Part 4 · Chapter 6

Negligible amounts and the infinity analogy 0:09

pour all the water out of your finger. Aha. But even then, looks like it's It doesn't matter, 98 and 99.99, it's not 100%. Right.

So like so negligible means that there's a little bit there, but it's בטל. Like you said, there's בטל בשישים, בטל באלף, בטל במיליון. Right. But it's still really there. Right. It's just as it says, like כולה קמיה כלא חשיב. In front of the אייבערשטער, it's like it doesn't exist.

And in front of the אייבערשטער, it's not like בטל בשישים, which בטל בשישים is a kind of an error. Right. But it's בטל like 1 over infinity.

Right. So if you say that 1 over infinity is 0, it's not really true. The 1 is still a 1. Yeah, still a 1. It's still a 1. It's just compared to infinity, it's like negligible. Right. It's as if it's a 0.

So that really like like when people say 1 over infinity is 0, it's not really true, because they don't know mathematics. Right, 0, it's not 0 is less than the 1, even towards the infinity. Yeah, no, but there's no such thing as 1 over infinity is 0. That that it's not a real mathematical formula. The actual mathematical formula is like this: 1 over 2 is a half, 1 over 3 is a third, 1 over 4 is a quarter, and as it approaches 1 over infinity, the numbers get smaller and smaller to where they get more and more negligible, and they approach 0.

Right. 1 over the bigger and bigger numbers, as the numbers approach infinity on the bottom, Right. the thing approaches 0. Right, but it's not actually there. It's not actually 0 because 1 is still 1. Right. In other words, even if you have like

what do you call it? Like you know we were talking about that the guy was telling שמעון that if you just dilute it with a little bit of water, so what's the big deal? Right, this is kind of like you take vodka this is kind of like like Zeno's what it's called Zeno's Zeno's paradox, yeah. paradox. Yeah, no, no, no, no, but what it what what what he told שמעון is so like you know they were talking about real יידישקייט and diluted יידישקייט.

Right. So he says, so what if you put if you take vodka, if you put a little bit of water in it, it's still vodka. So it's just slightly weaker. So I told שמעון to tell him, what if you what if I'll give you a glass of vodka and I'll spit in it? I'll spit in your vodka. Right. You know what I mean? Exactly. Okay, but in the ocean, if if if let's say I'm standing next to you in the ocean, there you don't care, but to but to the ocean That's negligible to the ocean.

Vodka dilution example and Zeno’s paradox 2:59

to the ocean, it's already negligible. Even you have rotten fish in it, to the ocean, it's negligible, you know, but it's not that it's not there. Right. It's still there.

I mean, whatever amount of fecal matter the fishies made is totally there, all of it. Definitely. The absolute amount is there. It's just what? It's כלא חשיב. Right. So that's what it means כולה קמיה כלא חשיב. Right. כולה קמיה כלא חשיב means כולה קמיה There's a כ, כלא. Huh? There's a כ there, כלא חשיב. כלא ח- כלא חשיב, right, that's what I said. כולה קמיה כלא חשיב.

כ-לא חשיב, like, it's like it's nothing. Right, that's what I'm saying, it's like it's nothing. Wait, hold on for a minute. Yeah, but אין עוד מלבדו is a different thing. Right. אין עוד מלבדו means 100% pure alcohol, Right. and there's not even one molecule of water in it, Right. not just not one molecule of water, there's not one molecule of anything else. There's not one molecule of dust in it, there's not one molecule of sodium, or whatever.

Pure substance concept: אין עוד מלבדו 4:21

Right, it's pure. It's pure wa- pure whatever it is. Right. Means אין עוד מלבדו, there's nothing else but this in here. Right. There's nothing else here.

Right. Okay, so The only thing that is אין עוד מלבדו, well, there's actually two things that's אין עוד מלבדו. There's the אייבערשטער, who's אין עוד מלבדו. The actual עצמות or מהות is אין עוד מלבדו, right? Right. There's one other thing that's אין עוד מלבדו. It's בינה. In בינה, there's not one iota of understanding into the עצמות.

Bina versus Atzmut: understanding contrast 5:23

It's not that it's just negligible that you're actually understanding into the עצמות. It's like he said, if you understand, it's not into the עצמות. That's what we learned yesterday, right? Right. If you understand anything at all Right, that that means it's not into the That means it's not into the עצמות. That's דווקא why בינה will take you to the עצמות. Right, so so that means that בינה is the complete opposite of עצמות and עצמות is the complete opposite of בינה.

Right. כובן שכובין, exactly the same. Right. In חכמה and רצון you everything else. Like we said, the רצון, it's not that there's no רצון in there is a little bit of רצון into the עצמות, so there's a little bit of עצמות in the רצון.

