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The concept of klipah and concealment 0:00
כזה קליפה והסתר שקודם כולו. והוא על ידי בחינת הצמצום והסתר שקודם כל, אור בשכל, רצון ותענוג בחכמה, כולו. And that's that's the proper order. That's our order. We're from the אייבישטער's people.
What is our order? It says ברישא חשוכא. Right. And then נהורא. Yeah, כמו מי יודע עוז אפך, וכיראתך עברתך, כולו. שהוא בחינת המנגד להרצון.
שם נתוכן הכעס וחרון אף, על בחינת המנגד לעובר הרצון, כולו. עד שחמת שחמת השם על ראש רשעים יחול, כולו. כמו שאומר במקום אחר בענין ברישא ברישא חשוכא.
על כן, What is this? עזי אומות העולם מתגברין ברישא. Oh, oh, right. עזי אומות העולם מתגברין ברישא. The strong people of the nations were were big were were big first before before the Jews were big. Right. That and that's also the thing that first was first the מלכים of עשו, and then the מלכים in ישראל. So so by us, it's דווקא the opposite. All it is All it is בלבול, it's just uh it's just exactly the opposite.
You get There's a big צמצום up there,
and this חושך is because our light is going to come. והנה ידוע דעיקר שבירה בתערובת טוב ורע ממש היה רק בבחינת צ' שהוא בחינת Here it says ז' ס', ז' ס', it should be ז' ת', I think.
Breaking in the mixture of good and evil 1:55
ז' תחתונות ד ז' תחתונות דבינה. Yeah, ז' תחתונות דבינה, yeah. It's a typo. What does it say over there, ת? It's a ת. It's a ת, right. Okay, דהוא בחינת ז' תחתונות דבינה. דהן בחינת המדות שבשכל, שמולידות המדות שבלב מדות רעים, כמו כעס וציקא ותאוה רעה ואהבה ויראה רעים, ונמצא שהם בריצוץ והתפזרות לרע, כולו, אבל בחכמה לא היה שבירה, רק חיצוניות לבד נפלו. והוא שורש לחכמות חיצוניות.
And this is something that we basically discussed earlier. That even in בינה, the basically what this is the the the the actual
original בינה שבבינה is the analysis, right? Right. And the מדות is what's called the ובכן, therefore. Right. So, if you look at any kind of קליפה, you see that the analysis is correct.
Right. Like for instance, like right now, one of the big, big קליפות that that really, you know, everybody's making a big to-do about homosexuals, there's a much worse thing than that, which is abortion. Right.
You know? Sure, that's uh even worse. It's a much worse thing, and right now, this thing of abortion is on the on the on on on the, what do you call it? On the amount level, you know, the the כמות, there's איכות and the the כמות. Right. Of a holocaust.
Sure. There's literally There's literally a holocaust going on. Right. A secret holocaust. It's not such a secret. Okay, but it's a secret People ignore it. Yeah, I mean it's like it's it's on the proportions of a holocaust, and it might be even bigger, who knows? Nobody even knows.
What was the holocaust, 6 million? And if you count the whole, it was something like 18 million people, and if you include what Stalin did is maybe 40 million.
Right. I think that the the if you count the abortions for the last what are we talking about, 40 years, at least, no?
I think it's in the hundreds of millions. Worldwide. Right. I think it's in the hundreds of millions. You know, and yet, where is the שבירה?
The שבירה is not in the original בינה של הבינה, in the analysis. Like in the analysis there, there is an analysis that the, some of the things that are used in the analysis is there is a lot of people in the world. Right. Well, that's true. I agree with that. You agree with that? Yeah, there's a lot of people. There's a lot of people in the world, so the וכן is by me, כן ירבו.
That's what the אייבערשטער wants. The אייבערשטער wants not only Jewish people to increase. The אייבערשטער wants ישוב העולם, and he'll figure out Yeah. פרו ורבו ומלאו את הארץ. פרו ורבו ומלאו את הארץ. The אייבערשטער likes people. Like yesterday, you know, yesterday we like we were saying yesterday, the אייבערשטער likes the world, and he likes people. Even though it's nothing, but now that you have it, so that he likes it.
