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From Yocheved to Miriam, Rachel Imeinu to the daughters of Tzelofchad, the story of redemption has always carried the voice of women. In this series, Rav Shlomo Katz explores how the faith, courage, and leadership of Jewish women guide us toward Geula, revealing why our sages taught: “In the merit of righteous women, we were redeemed, and in their merit we will be redeemed again.”
It's really, it's all on him. Up until now, up until now what we've seen is like different דמויות, characteristic traits in different people that we've seen in the Torah, and we've seen it in different lights and in different, stories we knew, we knew about certain, certain, you know, powerful female figures and we tried to connect ourselves, whether it was based on the פרשה or based on a certain דמות, a certain character that we wanted to cling to, to understand what תכונת גאולתית, what redemptive quality, traits are in the women that are our heroes, are in our tradition, women that are our heroes. And we still have to continue doing that. But for this week and next week, we have something very special.
And it's we're going to be learning a מאמר from a רב who's I think he's a רב in מכון מאיר, right? Do you know him? You've met him? About this topic? I'm sure. Oh wow. ברוך שכיוונתי, I'm so happy. That's wonderful because he, I came across something of his that was really, really going to put this שיעור in context, big time.
ממש, like focusing, setting setting it straight. But it's hard, it's a lot, it's a lot of hard work. It'll be very interesting to see how much we're able to go to go to go into this flow. Here's this.
In order for us to understand, as you could see, the topic on this top of the page over here, מנהיגות נשית בעידן הגאולה, which means women's leadership in the time of redemption, one thing we have to do is not confuse what the world has done with the concept of women's leadership. Because it's not what we're talking about. It doesn't mean, חלילה, that women can't have roles of leadership, but not not anything close to what's happened in the world with it. But the fact that it's happening in the world, we always know is some kind of a צעקה, it's some kind of a calling to us saying there's a, there's some תיקון needed.
If you're, if you're not going to be doing it, יהודים, it's going to come out from the other side and cause more confusion. You're just getting confused. Like whenever that's in the world, we have to, we have to listen to what things are and be like, and not be like, \"Oh, since it's, you know, not Jewish or not פרום, it's probably garbage.\" There's, there's a, there's a voice there. But we have to redeem that voice because that's, we ממש have, it's on us to to figure this one out.
But in order for us to do an עבודה יסודית of redeeming that feminine voice of leadership, what we need to do is go back and see, go to the roots of everything. And what הרב שרקי here is going to take us on a trip here is really about the foundation of the world, on what was created, how things were created, and what is still being created. Now here's a very important thing. When we think about the evolution of man, the creation of man, and we think about the creation of a tree, what's the difference between the two? Not in the object, but in the form of its creation.
What's the difference between the two? Anything, think of anything, there's no wrong answer. A tree gets its water from outside and then has to work on itself and build itself, whereas a man has to go out and work, even though it's also from God. Okay. נכון, but I hear what you're saying.
I hear I hear the distinction. What else? Forget a tree, it doesn't matter what it is, the heavens, I don't know, water, the concept of water. Or I'll say like this, anything other than human beings, meaning, what's the difference between Hashem creating man and what happened with Hashem created everything else in the world? What's the difference, the essential difference between the two? So what he's going to show us today is that man is still being created. It's true that Hashem created a concept called man and woman, but it's still being created.
Everything else, ויכל אלקים ביום השביעי מלאכתו אשר עשה. He's done. But that's after Friday also. What's that? That's that is said after Friday, which is when man was created.
לגמרי, we're going to see the difference here between עשיה and בריאה. Very good what you're saying. When Hashem is said, even the level of creation of man that's still being continued to be created, I, so to speak, I'm done. I created man and woman, I created everything else.
There's something on you to be משלים in the בריאה. That's the point. She realizes that which is why השם said נעשה אדם and not... Amazing.
That נון, that נון that you pointed out right now is the premise of this whole שיחה. If השם didn't say נעשה אדם, then it would be like, okay, I did this, I did that, done, go figure it out. But because of the לשון that השם uses in בריאת העולם, we're not only going to see here how where women's roles are taking us to and their role and their leadership is all about what it's all about, but it'll also show us that the completion of the creation of man will happen through a woman's understanding of their role. How's that for like women's rights, you know, like a...
Do you understand what that last statement was? That statement didn't just say, let's understand women's roles in the world. It's that when women understand their roles in the world, what happens to man? He feels his interdependence. He figures out his role. He figures out his role.
