Kedusha in Consumption
1st shiur - R' Gedaliah Jaffe Likutei Moharan Torah 61.
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Okay, we are holding in the kutim samech aleph.
Speaker A:We're up to where it says all of these judgments, hein min hamoach.
Speaker A:They come from the intellect, from the brain, from the Mindachman quotes the posse with Shlomo Hamelech, where we know there were two women, two zonos came, and each was claiming to be the mother of a child.
Speaker A:And Shlomo says, look, take out a sword and cut it up in half.
Speaker A:So one says, okay.
Speaker A:The other says, no.
Speaker A:So Shlomo realized that the one who said no, that was the real mother, right?
Speaker A:So the posse continues, says, vayiru mipne hamelech kirol.
Speaker A:They saw kihokhmas Elokim Bekirbo.
Speaker A:He had the chochma.
Speaker A:The wisdom of Hashem was with him.
Speaker A:La SOS mishpat.
Speaker A:He was able to do mishpat on this.
Speaker A:Actually, the radak says something interesting.
Speaker A:The radak says, ki ro kiberov chachmoso yotsi leor mishpat.
Speaker A:Because of his tremendous choch mashlom was able to bring out the correct inn, like in this case.
Speaker A:So continues Rabbi Nachman Hu lifi hamozum.
Speaker A:A person's intellect is depending upon the food that they eat.
Speaker A:There's a relationship.
Speaker A:You are what you eat.
Speaker A:And when the body is clean, pure, then one has clarity of thought.
Speaker A:Vazai.
Speaker A:And then you could bring out proper mishpatim, han hogos yshvaros, and proper upright conduct.
Speaker A:So this is a very important theme that's discussed a lot in Breslav.
Speaker A:The importance of eating, how one eats, and the approach towards eating.
Speaker A:And to talk a little bit about this, I want to go through from the Sefer osef mechtovim.
Speaker A:These are the letters from Rabiav Mershechta Shlita.
Speaker A:And in the second volume here, he has the letter where someone was writing, writing about this Indian.
Speaker A:And he quotes Rabbi Nachman, our Torah Samakhalif.
Speaker A:He says, like this, the holiness of eating, that we have to make ourselves holy with what we're eating, right?
Speaker A:We're familiar with the famous Ramban parish's Kedoshim.
Speaker A:Not to be a novel, Rishu Satorah, not to indulge and to be a fresher.
Speaker A:And just, you know, make sure the meat has a good hasidish, and then just stuff your face with it.
Speaker A:Make sure you have a nice good wine with the ou on it, and then just drink a few bottles.
Speaker A:Obviously, that's not what the.
Speaker A:What the Torah is requiring from us.
Speaker A:Kedoshim to sanctify ourselves and what is is permissible to us at sadiqima kadmoinim kishahayimaschidun li khanis ba avodis hashemism.
Speaker A:Excuse me.
Speaker A:When the sadiq, previous generations would begin their, their entryway into serving hakodesh, baruch, husim, bekdushas, achila, they would start, they would put a very big emphasis on eating in holiness.
Speaker A:And then Riach b' sheka quotes from the Benish chai malitz aloshen chazal, a play on the words.
Speaker A:But again, it's not here to make a joke out of it, just to try to bring out, you know, they have an idea, say, which means that the yesod I'm about to say is emis, but don't like, you know, get so caught up on the drosha.
Speaker A:The chasmish did not say droshes.
Speaker A:He did not, he did not give drush at all.
Speaker A:Everything in chazonish is pure halacha.
Speaker A:They asked him why.
Speaker A:He says, because if there's no accountability to a drosha, then it's open ended.
Speaker A:Now on the other hand, you have gedolim, like the Hasim Seifer, whose droshos are very insightful and penetrating.
Speaker A:But he's coming from a place of shas and post game, not anybody who wants to get up and make a drosha can.
Speaker A:But here's what he says, like this, ein kiddush el mala bimokam sauda, that's a famous sogia, the one upsachim and kefalev, that you have to have the two connected.
Speaker A:But the Benish chai says like this, you know what the root of holiness is?
Speaker A:Im mis kadishim es atzmo be' kedusha's has' uda.
Speaker A:Beautiful idea.
Speaker A:Ein kiddush el b' machem su'.
