Part 3 · Chapter 5

Clarifying the Humility Question 0:03

I think first I wanted to clarify something you said about the humility. Yeah, that's what That's one of the things I'm going to talk about. That's basically Yeah, go ahead. You know, there's a story that, you know, in a certain שטיבל I'm sure you've heard this story, that in a certain שטיבל there was someone called מאטל דער ענו. מאטל דער ענו? No, I didn't know I didn't hear the story.

Okay, so there was in the שטיבל מאטל דער ענו. He was well-known of being a very humble person. Yeah. And then But he always had the sixth עליה. Yeah. In the שול. Always he got the sixth עליה. Right. One שבת, they didn't give him the sixth עליה, they gave it to somebody else. Yeah. After שול, he went at a whole big tantrum, "How he How can he give it to to this person?

You know that I I get the sixth עליה!" And he kept on going on and on and he wouldn't stop, you know. Yeah. Finally, they told him, "What's going on over to take here? We thought you're מאטל דער ענו." Yeah. "Where's your עניוות?" Yeah. He said, "I am an ענו. Next to God, I'm nothing, but next to this פאץ?"

Okay, but you know that's that's not a real that that's not really what I meant. You know, if if you if you feel that you're nothing compared to God, but you're something compared to somebody, really you're not a real ענו.

Because in front of the אויבערשטער, you're nothing. Not just nothing in front of the אויבערשטער, you're ממש nothing. Right. If you know the greatness of the אויבערשטער, you know you're ממש nothing. Not only that, it's explained in תניא that whatever happens is really from the אויבערשטער.

True Humility Before God 1:58

אין עוד מלבדו. Right. This is straight in תניא, that if if they gave this other guy the sixth עליה, it was the אויבערשטער that gave it to him. Right. Whatever the reason what it happened, the real thing is that the אויבערשטער gave it to him.

And even if somebody curses you out, it's the אויבערשטער cursing you out. Right. And if you get upset about it, you're you're literally getting upset at the אויבערשטער. Right. So, it's basically a lack of understanding.

But like the thing humbleness doesn't mean weakness.

Like משה רבינו was also very strong when somebody came up against him. It's a whole different story. And this is where, you know, there there's the

the thing that, you know, how the brains open up into 32 and 32, 64 all together? Right. It says that תלמיד חכם doesn't have more than a 64th of גאוה. If he has more than a 64th, it's 63, and then he's called a גס.

The 64th Brain and Pride Limits 3:23

Right. Why? So, why 64th, you'd think nothing? Right. Okay, but this is what it says: ויגבה לבו בדרכי השם. This is the 64th brain. The 64th brain is the brain of גאוה. Right.

Total infinite גאוה. And that's the brain which is basically the actual brain of humility, which proves that he's humble. Why so? Well, why? Because that's what it says, that it shouldn't שוויץ not the חכם בחכמתו,

the גיבור בגבורתו, and what's the other one? I believe the rich person. The rich person, right. And they explain that it means

not doesn't mean a גיבור like like the Terminator. Right. It means, like it says, who is a גיבור? הכובש את יצרו. Right. And who is rich? השמח בחלקו. Right. And what's what's the other one? Who is smart? הלומד מכל אדם. Right. You know, so even that you're not allowed to be a שוויצער about. No גאוה is not allowed. So, it says אלא בזאת יתהלל המתהלל. This, the מתהלל, the שוויצער, he calls him ממש a שוויצער.

The שוויצער means the 64th brain. Yeah, this you can can שוויץ. Not can שוויץ! It says, יתהלל. Doesn't say it's okay to שוויץ, he says he should שוויץ! Right. The מתהלל, with this the מתהלל means the 64th brain, should mis- should מתהלל! Right. השכל וידוע אותי.

Right. In other words, that he knows חסידות. With knowing חסידות, this is basically what the chapter five says, that if there's not a a total megalomania on one side, then there's not the עניוות on the other side. Right.

Because he he says if he doesn't have the השגה of בינה and know it, you you notice that he says that he knows it, he feels it is good, right, and he's happy for it, and he knows that it's good for him, and he knows that this is making him bigger, right, and he's getting a bigger and bigger ego from from the side of of בינה, and he says, והא בהא תליא

ממש כפי ערך, like he says, לפי ערך השמחה כך ערך הביטול ממש. Right. כפי ערך ההשגה במתהווה that he says that, "I know the סדר השתלשלות," according to that, that's how much the ביטול is. And and and he goes even further. He says if there's one without the other,

then he says it's what is it, חלומות שווא or something like that, דמיונות שווא. Yeah, דמיון שווא.

