LIVE: 3 Tammuz Farbrengen

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as per the schedule I want to start by actually wishing a Mazel tov to the town and to the gracelman family on the engagement of their children this week I want to wish you that all the Devils broke us that the constantly requested that the oil should be there in full the gas materially inspirational do you want to thank those who have participated in helping with the cost of the event also wanted to take a moment to wish Esther Max a happy birthday as today is her birthday and it is also co-sponsored in honor for your melodis um just a few ideas about gimbal talmus wrote regarding the yard side of his father-in-law the previous Web different I mean hug him customs to observe on this day and in preparation for the day firstly trying to go to the oil writing a pan a note where one mentions their name their mother's name obviously parents mention children's names and the Reba says first put it into a safer of the teachings of the river and then bring it over to the yoyo for those who are listening via live stream and if you cannot make it in person to the oil please feel free to uh send your names to me Rabbi Chabad 510s.com name and mother name and I'll be happy to mention you at the yoyo you know today I was visiting a family a grandchild of who escaped the war and one thing led to the next and we're talking about going to the Oyo and they look at me they say we have never been there and I'm thinking imagine if a person lives a 10 minute drive would they not go to Miron unlock Bowman we are literally a 10 minute drive many of us walk shop this afternoon as the rabbit does write in that letter that the Sabbath is following the yard side the um we continue to observe that which relates to the outside of that matter with the devil's impact we continue to connect on a daily basis is if one can one should light a yardside candle want to take a moment to um support the causes that the neighbor stood for one of them can be not limited to Chabad of the five towns one of those causes um practice we celebrate the engagement of the grace mental becoming and in the letter mazel tov that the rebel rights regarding observing a yard site he mentions that we should discuss one of the things we discussed is the unconditional avas he throw he speaks about his father-in-law and we take that same thing here so today we will open with the unconditional avas his throne that ever had to a family living in a far Island and The Story Goes my father-in-laws that he was known as the ambassador of Chabad centers traveling throughout the world establishing Chabad and he had tremendous direct guidance from the rubber and many times it ever sent him to places and he had no idea why and to this day he doesn't know why but sometimes he was told he had a secret code with another secretary Robert that if he called him in the middle of the night and asked him moisture moisha did you wash your hands neglavasa that means the Deb is on the line and one day it's in the middle of the night he gets a call from the introduction so he knows the Deb is on the line and then the gov tells him that he said go as soon as possible to the island of Karissa and that's the end that's the mission that's the mission go so um was way before the uh days of internet where you ordered it got a ticket online calls his travel agent who never already knew what my father-in-law he gets a call in the middle of the night he runs from Queens to Manhattan there's office issues the good old stencil ticket goes to the cursor gets to the island and really doesn't know where to go from here goes into a taxi and he has the guy if he knows where the shoe is they can take him to the school I said sure I'll take you there comes into the shoe and see the lights are off the door opens it walks and he sees a yeet standing a Jew Standing By An Open Door and carry this an open Ark and crying he waits and waits and then the he turns around and says looks at my father-in-law says are you from Lubavitch he says yes he tells my father-in-law I don't believe it I'm having a real issue the issue is that my son was expelled from the local Catholic School it was a private school where they respected everyone's religion but a new Dean was hired and he insisted that I'll go into prayer service and one Jewish boy said I'm not going in and he could have made a big fuss about it and it even got physical and he beat up the principle sounds like the days in Yeshiva anyway um and he says now we're in the papers the Jewish Community doesn't like us because of the Iraqis because we just told our children go in and when they say whatever they say you just say but my son won't go in and I don't know what to do and as I'm laying in bed trying to close my eyes I get into a sleep a dream and my grandfather tells me Jaime did I not tell my grandmother tells me Jaime did I not tell you that whenever you're in trouble turn to Lubavitch he remembers as a child she passed away but before she passed away she was alone on an island she told him that he wakes up and he says what's the Bible's Lubavitch against before the internet days you can't just do a Google search you know and he says I've came to shul and here you are well they did the calculation of the timing the exact same time that he had the dream was the time that hadakov called my father-in-law and told him to go to carousel so now he knows what he's doing he meets the boy and he says what's his name Ellie very nice starts talking with him and the conversation goes don't you love donuts in New York come I'll take you to New York and I'll give you some donuts that's how I went and he took him to New York put him up in his house sent them to yes and the uh subsequent of that visit first yomte was Purim so my father-in-law invited Ellie's family to come to be by the rubber for Port even Crown Heights and he was there by the Revan I was uplifted and really moved by the whole experience it was an uplifting experience on every level he got back home and he wrote a letter to my father-in-law to please thank the rabba for everything in detail and then he concludes thank him for caring about a small Jew living alone on an island my father-in-law was so moved by the letter they took the letter as is and sent them into the web within no time he got a response the Debbie circled small Jew and the rabba added a quote that he should look into the second Pedic chapter of Tanya and he'll learn that there's no such thing as a small Jew because every National every soul is a halik Alek which is an actual part of God on high he looked at every individual no matter who foreign and uh I hope I said the story right and Miriam yes married to Miriam Grace and this afternoon so with this opening remark I'd like not to pass the mic I want to thank Rabbi zakatinski and Rabbi Taub for making themselves available this evening to share as it relates to a message as it relates to gimletamus I want to thank Naki Gordon for emceeing thank you I do want to recognize amongst everyone first to thank you all for coming and thank you Rabbi Weinberger sorry that you're not allowing yourself to be up here but allow you that Comfort I know what it's like thank you rabbi pleasure to be here once again last year was amazing this year will be as well if