Speaker A:Uda.
Speaker A:The kiddush, your kedusha is in a place where you're eating, you demonstrate, you work, you improve and you attach to kedusha.
Speaker A:In that place of suda, in that place of gashmius, the sunnah's food, the food, the drinks, sha' ayedei mazval av kedusha elo li yos tokhr.
Speaker A:Excuse me.
Speaker A:First, we call it taivas.
Speaker A:That's how a person, that's how a person can sanctify themselves in that place.
Speaker A:You would think, what's the highest level?
Speaker A:Where am I going to eat kirusha?
Speaker A:I'm not going to eat anything.
Speaker A:I'm gonna have a thynus.
Speaker A:I'm not gonna eat for the next 22 years.
Speaker A:No, no.
Speaker A:To eat again, not to overeat, but to eat appropriately, but in a way of control and in a place of kedusha.
Speaker A:So it quotes here I am berati she.
Speaker A:Maybe that's the opening.
Speaker A:Possibly.
Speaker A:Parshas kadoshim sha p she.
Speaker A:It's the root of everything.
Speaker A:Umevi od shami brings.
Speaker A:Shaharechu kodesh, ruhaniva atem gashmim.
Speaker A:Hashem is spiritual and we are physical.
Speaker A:Keitu is yabeg ruhaniva gashmi.
Speaker A:How can there be a merging of the two?
Speaker A:How can the physical meet the spiritual through Kedusha.
Speaker A:That's how we can elevate the physical and to make it into something spiritual.
Speaker A:The visionary has endured on Yism, never said this before.
Speaker A:So that's the yud.
Speaker A:And then the second word begins with a hey, right?
Speaker A:So that's thing.
Speaker A:So a lot of physical things have the letter yud and a hey in it.
Speaker A:Achila shtia bia.
Speaker A:So hashem, you should take these physical things and make them himmeldic.
Speaker A:The shemayim should rejoice, Heaven should rejoice in how you're taking physical things and using it in an elevated way.
Speaker A:And then the posse continues and says the earth will rejoice.
Speaker A:So that begins with a vav vi sagel and the hey har, that's a vav hey.
Speaker A:So lots of words like mitzvah, have the vav, hey Torah, have the vav, hey avodah, have a vav and a heinid.
Speaker A:So in these things, which you would think should be heavenly, vesogil, haaretz, bring them down into earth, make it real, make the Torah, make the avodah, make the mitzvah, make them real.
Speaker A:I think that's when the originals say his word, right?
Speaker A:That take the things that are seem to be physical and bring out the spiritual things and take the things you would think are spiritual and bring them down practically into this world.
Speaker A:But you know, practically for people like me and you talking about us, ein ha kevon has mai bachila hatzricha levris gufeinu chasa.
Speaker A:We're not talking about eating less than we need to do in order to have healthy bodies to eat with proper manners.
Speaker A:You know, some people actually work on themselves to use self control eating.
Speaker A:I've seen people put their fork down between each and every bite.
Speaker A:It's a pause, it's a mind thing.
Speaker A:But it shows that I'm not just one spoonful into the one spoonful, get it into My mouth as fast as I can.
Speaker A:I'm eating, but I'm eating with deirrets.
Speaker A:So I put the.
Speaker A:I put my shiva.
Speaker A:He actually read a book on etiquette, like how to hold a fork and everything.
Speaker A:That's another schmooze.
Speaker A:But okay, it's an idea about eating with aderech eret.
Speaker A:It's not just, you know, like we said many times already, right?
Speaker A:Who's the melech and who's the.
Speaker A:Even the melech?
Speaker A:I'm in control.
Speaker A:I'm in control over the food.
Speaker A:I'm going to eat it because that's what the chosh baruch hu wants from me.
Speaker A:He wants me to be healthy, right?
Speaker A:He wants me to enjoy the food, but I'm in control.
Speaker A:The eved is where the food's in control of me.
Speaker A:I can't say no and I just shove it.
Speaker A:I wish I could just lie down and have someone could hold my mouth open and just like pour it directly all into my mouth in one shot.
Speaker A:But never.
Speaker A:What can I do?
Speaker A:I have to shove my face as fast as I can.
Speaker A:That's not what we're talking about over here.
Speaker A:And in Chaimoharan it says like this.
