The Four Steps to G-d ואלה תולדות יצחק בן אברהם אברהם הוליד את יצחק Kabbalah Rabbi YY Minkowicz

Welcome to our class onus. We're going to be learning a beautiful discourse in the Reb. The name of the discourse is called the Reb said this discourse on Shab that year was the second day of the month of in the year 62 years ago. So again the discourse is based in the verse where it says this is the offspring of the son of Abraham. And then it says Abraham Abraham gave birth to just as we know the question since it says the son of Abraham why is the Torah repeat and say Abraham gave birth to Yitzk that's question number one also we have to understand why does it say Abraitzk twice in the same verse and there is explained in and which is called Torah portion that is which is which is the male waters. [snorts] What does that mean spiritually? It's a it's the it's the awakening that comes from high. That's what a represents. On the other hand is man the feminine waters which in cababalistic terminology it's called the t it's the awakening from below. Just before we go for forward. So the reb springing down from the from the powerful teachings. Abraham is the male waters and is the female water. And there are two components to it. One idea is that the awakening from high which awakens the awakening from the low and that's why it says the son of Abraham. In other words, Abraham is the wakes him up and then gets awoken. In other words, that the the awakening from belowk which is the idea of the sun which comes from where? From the awakening on high from a brahavino. That's the first component. So the awakening of below wakes at the awakening the the on below. The second idea is that the awakening from a high comes after the awakening from below and it gives power um in the awakening below that it should have from there should have the birth and that's why it says so in other words it's all started with and then obviously to and back and forth another explan that's one explanation the other explanation is that is and what does that mean practically he's love and is what is what does that mean practically? It's all of Hashem. So abram is is is and love and is and now since these two ideas love and is the each one of these is divided into two levels like we know there's aut lower level of love there's a greater level of love there's zut lower level of and there's a higher level of of and that's why it says in the verse twice a twice now the the way it works in a spiritual level. So the way it flows is it starts off at something which is called the lower level of awe then you have the lower level of love and then you have the higher level of love and then you have the higher level of awe. So the you have the lowest level of love lower the lower level of the lowest level of all lowest level of love higher level of love and the highest level of ya and the same thing also is connected to the four letters of hashem's name yud v starting from the lowest to the highest [cough] and the same thing also applies when we go ahead and pray because we go in a pray when prince comes to prayer it says that the ladder start is on the ground and the the the top goes to heaven which means you're going from the lowest to the highest. What does that mean practically? So when you start praying every day, it's the lower level of of Hashem. What does that mean? Before you start praying and like we know the the revolutionary idea of prayer is it's really what about love and the the um the awe you need to have throughout the day. But the point is you start off the lower level of love of awe. Then while you're praying you have to awaken the love for Hashem. First the lower level of love and then the carer level of of love and then when you come to you come to the higher level of awe [snorts] which basically is in cababalistic practical terminology it's called he's totally accepting whatever wants and that's when the verse says and so is referring to the lower level of of of then is the lower level of love. The next Abraham is the higher level of love. And then you have the last is the higher level of of awe. And based on these two insights, we understand the quality of over a because we know in the future we're going to say specifically our father. And according to the first insight, why isk why is the higher one? Because the elevation of of of which is which goes from the low and high has no limits. However, when it comes to which comes from from a high down below, it does have a limit. So the first idea is the why is he greater? Because again it's when it's has no limits. And according to the second insight is because why why is because yra is much higher than and that and that's and that and that and that's why we understand why we has before beginning at the end. Now in the says in the in the one of the in the the books that went out recently from from was actually in prison there's a uh prison means that we couldn't we weren't able to have the manuscripts of the of the ofidus. There's aic discourse on the verse and over there he explains that the main quality of over is going to be in the future when Mashiach comes. In other words, even though now there is a quality that's with guru over overass of y over aba but in order to have the real quality of gur of ya. So you need to have gura needs to receive from in the future. Yes, we're going to see that it's all about it's all about being all about um it's all about gur. But and today