Right. They are not the they are not the total intrinsic reason, but even for the intrinsic reason, he likes people. He likes children. Right. You know.
And there's lots of It's true, but it's true there's lots of people. Or they say that, for instance, there's a lot of people going hungry.
Right. Is that true? Yeah, it's true. So what's the וכן? The וכן is like try to figure out a way so that if one country has food and another country doesn't, so figure out to feed the people instead of worrying about צדקה. Give צדקה, yeah. really it is more of a distribution problem than Yeah. than uh That's all. Let's Let's Let's figure out how to Let's figure out how to uh plant the the Sahara Desert.
Look what they did with Israel. Right. You know. Right. I mean there's there's other וכןs that can come out. The analysis is correct. And there is various other analysis. I mean we don't have to go into there's all kinds of analysis they go in that go in like the there is a lot of children that don't get the proper education. Oh, good, so let's kill them. Right.
You know. Well, a lot of these children they'll they'll just end up growing up uh in bad situations with starvation and and and improper education. Oh, good, so let's kill them. That's a good וכן. Right. Hey, I got a solution. What's the Right. We'll solve all the world's problems.
And then the butterflies won't have to worry. Right. You know, the butterflies. Sure. The butterflies, you know, there's a problem with the ecology. Right. You know, not only that, if with all these people soon they're going to use up all the sunlight.
Right. You know. I mean, look what they're doing. They're the people going to the beach they're using up all the sunlight. Soon there won't be no sunlight left. That's a pretty big problem. Yeah, a big problem, you know. There'll be no sunlight left. What are the trees going to do?
So if we kill everybody, you know, kill all the people then there'll be more room for the for the butterflies and for the for the bunny rabbits, you know. Right. And for the balance of nature and all that business. We won't be We won't be destroying their habitat. And the sun will live 10 billion years longer.
There won't be mankind to destroy the habitat of Yeah, global warming, you know. You know, with global warming soon the water level will rise up. Who knows what's going to happen.
Where the break occurs: analysis vs solution 9:28
Right. You know. So, the thing is that the basic point here is that the you see that the שבירה is not in the actual analysis, in the fact, but in the וכן. Right. It's in the solution that you came up with.
Right. And the basic thing like he says, the first he said it's only in ס״ג, but then he said it's in חיצוניות אבא. So, really it's נוגע even In פנימיות.
There is a נגיעה. In other words, if there was not a problem with the הנחה somehow, right, the בפועל wouldn't come out wrong. Right. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, sure. So the problem is there really is, but it's not in the real הנחה, it's in the חיצוניות of the הנחה. Right, that's like how the נה״י of חכמה and stuff like that is the determination Right. to carry it out.
The basic thing is the reason that there's a problem with their התבוננות because you say, wait a minute, how could the בפועל come out wrong if the התבוננות was right?
Right. If they if the הנחה is right and the התבוננות is right, then how could the בפועל come out wrong? Right. And he said the reason it came out wrong is exactly because of that, because it was the חיצוניות.
Like we learned back there in what was it, 25, 26? 26, it's not the פנימיות, it's the There's there's there's three chapters, basically. 24, 25, and 26. Right. One it says that the מזלות, the next one is how it comes down in עב, and the next one is the מעשה of ז״א. If in if one of them is not the פנימיות, the next level will also be not the פנימיות.
Structure of chapters 24‑26 and their issues 11:04
What's the problem? The problem is they're not thinking they're thinking externally. They're not really thinking internally. Right, it's not they're not connecting it up to the אייבערשטער. No, even without connecting it up to the אייבערשטער, they're not even thinking properly according to the עץ הדעת טוב. Right, right. Exactly. The עץ הדעת טוב means it's not from the אייבערשטער, but it's solid בינה שבבינה, that's why he doesn't die.
What does it mean? If you would really sit and think properly, you could come up with a better בפועל. You see these people are not really thinking. They're not really sitting and thinking about it with a real התבוננות, and they come up with a fast בפועל and then they go and then they're basically, a lot of these people, once somebody comes up with a בפועל, they don't even know who came up with the בפועל.