Speaker A:His hirobeinuzal shalolecho hainu bimihiro.
Speaker A:Don't eat like a gluttonous person, right?
Speaker A:Like, like esav says rak lahar gil atzmu lecho be'.
Speaker A:Mesinis.
Speaker A:We should accustom ourselves, says Rabbi Nachman, to eating slowly sometimes.
Speaker A:And we're all guilty of this.
Speaker A:Sometimes we're not even focused on what we're actually eating.
Speaker A:You know, we have our phone out, we're checking emails.
Speaker A:On the other hand, like we're just absent mindedly just shoving food into our face.
Speaker A:But to be in control and to think about what I'm doing that I can.
Speaker A:This is ein kiddush el bemokum sauda.
Speaker A:Through my act of eating, I can bring kedusha out, right?
Speaker A:You wouldn't do that if you had an important person, you know, a business meeting or something like that.
Speaker A:You would be eating in a much more dignified, refined manner.
Speaker A:Supposition should always eat.
Speaker A:Even when you're sitting by yourself at your kitchen table, you have to eat in a refined manner.
Speaker A:Very easy to say for pelioits.
Speaker A:You think about in, in advance what you're going to eat.
Speaker A:Psychologists have told me that when people are struggling with weight loss and they are, you know, they overeat, whatever it is, it's an Indian, it's not Easy.
Speaker A:Not making fun of this.
Speaker A:It's a real thing that people struggle with.
Speaker A:But a person should, if they're going into a cafeteria, they should look at the menu in advance, know exactly what they're going to order.
Speaker A:Okay, I'm going to get a soup.
Speaker A:I'm getting a salad.
Speaker A:I'm walking directly over that.
Speaker A:I'm getting that.
Speaker A:I know what I'm ordering.
Speaker A:And I'm just going.
Speaker A:I'm not going to start looking around because that's already.
Speaker A:That's already a minefield.
Speaker A:Wait, wait.
Speaker A:You start looking at o.
Speaker A:Those croissants.
Speaker A:Those look good, and the pizza looks good and the sushi looks good and the sandwiches look good.
Speaker A:And figure out what you're going to have in advance and then resolve that, right?
Speaker A:And then that amount you resolve, you should eat it.
Speaker A:He writes, you should chew it well, chew up a little more than necessary.
Speaker A:Matovit.
Speaker A:That's a good thing, right?
Speaker A:The person who's gluttonous will just, you know, quickly swallow it as it brings it from chazal.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:These Bali taiva, they're called balanim.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:It's more in Khundi quotes here.
Speaker A:Now, by eating, by chewing, this is what you do with the teeth.
Speaker A:And if you don't chew it up properly, goes into the stomach, the stomach becomes sick as this, this causes, as Rabbi Nachman talks about that these putrid types of odors come up.
Speaker A:Let me.
Speaker A:I'm going to continue reading the Torah for a second because this is what he's referring to.
Speaker A:Ava, back now, in samaqalif, when a person is condemned to eating things that are luxuries, things that are excessive, things they don't really need canal.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:This comes as a result of the, of the pagam, the blemish they had in the faith in sadiqim and in the chachamim vazai.
Speaker A:This is what the.
Speaker A:This is what he's quoting.
Speaker A:So then these type of like, literally foul vapors go into the moch, and what it ends, he mixes up and it confuses.
Speaker A:It confuses his dasai, ein yokel, hoiti, mishpate ennes.
Speaker A:And therefore he's no longer to have these honest, straight mishpatim vazai, yoitzi, mishpatma ukal.
Speaker A:And everything becomes crooked, everything becomes, becomes distorted in that.
Speaker A:Yeah, that again, that's what everybody's talking about.
Speaker A:I'll go back to the letter for a second.
Speaker A:You chew well.
Speaker A:You chew even more than in dice.
Speaker A:It goes in like, like something dices, like, you know, porridge something's been chewed up.
Speaker A:Small, smaller pieces.
Speaker A:This is good.
Speaker A:This is good for the body and it's good for the neshama.
Speaker A:And now your das is shalit is in control.
Speaker A:You didn't pervert, you didn't compromise.
Speaker A:You didn't degenerate your das by eating like a behemoth.
Speaker A:It's control over the chomer velo.
