How Do We Believe In Ourselves?
1st shiur - R' Micha Golshevsky Likutei Moharan Torah 61.
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So we are learning Torah samech olive.
Speaker A:In Torah samechalif, we find the incredibly important elements.
Speaker A:We can see this in general and in Judaism in Yiddishket, which is called amunas chachamim.
Speaker A:This is one of the reasons why we start Sheminess here, like Yisroel Shavodo brings both down different.
Speaker A:Bring down this idea that you're.
Speaker A:You're remembering this chusabischabis, the magic says the Jewish people.
Speaker A:We're like a.
Speaker A:A vineyard that rests on dead branches.
Speaker A:Kilo.
Speaker A:That's how we kilo weed when there's no tadikum to be found or we're not zoche like.
Speaker A:Like earlier.
Speaker A:So then the others take care of us.
Speaker A:We mentioned this Khusabas and that even if you say Thomas Khusabas, it's Khusabus has been depleted.
Speaker A:Still, it's enough that you have.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You mention them and you bring back this also the most.
Speaker A:It says we're in tumble like the first time it points out from Hazal.
Speaker A:So Rabbino, the Torah says you get incredible things.
Speaker A:You get the right type of mishpat and you're able to deal properly with the people who are under you.
Speaker A:Whether more people are under you or you're able to help, you're supposed to be responsible for less people.
Speaker A:You have the ability.
Speaker A:So it's very interesting.
Speaker A:You know, you meet a lot of people, they're having a hard time, things are difficult for them.
Speaker A:And, you know, you start reading these Torahs and Rabin's talking very, very high things.
Speaker A:He's like, I'm totally not.
Speaker A:What I mean, the people, I'm.
Speaker A:I can't take care of myself.
Speaker A:How am I supposed to take care?
Speaker A:Like, he's gonna have hadrakhas for all these people who I belong.
Speaker A:He, like, he feels like terrible, terrible chaos.
Speaker A:He's like, I'm like in toyot vavayo here Shem Yeshmo.
Speaker A:I feel like I'm not getting anywhere.
Speaker A:Things aren't working for me.
Speaker A:So it's like it's all your right.
Speaker A:That's going to give you your memshon rabbanish.
Speaker A:You'll know what to.
Speaker A:What to do, how to misnaig the way it's supposed to be, how to help people and guide them.
Speaker A:It's like what he.
Speaker A:Very often he feels like he's not even beginning to be on these levels and these places.
Speaker A:He needs like a little, you know.
Speaker A:So one of the things you have to understand is that Amur's chachamim rabbeinu told Ravnasin means you believe in yourself.
Speaker A:You can have someone who has tremendous, profound.
Speaker A:He said, even to Ravnasin, I think you're mushkam, you need work in it because you need to believe in yourself.
Speaker A:So people wonder about this.
Speaker A:They're like, okay, that's maybe.
Speaker A:It's like, no is very clear.
Speaker A:No, you have to believe in yourself.
Speaker A:Any person, no matter every year, certainly has to believe in himself.
Speaker A:So a person looks at and he's like, wow, you know, I messed up here, I messed up there.
Speaker A:I did this.
Speaker A:I did this wrong.
Speaker A:I did that wrong.
Speaker A:I messed up here, I messed up there.
Speaker A:And like, what am I?
Speaker A:Why am I?
Speaker A:Why do I need to believe in myself?
Speaker A:So that's when it comes down to Emunis Chachamim.
Speaker A:Because Rabbeinu Yanachman, he says that every person, every Yid's gonna make it to the next world no matter what.
Speaker A:And this is actually brought in the Medish Talpios similar thing by the Shavet Musser.
Speaker A:He brings down that really the Rabbeinu Bachaya, he says, Rabbeinu Bachayev says the same thing, that every person is going to make it to the next world.
Speaker A:Actually, when Chazal say rabbeinu says someone does this, someone does that, he has no check.
Speaker A:That means Rabino says, yeah, but the main thing is like the doshu shuma's there.
Speaker A:The doshu Shuma says in the Gemara Sanhedrin that, no, all the chutz things, they're not really all them, everyone's gonna make it.
