Part 7 · Chapter 6

Yeah, so like I said, this is, you know, this particular chapter is really a fantastic chapter in terms of really pulling together the whole beginning of the book that, you know, the whole the whole thing is in terms of the different עבודות is דוקא בינה, and and for two reasons.

One of the reasons is that even if you're going to choose another עבודה, that עבודה also depends on בינה. And really, the עבודה of love and fear, for instance, really the the the the עבודה of love and fear is also התבוננות. Sure, because that's the בינה that awakens all the other faculties. Yeah, so so really That that's really the main עבודה, no matter which way you look at it.

Right, right, it's really the main עבודה. So even if you're going to say that you want to do an עבודה of love and fear It'll have to be through the the בינה. has to be through the בינה. Can't have love and fear without the בינה. Right. And even if you want to do an עבודה of הפלאה, it's also only through the בינה. Means that the main the the the עבודה even of the other nine עבודות is also בינה.

Right. But then there's עבודה of בינה itself, Right. which that's the the the other ones is called in a way, I mean like עבודת הלב, which is really not, even עבודת הלב is really בינה. But then in terms of עבודת המוחין, where it's just pure בינה, like unconnected with the emotions altogether, Right. you know. And even the עבודה, the the highest עבודה, which is דעת דהוי'ה, the real thing of דעת דהוי'ה is דוקא בינה.

Right. It's not דעת. It's not an עבודה of דעת. Right. So דעת דהוי'ה, it's called דעת דהוי'ה because that's the that's the result. Right. The result is דעת, like you know what I told you that I couldn't sleep because I was my mind was all fired up with this thing, so I couldn't remove the focus from it. Right. You know, that's the result. Right. But the actual עבודה is בינה.

Understanding Da’at De'ehyeh and the Misconception of Atzmut 2:19

Right. And the the the whole ענין of of grasping דעת דעצמות, it's exactly the opposite what people say. People think, \"Oh, you should I mean, after all, the עצמות is totally non-understandable.\" Right. That's what people say. So, that's right. You got it. The עצמות is totally non-understandable. Right. Not just because it's so hard to understand, but it's beyond understanding.

That's right. So, what the conclusion that they draw from it, and that's the main point of the שבירת הכלים. Right. The main point of שבירת הכלים, you know, is in in בינה, the ס״ג of the ס״ג, Right. you know, which is where the also you notice that בינה is also the source of the קליפות, Right. it's the source of the שבירה, and it's the source of the תיקון, the eighth king of תהו, Right.

that the the conclusion they drew from it is since בינה is not into the עצמות at all, so therefore you should stay away from בינה and go to דעת. Instead of eating עץ החיים, he ate from עץ הדעת. Right.

And the thing is that it's exactly the upside-down conclusion, because they don't get it, it's basically shoe on head. Right. The fact that the בינה, more than any other ספירה, is not into the עצמות, that's what makes it that it has to do the most with the עצמות. It sucks the עצמות into it. Exactly. You know. Okay, and I'm going to have to say goodbye now then.

Messianic Verses and the Importance of Crying (B’kiah) 4:11

All right. So go ahead. Okay, I started it. Okay, so it says, ולעתיד כתיב עין בעין יראו ואמר ביום ההוא when משיח comes, הנה אלקינו זה מוכח, אז נגילה ונשמחה בישועתו דוקא when משיח comes, פשוט הדבר ודי למבין. אבל עכשיו, but now, כל זה בבכיה תליא, דהא מנגד איפכא דוקא, שהוא הבכיה דגלות, מסטרא דא, עד רום המעלות, כמו שנאמר: בבכי יבואו דוקא, הלוך ילך ובכה, you know?

Right. וכן הלוך ילך ובכה גומר, ולעתיד לבוא יהא שחוק, like כמו שנאמר: אז ימלא שחוק פינו. And the שחוק is דוקא from the עצמות. Right. וכמו שנאמר במקום אחר בענין ה The the fight between the the שור הבר and לויתן. That's what the קניגיא is? קניגיא. קניגיא means a joust. A joust, okay. You know, like the the knights had a joust, right, right, that's called a קניגיא, that everybody sits and they watch a fight.

