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Tanya chapter 32 part 1 - Ahavat Yisrael and the heart of Tanya · Food for the Soul

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  We are diving into Tanya, chapter 32, into a transformative journey, good morning, page 145 in the Red Tanya, page 32,
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  stands in Hebrew for what letters? What's 32, what's 30, which letter corresponding?
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  Lamed, right? Lamed corresponds to 30 according to the Dimatria, have you heard of that?
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  bet represents which letter? Sorry, two represents which letter? Bet, what's Lamid and bet together?
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  32. What's the word of these two together? Create the word, live. Live, what's the heart?
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  What's live? Live is a heart. Beg, Lamid, bet is the heart of Tanya. It's the heart of Tanya and
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  not randomly does it talk about the idea of Ahavat Isra'in. Okay? Love to a fellow Jew.
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  Now, this is mid-journey, the tanya until where we're at now, there's another tanya behind
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  you, good pass author, thank you, we're mid-journey.
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  From the beginning of tanya till here, the author went through an interesting path of
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  explaining the purpose of tzadikim, resha'im, the righteous, the wicked, the bainonim,
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  intermediates, what's our work and life, where should we aim for, how to serve God with joy,
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  how to not be depressed etc. And he kind of concludes the first half of Tanya till chapter 32
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  with meditations and contemplations about the loneliness of one's body and the superiority
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  of one's nashama. Again, we have a body and we have a nashama. Which one stands superior to what?
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  Which one is higher? Obviously the nashama over the body, dominating, being more elevated. So
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  he goes on and on about someone having the need to bash themselves a little.
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  if yesterday we spoke so much about feeling good about yourself right we're trying to make everyone
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  feel so good about themselves yesterday those over here right that Hashem forgives you and everything
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  is good and you're a beautiful Hashem but sometimes when there's a big chunk of wood
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  and it doesn't catch on fire right you know what's a big a piece of wood anyone had like
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  like, what's it called, like where you put fire? A fireplace? A fireplace? Anyone had a fireplace
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  at home? No? You grew up with one? Okay. Okay, okay, something like that. What can you put
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  a big piece of wood into the fireplace? What's going to happen? It's just not going to work
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  also. It's just not going to catch on fire. Right? A big piece of wood doesn't catch on
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  fire so quickly. So what do you do with the wood? You got to chop the wood. Yeah. Do you
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  have a chop wood? It's a great sport. Wood chopping. If you ever have aggressions or
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  something, take an axe, take wood and video. It's a great, it's a great outlet for, for,
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  for stress or for what exactly don't be next to okay it's not it's not safe to
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  stand next to it exactly now what's the analogy if a Jew realizes that the fire
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  of spirituality doesn't catch on to him if the fire of the Nishamah doesn't
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  express itself in your body. Did you ever feel like that? That you're trying to connect
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  to Hashem and you don't get inspired. You learn, you say the words of Tfilah, you learn
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  Torah but it doesn't catch your body on fire. Okay, it doesn't catch your body on fire.
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  Happens to you, it happens to everyone right? You try, you try, you pray, even it could
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  be in Naush Shana, you stand in shol and you say the words and like, not happening.
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  magic doesn't happen like like unsuccessful date it's like it just doesn't there's no there's
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  no the fire doesn't catch what do you do in such a case the altars is very simple when a chunk
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  of wood doesn't catch on fire you got to chop it how do you chop it your knowledge and you
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  realize that your body feels itself a little too good about itself that your yatsara your
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  animalistic soul feels itself like superior. Wow, look who I am like this, I'm like I'm
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  independent. I'm my own, I'm my own body and my own thing. And again, I really hate to repeat
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  about the phones, but anyone who thinks that they like tapping the phone on the side, and
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  it doesn't, it's just not respectful, simply. So you need to chop the wood. How does
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  one, chop the wood, he needs to tell his body, stop, stop concealing the light of Hashem
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  from me.
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  Who do you think you are?
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  Stop distracting me, stop taking away my passion, you need to bash it.
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  And the altar actually goes a little more aggressive if you ever want to like go into
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  it chapter 30, 31, the altar really goes into making you realize that how high your
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  in a shamaiz and how low your body is, how divine endless infinite everlasting your soul
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  is, your godly spark and how materialistic and minimalistic low your body is.