you think I'm looking at you I'm I'm not I can't see a thing so maybe right I was thinking it's the 29th yard site of such a great person what do you say so on Shabbos I'm thinking what am I going to say what am I going to say hey Buddha coincidentally I picked up a book a safer by Judah Michelle to start again for owl an introduction jumped out at me ah this is the perfect thing to say so bear with me 30 seconds I'll just read from this it says the great represent was sitting outdoors with a group of students and he asked who wanted them to turn over a large Stone embedded in the ground as he did so swarms of insects scurried about in every direction do you see those creatures for their entire existence under that rock they believed the world to be dark dreary place by overturning that stone you have revealed A Whole New World filled with light and beauty and exposing them to the Sun and Sky you've introduced a new dimension of reality into their lives that is our mission in this world to roll the heavy stones of Souls and reveal the Yiddish and ashama to allow the aura shrina the light of the divine presence to shine when we have moved the boulders we can lift our eyes to the heavens Behold our creator and know our Yiddish kite and I thought right away that is the mission that's what the Republic accomplished in his lifetime and what is continued to be accomplished from Mumbai to the Congo Five Towns to Muncie everywhere in the world there are Boulders being moved and hashama is being exposed to the arashtrina so tonight that is that is who we are remembering that is Who We Are commemorating and I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce or by Chase Tao and I just want to mention that maybe you look around this room maybe there's 100 people maybe 200 watching online maybe a few more thousand from this event last year there was a clip that was posted on social media on meaningful minutes Channel over by Chase Taub saying a little story and correct me if I'm wrong but it has well over a million views Jews non-jews from not from all walks of life so the screen is here the words that will be said here well emergency go all around the world without further Ado represents have [Applause] and uh as you talk I don't know if am I allowed to share the uh what we've discussed before the event it's okay yeah okay is apparently this is the official uh unveiling of nahi's kapota so it wasn't enough for some people because I was getting a lot of comments about where's the beard and I look on this Deus over here and I'm uh okay I'm a little out of place but it's coming where's the show your book for next year yeah taking one year at a time you know Hashem so it's it you know if not it's actually very apropos that you mentioned that clip from last year and we're sitting right it feels like yesterday right yeah it feels like mama she asked it if it was a year ago and in fact it was over a year ago his last last year gimmel Thomas event for the five times was on and this year it's actually on the day of gimmel Thomas itself so it's a year and uh a week basically ago and it feels like yesterday but yeah I shared a story sitting right here at this spot and uh you saw grimberg from three to one motion he took the clip he sent it to nahi and his team at the meaningful minute and then it went viral yeah over over a million people saw it and I'm not saying this so you know to both though I have a you know viral clip I mean I think what Andy Warhol said in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes so the future is now right that was my 15 minutes but I'm I'm I'm mentioning it because what abnaji said about yeah there's a few hundred people in the room there's a few thousand people watching on live online right now but anything that happens Here and Now can go to literally millions of people or why not billions why limited billions of people why not um that is actually what I wanted to talk about and reflect upon tonight Angel Thomas on the on the day of the river's yard site the idea that something can appear to be small it can appear to be just happening in this space with the people that are present physically and that in reality from a spiritual point of view which is not limited by time and space the significance of the moment is infinite and it's so hard to speak about that but I think if we wanted to take one path to trying to say something to put into words some idea I think that might be a good way to try to do it and to basically say that is view of reality was an infinite one and Infinity is a misunderstood concept people tend to think of infinity is that which is massive that which is so huge that nothing is too big for it but uh the truth is mathematically that's not even Infinity because Infinity is not just that which is so big that that nothing is too big for it true Infinity is also that for which nothing is too small so a Galaxy is like a molecule but in turn just by the same very same token a molecule is a Galaxy that's Infinity so the dev is view we know nothing was too big for that ever no goal was too ambitious after the Holocaust question of Jewish continuity was really seriously considered is there a future for Judaism especially Torah observant Judaism and when when everyone else was speaking about survival that Abbott was thinking in terms that at that time could only be described as sci-fi science fiction not there's no basis in reality at least the way anyone else was looking at at the time that we are going to conquer the world for goodness to bring the shrina to bring the divine presence back to the world and to make this world perfect a world that had seen Hitler in the Holocaust was going to be healed and become perfect and become Godly and for the rabbit that wasn't a job that was too big to accomplish no it can be done and we can break it down into steps and we can make a system we can send out shlochum so nothing was too big but by the same exact token nothing was too small there was a Schlage from Melbourne Australia crime gutnik Abrahim gutnik came to the rabbit and told him about his plans in Melbourne and the Reba suggested to him that it was time to start teaching Tara the laws of family Purity Mikvah and Rabbi gutnik felt that the community in Melbourne was not ready for that you know it can be a sensitive subject talking to people about their personal life their intimate life it's it's a difficult cell and uh didn't want to flat out say that he didn't feel the community was ready for it but um you sort of didn't give the most enthusiastic response and that ever told him no no you should do it and it's going to be good so he went back to Melbourne and with his rabbits and he started planning uh a course in tarasam and that ever said it's going to be good so they rented a hole they got a venue you know to make sure they had enough seating for all the people who are going to come and they took out full page ads in the in the newspaper to advertise you're going to have a class and family purity and uh They promoted the class for weeks and the night of the class one woman showed up now that's worse than nobody showing up right if nobody shows up what do you do you call it a day you go home and then maybe even your post online afterwards it was a great crowd wonderful evening wish you could have been there