Chukas | Likkutei Sichos Vol. 2

[00:00:00]Right.

[00:00:02]>> Is the mic on?

[00:00:05]And we are live. Bashem Sunday morning.

[00:00:09]Solward's house. Bashem. We had an amazing Shabas here. Shabas uh Kak which was Shabas after Gimlamas. And we had Tilus and Sudice and Fabangans friends here visiting all through the Shabas. There were thousands of people here in Cambria Heights near the oil for Shabas and thank you to those who visited us.

[00:00:38]It was very meaningful. It was meaningful to spend time with you especially on Shabas when we could [sighs] just focus on here and now without any distractions.

[00:00:51]Okie do. Um we're going to do para hookas and we do have a double para this year.

[00:00:58]tough as we say, but we're just going to do one at a time. Going to keep the live streams separate as we've been doing. Whenever we have two paras in a week, we keep them separate the way they are in in uh Alf.

[00:01:17]So, we're on page 331.

[00:01:20]We're on page 331.

[00:01:26]Hookas.

[00:01:30]Okay, here we go.

[00:01:34]I'm going to make a braha on my coffee.

[00:01:37]Just came from Shah. I was diving down at the aisle.

[00:01:41]It's still pretty packed down there.

[00:01:45]It's still a gimmel's crowd.

[00:01:55]Okay.

[00:02:07]Yeah.

[00:02:10]proceed [sighs and gasps] and medal in the teachings of our sages in connection with this week's para paras as the anov zing is there are three things, three miracles that sustained the Jews in the wilderness. Clouds of glory that was in the merit of Aaron.

[00:02:59]The well, the well of Miriam. Want to take a guess whose merit that was in?

[00:03:06]Well of Miriam.

[00:03:08]Miriam's merit. That's why it was called the well of Miriam.

[00:03:12]And the uh the mun the shamayim, the heavenly bread, the superfood, the perfect nutrition that was in the merit of Mosa.

[00:03:41]When Aaron and Miriam passed away, the So when Aaron passed away, the clouds left. When Miriam passed away, the well left. But then they came back in the in the in the of Misha. Okay. So you're following this these three things the clouds the well and the m mana they call it those were respectively in the merits of Aaron Miriam Misha when now Misha passes away last he's the last one to pass away when he passed away at the very end of uh when Aaron passes away the clouds leave.

[00:04:24]Miriam passes away. The the well leaves, but they come back. The clouds and the well come back in the merit of Moshe. So in the end you have all three of them coming in the merit of Misha isma.

[00:04:48]Now although isma is wisdom like it says actually that is the wisdom of the Jewish people in the eyes of the nations. When the nations see that Jews are smart why because we win a lot of Nobel prizes. No, because we have and yet interestingly the Reb points out we don't call it isma but we don't call it we call it and what doesra mean is malashra means instruction. So the word or the name that we refer to by is a means instruction.

[00:05:47]Everything, every detail is a directive, is an instruction in all times and in all places in day-to-day life. Okay, this is a very basic concept that we find repeatedly infed repeatedly throughout all of the that is not just information. Yes, it is infinitely wise information, but that's not all it is. It is practical instruction everywhere, every time, everywhere, and in day-to-day life. Meaning, it's not just like instruction in some weird abstract theoretical case that may or may not ever come up in your life. It's practical guidance everywhere, every time, and in day-to-day life.

[00:06:40][cough] Does haste this means [sighs and gasps] are you flipping the the button? It's not yet. I'm just giving you a heads up.

[00:06:52]>> Okay. Amazing. Does haste this means as not just the mitzvah are an instruction in life. Obviously the mitzvah he says the positive mitzvah and the negative mitzvah. Obviously, those are telling us what to do. That's what a mitzvah is.

[00:07:12]It's instructions what to do.

[00:07:16]The stories are also instructions.

[00:07:20]Are instructions for life.

[00:07:27]Think about it like this. Even the mitzvah are written in the context of a narrative.

[00:07:39]Think about it.

[00:07:41]Hashem speaks to all of the mitzvah in are couched within the context of a narrative of a story. Hashem speaking to Ma Misha telling the Jews. [snorts] So all the mitzvah come from stories and indeed all the stories are full of I don't want to say mitzvah because not like exactly technically mitzvah but instructions directions how to lift how to live um yeah [snorts] The mitzvah and just like the mitzvah, although they're written in in the context of a story, they are nevertheless still an instruction, a directive.

[00:08:41]The stories are also instructions because the stories are also part of and all of is instructive. It's very interesting insistence that is making the could just easily say look tah is called ta because there's a lot of instructions in it. No, not all of it is instructive but like a lot of is instructive. No, no. Reb insists every single thing in is instructive.

[00:09:07]There's nothing that's not instructive.

[00:09:09]And if something is a is a part of then it must be instructive.