Speaker A:That's what he says.
Speaker A:So the way the Rabbeinu Bachaya learns, he's like, you're not going to be.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's like, you're not going to be on your place.
Speaker A:You're Khalek, right?
Speaker A:Is a big thing.
Speaker A:It's your Kalek Mamish.
Speaker A:But you're not going to be completely divorced.
Speaker A:It's like you're going to.
Speaker A:You'll have.
Speaker A:You'll have whatever you have.
Speaker A:That's what he says.
Speaker A:And he says, who's going to be worse?
Speaker A:There's no.
Speaker A:No one's worse.
Speaker A:Kairach Mamish rebelled against Moshe Rabbeinu and Chazal say he's going to be in Gehenna with the red iris.
Speaker A:She comes up and he says, that's what the Rishonim say also.
Speaker A:That Gehennim is just about fixing Ganim, is not about just punishment.
Speaker A:It's about.
Speaker A:It's like a kind of dry cleaning thing.
Speaker A:We prefer to have dry cleaning in this world.
Speaker A:Gehennim is not a good place to be.
Speaker A:Hashem shmore.
Speaker A:But actually eventually he says even Karach he's going to have.
Speaker A:He's not going to get worse than that.
Speaker A:Whatever means till the new right.
Speaker A:That's like we find by the.
Speaker A:Just like you find by the right by the yoevo.
Speaker A:It's called loyolam.
Speaker A:There are different stages.
Speaker A:Certain stages would get a level of freedom like Mashiach and after Mashiach like total freedom.
Speaker A:So the person gets.
Speaker A:He gets freed, he gets out, he gets to leave.
Speaker A:So he said he won't have his cheling.
Speaker A:But that doesn't mean he's easy.
Speaker A:There's nothing to neshama.
Speaker A:Every Jewish neshama is going to make it like rabbeinu says.
Speaker A:It's rabbeinu bechaya the end of Achre mois.
Speaker A:And he says that that's what Ramban also means.
Speaker A:Ramban.
Speaker A:Maybe the lush is not as clear and easy to understand that that way.
Speaker A:But you can learn it that way also ap that's what he's learning there.
Speaker A:But actually clearly he says that's why that nephew will be cut off.
Speaker A:He doesn't say nephew, he says the person.
Speaker A:So that means the goof and died.
Speaker A:You lost a lot.
Speaker A:It's not that Nephesh is gone to this.
Speaker A:That's what he says.
Speaker A:The Vikanti also says the same thing.
Speaker A:The Vikanti says in similar zone way Brics Rabb Ezra.
Speaker A:And he says that a person is going to be this one of the Shevy Musa brings there.
Speaker A:He says a person is going to be who lost his chelik.
Speaker A:He did the stupid dinner.
Speaker A:Chuba messed up, did something one of these terrible things.
Speaker A:He's going to be there like a poor person.
Speaker A:You give him.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You give him charity.
Speaker A:They'll give him over there.
Speaker A:So he says listen, I'll give to whoever I want to give to so you.
Speaker A:There's no such thing as a Jew is going to be absolutely out in the cold.
Speaker A:It's just chaval.
Speaker A:It's comp.
Speaker A:What he could have had or what he should have had.
Speaker A:It's going to be out of his place.
Speaker A:He's out of place.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's not the same.
Speaker A:It's a who knows what how much he.
Speaker A:How much or in connection and he lost.
Speaker A:But it's not worth it.
Speaker A:But it's worth it compared to this world.
Speaker A:We hold that it's better for a person not to be created.
Speaker A:To be created.
Speaker A:We're talking about the physical in the physical life.
Speaker A:It's a beautiful world.
Speaker A:It's a big world out there.
Speaker A:Maybe it's kadai even just as it is.
Speaker A:Like Rabbeinu explains, like in other places.
Speaker A:But spiritually speaking, in the end, the vada, it's worth it.
Speaker A:Hashem didn't mess us up.
Speaker A:Let's push it.
Speaker A:So actually person has to have.
Speaker A:Because a person feels like, no.
