going to be the same
reward anymore what's the big deal
already mashiach is already here I'm
going to see with my own eyes now what's
the big deal of becoming a Chua and
mashia is here now let's see you
becoming a CH when you don't see any any
spirituality in this world and instead
of going out to a club on Shabbat you're
sitting at home and you're observing
Shabbat instead of eating in any
restaurant you want you eat in a kosher
restaurant now's the big deal when
there's a challenge so what we need to
take from that is first of all we cannot
stop crying over the galut we have to
demand the Redemption but we also have
to take advantage that saying oh wait a
minute hem is with us no fear
no Despair and do whatever you need to
do to grab as much as you can while
you're in Exile and later on we can see
we will see how it benefited us how it's
h we went through a like a spiritual H
cleansing so you only can be cleansed
when you're under pressure if everything
is good you don't work on yourself and
you don't strive to become better so at
the end of the day the Exile is a good
thing and we'll learn tomorrow and the
next day a few more things that
will give us some more tools to survive
this harsh exile
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