Episode 8
How Learning Makes Hashem Hear Our Requests
R' Gedaliah Jaffe Torah 1 - Shiur 1
I state the principal point immediately: by commencing the study of Torah Aleph and engaging in earnest Torah learning, we restore the true chein, the spiritual chain, that causes Hashem to accept our tefilos and bakashos. We begin at the very beginning and will learn with the Ota/Batia commentary and the teachings associated with Rabbi Ephraim Portnoy. We distinguish between tefillah as the set liturgical prayers and bakashos as personal requests, and we explain how Torah study elevates and secures both. We teach that in our present exile the true chain has been diminished, and that certain fallen husks, especially klipah nogah, can be elevated through proper learning and intention while wholly impure shells cannot. We conclude that the practical aim is to attach ourselves to Torah and sincere prayer so that our requests will be accepted, and we will next examine the letters and concrete applications of these concepts.
Transcript
Okay, Shkaych.
Speaker A:We are beginning a brand new Torah.
Speaker A:We're starting at the very beginning, as they say in the Sound of Music.
Speaker A:That's a very good place to start.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:The very beginning.
Speaker A:What can I tell you?
Speaker A:Torah Aleph is unique as the Mirz Hashem.
Speaker A:We'll see.
Speaker A:This was.
Speaker A:This was one of the first Torahs that I had the zucchos to learn in depth with me, Chavusa Rabbi Ephraim Portnoy Shlita, who he puts out a very nice.
Speaker A:Like the Omud Yomi learning.
Speaker A:So we'll jump in and we're going to be using, as we normally do, the ota or batia sefer.
Speaker A:He's a very special mashpia in.
Speaker A:In, I think Ramaph Beit Shemesh.
Speaker A:He gives a shira Thursday nights.
Speaker A: I think it starts like: Speaker A:It's just.
Speaker A:He's a.
Speaker A:He's a Mayan Hamas gaber.
Speaker A:Just.
Speaker A:It's beautiful.
Speaker A:So it doesn't need my.
Speaker A:My haskama by any.
Speaker A:By any stretch.
Speaker A:Imagination.
Speaker A:We're going to jump right in.
Speaker A:We're going to start using again learning Torah Aleph with the.
Speaker A:With the peerish of the oita.
Speaker A:So begins like this.
Speaker A:Who acquired.
Speaker A:Who owns heaven and earth?
Speaker A:Nasril Lahadfis chidushim nifloim no roim almori rabba barkana.
Speaker A:So that's really the first set of Torahs are through this.
Speaker A:It's Aleph through tesval.
Speaker A:It brings you from the Chaimo Haran that these Torahs of Rabbi Barachana Omrobeim zukonim vrocho shamor and B' Shem Omro that Rabin Ahmed said, these B' Shem omro, which is quite a chiddish.
Speaker A:Hein wasn't mean to say it.
Speaker A:B' shem rabba barbarchana B'.
Speaker A:Ak'.
Speaker A:O.
Speaker A:He said these over.
Speaker A:Kano gamba mori Raba barachan.
Speaker A:We started teaching, revealing these Torahs.
Speaker A:He came to.
Speaker A:He was like.
Speaker A:He was black in face.
Speaker A:And he said, why aren't you paying attention to my teachings?
Speaker A:He asked Rabi Nachman to.
Speaker A:To give thought to it.
Speaker A:And because Rabi Nachman did this, he was able to, you know, take over many, many.
Speaker A:Okay, so Reina begins by quoting the Pasuk Ashre simime Derek.
Speaker A:That's the Torah ashre semi mehdaram him.
Speaker A:How fortunate, how pleasant are those who are complete, wholesome in their ways, Hashem, who go in the way of Torah in Torah and mitzos.
Speaker A:So we explain.
Speaker A:We're going to explain how does a person get and elevate to the point where Hashem will receive their Bakashos and their tefilos.
Speaker A:So it says.
Speaker A:Now he brings here an idea that whenever Rebbe uses the word do.
Speaker A:So there's a Masorah amongst the Breslava Hasidim.
Speaker A:When Rabbi Nachman starts off a Torah with the word Dora shehisig me olu hatzilis.
Speaker A:This is a Torah that's coming from Hazilis.
Speaker A:That we know that there are different levels, different olamos.
