Rabbi Mordechai Kraft - Pinchas

okay so you know what i want to do with you today just um is just something we're really looking at partial pinchless but i want to look at it just through the eyes of something that went wrong in mosher urbano's reaction what do i mean by that i i mean that in the whole episode that we looked at last week in the the whole case of where you know bilum has an idea and he said if you want to ensnare the jewish nation the best way to do it is to get them involved with immorality and the god of israel hates immorality and we'll despise them for it and very cunningly and very successfully bilaam was able to convince or maybe bollock was able to convince the women of midian and some of to invite the men to come see you know come to their town or whatever it was over there to see their wares and the older women sat outside and the younger women sat inside and he said why don't you come inside and just see what we have and it was a very subtle process but it worked and you know we looked at last week that before they committed this the sentence of immorality they uh they made them bow down to the the first you have to bow down to the idol of baal poor and i guess the gemara says you know though you know they really weren't concerned with balboa or they really wanted the arrios but had to kind of you know the immorality but had to justify it by you know kind of living up to the to the to the philosophy of doppelganger and remember what was that philosophy it was kind of like a philosophy that said that you are free to do whatever you want to do you have no restriction the world is yours you're the most god-like the most elevated when you live an unrestricted life and that's why the way bob was served was through you know this terrible you know this absolutely disgusting form of service of of you know of defecating and doing one's needs in front of it or something like that and and and again taught us and explained to us don't think they were primitive in their thinking it sounds like a very disgusting and primitive philosophy but it wasn't it was really a highly sophisticated philosophy it was the inverted idea of the greatness of the human being but we called goddess of them we know is our inner core that comes from having a shum and therefore there's no limitation so they inverted that and said you know aren't aren't you you know don't you you you have no limitation you're most godly when you're completely in control do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it so that's like i said like inverted goddess are turned around and in some ways a little bit sophisticated and perhaps that idea is very much alive and well and living in our society you know why you know dart we aren't you more elevated when you're you don't have restrictions don't restrictions hold you back so of course we understand no it doesn't work that way right that that restrictions the human being will not follow the straight path we have a lot of pulls we have to pull the body fighting the pull of the soul so unless we harness ourselves direct that energy we're not going to go in the right way and we discuss the the etymology of the word yoke in hebrew the word yok meaning the yoke that the ox wears is called an all i in which is the same root as ole which means to ascend to go up so that yok doesn't limit the ox's capability it channels his capability lives right it might limit it he's 2 000 pounds of raw energy without that yoke he can run whenever he wants in the field but there won't be any productivity the productivity is a function of the fact that since he has that yoke now you could harness him to a plow and he could he could apply or feel for you you could create something so to to harness the all the energy we have of course we need restriction but there is such a philosophy that says you know remove restriction just be free to be whatever you want to be that's the highest level of serving god who needs who needs any form of externality you know i remember you know i grew up you know i i i grew up and you know if you know by my history i grew up you know i became a baltruva when i was in college a little after and um i grew up in the reform movement and in the reform movement they had already rejected the idea of the yamaga but the yamaku was something that they felt was you know an externality that got in the way of proper service of the divine what do you need this external form of service get rid of the yamaka so they know and why because they felt externality inhibits and limits as opposed to the fact they said no the external expression puts the top of your head focuses you to realize yeah you have a hashem is above you and hashem is above you it means you have to control yourself in service of god you can't be ruled by one's lower aspect which is the whole struggle of what it means to be human which means we have a body pulling us down and a soul that's pulling us up and that fight is the battle of life the yamaha helps us with the fight at least for men it's necessary a necessary ingredient that's what yamaka really means you're not sure so now at shithim the the the billam suggested that the you know seduce the men and to some extent they were successful you know and there it it many of the men or some of the men went from mainly to the tribe of of of shimon went after the women of midjin and there's an incident which is sort of it all culminates with the nussey of siobhan taking the actually the princess of moaf and bringing her before moshe robano and asking moshe are the following questions you know we'll take a listen let's look at inside right now just to look at um the pasik which is in valve and what does the passage say over there it says it so then they start crying at the s at the opening of the old noise at the opening of the tent oh good question huh long nose another time another story another story um so let me just read the the meditation over there what happened when when um this leader of of shimon comes and he takes the princess of moafan and then starts committing an act of of immorality right right you know right in the open and causes penthouse have to to take a spear and to spear them both and sort of end it and by doing so ends the plague there's a plague that resulted over twenty four thousand members of clients who died in the plague this was an enormous assault people and let's just take this let's look at the conversation for a moment what happened it says that what happened that the leader of shimon came tasa the ivy had some motion he took one of these took the she was actually the princess of love and presented her before moshe said to him ben amron son of ammon zuma teresa is she permitted or is she forbidden moshe said back she's forbidden to you amelo he said to moshe