A רצון is actually, you want the עצמות. And the the חכמה, the ביטול, the הפלאה, this is הפלאה like he says here, the הפלאה is from the עצמות, not from the the coming of being into the of of the יש from the אין. Right. It's from the the הפלאה is of the עצמות. Right. And even though obviously, really the amount of הפלאה that we have into the עצמות or even a big guy has into the עצמות, you say, \"Well, what how much הפלאה is it?

It's כלא קמיה כלא חשיב. It's like nothing.\" He says, \"Yeah, it's like nothing.\" Right. Compared to the עצמות, it's nothing. Compared to how much הפלאה he really should have, it's nothing, but still there's a little bit there.

Right. The same thing with love. Like even אברהם אבינו said, \"אנכי כעפר ואפר.\" And it explains in חסידות in תניא, it says this, that what did he mean עפר ואפר? It's a משל, that the same thing like a big tree, when you burn it, there's nothing left but a little bit of עפר ואפר. Right. So, compared to the מדות החסד of אצילות, his חסד that אברהם is is is אוהבי, right?

Right. Is like עפר ואפר compared to the actual tree. Right. It's like the tree is gone, it's like nothing is there, but it's not really nothing. There's עפר ואפר. Right. And the same thing with everything else. נצח also. Right. And נצח also, I mean you overcome you overcame a little bit and הוד, you're מודה, not like you should. And מלכות and יסוד and מלכות he's not מקבל עול מלכות שמים 100%,

but a little bit is there. Right. Okay, but in בינה, this is what he said, it's דווקא the if there's if there's a little bit of בינה there, it means it's not into the עצמות. If there's any kind of understanding, it means it's not into the עצמות.

Right. So, בינה is the exact opposite of עצמות. Right. And this is what if you look Does this have something this this has something to do with עומק אה עומק רום and עומק תחת? It has very much to do with עומק רום and עומק תחת. עומק רום is the יש האמיתי, and עומק תחת is the יש הגמור. That's what we were going to That's the next thing I was going to get to, and if you look If you read now the מאמר from the מיטעלער רבי, which is called אתה אחד, Mhm.

Depth concepts: עומק רום and עומק תחת 8:38

He says that the revelations of the יש האמיתי is דווקא in the יש הגמור. Right. And what's the יש הגמור? יש הגמור is דווקא a person who understands.

Right. Exactly. That's what the יש הגמור is. And like he said, that from the from the understanding, you get a ישות and a שמחה. Right. A ישות to a point of שמחה that he is like drunk with his you know, it says בינה is יין. Right. You know, בינה is called wine. And יין ישמח לבב אנוש. יין ישמח לבב אנוש is בינה. Right. And also לבב, the לב, בינה ליבא.

You know? And Right. And then there's also called like that's יין is is the רזי רזי התורה, בינה, and then there's רזי דרזין בינה שבבינה, the חסידות. The התבוננות of חסידות is called vodka, משקה. Right, right. In many places there's where they call it משקה, you know. Even like the songs, you know, \"Don't you worry, guys, what's going to happen to our lives, we're going to end up in Las Vegas, we'll have some vodka, too.\" Right.

They didn't say Las Vegas, they said a Russian a Russian equivalent. Oh, actually, Mendy said it's Kamchatka, and the Yiddish is not Kamchatka, it's the קרעטשמע. There's a few versions. Mendy said the version he heard. In the קרעטשמע, a קרעטשמע is a is a bar. Uh-huh. A Russian bar, correct. Huh? Whatever, whatever. In Las Vegas, in the bar, whatever. In other words, don't you worry, guys, what's going to happen with us, we're going to end up in the bar and we're going to have some vodka, too.

Right. And it's a חסידיש song. What kind of a חסידיש song is that? Because vodka means חסידות. Right. And really חסידות is called זעקס און ניינציקער sometimes. Right. What does it mean זעקס און ניינציקער? It's really not זעקס און ניינציקער. That's wrong. Really it's 100%. הונדערטקער. Right. The real חסידות is הונדערטקער. Right. What does it mean? That it is 100%

alcohol. Right. How can it be 100% alcohol? Because you know the you know that what do you call it? When when your sink is plugged, you get a pump, you know? Right. And what do you do? You you you create a vacuum. Right. And the vacuum sucks it in. Right.

Bina as the ultimate spiritual vacuum 11:46

So, the biggest vacuum is בינה. Mhm. And that's what the אייבערשטער says. It says in a that He can only be in an empty place. Right, right. If if if if you're there, He can't be there. If there's something there, He won't come there.

