Latest / Food for the Soul / Mayim Rabim part 2 - Why Hashem sends the great waters
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- 0:00Okay, tov, everyone. Good morning. I hope you're not drowning. And if you're drowning, it's not a surprise. Why is it not a surprise that you're drowning?
- 0:10Do you know what's drowning?
- 0:13No, that's drawing. Drowning is when you swim, and then you, and then you, what?
- 0:22And then you go underwater, right? And then you're dead. That's drowning.
- 0:27So, people are drowning under the waters is a problem, but we know that even though we
- 0:38have great waters in our life, we have distractions, we have a job, we need to make money, we need
- 0:48to get a visa, we need to get married.
- 0:51a lot of a lot of waters that
- 0:56who water big waters for men
- 1:01in order to find to be occupied with with the technicalities of you know finding this finding
- 1:09occupation thoughts obsessive thoughts about not holy things any any preoccupation about something
- 1:18and is not godly, is in a certain way water.
- 1:22We focus on money, usually.
- 1:26That's the, I would say, the core worry.
- 1:31And we announced that the great waters
- 1:34are not gonna able to extinguish the love
- 1:37that the Jew has to him, right?
- 1:39Maim, rabim, loyuchlu lechabot et t'a'ava.
- 1:43Even though the entire world will come to the Jew
- 1:47and and and try to make him off completely he's gonna survive she said okay
- 1:59what's the what's the wow because ultimately he has a god in the shama
- 2:03remember from yesterday we said he has a godly soul of course he's stronger he
- 2:07is he's connected to our shama we said the Jew the big waters so sorry we said
- 2:14that we thought that like the big waters come and try to like overwhelm
- 2:18the Jew, but the Jew is connected to Hashem. So of course he's stronger. So no, no. The waters are
- 2:24actually coming from a higher place. The waters are connected to Hashem in a deeper level.
- 2:30Why? Because, and apologies to the people that are for the first time here today,
- 2:35we're not going to repeat all the terminology. Hopefully as we go, we'll manage to loop you
- 2:40in because the nishama in the Jew come from which realm from which level of
- 2:46creation from from from tikkun right in which there's a systematic organized
- 2:55limited revelation and the great waters come from which level from tohu very
- 3:02good I can't believe you're hearing you're saying toh and tikkun that's
- 3:05tremendous toh and tikkun this is this is the real deal this is to
- 3:09understand the system how Hashem created on the messy level and then an organized level
- 3:16so now that we know that the great waters are stronger the world versus the Jew who wins
- 3:26there's a new trend on what no the waters
- 3:33very good yes step by step we need to you're gonna see we could go back and forth later again
- 3:38well so so really now who's supposed to win who the bank the water mark zuckerberg tiktok
- 3:49or the neshama no the world tiktok why because where is tiktok created from from tohu hasham
- 4:01gives unlimited energy and unlimited, un-rational, not fair. It's like terrorists. Remember we
- 4:08said yesterday that they have like, they don't play by the rules. So they have ultimately a much
- 4:16better chance almost. They're more connected to, to, to the endlessness of God versus the Neshama.
- 4:23Okay? So who's gonna win? The waters! So now that we have that, we ask ourselves, okay, so how
- 4:35does the neshama win? How ultimately do we know? How does the shlomo amel ehteraz and shira shireem
- 4:41that we are not gonna drown? The answer is that really, really the neshama is, it practically
- 4:50comes from tikkun, but it's rooted deep inside its origin where Hashem came wanted it, desired it,
- 4:59is in Hashem's essence, in atsmut, all and so, in the essence of the infinite light.