amelo zinrei zimmer said to moshe thank you also we also shall religion so why are you now telling me this woman is forbidden to me interesting it says immediately it says in this rashford yacht of motion his he became weak you know that this attack against him that he took a wound from mid-january and now um you know and now why can't i take a wall for a million it says beyond this rashford yadav he became weak his hands became weak and he forgot he forgot what he should do you know it and you know this is the one who remembers that wait a minute you know that that um that if you're aroused to see such immorality and you're someone by it you have to condone you have to be a kanoi so to speak you have to take radical action and kill them so moshe forgot why because he was so upset by what he saw the gow and he started you know they started everyone by moshe started moaning in tears and that's why it's written the past secret says and they were crying mid the marriage continues why were they crying should this wrap with your dame also sure it says queen should this raffle didn't because their hands became weak they just this they were crying like they just were totally in shock and had such sorrow of what they saw all they could do was cry you know and it paralyzed them kind of and so marshall mushroom doma it completely compared to what could compare this to says the basmal to a princess she discussed she's prepared to get married she's at the moment before she's about to go to the under the hoop what have what happens all of a sudden we discover her being nicole kelsey that she is sitting with another man like imagine the shock of such a moment and everyone just becomes weakened by the shock of of such an enormous violation he says so too yes moshe was thinking we're talking now at the end of the desert we're talking you know the 39th year we have a whole experience the end of the fourteenth year jordan they're getting they're on their they're at the jordan right now they're at the jordan river lavor they also saw they're getting ready to cross into the land of israel as it says in the camp of the jordan be based they were right there on the other side of the jordan river ready to go in this in the end of the last part of the 40th year visham different subz and all of a sudden they break out in this means immorality imagine what this looked like the motion ruffle your day motion for your his hand and motion's hand became weak and the sadiq and with them also their hands became weak because of aim about him and they cried and they were beginning to cry but all made kennedy cheese similarly his hands became weak by the ego and what happens it says but you know petrus came and he took that which was fit for him in other words the way the measures expresses it that moshe became weak and because he became weak so pinchas responded and took action in this odd cell and then the video says because moshe was this at cell wasn't was lazy the word nasal is lazy in this context it means he somehow didn't ex was lazy he was in this art cell the fact he he didn't you know he didn't act he didn't know what to do became weakened the word here is nisa atsel that's one of the reasons we don't know his burial place we don't know his burial place we don't know why he didn't come into the land because he hit the rock and speak to the rock and now the men just telling us the reason we don't even know where he's buried all we know he's bearing another side of the is very involved one of the reasons it's almost it's according to this it's a little bit of a punishment to him he became lazy and became weak and didn't forgot and forgot the so we don't know where he's buried that's one reason i i you know there are other reasons brought down also in other places too you know there's always this idea that hashem wanted to keep his braille hidden his grave hidden that we shouldn't worship moshe as a war you know she is the vehicle of communicating we should never mistake moshe for for hashem as other religions have uh certainly done but the medrush says over here the reason why we don't know where he's buried in moab is because he was nisaksel he became lazy is not the best word for this but we're going to define it differently but he became we just he forgot the law because he forgot the law because he was so overwhelmed and therefore didn't act so sorry for the better stance by saying this teaches us the person has to always excite himself has to always awaken himself and have alacrity as reasons as it says in percyavo's you have to be a person has to be bold like a leopard the cow and light like an eagle for ratskatsui and fast like a deer uggiborg and strong like a lion losses from kona in order to do ratson kono you know these are all different animals that have such strength and a person has to always try to excite himself to be you know us could number be strong like that leopard you know light like the eagle fast like a deer strong like a lion you have to be strong don't don't let yourself be paralyzed by fear don't do something paralyzed by by pain by by tsar what you see you have to you have to feel it you have to excite your inner inner feelings to to to overcome it become at long maid that mushroom makes in not having enough inner excitement and not of inner motivation caused him to uh to forget the locker and as a result he doesn't we don't know his burial his barrel is hidden no one can visit his grave it's in it okay so let me just focus on what i what i think is just someone intriguing about this madrid and this really as follows it it's trying to look you just try to understand you know petrus knew what to do he remembered there's a here and sort of interesting aloha that says you know that that it says you can i'm talking pokemon when you see something that is absolutely wrong and uh you know immoral and uh you know and and and you're so moved to action one is allowed to to to take the law into his hand and and remove the problem that's canoeing pokemon is the way it's expressed and that's what moshe should have done and people were dying remember people were dying in the plague there was a plague that coach broker brought you know and moshe couldn't respond to it what are you talking about we have to respond you know again people was a very thought out decision but it wasn't just he acted you know he's like he waited he decided he looked and he felt it he knew i had to do it it wasn't just he took a spear and ran he he uh it was a very cerebral process and it's connected to his emotion and he did it and he did the right thing but there's a criticism of mochirobano for not having responded that's what's going on over here moshe should have responded now it's because moshe didn't respond apparently or because the coach broke wanted biblicals