Uncovering the the Basic Operating System of Light at the Heart of Each Person's Imagination

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:02]Okay, so as Hashem were continuing with our sheerim on Rav Tzadok and the world of imagination.

[00:00:10]What it means to be a human being in this world through the lens of the spiritual quality of imagination that Hakadosh Baruch Hu has placed within us.

[00:00:18]>> [snorts] >> We've spoken endlessly about how imagination is a threshold that rests in between two positions.

[00:00:27]One is the soul above and one is the body below.

[00:00:31]Imagination is the in between space where we get to determine where we would like our intentional focus to be.

[00:00:39]If we choose to activate imagination and to elevate it from its bodily instincts, so [snorts] we create a vessel for Nevuah, we create a vessel for the mind where contemplation and thinking about Hakadosh Baruch Hu and thinking about faith and tefillah and connectivity becomes the garment through which Hakadosh Baruch Hu's light is revealed in our lives.

[00:01:02]Not only that, but the imagination becomes a vessel to reveal even more than what seichel would theoretically have been capable of receiving.

[00:01:10]When we re-include the dimyon back into the world of seichel, we create new permeations, we create tzirufim chadashim, which is an element and a sparking of the Torah of Mashiach.

[00:01:21]But left to our own devices and left to the devices of the body and the heaviness of the body and the natural instinctual descent down below, >> [snorts] >> imagination can lodge itself in the body where it becomes the space in which pleasure and fantasy become the end all be all in a person's life. Not because of a desire for pleasure, but because of an addictive attachment to this world where a person feels that they can be perfect in this world, that they can accomplish what needs to be accomplished by way of the body.

[00:01:52]And so when imagination gets dragged down, it becomes disastrous, it becomes destructive, it becomes this never-ending attempt of chasing some perfect experience.

[00:02:00]The goal is to redeem imagination and to elevate it back up so that it can serve as the malchus of the new level of revelation.

[00:02:07]Dimyon is the way in which the light of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, the light of emunah, the light of goodness is going to be revealed to me in accordance to my own subjective orientation.

[00:02:17]The space inside that enables ruchnius to become meaningful to me. It's the lev that's maven the light of chochmah.

[00:02:24]It's the vehicle that enables the illumination to actually take shape in a person's life. Biad Hanavi umedameh, the only way in which a person can actually have some engagement with their spirituality is through the vessel of imagination.

[00:02:38]To dream our way into spiritual activity.

[00:02:41]But left to its own devices, we have to fight tooth and nail and to engage in yegia to make sure that imagination not descend down to the addictive temptations of the body where we begin to be stuck in these fantasies.

[00:02:57]And malchus, we said, is associated with dimyon.

[00:03:00]Dimyon is the entry point. It's the gateway into the higher realms and it's also the gateway down below.

[00:03:07]Malchus, whenever we encounter malchus, it's the beginning stage of a new process that's unfolding.

[00:03:13]And at first glance, it's going to appear to be empty. And in that emptiness, because of the vacuity of malchus, there's a natural tendency to want to fill it with all sorts of fantastical objects where a person brings the malchus and reattaches it down to the lower world. And the dimyon gets reattached to the body and the memory of pleasures.

[00:03:32]But if we're able to be patient enough and withstand that empty place in the person's mind, that experience of katnus, which is more often than not just a re-entry into a new level of malchus, we enable malchus to become a gate to lead us upwards. The dimyon becomes an elevator, so to speak, that through the empty feeling, we can ascend upwards into new levels of spiritual grasp.

[00:03:55]And so, everything that we're saying about dimyon, which is this in-between space of whether it's going to bring me upwards to become a vessel for more ruchniyus, or it's going to bring me downwards to become a vessel for more gashmiyus and more of my nefesh habahamis, so too with regards to malchus. Malchus can ascend upwards and become the gate of perception that a person can enter through in order to ascend to the new levels, or it can be a moment of emptiness where a person feels, "Oh no, I don't feel anything." and they fall back in their own tendencies, asking for the old feelings.

[00:04:27]And so, when it comes to redeeming imagination and understanding the ground level of imagination, and what should be the basic operating system of our imaginations and our malchus in order to perpetually grow, so we have to understand what the bare information of malchus is. What is malchus telling you? What is the dimyon revealing to the self at any given moment?