- 5:05Okay, these terminologies you're supposed to start knowing, atsmut,
- 5:08I don't know if you wrote it down, but we'll write it again, atsmut, which is essence,
- 5:14essence all which is light and soft and soft means no end no which the light of
- 5:26no end this is the infinite light okay at smooth all and soft so where is the
- 5:32Neshama really rooted not in Tohu not in tikkun rather she's rooted in at smooth
- 5:39oven so and that's why because the Neshamah is connected so deeply so highly the Neshamah cannot be
- 5:48extinguished. Now when you go home today or after the class I want you all to practice the
- 5:56English words extinguished which is a bit of a hard word but extinguished is when you turn
- 6:03of fire your fire and then you have this machine that like the red thing right
- 6:09that's called a fire extinguisher I'm not sure
- 6:17extinguish where's my my American yeah okay extinguish basically turn off fire
- 6:34turn of fire. So the Neshama cannot be extinguished. Why? Because it's really
- 6:48connected much higher and much deeper than the big waters. So now who's gonna
- 6:54win TikTok or Neshama? Neshama, Bank of America or Neshama? Neshama, your boss
- 7:05firing you and you don't have money and the button someone wants to throw you out
- 7:08of your house versus Neshama? Neshama? We're not saying that you're for sure not
- 7:16gonna be thrown out of your house but at least it's not gonna bother you.
- 7:20We mentioned that yes in our generation definitely in general it's like
- 7:25having a livelihood is like the mana Hashem takes care of us and we need to
- 7:29work with our hands but we're not we're not allowed to let it occupy us.
- 7:32about that we spoke right? I think we covered that part. Now we're trying to
- 7:40understand that's what we left up yesterday. What's the benefit of the
- 7:44Great Waters? Why does Hashem bring a flood on us? Why does he bring it? What
- 7:51do we gain from it? What's the return on the investment? Helps us grow. It's
- 7:58supposed to awaken us with the with the great love because otherwise what's
- 8:04going to be the point of this whole of this whole project called called world
- 8:11and I want to see this from inside let's start going around whether we start
- 8:15with chapter four yesterday right so those who don't have chapter four try
- 8:20to look with your friends we're almost finishing it and we have copies for
- 8:23chapter 5 okay if you don't have just listen in and we're gonna we're gonna
- 8:33compete together with chapter with chapter 5 no no it's this okay if you
- 8:40don't have it if you don't sit laying around it means you don't have it but
- 8:43So let's start, Laila, not only.
- 9:05So it's not only not extinguishing the love, it's also helping us to grow.
- 9:11There must be a way through which those waters make us go higher.
- 9:16What?
- 9:17I know, we read just for the first few, the first page, right?
- 9:23Yeah.
- 9:24I know, I know, but not everyone listened.
- 9:30Some people were sleeping or they weren't here, so we don't think we don't notice.
- 9:36We notice who's here, who's not here, but we help you feel better.
- 9:39Through the descent, a rufka, rufka you, right, or more rufkas, you.
- 9:49Through the descent?
- 9:50Through the descent of the sword below to the physical world, and it's unwelcoming and
- 9:55best above the waters.
- 9:56It brings to a higher level than the ruf it appropriated before it descends down
- 10:02the world to the plain.
- 10:03To this plain?
- 10:04Plain, we said, is not, what's plain?
- 10:07Level.
- 10:08It's a level.
- 10:09We mentioned that also yesterday. What's the descent? Going down. So the descent of the
- 10:18soul to the physical world needs to give us a certain increase, a certain
- 10:22higherness, so the rank, the level you were before, now you could go to a higher
- 10:27level. And it says this is the, and we left off with these parentheses,
- 10:32This is the ultimate intent of the existence of these abundant waters for this reason that ultimately do not have the power to extinguish the love for a sham by the existence of a person.
- 10:58Continue on the flip side.
- 11:02Previously the rabbi explained that.
- 11:05No, not just the bold part.
- 11:08Because the ultimate found intent of these underwaters is to print about the increase in a juice-loved freshener.
- 11:18This was reason number two.
- 11:20Remember this from yesterday?
- 11:22We know that everyone was a little sleepy.
- 11:25The waters drowned you.
- 11:30What does the harlot, the prostitute, want from the king's son?
- 11:37that he should fail or that he should not fail with her.
- 11:47Remember yesterday at the end of the class we asked about the prostitute, that the king hires her?
- 11:53You know this example many times already.
- 11:56That the king hires a prostitute to test his son
- 12:00and she's trying to seduce the son, one to get her payment,
- 12:07two in order for the king to because the king asked her to do it but really because she loves the king
- 12:15she doesn't want the king's son the prince to fail right what does she want him
- 12:23but he should withstand the test right she doesn't want him to fail she wants him to be strong
- 12:31So, I have a question to you. Does TikTok want, I'm talking to Rivka. If you don't understand the word, tell me. I'm going to repeat it again.
