Davening and Hisbonenus. · First Addendum

Basic Approach: Daaven Like a Child 0:02

Well, I mean, the most basic thing is the is to דאווען like, I mean, I don't know, it depends on the personality of the person also, but, I mean, the most basic thing is to דאווען like a little kid, to realize that you're standing there and and whatever, like try to talk at least in your mind while you're saying the words, that your כוונה should be like you're talking to to somebody, you know, whatever you feel, you should try to feel like you're talking to God like a little kid.

I mean, that's the first most basic thing. Then there's also things you can have to understand what like על פי חסידות, the general things that you can think of before דאווענען and during דאווענען, even without knowing the פירוש המילות according to חסידות, of just what I mean, but for that you need to give a particular examples to not an explanations so much, an understanding of what what they're doing to really appreciate the thing of I mean, that's, cuz there's two things of דאווענען.

One thing is to ask for what you need, and there's other thing is like התבוננות to think about how really everything in the world is coming from God, which then makes you realize that you need things. I mean, that's a that's one of the answers that people say about how חסידים can דאווען late, because if you דאווען in the right time, it's only דרבנן, but if you whenever you דאווען, if you need something, then it's a דאורייתא.

So after doing this התבוננות, then you realize that you actually need something, you realize that you're dependent on God, then it makes it a דאורייתא, so. I mean, the very the the the I don't know, some some people don't don't like it so much, but this is really the the most basic thing that a person could do that's actual true התבוננות is like פריערדיקער talks about it somewhere in a מאמר, like a התבוננות in מה רבו מעשיך and מה גדלו מעשיך, for example, is like if you take, you imagine a tree, and then you imagine that you go and you climb up on a tree and you take one branch, and then of that branch, how many there's so many branches on the tree, you just pick one, and now on that branch, how many leaves are there?

There's hundreds of leaves, pick one leaf. Now imagine take you take the leaf and look at it, how it has all these veins and things, and you just pick one cell, and you realize and if especially if you know a little bit about about microbiology, how detailed each cell is, and you keep keep going down of how how detailed it is. And then you go back the other way of how detailed each little part is and how many cells are there in the whole leaf, and how many leaves are there in the whole tree, and how many branches are there, and then that's only one tree, and there's all the trees and there's all different types of trees, and they all work together, and how and how everything, the plants and the animals, they all work together.

Detailed Reflection Using Tree and Cell Analogy 2:27

I mean, like there's some like books where they just tell you about some of these things, just פשוט the the simple, the most basic level of התבוננות of like is just to think about נפלאות הבריאה and the creation, like there's some talks about it a little bit in in like different the the מתנגדים have different books that like that that that they talk about some of the they give different examples of some of these things.

So, I mean, that's that's the that's why a person that's that is unsophisticated will be impressed by that. But nowadays, people become so so sophisticated and callous that they don't appreciate it so quickly. So to appreciate it, they have to learn more advanced things, and and that's what חסידות is to help you to do. So then, I mean, the next after that, the next best thing is like a type of that I know of to tell somebody would be the like the type of יחוד that I told you with like שמע, with with מודה אני, which is not it's not that complicated to to for somebody to be able to do that, but it's even if they don't know all of חסידות that well, but then even that, like a person could could could if especially if a person is not going to put in effort to think about it, they could say, "Who cares?"

Sophistication Requires Advanced Chassidut Insight 3:30

And then, I mean, to really it depends on the how sophisticated a person is how much they're going to have to understand before it's going to start hitting them. Like a simple person is is affected more quickly, like and that's the thing like you don't it doesn't really matter how well you understand so much, it matters how much relative to your כלים that you fill up.