[00:04:49]What is the the true and healthy description of self as it is emergent from a purified dimyon?

[00:04:57]Now, obviously, if dimyon becomes congealed and our narratives become congealed, then this is not going to be the voice that we hear when we listen to the inner processes inside.

[00:05:07]We'll hear all different types of narratives.

[00:05:09]But that's not the question we're asking here. Obviously, the letters of malchus, the letters of dimyon can become entangled and jumbled, and they can spell out negative perspectives about self and restrictive thought constructs about self, etc., etc. But that's not the main message of our dimyon. The main message of our dimyon is the clarification and the unity of malchus that rests hidden underneath.

[00:05:33]And the more we can attune ourselves to the basic information of what malchus is telling us, what our dimyon should really be telling us, the more in tune we can become with this basic truth that rests at the core of who we are, irrespective of where we find ourselves.

[00:05:47]And so, what Rab Tzadok is going to be masbir is what does malchus mean? What is the baseline of functioning that a person must operate with in order to have a fighting chance to abstract my imagination back upwards to uncover nevu'a rather than to search out more addictions. And this is what we're going to be speaking about based on os tes in machshavos charutz.

[00:06:10]>> [snorts] >> The beginning of malchus, the beginning of the experience of the self takes place from within the trauma. It takes place from within galus Mitzrayim.

[00:06:19]First and foremost, before we can understand what malchus actually is, we have to understand what it's not. And it's not Mitzrayim.

[00:06:26]Mitzrayim is ervas ha'aretz. Mitzrayim is the addictive tendency to become stuck to the fantasies of imagination that seeks pleasure, well-being, and perfective wholeness from within this worldly experience itself. Ervas ha'aretz, temptation at its root core, the original fantasy of perfection that the child is perpetually seeking out and trying to recreate throughout their entire adult lives.

[00:06:49]That goes hand in hand with the other apparent distortion of imagination, which is Paro, coming to conceive of himself as perfect, as a deification of self, because if the perfection can create something for if the imagination can create something from nothing, so then the self forgets about its inherent limitation, and it falls sway into becoming idolatrous itself. This is what Rab Tzadok has spoken to us about already.

[00:07:13]>> [snorts] >> So Mitzrayim is the place in which dimyon itself is polluted.

[00:07:18]Where we don't know the inner quality of what nishmas Yisrael is. We don't know the basic operating system of the soul, which is the baseline frequency of the dimyon. Bi'ad hanvi'im adamah.

[00:07:30]And so first and foremost, Hakadosh Baruch Hu has to take us out of Mitzrayim.

[00:07:34]And what's Hakadosh Baruch Hu taking out of Mitzrayim? Hakadosh Baruch Hu is taking speech out of Mitzrayim, dibur.

[00:07:40]The the to convey myself externally, the capacity to cultivate a subjective configuration about myself.

[00:07:48]A self that can receive godliness, a self that can engage with other.

[00:07:52]The self had to be taken out of exile.

[00:07:54]Dibor, speech, self-reflection, self-expression rooted in the imagination of subjectivity needed to be redeemed from exile and transformed.

[00:08:05]And this is the emergence of speech from within exile. Prior to Malchus being revealed, imagination lay dormant within the exile of Mitzrayim and constriction, and there was no way of communicating what the true essence of this quality should be.

[00:08:21]Now, Reb Tzadok says, once Hakadosh Baruch Hu takes Malchus out of Mitzrayim, we have to come to realize that the main aspect of Hakadosh Baruch Hu's desire in this world is Malchus.

[00:08:33]Hakadosh Baruch Hu reveals himself so that we can feel a unique relationship with him.

[00:08:39]Hashem wants the self to take part in the unfolding process of spirituality.

[00:08:44]Even though Hakadosh Baruch Hu's light is fundamentally unified and Hakadosh Baruch Hu is purified beyond all possibility of differentiation and refi- not purified, holy in all manners of unity, nevertheless, what was lacking was revelation. What was lacking was the emergence of infinite light through human experience, through the kli of Malchus.

[00:09:05]And because it arose within Hakadosh Baruch Hu's will that he wanted to reveal himself down below So, he decided to reveal his Malchus, ein melech belo ama, and that Malchus is Nishmas Yisrael.