[00:09:14]We're on the top full paragraph of page 332 is soam writes it clear and it's also found in the gamor maybe a little bit more uh as a hint.

[00:09:36]Tim there's no difference between the verse the sister of lighten was Timna and the Israel remember my I think it was my daughter Tableau had a school assignment where they told her to write an essay an her favorite Pik so all the girls in class doing is and I told her to do lighten Why? Because that's the whole point. You know what Timna is? It's it's it's like um genealogy of Asov's family. It's like so irrelevant.

[00:10:17]You would think and nevertheless that says that the lightn is as important not also important as important as Yeah.

[00:10:40]Although is one of the fundamental commandments of the Jewish religion and the verse the sister of lightness Timna is just a story a genealogy but they're both stories and they're both instructions and they are both Hashem's will and wisdom. Wisdom and will in Lebanon. So too, the story, the aforementioned story is also an instruction. What was the aforementioned story? I'll repeat it again. There were three miraculous ways the Jews were sustained in the wilderness. There was the clouds of glory in the of Aaron.

[00:11:27]There was the well of Miriam in the of Miriam. There was the mun in of Misha when Mir when Aaron passed away, they lost the clouds. When Miriam passed away, they lost the uh well of Miriam.

[00:11:39]But those two things returned the clouds and the wells the well and of Misha.

[00:11:45]That's it. That's the story. But it's not only a story. It's an instruction to us. What's the instruction? I don't know. You have to keep learning. We're going to find out. Don't go away.

[00:11:56]>> Base.

[00:12:01]Why does the bring the ra maybe because it's the force of the ra saying it as a ra is saying regarding the sanctity of that somebody who who who denies even what we might consider a a verse of secondary importance like look he's not tinkering with with with fundamentals if somebody would want to change you'd say that's that's completely off base what's the Timna, you know, and and if it would be missing from your safety, you even mention you'd even, you know, notice it.

[00:12:34]The three guys following in might might not says nevertheless.

[00:12:41]The rabb says, "Nevertheless, is just as fundamental to as there's no hierarchy. There's no such thing as more important verses, less important verses, parts of Toyota that have more relevance, less relevant. It's all equally essential.

[00:13:04]Okay? So there's nothing and that's also another thing in the Debb's worldview the way that Eba views ta also the way that views the world there's nothing trivial like literally everything the tiniest thing the most seemingly random thing has infinite meaning I think that gets that a lot from his father his father's style of learning was also to unpack all the details and just pull out layers and layers and layers of of significance.

[00:13:39]Okay, you want to keep going base.

[00:13:45]Okay.

[00:13:59]Um, these three things, clouds of glory, the mana, and the well, you know, I I dug a well at my house in Cedarhurst because we're paying too much money for the sprinkler. So, I had a guy come and dig a well. My kids came over.

[00:14:18]They were like, "What's going on here?"

[00:14:19]I'm like, "We're digging a well?" And they were just standing there waiting and waiting, waiting. They thought he was going to build like a well like in the stories like like like a stone thing around it.

[00:14:29]They're like, "When's the well coming in?" I'm like, "This is the well."

[00:14:32]They're like, "It's a pipe." Like that's that's what [laughter] it's a pipe with a metal pump at the top.

[00:14:40]>> Maybe we should add like the wishing well type aesthetic to the top to make it more exciting. Um >> 20 uh between 20 and 30 feet.

[00:14:54]It's a Yeah, for the M Shelano, >> now talking about the M Shelono uh well in the front.

[00:15:10]Um, yeah. So now my sprinkler system at home runs on wellwater and I asked him if he could do it here at the at the Soulward's house and he said, "No, probably not because in Jamaica you have to go like 50 feet and he doesn't have the tools for it."

[00:15:27]Yeah. Anyways, point is Yeah. So I was showing my I was showing my kids my kids were asking like, "How deep is it and I said, "Look at the roof of our house. You know that our house is probably 30 ft high." I said, "The the pipe in the ground is about as deep as the house is tall." Anyways, the point is that um they had the clouds of gloring that was for protection. They had the well that's obviously that's for water. You got to stay hydrated. They had the mun the superfood.

[00:16:00]Um so we understand what those things are.

[00:16:09]Clouds of glory were protection.

[00:16:23]They would kill the snakes. They would smooth out the uh the mountains.

[00:16:34]They also did little steam pressing of the clothes during the whole 40 years. Your garment did not decay or wear out upon you because they were freshened by the the the clouds.

[00:16:57]Megan all of the properties of the clouds have to do with um protection from outside.

[00:17:05]So whether it's uh smoothing out the the path from the hills and mountains or it's killing the snakes or it's keeping the clothing fresh. It all has to do with external stuff.

[00:17:22]Now the man was food. You eat it and you can make the taste like whatever you wanted.

[00:17:40]And what's eating? Eating is taking something into you, internalizing it.

[00:17:45]Okay. So you get the dis the distinction.