Right. The קניגיא is a fight between, it says that the the the אייבערשטער will amuse the צדיקים through the קניגיא between שור הבר and לויתן. Right. וזה שנאמר כי אתה אבינו, in the future it'll be, we'll tell to יצחק that he's our father, זה יצחק, יצחק זה בעל העתיד, מן המנהג שלו, אשר בחינת הבכיה היה בגלות כידוע. And from the בכיה of the גלות will come the שחוק of the of the ביאת המשיח.

וכל זה יובן טע- טעם האמיתי לענין תיקון חצות בבכיה דווקא, שהוא תועלת הנפש להיות בתפילה גילוי תענוג העצמי,

כמו בישמחו בך וכאהאי גוונא, ואגם שהבכיה בתיקון חצות פשוט דמעות שוטטות על חטאות נעורים. Right. And this, by the way, is

these two chapters as far as, not so much about the בינה, about the בכיה and the חדווה and the דמעות and the חטאות נעורים, it's expanded in into a whole book basically in דרך חיים. Right. וכאהאי גוונא that the the the דמעות שוטטות על חטאות נעורים is ממש the same thing as going towards the עצמות.

Tears on Youthful Sins: The Travel Analogy 7:00

And he explains the reason for that is like when you get on the plane from Los Angeles to New York, and it's 3,000 miles,

and the guy on the plane says, \"We are now, we left Los Angeles, and we're we we've gone 1,000 miles away from Los Angeles.\" Right. So you ask him, \"And how how how

how much closer to New York are we than when we left?\" So he tells you, \"Idiot, I told you we we we're we're 1,000 miles farther from Los Angeles.\" Right. \"So we have to be 1,000 miles closer to New York.\" Right.

It can't be any other way. Correct. You know? Right. If you're traveling along a certain line, so how far you left from from where you're leaving, that's how close you got to where you're going. Right. So the same thing: how far you went away from the חטאות נעורים, that's how close you're getting to the אייבערשטער. Right. ממש the same thing.

So that even though the בכיה is דמעות שוטטות, it's just a plain crying on his חטאות נעורים כאהאי גוונא, on the sins of his youth, אבל על זה אמרה \"היתה לי דמעתי לחם יומם ולילה\" בקריאת שמע ותפילה דשחרית וערבית. Meaning that the the דמעה of the the דמעה of the תיקון חצות will be the לחם of the יומם ולילה, means of the קריאת שמע of שח- of ערבית and שחרית.

שחרית יומם is is שחרית and לילה is ערבית. Right. Why? מפני שהדמעות על הריחוק שבא מעוונות וחטאים מתקנים בחינת מקור הפגם, שהוא דווקא פריקת עול מלכות שמים. This is all covered in דרך חיים, in in very great length. Right, and also in שערי אורה he talks about how the דמעה is מתקן the מקור הפגם over there.

Yeah. Because the the crying on the on the sins is actually about the reason of the sin, which is the פריקת עול מלכות שמים.

ובבחינת גלות השכינה הבאה בדרך פרט בכל ניצוץ אלקי,

this thing of the general גלות השכינה comes in a particular way in each divine ניצוץ. There's a ניצוץ of the שכינה that's in גלות over there. והדמעה הזאת תתחזק ותתגבר אף גם לגמרי עד היות מאלף בחינת בכיה שמנגד.

ובאה מכח היפוכה, and this comes from the opposite, שהוא החדוה עצמית הנ״ל להאיר בנפש אלוקית בשעת שמע ותפלה וכולי. And you notice now he's talking about תשובה תתאה of מלכות. Right. Before he was talking about תשובה עילאה, but what he's telling you is even in תשובה תתאה of just simply crying about the sins also can bring him can bring him to אלוקות, but it's nothing but really it's nothing like תשובה עילאה.

להיות ממש כמו לחם לנפשו. This crying of leaving the sins becomes ממש like actual food for his soul. ולהיפך בפריקת עול היפך הדמעה, and exactly the opposite is the פריקת עול, which is the opposite of crying.