Baal Shem Tov Story Illustrating Simple Reflection 4:31

So, like the story with the בעל שם טוב and that simple guy that was that he told they told him that he had a better service than the בעל שם טוב, you know, so like that guy, he he just did that type of simple התבוננות. He looked around at the trees and the grass, and if you you really don't need to do even if you don't know about microbiology, I mean, if you and and like how the whole ecosystem works together, if you just go, take a walk outside, and you look around at stop and

I mean, it's just like a person loves artists because he appreciates their work. I mean, if a person really appreciates and loves their work, then there's also the other thing is to appreciate like when you say the ברכות in the morning. If you stop and really think about all those things that God gives you, all of those ברכות that you say, that you're able to stand up, and you have clothes, and you can see, and all those different things, I mean, if a person doesn't is it that's a lower level in a way of appreciation, because it's more selfish, as opposed to just appreciating God's wisdom that you see in creation, but I mean, if a person a person stops and thinks about that, they'll be also they'll they'll be that that's on a simple level.

Impact of Spoiled Attitudes on Appreciation 5:54

The problem is if a person gets spoiled, they get used to it, like if they never had and a if a person never felt the opposite, then it's going to be hard for them to really feel an appreciation for it. That's why like so the only way the for a person to that's why sometimes דווקא a person gets refined by when a person has bad experiences, it makes them be to appreciate things more.

Well, to get up that to for דאווענען to do that to a person, I mean, for that to happen to a person, they have to whatever level it is that they understand things, you have they have to understand I mean, let's say a guy is a sophisticated guy that believes in science. I mean, like a lay person that that knows, they don't really know all the פרטים, but they know the general things.

Their understanding of how God is really the one giving them stuff would have to be as advanced as their and as real as their understanding of science, or whatever it is. That's why for people that are sophisticated and and גראב and whatever messed up from I mean whatever they're from being in like a type of society we're in, and all these different things, and then not having such high souls, and all these things together, that's why they need to have it the חסידות, which can to be to explain it into a person according to his even his נפש בהמית, that you that that you could explain it to a person ממש שכל אנושי, whatever level they're at, and they'll be able to understand it.

Somebody that's some people it doesn't take that much understanding because they're not בכלל they don't understand things that well. And I mean with anything, there's eventually you are you're explained a certain amount, and then you make a leap of faith, and you connect to it. Just like with I mean, that's the way it is with like medicine. I mean, if if a person takes antibiotics, they're taking a leap of faith.

Leap of Faith Analogies: Medicine and Buildings 7:47

If a person goes into a building and doesn't isn't afraid it's going to collapse on their head, they've in their life they've seen many buildings, and they've effectively taken a survey and seen that the probability of a building that looks stable collapsing is very small. And so they trust that it won't. I mean, people eventually you always have to go back to a certain like a leap to אמונה, because שכל can never acts doesn't actually is only a way to to process and to reveal that those essential things.

But to know how to associate it, in other words, you're deciding how to associate your עצם הרצון with something in the outside world. Eventually, you have to be convinced enough, and then you just make association. That's it. But however quick a person is to make those associations, that's the same way in קדושה, they're going to be that much quicker to make it. So some people השם made it specially that some people are more like into שכל and תחתונדיק and practical, and they're not so flighty, and they don't believe things so quickly, they're not so gullible, or you know, whatever whatever you want to call it, or they're they're not so much into אמונה, they're more into שכל.

The מעלה of that is that that means that you have to bring the אמונה more תחתון, it has to be a דירה בתחתונים. And that's the thing, that that that חסידות I mean, right now it's not a it's not available yet. The thing that we're trying to do is to make to to take make חסידות available in terms that are that are explained enough and solid enough that you could take somebody that's very skeptical, and it will change their way that they view the world around them.

Making Chassidut Accessible for Skeptics and Messiah Vision 9:19

But in order to do that to people, the the the more the more skeptical a person is, the more explanation it would take to do that. Once these things become explained like that, then eventually it becomes a thing that like the big guys understand it, and once they believe it, then the people that are like they're they're under them trust them, believe it because they believe it, and then it becomes like the world accepted world view.

That's that's like what we really need for משיח is the basic thing we need is just that most people should have a ידיעה that it's true, and enough people and a few people understand it to make be to make those people have that ידיעה.

That's the beginning. I mean, then eventually everybody's going to have to understand it, but until they they see it, but but the thing is that it's not so it's not depending on the person, that's how much he his כלים, that's how much he has to understand, so it's not like such a hard thing, really.