- 12:44What does TikTok want? As to be addicted to it or as not to be addicted to it? Yes, but really, really deep inside.
- 12:55why does it want to be addicted? Because God gives it the power to be a world to
- 13:01drown us, to give us a certain task or opportunity to grow, right? So when we
- 13:09don't, when we're not addicted, we don't fall for it, we'll be able to grow
- 13:13higher, right? So deep inside what does TikTok want? That we should not be
- 13:22addicted. You understand what I'm saying? Do I make sense? You all know
- 13:31tiktok right is the video thing just making sure no but it doesn't do you
- 13:42with the with the with the process would you understand the example it's exactly
- 13:49the same example that's the point of an example that it's the same
- 14:02Because Hashem creates it, there's things that Hashem wants and things that Hashem creates
- 14:12as a framework to fight against you almost.
- 14:16If I know that the purpose this was created is to help me grow, then I don't see it as
- 14:28Whoa, I don't see it as a contradiction. I know to walk straight through it.
- 14:38Let's make more of this.
- 14:41I'll tell the rabbit that it's okay.
- 14:44Okay, let's continue Aviva in terms of our divine service.
- 14:48Oh, you don't have that.
- 14:50A bit of a shortage of papers. So just whoever has papers will read.
- 14:54Sarah.
- 14:56As a result, a chicken from the eating disc can belong to the physical plane.
- 15:05There is an enlargement in those abundant waters.
- 15:10It attains the dynamic of Chuvah.
- 15:14Chuvah, Chuvah, Chuvah. What's Chuvah? What's Val Chuvah? Who's better?
- 15:19Itzadik or Val Chuvah?
- 15:21Val Chuvah.
- 15:22Of course. No, Itzadik.
- 15:24It's a dick is you know, it's pure is good as there's no problems. There was never any failure
- 15:32Then a shama before it comes to the world has which level is it's a dick or Balchouva
- 15:43And this can I show a bacha is the only one
- 15:46La ne shama is the pura come on. So dick or
- 15:50Transformed like a Balchouva
- 15:52So she is like a tzadik.
- 16:06Now when the neshama goes down to this world and she gets a physical body and she needs
- 16:12to go to the bank and she needs to watch tiktok and then she doesn't need to what happens
- 16:19and then she stops or she elevates she she she she
- 16:29manages to realize that the waters are not as strong not as strong as herself
- 16:36she gets what's the prophet what does she gain she becomes a balshuva which is higher
- 16:42then what she was before. The Neshamat, before they come down, they are like Tzadikim.
- 16:52The Neshamat, after they survive this world, are like Balchuva. So why is the reason
- 17:00that the Neshamat should go down to this world? To become a Balchuva.
- 17:06Everyone's Neshamat, because everyone's Neshamat is a Tzadik, and everyone's
- 17:13Neshama, through going through this world, becomes about Shema.
- 17:22So let's see here, as is well-known, a Hayah.
- 17:30Before the soul ascends into the body, on the level of the perfectly righteous.
- 17:35Continue.
- 17:35The higher quality attained through the ascending to the body is that they become related to Shriva.
- 17:40One more.
- 17:41They completely righteous, but not stand in the place of Shriva.
- 17:45Perfect.
- 17:45The Neshama, before she comes to the world, is the Tzaddik.
- 17:49The Neshama, when they come down to the world, and what they benefit,
- 17:53the growth through the big waters, is that they become Baal-e-Chuva.
- 17:58And we're saying that in a place where Baal-Chuva could stand,
- 18:06even a complete Tzaddik cannot stand.
- 18:11So we're going to see what exactly that means.
- 18:14They don't stand in that place, but it's not only that they didn't stand on that level
- 18:23They can't they don't even have the potential to stand it. It means there's really an advantage in being about Chava
- 18:29We're going to talk shortly more about it. I just want to go through more of the text a
- 18:34You don't have to pay right? Okay, so Emma this is a furthermore. They cannot stand there doing so is not even with their potential
- 18:41This is the reason
- 18:43In the flip side, this is the reason.