You know, it's like a guy who's פורק עול, what does it say? התברך בלבבו, he thinks he's blessed. He says, \"Eh, nothing could happen to me. בשרירות לבי אלך, I will go in the in the mastery of my heart.

I'll do whatever I feel like.\" And he walks around like a big shot. Right. כעבד שמורד, when a עבד is מורד and he's succeeding or seemingly succeeding, so he's walking, he's strutting around, you know?

שאמרידה בפריקת עול עיקר ומקור לכל שיהא זה נגד רצון האדון וכולי.

Okay, but still בינה is תשובה עילאה that totally includes this inside of it. Right. Because when he understands, in other words, especially like in our days when a person, he doesn't even understand that he's a he has a פריקת עול, and he doesn't even understand how can he have a פריקת עול, meaning that really, if he understood that really the the the master's standing right there, Right.

and why doesn't he understand that? Because he doesn't have התבוננות. Right. So he doesn't know that he doesn't know that that's why he he's מתברך, he thinks he thinks he's safe, in other words. He says, \"I'm safe. I got I got away, and I can do whatever I want now.\" Right.

והנה על זה נאמר אוילים מדרך פשעם. The אוילים will leave the דרך פשעם. פשעים אלו המורדים בפריקת עול. A פשע means a I don't know how you say פשע in English. How do you say פשע in English? A פושע. But whatever, a פשע means that it's it's not just something that's done, but it's done in a way of a מרד. A מרד is rebellion. Right. With a פריקת עול, that he's taken off the yoke.

גם שהתענו מעונות ומחטאת נעורים, even though the אוילים will this by the way is explained at great length in דרך חיים, even though that they will fast,

and they think that they're leaving the פשעי נעורים, מה יועיל, what's it going to help them? Why? כי כל אוכל דחכמה הנ״ל תתעב נפשם.

Because they don't want to learn חסידות. Right. So what's it going to help them to beat their chest? היפך העונג שחיות החיות הנפש וכולי, because this is the the crying the crying really comes from from understanding what he did.

Right. And this is the opposite of עונג, the crying is opposite of עונג, which will enliven his soul. וזה שנאמר יגיעו ויגיעו עד שערי מות.

They will come till the gates of death. כמו שנאמר החיים והטוב שהוא שמחה וטוב לבב בעונג העצמי הנ״ל והיפוכו מות ורע בפריקת עול. והדמעה בתיקון חצות דוקא הוא עיקר הכנה בנפשו להיות בתפלה כל ענין הנ״ל בג׳ מדרגות דבכיה מסטרא דא וכולי.

The crying in תיקון חצות, which the crying in תיקון חצות is basically the crying on the גלות, Right. which the crying in the גלות comes from the fact that he feels that lack, that the real crying on the גלות is that, like the פסק הלכה of the רמב״ם, that they they didn't want משיח to come for all the goodies, that's not a real crying on the גלות, that's not an ענין of crying in תיקון חצות.

Right. The real crying is on being far away from the אייבערשטער. Right. That he was פורק עול,

and so therefore now he doesn't have the

רווחה to study properly. The גימל, this is the הכנה to the whole ענין later on of the ג' מדרגות, פיה מסטרא דא, and in other words, this crying of of תשובה is just a beginning, that's the תשובה תתאה. Right. Okay, but none of this applies nowadays, this part.

It doesn't apply because we're doing לכתחילה אריבער. Right. But But as far as, even the רבי even when you're going לכתחילה אריבער, you have to know what you're jumping over. Right. Right. This is what you're jumping over. There's an ענין of תשובה תתאה, of leaving the the sins, and that does apply. It's not that it doesn't apply. Right. It really does apply. It's just that it's done without בכיה.

Right. Okay, but even according to the רבי, the בכיה is just not on the sins, it's, but you can still there's still a בכיה on the גלות. Okay, but there doesn't have to be a בכיה on the sins. No, the רבי said there shouldn't be a בכיה on the גלות anymore, now we're ready to have the שמחה on the on that משיח is already coming. It's coming.