[00:17:49]Clouds are external protection.

[00:17:53]Mon is internal call it nourishment.

[00:17:58]Okay. So I have one category called protection have another category called nourishment.

[00:18:12]Water is not nutrition. Did you know that? It's a big misnomer misconception.

[00:18:17]Water is not a nutrient.

[00:18:19]I'm saying technically scientifically there's no nutritional value in water.

[00:18:25]Correct. So then what do you need it for?

[00:18:29]Ah makes the whole system work.

[00:18:32]This is so interesting.

[00:18:39]You cannot make an ad with water.

[00:18:42]I thought was with a string. No.

[00:18:46]Okay. Can we explain something? There's the mitas. You're talking about there.

[00:18:50]There's the mitz, a string, a wall, a gate, a fence. That that that's not the those are the makita. Once you have the mikas, you have to make an arov means to smush, to mush, to mix properties, ownership. The way you do it is by having communal food. You have to have food that the community holds in common ownership where anyone can eat from it.

[00:19:14]What kind of food? Well, anyone who probably the most common experience with with an ad of that people have is like eight of tilan. So you see you use a you use a matzah uh piece of fish. It has to be real food.

[00:19:30]What about a cup of water? I I love water. I love a refreshing glass of water. Can I use that for my native? He says no. It's not nutrition. It's not food.

[00:19:40]Water's important, but it's not food.

[00:19:42]It's not actual nutrition.

[00:19:45]So Toyota itself says water is not nutrition. It's not food.

[00:19:50]You see it because says you can't use it for an Yeah.

[00:19:59]is a dkim is amazing. You can only use nutritious food for an in water is not that is the function of water is to move the food around. No, it doesn't mean like there's a chicken bone floating around in your foot. It means the nutrients, all the cells of your body have to receive energy. That energy is dispersed by water. Water? I thought it's blood.

[00:20:40]What do you think makes blood liquid so they can move around and pump and bring nutrients to your cells? It's called water. Okay.

[00:20:48]Do I have to explain the whole biology over here?

[00:20:51]All right.

[00:20:54]I'm getting old and like cranky. I feel like Michael Savage who by the way he sponsored the the the library here at the soul's house or his grandfather.

[00:21:07]Do I have to explain to you how nutrition works?

[00:21:12][snorts] Yeah, he has to come here.

[00:21:22]Also has these three concepts.

[00:21:37]There's the as aspect of where is protective from the outside. There's the aspect of how it is nourishing into the inside. And then there's the aspect of the how it brings the two aforementioned things all around to all Jews. Gimmel we're in the second column of 332 bottom of the second column as is now we said before the word means instruction haste teaches us how to behave ourselves in So the fact that Torah guides us how to behave ourselves in life that's what the Torah gives us into amius in an internalized state when we're just like the just like the superfood knowing how he should how he should behave, how his family should behave, how his descendants should behave. That's what is as far as nutrition, like man, like food. It is guidance how to live.

[00:23:11]Now the aspect of which is compared to food actually is different from one Jew to the next is lighten because it's internalized then it's different for each person.

[00:23:36]You flip the page. Very good. Thank you.

[00:23:40]Do you understand why something that's an opinius, something that's internalized is going to have to be different from one person to the next?

[00:23:47]It's obvious, right? Because different people have different capacities.

[00:23:52]So when you talk about something that's internalized, so whatever it is that's being internalized has to be adjusted to the capacity of the one internalizing it.

[00:24:03]something that's not internalized does not have to be uh attenuated, adjusted, mitigated, modified. Um you know, then it's one sizefits-all.

[00:24:17]Like if you're going to say, you know, how much uh how much is a meal for a person? I don't know. Let me see the person. But if you say, you know, how big is a house for a person? I don't know. Make it as big as you want. It's not going to be a problem. It's not It's not the No such thing as too big. Okay.

[00:24:33]So, I'll have extra space. It's fine.

[00:24:40]Yeah.

[00:24:42]So, we said there's from one to the other.

[00:25:01]There was the differences in the way the man actually see we oversimplify it.

[00:25:10][sighs and gasps] There were people who had to grind the mun to process it. They had to process it by given righteous people. The the was ready to go.

[00:25:26]It was uh it was in a state that was ready to eat and by the it was not. So they had to process it. They had to grind it to make it fitting to eat.

[00:25:51]Now by the in contrast with the clouds and the water, there were no differences from one person to the next.

[00:26:00]There were only differences as far as how each individual experienced the vio is anmius. Why? Because like we said, man is eaten. It's internalized.

[00:26:13]And something that's internalized has to be adjusted to each person's capacity.

[00:26:22]Now, same thing as in there are such people says it's legitimate. There are such people that it may be that it's not possible for them to learn any more Tory than saying Schma the mitzvah and is a verse of Tory and that's the entire amount of Tory they're capable of learning throughout the day.

