Part 2 · Chapter 40 part 2 to End

Where to Look: The Basics of התבוננות 0:05

These are abstractions. Right. These are explanations of where to look. Right. And the thing of where to look, it says מבשרי אחזה אלוקה. In other words, when when we're talking about, like when a person wants a house.

So, then it says by the דאווענען you're supposed to do the התבוננות. Now, the thing is, like somebody asked the רבי that it's sort of kind of hard, you know, to figure out exactly what which התבוננות to do where in the דאווענען. So the רבי says, you know, leave that to the people from the past generations. You can do the התבוננות like after the דאווענען or before the דאווענען, sort of, you know.

Just you can do the התבוננות separate. Just sit and think this התבוננות. Meaning that the best time is maybe at the דאווענען or some other time when you have some time to just sit and think, like. Right.

So, the whole thing is it says מבשרי אחזה אלוקה. So, basically you have to sit and think that it explains to you it explained in the book, it explained how the רצון works, how the חכמה works, how the בינה works, how the מחשבה works, how all of these things work. And it explains like, for instance, when a person wants a house. And then when he wants a house and this and that.

Understanding Personal רצון: From a House to Pizza 1:36

So the thing is really we're talking about you.

When you want something. Right. Like we learned here not too long ago, like a רצון. Like when a רצון he says like a רצון for כבוד or for this or for a תאוה גשמיות, means an ice cream.

So it is exactly like that. In other words, מבשרי, look at yourself, how you want something. When it says a רצון. A רצון is, the most people look at a רצון, oh, a רצון is a רצון is this thing, it's up there. A thing up there, you know? There's עתיק, and אריך, and רצון, and תענוג. What's a רצון? Who knows what a רצון is, you know? These are deep Kabbalistic things.

Who knows what a רצון is? The אריז״ל maybe knows what a רצון is. But no, it means like a רצון, when you want something. Right. When you want something, when you want, you know, like you want a piece of pizza, and there's various emotions and שכל, and take a look at that. And analyze that in terms of this התבוננות. In other words, take this that's what it says, תבונה.

Right. Take it in terms of actuality. Not just you understand all kinds of explanations, but there you didn't apply it to anything. You didn't bring it down to an actual רצון and emotions and שכל. Take a look at the actual שכל that you're having.

And follow it back, and you can see that you'll be able to follow it back to the כח המשכיל. And even though you won't be able to see the actual כח המשכיל itself, but you'll see it just as clearly as you see the נגלה of it.

Seeing the כח המשכיל Behind Our Thoughts 3:17

You'll see that your letters of thought, that you can see fine. You can see your letters of thought. You'll see that they're moving. There's something inside them moving them.

It's not just a לבוש, you know. It's it's not a לבוש without somebody inside of it. There's there's two ענינים. There's a לבוש, there could be a pair of pants lying on the floor, and there could be a pair of pants with somebody inside of it.

And if you look at the לבוש of the מחשבה, you'll see that there's something moving it. Right. You know? So, in other words, you can see the כח המשכיל.

You definitely can see it. You can't see it naked, but you can see it's enclothed up. You can see how it's moving things.

And same thing with all these other things, you can literally feel them in the in in your body and in your emotions, and you can feel like when he says that it comes out into the הבל הלב and the חזה, you can see how a certain thing excites you. You see that your lungs start that's your emotions. That's the external כלים of ז״א. Right. In terms of the עולם קטן.

Worlds Within Worlds: The עולם קטן Analogy 4:44

And basically, if you know how it is in עולם קטן, you know how it is upstairs. It's world after world after world, just like we were answering to some of these people on the on the list. Right.

There's there's there's the עולם of of כללות is עולם of כללות of כללות, and there's עולמות of פרטות, and then there's פרטות of פרטות, all the way down to the עולם קטן.

And you're supposed to look how it is in the עולם קטן. And if you look how it is in the עולם קטן, it's the same like you're watching a football game on television. You know, today was the Super Bowl.

And a lot of people saw, "Oh, I saw the football game." What do you mean you saw the football game? You didn't see the football game. You're looking at a television.

But when they were looking at the television, they saw the football game. Right. There's these teeny little guys running on the screen, and they saw exactly the whole football game.

Right. So, why? Because a עולם קטן. And it was a it's a copy of a copy of a copy. That's what a football game on a screen is, you know. The camera takes it and it copies it over and it sends it to another station and that copies it to another thing and it copies and finally you get a teeny little thing on your screen. Right.

You know, so that's what you It tells you where to look. And it tells you what to see. And it tells you when it moves like this, it means that's what it means. You see the thing that it's moving in. Right. And that's the inner part. That's the עמקות הדעת of the התבוננות.