to do it maybe moshe wasn't able to remember the but the major seems to say more than that it's saying that moshe sort of had a degree of free choice to remember allah or not remember the law that could have been you know once he remembered he might have given it over to pence to do but emotions being criticized for forgetting the question is is what caused them to forget what what caused motion to forget so the measure seems to be telling us why he forgot the hola so what happened he forgot because he was so overwhelmed he became so emotionally pained by what he saw that he just couldn't respond but i guess it's kind of kind of understandable right that when seeing something which is so i'm wrong to the extent where the major says it's like you know a bride going to the choppa and then all of a sudden before the copper they discovered another man like what like you know how how you know how can you do such a thing and motivate us feeling this for the 40th year you know we've been in desert for 40 years together experiencing opening miracles having to communicate with the bonus show all of them directly and and the people you know there's a fortnight yeshiva and and now for this to go wrong again you know like how could it go wrong and one of my daughters asked me that chavez we're talking about a little bit she's about like how could it go wrong i thought an excellent question you know the answer is the human being is is a is a is a very complicated uh creature there are a lot of cohosts a lot of forces going on inside of us we have a lot of things happening in who we are and it's not always so simple you know we have an idea we have an idealism but at the same time we have competing forces of the body and desires and passions and it's it's always a battle that we are we are fighting to some extent and that's why it says don't trust yourself today die and who's that talking about is talking about sadhaka cohen who was one of the crews the coin guttal and at the end of his life as an old man he all of a sudden had the thought that the turkish about past and true but the all law is not correct or partially or incorrect and he became he started sort of a a movement called after his neighborhood became labeled through his name which really those who rejected the oral law suduken and that became a major mclaughlin so duke in the fight between we call the pharisees and subdue and they would start rejecting their own law and and and that that of course they went their course of history because they don't have the old law we don't have a total but it it's the fact that an old man could be an old man at the end of his life could start saying you know i have questions yeah it means that the sahara is on active duty you know they don't don't think that the guitar isn't isn't competing isn't fighting with us it is but always on guard you know i remember it says that he says who says it so he writes a little piece from the bottom of one of the versions of mrs he says that that by a soldier just as we compare ourselves to soldiers for the the army of hashem it's a little different you know an army a soldier he's on active duty and then he's off duty he goes home you know he gets r r rest in recovery he says it's we're never off duty yet zahara is always an active duty and he's always trying to to seduce us and sway us and pull us and you know that's why one has to always be alert to it you know there's no we're never never off time you know and we could find it of course and and reach high levels where the zahara's arguments aren't attractive it's hard it's always working it's always it's it's always working so even in the 40th year of the desert they were so susceptible of course they justified it and but but you know that's the cost that's the power of of the drives of you know inside of us one piece of meaning you know what it means to be human you know being a human being it's a complicated uh it's a complicated thing it's a complicated thing to do that's what we need that we're lost so what what what what motivated and there was motion being forgotten and the reason why i forgot the is because he became so pained by what he saw and that's legitimate that pain you know how could you argue with that pain especially the way the middle compares it to a father with a significant daughter on the day of the hope of like how could you argue with the pain as a result of that pain he was his he became a little bit weakened or lazy and and forgot the law and as a result who said look you forgot you know you know people aren't going to know your burial place you know why that's the media gagging i'm not sure but we see that as it says he's punished it's a punishment you know it's a punishment because he did something wrong he forgot the law and why did he forget the raha because he was in pain so you know i'm not sure so question is like well what should he have done what should he have done to to remember the so to that the network gives us a clue the measure says well what he should have done is he should have had more feeling he should have been more as good as means you know be bold like a leopard you know embrace it be you know not just be bold like you know you know like be impervious to it but you know just like get involved invest yourself in it more invest yourself look at look at it more closely you know feel it more that's what you should have done he should have been oscar number to really look at the situation this is so terrible my gosh we have to do something about it had he done that apparently he would have remembered allah now this is where the question lies that's what the measure seems to be implying but here's my question to everybody ready for the question the question is this the whole reason why he forgot the halacha was because he was so pained by what he saw and the kurdish paul criticizes him through the madrid and that the message brings out hashem criticizes him saying had you felt it more you would have remembered allah wait a minute he became paralyzed in thinking and forgot the luck and because he was feeling it but the criticism is that had you felt more had been more sorrows and feeling it more this is terrible and really applied yourself to the feeling of how bad it is you have remembered the law but wait the whole reason for god is because you're in pain no create more pain and you'd have remembered it does that make sense you forgot it because you're in pain but had you have felt more pain you would have remembered it you forgot the look of what to do here that says you know you know can i poke about that you have to take action and kill the the perpetrators you forgot that you forgot because you were so pained by what you saw but had you been in more pain you really felt it more you remember but you forgot