[00:26:59]There are other people who are obligated to learn to every single second of the day. No, it's a nice thing. It's an ideal thing. No, they're literally obligated. Why? Because that's their situation.

[00:27:17]And also, you can say this not just in but also in um mitzvah, not in the basics of the mitzvah because then everybody's kind of equally obligated.

[00:27:27]But hurim is where you add on to a mitzvah.

[00:27:32]mitzvah literally means to beautify the mitzvah doing it in a more beautiful way than isly required.

[00:27:44]Is in is in the points out actually there are some some beautififications in the mitzvah that if you're capable of doing it then you become actually obligated to do it.

[00:28:02]But somebody who's not able to do it, he's literally not allowed to do it.

[00:28:06]Even if like once in a while he would say, "Oh, you know what? I'm in the mood to do it." No, no, actually know your place. Don't do it.

[00:28:15]Why? Why would you tell a guy don't do it?

[00:28:20]Because could look arrogant.

[00:28:27]regular guy shouldn't do it, but a prominent person is obligated to do it and if he doesn't do it is that's a desecration of Hashem's name.

[00:28:43]God forbid.

[00:28:45]In other words, you see that there are different standards for different people. So that is the aspect of that is like food. Not everyone eats the same meal. Not everyone has the same nutritional requirements. Not everyone has the same uh um calories that they're supposed to take in in on a on a given day. There are aspects of tyra that vary from one person to another. Let's not pretend that it's all uniform exactly the same. People have different needs, different spiritual needs in accordance with their capacity. Okay.

[00:29:22]bottom of the first column of 333 is of Megan. Now there's another aspect of which is comparable to clouds. The clouds of glory which as we mentioned earlier the function of the clouds of glory was protection from outside. Okay.

[00:29:49]So we're contrasting. Man is food is internalized. You bring it into you.

[00:29:56]Clouds of glory is outside goes around you protects you.

[00:30:03]What is the aspect of that is similar to clouds of glory when you have to go out into the wilderness. What's the wilderness?

[00:30:22]This world is called the wilderness because this is a world of negativity.

[00:30:34]This world is a big vast scary wilderness that has no water.

[00:30:43]What is there in the world? There's clippers, which is like the verse says, snakes and scorpions.

[00:30:52]What? What am I gonna do about it? Of what?

[00:30:56]>> Lions and tigers and bears. Oh my.

[00:30:59]So, let's do it.

[00:31:08]by so what is the protection from that?

[00:31:12]What are the clouds of glory so to speak?

[00:31:16]The coak I'm a snafish the capacity for s self self-sacrifice which every single Jew has equally it's not like we were saying before that there are aspects of ta that vary from one person to to another depending on their abilities and their spiritual capacity. The snafish the capacity for self-sacrifice is present in every single Jew equally like the alterba famously points out in chapter 18 of Tanya even those who are not religious in their lifetimes we see that at a time of god forbid when push comes to shove they also have this capacity for self-sacrifice the word which means the Jewish It also means an individual Jew is an acronym for there are 600,000 letters in the [snorts] permissibility of a depends on every single letter is every single Jew even the people who are don't take their religion seriously.

[00:32:36]They have the ability to give it all up to surrender it all. [snorts] >> What?

[00:32:44]>> Oh, Jewish light. Kala column. Jewish light. Uhhuh.

[00:32:50]>> Column like light. They take it lightly.

[00:32:52]Yeah. And even these guys who take their Judaism lightly, they have the capacity to to sacrifice everything.

[00:33:01]Okay.

[00:33:04]man is what you internalize. Not everyone has the capacity to learn all day. Not everyone has the capacity to do every hit or mitzvah, but to be forkite, if that's what's required, um that every has the capacity. That's why we're saying it's like the protective cloud that surrounds us because something that surrounds you, it surrounds everyone equally.

[00:33:42]manuscled everyone from the time of the splitting of the sea until the time they entered the land of Israel.

[00:33:58]Think about it like this. This is a crazy thought. even the people who brought the idol out um you know there was a problem with idolatry later on. So these guys were uh not such good guys and yet they were protected by the cloud just like the clouds of glory surrounded them also.

[00:34:38]So there's also the aspect of TA which is cloudlike.

[00:34:42]It is the aspect of TADA which we say there are 600,000 letters in a safer which means that it's equally relevant to every Jew.

[00:34:54]It surrounds every single Jew from the greatest of the great to the least of the least.

[00:35:08]gives them the power of to get through the big scary desert. The world, not to be intimidated by the scary snakes and scorpions.

[00:35:29]To be ready for self- sacrifice.

[00:35:36]Like my father-in-law, the Reb said a story as the bomb in Va when they were dropping bombs in Warsaw. We're talking about in World War II when the feda was in Poland still before he got out is golafen bahalt.

[00:36:02]People were running and hiding.

[00:36:04]They were taking shelter from the bombs.