Most of these people are just going on a חשמל. Right. And they don't know who came up with the בפועל. You know who came up with the בפועל? For which thing, a person? For everything. Our good friend the יצר הרע. Our good buddy the יצר הרע. Right. But basically, really that's who came up with it. Most of these people don't think who came up with this שכל, and they just they go they they go and run with the שכל like as if it's a real שכל.
And it's not really a שכל at all. And like he's going to explain, it's not really a חכמה, it's ערומית. Right. שמורידין המדות שבלב middos like כעס, רציחה, so the the breaking, תאוה רעה ואהבה ויראה רעים, and so forth, תאוות לרע, כו׳.
אבל בחכמה לא היה שבירה, רק חיצוניות דעב נפלו, why? Because that's because it was חיצוניות. והוא שורש לחכמת חיצוניות.
וגם הוא ענין אני חכמה שכנתי ערמה. ארמי אובד אבי. The the ארמי is רמאי. Right. The and this is the thing, like we were talking before, they they made the there's a רמיה. What what's רמיה? It's a a רמאי, a con artist.
Identifying רמאות in contemporary scholarship 13:38
A con. רמאי means to cheat. Oh, right, like לבן was a con artist. לבן, it was a רמאי. He cheated, like ארמי אובד אבי, חכמה. אבי means means ab, like אבא, חכמה. The the רמיה is what So אבי is talking about חכמה דקדושה. Yeah, right. ארמי is the חכמה דקליפה. אובד, makes makes lost Right. the אבי, my father, my proper father. And he he he he makes a בלבול in people's heads.
He's making a בלבול, but it's really a cheating. That's not really what the גדולים There's not a single גדול that said that. Right. And if you look even what they say, they're basing it all on some scientist, Schroeder, and then they're making it like, "Oh, and see this fits right into what the רמב״ם said." So yeah, but the רמב״ם didn't say that. Right. The רמב״ם, if you would ask the רמב״ם, he would say no, it was seven days.
If you would ask the רש״י, רש״י would say no, it was seven days, כפשוטו. Right. And if you would ask them, "And what about did אדם come from a monkey? They said, "No, it was a specific creation." That's פשט in תורה. Huh? It's פשט in תורה that that's what it is. Yeah, and not only that, the thing on on Darwinism, there's if you look in the That's in That's also in the in the email I sent is the thing what it says What's his name, Goldberg?
יודל I don't know, יודל Grinberg or Rosenberg? יודל whatever, who translated it יודל Rosenberg. He translated the Hebrew what do you call it? The Hebrew זהר. זהר, Rosenberg. Yeah, and he says basically that according to the זהר, it's there wasn't evolution, it was devolution. Right, exactly. That the apes came from people. Right. Apes were devolved, apparently there's two points, there was a devolution by קין, and I think there was another devolution by the people from the Tower of בבל.
Right. I'm not I'm not exactly sure, but I know by קין for sure. He writes over there he writes over there that maybe this is where Darwin המשוגע got his ideas from.
Right. That's how he That's what he says. Right. Right. And basically he is from the school of the real kabbalist, and he gives a real ענין with קבלה and תורה. Not only that, not just a kabbalist, he was a real בן תורה. And he has הסכמות from every single גדול in Europe. Right, including the the רבי רש״ב? רבי רש״ב, well, רבי רש״ב of course, including the רבי רש״ב.
That's That's I mean we we hold big with רבי רש״ב. The Lubavitcher רביים, as a rule, did not were not big on giving הסכמות, you know? Right. No, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking like a lot of these things, I mean the רבי רש״ב, we for for Lubavitch, we don't need to go from יודל Rosenberg.
We have the letters from the רבי. Right. Straight. Straight, the רבי says this is a heresy. Yeah, obviously. Okay, but this was a הסכמות, he had הסכמות from חיים ברלין, from everyone, all the way to חיים ברלין.
Right. You know? The משנה כסף, I don't remember who else, a whole bunch, every every single גדול from Europe practically gave the הסכמה for that thing.
