How to Connect to Tzadikim?
Reguar Series - 1st shiur - R' Avraham Gislason Likutei Moharan Torah 61.
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Okay, we're gonna get going.
Speaker A:Welcome, everybody.
Speaker A:Great to see everybody here.
Speaker A:It's been a number of weeks and eventful things have happened besides for shrews what we had before.
Speaker A:And I was zicha to be in Eretz Yisrael two weeks ago.
Speaker A:And it was a fantastic, amazing, amazing trip.
Speaker A:And, you know, to be.
Speaker A:To experience being together with the people who live in Eretz Yisrael during such an event when, you know, there's literally cruise missiles flying, ballistic missiles flying, and buildings are being blown up and destroyed, and to see the amazing, amazing nature of the people of Eretz Yisrael and of Kla Yisrael in general, and, you know, the togetherness, the mutual love and respect of everybody, it's really something unbelievable.
Speaker A:And I think one of the.
Speaker A:This is one of the highlights of the trip that I experienced.
Speaker A:Shalom was asking about the trips.
Speaker A:I'm just.
Speaker A:Was.
Speaker A:Wherever I went is that I saw people who were.
Speaker A:Who were very happy to.
Speaker A:To.
Speaker A:There's no.
Speaker A:There was no boundaries.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:No walls were up.
Speaker A:You know, everywhere.
Speaker A:Everywhere I went, people were, you know, speaking to people.
Speaker A:They were like, yeah, you guys, you need to do your part.
Speaker A:We need to do our part.
Speaker A:We were doing some volunteering.
Speaker A:We were working on a farm.
Speaker A:We were working with hat salah.
Speaker A:We were packing vegetables for needy, doing all these kinds of helping.
Speaker A:And people were very, very, you know, warm and thankful.
Speaker A:This is something that I was very surprised to see.
Speaker A:I thought that we would be kind of like, they'd be patronizing us, like, yeah, yeah, fine.
Speaker A:Do what you need to do.
Speaker A:Like what?
Speaker A:But they were.
Speaker A:They were really, really happy to see us.
Speaker A:And they.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:Our support for them meant a lot to them.
Speaker A:And that's something that I really took away, is that the support that we can offer in these difficult times to the people of Eretz Yisrael is something that's very much more powerful than I really.
Speaker A:Than I realized.
Speaker A:And they appreciate hearing that we care about them over here.
Speaker A:All they see on the news.
Speaker A:All you see on the news is the handful of protesters.
Speaker A:You don't see the rest of the millions of people.
Speaker A:And you don't see.
Speaker A:They don't hear from Jews from Hutzlaerts who are supportive and care about them.
Speaker A:So it really is a big lift for everybody.
Speaker A:Anyway, that was one of my experiences over there.
Speaker A:Many, many more experiences.
Speaker A:And they'll come out more and more as we continue on.
Speaker A:And I'm Shabbos also.
Speaker A:But I want to just say thank you to Sandra Finkelstein.
Speaker A:For sponsoring the Sh.
Speaker A:Today she's sponsoring in honor of Rosh, which it still is now.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:For a few more.
Speaker A:A few more minutes at least.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:How long is it?
Speaker A:There's Thursday and Friday.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Today was the first day.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So it's still the first day of Rosh Kadesh.
Speaker A:And for.
Speaker A:For my bae, my birthday and my brother's.
Speaker A:Oh, okay.
Speaker A:So it's Sandra's birthday.
Speaker A:And of course, Shalom is Esther Basaracho and her twin brother, Nehemia ben Sarah.
Speaker A:They should all have health and protection.
Speaker A:And protection for her boys, Yitzchak Reuven Ben Sholom, Esther and Avraham Kalman Ben Shalomis.
Speaker A:Esther.
Speaker A:Only tremendous brachas to you and the whole family.
Speaker A:Sandra, thank you very much for the sponsorship.
Speaker A:And of course, also special thoughts go out to our friend Jacob and Miriam, who's experienced some difficulty over the last little while, that it should all be a strengthening and a Rafua Fuhua Hanefesh or Fuhuas Haguf for Yaakov Ben Miriam and all those who need a Reform.
Speaker A:Okay, let's get going.
Speaker A:So we are starting a new Torah today.
Speaker A:There's a Torah that the Tayalb Torah soy and Torah Schaim have been learning already for a month or two.
Speaker A:It's Torah Samechaleph61 in the first section of Likut Imran in the BRI book.
Speaker A:We're looking at page 194 in volume seven.
Speaker A:Is yours.
Speaker A:194.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Okay, good.
Speaker A:And this is.
Speaker A:Okay, so a little bit about this, A little bit about this Torah.
Speaker A:This Torah was.
Speaker A: over on shabbos Rosh Hashanah: Speaker A:And so this is close to the death of Rabbi Nachman.
Speaker A:And it's widely considered in Reserv tradition to be kind of like the last will and testament of Rabbi Nachman.
Speaker A:And there's a few, you know, ideas in this Torah that really are fundamental.
Speaker A:We put the fun in.
Speaker A:Fundamental, right?
Speaker A:Fundamental to Yiddishkeit.
Speaker A:But to Hasidus and to really being a follower of Rabbi Nachman, there's some absolutely important things over here.
Speaker A:So Chaim says over here, the main themes of this lesson are emunas chachamim, that's faith in the sages and sadiqim mishpat, which is judgment and deriving true laws, rabbinical ordination and the transmission of wisdom to worthy recipients, worthy rabbis.
Speaker A:And then on the other side, the evil caused by giving authority and ordination to those who shouldn't have it.
Speaker A:The concept of astronomy and astrology, together with what is called over here, the so Ior is the Hebrew, which they call in English just because we need a translation from so.
Speaker A:So the English is the mystery of intercalation.
Speaker A:Oh, now we know what that means, right?
Speaker A:Yeah, we'll.
Speaker A:We'll speak about it when we get to it.
Speaker A:Perfect.
Speaker A:Counsel versus foolish advice, which we'll understand.
Speaker A:These are all amazing, amazing topics, by the way, machloikis, which is arguments, disagreements.
Speaker A:But it's going to be in the opposite way of what we usually.
Speaker A:What we usually think of it and the way it relates to sepharim Torah books, Hamtaka, zadinim.
Speaker A:That means mitigating judgments and constrictions and traveling to.
Speaker A:To the tzadikim for Rosh Hashanah, as well as simcha, ahava and achdus.
Speaker A:Joy, love and togetherness, oneness.
