Part 4 · Chapter 5

Physical Desire Behind Tefillin and Ice Cream 0:04

The whole thing is that the the original רצון of the עצמות is דווקא for the physical. It's not for the עולם האצילות and not for any of the עולמות, it's דווקא for the for the Jew putting on תפילין, which means a physical ice cream for the אויבערשטער. Right. You know, as a matter of fact, actually it's not just for תפילין, the אויבערשטער ממש wants to eat an ice cream,

and that's why He gave us the laws of כשרות, so He'll be able to taste an ice cream. Right, and make a ברכה on it and all that. And make a ברכה on it. Okay, but still, I mean, so what did He have to come up with a with an ice cream for? 'Cause He wanted ice cream. He likes ice cream. No, that there should be a physical תענוג that you make the ברכה on.

Right. You know, like for instance, if you drink water Like ברכות הנהנין. Yeah, because, you know, if you drink water,

unless you're really thirsty, you're not allowed to make a ברכה on it, 'cause water doesn't have a taste to it. Right. Unless you're actually thirsty.

Like so for instance, if you just drink water 'cause you've got to drink down an aspirin, you don't make a ברכה on it. Right, unless you get הנאה.

Right, because there's no taste to it. There's no physical taste to it. But הנאה means a physical הנאה, which means like eating ice cream. When you eat an ice cream, you do have to make a ברכה.

Right. Why? Because you're giving the אויבערשטער a physical pleasure. Right. And He He gets a terrible pain out of having to eat a piece of חזיר, and He gets a great pleasure out of eating the ice cream, not just a ברכה. Right. You know, so so so this is this is the like like the sickness of the the people who have the בינה, means all the particular נקודות without the חכמה of seeing what's past it, how it all gets put together, and then you see that there's something beyond this whole thing.

Sickness of Those with Bina Lacking Chochma 1:57

Right. They say, "What do you mean? We see that there's something beyond this whole thing. Our whole method is that it's all abstract." Well, I'll tell you what happened once. There was a בחור who came over here, you know, and he he told me that משלים and when you physicalize the concepts, that's only like for שיעור א׳, but, you know, he's in שיעור ד׳ so, you know, that's that's not for him, you know?

Right, right. But but the thing is, remember what we were learning, I think it was פרק was it פרק ד׳ or פרק ג׳, that you start with the גלגלים, and you see how it goes up to מלכות of עשיה? Right. פרק ד׳, I think. Right. That's התבוננות, right? Right, right. And from this he gets a fantastic sense of ביטול. What's a fantastic sense of ביטול? You see, by them, actually, there is no sense of ביטול.

Why? Because when you go up to מלכות of עשיה, it's less than what the גלגלים are. I mean, the גלגל like the sun, for instance. You know, what's the sun? You know, what kind of energy? I mean, if you could get the energy of the sun, you could be a zillionaire.

Sun Energy, Wealth, and Spiritual Hierarchy 3:19

You know, like what what do the Arabs have? The Arabs have energy. Right. That's the whole that's the whole thing they have, the oil. The oil is energy. Right. And and and and like some of these people are totally bugged out, you know, like, look how much money this person has. If you tell them, you know, "I can give you $10 million," they'll go out of their כלים, you know.

Right. So, the sun is worth more than $10 million.

Everything that goes on, like the the the the dams, you know, that they build, and all that, you know. You know how much money they get off a dam? It's millions of dollars. That's just from a little bit of sunlight.

'Cause the water goes up the hill from the sunlight, you know. The sunlight evaporates the sea water, and brings it up the hill. And then the wind, like you know they had a hurricane that caused what? $10 million of damage. Right. Also the same thing, you can harness the wind to for money, also. Right, for these electrical windmills. Right, also all the you know, like he explains later in the book, all the all the all the פרנסה that we have is from the from the אקלים, the climate.

Right. You know, like we were talking about oranges, the price of oranges. And not just the price of oranges, like if you go now to the supermarket, all the stuff in the supermarket came from the sun. Right. And that's what you're basically buying over there.

You're buying transformed sunlight that your body can use for energy. Right. That's what you're paying for. Right. That's all you're paying for, you're paying for sunlight.

And the sunlight that gets to us is just like one ray of the sun, you know. Just a little bit of it. A tiny, tiny little bit. I mean, most of it goes around to everywhere else. Right. We only get one ray, one teeny little ray from the whole 360 degrees. Right.

So, I mean, this is the התבוננות, right? Right. Look how great the sun is. And the sun is only like a a mustard seed in the universe, not even. Actually, it's it's less than a mustard seed. Right, a tiny speck. If you would take a mustard seed and put it on your on your property, how much the sun is to even this galaxy is probably less than a mustard seed.