Speaker A:The person says, no, I. I shouldn't have confidence in myself and what I can do, what I do.
Speaker A:I already blew it.
Speaker A:Forget it.
Speaker A:I'm not holding.
Speaker A:I can't.
Speaker A:I'm the exception.
Speaker A:I should know better.
Speaker A:I should have been better.
Speaker A:And he says all these things Rabino says is all a guyver.
Speaker A:Because a person you can never serve Hashem, as is fitting.
Speaker A:Hashem is eternal.
Speaker A:There's no way to any little lapse, the tiniest lapse in your.
Speaker A:It's not perfect.
Speaker A:And even perfect.
Speaker A:So what are you giving him?
Speaker A:It's just his kindness, his incredible kindness.
Speaker A:He wants to give us.
Speaker A:Us.
Speaker A:He made it to us.
Speaker A:That's what the Torah tells us.
Speaker A:It's not that he needs us.
Speaker A:It's not that we can actually serve him.
Speaker A:It's like it's all from him.
Speaker A:He all gives everything to a person, has to use that to be empowered and have confidence in his own avodah to understand that what I do is important, what I'm doing is important.
Speaker A:And I have something to do nobody else can do.
Speaker A:Tzadik mane.
Speaker A:Nobody can do.
Speaker A:Only I can do.
Speaker A:Because I have B' chira and fakhera.
Speaker A:Bilakku says, when you're the furthest person, you have to know that everything you do to take yourself from bad to good, that has more value.
Speaker A:Because you're coming from far, you're revealing the or in the lowest places, you're making Caleb in the lowest, hardest places.
Speaker A:So the first thing, and this is what this Torah is about.
Speaker A:This Torah is about mus hachamim and Melissa chana means number one.
Speaker A:You realize, no, I have people who are.
Speaker A:I can beat mashpia on.
Speaker A:And I have the ability to help them and to guide them.
Speaker A:Even no matter what happened yesterday, no matter what where I fell and what I did and the stupidest things that I need help.
Speaker A:And I need help with chuvah.
Speaker A:Like Yasham, he says, nothing stands in me in teshuvah.
Speaker A:Chuvah can fix everything.
Speaker A:Everything fixed.
Speaker A:So first we have to do chuvah.
Speaker A:Hopefully he'll do Teshuvah.
Speaker A:But no matter what, actually, he's going to have a portion in the next world.
Speaker A:Maybe.
Speaker A:Hopefully it'll be his ch to.
Speaker A:It will be the portion that he needs what his.
Speaker A:His palace, his where he's holding.
Speaker A:But if Hashem, whatever it is, no matter what the Yid is, he's going to get there.
Speaker A:He's going to make it in the end.
Speaker A:Or Enoch wants his borrow from the end.
Speaker A:It'd be b.
Speaker A:It's going to.
Speaker A:Everything will be okay, Zabir.
Speaker A:Everything will be fine.
Speaker A:There's a clarification.
Speaker A:Fine.
Speaker A:Everything's going to be good.
Speaker A:So you have to believe this with very simple things.
Speaker A:You have to have.
Speaker A:You cannot go against what Chazal say.
Speaker A:This is.
Speaker A:This is what Chazal said.
Speaker A:This is something that was hidden in the reasons why this brought the Leshem.
Speaker A:Also now the lesson says.
Speaker A:It's like desire says about the clothes.
Speaker A:Read all these clothes.
Speaker A:Like it's very bad.
Speaker A:It's harsh stuff, really.
Speaker A:All the Yeshua in the close.
Speaker A:All the Yeshua, that's all.
Speaker A:But you have to understand how and what they're really saying.
Speaker A:There are levels and levels and levels.
Speaker A:So the Leshman says the same thing when the Kazas, they're talking about the hitzonias.
Speaker A:A person has a longer process.
Speaker A:He wasn't Zochet Chuvah Nebuch.
Speaker A:He messed up whatever he messed up to.
Speaker A:Then he's.
Speaker A:He's not in the.
Speaker A:He's not Zochet to his own, though.
Speaker A:There's no such thing as really blowing it as evil.
Speaker A:There's no such thing.