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  One of the things that could really help a person do chuvaw, be more spiritual is work
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  in a chevre kadisha.
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  You know what's chevre kadisha?
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  Chevre kadisha are the people in charge of burials, of Jewish burials.
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  burials, cemetery, dead people, earth, burial. So you see that when you see a person who passed away
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  and you're helping you know to bury them, you get to realize a few times when you see it visual
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  you realize that the body is really not more than a body. It's really just like
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  Like, so if you're an analogy, a frozen chicken from the freezer, just a piece of meat, there's
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  really not more than that, right there, that's what we are.
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  So sometimes when my body runs, I see Manhattan, they have a store called Crumble, I don't
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  know Crumble, so that's like a cookie store, and people wait on line for an hour, 7am,
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  that opens. They went for an hour with a long line around the block to buy cookies. Is that
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  normal? That's not normal, right? People are waiting online to get the new iPhone. Is that
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  normal? Maybe. No, it's crazy, right? Because what do you mean? You're a human being. So
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  animalistically, it's very low. The things your body desires are very, you could look
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  down at them. Now, if you do more of this, if you practice that a lot, it will help you
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  slowly be more spiritual, connect more with meaning, and realize that what really matters
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  are yunishama, life, and the spiritual things that you do. Okay? This was before the chapter
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  we're talking about. Now, the Altera will start chapter 32 with an amazing statement.
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  If you realize that your Nishamah is the main thing and your body is secondary, secondary
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  means not the first, secondary less important, then you will be able to have true love to
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  every Jew.
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  Real Avat Isra'el, real love to your fellow, why so?
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  Because when I see my body as the main thing, and my Neshama secondary, then me and you clash.
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  We're different because my body is different than your body.
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  My body has its own desires, your body is different.
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  We're limited, I am here, you are there, right?
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  We are in chapter 32 on page 145, we have another book there.
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  This is going to be an easy way to love another year.
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  Because when I love, when I see minus shama is the main thing and my body is not so important
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  and if my body actually bothers our relationship then I need to realize that really
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  If my Nishama would be the main thing in my life, so I would see your Nishama and it would
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  be very easy for us to connect.
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  When I see my life through the lens of my physical body then me and you contradict each
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  other.
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  Either I have the money or you have the money, either I will have this cookie or
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  you have the cookie, either I will be famous or you will be famous.
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  existences there's only one cheer either I sit or you sit and we're different we're
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  different because I like this you like that but when I realized that my Nishama is the
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  main thing and my body is just a tool to host it almost then when I see a fellow Yid
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  automatically what I see in him is his Nishama and one second his Nishama and my Nishama
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  come from the same place, we are both one with Hashem, we are like brothers, more than
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  brothers, we are originally all one.
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  So one second, oh if MashaAllah and Yuna Shama are together then who cure it, like sure
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  take the cure, take everything, it's yours like it's mine, it doesn't make a difference.
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  We are one on that level and that love could be expressed in many ways.
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  Avat Israel is one of those commands that is very hard to fulfill right the Torah
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  basically expects you to love a fellow Jew unconditionally why just because
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  he's Jewish like what do you mean why should I love him because he's Jewish I
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  don't have anything to do with him he's not friend I don't like him I don't like
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  how he looks or he smells I don't know like like it's just like not my not my
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  thing. And what about the Jew far away in I don't know, in Australia? Do I need to
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  love that Jew there? What about the Jew that screams free Palestine? No? Why not?
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  He is an Arab. He is a Jew! What do you mean if he is a Jew? No, no, he doesn't say
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  anywhere an exception for that. It says, love your fellow Jew like yourself. You need to
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  agree with him, it doesn't need to show support but you must love him unconditionally as your
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  brother. If your brother would become the worst thing to be. It's like, come on, it's a bit
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  of a political Israel related to gentleness. People who do religious Jews or pro-Israel
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  and steal money and kill people, it doesn't make them better. It's like proportions.
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  I know a lot of Chabad houses who most of their crowd is very left-wing California-woke
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  crowd and they love them unconditionally and they still welcome in the show
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  and they find a way to like put the differences aside and highlight the Neshama.
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  That's exactly the point of Avat Israel. If my body is principled, then your opinion and my opinion clash.