Speaker A:These are kind of the main.
Speaker A:The main points of this.
Speaker A:So there's a lot of.
Speaker A:A lot of history involved over here.
Speaker A:I'll just say, you know, I'll save it for when we get there, because just to know that every one of these steps is going to be something that's.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:It's deep.
Speaker A:It's kind of hard to give this stuff over, but we're gonna do our best like we usually do to.
Speaker A:Together, we'll bring it out in a.
Speaker A:Hopefully a good way.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:So, as usual, Rabbi Nachman starts this off with a quote.
Speaker A:This time it's from the Zohara Kaddish from the Idyaraba, which is a special section of the Zo Kaddish, where it's one of the Idra Rabba and Idra Suta are times when.
Speaker A:When Rav Shimon brought down some of the biggest and most important aspects of Kabbalah, as these two sections of the Zara Kaddish called Idraba and Idra Sutra.
Speaker A:So this is from the Idraba, and there's a very, very famous line in it, but we're gonna.
Speaker A:We're gonna go over it a little bit quickly because, you know, it's gonna be explained at the very end after we've spent time understanding all of the concepts.
Speaker A:So it starts like this.
Speaker A:Chadi, Rabbi Shimon Valmar, that Rabbi Shimon was happy and he rejoiced, and he said, hashem shemati, shemacha, yaresi hashem.
Speaker A:I heard your message and I feared.
Speaker A:This is a pasik from Habakkuk.
Speaker A:And incidentally, if you want to hear a really, really amazing song.
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Speaker A:I think it is one of these years.
Speaker A:And there's a song, Shem Shemati B' Shemacha Shemacha.
Speaker A:And it has these words and it's Mamish.
Speaker A:A beautiful, unbelievable song.
Speaker A:It's quoted in the.
Speaker A:Happens to be the SEM.
Speaker A:Say it out loud, right?
Speaker A:In the.
Speaker A:In Rosh Hashanah, that paragraph that leads up to the beginning of Musaf by Ashkenazim.
Speaker A:Usually the Chazm just says it quietly to himself, right?
Speaker A:But by the SEM, they say it out loud in an incredibly beautiful way.
Speaker A:So this song by Isha Ribo.
Speaker A:I'm plugging Isha Ribo here, guys.
Speaker A:It's a.
Speaker A:It's an advertisement, but it has like three or four different semic.
Speaker A:Who are saying over these different sections of this.
Speaker A:And it's gorgeous.
Speaker A:It's beautiful.
Speaker A:So Isha Ribo elul tuy and hey or pay or tay.
Speaker A:Sorry T.
Speaker A:And hey or.
Speaker A:I don't know what it is, but you'll find it.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Hashem.
Speaker A:So I feared Omar som yo is heavy over there.
Speaker A:You were right to fear.
Speaker A:But it continues on to say the rest is not quoted in the Hebrew of the.
Speaker A:But the English brings it.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And there you're right to fear, however, but.
Speaker A:But we.
Speaker A:Our whole.
Speaker A:The entire thing is dependent on love by us.
Speaker A:We are people of love.
Speaker A:This is what, this is what Rabbi Shimon said.
Speaker A:It was right to fear over there in that situation.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:So this is something that we always say.
Speaker A:This is.
Speaker A:This is.
Speaker A:He said to the Chava Kadisha, he said to his holy followers, all the people that were assembled together at the Idraba happens to be also that he had.
Speaker A:You know, there's a.
Speaker A:He had one of the main rabbis on his right and his son was on his left.
Speaker A:And they were forming this.
Speaker A:This.
Speaker A:This aspect of the center, the right and the left.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And from this they were able to draw down some of the deepest secrets.
Speaker A:We're going to speak about this whole situation of Idraba at the very end when.
Speaker A:When he explains this.
Speaker A:But for now, we're going to kind of leave it aside.
Speaker A:So he quotes the rest of it, this other aspect of it in English over here.
Speaker A:Let's hear it.
Speaker A:Rabbi Shimon opened the lesson and said, he who goes around gossiping reveals secrets, but a trustworthy spirit conceals the matter.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:He goes around gossiping.
Speaker A:This is someone whose spirit is unsettled and who is untrustworthy, for his is not a settled spirit.
Speaker A:So someone whose spirit is not settled, they go around and they gossip, and they're not settled, so they're going around and gossiping.
Speaker A:This is one aspect.
Speaker A:But someone whose spirit is settled, of him it is written.
Speaker A:But a trustworthy spirit conceals the matter.
Speaker A:Okay, that's the beginning part that we're going to get back to at the end.
Speaker A:So let's dig right in.
Speaker A:Page 194, or on some it might be 196.
Speaker A:It starts with Ayode Amunas chachamim yoch ichodin lahoytzi mishpateinu laor.
Speaker A:Through emunas chachamim, faith in the sages, we are able to bring out our mishpat to light.
Speaker A:So mishpat, we're not going to translate yet.
Speaker A:Well, let's translate it, but we're not gonna through while we're saying the Torah.
Speaker A:We're not going to translate it necessarily.
Speaker A:Mishpat means judgment or law.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:I mean, judgment or law, really, that's the main thing that means.
Speaker A:And a mishpat is something that, you know, that's like a decision sort of.
Speaker A:Okay, mishpat.
Speaker A:So through having emunas chachamim, faith in the sages, we are able to bring out our mishpat to light.
Speaker A:Mishpat hu amudem t' issa.
Speaker A:We're gonna read this first paragraph and then go back and explain.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Because mishpat is, this aspect of judgment or law is the center pillar, which is the middle path.
Speaker A:Center pillar, middle path.
Speaker A:It doesn't lean towards the right or the left.
Speaker A:And this we merit to attain through, through faith in the sages, like the posse says in the Torah, do not turn away or deviate from that which they will tell you.
Speaker A:Right or left?
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:This is a famous pasuk in the Torah.
Speaker A:And Rashi famously says over there, he says that even if they tell you that right is left and left is right, listen to them.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Okay, we're gonna get.
Speaker A:Don't worry.
Speaker A:We're gonna get deep into this, but we got to get the surface level first.
Speaker A:Through this, therefore, through this, our mishpat will come out.
Speaker A:Our judgment or law will come out clear kanal, as we said, which is going to be something called mishpate emes, true judgments, true mishpatim.
Speaker A:Okay, so in a couple paragraphs from now, we're going to get to discuss this aspect of something that's called moisturice, which means.
Speaker A:It means excrement.