[00:09:17]The king, so to speak, wants to bestow his light to us. Our vessel, Malchus, needs to be refined in order to receive that light. The light that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is sending down at every moment is the basic analog operating system of our Malchus, which is telling us that not only is Hakadosh Baruch Hu everywhere, but that the Neshama is fundamentally connected.

[00:09:38]The neshama is fundamentally connected.

[00:09:40]This is what is being revealed in malchus.

[00:09:42]Two qualities. Number one is that ain od milvado, Hakadosh Baruch Hu is everywhere.

[00:09:48]Hakadosh Baruch Hu is endless and his infinite unity and perfection is endless and it's everywhere revealed. And secondly, that nishmas Yisrael is the most purified thing in existence and nishmas Yisrael is the true desire of Hakadosh Baruch Hu in existence. Hashem wants to express himself within our lived experiences, within our own minds and our own hearts. Hashem doesn't need our avodah, but Hashem has created a world in which it operates as if he needs our avodah. And the reason for Hakadosh Baruch Hu operating in a way as if he needs our avodah, which is a tremendous degradation from the true understanding of light of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, is rooted in the singular fact that Hakadosh Baruch Hu wants to reveal kvoid Shamayim through nishmas Yisrael. Through nishmas Yisrael, through the malchus and through the dimyon of each and every person.

[00:10:36]It all comes down to malchus.

[00:10:39]And where do we experience malchus? We experience malchus within the self.

[00:10:44]This is the entire purpose of the creation of the world, so that all of the lofty levels of spiritual contemplation can come down into the inner shape of what it means to be a human being in this world. It's not happenstance that we're have to find Hakadosh Baruch Hu from within the shape of our own selves.

[00:11:00]Even [snorts] the highest levels, Adam Kadmon kaviyachol, all of the levels that are all in the shape of the human form, because ultimately the entire purpose of Hashem revealing himself at all is so that the human being has the capacity of grasping him.

[00:11:13]And so we see that malchus, in spite of the fact that it's the human condition in the lowest place in our imagination, Adam milishon adamah, nevertheless, this is the ultimate purpose of the creation of the world for Hakadosh Baruch Hu to reveal his malchus. The end process of all of the seder hahishtalshelus finalizes and it and it congeals itself within Malchus, which is what can be grasped by human beings. Our frequency of spatial-temporal consciousness.

[00:11:42]This level, says Reb Tzadok, is what's referred to as Giluy Shechinah. The Shechinah is Malchus. The Shechinah is the heart of each and every Jew. The Shechinah is Biad Hashem Adama. It's our imagination. It's our Malchus.

[00:11:54]This is the light that Hakadosh Baruch Hu rests within the hearts of the Jewish people.

[00:11:59]As the possuk says, "Tzur Levavi."

[00:12:02]That Hakadosh Baruch Hu rests within the heart of each and every Jew. The idea that Reb Tzadok is bringing down more than any other tzaddik.

[00:12:10]In the Hamsacha of the Torah of Rabbi Nachman, which is Hamsacha of the Torah of the Baal Shem Tov Hakadosh. That Hakadosh [snorts] Baruch Hu wants to rest within the heart, within the mind, within the frequency of consciousness of each and every Jew.

[00:12:22]All of us together, Knesset Yisrael.

[00:12:25]What's Knesset Yisrael? It just means the sum total and the collection of all of the souls so that we can come to realize that literally at the core of our hearts is a Chelek Elokai Mimmal Mamash. Our conscious awareness in this world, our Malchus, our Dimyon, is a Chelek Hashem Mamash. That Hakadosh Baruch Hu has breathed life into us. And we know that one who breathes breathes from within the interiority of the self and expresses that externally. So that when we say we have the breath of Hakadosh Baruch Hu in us and our Malchus and our Dimyon and our conscious awareness of Him in this world, our basic operating system, we have to understand that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is Kavyachol breathed life into us. The unity of the world of Atzilus expresses itself in the Malchus of Atzilus, which is the individual themselves, Kavyachol.

[00:13:13]That the self of Klal Yisrael, the heart, the mindset, the outlook, is Mamash the Ruach Hashem Dover Bi, like the Nevi'im were able to say that it's the spirit of God that's speaking in me.

[00:13:23]And that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is the one who's revealing with my frequencies.