Speaker A:The highest is at Tzilis and Bria Yitzira asiya.
Speaker A:But the highest level at Tzilis is the way it's explained this.
Speaker A:It's only just.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's godliness.
Speaker A:It's just the highest level.
Speaker A:Tremendous praise of these.
Speaker A:This is the loshen.
Speaker A:I'm saying a Torah that's higher from these places will come to me from these places of chochman.
Speaker A:I don't want it.
Speaker A:I only want chadoshos new Torah, Mekabel Torah.
Speaker A:He says the hezmakabel Torah.
Speaker A:Mi mokam shaloki belsham shum odomi olam from a place where no one before had ever gotten Torah from.
Speaker A:Now you say, how could we not say this about themselves?
Speaker A:Well, I mean, how.
Speaker A:How could the Torah write that Moshe was onav mikol Adam?
Speaker A:If it's true, you could say it.
Speaker A:Cain shamati b' shem acherim b' Shmo the gam b' atzmi shemati pamacht.
Speaker A:I heard one time, hispoya b' shevach dulas toroso.
Speaker A:He was tzipha the splendor.
Speaker A:I won't say flaunting it, but just relishing in this.
Speaker A:So Omar azb' tok divrei his paruso de.
Speaker A:I know where I'm getting them from.
Speaker A:It was understanding with the way he was acting and his movements.
Speaker A:So we're getting this.
Speaker A:So that's a way of just bracing ourselves what we're about to get here that we're getting.
Speaker A:We're d. You have to know what I'm about to tell you is coming from the highest places, from a chiddish that's never been.
Speaker A:It's never been taught before.
Speaker A:Ki' aye de Torah through the Torah that the way that we learn in this Kablim in Shemayim kol tefilos, the kol habakashos.
Speaker A:So it's in the Kabba, they're accepting our tefillah NR bakasha now, what's the difference?
Speaker A:So Rabbi Nachman Fried likes to point out in Lush and Verbenu.
Speaker A:So what does mean the devons of tefilos and bakashos?
Speaker A:So I'm quoting over here.
Speaker A:When we say tefillah, that's talking about the set.
Speaker A:Tefilos, the vidavan.
Speaker A:Three times a day, right?
Speaker A:Chakras, minchamar.
Speaker A:That's tefillah.
Speaker A:What are bakashos?
Speaker A:That are the Bakashos of proteos.
Speaker A:Our personal request.
Speaker A:That person asked in our own.
Speaker A:In our own.
Speaker A:In our own language, in our own shprach, in our own.
Speaker A:Talking openly to a kodesh, baruch hu.
Speaker A:You know, I'm saying the words I'm saying.
Speaker A:But that's tefillah.
Speaker A:Bakasha.
Speaker A:This another way of explaining perhaps is tefilos are shiv Koshamakam, saying praises of hashem and bakashos.
Speaker A:The bakashos, it means like a request.
Speaker A:That's we're asking for the things that we need.
Speaker A:This is going broccolos, like that lamb and Aleph, they were making our own personal needs.
Speaker A:Our own personal requests.
Speaker A:The things that we are requesting and we're davening.
Speaker A:So it's interesting.
Speaker A:He switches the order.
Speaker A:It's called.
Speaker A:Him.
Speaker A:So he explains.
Speaker A:Where are we?
Speaker A:I'm gonna read in the footnote over here quotes from Zohar parishes, Mikates.
Speaker A:What does this mean?
Speaker A:Tanina?
Speaker A:We learned the person who wants hashem should be ma.
Speaker A:His.
Speaker A:He should.
Speaker A:Should attach himself very strongly to.
Speaker A:To the Torah, to.
Speaker A:To work on that.
Speaker A:That's called.
Speaker A:That's called the Ezra.
Speaker A:What is.
Speaker A:What is the tai?
Speaker A:What is the taiva?
Speaker A:That's when you have all the.
Speaker A:It's a madrake.
Speaker A:When you have all the tefilos of the world are in his hands and you bring them.
Speaker A:So then you're machinist them to akodesh, baruch husa, dehu, barnash.
Speaker A:And by doing this, he's the Rothson of Soliche, that person, what he want.
Speaker A:The barnash.