Speaker A:Like the stuff that we expel from our body.
Speaker A:And it also means things that are extraneous, things that are not necessary.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And this is going to be sort of the antithesis to the middle path to amun is going to be this aspect of excrement and extraneous things.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:With that in mind, I want to go back now and talk about what we just said.
Speaker A:So Bin Ahmad is telling.
Speaker A:Is telling us something that's very big over here that through a munis.
Speaker A:So first of all, what is amuna?
Speaker A:What does it mean?
Speaker A:So first of all, the idea of emunah, right?
Speaker A:Emuna means, you know, something that we always like to say over here that emunah comes from this, the word of being an artisan, an expert in something, an omen or an oman.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Someone who's.
Speaker A:Who has an ability so intrinsically part of themselves that they can just do it.
Speaker A:They can paint amazing paintings.
Speaker A:But there's no giving over information how to do it.
Speaker A:It's not something that you can just tell someone how to do it.
Speaker A:Here, just use these colors, these brushes.
Speaker A:Here's the canvas.
Speaker A:Go ahead, just paint it.
Speaker A:It's not going to happen.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:Yeah, and.
Speaker A:But it's something, it's part of them.
Speaker A:It's just.
Speaker A:They can just do it, right?
Speaker A:Like, what other example do we use all the time?
Speaker A:Musician is a good example.
Speaker A:When it's just in them, they can just.
Speaker A:You just.
Speaker A:You can just do it.
Speaker A:You can just do it, right?
Speaker A:Riding a bike is a good example.
Speaker A:When you know how to ride a bike, you just know how to do it.
Speaker A:And can you give that information over to anybody?
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Like, you know, like I always like to say, you could be.
Speaker A:You could have two physicists who are geniuses in physics and one could write a whole treaties on how to ride a bike and the balancing and the equations and everything and the speed and everything that's necessary to make the bike ride, right.
Speaker A:And when the second physicist gets on the bike, he's gonna fall flat on his face and break his thick glasses, right?
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Because you can't teach it.
Speaker A:You just.
Speaker A:It's something that's part of you.
Speaker A:So when we talk about emunah, at least in our circles, we like to say that emunah isn't just, you know, I heard something, I liked it, so I'm doing it.
Speaker A:It's not an intellectual decision.
Speaker A:Many people think that emunah means, means having.
Speaker A:Emunah means that I believe that God exists.
Speaker A:That's not emunah at all by us.
Speaker A:Emunah is when it becomes part of me.
Speaker A:And this is my life.
Speaker A:This is how I live now, right?
Speaker A:It's just, it's the way my, my, my.
Speaker A:My body and my soul react in the world.
Speaker A:That's what emun is.
Speaker A:Are, you know, sages, tzadikim, you know, rabbanim, some aspect of these types of things.
Speaker A:So, you know, there's.
Speaker A:Do you ever have this thing, you ever hear about this, where someone has a question, a question in halacha that they have to ask, and they're like, they have a certain rabbi, but they're like, I'm not going to ask my rabbi, because if I ask my rabbi, I think he's going to tell me to do, right?
Speaker A:So I'm like, who's that rabbi in the city who allows people to do this, right?
Speaker A:And then they call that rabbi, right?
Speaker A:So what does that mean?
Speaker A:That means that there's no.
Speaker A:This is not existing, this idea.
Speaker A:That's not.
Speaker A:I'm not living with emunah in my.
Speaker A:So really, you know, I want to say like this, because this is.
Speaker A:It's a complicated Torah and there's going to be lots of things that line up.
Speaker A:But, but, but there's a, there's a.
Speaker A:This Torah, Ramachman, for you to set it like this.
Speaker A:It's a good, It's a good way to say it.
Speaker A:It's a Torah is all about alignment.
Speaker A:It's all about aligning ourselves in the right way.
Speaker A:And you see from the beginning, we're talking about center versus right and left alignment.
Speaker A:But in.
Speaker A:When I'm aligning myself in the center versus right or left, which we haven't explained yet.
Speaker A:I know, right?
Speaker A:But I'm.
Speaker A:I'm.
Speaker A:I'm underneath or standing behind me is a tzadik atam, right?
Speaker A:Who is my.
Speaker A:Who is giving me his guidance, who I have full emunah in.
Speaker A:And you know, I have the temptation.
Speaker A:This is the problem.
Speaker A:I have the temptation to go right or left, right?
Speaker A:Like the guy I'm talking about right now who wants to ask the question, but he won't ask his rabbi.
Speaker A:He wants to ask the rabbi who he knows is going to allow it, right?
Speaker A:There's a funny situation, and it's not that funny, but most people hold that.
Speaker A:You can't kasha a dishwasher, right?
Speaker A:Most people hold you can't kasha a dishwasher once if a trif dishwasher, you can't.
Speaker A:You can't cash it, right?
Speaker A:But there's one.
Speaker A:There's one rabbi in the city.
Speaker A:I'm talking about the more Haredi world, right?
Speaker A:There's one rabbi in the city, big rabbi.
Speaker A:And he allows people.
Speaker A:He has this thing where he allows people to.
Speaker A:Kashura, dishwasher, right?
Speaker A:So I remember when I first moved to the city, I was newly married and I moved into a place and this question came up, what can we do about a.
Speaker A:About a dishwasher?
Speaker A:And people were like, wait, you gotta ask this rabbi.
Speaker A:Go ask this rabbi.
Speaker A:Don't ask anyone else.
Speaker A:Ask this rabbi.
Speaker A:Because this rabbi lets you.
Speaker A:Lets you do this, right?
Speaker A:Okay, you know, maybe in this case, it's not so.
Speaker A:It's not.
Speaker A:It's not so bad.
Speaker A:But why am I doing that?
Speaker A:I'm not doing that because I'm centered.
Speaker A:And I just want to.
Speaker A:I want to receive wisdom.
Speaker A:I want to receive the transmission coming from, you know, God to Moshe Rabbeinu, to Rab Shimon, you know, to all the tzadikim, to the.
Speaker A:To the arizal, to everything, to like, to my rabbi, who was above me.
Speaker A:I want to just receive what's supposed to be right.
Speaker A:This is not that at all.
Speaker A:This is like I have all of these things pulling me to one side.
Speaker A:I want to.
Speaker A:I don't want to spend the money on a new dishwasher.
Speaker A:I want to save the money, right?
Speaker A:And I want to be able to.
Speaker A:I don't know, it's probably mostly money, right?