- 18:46Miriam, what did I say?
- 18:52Emma, sorry.
- 18:53This is the reason for the soul to set up
- 18:55with the plant, the process of trying to show
- 18:57that even when we are not speaking
- 18:59of our commitment to sin,
- 19:00but the return of the soul to its roots
- 19:02is relevant only when the soul
- 19:04is not in its true place
- 19:06in its worsen room.
- 19:10Wow.
- 19:14Why didn't the shema come down, Aviva?
- 19:16Why didn't the shema come down to the world?
- 19:18to the world short answer one liner elevator pitch has a mission to what okay
- 19:28out there to love a shame other suggestions Miriam just read it too I'm not
- 19:39asking you questions out of the blue the answer is right when it says there's a
- 19:43sentence here this is the reason for the soul the center that's earthly plane
- 19:48so the answer is either the line before or the line after and the two lines
- 19:54before was that the point of the Shamot when they're above is that they're at
- 19:58Sadikim. What? The soul before the descent to the body or in the level of the
- 20:08righteous of Sadikim through going through the descent the Bikam-Baleh-Chuva
- 20:12and this is the reason for the souls the then to this world to turn from
- 20:20Sadikim? Sadikim too? Very good. Why did the soul come down to the world, Aviva?
- 20:28To turn from Sadikim into Balai Tshuva. Very good. Esther, why did the Shema come down to the world?
- 20:35Balai Tshuva. We need to do Tshuva.
- 20:43Now I have a question to you. Why? By the next time on the bottom it says page what out of what?
- 20:49of what look at the water in the bottom in gray so we're in page four out of eight
- 20:58that's what you each one what they deserve each one i gave the paper they need to know about
- 21:04i have all the i have the whole the whole thing focus so i have a question to you why couldn't
- 21:12Hashem make a Bal Chuvah program up you know by him why do you need to fly to
- 21:20America to go to college stay in Argentina and do college there when
- 21:26Ukraine why do you need to come all the way to America why does Hashem send
- 21:30the Nishamot down to this world to a disconnected place in order to do Chuvah
- 21:34make some some area in Genedin this is the Bal Chuvah program
- 21:39all the Nishamot will spend 70 80 years there and come back what the
- 21:51finds here what's the difference between here and there
- 21:56to who okay not not bad not bad what and not smooth is up there at smooth is
- 22:02where the Nishamot were connected before him that's where we're talking why
- 22:06not in that smooth why doesn't Nishamot stay up there why do they have to go
- 22:10down through Tikkun to like a limited disconnected world that is far from the
- 22:15route in order to to Ducuva okay there we can but there what okay with the
- 22:32if I elaborate what do you mean we have a choice okay so so you say you're saying
- 22:46well the idea of the following what the translation of Chuvah okay very good or
- 22:53what other just usually the answer the other one first name we say what Chuvah
- 23:01shuva on a simple way means either answer or repentance okay that's what most
- 23:08people usually answer is repenting sorry movie but the Hasidic meaning of it is
- 23:12what? Laila knows your moment shuva is return what does it mean to return? to come
- 23:23back very good to come back to the source you can't come back if you
- 23:28never left. Can I come back to class right now? Only if I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna
- 23:37be outside. It makes sense that I do chuva. I come back. But if I'm here in the
- 23:43class, as long as I'm here, I can't do chuva to the class, right? Because I'm in
- 23:48the class. The moment I'm outside, now I'm outside, now I could do chuva. I
- 23:53could come back. As long as you were in the Godly presence and there's no
- 23:57question that's a little bit of choice as long as there's no question about God's
- 24:02presence there's no point of doing chuvah because the awareness is that
- 24:06everything is Hashem everything is Godly.
- 24:09Okay but the question is still why why do you have to do that? Why not to stay in the same place?
- 24:14Because you could only you'll always stay at Sadiq it's gonna be within the same
- 24:19level Hashem. Give me a fin I'll finish and then and then and then we'll
- 24:24We could dive into it.