the luck because you're in pain if you were more in pain you forgot even more if the media says no had you felt more pain you'll remember so any suggestions how that works do you hear what's the other problem maya go ahead what's what's your insight mindset um maybe it's that he like if you're in so so much pain all you can do is cry out to hashem but if you're in enough pain it kind of like maybe there's a middle ground that kind of stagnates you or that um paralyzes you and that was this problem there's this pain that paralyzes and then there can be additional pain that moves to action that dave what dude that moves you towards action makes you move the mood i think you're both correct i i think that's the measures teaching us here in other words yes there is pain that paralyzes no question bosh has been criticized to say had you felt it more that would have somehow galvanized would have would have mixed with your mixed inside of you and would have excited your brain and you would have remembered the had you had more emotion you would have had greater intellectual insight there's pain right that paralyzes but there's another level of pain where when you really feel something deeply and you're really bothered by something that will help the intellect have greater clarity in other words hashem created us in a way where we have we have a heart we have a promotion and we have intellect often times our emotion and our intellect are two different worlds and sometimes the emotion confuses the intellect as we know sometimes we know there's the right thing to do but our heart pulls us somewhere else you know someone you know says you know relationships can work this way often that you see something a girl might say you know he's i you know you know like it's um you know i know intellectually he's not for me but i you know i just like him so much you know i just can't i can't whatever i just can't get clarity on it and sometimes we need an outside observer to say listen you know like he's not what you think he is because the emotion confuses blinds the intellect as we know but there's a powerful combination of of of heart and intellect and and that is when we feel something always can number us could see is the way the arabia is expressing to to ignite your heart always connect with three beasts bald like a leopard faster rats could feed fast like a i could see like a deer kalkanesh or like like a eagle these are emotions these are you know you know these are inner inner feelings of excitement which is the emotional world when the emotional world is used properly it can ignite the intellect to have more clarity and more vision that's when the human being is aligned perfectly where the emotion actually ignites the intellect the emotion doesn't inhibit the intellect the emotion ignites the intellect and as a result of motion venus criticized that you felt to a certain point where it paralyzed you your job there was to feel it more and if you felt it more you would have found the solution let's see if we could hear those words a little bit inside the measure see if we can see if that that comes out a little bit it says like this it says that it's implicit in this particular step in our sages i don't know if laziness is the right translation here this sill means he didn't he was lazy and feeling the pain he was lazy and getting himself excited emotionally to what he saw that's really how we have to translate it says either says it possibly says that it says in the madrish this ratio yoda shall motion this his hands became weak and we forgot the logo it's a because of his pain but here's the here's the punchline it's because he felt such pain he couldn't get clarity to know what to do yet he's criticizing he's criticized what it says however either i emotionally miss darius besser says had he applied himself to feel more pain to get more emotionally invested he would have aroused his intellect to discover what to do is so the criticism emotion was you were lazy what was the laziness the laziness was that you were lazy and exciting your emotions and feeling more had you felt more you will remember what to do had you aligned what a coach bro invested inside of us called emotion which job is to excite us and we're excited what happens the intellect has greater clarity you know i'll just give you a story that it says by um i believe it's that in vilna there was a a woman who had been in aguna for many years and the governor we know is a woman who she never could be married because we don't know what happened to her husband either her husband left her we don't know if he's dead or if it's a situation where a husband um refuses to give a get most of the way she's called naguna she's like a chained woman but he can't remarry there was a situation in vilna where there was a woman who had been laguna for many years you know and i guess there was no actual evidence what happened to the husband and and she couldn't uh she couldn't remarry and she was really you know very in a very sorry state for many years so this woman came to crime 19th century 1820s 1810 prior to those years and she came to a high velocity and she told crime loss of the story and a few hours later was able to permit her to remarry a woman who had for so many years said as a laguna because they couldn't find a way to permit her to remarried and to establish in some sort of veracity that her husband really died and so he came he told the talmida the students that he permitted her to remarry and they were shocked like how did you do that nobody was able to find the solution so his response was very interesting he said had you seen her have you seen her also you've also found the solution you'd have also found a way to permit a reverie had you seen her also you would have found a way for her to remarry so what did he mean by that had you seen her also i mean i saw her and i saw how emotional she was i felt so bad for her i had to find out i had to allow her to remarry that can't mean what he that can't be what he meant right because if a woman husband is still alive and she remarries that's called ash's ish that's a married woman having an adulterous affair and that is something which is have we have proper witnesses that are baked in is is an enormous sin which could be punished by death and the children of such a union are mumsaram they can't narrow into clients wrong so it can't mean since it so we always say this we're so cautious when it comes to to laguna because the consequence of remarrying and you know when a woman might still be married is something which is a risk which could be lethal for both all parties involved so it can't mean that he he felt well i felt so bad for her i had to permit her what he meant was because i saw her and because i felt her pain so deeply i had