Okay. That's what the רבי said. He said you don't have to do the בכיה anymore, now we're doing already the שמחה. Right. And also the בכיה on the חטאות נעורים is not necessary, you can just leave the חטאות נעורים. And by the way, this is one of the reasons not to go against the שלוחים, cuz they're preparing everybody for us. This is the first level. Right. These people have to put on תפילין and start keeping שבת.

That's what he's saying, that the leaving the חטאות נעורים is the הכנה for these three levels of בכיה. First the בכיה of בינה, of that he doesn't understand the basic explanations in the first place

because it's hard, I mean, you know, like it's hard to go through. Right. And then the second בכיה of חכמה, when he realizes how real far away the אייבערשטער is, and then the third בכיה of בינה, when he understands that the thing is totally incomprehensible.

But the הכנה for that is the בכיה in תיקון חצות on the חטאות נעורים, which which gets him to leave the חטאות נעורים. And right now basically it's very important that these remember these שלוחים, there's שלוחים all over the place, and they're getting people to do the first step of תשובה. So the same thing, I mean, the שלוחים in in regards to the external world, they're basically saving it, just they're bringing about this first level of the תשובה תתאה, which means basically to get people to start putting on תפילין, and keeping שבת, and eating כשר, and learning משניות, you know, Right.

Levels of Teshuvah and the Role of Shluchim 17:49

doing חת״ת, and all this kind of business. Did I tell you about the guy from Singapore? No, what? I didn't tell you about the guy from Singapore?

No. You know it's the שלוחים convention this weekend in New York. Right. So Mendel met an old friend of his from ישיבה who is now the שליח of Singapore.

So this guy says to him, \"Is your father here?\" He thought you know, some people come maybe I came for the שלוחים convention. So he said, \"No, he's not. What do you need him for?\" So he said, \"Oh, I have a גביר with me from from Singapore who's in a cyber ישיבה.\" Aha. \"And he'd like to meet him.\" And apparently he's one of his גבירים cuz he came with him, you know.

You know, so these guys, you know, they're you know, they're the guys who supply like, for instance, you guys. I mean, the fact that there's an first time שליח went out there and started the place, and now there's כשר food there and a synagogue for you, you know. So it's very it's very important. He says that's the הכנה. The הכנה the הכנה for all these levels of going up is is not like by the hermetic Kabbalists, that you can just study קבלה.

We don't say like that, we say, \"No, you have to put on תפילין.\" Right. You have to put on תפילין and eat כשר. Right, but even that, you can also go לכתחילה אריבער, too. Yeah, but Meaning, like we tell the people also if you start eating כשר, you can go לכתחילה אריבער, but a guy who's still not not doing תשובה to eat כשר means that he's not really studying חסידות.

Right, right. And and that's what he says. The next thing. That is the next word he says: ואם לא יטעה את עצמו, if not, he is fooling himself. If he is not put if he is doing if he is studying חסידות and he is not putting on תפילין, he is fooling himself.

And by the way, that's the whole reason why I'm getting so in so involved with the with the pointing out with the מצות בני נח. Because by them also there is a ענין of studying the because to to have you know they have two מצוות that have to do with the אייבערשטער.

But by them also if they don't want to keep the seven מצוות also they're they're making a טעות. יטעה את עצמו. באחד מאלה או בכיה לבד וחדוה לבד.

Either he'll have only crying, like some people only like to cry, but they're not happy about it. Or just they're happy and there's no there's no בכיה at all.

או שאינם לאמיתתם ולעמקן, or they're or else they're not really true and deep.

והרי זה סימן שלא נגע אל נפשו אור אלקי. The divine light really did not shine on his soul. רק מרחוק מאד, just very far from him. It just shone on him from very far away.

כמו בסוד גלות השכינה בכלל נשמות ישראל, like how the שכינה is is is in the soul, but it's if it's in the soul, so how come if the שכינה is ממש inside of you, so how come people can go and be whatever they are? Why? Because it's like the שכינה is in גלות and shines on him from a very faraway place.