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  If my Neshama is the main thing, so his Neshama and my Neshama are one. So it's a very hard
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  demand. Of course we need to love them. That's the point of Avat Israel. So first of all,
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  it's a comment. That's a phrase in the Torah. It's a mitzvah.
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  It's a mitzvah to love a fellow Jew.
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  It's very interesting, how do you fulfill the mitzvah?
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  When do you get points for the mitzvah?
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  When you love them in your heart,
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  when you do something good for them.
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  Some mitzvahs are, it's a little hard to like,
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  measure the success, not the success,
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  like when did you accomplish the mitzvah?
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  But this is one of them.
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  But you need to love every Jew, for sure.
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  How could they do it?
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  If my body is going to be my priority in my material life, is what I, the way I view myself,
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  it's going to be very hard for me to love anyone else.
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  It's not directly related, but I heard once from Manus Friedman, he said, interesting,
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  point on marriage. He said that a person needs to be able to marry anyone. Anyone.
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  Why? Because 99% of marriage is how you treat each other and how you see each
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  other in a partnership. Take the post-holocaust marriage mentality. What was
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  the requirement after the Holocaust for a couple to get married? Two things. After
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  the World War, after Holocaust, two people survived the Holocaust, they want to get
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  married. What was two questions they asked each other? Jewish one, that's
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  good, right? Number two. Okay, not siblings. That's important. I don't know what that you
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  would have kids. There was the main two questions that people ask each other. Can you have kids
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  though? After the Holocaust? You know, are you still able to to to have babies? Number two,
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  if you're Jewish and you could have children, we could get married. What else is need?
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  It doesn't make a difference where you, you know, there were so many things that were not relevant and you see so many post post war
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  Couples, you know, had a beautiful life
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  And now they didn't get to
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  Match their requirements and today we know, you know, there's so many options
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  But sometimes you go back to basics and you see how what do you mean? I just your Jewish
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  I could have shown you could have children beautiful. We can make a man
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  We can make a could build a Jewish home together
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  So, Rabbi Friedman said that someone who can't marry anyone can't marry nobody.
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  It means if you're not technically ready to marry anyone and build a family just based
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  on the unconditional bond, then anyone you'll marry you won't get the point of that unconditional
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  bond.
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  Side point, it basically means if you don't understand the mindset of unconditionally
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  marrying someone and being bound to them forever
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  for on the grounds of making this your priority,
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  then whoever you marry that point will be missing.
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  That is saying I said that they're really connected, I know it's Torah at Moshebi Sinai, but it's a little bit related here
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  because I cannot love any Jew
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  I'm conditionally, if I don't prioritize my nishama over my body, as long as my nishama
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  is not the main thing in my life, it's going to be very hard for me to love someone else
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  because whoever they are, whatever they do, almost bothers me, it contradicts me, I need
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  to tolerate their existence and that's really hard, especially when they disagree with him,
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  especially when they have different political opinions than me. You see in Israel, it's terrible.
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  I really need to stop looking at the Israeli news altogether. I reduced it, but like every time
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  you look, it's just like one big hatred to each other. It's like, oh, it's so disgusting.
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  It's not that we can't work on ourselves too, but like there's a big difference between
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  politics, opinions, agendas, and to love your fellow Jew. We could be enemies, but we could
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  still be men sheikh, you know, like you see in sports, sometimes there's like, you know,
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  good sports, people that know how to fight and know how to shake each other's hand before
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  after. Why? Because like, I know that me and you are beyond what we disagree about, right?
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  So same happens between two Jews. So now we're going to dive into the chapter and we're going to
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  learn that Avat Israel is going to be the aftermath and the direct expression of prioritizing our
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  soul over our body. Okay? Clear? That will also answer an amazing statement. There's a story
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  that a person once wanted to convert. Someone came to Shammai. Have you heard about them?
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  Two opinions. There are two big Talmud scholars and they used to learn together
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  and he used to argue about everything. How do you like the halukiyah?
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  B'chama'i says first day eight, then seven, then six,
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  Hilal said first day one, then two, then three. Right? You know this argument?
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  How do you go? You go eight to one or one to eight?
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  B'chama'i and B'chama'i, they argue at the same time.
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  How do you do this Mitzvah or do that Mitzvah? How do you
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  How do you do Shabbat?
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  Every possible question, until when can you read the Shema?