my my my emotions were so aroused that it enabled me to dig into the dig into the sources to work through this in a way that perhaps no one else looked at it and i was able to find a a header to find a point of permissibility that no one else will see and the reason i was able to find it was because i felt so emotionally aroused by having seen her that's what he meant so it's a beautiful concept the emotion of seeing this woman feeling her pain galvanized activated his intellect to be able to perceive something that no one is able to perceive and to find a way to permit a reality what it was i don't know but he was able to see something that i could apply this this is applicable here there's a there's a lot of basis for permissibility to remarry and the reason why he was discovered he said was because i saw her i felt it i it my heart was so moved my emotions were so aroused and if my intellect was more fired up that's when the human being is functioning on all cylinders that's the power of the of combining this this enormous this enormous gift called emotion with with the mind it gives us greater clarity and that's why by the way you know we're always working on the heart we're always working to to arouse ourselves emotionally to get excited about what we do you know and to do it and it's so easy it's so easy to lose that excitement that's what we always have to encourage people we have to give people oh you're doing good you're doing great you know you're getting them and encouraging ourselves sometimes just hearing a sheer just like focus back on what i have to do you know it happens to me sometimes i get i could also get a little bit just get down or something and just just a few words like oh yeah that's the purpose of life i'm gonna i'm going for it i gotta get back into it doing it you know that the emotion is such a valuable tool to fire our intellect that we have to utilize it and you know that that's that's really when race it is spoken reviews and all your shivers but it's this concept that you have to move the heart you have to have the heart the heart the real where we are emotionally is really really going to be intellectually you know it's very difficult to be somebody's intellectually but not and not if you're not there emotionally or you know if someone is placed intellectually but not there emotionally you know they're not it's not going to affect them like someone said one time you know even we define ourselves almost by our emotional connection to something you know so someone asked like who are you you know we always started like people put their hands to their hearts sometimes or maybe they say where are you i'm over here you know over here so our hands go right to the the core to the source of emotion which is the lathe the heart you know as i said by the way the word lay means heart numerically it's 32 which is the same numerical value as kavod or conveyed convey means your honor you're you're where you're heavy is conveyed con convoluted voters thirty two vote where your honor is is is your life is your heart that's where you're kavod means heavy where you're you're centered what's heavy means where i'm centered where your gravitas you know to use a fancy english word where your gravitas is where your gravity is your center of gravity is where you are emotionally because where you are emotionally that's what really triggers your your intellectual outlook of the world so we're always trying to work on the heart to try to develop the heart in a way to to be excited to feel and that's why cilantro developed the whole system of of studying and learning to develop ethical change which means that you have to invest emotionally so that's why if you go to yeshivas today you know the water yeshiva what a muslim state it looks like in yeshiva it's usually always the same time it's three o'clock to 3 30. and the first 10 minutes of the seder maybe 12 14 minutes you're supposed to just you're you're reading a word whatever it might be you're working on something trying to understand intellectually and in the last 15 minutes you're supposed to sing it within england you'd create a certain there's a certain ego and a melody that you apply to the words and that's in order to allow it to enter your emotional system your multiple your emotional veins to bring it from the head to the to the heart which isn't always so simple like you say you know what's the longest journey in the world what's the longest distance in the world it's from the head to the heart that's this so it's but that's what that's what ragi saw kind of was in the aspect of learning more which was sing it make it emotional you know and get it into your your bloodstream your emotional bloodstream and the more emotionally attached we are into something the more we feel something the greater clarity we'll have intellectually and that was the criticism of moshe that's what he was criticized for it says because he didn't feel enough he became paralyzed they couldn't think and the criticism is you were lazy you should have excited yourself more i was good number one you run you'll be strong like leopard does that mean get get emotionally invested in it and had you been more emotionally invested you wouldn't have entire life the emotion would have triggered the brain to come to the clarity yeah you got to take action here i know what to do interesting that's where the human being is aligned in such a beautiful way that's where the heart mind connection is supposed to look like that's what it's supposed to be now it's interesting you know just this concept i'd just like to bring having one more place this is this is a story i think we're all familiar with and you know and we see this concept working working once again before i go there any questions what i'm saying clear we're good yeah thank you sounds good so far can i say something oh i really hi good morning yes can i say something uh because you know do you hear me you hear me i do yeah sure yes we do live mostly work on his human humility i guess it was too much for him to accept this personal attack you know this negative part of humility when person don't feel not protect himself you understand what i'm talking about i'm not trying to get clear what you're saying that knows it's humility was enormous oh you're saying it's it's the it's the it's humility gone wrong in other words yes it's right yes right we talk about like invertebrates right that's one of our themes of this year right like because it was personal converse of god those hindrances of man means i'm free to do whatever i want to do greatness of man means i channel all my energy in the service of god and i control my body the universe is aren't you free to be god like do whatever you want to do right right humility is no no like we say no