So where do you get this thing that the גדולים what the גדולים said such a thing? Or this business, like they come up with this business like from יצחק of עכו? First of all, who ever heard of יצחק of עכו? They dug up יצחק of עכו. Right, he's is not a significant person. Who dug up who whoever, what's significant? Whoever heard of him? Secondly, actually, יצחק of עכו happens to be a real kabbalist, by the way.
I didn't say he's not. He was a real, true, big kabbalist, but then there's the איסור from חיים ויטאל that said this that this came from the In the name of the אריז״ל. The name of the אריז״ל, you're not allowed to learn to study anybody after the רמב״ן, and יצחק of עכו was a תלמיד of the רמב״ן. Right. And the reasons is two reasons: some of them didn't know what they're talking about, and the other ones, you're not going to know what they're talking about.
Well, what he says there is they didn't have רוח הקודש at that time, so it's speculation. Might be speculation, but the basic thing, I don't think יצחק of עכו is not a speculation thing. It's just that his stuff is is very mystical, and it's it's very hard to understand. If you know קבלה, you look at his calculations, you figure you see right away what he's talking about.
Right. You know, it was not There's nothing wrong with it, really, but it's the way that they translated it. Right.
So the basic thing is that these these people were making up stories, and it's a רמאות. A רמאות, the רמאות is they stick in as if somebody is as if this is somehow תורה opinion.
And they bring up various quotes, you know? Yeah. And and you can see ממש the רמאות. There's a thing I don't know if you ever Did you ever see the thing about there's some rabbi that wrote about, he's one of these YU-type rabbi, He wrote a whole thing against what the רבי says about כפייה by the גוים.
To be כופה? Right. And he brings up various opinions, and you look at the opinions, like like he said, one opinion says that in our days you can't kill a גוי.
And the רמב״ם never said you could. To kill a גוי, you have to have a בית דין that can kill. Right. And then, he said That's not against כפייה. That's not what means כפייה. No, no, it's not what means כפייה. Then there's another one that says that even that there another one that brings up, I don't remember if it's the the רמ״א or something like that, it says even in the even by the סנהדרין,
where you actually had the power to kill a גוי, you couldn't kill him until the the the sentence was passed. Right. In other words, you couldn't just go and kill him, you had to take him to בית דין. Sure. So what so what's how does that disprove what the רבי said?
And the basic thing, like he said, the רבי assumes certain things, and basically the thing is, you see that he doesn't understand, he totally doesn't understand what he's talking about. Because both the רבי and if you look in the רמב״ם, רמב״ם says that this is a thing that משה told us מפי הגבורה.
If you notice, not not everything רמב״ם says like that. Right. And if you look in the רבי's book also, the רבי says that, that this is a thing that משה told us מפי הגבורה.
Right. That you're supposed to be כופה the גוים. When when they say something like that, it means it's a הלכה למשה מסיני. That's what it means. Sure. Of course. If the רמב״ם says that, he doesn't say that on everything. Certain things he says this is not even a דין תורה, it's מדרבנן. Like right now we're learning עירובין. עירובין he says is not a מצוה from תורה at all.
Right. מדרבנן. So from the תורה, you're really allowed to carry in the whole city. Right. And if it's if it's if it's a city that has if it's a city that has a wall around it, you're allowed to carry in the whole city. And as long as houses that have a fence around all the houses, you can carry in all the from from inside the house to the to the to the yard, to the other house, no problem.
You don't have to make any עירוב. Yeah, the עירובין is from the בית דין שלמה המלך. בית דין של שלמה המלך, right. So he says, he says בית דין שלמה המלך. And then certain other things there is מחלוקות, and the רמב״ם goes according to one thing, and whatever, you know, and this is but this is a הלכה.
But there's hardly ever that the רמב״ם, also the by the רבי, that they actually say this was a thing that משה was told מפי הגבורה. When they say something like that, it means this הלכה למשה מסיני, Right. and there's nothing you can say about it, there's no argument. Right. There's absolutely no arguments. This is one of the things that we know הלכה למשה מסיני.