Right. And we're talking about you know, even like in terms of the the the the finite numbers that we're talking about here boggle the human mind. And we're not not even the numbers of the molecules. We're talking just the number of the stars, Right. will boggle the human mind. You know? Right. So, and all of this comes out from the שמרי אופנים. Right. And it's not it's not even the שמרי אופנים.

The Role of שמרי אופנים in Creation 6:31

It's coming out from the שמרי אופנים. It's it's not actually coming out, it's induced by the שמרי אופנים. Right. Like a magnet. Right. You know, it's not the actual power from the שמרי אופנים coming out, it's just the the the שמרי אופנים induces, you know? Right. And the שמרי אופנים is just the שמרים. שמרים means their excretion. Right. It's like what it's it's from their sewer system.

Right. And even that, it's not the whole sewer system. It's just a speck of it. It's just a speck of it from their sewer system brings our whole universe into being.

Right. And that's only the היכלות of מלכות of מלכות of עשיה. That's not actually מלכות of מלכות of עשיה, it's only the היכלות, Right. with zillions of angels and stuff like that. Right. It's not it's it's it's like what does it say, a million a million angels, but לגדודיו אין מספר.

Right. You can count the angels in a troop, but לגדודיו אין מספר. Right. Right? And all of that is just in a היכל, which if you take a גדוד in a היכל, it's again not even a mustard seed.

Right. You know? And the היכל is only one of one of many היכלות. Right. And that's only the היכלות means the total externality of מלכות of מלכות of עשיה, and that's not even מלכות of עשיה yet. Right.

Okay, so are we talking about an abstract thing? Not an abstract thing we're talking about. We're talking that the power of the sun is coming from there.

Right. It's not an abstract thing. It means that now that now that we analyze it like that, it means that even an angel, you know, and and this is this is in stories from the גמרא. You know the story about when the emperor wanted the the lion to come?

Emperor, the Lion, and Cosmic Power 8:44

The the emperor, I'm not, I don't remember which emperor, he saw the פסוק, what is it, אריה ישאג, a lion will a lion will roar, and who will not fear? Aha, right. You know that פסוק? So, he called the rabbis and he said, make the lion come, and let's see if I get scared. Yeah, so so so they said they called the rabbi, says, your תורה is full of nonsense.

I'm not scared of a lion's roar. Who's scared of a lion's roar? You know, they used to have circuses and throw people to the lions. Right. So, they heard a lion's roar. So, I heard a lion's roar, I'm not scared. So, he says not, they told him it's not talking about this kind of lion, it's talking about the upper lion. Right. So, they told him So, he told them, I want to see the upper lion, tell him to come here.

They told him, what are you talking about? If he'll come here, the whole world will be destroyed. He said, no, either you tell him to come here or I'll make decrees against the Jews. So, they said, okay, but we warned you. So, they told the lion to come, and the lion, the אריאל, took one step.

When he took one step, everything shook and started to be a earthquake. Earthquake. And things were falling down,

and the emperor was struck speechless. And then the lion took another step, it got even closer. And then it was like

right, just from those two steps almost the whole city was destroyed. Right. He said, "No, no, tell him to go back." Right. And this is just an angel.

So, מלכות of מלכות of עשיה, he thinks that מלכות of אצילות is some kind of an abstract thing. It's an abstract abstract concept. So, I said, "No, no, it's more physical than we are." Yeah, right.

But what? Doesn't mean it's גשמי. Doesn't mean it's גשמי.

You know, it means, but as far as actual energy, which is like we know that that's what we're made from, right? Right. We're made from basically, you know, any scientist will tell you that an atom is a אור and a כלי. Right. That's what an atom is. There's אורות inside of כלים. There's a bunch of energy and there's something that seems to be holding it together. Right.

Atoms, Energy, and the Nature of Light 11:12

And an atomic explosion doesn't even actually let the light out of the כלי that's it's not the actual light that's inside the pieces. Right, it isn't. It's just the energy that holds the atom together. Right, and it's not even all of it, it's just a little tiny bit of it. The the nucleus. Right. And it's not the actual power that is inside the nucleus, it's just the power that's holding the pieces of the nucleus together.

Right. That's all. Right. And that's an amazing power that we know that everything in front of us, if you would take the כלים off, the telephone that I'm holding, just the power that's holding the atoms together, not the actual in the atoms, with this telephone, if I would know how to remove that, you know, Right. how to open up the כלי, I could blow up the whole universe.

Right. You know, so basically, you know, we are made from energy. Right. Now, the thing is, and when they says it says אור אין סוף, this is, "Oh, it's a משל."

Understanding אור אין סוף and משלים 12:39

Right. What does it mean a משל? The same like the זיו from the sun, so that's the זיו from the אייבערשטער. Right. But it's not really a actual light.

Right. Or like the חכמה, חכמה doesn't mean a light, it's the same like your חכמה lights up a concept.