Speaker A:I want to have a dishwasher.
Speaker A:I don't want to have to do the work of washing dishes, right?
Speaker A:So I have all these things that are pulling me now.
Speaker A:I want to go and ask someone else.
Speaker A:To the extent that I'm abandoning my usual source of wisdom, because I want this right?
Speaker A:And this is a very, like, nice story.
Speaker A:There are much worse things that people do, of course, in this realm.
Speaker A:What do we have pulling us right and left?
Speaker A:The beginning of this Torah is a munizkichamim and about being centered and not going to the right and left.
Speaker A:So I want to point something out that one of the things we said over here is the Rachman listed two things that mishpat is called the amuda de imtz Isa.
Speaker A:That means the center pillar.
Speaker A:Then right away, he says, which is the middle path.
Speaker A:So one of the ways that I've been understanding this.
Speaker A:And we'll see, you know, I have to give the caveat that we always give that when we're trying to understand.
Speaker A:Rabbi Nachman, I'm telling you, the way that I'm seeing it, the way that the Rabbi Nachman is speaking to me.
Speaker A:I'm not saying this is what he said.
Speaker A:This is what he meant exactly.
Speaker A:Rabbi Nachman was way, way, way, way above us all.
Speaker A:This is the way that I'm seeing it over here.
Speaker A:If you don't like it, that's completely fine.
Speaker A:You can take it up with management.
Speaker A:That's me.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:And if.
Speaker A:And if we.
Speaker A:If we get further into the Torah and we change our mind, we're open to this.
Speaker A:I'm happy to be wrong, but this is the way we're starting.
Speaker A:Okay, good.
Speaker A:This is.
Speaker A:This is.
Speaker A:This is.
Speaker A:This is the way we're starting off.
Speaker A:We're making a mahalach in the Torah.
Speaker A:We're making a way, a pathway, this Torah.
Speaker A:So Amur, Adams, Isa and Amud, a pillar.
Speaker A:What is it?
Speaker A:It's a few things that is awesome.
Speaker A:First of all, it's something that is very strong and doesn't move.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:It's stationary.
Speaker A:It's strong, it's powerful.
Speaker A:It holds up an entire building, a pillar.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Not only that, it also connects the bottom to the top.
Speaker A:It's a connector.
Speaker A:So it's a connector, and it is a strong, strong source of support.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:This is what a pillar is.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So in regards to, I want to say that the fact that we're calling it the Murudem Tsi Isa is because emunatim represents kind of like our security.
Speaker A:It's like our home base.
Speaker A:It's like the place we always can go back to to be secure, to be grounded, to be at home, you know, when we don't know what to do.
Speaker A:This is a lot of what this Torah is about.
Speaker A:When we don't know what to do, we're confused.
Speaker A:And our own lives, our own olam haze, our own gashmiyas, our own midas that are all over the place, are pulling us right and left, all over the place, and we don't know what to do.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:The Amunas Chachamim is something that can give us clarity, can be like, stop, stop, stop it.
Speaker A:Go like this.
Speaker A:Just go in this way.
Speaker A:This is the path for you, right?
Speaker A:This, this.
Speaker A:And it's.
Speaker A:It's like a.
Speaker A:So it's supportive, it's secure, it's something.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And so I view it as like, amun is our whole.
Speaker A:It's our whole tradition.
Speaker A:It's the entire Masorah of Judaism comes through all the Chachamim, you know, this.
Speaker A:That we have from the time of Moshe Rabbeinu and before our.
Speaker A:Our Our.
Speaker A:Our.
Speaker A:Our Torah is so powerful that we know we have list of every single person in the chain of transmission of the Torah from Mishrabbenu to us here.
Speaker A:Now we have the whole thing, right?
Speaker A:We know who they all were, you know, And.
Speaker A:And this represents a downloading of wisdom from Hashem to us, not only through history, even now, when we, when we go about living our lives in the right way with the munas hachamim, and through Torah, we are able to draw onto ourselves a certain aspect of wisdom which is what this Torah is all about, we're going to see much later on.
Speaker A:That's why the pillar also is a connector from above to below, connects us to Akadosh, Baruch, Hu, and enables us to draw down the wisdom that we need now into our lives.
Speaker A:Because I don't know about you guys, but do you ever have.
Speaker A:Do you ever have times when you don't know what to do and you're going crazy?
Speaker A:Which way should I go?
Speaker A:What should I do?
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:And your decision making is very difficult, especially if you're in the.
Speaker A:In the camp of the overthinkers, right?
Speaker A:You're gonna.
Speaker A:You're gonna be driving yourself crazy.
Speaker A:What's gonna be.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And, you know, Amuna's chamele helps us with this next.
Speaker A:So that's amuna dempsissa, Derek Hamutzah.
Speaker A:You know, I want to say, once we have that, that, that home base, that security now we're.
Speaker A:Now we're moving.
Speaker A:We're moving through life.
Speaker A:We're on the.
Speaker A:Derek, we're on a pathway.
Speaker A:And as we're going through life now, we're not just sort of in that, in that, in that place of security now, we have to also make sure that on our path, that we're going in the middle, that we're not allowing ourselves to be pulled to the right and pulled to the left and going in all these crazy places, right?
Speaker A:So we have the home base of munas hachamim, which helps to guide us on our journey through life as we go.
Speaker A:That's one aspect.
Speaker A:Let's talk about the word mishpat.
Speaker A:Okay, guys, Mishpat, we said it means judgment.
Speaker A:It means law.
Speaker A:Sentence.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker A:So sentence.
Speaker A:It's the same in English and Hebrew, right?
Speaker A:I'm saying, like, like, yeah.
Speaker A:So, like, it's like, it's the same thing.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:Discernment?
Speaker A:Discernment.
Speaker A:There's an aspect of discernment, for sure.
Speaker A:So, so put.
Speaker A:Put these things together.
Speaker A:Judgment, law, sentence, right?
Speaker A:All these things, they're all from the word mishpat.
Speaker A:What's a shoifet?
Speaker A:A judge, Right?
Speaker A:Who makes a mishpat is a shoifet, is a judge.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So I love to think about it in this way, right?
Speaker A:What are the mishpatim that we have to make over here?
Speaker A:He starts off by saying, through having a munas hakamim, we're going to be able to bring out our mishpat to light.
Speaker A:To light.
Speaker A:That means it was hidden, it was in darkness, it was wherever it was, right?
Speaker A:And then we said that this is what mishpat is.