that's because no Witnesses no bystanders right but this is one woman showed up so he apologized to her and he said I'm sorry I don't know where the crowd is and uh so she said I'm I'm ready to learn so he taught this one woman and it but it was it was a series it wasn't a one-night thing it was a series of classes so he said don't worry next week it'll be better and what did they do they doubled down on the advertising they made a bigger advertising campaign so the next week would be a real crowd and the second week of the class came and one woman showed up the same woman nobody else just that one woman apologize again I'm sorry I don't know where the crowd is she said it's okay I'm ready to learn I'll learn with you so they learn and it went on like this for weeks and they finished the whole course whatever it was however many weeks the course was supposed to be and this one woman she learned she learned family Purity laws of Mikvah and that was it nobody else showed up so being in Melbourne which is very far away it's not like uh Rabbi gutnik went back and forth to New York all the time it was more of a special trip so the next time he was in yehudas he was in a private audience with the rabbit was was a year later and he had a Year's worth of reports we call it a duck he had a year of reports of what did they accomplish in Melbourne all the different programs classes the Outreach they were doing and so he wrote up a nice report that ABBA loved reports that everyone was always asking reports tell me what's going on always that I wanted updates so Rabbi gutnik wrote a whole nice report what's going on in in Melbourne and after but he didn't write the debacle of the Tara samish Bacha series of classes because it was embarrassing one woman showed up so it wasn't included in the dock it wasn't in the in the write-up that ever went through the write-up and afterwards whatever said what's with the uh Tara classes that we discussed the last time you were here you know that's the the most uncomfortable question that Rebecca could have been asked so he said sheepishly that um we did it we advertised we rented a hall and it was a failure the whole series of classes just one woman showed up and they never looked very serious and said to have a good Nick zogmir tell me something this is how many mothers did my sharabino did Moses have more than one and that was the whole answer but understood takes one mother to produce one mother comes to a class and you can help her it's not just her it's the ripple effect the infinite ripple effect that doesn't stop with one person how can it stop with one person because each one of us is infinite each one of us is a soul which is infinite and eternal and by definition anything that touches a soul becomes infinite and eternal and it won't stay just in this room it goes viral mentioned but this was going viral before the internet maybe the whole reason we have the internet is to have a marshall to have a living metaphor to start to understand Infinity the infinity that goes on in this world when one Soul reaches out to another there's a line of poetry that I I've always found poignant from William Blake he said see a world in a grain of sand and Heaven in a wildflower hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour it's so Hasidic I looked it up by the way I said when did he write that it was uh it was 1803 it was the year that the altareba the balatanya put out the first sither with Sidis with acidic commentary based on the teachings of Sidis and according to the prayer right of the the arizal so that idea I mean that's pure exidis to see a world in a grain of sand and have it in a wildflower hold Infinity in the palm of your hand in eternity in an hour that's tell us about and I guess you know I trickle trickle-down effect you know by the time the belshanto started teaching it then then it was available in the world and William Blake was able to put it into his beautiful English but this is the concept we don't understand we have no clue we do not fathom the ripple effect the universal Cosmic repercussions of everything that happens and the power therefore that we have but the rebe having an infinite View saw the significance was tuned into the significance and was able to plan accordingly and that's why we all understand those of us who have been influenced by the rabbit but that means really at this point all of us whether we know it or not in this generation we understand that Every Good Deed counts every mitzvah oh what's the point somebody puts on filling on the street corner one time maybe he'll never do it again okay but that moment exists for eternity that moment is everything and a Mitzvah is infinite just like God who gave the Mitzvahs and the moment is infinite so Zalman told a story Robert walawick he's my friend though I call him Zalman he told a story it's good to have friends I don't have too many so barakashem I'm choosy with who with my friends ah Zaman told a story and I know that story I've known it for years it's an old story we all know that story in Chabad but I'm going to retell the story that he told because now it's a different story to me it's a completely different story to me today than when I heard it years ago and when I tell you the story I want you to understand that the rabbis infinite View Cosmic plan continues to unfold in our lives and every moment we become more and more aware of its significance and how it touches each and every one of us so here's a story and you all know the story because you heard it 20 minutes ago I'll tell it like this I'll start with a 12 year old kid in Curacao which is an island in the Netherlands Antilles got kicked out of school was a religious school that's all they had on the island the Jewish boy refused to go along with the with the prayers so he got kicked out his father asked him what are you doing do you even go to school no he goes and plays golf and uh became a contentious issue and they were getting letters you know truance truancy uh letters your child cannot be wandering around he has to go to school this Jewish boy didn't want to go to this non-jewish school so the fathers at wit's end he doesn't know what to do he's desperate and uh he has a dream and he remembers his grandmother telling him if you're ever in trouble can help you next day he goes to shul he has the custodian open up the orange the holy Ark where the torahs are kept and he cries and he says my grandmother told me if I'm ever in trouble can help me well I'm in trouble right now because my son won't go to school because he's Jewish he won't go to the non-jewish school and the whole island is upset at me meanwhile back in Brooklyn people know where Brooklyn is I'll be Misha kotlarski gets a call in the middle of the night negative Zalman said that's it as he mentioned his father-in-law the chief secretary asks rabbi katlarski shengavasha negov did you wash your hands which means the Deb is on the line and he's told go to Curacao and that was it that was the entire instruction go to curse out so he goes and uh he asked the cab driver take me to the synagogue he didn't even know where he's going he didn't know who he's supposed to meet with he just knows that Eva told him to go so he gets there and he tells the cab driver take me to the synagogue now I'll tell you the