- 24:26Right now, within Hashem's presence, the Neshama see everything as a godly expression.
- 24:32When the Neshama enters the world, there is a shift in its consciousness, in the way it sees everything.
- 24:42Instead of seeing everything as part of God, I see it as independent.
- 24:47This table, is godly or tably?
- 24:50Tably.
- 24:51Tably, materialistically. This book. Is it godly or booky?
- 24:56No it's Godly but like you look at it whatever you look at it seems like it's
- 25:04independently standing when you look when there's two books one on top of each
- 25:09other what is holding this book this right the bricks the building they hold
- 25:14themselves this is how nature works it feels independent separate from God when
- 25:24I eat when I'm hungry and I eat food why do I feel that there was I was
- 25:28hungry me my physical body now there's physical food and I ate it now I'm full
- 25:33I don't feel like oh God created this and God created that and God made them together
- 25:39everything feels independent and separate from Hashem when I ask you where do you have money from
- 25:46what's the answer and don't say Hashem for a second I know you're very spiritual and
- 25:50believing but like for a moment I'll go to work and who pays me Hashem no it's me pays you the
- 25:58the boss. So who pays my bills? The boss. That's what I see. That's what I see around me. And
- 26:05Neshama will never have such an experience. Hashem created a framework, a world that feels
- 26:21disconnected from him. It's a tremendous surprise that God managed to create something like
- 26:27that, by the way. It's weird how Hashem created something that feels so disconnected.
- 26:36Chuva means that the Neshama returns to its original awareness, the way she saw things before,
- 26:46that everything, including myself, is a godly expression. Not that I don't exist, rather that I
- 26:56am a godly expression. And that's why in order to do Chuva, or the Neshama to have Chuva,
- 27:03we must go through a place that is seemingly disconnected from Hashem, otherwise there is no
- 27:10point in the return, there's no choice but like I don't like the word choice usually has a very like
- 27:17a specific connotation, so I rather stick to like the the the the Bal Chuvah, the point of
- 27:23returning is in Ishamah returning to its original way of seeing things, that everything is godly
- 27:30And that could only happen in a physical, low world that is so disconnected from the Creator.
- 27:37So far so good? Is that clear?
- 27:46So why did Nishama go down to this world?
- 27:49Because from Sadikim too?
- 27:56Very good. Why do we need Allison to go specifically through this world
- 28:05this world and we couldn't have stayed with God. Why can't you do chuvah within godliness?
- 28:16You have to go through a physical world.
- 28:26Just look at the final line. Because chuvah is relevant only when the soul is not in the place
- 28:35in its source and root. There could only be chuvah when you leave and then come back.
- 28:41there's no chuvah if you stay in the same place okay yes so we have to leave
- 28:52in order to come back then you could return then this then it makes sense to
- 28:59talk about returning as that you're on retrace and then it is relevant you
- 29:08could look with Mario let's skip the explanation just the bold words and
- 29:24And then, it is relevant...
- 29:26I don't want to speak of our soul, so we're going into it, and so it's really a change
- 29:32that's affected by the spirit, and we're going into that to endow it.
- 29:42Endowment, endowing is giving.
- 29:47Technically it's giving, but endowing means to like put it inside of you.
- 29:53Right? Endowment.
- 29:55Oh, I think that's the right...
- 29:57Exactly. The Tashem puts the spirit in you.
- 30:01Okay, I'll continue.
- 30:07Since the positive quality possessed by a Bal Chuvah
- 30:10surpasses the positive quality possessed by the Tzadik
- 30:14to an extent that the difference from between them is radical
- 30:18with no basis for comparison.
- 30:21They're, wow, they're like two different completely worlds.
- 30:24And by the way, it's not that Tzadik is like six and a Bal Chuvah is a ten.
- 30:30It's not that Sadik has a thousand points and the Baal-Shuwa has ten thousand points.
- 30:38A Baal-Shuwa and Sadik are not in the same category.
- 30:41Because Sadik will never understand and will never have the same experience as the Baal-Shuwa went through.
- 30:47He never left, he never came back.
- 30:50We're not talking about Baal-Shuwa in order to sin and then stop sinning.