personality is good or bad which personality traits are neutral that's why the rambam writes because the uh his book really on personality traits means knowledge you know wisdom there's the wisdom with which we apply our to our personalities determine if we're utilizing them correctly and correctly humility which is probably the most pristine and the most elevated personality trait we have can be both good or bad it's neutral when used properly it means that you know i'm only a vessel for kurdish barracuda but there's no reason for my self-aggrandizement when used improperly you cause a person to say i i don't know what to do right maybe your job is to act right now you know your job is to take action the job is to decide your job is to to to take initiative or who am i to take an issue that won't be misutilized misappropriated humility i was going to ask you what about the the emotional stems from it may be um at least from for our generation and zeitgeist of the world right now it seems like like um it's it's it prones everyone towards er emotionality and even emotions that are experienced as being uh in intense creates like a noise for for the kind of emotionality that you're talking about that that plays a short cut yes all right i hear what you're saying that you know the battle that that we're fighting is you know the emotional system of the human being can be so powerfully motivating it could also be distracting yes it also be a noise and it could be dangerous when not aligned properly you know again as you're saying sometimes the emotion can drive a person from having proper judgments as we see oftentimes in in many things the the pull the emotional you know whatever it might be whatever the emotion is pulling us over for certainly in relationships right that would be a classic example the fact the person is emotionally invested with you know likes a person feels something and because of clarity another person really is and you're right there is a danger and emotion no no question and and and sometimes that we have to be very careful about the emotions of jealousy and emotions of of you know inappropriate emotion that's pulling us away from proper intellect that's an extraordinary danger with the toast trying to think instruct us in this case of moshe is there is a prop for alignment that we're trying to shoot for and the proper alignment is to utilize this enormous power of emotion emotion is is inherently you know can be it's like it's like a an engine fuel it's like a rocket fuel used inappropriately right the rocket ship could you know go in all sorts of directions but used appropriately it could arouse the intellect of greater clarity especially in areas where we want you know we want clarity you know i have i have to find a solution you know i have to know what to do over here you know it's it's i feel so bad about the situation an emotional i feel how could you know classroom is suffering there's a plague going on right now people are dying you know i i have i i gotta feel more i gotta feel the pain more in order to get the clarity of what to do that's that's where the engine fuel becomes utilized appropriately is is it is emotion again emotions again do i think i like like vetoes you know emotions are neither good nor bad they just can be misused or used appropriately hashem wants us to be emotional hashem wants us to to galvanize the heart hashem doesn't want a a cold sort of you know it doesn't want a you know a cold calculated um you know expression of service of some you know recommended because the heart you know sometimes women are better at this than men you know they're great they're more naturally more emotional which is a wonderful quality men have to work a little harder to arouse themselves emotionally but even when the the the the power of this the emotion the power of greater feeling is we have more intellectual clarity that's what i'm trying to express that sometimes the problem isn't is it intellect the problem is emotion and that's oftentimes the problem you know if if a person you know just just just take a very extreme example you know it um know like if the person tells me like rabbi like i'm i you know i you know a person starts saying they don't want to be religious anymore you know you know like you know my first response to that is this is not an intellectual discussion this is an emotional discussion and you know with a little bit of probing and gently and and not to evasively but quietly i usually get to the core of it which usually has something to do with uh a person has an overbearing father or or you know and and um just feels the person feels so down about themselves because they just feel like a failure or or it could be that that there was something that happened you know or for women sometimes it girls it could even be cases of abuse and just therefore such a resentment of of people who claim to be religious things like that in other words oftentimes it's not the intellect that's that's bothering it it's the emotion and and you have to kind of redo it emotionally you have to get inside a person's heart and have them start feeling you know feeling the love for hashem and showing up hashem loves them and work it that way and and that of course brings back the clarity of course this is true you know again the the the you know where we are is really a function of of what we're feeling you know what what the heart you know the heart the heart the heart feels the emotion of the person you know what what we would you know what did i you know it um i told you a story that uh i had a i had a a guy a student i was i was teaching it somewhere and uh he came over to me and he said you know he said he wanted to talk to me and um you know and so i sat down and talked to him and the first time first question he asked me he said rabbi have you ever read isaiah 53. so i know when i hear that question i know exactly what that means it means he's been uh missionized because isaiah 53 talks about the suffering servant and the way christianity phrase holds of that isaiah 53 is that's talking about yahshua so i never actually said isaiah 53 he's he's you know he wants to convince me that that that really joshua is correct and and we should follow that and you know that's where he was holding in so you know by the way isaiah 52 says the i say the suffering servant is the jewish people isaiah 54 says the suffering servants as jewish people isaiah 51 says the suffering servant is the jewish people isaiah 55 says the suffering servants jewish people isn't it probably you know as the governor says that if you have a question about you know what something means it's look at its neighbors look what the pus is before look at the plastic after it and that will give you insight into what the passage means so