oldest synagogue in the Western Hemisphere is in Curacao it's called the Mikvah Israel Emmanuel synagogue it was founded by by spartic Jews from from the from the Netherlands in the 1600s it's historical it's a historical Shoal if you get into any cab and Curacao and say take me to the synagogue that's where they were taken because that's it's a historical landmark this was the one cab driver in cursa who never heard of it and he took rabbit cutlarski to some Rinky Dink little shul that was the shore where this father of this truant boy was standing before the open Ark and pouring out his heart and crying and saying the only thing he knew to say because he remembered in a dream that his grandmother's departed grandmother had told him when you're in trouble asking about it he comes out of shul a rabbi kalarski is there I'm here from the lab I was sent from Brooklyn from Crown Heights that ever sent me boom that's it now he knows why He's there for this one Jew for this one family and it's very moving it's very moving with everything on his plate running a global organization is sending someone to go help out one family it's very moving someone mentioned the letter I actually printed the letter I just want to read part of it so this is the thank you letter that the father writes to the rabbit through rabbit katlarsky thank you for basically making time for a a small Jew from Curacao so the devil writes back in English it's an English letter man PO Box 2073 breeder Strauss 74 cursao n a which I think is not non-applicable I think it's Netherlands and Tilly's you don't see that abbreviation too often greeting and blessing I was pleased to receive your regards through our esteemed mutual friends I must however take exception to you referring to yourself as quote a small Jew from Curacao there is surely no need to emphasize to you at length that every Jew man or woman has an official accused that means a Godly soul which is a quote part of godliness above as explained in the Tanya beginning of chapter two thus there is no such thing as a small Jew and a Jew must never underestimate his or her tremendous underlying the word tremendous potential I read that letter probably a hundred times I once wrote a sermon about it I've heard the story for years it's a known story but it hits differently tonight because two nights ago we celebrated of my son Israel in Crown Heights who was engaged to multi-gracemann the granddaughter of the recipient of this letter the daughter of the truant boy who wouldn't attend the non-jewish school and now I find out a story that I've known for years was really about me infinite View waking up Rabbi kotlarski in the middle of the night was thinking Way Way Beyond something that happened in 1983 that's when it happened by the way and I'm sure Way Beyond whatever we know about in 2023 because the story is just getting started isn't it you ask what's our connection to the deba on his 29th yard 29 years is a long time there are people who are born grew up got married started families of their own all in the past 29 years all after the Deb is passing so how fresh how up-to-date can our relationship be so I'm telling you that Abbott just did a miracle for me that I just found out about two nights ago I don't think I'm special I believe the lab is a hidden Sadiq you're gonna say how's La Baba a hidden Sadiq this is these world famous Chabad houses all over the world because as much as we think we know it's not the tip of the iceberg it's not even the tip of the iceberg I knew the story of no small Jew for years and I didn't know it was about me and my family and my son more and more is revealed all the time everyone in this room I promise you and I would bet anything on it is the recipient of Miracles of whether you know about it or you don't know about it yet for our part because the debit didn't like inspiration that I didn't just like getting people all worked up and then let's move on no let me talk practical like that episode all the time I want to talk practical has been pulling strings and continues to pull strings to make stuff happen in our families and our lives on a massive scale and also on an intimately personal scale if you are the recipient of such Loving Care then please get up and show the world your Infinity whatever it is you think is too big for you to accomplish go out and do double that to start with because there's no small Jew you are infinite you are eternal and the rabbit with his infinite view saw the eternality and the infinity within you and planned accordingly whether you know about it yet or not yet whatever I think that I owe the rubber whatever I thought I found out a couple days ago it's a whole lot more we're not here to be inspired inspiration as far as I'm concerned is a dirty word in Chabad Chabad you know what that means that means the intellect we're not here to get all emotionally enthralled and excited and dance around and call it an evening means the mind it means the paradigm shift it means seeing the world in a new light and acting accordingly when you know something you can never unknow it when you find out that there's a rabbit literally ahead of the Jewish people who sees the big picture who sees the infinite View and is taking care of everything from the most massive to the tiniest most nitty-gritty detail when you know that you can never unknow it and then you have to live accordingly go out and do something reach out to another Jew whatever it is that you have in your Jewish Home whatever it is that your family possesses jewishly share it give it away this is another secret of the debit that ultimately the only Yiddish kite that any of us truly have is whatever Yiddish kite we are currently actively giving away to others and very very soon we're gonna see how all of our work and all of the things we've been doing has had infinite significance it's all going to be revealed to us the whole big picture like Paul Harvey used to say the rest of the story we're going to see the big picture we're going to see what the devil saw all along when mashiach comes and will finally see we'll finally see reality as it is and we'll see the magnitude of our good deeds and we'll see the magnitude of each and every one of us and we'll see that ever again [Music] the story believe me [Music] I love you [Music] we came foreign [Music] he came about [Music] little boys [Music] yeah yeah oh he came about foreign [Music] leaders [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] sorry [Music] what's that um thank you okay the Earth [Music] became [Music] America [Music] Hallelujah [Music] okay [Music] there goes foreign [Music] thank you so the Talbot mentioned that this is the unveiling of my kapata I've been I have been wearing it for a couple of years I think I said this last year but it's I think it's worth Hazara it started out I was diving maybe at that time a small shul kahama on Lawrence Avenue and it was a student I remember sitting there with my brothers and and something that Robert zakotinski said something about the balship something about a ship I I can't put my finger on it exactly I remember going home that night and I said I think it's time you know Seven Generations my family the Gordon family we're the lavish my great grandfather Bingham Gordon buried by the you know by the oil he