[00:13:27]This is the prophetic experience of understanding that every single thing, every thread of consciousness is a direct expression of the infinite light of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, that Hashem is shining down his light and influence within the inner chambers of the heart.

[00:13:42]And each and every person has the capacity of grasping that in accordance with what Hakadosh Baruch Hu wants them to grasp.

[00:13:48]And that the words of the prophet, the words and the prophet is a human being, the words of the prophet in the refinement of redemption of imagination are literally the words of Hakadosh Baruch Hu.

[00:13:58]Just as this quality is true for the Nevi'im, it's also true for the souls of Klal Yisrael.

[00:14:03]Because every single one of us, in spite of the fact that we might not be Nevi'im, which is the fundamental rectification of our Malchus and our Dimyon, where we become one Kaviyachol with Hakadosh Baruch Hu, even though that's not the lot of each and every one of us, nevertheless, each and every one of us were by Har Sinai.

[00:14:18]And by Har Sinai, we all tasted a level of Nevuah, and when Kedushah expresses itself, it doesn't dissipate, it doesn't disappear. The irreducible trace is engraved forever. We all heard Anochi, and we all heard Lo Yihiyeh Lecha from the mouth of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, so to speak.

[00:14:32]Which means that each and every one of us will restore ourselves to that original level of prophecy, which is the translucency of the mind of Malchus, the place in which Hakadosh Baruch Hu wants to reveal himself.

[00:14:42]As the Pasuk says that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is going to spread forth his spirit upon all of existence, all of the Jewish people.

[00:14:49]It's just that in this world, it's very hidden. We don't see how our Malchus is reflective of Hakadosh Baruch Hu's infinite light, and as such, we fall prey into faulty perceptions of ourselves and broken imaginings.

[00:15:02]Because it's not revealed within the souls of Klal Yisrael. It's only revealed in the great souls, the Nev'im and the Nevi'ei Hashem, those who were actually prophets.

[00:15:10]But the truth of the matter is that every soul in its ultimate root has this deep bond and connection with Hakadosh Baruch Hu, just as the Nevi'im.

[00:15:18]And that they and the light of the Shechinah, which rests within their heart, they are ultimately one.

[00:15:24]That the root source of all of the vitality of Jewish consciousness throughout existence, throughout every iteration of it, wherever it might find itself, is the breath of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, is malchus, is the dimyon.

[00:15:37]Now, in the beginning, in the beginning, this wasn't revealed in an idealized way.

[00:15:42]This malchus, this frequency of dimyon, this way in which we have to see ourselves through the best of our understanding of our soul, the basic operating system that each and every one of us have to wake up with each morning in order to face the day.

[00:15:57]This is a morasha. This comes This is epigenetics, the kedusha. This emerges from on high. It's from Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, who retain a vestige of themselves within ourselves.

[00:16:09]And then it descended down into Mitzrayim, and it got covered over.

[00:16:13]And it got broken.

[00:16:16]But, there was a way to pull ourselves out.

[00:16:19]How was it that we retrieved imagination, that we retrieved malchus from within exile?

[00:16:25]It was from within the utilization of malchus in its most potent form, in the secret of emunah. Emunah and dimyon, we've said from Rebbe Nachman in Torah Ches Tinyana, which is the tzava of Rebbe Nachman, the will of Rebbe Nachman that he left over, they're one and the same. Emunah chabaleilus, emunah is the conjuring up of an imagination that enables me to see myself and the world in a new light.

[00:16:50]This is the secret beginning of Nishmas Yisrael.

[00:16:53]In the merit of emunah, of faith, we were redeemed from Mitzrayim.

[00:16:58]Meaning to say that we had to wake ourselves up little by little.

[00:17:03]And the heart stirrings of Klal Yisrael began to taste of the droplets of light until they escaped the great darkness, and they came and found themselves illuminated in a tremendous illumination.

[00:17:14]>> [snorts] >> Because faith is the beginning of the grasping of the light of Hakadosh Baruch Hashem's presence as it exists down here in this world by way of the dimyon, by way of imagination.

[00:17:25]Because when things find themselves at the highest level of concealment imaginable, where a person has absolutely no grasp whatsoever, the only thing that remains and the only thing that's necessary is going to be the simple faith that exists deep within the heart.