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  But he says until 9am, but Shema says until 10am.
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  It's like endless arguments.
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  One time a convert of Nanju came to Shama'i and told him Shama'i, and Shama'i was the
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  more strict one.
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  I told them, I want you to convert me while I stand on one foot.
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  While I stand on one foot, can you teach me the whole Torah?
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  You know what's standing on one foot?
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  How long would someone stand on one foot?
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  He told them, while I'm standing on one foot, I want you to teach me the whole Torah.
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  What should I do?
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  Kick them away, push them away.
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  I told them, you're crazy, what are these requirements, what are these words?
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  kind of like push him, go away! Impossible! So he went to Ilel, Ilel Azakin, he was the kind one,
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  the patient one, there's many stories in Judaism that you should know about Ilel Azakin.
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  And he told Ilel, could you convert me or teach me all the Torah on one foot? So Ilel told
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  them, sure. That's the whole Torah. The rest is just an explanation. The whole Torah is what?
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  The whole Torah, that's the whole Torah. All the mitzvot, everything is encapsulated in the
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  whole Torah. Do that properly and you're good. The rest is just symptoms, explanations. Wow,
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  Interesting. That's really the main... How would you say,
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  Ishmael Israel, believing in one God, 10 commandments? No,
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  and after that, one mitzvah and the rest is explanation. What does that mean?
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  Okay? So, I'll leave the first second as a question on the side.
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  We're going to dive into understanding of what Israel and we're going to get back to the
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  store. Okay? Here? Open the tiny has page 145.
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  Chapter 32, Pelik live the heart, the live, acting on the suggestion mentioned above.
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  To view one's body with scorn and contempt. Scorn is like being upset at it almost and
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  content is like looking at like oh this this body is is disgusting all at once all day is to eat
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  and to watch movies and to I don't know what and eat ice cream and finding joy
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  only in the joy of the soul alone a person that looks down on this body will
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  realize that the real joy the real pleasure comes from
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  from, from holiness is a direct and easy way, this is direct and easy, look it's direct
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  and easy, to attain the fulfillment, basically to do the mitzvah, of the commandment, thou
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  shalt love thy fellow as thyself, basically you should love your fellow like yourself.
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  145 in the bottom pages. Do you see the bottom has the narration of the pages?
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  Okay, so we're in the bottom of the first column.
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  Dasha'Allah, thy fellow as thyself, you should love the other Jew like yourself, not this type of Jew,
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  not your brother, any Jew, towards every soul of Israel, both great and small. Now obviously
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  this is what we mean great and small. Taltar just doesn't refer here, oh yeah,
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  the 3 year old and the 50 year old.
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  That wouldn't be needed to say it.
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  The Al-Tarrabi means here, when I say Al-Tarrabi, who do I refer to?
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  You know who the Al-Tarrabi was?
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  The first picture, top right, you see, Rabbi Ishneer Zaman of Liyadi, the founder of
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  Habar, who wrote the tanya.
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  We call him the Al-Tarrabi, it's like the old Rabbi, because he was the oldest,
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  the first one, so we call him the oldest.
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  Yiddish, the Al-Tarabbah. So if I say the Al-Tarabbah, that's what I'm talking about.
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  So the Al-Tarabbah chooses you, the wording, great and small, to tell you, it doesn't
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  make a difference if you're spiritually big or spiritually small, you're a big tzaddik
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  or you're a simple Jew. According to all levels, I should love the Jew, regardless
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  of his spiritual level. Why? How could I, through scoining and contempting my
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  body and prioritizing my soul, get to Abad Israel, whereas one despises and loathe one's
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  body when you kind of are disgusted or dis, like you don't like the animalistic part
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  of you, while as for the soul and spirit who can know their greatness and their excellence
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  their root and source of the living God while knowing that the Meshama is so high, so tremendous,
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  so special, being moreover all of a kind and all having one father, therefore all Israelites
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  are called real brothers by the virtue of the source of their souls and one God.
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  Only the bodies are separated. So if I give focus to my body
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  I'm basically focusing on separation, on what makes me a new difference.
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  For example, if I focus on my own ishama, so when I look at a fellow Jew, what do I see
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  by them?
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  Dwayne ishama, so I'll be able to connect with them.