Speaker A:Mishpat is the murudemsisa, that it doesn't go right or left.
Speaker A:And then we said through this, we're going to be able to not go right or left like the pasik says.
Speaker A:Then we're going to have this aspect of mishpate emes, true judgment, and we're going to see something.
Speaker A:I'll give you a hint or a preview.
Speaker A:The next thing he's going to say about the word mishpat is that we have to derive from everything that we're involved in.
Speaker A:We're going to see, because it's a big lesson.
Speaker A:Mishpatei han hagus, which means judgments or laws of the way I govern myself.
Speaker A:It has to come out like this, right?
Speaker A:So, guys, I want to say like this.
Speaker A:This is the way I say this.
Speaker A:Me, Naqman is telling us that we are all.
Speaker A:We all have to be a shoifeit.
Speaker A:We all have to be a judge.
Speaker A:This we do all the time, constantly.
Speaker A:We're going through our lives and we are faced with situations and we have to be a shoifet.
Speaker A:What am I going to do over here?
Speaker A:What should I do?
Speaker A:Should I.
Speaker A:Should I go this way?
Speaker A:Should I go that way?
Speaker A:We haven't talked about really what's this way and that way yet, but we'll get to it, right?
Speaker A:But we have to decide.
Speaker A:We have to make a decision every time.
Speaker A:We have to make a decision in our lives.
Speaker A:What am I going to do?
Speaker A:What's going to be my.
Speaker A:My mishpatehaga?
Speaker A:How am I going to govern myself?
Speaker A:How am I going to live my life?
Speaker A:Who do I want to be?
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Who do I want to be?
Speaker A:I have to make it.
Speaker A:I have to make a mishpat.
Speaker A:I'm a judge, I'm a sh.
Speaker A:I have to make a decision and the decision is a mishpat.
Speaker A:I think we could.
Speaker A:We could, for the most part, we could take out the word mishpat and say decision I'm faced with a decision, what am I going to do?
Speaker A:That's what we're talking about over here.
Speaker A:Anybody struggling with these things, making decisions, it's hard.
Speaker A:I've heard from a few people very, very recently this, you know, what should I do?
Speaker A:Should I go?
Speaker A:Should I not go?
Speaker A:Should I?
Speaker A:You know, I spoke to someone, not just someone that some of you are thinking of right now, who we know, but there's a.
Speaker A:I speak to someone who's, who's like a pretty long time recovered addict.
Speaker A:And we're talking about, like, you know, at some point in this person's life, they experienced something and they said, I don't want to live my life like this anymore.
Speaker A:This is not the way that I want to live my life.
Speaker A:And they made a decision at that point and they said, I'm done with this.
Speaker A:And this person for years and years and years is a gem, Mamish, an amazing gem.
Speaker A:But that's a decision that they had to make because you know what they were doing.
Speaker A:So let's dive into right and left for a second over here.
Speaker A:So right and left.
Speaker A:On the right side we have, in the surah, we have chachma and binah, right?
Speaker A:Chachma is flow, Binah is restraint.
Speaker A:Then a little bit lower, we have chesed and gevurah, which also is a flow.
Speaker A:It's a flow.
Speaker A:Everything flows.
Speaker A:Everything that's good, everything that feels good flows.
Speaker A:On the other side we have gvura, which is restraint holding back, right?
Speaker A:So pulling to the right and left.
Speaker A:From this view, there's a lot different ways to understand it also.
Speaker A:But in my life as a normal person, right?
Speaker A:So I get pulled in these directions.
Speaker A:A person gets pulled, right?
Speaker A:I want to, I want to relax.
Speaker A:I want to.
Speaker A:You know what I want to do?
Speaker A:I want to go here.
Speaker A:I'll tell you about me.
Speaker A:So I grew up when I was a teenager.
Speaker A:I had a family membership at a golf course in Winnipeg.
Speaker A:And I used to golf all the time and I loved golfing and I got very good at golfing, right?
Speaker A:I love that.
Speaker A:I used to be quite good.
Speaker A:Like I was hitting in the 80s.
Speaker A:That kind of not, not, not fantastic, but pretty good, Pretty good.
Speaker A:And I golfed and I loved it and I loved it and I loved it.
Speaker A:So, so fast forward now, however many 35 years later, right?
Speaker A:And I don't really golf anymore.
Speaker A:And one of the reasons is, is because, yeah, you know, I would love to go out and golf and, you know, enjoy the beautiful scenery and the weather and everything.
Speaker A:And, you know, people like to drink beer when they're golfing.
Speaker A:People like to smoke cigars.
Speaker A:I don't smoke cigars.
Speaker A:Again, my lungs can't take it.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:But, yeah, okay, I'd like to do that.
Speaker A:But you know what?
Speaker A:It takes like, four hours to golf a full game.
Speaker A:I cannot give in to four.
Speaker A:Four hours of golf.
Speaker A:I could.
Speaker A:I have decided, I've made a judgment that, that.
Speaker A:That I cannot allow myself to spend four hours golfing.
Speaker A:I just can't do it.
Speaker A:It's not.
Speaker A:I don't think it's the right thing for me to spend my time on.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So I haven't golfed in, I don't know, maybe once every two years.
Speaker A:If there's a charity thing, I'll go and do it.
Speaker A:But what did I do?
Speaker A:I have a pole to the right.
Speaker A:The right is the pole of Chesil, where.
Speaker A:And say, oh, you know what?
Speaker A:You love it, you're going to enjoy it and you'll walk outside.
Speaker A:It's going to be recreational.
Speaker A:Fantastic.
Speaker A:And, oh, have a beer, have a this, have that, you know, and the whole thing, it's all pulled to the right.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's where I would be pulled.
Speaker A:And that's a tremendous pull.
Speaker A:On the other hand, there's the gevurah, which, which balances that.
Speaker A:And if we have that balancing, that balancing act between the two things, we can come out hopefully in the middle.
Speaker A:And having the inyan of Amunaskhamim is what enables us to be able to be in that realm.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Like I said, is our entire Masra, the whole Talmud is emunas hakhamim.
Speaker A:All of halachah is Emunas chachamim.
Speaker A:We all live with this.
Speaker A:Even, like, subconsciously.
Speaker A:You keep Shabbos, keep kashrus, you know what you're doing.
Speaker A:None of it is clearly exactly written in the Torah the way we do it.
Speaker A:You are living the Masorah, the tradition that comes down from all of our.
Speaker A:That is living according to the Chachamim.