[00:17:42]Deep within the heart of each and every Eid, that's the operating system.

[00:17:46]Upon which Habakkuk was able to come and say that I've established one pillar that the entirety of the Torah stands upon, which is the light of life, which is what we can remember even when we find ourselves in the stuckness of this world and that's the light of emunah when there is no hasagah whatsoever.

[00:18:01]There's no revealed connection in the heart. The heart feels empty.

[00:18:06]The only way we're ever going to be able to grasp anything in that is the path of emunah.

[00:18:12]To remember, to reconnect ourselves to the refinement of imagination that we have the ability of having emunah with Hakadosh Baruch Hu in this world.

[00:18:20]>> [snorts] >> For most people, for all Jews this is present, but sometimes it's going to take specific moments for it to be awoken.

[00:18:30]For this inner quality to emerge into a real clarified grasp so that it should be revealed in front of the mind and in front of the heart.

[00:18:39]For that, the Yidden who lived with this revealed bond to Hakadosh Baruch Hu, this deep unending bond that the innermost part of their hearts, that was simply for the Yechidim and those who grasped their relationship with Hakadosh Baruch Hu, but everybody else, every Eid is only b'derech emunah l'vado, derech emunah b'charti, to choose to activate the baseline goodness at the core of our experiences, which is the faith that we are fundamentally connected to Hakadosh Baruch Hu, that there is no aspect of Nishmas Yisrael, no soul, nobody left behind, even the sinners and the sinners who sin the worst types of sins imaginable. This emunah remains engraved within their heart fundamentally without ever being erased.

[00:19:21]As we see throughout history that many many many Yidden who went against the nature of the Torah and the mitzvahs were nevertheless willing to be moser nefesh al kiddush Hashem, which is the uncovering of the light of the yechidah sheb'nefesh, which is hidden within malchus, which is hidden within the dimyon.

[00:19:36]As Yakov Avinu already as we see by Yakov Avinu when he comes in to Yakov and he's wearing the bigdei esav Yakov, Yitzchak Avinu smells the begadim. He smells those who are going to lie and trick and cheat and they're ultimately going to be distant from light of the Torah.

[00:19:51]But the tzaddik yesod oilam Yitzchak, he smells the smell of goodness that rests upon them.

[00:19:56]And that no matter what, when Mashiach Tzidkeinu arrives and when Ben Dovid comes and announces himself, uh certainly they're going to believe him.

[00:20:03]Certainly they're going to return in repentance. Even the apikorsim who have no interest in returning in this world, when the great shofar blows, they're going to be amongst those lost ones and those who are dispersed throughout the world that are going to return and reconnect the light of Hakadosh Baruch Hu to the point that there's absolutely nobody missing.

[00:20:22]Nobody missing. Every spark of Jewish light is going to be gathered up and it's going to show itself to have always held within itself this light of emunah.

[00:20:31]This is the entire purpose of the existence of the world for Hakadosh Baruch Hu to reveal his malchus down here.

[00:20:38]That there should be a gathering of people who are connected to Hakadosh Baruch Hu even when they find themselves stuck within the place that they're stuck in.

[00:20:44]Because somebody who has a tremendous grasp of Hakadosh Baruch Hu and understands the clarity of all things, what benefit is there when they come to realize that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is right in front of them and they don't rebel against him. It's clear as day.

[00:20:56]The main praise of Hakadosh Baruch Hu and the main glory of heaven is increased and it arises specifically when the lowest element of experience, those who find themselves at the very bottom, when they come to recognize the greatness of Akadosh Baruchu's Malchus, how it's taking shape within them, and that this is the entire purpose of the creation of the worlds and the unfolding of all of the worlds down to the existence of this world in its physical form.

[00:21:18]At that point, we're going to be able to reveal the greatest revelation of Akadosh Baruchu's light in our Malchus and our dominion. There's many angels and celestial forces that recognize Akadosh Baruchu's greatness, but Akadosh Baruchu chooses to sanctify himself and reveal his light specifically with the praise of Kol Yisrael that is ascendant from below.

[00:21:39]Those of us stuck within the containment of the body.

[00:21:42]This is the greatest form. This is the greatest form of Kelos. And Goof we said is gematria of Adamah.