had a full nice beard once again I'm being guilted into the beard just saying next year I had it this morning I just shaved I forgot I was coming here it was a mistake honest mistake anyways so that's where it began that's where we're sitting right now the rabbi I'm about to introduce is lighting Souls on fire here in the five towns all over the world it is my honor and I am extremely humbled to introduce of yasi zakatinski [Music] [Applause] one second okay all right so I'll tell you the truth um you have to start off with something that's certainly truthful and that is it's uh it's a little bit intimidating a little bit intimidating I'll tell you why yes for sure that's a hush of a team and I can't really see anyone I'll be honest with you but I know that there's a receiver here but the real reason why I feel intimidated is because you know you hear stories about the Reva how the rubber you know in 770 had eyes that saw everything that was going on that's what it is everything that was going on and you know since we're taught that after the stalkers after a person passes away especially is untethered the nashama is uh it's not held back anymore by the boundaries by the limitations of the body and so whatever whatever ability to see that the the rabbit had in his physical lifetime is keflexiflame it's uh infinitely more intense and so if the rabbit when he was alive so everything Allah after every single year moving away from the stalkers from the separation from the the unlimiting effect of that day of gimmel Thomas so all the more so the rep is definitely having eyes on not just every single one of us but specifically the Mahmud and the you know the the the the Gatherings that are with Floyd that are for his honor for to be makasha ourselves so that's uh you know it's one thing to have you know your parents in the crowd or your in-laws or something like that you know what I'm saying with the the Rev himself is is here so it's even more intimidating but that void is the the tacos of all this is not just um like retail mentioned not stand for Osiris or inspiration it says cautious ourselves to who we're supposed to be we'll cash ourselves to each other so so really what I want to do now just for the next few minutes a little bit is really to just piggyback off of what Roshes mentioned in a different way but it's the same basic idea you know everything is everything has his man everything is veto everything in its right time if the yard side of the Reb of this the rabbit took place in the month of Thomas and not just the month of Thomas but gimmel Thomas gimmel three is always a number of of khazaka first day of the month is like you know sort of the month second day we're getting somewhere the third day is ready oh that's the month so means that it must be it must be the Revolution was telling us something about our own personality that has to be connected both to the river and to the month of Thomas so let's investigate for the next few minutes just a little bit of what the end of the month of Thomas is certainly when we think of tamas so if we think about it it brings to mind obviously the months of the summer which is revolving around golus and hormones you know it's well known even though the month of Av we think of as much more intense in terms of the focus on availis in the morning of the over the base of English but the truth isn't to a certain degree Thomas is more intense Because by the month of Av at least by the 15th of uh by two above it's already done and there's Comfort but all of the month of tamas is completely goalistic and so let's investigate what's the Indian of the month of Thomas you know there's a principle that we have from the safety sir it's a book of creation it's one of the oldest cabal storm we have goes back to avramovino so this principle in the safety sea were that every single month is connected to a number of things every month is connected to a letter of the olive face and every month is also connected to a particular faculty a particular experience of the human being and so it says in safety it's here like this doesn't say for etsyr the month of Thomas is connected with the letter has in the alpha phase and the faculty the ability of sight of seeing the letter is crowned in the month of tamas and so is the power of the ability to see in the soul in the person so Thomas is connected to the month of the letter and the concept of seeing the ability to see now if you think about it this is a strange thing you know we have a there's a principle in this talks about this a lot that if you want to identify the essence of something you always have to look at its first appearance in homish so we have two things to identify the month of Thomas with that's the letter has and seeing what's amazing is is that where's the first place that the letter chess appears in Hamish that's right you don't have to go too far it says in Parts like I shouldn't create the world and before yeah at the beginning of creation it describes the world as well there is Darkness on the face of the depths that's the first appearance of the letter has in the word Darkness this is ironic because seeing requires light seeing as the opposite of darkness in fact the first place that seeing is mentioned in Hamish is so the light that it was good so these two things the letter has whose origin is in the word Darkness and the concept of seeing whose origin is in light seems to be a little bit paradoxical so what's this what does this mean over here that the month of Thomas is a month that's connected with the letter and the ability to see there's a fantastic the posix says the people that were walking in darkness saw a great light that's the month of Thomas so what's the site of that what's the mystery of that what is this telling us about this Hashem all right so you know one of the most a person cannot can constrict the of the rebbe over the world in any particular way but without a question one of the beginning certainly that the rubber brought to the Jewish world was uh consciousness that Gula should be something that people should talk about someone should be living with that it should be something that is not just uh how you end the schmooze with the mayhemian or main you know I mean it should be something that we live with so let's share for a few minutes something about the ending of ghoula it's amazing positive can say for your shy it says impossig like this regarding it's talking about the light of mashir the Irish which is foreign like it's going to rise like the Rising Sun like uh like in the morning and your healing will come quickly is compared to the Rising Sun but in your healing will come quickly point out two things from that number one the fact that mashiach has described similar the coming of Sheikh has described similarly to a Rising Sun gazal say in the language kimakima slowly slowly piece by piece the sun doesn't just come like that slowly Rises it slowly Rises so sotu Gula isn't described in such a way which is slow methodical is the end of that pasok is described like again like a son that rises slowly and you're healing will come quickly and we have other places in hazal that focus on the end of that person can show the opposite point that ghoul is not something that happens slowly it's a immediate out of nowhere foreign all