to take one pasta can say you know i'll hear the suffering servant means yashkov but not the jewish nation is certainly a distortion of of our of our of our holy prophet isaiah but that aside so i said to him i said i can answer that i said i'd rather say i you know little bits i i'm familiar with isaiah 53 a little i said but i want to ask you one question i said to him when did your parents get divorced and he looked at me and he said uh how do you know my parents got divorced i said just when what one did they you know i said yeah just last year yeah and i said did it bother you it must have bothered you it must be very painful for you and he said extremely and we talked about it and um the reason i did that is because if if a guy a young jewish man is coming to me and he's telling me that he's looking at christianity and somehow believes that's the truth oftentimes what it means is you're looking for a father figure that you know the way yashka is presented in certain by the missionaries at least is that he's the perfect man the perfect father the perfect husband yeah everything is perfect very attractive the way he's presented even in pictures is he you know he looks like a hollywood actor so i took a little bit of a risk i didn't know his parents were divorced but certainly i figured i could take a risk he could say no you know but if i'm right it gives me a lot of credibility in the conversation and i kind of had a feeling that what he's what he's asking me isn't being motivated by intellectual curiosity but to be motive by emotional pain and i have to be right you know so it did give you a little bit of uh you know of credibility and discussion it's because there seems to be a pattern that way that's why i took a chance because these questions oftentimes are motivated by the where one you know one's emotional distress he's looking for a father figure and that's what the missionaries offered through yashka look at the proof he's the perfect father he's warm he's loving his embracing he doesn't leave you and look at him you can see him you could touch him you could feel him you know there's a picture of him you know we got a man here to relate to the abstraction of the coach you know it takes a little bit more work that's what christianity does that's the whole aspect you know of course hashem is the ultimate father he loves us he's really have to go to and that that you have to retrain yet to bring the conversation there that's what i tried to do so again you know it's it's a person's emotionality is really determining a lot of what they're thinking intellectually and and that's why in the on the inverse you know the way we really have to excite ourselves intellectually to want to commit to studying more to learning more to growing wars is is to work ourselves emotionally and and loves me so much you know to get these feelings oh he loves me he loves me you know i i just i remember my rish yeshiva he whenever he would say these concepts he used to say oh you know sean was saying you know shall we do it this year just tell me a little bit more a little bit more you know like almost creating this such an emotional warmth in the way of coach barclay looks at us very very casual person a friend of mine he's a wonderful tom hawkins you know he always says it like this also you know it's like you know imagine a uh you know a third grader speaking to his rebbe the third grader's little boy already you know big beard and you know the little third grader is coming to the rebbe and just telling him about you know how excited he is that he uh you know the guy he has an extra snack today you know so maybe he's like oh that's wonderful so wonderful so you know the way this friend of mine is also very fashionable the way he does it he or someone that's a coach that's ashamed as he loves us listening for us we're darvaning you know just every word oh satan i'm so happy to see you say it again you know you know so when you change the conversation in one's own mind to create this emotionality of it the warmth of it it becomes a different intellectual appreciation of what's going on you know and so where we are emotionally really defines sort of intellectually where we are by the way it also has to do with with where we are emotionally is it's sort of also in a radical way decrees what we're even able to see intellectually you know the ice it says as a tradition i think it's so fascinating that the american indians when they first saw the boats of columbus come through they couldn't see it they could not see it they physically could not see these boats now the need and the paint of the santa maria these were very large boats of the day in 1492. whether columbus was a good guy or bad guy we should tear down a statue we shouldn't stand in a statue that's another discussion right but these boats were very very large these boats were very large the indians couldn't see it and they say i this study that i read whether this is true or natural but this is what they claim is is that the reason they couldn't see it was because they had never experienced it that not that the intellect they couldn't see because emotionally they had no experiential knowledge they didn't there's nothing inside themselves that could feel this is possible yeah there this was something which which was beyond their ability to comprehend that there could be such large boats the largest boat they ever saw was a canoe so there should be such boats with something that that their eye was seeing but the intellect wasn't processing because the the had no this was not like i was not an emotional reaction there was the reality of this was such that there was nothing inside of them which which was enabled the mind to trigger it probably that's the heart the heart they couldn't relate to it there's no relationship to it and therefore the intellect couldn't see it relationship is a function of emotion so it's so so fascinating he said the same thing by the way by by the midstream the egyptians these are the rumban says that at the sea so when the they said there was a a a eastern wind a a um an eastern wind that was blowing the blue and it was splitting the sea and not only was it splitting the sea was putting the scene to twelve equal parts of the roman rites so twelve equal parts one for each shape and one for each tribe the the egyptians were witnessing this but the romans says because of their great hatred for the jewish nation they didn't see this awesome miracle and they attributed it just to the eastern wind it's a natural phenomena the eastern wind is blowing it's blowing into 12 equal parts this is an open miracle but because of their emotional hatred we weren't able to perceive the the the emotion determines what the mind is capable of perceiving if you don't want to see