[00:21:47]This is what Akadosh Baruchu wants from us.

[00:21:50]This is the light of Malchus. This is the basic download that we have to awaken ourselves to each and every day.

[00:21:56]Hashem is here and I am fundamentally connected with him at the core of myself.

[00:22:00]The essential quality of Emunah says Rav Tzadok is to believe in this. That even though I find myself in the place that I find myself, nevertheless Akadosh Baruchu is with me. Because Akadosh Baruchu rests with me even in my impurity, even in my stuckness. And when a person comes to recognize this, then naturally they're going to be able to emerge from within the darkness and the impurity. Because they come to realize that Akadosh Baruchu is there with them.

[00:22:25]And if Akadosh Baruchu is there with them, then there's no true evil. It's just It's just that this is what Akadosh Baruchu wants from me at this point.

[00:22:32]>> [snorts] >> And in the beginning it appears dark, but the light is going to come about afterwards. In the same way that David Malchus says that Ki Elech Begei Tzalmavet, though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, which is the apex of darkness in a person's life and difficulty and evil, Lo Ira Ra, I'm not going to be afraid. Ki Ata Imadi, because you're with me in my heart, even there in the valley of death. There's nothing but you Akadosh Baruchu. There's nothing that exists beyond you.

[00:22:57]Even in the depths of the abyss, there's nothing but you.

[00:23:01]Even when I fall down into the enough even there you're not going to let go of me and when a person [snorts] taps into this awareness of the mouth of that's found with them no matter what >> [snorts] >> they have the ability to ascend back up to their root source and they have the ability of ascending out of the depths of hell just like it was in the time of leaving the and from this great darkness comes a tremendous tremendous light because this is what has shown once he wants his praise to ascend from the lowest places the darkest places imaginable so that even down there we can come to grasp the loftiest light and when we're able to reveal that light in the deepest darkest places we fulfill the containment of so that it can reveal the light of everywhere this is the secret of the the love of this is the secret of the heart this is the secret of the mouth of but in the beginning we don't taste this and in and we don't realize how is everything we don't realize that with us in our imaginations and he wants to rest with us in our imaginations and he wants us to tap into and a deep that everything is good and from that place to operate in all of our in our way and therefore we have to begin to speak about it we have to awaken our speech because speech awakens mouth it's an aspect of mouth when I speak about it my breath arises within me and there's a that grows and I bring this consciousness to light the more I speak about it the more I'm connected to the more I'm connected to it the more I speak about it and I cultivate this inner narrative this linguistic landscape where I transform all of the old iterations of my broken narratives into narratives of connectivity to you and by way of doing this by speaking this we stand up strong and we're able to break free whatever concealment was blocking us and we're able to ascend all the way up to and reconnect with you as if we've broken through through the ceiling that was blocking us and says Reb Tzadok, what does it mean to break through the ceiling that's blocking us? It means to own our spiritual strength. It means to trust our spiritual narrative. It means to operate with a certain level of Kedusha, where is the awakening of the heart and the strengthening of the heart in the service of God? When I realize that I'm fundamentally connected to Hashem.

[00:25:19]When I realize that I am fundamentally included within your light because I have a connection with Hashem.

[00:25:25]And I can operate in a place of connectivity.

[00:25:28]And that I have to say, when are my actions going to become like the actions of the others?

[00:25:33]And I shouldn't be afraid of the evil inclination that I'm going to come to think of myself as perfect because I have to think of myself as a perfect servant of Hashem and Hashem is the only thing that's perfect.

[00:25:44]That's the negative form of arrogance where I think that I can actually wrestle some element of fulfillment from this world without Hashem.

[00:25:52]But Hashem in the refinement of our in the refinement of our own consciousness, where we come to understand the holiness of the root source of everything within us.

[00:26:01]And how there's a holiness and yes, sometimes it comes about by way of a bitterness first.

[00:26:06]But there's an inner quality hidden at the heart of each and every Jew which is the depth of their faith. The depth of their faith, the depth of their that is ascending out of exile, that is a fundamental all rightness and a never-ending bond to Hashem.

[00:26:21]All have this because Hashem chose to take us out of Egypt.

[00:26:27]Hashem is taking us out and he brings us in. He brings us to the of the what looks like is ultimately just a vessel that's hiding Hashem.