[00:36:07]Amoleik Aanskutza.

[00:36:14]So at one point there was a group of people who assembled in one place. Now you have to understand the nature of this wasn't like a normal assembly like where people get together and it was like a [laughter] schedule. They had invitations come to our house at this time in this place. There were bombs blowing up and people had to run for cover. So it was we'll call a very eclectic group. It wasn't a group of people who would normally get together.

[00:36:42]It was just whoever was I guess walking through the street and the bombs are blowing up and they're running into a cellar or wherever it was to to get cover from the from the bombs. So the feric describes this that he was in a I don't think it was even a proper bomb shelter but he was like taking cover from the bombs and there was a group of people Jewish people.

[00:37:05]So who was there?

[00:37:08]There were regular people there.

[00:37:10]There were simple people there and there were people who thought they were completely had nothing to do with Yiddish. I like the way that describes it. They thought they had nothing to do with Yiddishite. Meaning Jews who would God forbid but they would denounce their own Jewish identity.

[00:37:38]Virbe when a bomb blew up not far from them.

[00:37:53]They all in unison cried out.

[00:37:57]Very interesting. If you're going to say a group of people who davin together, they attend a shul and they're davening and they say together, what's what's the what's the novelty there? That's that's what they're there for. This was not a normal group of people. These were people who normally wouldn't mix. These were people who didn't ideologically have a lot in common, to say the least. And yet when they were all assembled together and the bomb was blowing up not far away, suddenly inexplicably all of them from the greatest of the great to the people who even to the Jews who even ostensibly said said claimed they had nothing to do with they were all saying together >> heard >> when they heard the bomb. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:38:44]Just I'm not sure if it was a few blocks away but yeah something like that. Yes.

[00:38:55]>> [laughter] >> When you're talking about what we call notes, not not even but what we call the essence of the soul.

[00:39:15]S is norm it's difficult to access it we'll call it that to tap into it but when you do access it usually through some really intense dramatic episode whether it's in a pleasant Okay.

[00:39:50]So at that moment everyone says Israel equally whether it's the Reb himself or even the what you call uh the weward Jews.

[00:40:27]The Reb points out it's possible the reason that this these people in this group called out was because they were in physical proximity to the Reb. And the Reb is called the namacus, a general soul, that means a soul that's connected to every other Jewish soul. And it could have been that their physical proximity to the sparked something Jewish in them.

[00:40:55]Very important concept here. Even if you're to say I could see some cynical, but I'm repeating myself saying, "Oh yeah, yeah. The reason they said is not because of their it's because they were near theba and if you're near the rebba you say the rebba says let me clarify something for you. Yes it could very well be that the rebba was the rebba's presence was the trigger that activated it. But what was the rebba activating?

[00:41:28]Something that was native to them. Their own their own essence.

[00:41:38]They said they call with their own essence.

[00:41:45]So I think it's a very important concept. Not going to get on a soap box.

[00:41:49]I will actually for 10 seconds.

[00:41:52]We just spent Shabas at the oil. I haven't even left yet. Actually, I've been here since Gimmel Thomas. I haven't gone home since Gimmel Thomas. Um well you know a home we see tens of thousands of people coming here to be in the daladamics of the reba the physical proximity and there's no question when people are here they are elevated to a higher level there's no question but I want to point out and this is from the rebba's own words and the rebba's repeated worldview that he expressed whatever it is that you find in yourself when you are near theb is yours.

[00:42:34]Don't think you're riding on a wave.

[00:42:36]That's for pale. The alterb fought with the other mag about what his kash should look like. In the end, they agreed to disagree. They said they said that the sadic does the and everyone else rides his coattails. The alterb insisted from the very inception of Kabad that no that the Reb will give you the tools like the Rebba said in the the first mimer in the first I will give you the tools but you have to do it yourself and not you have to do it yourself. You can do it yourself because you are equipped. you also have and I might I might point out also and the Reb said this from quoting the the Chernobyl that of every Jew is initia that's in every single Jew. So the Reb wanted you to find your inner Messiah.

[00:43:40]The Reb can support you. The Reb can inspire you. that can give you tools and direction, but at the end of the day, the greatness that you're looking for is your own. That's what we find here at the aisle. That's what's exciting about being half a block away is to meet people encountering their own greatness.

[00:43:59]We see this repeatedly.

[00:44:03]Okay. Um, hey.

[00:44:09]Yeah. bottom of 334.

[00:44:14]First column 334.

[00:44:19][sighs and gasps] He said, "Oh, do we have a group coming today next Sunday?

[00:44:26]I thought we had a Hana group booked. I saw a discussion of it like you're telling Table's a group coming. Can you make sure they're not coming today?

[00:44:36]Do you hear me?

[00:44:39]Are they coming next Sunday?

[00:44:42]There's a group coming a Sunday this month.