Speaker A:So you see the connection between the tafiwa and the davening and says through learning.
Speaker A:These are important phrases.
Speaker A:Chain.
Speaker A:No, I once heard from a wolfson, you can't translate chain into any other language outside of Jewish because only the Jews have chain.
Speaker A:So we're not going to translate chain.
Speaker A:But you leave it at that.
Speaker A:An importance show.
Speaker A:Am yisrael nisale.
Speaker A:It becomes elevated from anybody who needs people who need these things.
Speaker A:So what's the cheyn bechashivas?
Speaker A:So he quotes from Moshe Kramer, Cheyn bechashivas hem loshnei devorim.
Speaker A:Those aren't two necessarily separate things.
Speaker A:Elo revel.
Speaker A:How do you understand.
Speaker A:The hashivas?
Speaker A:The importance is a totsa, an outgrowth, a result of having this chin.
Speaker A:We're not going to translate chain.
Speaker A:We're going to see in oz bays how to understand on a deeper level.
Speaker A:Right now, I'm purposely leaving it open.
Speaker A:Also, when you have the chain, you know, a person is moz, then that gives a certain hashivas to the person.
Speaker A:Okay, again, they call me.
Speaker A:Maybe it's something the person needs.
Speaker A:In.
Speaker A:In rohanis, that person needs a certain hasaga, a certain understanding that.
Speaker A:That that's the ruhnis.
Speaker A:Hey, begashmi.
Speaker A:And also in terms of physical things that a person needs, the person who's learning has this.
Speaker A:And because of this, his bakashos will be accepted by hashem and by people.
Speaker A:Okay, now it continues.
Speaker A:What's the reason for this ki arshav?
Speaker A:Right now, unfortunately, in our long and bitter gallus baavon huse and due to our many sins, the true chain, the true hashivas.
Speaker A:Now he's wise to say this, To exclude the chain of falsehood, as it says in Torah, samechminoshim oisim bachelosum.
Speaker A:The chain is not a good steak sandwich.
Speaker A:The khayn is not the pizza with spicy french fries.
Speaker A:Even if you get like the veggie toppings.
Speaker A:Even with the veggie toppings, mabushim.
Speaker A:Oh, look at the shirt I'm wearing.
Speaker A:Look at the designer, the shoes.
Speaker A:Not at all.
Speaker A:It's hevel.
Speaker A:We just leaned it on koheles.
Speaker A:It's vanity.
Speaker A:That's not the truchein the rebbe is talking about.
Speaker A:And that's the chus that tefill becomes accepted.
Speaker A:So you have to learn again.
Speaker A:We're just.
Speaker A:We're just starting.
Speaker A:We have to learn what is the true chain, right?
Speaker A:So the chashiva t hamitishel of the of Yisroel, the Jewish people that we have because.
Speaker A:Because we are benim alachim, we have a chelik elokam ima.
Speaker A:And that ch is no, it fell into a place of klippa.
Speaker A:And therefore the umos oylam have a chain, so to speak, and not us.
Speaker A:Because right now, again, in gallus, the ikra, the main hashivas and the main chain is by them.
Speaker A:I'm gonna read here from again, the ota or he brings Vatiya says.
Speaker A:They're totally different.
Speaker A:In tachlis, The true, you get through Torah and through Tefillah.
Speaker A:But the Hein Shoshakir is just.
Speaker A:It's just, you know, it's a good.
Speaker A:It's a good.
Speaker A:It's a slice.
Speaker A:Good slice of chocolate cake or something like that.
Speaker A:Even you have that taiva then for a kosher delicious piece of.
Speaker A:I forget what's that bakery, Chantilly, whatever, Geshmaki desserts.
Speaker A:So it's a taiva that comes from kedusha, Which means like a fall in love.
Speaker A:When a person has a tiger for something.
Speaker A:The more Anayam and discuss this also that a person.
Speaker A:A person has a desire for something.
Speaker A:That desire is not necessarily.
Speaker A:It's not coming from a bad place.
Speaker A:The root of that, that love.
Speaker A:That love for my.
Speaker A:For the chocolate bar is really rooted in a love for hakodesh baruch hu.
Speaker A:But in its pristine form it became lower and lower and lower and lower.
Speaker A:And now the way that manifests and expresses my own life, that I feel this love for this.