it emotionally you won't see it intellectually you know that's that's why people when they say to you around you know if god would show me a miracle you know i would believe the answer is no you wouldn't don't believe it's only if you if you emotionally want to see the miracle number one you want to see the american lesson you you want to see it you're going to believe if if emotionally that something drives you that says i want to believe i want i want this relationship with hashem otherwise to look at the miracle we'll blow right past you maybe we do that also sometimes we're saying miracles in our lives always and so we look at design of creation such an open miracle but the more we say children i want this relationship with you oh i so badly and crave it the more those miracles like wow i see it i see what you're doing you know and then those moments of excitement are so beautiful but it's the the heart that drives the intellect that that's that's the that's the inside i'm trying to bring out from today how important it is to to arouse ourselves emotionally in order to have clarity yeah everybody we're good click comments you know if you'd like just just yeah david helpful yes indeed yeah you know i'll just you know just if you have a moment i'll just take just one more example of it and and this was by yosef i'll also go back to yosef with me right the it's always going back to yes you know that this story in theoso the story of joseph so it says as follows it says that when yosef took shimon and put him into the boar into the dungeon why because shimon was the one who's for women to the pit so meet and greet the measure of measure and it says that um the brothers finally said the word hashemi the word in english ashamed most likely comes from that word they say and and what do they say shimon is being thrown into the pit 22 years after the salve yosef and the brothers obviously realize like this is not you know random this is not a coincidence you know they come down to get food and all of a sudden the leader of egypt wants to meet them and accuse living spies and take shipment throws them into a pit and like you know the brothers are very intelligent people and they say this is a shame enough that we're guilty what does this have to do with this has to do with the fact that we sold our brother or the fact that we threw our brother into a pit 22 years before but listen to what they say and i'm reading to you from the the the the writings of the sovereignty i know one of the great italian stages in the 1400s so he says when they said that we're ashamed we're guilty listen to what they say they say what's the language over here let me read this one he says they don't say that we're guilty of having sold them or killed them as far as they they're concerned right now they think he died was trying to kill them they felt that joseph had been a road that he was trying to harm them you know that he they're trying to kill him in this world and drive the night in the next world and therefore they thought they would do the right thing by by killing him so now the brothers 22 years later have a revelation relevation what do they say revolution we heard him calling to us from the pit he was crying even though they fought him to be a road i think they thought to be an enemy that he was trying to kill them we should have had compassion when he was crying out to us when he was beseeching us so what happened what what does it mean 20 years later what happens is they start they realize they did something wrong regarding yosef but they say our mistake wasn't that we sold him that wasn't our mistake our mistake was when he was in the pit and he was crying out of us we caused ourselves to be cruel and as a result we didn't feel his pain enough we we didn't feel his pain enough we didn't and that that that's what we did wrong and that's why this has happened to us right now we didn't feel his pain enough now what's the implication it says he was calling to us and we didn't hear we didn't hear because we had made our hearts cruel implication what had they been less cruel had they had more feeling more compassion they would have heard they would have heard his requests for compassion in other words they would have discovered something wait a minute if they felt that he was a murderer who cares about having compassion you have to do what you have to do no implies that had we felt more had they felt more they would have intellectually discovered that he wasn't trying to hurt us he was just a child he was just like nar he was a child having dreams saying things he shouldn't say but he wasn't dangerous what does saying that had the felt more they would have come to a different intellectual realization of who yourself really was so again i think we see the same principle just coming out in a different light that the mistake was a function of not feeling enough for a brother had he felt more they would have been able to understand that that he's not dangerous he's just acting inappropriately they really thought he was dangerous they really thought he was trying to take them away from this world the next world like piecemeal like asap like this was enemy number one and later 20 years later they said you know what our mistake was we didn't feel enough we didn't feel this pain enough and had we felt this pain more we would have discovered that that he was just a child that he wasn't very dangerous so that that's the proper that's that again what the real what the you know they discovered about themselves was the inner the the way had the had more emotional connection more compassion the intellect would have had greater clarity and that's what we're striving for and that's what we're trying to shoot for in our lives to to really get ourselves emotionally invested in the service of the bonus of the to really feel it and to get ourselves to excite ourselves with ideas inside ourselves he loves me so much he's so kind to me excited ourselves every time we take a bite of ice cream the world created such delicious tastes that i should enjoy it like a blessing oh but that emotionality is what stimulates intellect to say and i want to i want to i want to serve him more i want to you know i want to dig more into the torah and i want to be more exacting in mitzvoth i want to be more attentive to other people's needs and i'm intellectually there because i'm emotionally there everybody i wish you a wonderful day and uh mr we should work on these concepts a little bit to to to invest ourselves more and emotionally understand that's really triggers intellect wish you a wonderful day everybody and uh continue continuing message up tomorrow great thank you so much rabbi you're welcome thank you very much you're welcome have a great day thank you too thank you everybody