[00:44:48]Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is. Maybe look into it. Hey is now we we we explained what the is the food. We explained what the clouds of glory are. The food means the aspects of ta that are internalized differently by each person according to their level.

[00:45:21]Oh, July 26. Okay, fine. The clouds of glory is the aspect of which is equal by every single Jew because it's the um the essence.

[00:45:35]But then you need the you need the water to transport to move that stuff around so that it actually gets to you.

[00:45:56]Just like water descends from a high place to a low place, so too comes down from its place in heaven and comes down to the physical world and guides us in our physical lives.

[00:46:20]It's an interesting, it's almost like poetic, a beautiful wisdom in a loathome container because it's spiritual truth, but it's invested in uh lowly concepts, physical concepts.

[00:46:40]Tada talks about very physical concepts.

[00:47:17]Because comes down into the material world, it's possible for every single Jew to say verses from the written Tyra even if he doesn't know what it means or to learn the oral Tyra even if he only knows the very basic meaning of what it means and uh he has access to the aspects of the toyra that is like the m and the clouds of glory that's what the water part means the water part means that although to is hashem's wisdom and is seemingly beyond beyond beyond us. It comes down into terms that are relatable and that anybody can learn. Anyone can open up uh and understand the scenarios that it's describing there, right?

[00:48:13][cough] [clears throat] Yeah.

[00:48:23]The spies just like water carries nutrition to all the parts of the body.

[00:48:52]Similarly, that aspect of the TA that's like water, meaning the aspect of TA that allows it to descend into relatable material concepts, that aspect of TA draws down the other aspects of TA, the mun level and the clouds of glory level to all of the camp of the Jewish people, meaning to every individual man and woman for everything that they need VV.

[00:49:30]We're on the second column of 334 towards the bottom of the column.

[00:49:44]Now, we're going to understand why each of these three miracles were related to these three specific figures.

[00:49:54]What is the relationship?

[00:50:10]Misha was the shepherd and he would uh provide for every individual according to their capacity.

[00:50:29]when he was shephering the sheep.

[00:50:41]He gave the little sheep soft grass.

[00:50:50]He gave the big sheep thick and strong grass.

[00:50:54]>> [snorts] >> Can you imagine sorting through grass and picking out the right kind of grass for each kind of sheep is an Indian because grazing when sheep eat grass that's something they have to internalize literally they bring it into their body.

[00:51:20]So it has to be appropriate for each one.

[00:51:29]That's why the man which represents the as aspect of that we internalize that's connected to the figure of Mosa because Mosha was the shepherd and the shepherd means the one who understands the different capacities of each individual and is able to adjust that which he gives to each individual to make sure they get the right thing is given.

[00:51:58]Now let's talk about Aaron. Aaron famously loved everyone even the bri does haste.

[00:52:12]Even people who are called bri creations he loved them. What does it mean when someone is called a creation? It means you can't find anything redeeming any quality.

[00:52:25]>> Yeah. You can't find any redeeming quality about them.

[00:52:30]Yeah, we've they're very good. We've had this at least a couple times in base this idea of and the Reb will say means people who they have no redeeming factor to be said about them other than the fact that Hashem made them. And you know what you might normal people the rest of us we may be able to tolerate the bri. Okay, fine. Hashem created them. I could tolerate them. Aaron loved them. He loved them.

[00:53:04]I'm not up to that. Aaron's up to that.

[00:53:07]Okay.

[00:53:19]That's why it says when passed the entire house of Israel mourned for him cried for him for 30 days was and dustit doesn't say that about others the reb is very aal doesn't say it about misha what is the ringing by the way phone ringing I hear a phone ringing I definitely hear a phone ringing. Okay.

[00:53:49]Um, it says about Aaron that they mourned him the whole [laughter] house of Israel for 30 days. Doesn't say it about was able to make everybody have a a yearning to do mitzvah even if on their own they wouldn't have that.

[00:54:27]That's why the clouds of glory appeared in the merit of arin because everything is measure for measure is vbal. Yeah, it's not just punishments are measure for measure. I love how people obsess with every punishment. They love to say measure for measure. What about good things? Good things could also be measure for measure. In other words, was excellent in the area of treating everybody equally. Even people who are bri, he treated them with with an equal amount of love as uh people who are on a very high spiritual level. And therefore the clouds of glory appeared in the merit of iron because the clouds of glory equally encompass everyone from the biggest to the smallest. So it was very uh mid and mida was very appropriate just like Aarin gave everyone the same treatment. The clouds equally encompass everybody.

[00:55:20]Yeah, the air is given on his kalus. We said before that man is with hisus. It has to be because you internalize it. So you have to get the right portions. But the clouds surround you. So it's without his without aortioning.

[00:55:50]So he was the one who brought down the clouds of glory which equally encompassed everyone.