Speaker A:So with that, with the guidance of all of Torah, Shabbalpeh, all of the Oral Torah, all of the written Torah and the whole.
Speaker A:The way that it all comes down to us, this is how this is.
Speaker A:This is living a valuable and meaningful existence.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Or valuable and meaningful.
Speaker A:Or I can go and waste four hours golfing.
Speaker A:I'm so sorry.
Speaker A:People golf.
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker A:And now I'm probably being mean to them.
Speaker A:I feel bad.
Speaker A:I need some example.
Speaker A:What should I do?
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:But I can't do it.
Speaker A:Four hours.
Speaker A:It's Too much.
Speaker A:It's too much.
Speaker A:I need to do other valuable things, right?
Speaker A:So I know we're tangentifying a little bit over here, but one of the aspects of.
Speaker A:Is this, that.
Speaker A:That when we live according to the Chachamim, according to Torah, according to the.
Speaker A:The misara, that we have.
Speaker A:So if we do that, that means that everything that we're doing has value.
Speaker A:Everything that we're doing is valuable and it's not wasteful, right?
Speaker A:Everything we're doing is valuable.
Speaker A:So maybe instead of going and spend.
Speaker A:Spending four hours, go for.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So maybe I would have.
Speaker A:Instead of that, I would have done some learning.
Speaker A:I would have maybe spoken to some people to offer some chesed in that way, right?
Speaker A:Maybe I would have helped my wife out.
Speaker A:Maybe I would have davened, I don't know, good things.
Speaker A:Four hours.
Speaker A:That's a lot of time.
Speaker A:You could do a ton of good things, right?
Speaker A:So, but.
Speaker A:So what did I do?
Speaker A:I went, right?
Speaker A:And now I'm doing things that are not valuable, in my opinion.
Speaker A:So this connects us to one of the things we spoke about before, which is the concept of Maurice ras, which means excrement, which means extraneous things.
Speaker A:So we're going to get deep into it, no pun intended, probably in the next class.
Speaker A:But this four hours of golf is extraneous.
Speaker A:It's extra, it's not necessary, and it's not the end of the world.
Speaker A:It's not evil.
Speaker A:But you know what I missed out on?
Speaker A:4 hours of value of something that I'm taking with me for the rest of my life.
Speaker A:Something that I'm taking with me to oyum haba.
Speaker A:Something of value.
Speaker A:That's where emunis hachamim is going to lead me the other way.
Speaker A:Golfing for four hours is leading me to maisras, Things that are extra, unnecessary, things that I don't.
Speaker A:That are not valuable.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:People are gonna argue.
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker A:What if I.
Speaker A:What if I golf?
Speaker A:And I have.
Speaker A:I've seen people do this, by the way, and they have Bring a sefer with them.
Speaker A:They learn mishnayas while they're golfing.
Speaker A:I'm like, okay, getting somewhere.
Speaker A:Not bad.
Speaker A:Pretty good.
Speaker A:What if it's a charity golf tournament?
Speaker A:So the whole thing is for chesed, and I'm bringing my mishnahs with me, Me.
Speaker A:And I'm learning as we're going.
Speaker A:Okay, I hear you're starting to win me over, right?
Speaker A:It's becoming valuable.
Speaker A:But what if it's what you're.
Speaker A:You can do with your mother.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Together.
Speaker A:Now that is a great point.
Speaker A:That's a good point.
Speaker A:What if.
Speaker A:What if it's.
Speaker A:You have a mother who you need to honor and this is something that she.
Speaker A:That she does.
Speaker A:A good solution might be nine holes.
Speaker A:That's it.
Speaker A:Half.
Speaker A:Half, I hear.
Speaker A:So see here, this is a problem.
Speaker A:This is getting pulled away to extraneous things that are not valuable.
Speaker A:And we're going to see this is going to be huge in this Torah, this Indian of moisturize compared to value.
Speaker A:So that's a little example about what we could mean by being pulled to the right.
Speaker A:Whereas muniz khakamim, which means embracing the channel of wisdom and tradition that puts me into the place that I am right now, being aligned and downloading that into my life.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:I'm getting pulled there.
Speaker A:What about getting pulled to the left?
Speaker A:What could it be?
Speaker A:Could be numerous things.
Speaker A:But, you know, on the left hand side, we have restraint and strength and restraint.
Speaker A:So you can use it to balance, but it can also be too powerful on the left side.
Speaker A:And you can become a person who is.
Speaker A:Who is, who is too hard on themselves and on other people, who is controlling of other people.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So the ultimate gevura is to use that strength to exert control over people who you have no right to.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So it comes out maybe in ways of anger.
Speaker A:You know, a person who needs to be in control, that's the person who gets anger when things don't go their way.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:They.
Speaker A:They lose it and they go into cast incredible anger and yelling at people and.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Because I am.
Speaker A:I have a problem.
Speaker A:I have a mida that needs to be worked on.
Speaker A:And that is that I must be in control and things must be the way that I want them to.
Speaker A:And if they don't go that way, you're gonna hear about it.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:And so what's gonna happen?
Speaker A:That person is gonna end up being, first of all, too focused on these things that they need to go their way.
Speaker A:And they're gonna spend, instead of four hours golfing, they're gonna spend four hours making sure that everything is exactly like this and making sure that everybody else who's doing it wrong is doing it right, whatever.
Speaker A:And then they're gonna expect they're gonna be spending hours fighting and then making up from those fights and having to talk and work things through.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:It's all, once again, this we don't need.
Speaker A:This is not good.
Speaker A:This is not valuable.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Too much on the left can also be the same thing.
Speaker A:It's just one way to look at how we can have right and left.
Speaker A:Now.
Speaker A:You can apply it to everything that we experience in our lives, every part of our day.
Speaker A:We get pulled to taivas physical desires.
Speaker A:We get pulled to things that shut us off.
Speaker A:You know, like the scrolling to shut off your brain, right.
Speaker A:And to become a zombie so you don't have to actually have the strength to deal with your own life.
Speaker A:It's all going to the side and we're pulled always to the right and left.
Speaker A:Every decision we make, we're pulled either one way or the other.
Speaker A:And we on our own are not holding to be able to make that decision without our alignment with, from God to Moishe Rabbeinu to every rabbi, to our own source of wisdom, our rabbis and our teachers that are in that path with us.
Speaker A:That is what's going to keep us with the ability to live in this way.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Imagine all of the classes that we learned together from the Torah.