So, in the same way, or like חסד. You say, what are you talking about? It says, עולם חסד יבנה, that's the thing, the מהות, like what we were talking about before the מציאות, Right. is also the ענין of chapter 5, Right. that the בינה understands into the מציאות, and the חכמה gets the ביטול from getting a insight into the מהות. Right. That's basically what chapter 5 is about.

That the השגה is into the מציאות and the הפלאה is into the מהות of the thing. Right. So, what's the הפלאה? The הפלאה is wait a minute, look at even מלכות of מלכות of עשיה.

Divine Wealth vs Human Perception of Money 13:54

You know how many millions of dollars if you can get מלכות of מלכות of עשיה to become your גביר? Right. You know how much he's got in the bank? So, what do you mean he's got in the bank? It's just לי הכסף ולי הזהב. Right. Just, "Oh no, that means חסד and גבורה." No, that means money, man. If the אייבערשטער wanted right now, he can give us a billion dollars.

And not only that, that's an insult. Right. To say that the אייבערשטער can give us a billion dollars, that's an insult. It's like saying, you know, Bill Gates, you know, you need a nickel, you know, if you go to Bill Gates, he could give you a nickel. So, what do you mean Bill Gates could give you a nickel? You'll go to Bill Gates for a nickel? It would ממש be an insult to him.

Right. "What, are you insulting me?" Right. "You're taking up my time with nonsense?" Right. Wait, hold on for a minute. What do you call it? You know, also what it says, you know, everything what's in the Earth is there's an ocean. Right. You know, so they see it as that עלמא דאתכסיא is like just some kind of an abstract thing. Right.

But the thing is not like that, the מהות up there, there's more מהות, not less מהות. Right. There's actually more מהות. That means that the whole energy of the world and the whole value, in other words, what has value over here. Right. Like gold has value, and like the, you know, the stock market works on values and stuff like that.

Up upstairs, when you go up to like, that's the first התבוננות that we were talking about, right? Right. From the גלגלים, means from this earth up to

מלכות of מלכות of עשיה. Right. So up in מלכות of מלכות of עשיה, there's more money. Right. And there's more streets. More what? More streets. Streets? Streets, like a street, like you live on a street? Oh, right, right. Where did it come from, the street? Right. It came from מלכות of מלכות of עשיה, means and not only that, there's they have more streets up there. Not all the streets came down.

Right. Same like not all the light came out of the sun. Up there there's more streets, and there's more houses. Right. And there's more people. You know, and there's more bodies, because all the bodies came from there, and there's more animals. There's all kind of animals up there that we don't even have. Right. Also, besides the actual world, all the fantasy worlds have to to be up there.

Upper Realms and Fantasy Worlds Explained 16:55

Right. Like the Star Wars world. Right. In other words, the Star Wars world and any other world that that we have in any fantasy or anything It's also coming from somewhere. No, but it's not just that. Up there it exists as an actual world.

Right. Not that it actually came into existence, but if מלכות of מלכות of עשיה wanted to, it could make it, along with all those creatures and everything. Right.

That means those creatures exist up there. As a matter of fact, actually all of those creatures with all of those worlds even exist on the next level up in the physical plane, which is the demon worlds, in the world of the imagination, in the dream world. Right. In a dream In the dream world there's there's dragons.

Right. We don't have dragons, but over there they do have dragons. You know? Right. You know, so so this is the thing, they have it totally backwards, it's totally upside down.

You know, and and why? Because they don't have the proper השגה into the משלים. In other words, the the the higher you go, the more real it gets. Right. Not the opposite. Not only that, isn't that what that's the first thing that the רמב״ם says, that He is the real reality, He is the real מציאות, and all מציאות comes from His מציאות. Right. That means that He is the real reality, and this world is just a shadow.

Right, and the closer Not even a shadow, it's a shadow of a shadow. Right, and the closer you get to His reality, the more real it is. The more real it is. Right. Right. Not the less real, the more real. Right, and there's more stuff up there. Right. And even like you say, "Yeah, but you're מגשם it," there's no, it doesn't mean it's מגושם up there,

but nonetheless, it's not like you think that there's less up there, there's more up there. Right. Because the whole down here is coming from up there.

Higher Reality vs Shadow Reality 19:11

Exactly. In other words, like when you say חכמה, you know, what does it say, לא מחשבותי מחשבותיכם. Right. When you say מחשבה that that בינה is like מחשבה, דיבור, מעשה, he says, לא מחשבותי מחשבותיכם. When you think something, you can't make it exist. Right.

My מחשבה can actually bring a sun into being. Right. That means that in the מחשבה there has to be more energy than there is in the sun. Right. Actual energy, physical energy. Right. Not not not only it's physical energy, it's such a kind of a higher energy that you can't even call it physical anymore. Right. Like like the whole whole ענין in chapter 10 that it's so high that you can't even call it spiritual anymore.