He says, דמיון שווא הוא ואין לו בחינת ביטול כלל, כי הא בהא תליא, לפי ערך דווקא. So, so this these are the two sicknesses basically.

Identifying the Two Spiritual Sicknesses 7:12

The the the the two sicknesses, there's like in in קונטרס ההתפעלות it it describes all kinds of sicknesses, but the two basic sicknesses are where there is the בינה without the חכמה, or is the חכמה without the בינה. Right. So, there is two type of people: the people that say that they're עובדים and we're משכילים.

I mean that's already the the best of them, I mean I'm I'm saying the most refined, that they they say, "You know, the real thing is עבודה, and this you're just into השגות." Right. The thing is, if there's no השגה, there's no ביטול. Right. But so their ביטול and their עבודה is nothing. Not only that, like it like it explains in the in all the chapters up to here, that if there's no התבוננות, there's no עבודה.

They're not עובדים at all. And they don't have a ביטול, like somebody says, "Oh, I'm בטל to the רבי. What what do I need to, what do I need to study this stuff for?" So, you're not בטל to the רבי, and you're not בטל to the אייבערשטער. It's all דמיונות שווא. Right. You're having you're having dreams. The רבי is חסידות. Yeah, the רבי is חסידות. If you don't want to know the the פרטים of חסידות, it means you don't want to, you don't really want to know about the רבי.

Right. You know? Here's the actual פסוק: כה אמר השם: אל יתהלל חכם בחכמתו, yeah, אל יתהלל גיבור בגבורתו, yeah, אל יתהלל עשיר בעשרו, כי אם בזאת יתהלל המתהלל, השכל וידוע אותי, כי אני הוי'ה עושה חסד משפט וצדקה בארץ, כי באלה חפצתי, נאום השם. That. That's what I wanted. באלה חפצתי. באלה חפצתי means these are the people that I have חפץ in. No, באלה חפצתי means those people.

Divine Praise and the Proper Way to Boast 8:48

Not only that, it it goes even further, that צדקה ומשפט is basically also the ענין of הלכה. Right. You'd seem that, what does it have to do? It says השכל וידוע אותי כי אני, what is it? השכל וידוע אותי כי אני הוי'ה עושה חסד עושה חסד משפט וצדקה בארץ, right, okay, now, כי באלה חפצתי, נאום השם. Right. Now, the thing is, the כי is is is, you know, כי has four לשונות.

The כי is continuous. השכל וידוע אותי, כי that, right? To know that I am הוי'ה all the way up, right? Who who does the the צדקה ומשפט בקרב הארץ all the way down,

right? And כי באלה חפצתי is also a continuation. That these things down here, that's what I wanted up there. Right. That the רצון in the עצמות spells all the way down, that that's what He wanted, the סוף מעשה במחשבה תחילה. Right. You know, that it that describes the whole the whole ענין of the סדר השתלשלות. In other words, to know it, but not just to know the סדר השתלשלות in a mechanistic way, but to know that it's ממש the אייבערשטער, that's what He wanted.

Right. You know? And and you notice what he says: בזאת יתהלל המתהלל. Right. He doesn't say it's okay. He says that he should. He said you should do it. Right. He says the other things are not okay, and this, he says it's not okay, he says this you should do, like a מצוה. Right. You're You're not just advised, "Oh, well, if you want to, then it's okay."

No, that's what you should do. Right. You know? So, so so the basic thing like, if you notice the the biggest the the biggest

criticism is that, "Eh, what do you need to study this stuff? Right. You need to be בטל to the רבי, you have to have התקשרות." Right. You know, so the thing is the answer to that is if if you don't have the השגה of of בינה, you don't have the ביטול. Right. You absolutely have don't have the ביטול. The The other side, then there's the people who say, "Why do you have to study that?

Now you have to study ע״ב." Right. Those are the people who have בינה without ביטול. They don't really have a ביטול. Right. Why? Because like he says, they don't have the ביטול, that shows that they don't understand what they're studying. They therefore don't have the בינה, either. It's a השכלה thing by It's a thing by them to There's these basically these guys that you know, they're the they're the big shots of חסידות, and they know חסידות,

and this is basically what they are. These These people are עולם הנקודים. They only know נקודות, נקודות. Right. They can't put them together. They can't put them together. They know fantastic amounts of נקודות. It's all נקודות, נקודות

by him.