Speaker A:But at the deep, that love or any of these emotions you look coming from.
Speaker A:That's where it comes from.
Speaker A:But it starts with the thing is an aha, the kedusha.
Speaker A:Sorry, I got that.
Speaker A:He mishtatella became now shahin shal shekir.
Speaker A:Where's his?
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's fell from there.
Speaker A:Then it turned into.
Speaker A:Turn into.
Speaker A:It comes from a holy place.
Speaker A:That's what he's going to explain here.
Speaker A:Who Etslum?
Speaker A:It's by them, by the goyim Aval al yade, through learning Torah that elevates it.
Speaker A:Elevates it.
Speaker A:As you know, Kane, he brings here is the same gematria is the word Noga same 58.
Speaker A:He brings its yidu.
Speaker A:It's known shayshanan arbeklipos, that there are four husks, four shells, four types of blockages of kedusha based in Yechezkel and Perak.
Speaker A:Aleph Ruach, Saorah, Anon Godov, Eish mis lakachas vinoga.
Speaker A:So there's a difference.
Speaker A:The four are not all the same.
Speaker A:We'll call it like three in one.
Speaker A:There are three that are completely tame and there's one called Noga.
Speaker A:Three here he says completely bad.
Speaker A:The third, the fourth one, the re, is the klipas noga tov.
Speaker A:As the Tanya speaks out that kleepas Noga is where good and bad are intertwined, right?
Speaker A:Kosher food.
Speaker A:Kosher food comes from klipas.
Speaker A:Noga person has that chocolate that the hamburger, the shawarma, the sushi, whatever it is, your coffee Whatever you're having, it's kosher if you use it with the right intentions, to have strength, to learn, to daven.
Speaker A:So then you now elevate it.
Speaker A:The klipus no gonna become elevated.
Speaker A:The shalosh kleppus tomatoes can never be elevated.
Speaker A:They have to be just avoided.
Speaker A:Our vote is not to elevate those at all.
Speaker A:Our vote in this world is to elevate klepus noga.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:The goodness to take the.
Speaker A:The good that's inter.
Speaker A:Intertwined in it.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:There's holy sparks there.
Speaker A:That's Archen of the Claw Israel.
Speaker A:That's why it's called noga.
Speaker A:You have to bring it back to the proper place, the roots, where they came from.
Speaker A:That's accomplished through our learning of Torah Hanikus ayeles ahavim vayatlas, which caused the chain to go back up.
Speaker A:You take it from the noga to the same you've elevated.
Speaker A:And this, as you'll see, the sukim are all fit with Rebbe's teachings who made them as Kalim, called tefila sov.
Speaker A:And therefore automatically, since you were.
Speaker A:You found your.
Speaker A:Your tefillas are going to be accepted, right?
Speaker A:Ki atora nikres, Hayelas ahavim and the morgue on this, on Dalid, the domino base is the famous Gemara.
Speaker A:That's where it talks about how Moshe rabbeinu.
Speaker A:Everything was repeated four times.
Speaker A:Moshe would get the Torah, would call in Aaron.
Speaker A:We teach it to Aaron.
Speaker A:Then Aaron would move to his side.
Speaker A:Then he'd call in and they would go to his side.
Speaker A:He repeat a second time.
Speaker A:Then they bring in the zakanim.
Speaker A:He repeat it a third time.
Speaker A:And it reached to all of.
Speaker A:All of Claud Yisrael.
Speaker A:So everyone was going.
Speaker A:It was a four cycle.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That's the coins quoting here in says.
Speaker A:Where she learns you receive the chain through this.
Speaker A:When the Jewish people have the chain, Nis kablin lamala call it sefilos obakashos mishum shadir nis kablin.
Speaker A:When there's a chain there, they will be accepted.
Speaker A:So that's.
Speaker A:That's Os olive.
Speaker A:In the next piece we pick it up.
Speaker A:Next time is going to talk about the letters of what's the ches, what's the nun, what that represents and what it means in.
Speaker A:In practically how to relate these concepts.
Speaker A:It might seem like a very esoteric concept, but all this is being brought down, you know, Tachlis the maisa, into.
Speaker A:Into our.
Speaker A:Into our daily Buddha.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Shkorach, everyone.