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  And if I prioritize my body, then I can't love them truly, because our bodies divide
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  each other, are separated from each other, especially because the ishamot are all part
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  of one god, one father, so we are all really united. Hence, in the case of those who give
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  major consideration to their bodies or regarding their souls as of secondary importance, they
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  can be no true love and brotherhoods amongst them, but only a love which is dependent
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  on a transitory thing. You could only say, what do you mean, I love so much, I am
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  Shamazna priority, but I love my friend. I love my spouse. No, no. That's not why you love them.
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  You love them because there is some kind of benefit for you. Why do you like your friends?
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  Because you enjoy their company, right? So you're not a good friend, you're selfish.
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  If you're a friend with your friend because you enjoy their company,
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  then basically you're thinking about who when you're in this relationship.
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  What are they thinking about if they could be selfish about themselves or just say it's
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  not it's not bad to be so I'm just saying it's a fact it's a fact that you are in this
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  friendship for who for them definitely not because proof is that if they wouldn't be your
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  type, your style, you wouldn't enjoy the company, you wouldn't be their friend. Right? So you're
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  selfish. So does this apply all the time? I don't know. Do you tell me about your friends? If
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  you're selfish, friends, everyone around us? Yes, generally, it's all transitory things.
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  basically why if you're very good very good without being selfish the answer is
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  prioritizing you know shama over your body as long as I am focused on my body and
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  your body so technically we are separated by definition hence the only way for us
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  to bond is via a transitory third-party common ground. We both like hockey. We both like
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  ice cream. We both like doing our nails. We both like Isha'i Rebo. I don't know, whatever
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  you have in common. So this is what creates the bond. So it's a temporary, it's not
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  a real love, it's a temporary agreement. And that could be, you know, happens. People
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  get married, have kids and divorce. It's also something, okay, so while they were
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  together, they're very nice. It was a transitory way, you know, bound for an accomplishment of a
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  specific task, which is obviously, I don't want to say sick, it's a very like unhealthy and incorrect
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  way of looking at it. But if it's not because of Maini Shama which is eternal, spiritual,
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  Godly, and is bonded with every other Jew, there is no real love to a fellow, unless what
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  I really like, love about you, is what I really love about myself, which is my Nishama, and
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  on the Nishama level, you and me are equal.
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  So technically, loving you Nishama equals loving my Nishama, because I like the Godly
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  spark in myself and in you.
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  I know the two I really am is my spirit the godly part of me and that you have just as much as I do
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  Regardless of how a homeless
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  smelly
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  robber Jew I
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  Could keep going on has the same God in a shaman like I do
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  You're pushing the question, especially when you give names.
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  As long as they're not legally, halachically liable for execution, and even then.
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  But let's say, the love is not to them or to what they do, it's to their neshama.
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  And the same way we love ourselves, while we do so many disgusting, not nice things.
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  We're basically saying, really, that's not who I am.
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  What I really part of my life is my Neshama, and whatever.
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  That's where I'm really aiming to express my body, but I'm struggling within it.
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  So he's also struggling.
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  His Neshama and your Neshama are just as much godly.
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  the fact that their body did more sins than you did, it's within a tangible scope of how
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  much more animalistic they are than you, but on a godly essential level, you're still brothers,
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  not literally, meaning, but what? But I'm saying it is an interesting realization,
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  Because the Torah doesn't really give you discounts on when it comes to Allah at Israel,
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  it says very clearly, to love a fellow Jew unconditionally. And I'm not saying it's an easy job.
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  I remember growing up in Germany, there was a bunch of, there's many times,
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  a lot of scenes when people are, you know, there is khabad in a certain place,
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  and then like a group of people get stuck in the airport and they have nowhere to sleep
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  in the middle of the night I know girls got stuck people that I walk many times on blankets
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  in the living room because people need in the middle of the night place to sleep or something
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  like that so they call my parents my parents didn't have extra rooms for guests so they
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  gave them the kids room here in the kids room and they put us on blankets to sleep
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  on the living room on the floor but what do you mean it's basically I wake up
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  in the morning and this is like for sure like what do you mean your bed my bed all one you know
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  and these places that push it to a higher level there's the I just saw in the recent the Shaykh
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  Abad magazine should read it about Mrs. Farakash she's a mother of 17 a mother of 17 she became
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  Chabad tell you about her husband the great rabbi and we're talking about six years ago
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  and she and her husband had an open home like by default the door of the house was open
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  many times they were spotted sleeping on chairs on the porch because they gave
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  their beds away to someone else. Simple, no, Rimi, like Avati said, if what's
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  really matters is my Neshama and your Neshama, so why is my body prioritize
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  of your body? So in certain places where it's really my
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  piece of bread or your piece of bread, we're gonna need a halachic decree
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  about who will get to eat that piece to save my life or your life. But as
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  As long as we are not talking about such an extreme measure, there is no real limit to
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  Avat Israel.