וזהו עיקר ומקור הסיבה כללית לכל הנופלים תמיד ממדרגתם בעונג וחדוה אלקי בלתי מתקיימת כלל. The one minute they flipped out with happiness or with crying, and then it's gone. כלל וכלל. ומעט מונעים ומנגדים, with a little bit of of of מניעה and somebody going against it, ינתקו חבלי התקשרות מלבו לגמרי, and then he's totally not tied to it anymore כנ״ל. ממש כמשל מהעורבים וילדי מטיפי שם דגמרי מכל אוכל גמרי.

They don't want the food of of חכמה. ועל זה כל אשר קיבת אלקים יחפץ באמת, somebody really wants to be close to the אייבערשטער, יעשה הכנה רבה בנפשו תמיד בתיקון חצות, בענין בכיה מסיטרא דהא וכו׳, כמו עכשיו, ולא יטעה את עצמו לאבד את נפשו

בחנם ממש ודי למבין. And he shouldn't fool himself to ממש lose him- lose his soul for nothing.

And and like we said, in our days, it's not it's not anymore a ענין of תיקון חצות, but there is an ענין of doing תשובה.

And the basic thing here, like you say, so so so what's the סימן? The סימן is like this, if you don't see a תשובה תתאה, it means there's no real תשובה עילאה either. There's no such thing that a person should study חסידות Right, right, and not be frummer, you think? and not become frummer. And not only that, if it doesn't make you frum, frummer, then it's not חסידות what you're learning.

It's a totally different חסידות. No, it might be חסידות, but you didn't learn it properly. The פריערדיקער רבי says if it doesn't make you frummer, it's not חסידות. It's חסידות from the From the בעל דבר. From the בעל דבר.

Yeah, because it looks more sophisticated, you know. So that's the thing. In other words, if somebody's not the תיקון חצות is the בכיה on חטאת נעורים, he's saying.

So the way we apply it now is like this, in other words, the the תיקון חצות is the most external level of תשובה. Right.

And like now the רבי said that the תשובה and everything is not done in a way of of בכיה anymore. That was only till the days of the פריערדיקער רבי. Which the פריערדיקער רבי's motto was לאלתר לתשובה לאלתר לגאולה.

And the רבי says that in our days it's לאלתר לגאולה.

So you say so, \"But wait a minute, doesn't that totally disagree with what he's saying here, that there's חדוה without crying?\" He says, \"No, because he just told you that the crying was in גלות. We did the crying. We already did the crying, and now we're ready for happiness.\" \"Right.\" \"And the thing is that it's not that the crying is not there. The same thing like during the גלות the happiness was also there, except that the crying was open, and the חדוה was hidden.

And now it's the other way around, that the חדוה is open and the crying is hidden. But the thing of תיקון חצות is the thing of to fix up the חטאת נעורים, the basic level of תשובה, that if you don't see this basic level of תשובה in a person, then he's not he's not really studying חסידות.\" \"Right.\" \"That was the thing. I got a I got a letter from this this guy in Toronto, a ליובאוויטשער בחור, apparently.

His father is getting mixed up with these people called בני ברוך.\" \"Right.\" \"They're a close sister group of the Berg people. They're also Ashlagians, you know?\" \"Right.\" \"And basically I looked through their stuff, they're total heretics. He says he's wondering what's happening because it looks like his father is becoming more and more lax with the מצוות.

So, that's the sign. He's telling you here, that's the sign. He's becoming lax with the מצוות, it means it's not real קבלה or חסידות.\" \"Right.\" \"Because you can't say, 'Oh, but I'm doing קבלה, I'm doing תשובה עילאה.' It says if you're doing תשובה עילאה, the תשובה תתאה is automatically included.\" \"Right.\" \"And there should be a automatic improvement in your level of doing the מצוות.

ובכל זה יובן גם כן עיקר הטעם לענין הכלל הגדול בשם הרב המגיד ז״ל... What do it say here? It's kind of unclear. What does it say?\" \"במה שכתב טובעתיו עת.\" \"Or טובעתים it might be.\" \"Hold on, I'm going to flip the tape.\"