right so let me share with you an idea those that the guys from the show they might have heard this idea before I've quoted this from Elizabeth sir it's from Yankovic it's a politic idea but it's it's a game changer really it's a cloud that goes back to the kisseri but again to package it is said the following thing he said and he was he was a big topic he could testify to this Bianca Elizabeth just said that it's known that if it's a deacon wanted they could have broken a long time ago could have happened a long time ago but there was a collective decision by the sadikim subconsciously consciously not to bring it like that why so Jacob says an amazing thing he says like this on the one hand if we if the sadika brought Gula where Claudius the now will result in Redemption that would fit our hasagus it would fit our understanding our way of thinking the rabbinished slogan that we will be introduced to through that we brought that would be a Urbana that fits within certain packages certain Frameworks of understanding and the vaccines have said that the Jewish people have decided a long time ago we don't want such a Redemption we don't want that moment where when you know when their punishment says and he reintroduces himself in a in a revealed way we don't want that God or that side of their Buddhism so to speak to be something that is limited what we want is a Gula that's Mitzi DOI a Redemption that's coming with the full Revelation as much as Urban himself chooses to do to reveal himself from his side of things the way he wants to which is going to be bigger and deeper and infinite than anything that we could have accomplished on our own this is why the Jewish people have collectively we didn't force it the general Bianca Elizabeth says even more he says but here but here's the here's the thing but the rebunishment doesn't like this so much because although it's nice for us to be introduced to a god that's way bigger than anything we could possibly imagine but the rabbana Shalom wants us to feel connected to the Google the Rebellion wants us to feel comfortable with Redemption the revolution wants us to enter into that world that's called and have a sense of nostalgia about it that it should be something familiar that it should be something not just familiar but something that we can say is ours and so we have this strange Paradox this strange tug of war on the one hand what we want is a Redemption that's in full that's Limitless the world that we want to be introduced to with the Covenant is a world that reveals on his terms without being constricted from our terms on the other hand that world that we want to be introduced to has to be a world that is familiar to us a world that we're comfortable with in a world that we can say we made because only a Redemption only a world that we can say was with her own handiwork was with her own effort only that is a is a Gula that we can feel his cautious with and since ultimately the whole darkness of redemption is to feel is to become is to deepen as to experience that is cautious with the rabbinished all attachment comes from a feeling of a devotion a feeling of of of uh of putting yourself in that of not just sitting back and receiving of being proactive in the process so Sarah Bianca Elizabeth did an amazing thing which is that the building blocks of that future life that future world that's called the world of Messiah the light of mashiach the urban Islam planted the seeds of that Universe the revolution wove that light into the world that we experience now and by us going through the world of Galas the world of Exile which is a world that we're comfortable with the world that we're familiar with Hashem the Torah of golus the Torah that fits within the framework of Our Lives the system that we can feel comfortable with within that itself not only are we making this world better not only are we making this world which is anyway hospitable to us and and this rule which is anyway within the framework of our understanding not only are we improving in this but we ourselves are proactively involved in building a world that's bigger than us and this is the secret of Google this is why mashiach is on the one hand being described as something which happens slow and also something that happens quickly in the writings of the morale we find that that slow the things that happen slowly are always indicative of derachateva of things which are working within nature things which are working within the construct of reality that we can process that we can fully comprehend the reason time moves slowly everything moves at a certain consistent Pace that's that's called nature and the the Irish the light of mashir is a light that is that was embedded that is embedded and is being developed in a world that we are comfortable with in the world of Godless itself a world that we can fully grasp but yet the same time What emerges out of that avoida after we put in the effort of cultivating those seeds that have been that have been planted in that soil called nature what emerges out of that is something that's quick something that's in haste and the morale explains very often that there is things that happen quickly are always a sign of it happening beyond our abilities we got out of its rhyme for example quickly why because it wasn't something that we deserved it was coming from above things that come from above are by their very nature quick Gula is both described as slow and quick let's understand this is the secret of the letter s why you know there's different ways to write the letter has according to Arizona the letter is made of two letters above and a Zion with a little Bridge connecting them on top if you could imagine that's what says what's amazing is that the letter of of is the six Zion is seven those two numbers six and seven again in the writings of morale these are very numbers they're very Earthly numbers they're very grounded they're very methodical very slow procedural six days of the week even Shabbos it's still part of that it's part of that construct that's called nature but the rights of them are all there's one number which always means that which is beyond our grasp that which is infinite that which is beyond our ability to even conceptualize that's always the number eight the eight candles of Hanukkah and so on eight always means you see the paradox is which is the number eight is itself built from above a design it's built from above and Design which means where does a person find Irish where does a person look in order to find that which is infinite like rabitat was mentioning the answer is in everything that's in front of you in everything that's simple everything that's basic everything that's practical everything that's down to earth that's where you find it you know the verse says regarding that little bridge on top of the letter Hess that again according to the way of the reason it points up a little bit and the gemara says the reason for that is is because is the beginning of the word high to be alive and that little bridge on top is hinting to us that the rabbana Islam Islam that God is alive at the Pinnacle of the world that term that rabbana Islam lives at the height of the world which is Institute by that pointing upward bridge in the letter has it's a funny thing because we have other places