עמקות הדעת: Connecting Mind to Real Experience 6:22

The עמקות הדעת means to connect your mind to the actual thing, not not just not just that it's a vague concept, but to make to connect your mind that it's a actual thing that you can actually have a הכרה and a הרגש in it.

To what it says in חסידות, a הכרה and a הרגש. Right. And that is a very important thing. I mean, without that, it says that's what it says, אם אין בינה אין דעת. If you don't have the בינה in the first place, you don't know where to look.

But if אם אין דעת, if you don't if you don't actually connect Well, it's אם אין דעת אין בינה, of course. to a point to a point where you can recognize what it is that you were explained.

You have to recognize it. When we tell you like an emotion, or a רצון, or the הבל הלב, how the emotion there's a thing that you can actually feel in yourself that that you can recognize. Right. Now when an emotion comes up, התפעלות of emotions, and then and then the הבל הלב starts, the rhythm changes, gets faster or slower or deeper or harder, and the heart beats harder, and then there's an inner emotion that you feel.

And that's the actual הרגש in the thing that was explained to you. And אם אין דעת אין בינה. אם אין בינה אין דעת, אם אין דעת, if you don't take this as an actual thing that's there to feel,

in other words, to to actually experience firsthand, not just as as as a vague explanation, so then you won't then you're never going to really understand what it's talking about. Like most of these people, they sat and learned חסידות and they don't understand nothing. Right. Why? They're not stupid people. If you look at them, we're not you know, I mean maybe we're slightly smarter than them, but you know, a lot of these people are pretty smart.

Not only that, you see in things that they feel, some of these people are very smart, like well like with money, for instance, because they feel it very much, you see that they they have a big smartness in it. This they don't feel, so they don't understand, because they never tried to feel it.

Right. So, if they didn't feel it, they didn't understand it.

And it's דווקא the דעת that gives the עמקות to the בינה. It's the מעמיק. The מעמיק, it says that it's מעמיק לחכמה ו- לחכמה בינה. It makes the חכמה and בינה deeper.

The Role of דעת and מעמיק in True חכמה 9:22

And it's only a כלי, but nonetheless, that is what makes the חכמה deeper. The מעמיק is an ענין of דעת. It's not an ענין of חכמה and בינה. Right, but that's where you get the real בינה of of the actual understanding of what this is. Right. In other words, but what does it mean מעמיק? מעמיק doesn't mean really concentration.

Means עמקות הדעת means concentration On the explanation? עמקות הדעת means that you listen good to the original explanation. מעמיק doesn't mean just concentration. So, you'll concentrate real hard and you'll clench your fists real, real hard and you say, "Well, I still didn't understand." No, that's not what מעמיק means.

מעמיק means Means to connect to the idea, to feel it, to feel what it is that the idea is talking about. Right. When it's talking about intellect and emotions, there's a הרגש of what's intellect and emotions. Well, you know what intellect and emotions are. Take a look what the intellect, the actual physical intellect and emotions.

Right. Say, wait a minute, intellect and emotions are not physical. It's, we're talking in the world. Right. בפועל ממש, take a look when it says intellect and emotions.

Take a look at the actual intellect and emotions, which you do that to a certain extent, but the thing is then think about it, and then you follow it up. You see that behind the בינה, there's a, there's a source for the בינה.

And even though you can't actually see it directly, really you can't see the בינה directly, either. You're only seeing the letters of לאה. But you see that something is moving that. And, and then when you look at the something that's moving that, you see that there's also something that's moving it.

Until you get to the גוף that's moving the לבושים. That's, now you're at the כלים. If you look, you'll see that there's a נשמה that's moving the גוף.

And then if you look at that, you'll see that that whole thing is really a לבוש to a higher thing.

And that's basically what the ענין of a מעמיק is.

So that's basically the whole ענין of דעת. If there's no דעת, there's not really going to be a real בינה. The בינה is all, the בינה is going to stay like he says, ומוח בנוקבי, and there'll never come a תבונה out of it. It'll never be, it'll never be connected to anything.

Right. And until you'll say, what do I need this חסידות for? What's it good for? What, what can I do with it?

He says, I don't know. I mean, it talks, you know, רצון, עתיק, אריך, all high level. Right. You know, but what do you do with it? You say, I mean, can you eat it? Can you, can you, you know, nothing. You can't do nothing with it. Yeah.

And that's the basic thing is it's a matter of ראיה. You have to, you have to actually take a look of, at the things what it, what it, what it's explaining about. Right. You know?

Okay, I'm going to have to go now. It's getting kind of late here. Okay. Happy יוד שבט. Happy יוד שבט, yeah.

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