[00:55:57]Miriam okay we have Miriam now as do is Miriam was also called Pua. You know about Shiffra and Pua that was Yav and Maria was you know who they were Shiffra and Pua they were the midwives in Egypt who par told them to kill the babies and they didn't do it to the contrary they took care of the babies so Miriam is poet she was the who dedicated herself to raising little kids in Egypt.

[00:56:43]Why she called Miriam is given because she was in the most difficult time of exile.

[00:57:00]Um that's why she said this uh prophecy that um she was the one that she said uh when when her her brother Misha was born who was the savior of the Jewish people was Miriam was able to nullify Yeah. Amomin.

[00:57:33]Yeah. Because it's in the date of case.

[00:57:35]What?

[00:57:37]Amin is just grammatic. Grammatical because it's in the date of case in Yeah. You know where we You know where in English we have a This is a Germanic function. They have it in German. You know where in English you have a remnant of this uh or an artifact of this date of case. It's like when you say who and whom. So if it's a subject who is uh giving me a present or if it's in the if it's the object of it you say he gave a present to whom whom. So who becomes whom. So in Yiddish the date of case. So would be like right he's the subject of the sentence.

[00:58:22]But when you say the decree of because it's a prepositional phrase, the the decree that belonged to whom? See, I'm doing it right there to got it. Okay. So at any rate, >> Miriam and Amman, yeah, because they were the direct objects in the sentence or in the phrase Miriam prophesized that Mashia and Sha Israel would be born, her brother Misha, and that immediately nullified the difficulties of the gullis because um it put an end to par's decree, but also to Amram's decree.

[00:59:07]I but also to Amram's decree that Amram had divorced his wife because he didn't want to bring children into the world under such circumstances as even though Amram had a very good reason for his decision.

[00:59:36]kinder zenu.

[00:59:39]What did Miriam do? She was sac she sacrificed herself to raise children who would be able to say zanveu. Why do we say they were the ones who said zak vanveu? Because at Yamamsu, the children that Miriam saved were the ones who saw Hashem and said, "Zean, this is I recognize this Hashem."

[00:59:59]because Hashem personally took care of them after Miriam and Yav saved them, the babies and they were the generation that received the and in the merit of Miriam was the water was The concept of water is to bring everything down to the lowest level to bring it out to the edge of the camp.

[01:00:37]Water spreads things out. So she spread out to even to the lowest situations and to the people on the lowest level.

[01:00:58]Like we said at the beginning of this when passed away. So then the clouds of glory and the water left but then it came back in the in the merit of Misha.

[01:01:11]Used to be that just the man was in the merit of Misha. But in the end all three miracles were in the merit of Misha.

[01:01:21]as the Reb says we are forced to conclude that Moses began a new phase in his own at that point as although Misha's [sighs] his own personal was to be the shepherd which means the food which means Misha's job primarily is to be the one who aortions spiritual nutrition to each individual Jew to make sure they get their needs met. However, when Aaron and Miriam passed away, Moshe took on new tasks that were not originally part of his job description.

[01:02:29]for a lake.

[01:02:50]So when Okay. So the sign the true sign of a shepherd Misha was a shepherd is he doesn't just do his job but when the situation calls for it when it's necess necessitates it he sets aside his own concerns he puts himself on the side he sacrifices himself for the Jewish people in other words this was not Moses's job's job was shephering which I'm talking about spiritually. That means to make sure that everyone gets their spiritual nourishment in a way that is to their capacity.

[01:03:30]Stuff like clouds of glory, like activating everybody's yida, that's Aaron's job. Stuff like water carrying uh to all the farthest reaches, that's Miriam's job. It's not Mosha's job. Yet when the situation necessitated because Aaron and Miriam were gone, so Misha had to step up. And the Reb says that's a sign of a true shepherd is that he doesn't just do his job, he does whatever job is necessary.

[01:04:08]Lee, when you have to draw close the hearts of the Jewish people, that means to emotionally turn them on to Yiddishite.

[01:04:31]even lowest of the low to elos and you want to draw him close to to Hashem.

[01:04:42]So the Jewish shepherd puts aside his issues, his concerns and if that's what's necessary, he learns base with the Jew whether that means the basics of Jewish observance or literally like literally learning olive bes is in fluores you know there's a concept what's a coin doing in a basic doesn't belong there. So the this this this is this shepherd he's a coin not literally a coin like pedigree but like holiness.

[01:05:35]What's he doing in a basakus? Meaning what's he doing in a lowly place?

[01:05:41]Why do we call it a basakus?

[01:05:45]>> Because the wicked are called dead in their lifetime. So here you have a person who's super super holy. He's hanging out in a spiritual graveyard, meaning with a bunch of mason.

[01:06:04]He's hanging out with a bunch of spiritual corpses, wicked people. That's right. What's he doing with them?

[01:06:13]>> Big sinners.

[01:06:17]He's also a means one who has acquired wisdom.

[01:06:26]How can a return a lost object? Okay, you have to understand the reference here. There's a mitzvah to return a lost object except when it's not.