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  It's been totally killed by ego.
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  You could, on the contrary, only if you really kill your ego, you could have Avat
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  Israel.
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  I think real Avat Israel comes when you're, when it's not just ego, when your body
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  is just not priority in your life.
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  You know what?
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  Ego.
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  Ego.
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  What was the learning from the Shoah?
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  And he was saying that you had only a tiny blanket to cover five people or whatever.
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  So if you took a little bit too much, the person next to you couldn't have blankets.
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  So, the learning was basically from the whole shura that you can only survive if the other person also survives.
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  So, that's how much it's real basically.
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  True.
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  It definitely has that aspect. When it comes to shura lessons, I don't like that usually.
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  Just because like, it's more like, I don't see that as a good lesson.
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  We could have skipped that lesson.
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  And we didn't learn the lesson so it was, you know, you might as well skip that process.
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  But actually there was one Hasidic rabbi in Russia, rabbi, one activist who helped, you
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  know, after the World War, he helped a lot of Jews escape Russia, because they made
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  a special law that they could, if you're a Polish citizen, you could return to Poland
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  after the war.
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  about it, the big exit from Lviv, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, same place. So then there
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  was like, after the World War, they wanted to get all the Polish out. So what did the
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  Jews do in order to get out of Russia? They fake Polish papers that they're
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  Polish citizens and left Russia with it. Thousands. Now obviously this was a
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  a very illegal industry, but basically the Jews forged papers. So there's one guy, Mendel
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  Fotifas, he was the head of like this operation. And when he realized that they're on his
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  trail, and they're about to catch him. So he made himself also a passport and wanted
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  to board the train to escape. So his friends saw him in the train station and told him
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  What do you mean? Like there's more Jews we could save. Says yes, but they're on my they're on my trail
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  Like they'll catch me says what do you mean? I want to sell also has a limit now
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  Like since when did I want to sell have like a an expiration?
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  Line they're like oh, you know what it's not as long as it's not life. It was life danger the whole time now
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  It's a little more life danger
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  So now you stop who gave you
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  Where is your like permission to like bounce now?
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  So, a man in front of us went back, stayed, helped more people escape, got caught, was
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  sent to Siberia for 15 years, 10, 15, 20, everyone loves to say 20 always, but I don't
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  like to say, I don't think it was more than 10 years, we're sent to Siberia, if you're
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  freezing cold for 12 years, 13 years, I don't know, the tachless.
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  So we see, Abad Israel is, by the way, in Chassidim many times we talk about it so much
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  because it's not so much about myself.
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  On the contrary, it's the less me, the more God.
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  Which is something that other Chassid, other Jewish circles contradict.
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  They say clearly, no, it's more about myself.
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  I need to be as big and as connected, yes I'm so special, I'm God's gift to humanity,
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  I should elevate myself and study Torah for myself because then I'll become a big rabbi
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  which is my goal and what I need to do and it's really the opposite, the more you put
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  yourself in the game the less God has presence there, the more you see a rabbi holding
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  higher of himself, he's less representing God, for sure. It's a direct collision. The more focused on
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  you, the less focused on God. In parentheses, we talk about, well, mentioned again, weddings,
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  there ever once spoke, or more than once spoke, that the more materialistic a wedding is,
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  the less spiritual it is. The more flowers, less godly. The more decoration, it should be nice
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  and happy in a certain measure, but when you go beyond and push extra or start focusing on the
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  material aspects of the things, you take away from the spirituality of it. Which is interesting,
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  that like the one comes and expands on the other side, what do you mean? It could be both,
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  a little bit, yes? You still need to have a nice cup, you still need to have a makeup
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  and you still need to have a dress. But the obsession about those things is clearly
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  contradicting to the Divine presence of it, because you're filling the space more of you
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  and there's this place for God, mental space, physical space etc.