it's also more powerful but you need first. However, in the future when Mashiach comes, Gur is not going to have to receive from Gur on its own right, you're going to see how powerful it is. And based on this, he explains the contradiction seemingly. But what's explained in many many places that is higher than guru on one hand is explained and the other hand explains um the quality of of z gold which is really guru over and as we know that the uh the reference to the famous argument between kak on the priesthood of a because what did kak want that guru should not have should not be secondary to just like in the future when guru is going to be the main thing and that's why he's punished. Why? Because since he went ahead and he went and he split and he was trying to split guru from now and because we know in the future yes guru is going to be independent but today guru needs and because he was trying to split guru from he created a negative in both know a in the also in the guru and that's what it says spalag in other words he created a division and he created a a um um a lacking in each one of them and that's what and that's why that was his punishment because the punishment is based on the on the blemish and what was his punishment the punishment on one hand they were swallowed up and they were burnt um because in reference to one that was swall swallowed up it says they went down which means they went down from high to low which that's going high to low that's and burning is transforming the the bottom part because since he went ahead and he created a blemish both in the and that's Why he that that's why they were they were small that we went down and then the he because he created the the the downgrading guru and that's why he was burnt up. Now in addition that we what we find in reference to the argument of that we know that his argument was was not for the right reasons. He was a egotistical argument. But we also find this in a on a on a holy level. And after Martin it says in reference to kingom that in his time it says the moon was complete. In other words and he was punished because in his times which is silver meant nothing. In other words there was no there was no quality to kf. know is what is compared to to to to uh to gold which is really gura and he says seemingly the fact is that's a truth and like explained many many places and also in the in the short teachings in Tanya that um the idea of ZV over gold over silver which means guru over overass and the the saddic explains that in order to go ahead and create transformation you do need and specifically said you can have the power of guru gura on on in in in in in in in a in a healthy way and that's why today when we're trying to do transformation you need you need that the the Levite should be secondary to the priest why because the is needed and only in the future Messiah comes after we're going to have the total transformation we're going to have the fulfillment of the of the promise that the the evil spirits going to be away from the world and our spiritual ual service is going to be in holiness then we're going to have where gur is going to be much higher than now in reference to the idea of the quality and the super quality of guru yra over love so the explains over there as follows it's similar to the quality the super quality of the advantage of msus nephesh self-sacrifice [snorts] which basically is halal you're elevating over learning doing mitzvah which means bringing down the light into this world because when a person learns to and does mitzvah you create what union v the second part of hashem's name but when a person goes in my nephacrifice you create the union of yu the first two letters of name which basically what's the idea what's the idea of the first two letters that's revealing the the level of atic which is the higher part of kar and that's why when it comes to the self-sacrifice there's no logic over there why because it's connected to actic which is above all the levels of logic and emotions etc on the soul level it's the essence of our soul which is higher than our internal powers and that's why we find the famous story that when the bf was did not merit to die in keshm now even though afterwards he learned and he did it was considered as a punishment and that's why the zor actually says the body that you're lacking the fire of of the soul. So what do you do? You hit it and then the light comes in it. And what does it when it comes the light comes in? What what what's the expression you use? This is in other words it's not enough that you have the light but you have to have you have to go ahead it has to be elevated because ultimately it's all about the elevation. The says he'd like to connect this where it says that God will give you what name of God. He uses the term Elohim and he uses specifically the name Elohim which is connected to why because specifically through you bring in greater light says like he explained at length in the discourse about in in the in that in that for bringing. So here you have another very very powerful synic discourse about the power of gura the power of ya and obviously you need the blend of you need the blend of aba and ultimately when we do our job now we're going to merit the coming of msiah and then we're going to see the real pure power of andra I'd like to thank you all for joining us for our class let's hope our next class will be have a great and blessed week shabu