Speaker A:Rabbi Nachman, how many different decisions we have made in our lives because of the amazing Torah that we have.
Speaker A:Where have we decided to put our energy?
Speaker A:Where have we decided to remove ourselves from?
Speaker A:You know, we've made so many decisions based on the Torah that we learn.
Speaker A:And it's, it's.
Speaker A:I, I know I'm looking at every person that's involved here right now, online and offline, in person.
Speaker A:I've seen make like incredible growth and incredible decision making.
Speaker A:That, that is very different than it would have been, you know, many years ago.
Speaker A:Because why we're all growing, we're all learning, we're all aligned and downloading this, this wisdom into us because we have this.
Speaker A:And if we don't have it, it's gone.
Speaker A:And we're going to be all over the place.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Oh, so much to say.
Speaker A:Where are we holding here?
Speaker A:Okay, we're all just about out of time.
Speaker A:Not quite.
Speaker A:Okay, so let's, let's go on a little bit.
Speaker A:I'm sure there's more to say on this part, but we'll go on.
Speaker A:Let's just say like this.
Speaker A:We saw so far to bring our mishpat into light.
Speaker A:We had that from this we're going to have.
Speaker A:Our mishpat is going to be bar clear and it's going to be mishpate emes.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:True mishpatim.
Speaker A:True, true laws, true judgments.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So coming from, we have two places where it's going to come to or three places.
Speaker A:Baru, which means clear, and ems, which means truth.
Speaker A:So what's on the other side of that is darkness.
Speaker A:The other side of light is darkness.
Speaker A:The other side of clarity is confused confusion.
Speaker A:On the other side of truth is sheker is lies, falsehood.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So just think about for a second.
Speaker A:This could get scary.
Speaker A:And this could get.
Speaker A:This could get very real if you think about it.
Speaker A:I make decisions from a place of darkness sometimes.
Speaker A:Sometimes I make decisions that put me into a place of darkness, that I want to go to a place of darkness.
Speaker A:Sometimes I make decisions that.
Speaker A:From a place of a lack of clarity and, and that I just.
Speaker A:I don't even want to know.
Speaker A:So I go back into that place of, of non.
Speaker A:Clarity on purpose.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:What about, what about the decisions?
Speaker A:The mishpat of a chakra of a liar, right?
Speaker A:Someone who, who, you know, if you're not a person of truth, you're in trouble.
Speaker A:We talk about this a lot also, but a person who lies has to constantly make new lies in order to keep their lies going.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:It must be exhausting.
Speaker A:Just tell the truth.
Speaker A:Take it, be strong.
Speaker A:It's got to be easier, right?
Speaker A:But, but, but a person like this, a person who's, who's in a place like this will make decisions that are based on lies that bring them more into lies.
Speaker A:More, more and more into lies.
Speaker A:This is, this is where we can find ourselves moving.
Speaker A:Do we want to be in a place of darkness, in a place of confusion, in a place of lies, or do we want to be able to align ourselves in this way and to put ourselves in a place where we're going to go for emis.
Speaker A:We're going for clarity, light and truth.
Speaker A:It sounds crazy.
Speaker A:It sounds crazy.
Speaker A:Whatever.
Speaker A:I can't say the actual situations, but I just, I've seen just recently a number of people who are so buried in lies and, and you know, not just certain people, but others also so buried in lies.
Speaker A:And they just, they just keep going.
Speaker A:They just keep going with the lies because it's a sense.
Speaker A:It's easier for them to make that decision to live in a place of lies and falsehoods.
Speaker A:Hashem Yishmore.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So this is where we don't want to be.
Speaker A:Where we do want to be is light, clarity and truth.
Speaker A:This is what Emulham is going to give us.
Speaker A:It's going to help us attain.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:This is what we want.
Speaker A:Okay, page 198.
Speaker A:Let's.
Speaker A:Let's hear what's going to be the next big secret over here.
Speaker A:This is important.
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker A:How do we do this?
Speaker A:What does this mean?
Speaker A:All of the Learning that a person learns.
Speaker A:I'm going to translate this literally.
Speaker A:A person has to accept, receive, and bring out from them true judgments.
Speaker A:That it should not become a mishpat meukal, a distorted judgment, a crooked judgment, right?
Speaker A:So listen to this one more time.
Speaker A:The next part.
Speaker A:Dainu shayekabal vayilmad mikol halemudim shalomid mishpatei hanagas.
Speaker A:What does that mean?
Speaker A:How do we do that?
Speaker A:That we should accept or receive and learn from all the learning that we learn?
Speaker A:You heard me right?
Speaker A:Mishpatei hanhaggis, judgments of behavior, of conduct.
Speaker A:How am I going to live?
Speaker A:How am I going to.
Speaker A:Am I going to behave?
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So what sticks out over here?
Speaker A:Two things stick out over here for me very strongly.
Speaker A:First of all, I keep saying the word the churish of limud, of learning over and over again.
Speaker A:1, 2, 3, 4, 5 times in two sentences.
Speaker A:This word.
Speaker A:What do you mean all the limudim Shadam, Loymed, why don't you.
Speaker A:Why don't you tell me?
Speaker A:If you're talking about learning Torah, tell me.
Speaker A:You have to receive and you have to.
Speaker A:The same thing, right?
Speaker A:Ainu, he doesn't say that.
Speaker A:He's using this word.
Speaker A:All of the.
Speaker A:I'll translate it in this way and it'll start to take shape.
Speaker A:Probably the way that I'm thinking about it, from all the learning experiences.
Speaker A:That's what limurim is, all of the opportunities to learn.
Speaker A:All of the learning experiences.
Speaker A:Opportunities to learn.
Speaker A:Call all of the.
Speaker A:Of the opportunities that a person has to learn, he has to accept, receive, and bring out from them true judgment.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So what do you think it means?
Speaker A:All of the opportunities to learn.
Speaker A:I know you guys already know this stuff.
Speaker A:You guys are all totally on board with this kind of thing for sure already.
Speaker A:But it's a big experience.
Speaker A:Life experiences.
Speaker A:Life experiences, right?
Speaker A:So obviously the Torah is one thing, and the Torah that we learned from is one thing for sure.
Speaker A:But you know, every time I'm in a situation I have, and especially a situation to make a decision, this is an experience.
Speaker A:This is going to be a learning experience, right?
Speaker A:I was just on this crazy journey in Israel, going to these amazing places, first of all, then having to be in bomb shelters and having missiles fired.