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  So, we now see that ego, human body, presence is contradicting one Jew to another Jew
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  and the only real way for Avat-e-San is through prioritizing my Meshama.
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  Now, what's the point of every mitzvah?
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  Now, we learn, as I can say, that avatisah, that's the whole Torah.
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  All the mitzvah, the avatisah, that's the main thing.
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  Avatisah is the mitzvah, and all the things are just explanations.
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  I have a question to you.
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  When I decide to eat kosher versus eating nut kosher, what am I basically showing here
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  that what's more important might be my body or my inshamah, when I decide to keep Shabbat,
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  what am I prioritizing?
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  My body or my inshamah, so basically every mitzvah that I will do, I'm basically, what's
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  the opposite of sub-ordinating?
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  Sub-ordinating means that like I have this and I'm putting this under that, it's
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  like I'm putting this under this category, it's a superiorizing, make up a word, superiorizing
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  my neshama over my body is basically every mitzvah, whatever mitzvah that I do, I prioritize
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  the wrong word, it's not being prioritized, prioritizing is a verb, not like an adjective
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  Making, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like, we'll find afterwards what's the opposite of subordinating.
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  Every mitzvah is basically saying, my Neshama is the main thing, my body is secondary.
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  Every single mitzvah, and I decide to do this and not to do that, I'm basically choosing
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  this over that, my Neshama over my body.
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  My God is over my enamelistic soul, again and again and again.
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  That's the epitome of my Neshama being superior to my body, Avat Israel.
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  So it comes out that Avat Israel is a measuring stick on how much you're connected to Hashem.
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  Because if I'm very connected to Hashem, I could have more Avat Israel.
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  It's if my body is more important in my life, I could have less Avat Israel.
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  Even if it's what I do, I'm basically helping myself, prioritizing my Nishama over my body.
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  And then I could love another Jew more than before.
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  If I have to fill it now, if I light Shabbat candles now, with every time I prioritize
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  Nishama more and more, the Jew next to me, I will see his Nishama more and more also.
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  And then we'll be able to connect much more, because my Nishama is more shining.
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  So basically what will come out is that the principle of Avat Isra'el can be paraphrased
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  as making the Shammah first over the body.
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  That's Avat Isra'el, right?
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  Yes.
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  Is that correct now, all about the Jewish?
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  What about the God's mission?
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  Good question.
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  There is no command to unconditionally love a non-Jew.
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  This ve'avta re'cha kamocha refers to a Jew.
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  Re'cha to your fellow, a fellow who is like you.
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  Non-Jews are Godly creations.
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  should respect them, it should be nice to them, but there's no obligation to
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  unconditionally love them. There's many things which are godly, you know, but
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  there's no obligation or what is that does not apply to them. And they also
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  don't need necessarily to prioritize during the Shema over their body, they
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  could eat McDonald's on Shabbat and fulfill their life mission, by being
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  decent humans. A Jew does it by prioritizing the Shema over his body. The
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  God just needs to acknowledge God's existence and conduct the world in a
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  righteous way. The 7 commandments and that's it, not idol worship and
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  rebel against him. He doesn't have the obligation to reveal God in this
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  world. That's our job. So hence, there's different jobs with different
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  with different consequences. The Jew has been his job and his Nishama given to him
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  needs to also feel that towards others. And then what differentiates the Jew that
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  he has a God in Nishama. An additional soul which is the spark of God.
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  Non-Jews have only the natural animalistic soul, which sounds bad when
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  It's just animalistic, but it's...
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  No, we'll have two parts of the Rasha Salih.
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  What?
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  Rasha Salih.
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  I don't know.
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  So, that's with Ida.
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  We'll continue this with Zadashem tomorrow from inside to see that this is exactly going to be what Ida Raza can
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  to all the converts.
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  What did he tell him?
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  All you need to do is to do it properly.
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  Easy, right?
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  Which means you need to be fully prioritizing in the shama over your body. That's the whole Torah
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  That's what he told them
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  So if he would complete that properly it means that he does also all the other mitzvot
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  Because only could have true avat israel if you also keep shabbat eat kosher do all the things because otherwise
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  It means your body is priority priority over you in the shama
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  to be continued