Chapter 43 part 2 · Part 8 Chapters 34 to End

Electrons, Nails, and the Limits of Interchangeability 0:00

Hey, go ahead. So, if you would exchange those two electrons, it means it's not just a matter that in general you have to have a bunch enough electrons in your room, like you say, well, if you'll take away one electron, the the electric charge wouldn't be right.

But even then, they they don't think that anything would happen, like if this electron would just stop existing, so well, other electrons would just fill its place. Yeah, but what would happen to their place?

Right. So, the thing is that really, in order to have the mathematical formula exactly right, each nail has to be in the right place. You can't put nail one in the place of nail two. Right. They're not interchangeable, really.

Right. Like by us, it's certain things are interchangeable. Like like, you know, when when you work in the restaurant and somebody comes and and orders something, you you don't you don't have to you don't have to think, "Oh, oh, wait a minute, which which steak was was meant for him?" Right. Okay, however, it's not really true. It was it was דווקא that steak that was meant for him, דווקא.

Right, right. And he couldn't eat somebody else's steak. Right. He had to eat this steak. He said, "Why would he have What's the difference which steak he eats?" He said, "Because that's the steak that has the ניצוצות that are his ניצוצות." Right. You know, like the story with, I think it was was it the רוז'ינער or the קארלינער?

Father’s Yahrzeit Vodka Tale and the Power of Blessings 1:44

You know, the guy that came in and brought a brought a bottle of vodka for cuz it was his father's יארצייט. You know the story? I don't know the story. This this guy, I think who was it? קארלינער or the בארדיטשעווער, one of the great old one of the great רבי'ס from the אלטער רבי'ס time, I think.

This guy came in and and they he brought a bottle of vodka cuz his father's יארצייט. So, so he came in, he said a quick קדיש, and then he put the bottle on the table, and and and he was going to run out cuz he had to go to work, he was in a hurry. They told him, "Wait a minute, your father's יארצייט, you have to make a לחיים, and and and" and he's, "Oh, I don't have I don't have time.

I don't have time." He was like a פראסטער ייד, you know. Right. "I I got to get I just came, you know, because my father's יארצייט, but I got to get out of here." So they said, "Wait a minute, what do you mean? We're going to make this as an עלייה for your father, this תיקון, you know." So

they were bothering him, and finally said, "Okay." So they poured him a a little schnapps, and he just took it and drank it down.

So they all started shouting, you know, "What do you mean? What did you do? You didn't say the ברכה." Right. He said, "What's the difference if I said the ברכה or not?" Right. So, just then, the רבי walked in. The רבי walked in, and he went up to him, and he told him, "Let me tell you a story.

Your father, when he went upstairs to the court, there was all kinds of משמאילים ומימינים,

and it was a whole thing, and finally it was decided that he should go to hell.

And still, they argued, and the מימינים said, yeah, but he did so many מצוות, why would you send him to hell? But the משמאילים said, look, but the עבירות are bigger.

So, what did they do? They finally decided that

they would send his soul back down, and you would make a ברכה over it, and you would when you would make a ברכה, you would elevate the ניצוצות,

and and then he could go to heaven. So, what did they do? They brought him down, and his נשמה went into several

into several wheat plants, and they grew and stuff like that, and the whole time there was a whole big fight that the grains that his נשמה was in, what the bad angels And

then when they when they beat it and chafed it and all that stuff, the good angels made sure that it would go through and the bad angels were trying to make it lost, until finally it went to the to the vodka plant.

And again, the bad angels tried to make it like get lost. You know, a little bit of liquor gets lost. They tried to make the soul go into the liquor, the the the pieces, you know, those pieces that came from that wheat, to get lost.

And then finally, they got the they got your father's soul into this vodka bottle.

And then, even when they poured, all the way down to when they were actually pouring the vodka, the bad angels were trying to make it go into another cup, and not your cup. And the good angels were able to you know, cuz in the vodka was more than just those those little pieces. The whole bottle of vodka. And inside that bottle of vodka was this the little pieces, like the little whatever, molecules of vodka, you know, that were his father's soul.

And finally, after all that fighting and all that whole טומל and all the everything, they finally got the the the whole of your father's soul into that little שנאפס cup of vodka.

And all you had to do was make a ברכה over it and drink it, and your father would have gone to heaven. And instead, look what you did. And the guy fainted.

You know, so and afterwards he asked the רבי to give him a תיקון, you know, and he became a big חסיד. He became a חסיד of this רבי. That from the story you see that it's not just like anything.

A piece of food that comes to you, that was designated for for you, that that's your piece of food. Same thing like, you know what they say that forty days before they they designate.

So, for instance, there's a certain girl out there for every I mean, even the people are not married, it's not that just that there's a bunch of girls and you'll get one.

Not this one, so that one. You know, like they say, there's a lot of fish in the ocean. It doesn't work like that. No, it's already באשערט. That's what he calls your באשערט, you know? Which girl goes to which guy, and which guy goes to which girl. But it's not just a girl, it's not I mean well, of course, marriage, I mean, of course. No, no, but it's not like that.