in hazal that the rabbana Islam that God has described as being above the world the whole world is is something he created so clearly he's above it so to say that the rabbonish is Lam that he exists in the highest place of the world is itself a paradox if Hashem is Hashem is if you want to truly describe his exaltedness then that means he's above the world but yet he's been described as existing exalted transcendent within the world that exactly is the secret this is why if you think about it the letter has which has just told us is connected with the word and Hashem is so high is 18 as we know what's the 18th word in homish so the 18th word in hamesh is also the beginning of creation where it describes again this darkness and water and so on your mind that the spirit of Hashem was hovering touching and not touching is hovering over over the waters the word marathis is the 18th word the word is a combination of two words 288 for those that you know that are involved in Mercedes we know that 288 is the that's the number of all the Divine Sparks that are scattered amongst the world so you have a world that's dead it's mace you have a world that's dead but unbelievably paradoxically scattered amongst those ruins of this world are 288 Sparks of Divine Light and how do we engage in those Divine Light those Sparks how do we raise them up how do we reunite them with their Source how do we discover them by doing everything we know we do like diving three times a day by keeping Allah properly by saying a good word everything that we're familiar with nothing out of the ordinary everything that we know it's villain all the things that we're familiar with that's how we raise up these Divine Sparks but what is built from those Divine Sparks ironically dafka specifically from those actions that we're most comfortable with and most accustomed to that's exactly those those are the activities that we do to build the spirit of meshirta the world of gula because I'll say that the spirit of Hashem is hovering over the waters is the spirit of mashiach how do you discover it's exactly in that place of Mesa the dead world that can that still has within it the seeds of redemption itself the infant that's contained in the finite that itself is the secret of that's the secret so Thomas is a month that's all Galas but you know there's no such thing as whenever a month comes that's Gala stick in that month the Rebelution has to be pointing an arrow to where ghoul is so where does he point into Thomas the month of Thomas is when it says in when it when it describes in Hamish the darkness versus the light that Darkness that's described in the beginning of Ramesh is not the darkness you know just there's no light the darkness over there is a description of a reality that's beyond your ability to comprehend light means seeing means a world that you can process a world that you can make sense of a world that you don't that doesn't conjure up things of the imagination Darkness means that which is beyond your conception The Secret of Thomas is to be able to comprehend and to grasp and to feel connected to that which you can't to realize that the entire light of redemption which is a universe which is beyond our conception a God that's bigger than us is at the same time familiar to us and at the same time nostalgic to us secret of Thomas is the secret of um the people that go in darkness and are able to see it and this is what we're waiting for with Google we're waiting for mashiach is what is a is not something new I shouldn't say that it is new but altogether old at the same time the ability to feel connected to something which is so beyond us to be able to like you know hold on to uh you know when a mother's like baking a cake or something and the little kid the mother wants the little kid to be involved so all the little kid does is like hold on to the Bowl as she pours the dough or pours the flower and the mother says they could ah you bake the cake and the kid feels that they baked a cake now we know that it's really a joke but that's what ghoula is but real that is a joke dammits we might respect the cake even though we couldn't have so you have like see I was thinking about this but you know someone that was so deeply attached to Irish this Indian of gula that new world that otherworldly Dimension that's called Redemption you would think someone like that would be so impractical it will be so beyond the Minor Details of life but there was no one that was more practical there was no one that was more down to earth there was no one that was more relatable despite the fact that you know the the even when he spoke English it was a Russian accent you know and still you had Americans that had no and they felt connected to him and felt comfortable the relatability of someone that was so completely unrelatable that itself is the secret of Thomas that's the secret of gula that's the that's Irish that's a world trying to do you know one of his terrors and he says the truth is able to do two things at the same time he's able to take Jews that feel that they know who their buddhistam is and show them how they don't know anything and Jews that feel they don't know who their Buddhism is to show them how they know exactly who their abundant is that's outside the canvas to unite Dory Mal in the language of unite those that that live above with those that live below all at the same time that's it sadik that's a Sadiq that's gula and that's what we're trying to connect to in our own lives to be able to go through life and to see the people that we're familiar with anyway the people that we're accustomed to everything that is familiar to us a Yiddish guide that fits within our lifestyle and despite all of that familiar familiar and relatability but to be completely in awe of it at the same time that every time we put on filling you know might not have the smell of the first time you know when it's like new leather although I have a type it sometimes always like to buy new straps you know I mean just to have that smell again you know but to always be in all of it to imagine it's always as if it's the first time you're doing a Mitzvah but at the same time you know how to do it perfectly that's Michelle so I guess I'll end off with a mice if it's okay so you know it's one of the one of the big Casino that he was he was deeply deeply connected to sapil Yeshua of longing for mashiach of wanting Gula that was very much connected to Arizona and so this is but he wasn't born in Texas he wasn't born he was born I can't Anonymous nag it per se but not Jose and so as he grew older and he became more and more involved with Prima satara so he draw he found himself becoming more and more drawn to the to Tara Sabal sham to light of machine to light of uh but this is said though that he sold this over later he said that there was always something holding him back from really you know going all in of like you know buying a capata and so on you know there's something holding him back what was holding him back as long as like this he said that he was something that always was so sensitive to golus and to the tsar of the srinach the pain of a divine presence in golas and what's missing without meshiach and he sees that one of the Iqra Vitas of the balsham and his and his uh students is simcha and so he under