[01:06:36]So there's a there could be a guy who says listen I am a very prominent respected elder. It would not be becoming It would not be befitting my honor. Do I do Do I look like an Aaron boy who's supposed to go grab someone's wallet and run after him down the street and return it to him? That wouldn't be my that's that's not becoming my station as it's not becoming it's not his thing.

[01:07:15]You know what my job is? I'm the boss of the bosses. I teach the leaders how to lead the Jews.

[01:07:26]I don't deal with people who are not even kosher Jews.

[01:07:34]But when passes and Miriam passes, There's no one left to take it up.

[01:07:52]Then the head of the Jewish people, he himself takes up the job and does it himself as even though technically it's not befitting his stature.

[01:08:08]middle of the first column of 336 it says what's that eighth day song Moses and me >> yeah how do you sing it >> don't know it kid know it do you know it how's the cupcake Okay, it's good.

[01:08:40]Okay says everyone has a little meenu in them.

[01:08:52]So listen to what the Reb is doing here.

[01:08:54]The Reb just said what's ab like who is Misha? Misha is a shepherd. Shepherd is a very specific job, but it also means it's a very not specific job because a shepherd's got to do what a shepherd's got to do. And if the people who are normally doing the other jobs are not there to do it, then the shepherd takes up those jobs as well. That's what Moshe is because he's a shepherd. Then the says, "Oh, by the way, I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about you cuz you're Misha. Every Jew has a has a little in him like it says in Yes, everyone has their own job and their own specialization. Nevertheless, when the wa the water that normally comes in the merit of Miriam is lacking or when the clouds that normally comes in the merit of Aaron is lacking there's the danger of snakes and scorpions then every individual is is required.

[01:10:18]He should bring back the water and the clouds.

[01:10:26]Not considering whether or not that's technically his job or not.

[01:10:46]And since he himself doesn't have to be afraid of the snakes and scorpions because he has a recognizable image of God on him. Remember the nasty animals don't bother anyone who clearly has the image of God.

[01:11:07]Nobody can overpower him. Like says a a predatory animal will only attack someone who looks like an animal. But if he's behaving like a a man, if he's acting spiritually, then the animals will respect him.

[01:11:33]What?

[01:11:39]A what? A beer. A beer. What's a beer?

[01:11:42]Like Budweiser beer. A bear. Bear.

[01:12:00]>> We have We have to get a nature expert here. We have to get a forest ranger. I have to ask him.

[01:12:11]Okay.

[01:12:20][snorts] Lions didn't eat Daniel.

[01:12:36]was a diagon far.

[01:12:42]But there is a danger for others. Maybe for him there's not a danger because he's so spiritual. But for others there's a danger and they don't have an ain or a Miriam to avert the the danger for them is so now it's affra to save a life. All bets are off.

[01:13:05]Shabas to save a life you can break shabas save a life it pushes off all of the other observances even if there are doubts even if it's doubtful even if just to keep him alive temporarily just to prolong his life.

[01:13:40]He should be the one to step up and take care of it. That there should be the M and the clouds and the well, even though that's not not normally his job.

[01:13:56]leg and when he'll set aside his own concerns and not worry about whether or not this is his job and he'll go ahead and bring Jews close to their father in heaven.

[01:14:20]Now, Hashem will draw him close and his family and give them everything they need and give them the main thing that they should be able to fulfill the commandment [snorts] of make for me a sanctuary, a mitzvah, which by the way, making a sanctuary for Hashem is a communal mitzvah.

[01:14:48]men and women and then will dwell within it in every individual Jew. And this is from Yudb Thomas from the bas in honor of Yudb Thomas which is the birthday and the yimulah of his father-in-law the previous rabbi.

[01:15:15]So one this week for we're going to summarize it like we always do everything [clears throat] in is instructive even the stories we have a story that there were three miracles the clouds the well and the m and they were each in the merit of a different sadic the clouds were from Aaron and the well was from Miriam and the man was from Misha and yet after the clouds and the well departed after the passing of Aaron and Miriam respectively. Misha stood up and he brought back all of all of the three. U and this teaches us that a a true shepherd of the Jewish people doesn't have a set job description. He steps up and does whatever the generation needs. And so too, and I love this because the Deb always puts the work right back on us. We as Moshaike figures as well have to step up and not say, "Well, this wasn't this wasn't in my job description. This is wasn't this isn't what I was hired for." We have to do whatever is necessary to take care of the spiritual needs of all kinds of Jews.

[01:16:30]That's the end of the It's the end of Paras.

[01:16:35]In the 5786 we have a double week balik.

[01:16:39]So we're going to end the stream here and we'll come I'm going to take a little bit of a break and we'll come back with paras Balak.

[01:16:53]Okay. All right. I have to set up the stream for Bulock.

[01:16:58]>> I set it up already. Just