Finish. Like certain things, there's certain things that we know, like you know, like to light a fire on שבת. And this, the thing the רמב״ם says, is הלכה למשה מסיני. That's all. This is הלכה למשה מסיני the רמב״ם says, nobody disagrees with him.
And all these other opinions that he brought, the guy twisted them. Now, you see that when he twisted them, he actually thinks he's right. Right, of course. He's a rabbi. He thinks he's helping out here. Right. He's He's saving us from the ליובאוויטשער רבי. They think they're They think they're doing a good thing. Sure. They don't think it's a כפירה. Well, that's what it says, the, first the יצר הרע comes to you and tells to do a מצוה.
They think it's a מצוה. They think it's a מצוה. And that's what it says, ארמי אובד אבי. The ארמי messed up their brains. Right. They don't have a they don't have a proper חכמה anymore, they can't think straight anymore. It's ערמימות is what it is. ערמימות, and that's this חכמה דקליפה שהוא רק לרע. It's a חכמה to do bad. כמו חכמים המה להרע ולא להיטיב כלל. Their whole חכמה now is only to do bad.
And therefore, basically it means that their whole thing is bad. Right. Like it says, if it's the, even the other parts, the parts that don't look like heresy. Right. And look like, you know, like they're some kind, there's all kinds of nice-looking sermons and all kinds of stuff like that, it says, "No, חכמים המה להרע ולא להיטיב, folks, on anything." Right. ואין בו ענין חכמה בעצם. Really they're not חכמים.
Why? Wow, I mean they have some kind of חכמה? No, there's no חכמה at all. It's ערמומית ושקר. Their whole thing is ערמומית ושקר. חכמה means חכמת האמת. חכמת האמת is this. This is the חכמת האמת. Right. If they don't hold from חכמת האמת, their whole אידישקייט is ערמומית ושקר, and what they want is your money. Right. כידוע. Well, he says, as is known. Who doesn't know this?
וגם מבחינת תענוג העליון, היורד בחינת החיצוניות, וזהו שורש להתהוות תענוגי עולם הזה. The whole חיצוניות is the התהוות of where the תענוגי עולם הזה come from. In other words, even כתר was affected, just to a degree. Yeah, the תענוגי עולם הזה, like Las Vegas. Right. You know? Right. Las Vegas, with Hollywood.
Right. תענוגי עולם הזה, Disneyland. Right. אבל עיקר הרע הוא במדות. Right. But the main רע is דווקא the מדות. אז נשתלשל למטה, למטה מטה, בקליפת עשיה, המקטרגים ומרעים ליפעל רע בפועל ממש, שכל חיותם אינו רק להמית. The whole חיות is only to kill. Right. And this was, up to now, ממש, you could see it, ימח שמם from Germany. Right. מלאכי המות, ממש. Right. ממש מלאכי המות. But really עמלק is is is כתר and חכמה of קליפה.
Right. שער הנון. You know, המן, the שער הנון of קליפה, yeah. Right. ולמטה בזה העולם הם המזיקים, כנחשים וחיות טורפות והרודפים במין האדם. This is the total evil, murderers.
And by the way, this this doesn't this this doesn't mean that they're not They're killing people. Right. Like the Rebbe It's a different type of murder. that that Huh? It's just a different type of murder. It's a murder like the like the Greeks wanted to do. Right. That's what it says. The Rebbe says that that's by the way why שערי אורה is for חנוכה, that to kill a person's soul is worse than to kill his body.
The Value of a Soul Over the Body 27:37
Right. וכך לעתיד לבוא שיבוער הרע, כתיב לא ירעו ולא ישחיתו, so even the animals, there won't be any bad animals actually. Right. לפי שאז יבוררו שיורי ז' מלכין שלא נתבררו עדיין, כידוע.
And there'll be a בירור all the way down to the physical. Right. And the basic thing is that actually
the בלבול that they start over there, that's what goes farther and farther down, till when it hits the street you get a murderer. Right. You know, because the Like everybody will tell you, they say, "Where do you get the murderers from?" They say, "Well, it's from the They weren't educated properly." Right. "Oh, the education is improper. The education was improper.
And that's why he went and he became פריי."