eyes he said like this I understand something was important of course this is what was holding him back so at some point he decided you know what he's going to raise the question he's going to go to the heiserable and he's going to ask himself you didn't have to ask the question he knew exactly what you were going to ask so yes comes into the room and turns to me says so let me tell you a story he says what's the story he says the kid sir it's a longer story I'll make it short there was once a king like all good Jewish stories begin those once a king and this King lil maisa was he grew up in royalty so this is a person who was obviously pampered from the time that he was very little always surrounded by you know yes men and people that would always do whatever you wanted he never really experienced anything really difficult he had to go to school he had to obviously be taught and be educated but he was the prince and then he becomes the king so he said one day the king this King wanted to go on a trip and in those days what the what royalty and you know uh the upper class what they used to do very often is going hunting trips so this King went on a hunting trip but you know it is a hunting ship he had the the you know most expensive guns the most fancy hunting clothing and he's surrounded by his Entourage so how much really of the woods is he experiencing not so much he's going like that and then all of a sudden out of nowhere said the heavens closed up lightning thunder torrential damp for trees were being hit by lightning all around them everyone is just you know freaking out and everyone's going crazy and all the soldiers and Entourage surrounding the king will run away in fear of what's going on and nebuch the king is left by himself what's amazing is the king you know he never was in the woods really by himself especially in such a terrifying situation so Panic takes him he begins to run but in the in the woods like that you run five minutes you're already completely lost and you can't find your way back so the whole so not only five minutes and he's running and an hour passes two hours past eventually he finds himself mommish lost the middle of the wilderness and he has to spend the night like this but he's soaking wet it's getting freezing cold he's becoming uh you know it's becoming dangerous so meanwhile the other the soldiers you know there's nothing they can do so they know their way back they find their way back but the king is never he's lost out there so the King has to schlep from you know trying to find his way until finally finally he sees you know a light from a Hut or something in a distance and he goes to the Hut he knocks on the door and some Jewel or whatever it's a person peasant opens the door and he says what is it he says I'm the king yeah sure you're the king I'm sure the king just came 10 minutes ago so yeah you're the King close the door it goes a little bit more then he knocks on another door who are you the king Bubba meissen closes the door finally finally he hits a door where uh a Jew opens the door he says who are you he's on the king and he's like really he said yeah I'm the king so the guy takes off his glasses and he looks at him he says yonko that was the king's name let's say uncle he says he said don't you remember me well what I I listen I'm a little peasant now but I also went to went to went to school we were in the same class together don't you remember so the king looks at him it's been a long time the king says oh Maisha I remember you see it comes in obviously you know he gives them warm clothing some porridge teeth and the whole night they're just reminiscing talking about the good old days in class talking about how they put thumbtacks under the teacher's chair whatever the all the stuff that kids always do and at some point throughout the night their mom is having a good time and someone says a joke and their mom is rolling and laughing and it comes time for the morning and all of a sudden after after the whole night of schmoozing if I bring it together so the peasant looks at the king and begins to cry says and so the king says to The Peasant Elisha why are you crying she said because I got carried away the whole night we're just enjoying ourselves and now the sun is coming up and I'm beginning to realize like who I'm talking to I'm talking to the king I I you know it's it's so it's so not right to talk to the king like that so the king turned to The Peasant he said I'll tell you the truth it's probably not so right to talk to me like that but to be honest with you I haven't had a more enjoyable night in a very long time because if I if I was in the palace there will be no way for you to come to me I mean if you try the you know the everything would everyone will push you away but because I got lost in the woods and the only person would take me in was you so I could actually like take my my you know I could take off the the crown of my head so to speak and just just be myself and just talk to a Jew that's that just you know that we grew up together and so the king said to The Peasant listen you know the days the day is calm now already I have to get back to the Palace he'll direct me the right way but you should know whenever you want to come I'll tell the message to uh to all the goodbye and so on you come in we're gonna bring whatever you want said that's the story of Eden and Galas it's not good show the revolution is lost in the forest you know the screen is lost and it's a tragic thing and we have to mourn all about it we have to mourn all the time especially these months why in the tragedy in the morning and it's not something it's not easy to explain has that he never he can't he's not in his Palace so he's wandering the Wilderness but we're the only ones that take him in but you know what the irony is tell him I said when we take the king in we recognize each other when the shama knows the Republic we might not have been able to make it to the karishakachin but if the Republicans so to speak there is a simranat and to a certain degree there and that's why so it means that's where Gula comes from ourselves to each other to ourselves within us and be able to take all the materials that are familiar to us all the experiences of this world which is comfortable in and within our jurisdiction within our frame of within our sphere of influence and not only to influence our sphere of influence but to realize that what we're influencing in our spirits of influence is beyond anything we could possibly imagine and we ourselves are building a world that is beyond their our ability to to even begin to process to fulfill you know that it should be fulfilled within us to give to each other you should see the world that you're building in your own lifetime each and every one of us to be introduced to that world that we are building to experience that the poem is [Music] so why [Music] yeah yeah yeah foreign [Music] please [Music] yeah yeah [Music] foreign [Music] are you whoever came down [Music] it is [Music] whoever [Music] my name is [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] baby [Music] good job [Music] all right we want to want to thank you Gordon yeah no no it's not over Ellie's gonna continue to sing but we want to remind you 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