Designated Chicken for Shabbat: Destiny in Food 8:10

Even the chicken that you're going to eat this שבת, it had to be that chicken. Like when that chicken was growing, that was already your chicken. It's not that, well, it just so happened there was a million chickens and I got this chicken.

No, that was that was the chicken that was designated that this שבת will be this chicken and you would make the ברכה and eat the chicken as part of the שבת thing, and it had to be this chicken. And for the chicken also, it had to be דווקא you. You know? So, from from this we learn that this is how it is on everything, really. So that the and that's what he means here by this thing that seems to sort of

be like against what he usually says in חסידות, that that he knows everything by knowing himself and there's nothing outside of himself. And then he says, of course, there is nothing outside of himself, but he he has to plan the world as if it's an actual thing that's outside of himself. ובבחינת דיבור ומחשבה עצמית זה כמו מה ששיער בעצמו בכח מה שעתיד להיות בהשתלשלות.

Thought, Speech, Action: The Structure of Divine Planning 9:14

ועל זה נאמר גליף גליפו בטהירו עילאה, חקיקת אותיות בעצמות, that he he he was actually משער exactly how it's going to be, how what forces are going to have to come into it. וכן מה שנאמר כי הוא אמר במחשבה עצמות ויהי, הוא אמר ולא יעשה על ידי צמצום הראשון? And so that's the ענין of The מחשבה, the מחשבה is the original, the original thought of it. And the, said the דיבור is the the thought of how it's going to come out.

And the מעשה is the actual plan in the מחשבה how each little

designated thing. So like, for instance, in the מחשבה in דיבור is like, in a way, more general, like אנא אמלוך or stuff like that. But, but then there has to be the the the מעשה שבמחשבה, where he has to actually figure out every little detail of it. Right.

כהאי גוונא, כל אמירה בחינת דיבור שבמחשבה הנ״ל, שלמעלה משמיעת הדיבור זולתו, כמו הטה אזנך ושמע וכולו, ויקשב וישמע כהאי גוונא, that also called דיבור שבמחשבה. ומחשבה שמחשבה העצמית, היינו כמו שנתבאר למעלה במחשבת השכל והענין בצירופים שונים וכולו, והוא כאשר עלה ברצונו ומחשבתו אנא אמלוך, וכהאי גוונא, והוא על פי חכמתו ברצונו העצמי. That's the actual השכלה of the thing, that what he wanted.

That's the actual עצמיות of the thing, that's what he wants to rule. וזהו שאמר והיה עולם, בבחינת מלכות דאין סוף, אנא אמלוך וכולו. ולפי זה, מה שנתעורר בבחינת בחינת חסד, חפץ חסד הראשון על ידי מעשה התחתונים וכולו, שמחמתו עלה במחשבתו ורצונו וכולו, הרי הוא מגיע לתחלת התעוררות הרצון במחשבה העצמית וכולו. So when you are מעורר the חסד that, well, through the מעשים downstairs you מעורר the חסד upstairs, it's really, since the thing of the חסד came up even before the חסד itself came up, it came up in the original מחשבה, so therefore really מעורר all the way to the original מחשבה that therefore the the חסד that he wanted to happen, happens.

So therefore it it goes into the התעוררות הרצון in the מחשבה העצמית. וזהו שנאמר נפלאותיך ומחשבותיך אלינו וכולו עצמו מספר. It's it's it's there's too much to talk about. כמו ולתבונתו אין מספר. There's no number.

Beyond Numbers: The Infinite Depth of Divine Thought 12:33

In other words, the actual numbers, you say, so which number is it? Is it 52 or which one is it, 45, with which מילויים? It says really there's no number at all. It it goes way beyond. Really, it goes higher and higher, all the way to the מחשבה העצמית, it's totally beyond number,

because that's a number that has to include like the name of of every nail and every so it's עצמו מספר. You can't even really think about. If you think about, okay, so let's see, so how does that work?

So if you try to think about, okay, this nail goes here, and that nail goes there, and this, you know, you can't really it's past it's it's totally past any understanding or number. Right. And yet, it's not beyond his understanding.

Right. Because, in other words, what he's what he's saying here is he had to understand exactly how it worked.

It sounds like, wait a minute, it's like totally beyond anybody's understanding. Well, he said, no, it's not. It can't be beyond anybody's understanding, because if the אייבערשטער wouldn't have understand it, wouldn't have understood it, he it wouldn't have worked in the first place. He he did understand it. Right. He made it come out and work like this.

לפי ערך עמקות החכמה והדעת כך ערך עמקות בחינת המחשבה העצמית בעצמות אור אין סוף. And that's the thing, like we said, that the עומק of מחשבה is according to the עומק of the idea.

מה מה מה מאד עמקו מחשבותיך וכולו ודי למבין. And I'm going to have to

stop here. Should I stop the tape? Yeah.