Speaker A:Then I had to go on a boat to Cyprus, and then from there I did all these things, whatever.
Speaker A:I jumped in the ocean there, by the way.
Speaker A:And then, and then, and then Frankfurt and London, England, and then back to.
Speaker A:Back to.
Speaker A:Over here to.
Speaker A:To then through Iceland, to Toronto, like a whole Namish journey, right?
Speaker A:We're all.
Speaker A:We're on a journey.
Speaker A:We're on many stops.
Speaker A:And every one of these stops that we're on, we have an opportunity to learn.
Speaker A:Every single experience that we have we can learn from.
Speaker A:Not only that, we always like to say over here, right?
Speaker A:There's no such thing as failure.
Speaker A:What's a failure?
Speaker A:It's just.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:Just a learning experience.
Speaker A:It's an opportunity to learn.
Speaker A:It's an opportunity to learn.
Speaker A:A learning experience.
Speaker A:It's one of our limudim, right?
Speaker A:It's a place for us to learn.
Speaker A:So to be able to be macabre from all of these experiences and also through.
Speaker A:From the Torah, to be a macabre.
Speaker A:So we'll finish with this concept of macabre, and hopefully that'll be a marker for us to keep going.
Speaker A:So what does it mean to be a macabre?
Speaker A:This is really the key to everything.
Speaker A:We already said it numerous times.
Speaker A:But if I am living my life where everything has to be according to me, you know, and I'm going to decide who I ask my questions to because I want to lead them in the way that I'm going to get the answer that I want.
Speaker A:Who's.
Speaker A:Who's driving the.
Speaker A:Who's driving the wagon, Right?
Speaker A:I'm driving the wagon.
Speaker A:You know what the problem is?
Speaker A:I don't know where I'm going.
Speaker A:So I'm going to go to the right when I'm not supposed to.
Speaker A:I'm going to go to the left when I'm not supposed to because I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Because I'm not macabre.
Speaker A:I'm not receiving.
Speaker A:I am the mashbiya.
Speaker A:I'm driving the wagon, right?
Speaker A:So the first.
Speaker A:This word, I think, is a huge key over here.
Speaker A:A person has to put themselves into the place of being a maqaba.
Speaker A:I am a receiver.
Speaker A:I'm drawing down wisdom through this channel of masorah, through my Amunas, Chachamim, through all of the Tzadikim, and through everything down to the last, to my own personal mashpeem.
Speaker A:I am.
Speaker A:I want to be macabre.
Speaker A:And it's not about who's the rabbi, who's not the rabbi, who do I trust.
Speaker A:My nature is to be macabre from Hashem.
Speaker A:And I'm going to put myself in the situation where I can best be macabre from Hashem.
Speaker A:And that is through.
Speaker A:You know, people are often bothered when we.
Speaker A:When we're learning this concept.
Speaker A:But I don't like this rabbi or, or this rabbi doesn't know what he's doing.
Speaker A:Or, you know, this rabbi.
Speaker A:How do I know who to trust?
Speaker A:Whatever.
Speaker A:Okay, I hear one thing we have is, historically speaking, we have, you know, in history, everyone, all this, all the are validated.
Speaker A:We have the Gemara.
Speaker A:The Gemara is like all of the, all of the sages, right?
Speaker A:It's clear.
Speaker A:Everything basically down to the most recent previous generation.
Speaker A:After someone passes away, we know who they were, but during the time of their lives, we don't really exactly know who we connect to and who's the right people necessarily.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:But there is a way to find out if you have the right person to connect to.
Speaker A:And one of them is, is, does that person have a munaskahamim or are they a person of maisris?
Speaker A:If that person has a Munich hachamim, then what's, then what's happening?
Speaker A:He's lining up in that chain.
Speaker A:He is a person with imun al Khamim and he's following his person who is imunukhamim, and so on and so forth.
Speaker A:We're all downloading the same thing down to us.
Speaker A:You know, every rabbi needs a rabbi, but they need emunas hachamim and they need not to be involved in extraneous maestristic things.
Speaker A:This is how we can try to be sure that we're on the right track over here.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:But every one of those people is a Mab is a receiver in this, in, in this thing.
Speaker A:And just like you probably know, sometimes every person is.
Speaker A:The next thing he's going to say is this, that we have to bring out our mishpati anagas, which is our, our judgments of decisions and how we're going to govern ourselves.
Speaker A:This is leap ahead, but he's going to say to the person themselves and to those who look to me for Hanhaga, for how to behave and how to do.
Speaker A:And everyone probably knows that whatever place you are, you receive from someone who's above you and you give to someone who's below you, right?
Speaker A:Are we part of the alignment?
Speaker A:Are we a link in this chain or not?
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That's what we're talking about over here, right?
Speaker A:And it can only be if I'm.
Speaker A:If I'm trying to drive the wagon, like I'm saying.
Speaker A:This is my new term, by the way.
Speaker A:If I'm trying to drive the wagon and I'm the.
Speaker A:I'm the mashbiya corresponding to those who are above me, I'm done.
Speaker A:I'm done for.
Speaker A:If I look to the words of the gemara and I say, ugh, they don't know what they're talking about.
Speaker A:Yeah, that was, you know.
Speaker A:No, no, no.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I'm smarter.
Speaker A:You know, we.
Speaker A:We have modern technology.
Speaker A:We know better than they do.
Speaker A:Mockery and everything.
Speaker A:You're done for.
Speaker A:Forget it.
Speaker A:You're driving the wagon the wrong way for sure.
Speaker A:You're getting lost.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So the first thing is to be macabre.
Speaker A:Yeah, we're really.
Speaker A:Sometimes you can learn something in Torah, and the attitude with which you go into it totally changes everything.
Speaker A:You could go, you know, you learn Torah, you learn.
Speaker A:You learn Gemara.
Speaker A:What do you do?
Speaker A:You ask so many questions.
Speaker A:But if you're asking questions because it's from a place of mockery or from a place of, like, of this type of negative view of our.
Speaker A:Of chazal, Right.
Speaker A:So you're done for.
Speaker A:But if you're going in and you're asking the questions because you want to understand the truth, you know, you're in a different place.
Speaker A:Oh, we're right there, right now.
Speaker A:Okay, we have to hold it here because Maarive is now.
Speaker A:I think I'm probably late.
Speaker A:Yeah, my Rav is right now.
Speaker A:Thank you, everybody.
Speaker A:What did you got something?
Speaker A:Shalom.