So, you say what do you mean? דווקא the the אייבערשטער doesn't want to be there with is a יש. If you're a יש, so He won't come there. So, you say that's a different kind of יש. A יש of בינה means that it's totally empty for the אייבערשטער. Right. It's a total vacuum. That means it sucks the אייבערשטער in. Right. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, I know exactly what you're saying.

It's a 100% vacuum. Because there's a lack of understanding. Therefore, 100% 100% lack of understanding, which is an absolute vacuum. Right. It's an absolute vacuum, so it sucked him in totally. And therefore Right. Therefore, it has the effect of of sucking in Totally. in an absolute sort of a way. Where other things, like love, for instance, you you can have you can feel like a person works on himself like חובת הלבבות or something like that, you know, to feel that he has a vacuum of love for the אייבערשטער.

Right. In order to bring the אייבערשטער in or lack of fear. But that's not a 100% vacuum. Right. Still have some. Okay, but it's not a 100% vacuum, and it's not a vacuum of the עצמות. So, there is some עצמות there. Right. So, if there So, and the thing it says with the עצם, if you're תופס in any part of the עצם, you're תופס in the whole עצם.

Right. It says that, right? Yeah. So, it means that since there's a little bit of עצם there, So, there's no vacuum. there's So, there's no vacuum. The whole עצם is there. Right. In בינה, it's exactly the opposite.

That's what he says. He says if there's any עצמות there means if if you have any בינה, there's no עצמות there. Right. If there's any actual עצמות there, it's not בינה. Right. So So, then he says, \"So how can that be that דווקא בינה?\" Not only that, this goes all the way back to chapter one. Why are we going with בינה?

Right. Why not with חכמה? Or why not with מדות or whatever? Right. So, it says הא בהא תליא. It's ממש שני כוכבים שקולים. Right. And that's the thing, that that's דווקא where the the the the יש אמיתי will come דווקא into the יש הגמור. Which the יש הגמור, the real יש הגמור, like we said, that's what what the whole ישות of people is that they understand. They you know, when people shvitz around with their יש, what they're shvitzing about is how much they understand, Right.

in this whatever stupidity it is. And and and that's also The other thing that he says

to שוויץ, it says, בזאת יתהלל המתהלל. And you notice what he calls him, you know? There's there's a thing that there's a thing from the הגר\"א where he says, you know, by הלכות פסח, in the middle of פסח, a קטן שגדל,

a עבד שנשתחרר, I don't know if he remembers another one, and then it says a גר שנתגייר. Hmm? A גר שנתגייר. In the middle of פסח, they they explain where that he becomes מחוייב immediately in פסח. Right. In other words a גר שנתגייר, so it says a קטן that grew up, before he was a קטן, then he grew up. Right.

A a עבד שנשתחרר, first he was an עבד and then he became a free man. It should have said a גוי שנתגייר. Right. First he was a גוי, then he became a גר. It doesn't say that. It says a גר שנתגייר, and from this he he he deduces that a גר already has the soul of a גר. Right.

So over here also, I mean how come it says יתהלל המתהלל? That's what it calls him. It says a חכם, a גיבור, a עשיר, and then it says a מתהלל. You know, also מתהלל, you know you know what's הלל? הלל is the same the same root as הוללות. Right. You know what הוללות means? הוללות In terms In terms of self-praise is what it is. No, no, no, no, no.

הוללות There's all sorts of ways to explain this. הלל means praise. Praise, yeah. Means הלל. He Self-praise. מתהלל means he praises himself. Right, that's what I'm saying. Okay, but also הלל comes from הוללות. הוללות means like a wild party. Yeah, הוללות הוללות also means like wildness. Like a like a Yeah, but not just a wildness, of self- a wild שמחה. Yeah, of self-abandonment. Okay, but it's a הוללות of שמחה.

Right. הוללות doesn't mean like a הוללות of sadness, a הוללות means a wild party. Right, but like meaningless שמחה. It It It's not just meaningless, the main thing is that it's totally crazy שמחה.

Right. הוללות doesn't necessarily mean that it's meaningless שמחה. There could be there could be a reason for the שמחה to start off with, but you're not supposed to go into הוללות.

Right. Even Even when you have a שמחה like let's say it's סוכות or פסח or something, or or whatever, you're not supposed to just get totally drunk and go into total הוללות. Right. But here you're allowed to. Not only allowed to, he's called a מתהלל. He is making himself two things: he's praising himself, he's שוויצינג, means he's making himself into a total יש. Right. And he's flipping out.