- 30:57Also, we're talking about the sense that the Nishama has to go through this world.
- 31:02she has to leave the golly realms feel disconnected and then return that's our
- 31:08job to help Arna Shamma be about Chuvah as a consequence so Chuvah which was
- 31:17made possible for the soul through the scent to this physical plane to this
- 31:20physical low level it consequence is the result consequence means if I throw
- 31:31this it's gonna hit you that's the consequence of me throwing it yes and
- 31:39you have your head hurting is a consequence of this hitting you and you
- 31:45being angry is a consequence of you being hurt the consequence of you
- 31:52throwing something back is the consequence of you being angry it could
- 31:57keep going. The consequence is always the result that comes after. Okay? That's very interesting.
- 32:54Almost like what could be higher than Anashama being united with Hashem? Anashama is one with
- 33:02godliness. She's completely nullified to Hashem. There's no question about it. She's completely
- 33:13selfless but then through the great powers of the abandoned waters all the
- 33:28waters I get involved with in this world the physical world I could reach
- 33:33higher and I could almost reach the same level as before being so nullified to
- 33:40Hashem while being in this world and that's going to be almost not just a
- 33:45pleasure that's going to be the upgrade that we could there we could
- 33:49arrive. I'll give you a small example. That's a good example, but it's certain
- 33:54it's gonna bring out novelty. What's more interesting? A person talking or a bird
- 34:01talking? You know what's a parrot? Like a bird? You know bird? And then there's
- 34:10like that there's a bird that could talk. Papagayo. Yeah? That's that's how I say in
- 34:19German. What? Papugai in Russian, you see? You guys don't know Russian. In German it is.
- 34:31Oh, okay. Exactly. Okay, whatever, the same thing. You understand that a bird that
- 34:36knows how to talk. Long story short, what's more interesting? A person who could say
- 34:42good morning or a bird that could say good morning? Why is a bird more interesting? She knows to talk
- 34:47less than the person. Because it's natural for a bird to speak, to talk. It's not
- 34:55natural. It's not a given. It's transformative. It's a change. It's something else. It's
- 35:04out of its place, for instance, I shared it, but I think 90% of the girls knew that I grew up in
- 35:11Germany. We had a Holocaust survivor from Hungary, from Hungary, from Budapest, and he remembers
- 35:18that he told us the story probably a hundred times, that when they had in Budapest a wealthy man
- 35:25and he had a parrot outside of his house in the big cave, big nice cave, that the parrot
- 35:31need to say good job is so job is morning everyone walking back from show
- 35:36everyone was saying good job is in the bird answer good job and this was like
- 35:41the average about morning everyone's walking by the bird the birds is good
- 35:44job is and it was like a classic and here is the way the Nazis came to put
- 35:49a mess like he said he showed with his own eyes you know the Jews walk by the
- 35:54bird and say good job you know the bird has a good job is then one of the
- 35:57German officers took a gun and shot the parrot. He was so angry, he shot, whatever he shot,
- 36:03he decided to shoot the parrot. And he said that he understood the hate, he doesn't,
- 36:08he did not understand, he said like, the hate to Jews was known, but like, why did he kill
- 36:14the parrot? You know, it's like, it was like, he remembered the, whatever. So the
- 36:21And the Shammah being selfless or nullified to Hashem within Godliness is not a surprise,
- 36:28it's nothing new.
- 36:29When it comes down to the world, it has the waters, there's another option.
- 36:34And then there's a choice, that's a novelty, that's like a talking bird.
- 36:38That's like the power coming out from within this low level.
- 36:47What we're left with is the question is like how much higher could you go?
- 36:51If we're united with Hashem before we come to the world, we're one with God,
- 36:55could you go higher up? Because it's not a temporary benefit, it's when we go up to to heaven afterwards
- 37:03there must be some kind of elevation within within gardens you know that we that we go to a higher
- 37:10place you're not going in order to come back to the same place so that's our research question
- 37:17for tomorrow then we're gonna be almost at the end we're gonna be almost at the end I think
- 37:22I think we could hopefully by the end of the week we'll get to the end of this and then we could modify what?
- 37:33Yes, one page.