Speaker A:You're the animal aspect of isn't in control because you ate how much you needed and you ate what you needed.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:Then he continues and says, under no circumstances, no exceptions, should you eat more than what you resolved, you're going to eat at that particular meal.
Speaker A:V' imrosh is lodail.
Speaker A:And you see, look, I'm still hungry.
Speaker A:Today's dinner is going to be a salad.
Speaker A:I ate the salad, but now I'm so hungry.
Speaker A:Yigmar bedaito shabasuda hashmiya yosef.
Speaker A:In your second meal, your next meal, you're going to increase.
Speaker A:But don't add more at this meal.
Speaker A:Avavasura zu loyotchel rak kam shekhi.
Speaker A:Only eat what you resolve you're going to eat.
Speaker A:It's a tremendous exercise in self control.
Speaker A:Zu eitze yeshore ma'.
Speaker A:O.
Speaker A:This is a proper piece of advice.
Speaker A:You think what dips you're going to have with this.
Speaker A:Fine.
Speaker A:In the middle of your eating, you're drunk.
Speaker A:You can't think straight.
Speaker A:In the middle of eating like an animal.
Speaker A:The im haye marin lo akherzman kamish oychov eichochel.
Speaker A:If they would show you like a video of how much you ate and what you look like in your eating.
Speaker A:Hay nimas beIN atmo.
Speaker A:You will become despised in your own eyes.
Speaker A:We don't realize it.
Speaker A:So this is a powerful thing that Rabbi Ako Mercher is telling us.
Speaker A:We want to eat properly.
Speaker A:Decide what we're going to eat in advance and don't break that.
Speaker A:Don't go against that.
Speaker A:You're ruling over it.
Speaker A:Nefesh.
Speaker A:You could prevent yourself from many, many unpleasant things if you would be ruling on this.
Speaker A:He brings from the arizal shakol leisa mi yisrois b' achilas ha adam bime achol shlot kiim lashin taiva.
Speaker A:He's eating extras, things like that.
Speaker A:Very strong idea here.
Speaker A:Okay, I'm not going to read everything.
Speaker A:I'm just going to skip a little bit because I want to end off with a tefillah.
Speaker A:We have to daven that we should have the proper siyata maya to internalize this idea of eating with kedusha continues.
Speaker A:Again, I skipped a little bit.
Speaker A:This is a big avoid over here.
Speaker A:And if you begin again, he started off his letter by saying that the tzadikim focused and started with this act of eating with kedusha.
Speaker A:Oy ver gamken alius viridos harbe kedera chabola tahir.
Speaker A:Life is a roller coaster.
Speaker A:You're going to have better days, you're going to have more difficult days, you're going to easier meals and more difficult meals.
Speaker A:But you did this, Masha.
Speaker A:Oyver Allah.
Speaker A:Everything's gonna happen.
Speaker A:It's gonna be good.
Speaker A:It really wasn't what it was supposed to be.
Speaker A:You know, you didn't eat the way you planned on eating, what you should eat, etc.
Speaker A:But if you had one small point throughout that meal, shalshvira sara a breakean o shel nimus veseder.
Speaker A:You ate with, with manners, in a controlled, refined way.
Speaker A:It wasn't the whole meal, but it was a part of it.
Speaker A:Yeda, you should know you've done something very special with this, that all these little things, these sparks, that nakuda tova that happened during the meal is going to be.
Speaker A:Is going to be combined with the others, and it's going to end up in a good place.
Speaker A:Okay, there's much more to talk about this, but I just want to conclude today with a tefillah, right?
Speaker A:We have to daven this up.
Speaker A:So from the kuta tefila Srebi Nassen says, help us.
Speaker A:You'd help us break this strong desire we have for eating.
Speaker A:In truth, completely, that we shouldn't be eating, to just indulge.
Speaker A:All of our eating and all of our drinking should be for your sake.
Speaker A:We should have the ability to occupy ourselves in Torah and we should have this idea, this ability to eat with the kedusha.
Speaker A:So again, that's what we're learning now in Samach Alef.
Speaker A:Just to go back, the rabbi now says that kolhamishpam hain min hamoach, that everything, all the mishpatim, come from the intellect and the intellect is directly connected to how and what we eat.
Speaker A:Okay, skoyach, everybody have a good day.