Speaker A:That's what the Leshem writes there.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Sefer Hatoshtiko.
Speaker A:So actually, so that's what it comes down to.
Speaker A:That's what it is.
Speaker A:The person has to know.
Speaker A:He has to have confidence in himself.
Speaker A:And I want to finish off.
Speaker A:And that's like.
Speaker A:Again, so this is very relevant to every person.
Speaker A:Having a munis chachamim, believing in myself, having confidence.
Speaker A:And I want to finish with a story to illustrate what this is supposed to do.
Speaker A:When a person really believes this, the trouble is he has a hard time internalizing.
Speaker A:He has to work very hard to internalize this to realize.
Speaker A:Yes, every nikkuru tovah is an eternal connection to Hashem.
Speaker A:If I have any crude tovah.
Speaker A:Yes, a lot of Chazal talking about, yes, in the Chitanya, there are problems and he needs.
Speaker A:He needs a lot of help.
Speaker A:But even when the Kuda, in the end, in the.
Speaker A:He's going to get a scar for that.
Speaker A:It's going to make a difference.
Speaker A:And it's the eternal connection.
Speaker A:You can broaden that.
Speaker A:You can.
Speaker A:You can make that connection stronger if you're a master of your.
Speaker A:If you.
Speaker A:If you value that and you connect to it.
Speaker A:So the story with the maggot of Kelm Shadon tells the story that there was once he might have come.
Speaker A:Used to go to different towns and try to give over, try to help someone who was having a hard time.
Speaker A:So the Maghrib or.
Speaker A:Or whatever they needed in the town.
Speaker A:That's what he did.
Speaker A:She went to one town.
Speaker A:He's like, what does this town need?
Speaker A:Do they need maybe a mikvah?
Speaker A:Maybe they need a cheder.
Speaker A:Maybe they need.
Speaker A:What do they need?
Speaker A:He's like, no, our time.
Speaker A:We have everything.
Speaker A:Everything's good here.
Speaker A:Then the kid's looking, he's like, oh, yve, it's just the muser.
Speaker A:I gotta go.
Speaker A:He's like, who's just a muser?
Speaker A:He's like, yeah, you don't have no idea.
Speaker A:Just the muser, my goodness.
Speaker A:He's meister.
Speaker A:Whoever makes him trouble, he forms on and he gets a big trouble with the government.
Speaker A:He's close to the mayor, the guard, the governor, the nobleman, whoever was there, and he'll really make your life a misery.
Speaker A:He said, tell me one good thing about Yasir Masr.
Speaker A:One good thing in his life, one positive attribute.
Speaker A:He said, well, he never tells.
Speaker A:He never tells a lie.
Speaker A:He's very proud of the fact Nimitz lies.
Speaker A:If I sounded informing you, nothing you could say can dissuade me because I always tell the truth and follow my word.
Speaker A:That's what he says.
Speaker A:Now I gotta go.
Speaker A:Kid ran away.
Speaker A:So the Maghrib kiln went in.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The maghrib kilm went over to him.
Speaker A:He said, oh yeah, if it was Yankala, Yosla, whatever it is.
Speaker A:He said, yankala, tell me.
Speaker A:You have to help me.
Speaker A:I'm making a drusha and I make money there.
Speaker A:Please come, I need you there.
Speaker A:People see you come, they'll take it seriously.
Speaker A:They'll come.
Speaker A:And Imamish begged him to come.
Speaker A:Finally, he's like, you know what?
Speaker A:Okay, I'll come.
Speaker A:Fine.
Speaker A:You really so insisted.
Speaker A:Fine, okay, I'll come.
Speaker A:So came the temp for the drasha, and everyone was there when he's waiting.
Speaker A:This Yankee also whatever.
Speaker A:I think it was Yankal actually.
Speaker A:All the same, whatever this is, this muscle, this is the.
Speaker A:The guy who was the informant didn't show up.
Speaker A:He's waiting attendance late.
Speaker A:He sees he's trying to slink in as if he was hoping in the middle of Russia because said he coming, didn't come or he didn't say he'd come early.
Speaker A:He sees him coming, said, oh, ankle, come on up.