Right. You can't even call it חכמה anymore. Right. You know, so so they have it backwards. Why do they have it backwards? Because they don't have the השגה of בינה, so they don't have the ראיה of חכמה.

And that's why they don't have the הפלאה. Why don't they have the הפלאה? Because by them, as you go up, it gets less. Right. Because there's nothing up there. If you learn it properly, the the thing is that like like you know what's a הפלאה? הפלאה is like when somebody goes to the Grand Canyon or something like that, you know. Right. You get a הפלאה.

Right. Or when somebody sees like עוג מלך הבשן. Right. You get a הפלאה and a ביטול, you know. Right. Or like when somebody is standing there and there's a herd of elephants running through the town or something like that. Right. You know, that's that's the ענין of הפלאה. You know. So, the the thing is they don't have הפלאה because as they go up, they didn't have the they didn't have the proper התבוננות.

They didn't make the analysation that if the גלגלים are so big and the גלגלים are only coming out from the שרי אופנים, so imagine how big the שרי אופנים are. Right, well the the מדרש basically says that בפירוש and as you go up it's all the more so. It's more so, not less so. It's not just abstract, far abstract thing up there. Right.

You know, and and that's the thing, that שכל המעמיק יתר, יתר מופלא ממנו. The more that he looks deeper into it, the more מופלא it gets. Right. You see, wow, what what can it be already?

Right. I mean, how much money does this guy have?

קונה שמים וארץ. You know? I mean, how much energy can you already put up there? I mean, you know, you know, like the who was going to think of the of the greatness and and the power of the אייבערשטער? So he thought like a raging bull running, you know. Right. So he thought he's like a raging bull and he's running with all this power, knocking things down.

He says, "No, that can't be enough for the אייבערשטער." So, ah, two raging bulls. Right. You know? So, and basically, you know, this is the same people are laughing at this basically they're doing exactly the same thing.

Right. You know? So so this is the thing, what he says, that they they that they have דמיונות שוא, and also there's the there's the then there's the people

Misconceptions of the Learned and the בינוני 23:04

who kvetch their faces, you know. Now it's the other side. The the we were just talking about the big משכילים. Right. Now there's the other side, the guys who have the the ביטול and they don't have the the השגות. Right. The the face-kvetches.

Right. They basically see some of these guys, you know, they you can ממש see, look inside their brain a little bit and you can see what they think of themselves. They they're not really sure who's bigger, them or the אייבערשטער, you know.

Right. Because after all, the אייבערשטער is an אייבערשטער and but and and they have a יצר הרע which they conquered so good, you know. Yeah. And and basically, the whole thing is דמיונות שוא. You know, because even even even the way they conquered the יצר הרע, what they basically did is they're actually feeding the יצר הרע so good that he doesn't bother them. Right. The what they have is a a a satiated lion.

Right. You know, if you have a lion and you keep feeding him with a whole bunch of stuff, he'll leave you alone. These people, they they're basically at least בינונים. That at least they feel that way about themselves. At least בינונים, I mean. If if they're making a mistake, I mean, actually they're they're צדיקים. But if they're making a mistake, maybe they're not צדיקים, maybe they are a בינוני who's studying all the time.

Right. You know, like you know like רבא thought that he's a בינוני? That kind of בינוני. Or a בינוני like the אלטער רבי, you know? The אלטער רבי said that that a בינוני is like, "I'm a בינוני." So you could you יקותיאל, what's his name? Liebler. Yeah. Told told him, you know, "What do you mean?

If that's what you say, so I'm a so I'm a total nothing." Right. He says, "But I but I know that I know that I'm a בינוני." יקותיאל ליפלר told him, "I know that I'm a בינוני so so if you're a בינוני so the that would make me nothing and and I know that I am a בינוני, so how could you say that?" Right. The אלטע רבי told him there's there's different levels of בינונים.

Levels of בינוניים and משכילים Critique 25:26

Right. So, if they're they're a בינוני at least like the אלטע רבי, not like יקותיאל. You know? So, and and their their criticism of us is that we are משכילים. Right. That's their criticism of us that we're משכילים. That's one criticism. The other criticism is that we are Ah. They think they're עובדים. They're עובדים, yeah, they're עובדים. They're עובדים, you know. And we are משכילים. And not only משכילים, but we are like arrogant people who are involved in a רזי לי thing.

You know, the רזי לי, רזי לי? Right. And that's all we want. We just want רזי לי, רזי לי to get the this false sense of being kabbalists.

Right. You know, and basically almost like we're like a a kosher Jewish hermetic kabbalists. And we want to do magic. And we're just concerned with powers or whatever kind of crazy thing they want to come up with.

Yeah, and we want