[00:26:37]But in the lowest level of in our bare faith, we're also tasting the deepest level of Hashem. This is the mystery. It's the most cherished and beloved thing in the eyes of Hashem.

[00:26:51]This is the secret. Each and every person holds this unique secret. Each and every person knows their pathway in which they connect to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Each heart in its imagination, each heart in its subjective formation. And here is one of the places we know that Reb Tzaddok was drawing from the Nachal Novea of Rabbeinu Nachman.

[00:27:10]We know, as the Rebbe has said, that Rebbe Nachman's Torah is mushlam in the Torah of Ishbitz and Reb Tzaddok. It's fulfilled in it.

[00:27:17]But there's few places where he quotes him explicitly.

[00:27:20]He has commentary on Sefer HaMiddos, but few places where we see that Reb Tzaddok is drawing directly from the explicit writings of Rebbe Nachman. But here, when it comes to this secret of Nishmas Yisrael and the fundamental all-rightness and the need to tune in our receptors and our imagination to our frequency with Hakadosh Baruch Hu, here Reb Tzaddok Lifnei Hashem Liro'ev is quoting explicitly from the first teaching in Sichos Saran.

[00:27:44]Hisso'ed Hashem Liro'ev, there's a secret that each and every heart is in its narrative connectivity to Hakadosh Baruch Hu.

[00:27:52]V'yadua midevrei Echad Kodshim Medaber.

[00:27:56]And it's known in the secret of one of the holy ones when he spoke.

[00:28:01]I believe that's Rebbe Nachman.

[00:28:04]Hisso'ed Umashi Echad Ligalos Klal U'Zulas.

[00:28:08]A secret is not some information that's hidden, but rather it's information that cannot be conveyed to another person.

[00:28:14]Not because I don't want to say, but because even when I say, I can't say.

[00:28:18]Even when I have all of the words to express the inner bond and the inner narrative structure of my relationship with Hakadosh Baruch Hu, words fail because it's something that exists beyond words. Words are a necessary vessel to try and reveal the sod, but in the end of the day, it remains a sod because it cannot be revealed to another. V'hu K'samo Ani Yadati. It's like David HaMelech says, Ki Ani Yadati.

[00:28:41]I know how great Hakadosh Baruch Hu is.

[00:28:44]Ani Daika, specifically me, I know specifically. She actually got lost to us here because I can't reveal my connection to her to another person. And this is what each and every person experiences when they understand the relationship to her through the frequency of their own subjective narrative, which is formed through their vessel of Malchus, which is the Adam.

[00:29:07]This is the grasp that comes after the sense of impoverishment and the sense of smallness of the heart. And each person understands the bitterness of their heart.

[00:29:18]But just as each person understands the bitterness of their heart, so too nobody can understand the joy that enters into the heart when it comes to grasp her.

[00:29:28]This is the secret of the carbon Pesach that no nation can understand because it's the love that's emergent from within the concealment itself.

[00:29:36]That even [snorts] when I have absolutely no grasp whatsoever, even to themselves, they can't even reveal the taste of light in their own hearts.

[00:29:45]Nevertheless, it doesn't diminish from its reality because the says she is known in the gates of the town.

[00:29:52]Her husband is known in the gates of the town because of the woman of valor. As the says, don't read it as as gates, but estimations, my own subjective orientation. Each and every person according to the estimations of their own heart will come to grasp her specifically me. Specifically me.

[00:30:09]I need you to tell you I need each and every person is able to say through their own mouth through their own that they're able to be her.

[00:30:17]I need you to tell you I need you to tell me every person says me because it's the light of the that rests within them.

[00:30:26]This is the secret of the revelation of within the hearts of those who fear him in the fulfillment of their impoverishment.

[00:30:35]Because when we fall, we fall down to the dust.

[00:30:38]But when we stand up, we rise up to the highest places imaginable. It's the secret of Dimyon.

[00:30:44]Suddenly, a person comes to realize this and there's a certain sense of fear of awe that comes upon them when they realize the Gilu Shekinah that's taking place. But nevertheless, it's a Yirah that's Moil Simcha.