Speaker A:Come up to the.
Speaker A:Come up over here with the.
Speaker A:I need you here.
Speaker A:Come on up to the deus.
Speaker A:He comes to the days.
Speaker A:Isn't it what the guy wants?
Speaker A:What does he want?
Speaker A:He wants.
Speaker A:Comes up to the days.
Speaker A:So he said, I want to thank you.
Speaker A:You came and people are master that you come.
Speaker A:I know it's important here.
Speaker A:So I want you to know I'm giving you now my.
Speaker A:He says, and you shouldn't think my isn't important.
Speaker A:He said, I go to every town, every city.
Speaker A:Anything is missing.
Speaker A:This place did never make.
Speaker A:I got it taken care of.
Speaker A:The area was messed up.
Speaker A:I fixed it around, fixed it.
Speaker A:This place needed this.
Speaker A:This place that I did all these things.
Speaker A:He's probably explaining like years and years and years I'm making big, big, big tikkun.
Speaker A:He said, you have Allah.
Speaker A:He said, but now I want to tell you young, you have to be very careful not to lose your there.
Speaker A:We find out the different things that person could do.
Speaker A:And he starts explaining the importance of not never informing other you Jew and giving over and over different, different important things in a good way, in a way that's not going to be Khalilah judging or anything.
Speaker A:And then the person, this Yankee, he seemed to really mab.
Speaker A:He seemed to be very.
Speaker A:A little dazed.
Speaker A:I mean, it's like the whole thing is a very overwhelming thing.
Speaker A:And the negative K left.
Speaker A:Ten years later, he came back.
Speaker A:She started looking.
Speaker A:He started asking someone, what's with.
Speaker A:He saw.
Speaker A:So he said, tell me what's with Yankee la Musa?
Speaker A:He's like, who.
Speaker A:Who's that Yankee master?
Speaker A:You know, I don't know who that is.
Speaker A:She started describing.
Speaker A:He's like, I'm sorry, maybe I got the name wrong.
Speaker A:But I'll tell you what it looks like.
Speaker A:Maybe I. I misunderstood the name.
Speaker A:And he told me, he described basically, like, oh, you mean Yankala Tsadik, that guy, right?
Speaker A:He's like the Royce Verusian.
Speaker A:Every Doug Baktusi comes, he makes it happen.
Speaker A:He's fire.
Speaker A:He's.
Speaker A:And that's really the lesson for us also.
Speaker A:Like, really, a person has to internalize.
Speaker A:Like Rabbeinu says, every good nakuda is eternal.
Speaker A:Every here you have to believe with simple faith.
Speaker A:Like, really, you can't blow it.
Speaker A:You didn't blow it and try your best not to be a fool, not to drop the ball, but get it together.
Speaker A:You should get your kilik and complete your khalek.
Speaker A:Because I'll say that every person, some people are zoicha, they take their friends, give them the chile gehennim.
Speaker A:And the razal says that doesn't mean get the whole thing.
Speaker A:Some level, some person, he drops the ball here, someone else helps you this way, that way.
Speaker A:So he gets that chelik, you get that you want to get your complete chilek as much as possible.
Speaker A:Every Nikuda Tov's nitrius, we have to stay very strong on it.
Speaker A:Realize every kudesh is netzach.
Speaker A:And that's like the foundation of Chizuk.
Speaker A:Baruchnius is azambra.
Speaker A:The kudos tovos.
Speaker A:And again, it all comes back to having simple belief.
Speaker A:Understanding that Rabbeinu has the Koch.
Speaker A:This keeping these lessons and going in the way of his teaching has the koach to Mamish.
Speaker A:Mamish.
Speaker A:Change a person just like the guy Uncle Moshe, you could change everything around.
Speaker A:Just realize it matters.
Speaker A:What I do matters.
Speaker A:This is something we don't.
Speaker A:We have to work really hard to have true emunah.
Speaker A:At least we want to.
Speaker A:We want to have emunah like rats.
Speaker A:And you want to want.
Speaker A:We have to really, really yearn if something we have to speak about and connect to, to know what to do and how to do.