Self‑praise (מתהלל) and the notion of a total יש 18:09

Right. He's drinking vodka and then throwing up and falling down in it. That's called הוללות. Isn't that what הוללות is? Yeah, that's Yeah. That's what הוללות is itself, you know? Right. That's called הוללות. So how does that apply to here? It says, בזאת יתהלל המתהלל. He says over here you can have שמחה without bounds, without bounds at all. With self- With self-abandonment.

Total self- You can flip out with שמחה over here. Right. That's one thing. And another thing, you can become a total יש. Not only you can become a יש to yourself, but you can go around telling everybody else, \"What a What a I am the greatest.\" מתהלל. Right. מתהלל means he's telling everybody who that \"I am the greatest.\" Right. Like it says, הללו את ה' כל גוים, he is doing it to himself.

Right, like Cassius Clay. Yeah, \"I am the greatest.\" So so the basic thing over here is is that's the whole special thing of בינה, you know?

So so this is the basic thing that the the the בינה is a special thing. Before we learned that בינה is a special thing in terms chapter one and one, two and three explained that בינה is a special thing in terms that all the powers are activated דווקא by בינה, whether the powers above it or whether the powers below it. And the בינה can go both up and down, means in in terms of understanding can go up and Then chapter 4 basically explains that chapter 4 basically explains it is דוקא the ענין of the פרט which again has the ענין דוקא of בינה.

Recap: Bina’s central role in the teachings 19:40

Right. And then chapter 5 explained that there's no חכמה without בינה and the thing is you say yes, but there's no בינה without חכמה either. Says yeah, but the real thing is בינה. You can't have a חכמה without the בינה because we said in chapter 1 that you can't have a חכמה just, but just to start to have a חכמה, but you can have a בינה. You can be מתבונן.

Right. As a matter of fact, that's what חכמה comes from. Right. But that's בינה and now he's telling us that the בינה is נגילה ונשמחה בך ממש. And therefore you know that the עומק תחת is the מבוע in the חכמה side. Yeah, but it's the מבוע from underground. It's what the where the חכמה what stimulates the חכמה, which is the בינה שבבינה. The בינה שבבינה, but but the the thing is what what stimulates the חכמה is what משיח will do, he'll he'll cut open the river.

Right. Into the depth of the מבוע. Right. The whole מבוע will come straight out into the river.

So okay, so where are we now? So what's the מבועין? The מבועין, the מבועין דחכמתא is the עומק תחת we just said the בינה is עומק תחת. Okay, but it says פנימיות פנימיות אבא is פנימיות עתיק.

That's what he explains over there, that the the external spring is חכמה. Right. The aquifer is not חכמה. The aquifer is עתיק. Right. And פנימיות אבא goes into פנימיות עתיק. Right. But it says פנימיות בינה פנימיות אימא פנימיות אבא. Right.

And what's the difference? The difference is that פנימיות אבא is the aquifer inside the aquifer. Not outside. The opening up of the מבוע comes דוקא from בינה to bring it out. That's the איש תבונה. Right, that's what the איש תבונה can be דולה from the aquifer that that's the whole ענין of a well. A well goes into the aquifer and the איש תבונה can be דולה. Now that's a regular איש תבונה.

But there can be another kind of איש תבונה that can open up the whole aquifer and bring the whole aquifer out. Right. Not in not in pails.

יתפתחו מבועין דחכמתא doesn't mean that it's the חכמה that did it. It's the בינה that did it. It's the תבונה. Right. Because the מבועין דחכמתא is the it comes out טיפין טיפין. Through the חלל ומחולל, you know, right? The the but to open up the whole thing means to bring the depth out to the outside. Right. That's what it means יתפתחו. What does it mean the מבו?

המבול means that the aquifer came out. Right. It wasn't a depth anymore and the same thing with עומק רום. The מים from above the שמים came down to the open. Right. And that's done דוקא by בינה, that's what he said in chapter 1, it's the בינה that does that. Right. That the מבול come from בינה. Why? Because the the it's not just that he'll reach to the aquifer inside the aquifer.

Right. But that he opens it up. And not just opens it up, he brings it to the shallowness, he'll bring it out to on top of the earth. Right. That's what happened in the מבול, he'll bring it out to here.

And then the whole place will the whole earth will be מלאה הארץ דעה את ה' כמים לים מכסים like it was by the מבול. The whole earth was covered up with water like the ocean. Right.

So that's also בינה, to open to bring the aquifers out is an ענין of בינה and actually תבונה.

So where are we now? ועל ידי זה וכו' ודא וכו' כמו שמבואר בכתובים. No? There's a little parenthesis, כמו שמבואר בכתבים, about not quite halfway down the page. Okay, let me put in a new tape.

Yeah.