[00:30:55]Yirah She Metai Simchasi has the Tana D'vei Eliyahu says, "I was fearful from within my joy of the Samachti Metai Yirah She and I was joyous from within my fear because the two of them are fundamentally interconnected." One who feels the presence of Hakadosh Baruch Hu within their heart will also uncover themselves to the greatness and the joy that is apparent within their experiences. And this is the purpose of life.

[00:31:17]To taste of this light of the future of the revelation that within my heart, within my narrative, within my imagination, all I want is to return to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. All I want is to return to straightness even though there's crookedness, even though there's misdirection. Nevertheless, I want to return to you Hakadosh Baruch Hu through my Nefesh, my Ruach, my Neshamah, my Chayah, and even on my Yechidah on the highest level that's hidden within Malchut itself. I want to be fundamentally connected to you Ribbono shel Olam without any separation between you and my narrative.

[00:31:46]This is the level of the Akedah and it's revealed specifically from the Basar, from the human experience down here.

[00:31:52]In the future, this wisdom is going to be revealed for all to see.

[00:31:55]Tarshish BeSav, Tarshish BeAl Pan, it's going to be revealed that there's nothing missing. There was nothing missing in a person's life.

[00:32:02]Everything is going to be revealed to be part and parcel of Yerushalayim.

[00:32:06]Everything is going to be revealed to have been saturated with the infinite light of Hakadosh Baruch Hu.

[00:32:12]There's not going to be any deficiency.

[00:32:16]The Ishbitzer drink the fifth cup.

[00:32:19]Not everybody drinks the fifth cup. To drink the fifth cup is to taste of redemption.

[00:32:24]And this is the fifth cup says Rav Tzadok, which person doesn't have to drink, but they have the ability to.

[00:32:29]Meaning to say that it cannot be commanded.

[00:32:34]Because Hakadosh Baruch Hu has commanded us enough to rectify what needs to be rectified. It's only when a person merits to live, to truly be alive, when they access the fourth cup, which is the chaya, which is the bitul in chochma, then can they come to a place of fundamental unity in the secret of the yechida, which is the kissing with Hakadosh Baruch Hu, mamash coming to a place of fundamental unity, where Hakadosh Baruch Hu realizes that everything that takes place in their life is a direct expression of the infinite desire of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, and that Hakadosh Baruch Hu chooses us to become the vehicles through which He sends down His light. And that sometimes there's a darkness that precedes the light, but ultimately that's just to increase the light that emerges out of the darkness as a result of all of the tangential deficiencies that exist within the world and through the human being themselves, who is a deficient creature. It's specifically us who have the ability of fulfilling the deficiency of moving up from the lowest place imaginable and redeeming our redemption and redeeming our imaginations through the light that comes about from within the darkness.

[00:33:34]This is the light that Hakadosh Baruch Hu wants. It can't be commanded. It's a reshus because it's going to be in accordance with what a person experiences in their own hearts, which can't be conveyed to another person.

[00:33:46]And even though each and every Yid has to see themselves as if they're leaving Eretz Mitzrayim each and every night and each and every day and every Pesach. And every person is going to be zocheh to a giluy of the Shechinah. Not everybody is zocheh to drink the fifth kos the fifth post the poel mamash.

[00:34:05]We need to create a vessel. We need to create a histalkus for that light.

[00:34:10]And then when we're zocheh, when we're zocheh to truly prepare ourselves for this light, to believe so deeply in the inner life of our experiences, >> [snorts] >> we begin to live. We begin to add joy in the heart.

[00:34:22]And when we add joy in the heart, the heart begins to expand.

[00:34:26]And the heart begins to open itself up to more awareness of Hakadosh Baruch Hu.

[00:34:32]And we begin to extend ourselves and identify the highest that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is sending down into our lives and into the inner chambers of our heart.

[00:34:40]And we move from concealment into a station of revelation.

[00:34:43]And we drop parnassah down, and we drop shefa down, and we drop goodness down, and we drop the light of redemption down.

[00:34:51]And we rectify the tzimtzum.

[00:34:53]And we begin to engage in the true light of Ein Od Milvado.

[00:34:56]To recognize that everything, everything, everything is kullo kodesh la Hashem.

[00:35:01]This is the baseline of what we have to see in our imaginations. This all rightness, this goodness.

[00:35:06]This baseline connection, this irreducible connection that has to become the starting point that anything else that happens in the rest of the day, b'ezrat Hashem.