He figures out exactly his spot. I remember one time Rav Weinberger said in the middle of a שיעור, he's like, you know, I always like, I know he said, I know you guys have no idea what I'm talking about. That's always a prep. That's really him saying, you know exactly what I'm talking about but I'd never say that you actually know what I'm talking about.
I know you guys have no idea what I'm talking about but, you know, there's so many, there's there's such a language, there's such a לשון of uh of people always saying like, oh, you know, my wife, whatever, a woman's, a woman has her שיגעונות and a man just has to just, you know, deal with it and he'll know like that's his תפקיד in the world, even though you and even though... He said even though each person, like thinks like that, knows that their whole life is dependent on that person that has all the שיגעונות. It's... שיגעונות is is uh...
Crazy. You like... משוגעס. משוגעס, yeah, like like like freak outs, you know.
But the way he said it was like, you have no idea. You guys have no idea what I'm talking about. בוקר טוב. But those people that have that, they know they know what I'm talking about.
Here. So, let's learn again the סיפור of the בריאה, of the creation, but with a mindset of our goal is to understand the תפקיד of ממש פשוט and utmost פשטות, women's place in the world, women's role in the world. All right? So look at this, and I know the Hebrew might get a little bit difficult here. Thank God we have Esti with us to help us with this, and we'll try to figure this out together.
But the point is here, women's leadership in times of redemption, because that's what all these שיעורים that that we continue to do לעילוי נשמת דוד are all about. בספר בראשית בפרשת בריאת האדם, מצינו הפרש בין התכנון האלוקי לבין הביצוע. We find a space, a little bit of a distance between what God planned on doing and ביצוע is to carry out, and what he carried out. בתחילה נאמר ויאמר אלוקים נעשה אדם.
In the beginning השם said, let us make man. And who is he referring to by the way when he says let us make man? מלאכים. Who else could he be been talking to? Us. Us? We weren't, we weren't, we weren't created.
The soul of us. The soul of us? Is that what you meant? All of creation that came before us to do it together, we're going to make a image. Before we're even created? Yeah, yeah. She was with which home to go down into...
No, no, לגמרי. I just want to make sure I want to make sure I understand. Who else could have it also been spoken to? Everybody. All of creation.
All of creation meaning השם did turn, there's a דעה that says that he turned basically to everything that was already created and said, I just want you to know like, don't take it the wrong way, but all of you were created for what I'm about to create. So in that case I don't want to make you feel too bad, come join me in this, in this uh in this uh, yeah, in this amazing level, amazing stage. So in the beginning השם says נעשה אדם but then in the ביצוע, meaning in the uh, what's the right word for this? ביצוע. The act? The ביצוע means like לבצע השיר.
In the performance, right? I think that's pretty good. In the performance of it, it says, ויברא אלוקים את האדם בצלמו. Wait, wait a second. Wait a second, what just happened over here? What just happened over here? השם says let us make man.
What should have then been said when man was made? They created him. ויבראו אלוקים ו... whoever else that falls in that category, מלאכים. us, creation, that all of them created man.
נכון? So you see, do you see the problem over here that we have over here? So, I always said a וורט that meant like when you make someone feel that they're needed for something, you created them. That's what השם said ויברא אלוקים את האדם. When he says נעשה אדם, that was just השם making them feel like, I know you were created but you want to feel like you're useful. Making a person feel like they're useful, you you actually creating them.
You're actually giving them life. And הלוואי we should always see whenever someone feels like they're, you know, the one that if there was like teams that you'd choose, like who you who gets chosen last. Like the those are those kid, I mean, I still have traumas from sport. What's that? From sport gym class, or like how like guys who have הפסקות, you know, like, like okay, the קפטנים, right? And then like who's who's last? Like on the one, remember we talked about this, where like, we would love for our for our for our daughters to be the like the ones that choose, be the captains, but God forbid they should be put in a situation that someone inevitably is going to be end ended up being being chosen last.
It's just the way it works like that, right? השם doing what he did the way he did here, we can understand it one way is השם is saying to creation, נעשה. I'm not, you know, you're you're with me. I'm doing this and you're on my team. I'm making you feel useful.
But it's two different לשונות because he uses נעשה and then he created. Meaning נעשה and ויברא. He doesn't say let's create together and then he created. He said let's do together and then he created.
Right. I you read ahead. Your subconscious did, because look what because he because that's exactly what he's talking about now. Look, בתחילה עשיה.
In the beginning, it's the language of עשיה, let's do. But when it comes to performance, בביצוע, בריאה. Creation. That it's a different language, you're right.
What's עשיה? עשיה ענינה פעולה מושלמת. Meaning, a complete act. You've done something. It's it's finished.
כדרך הכתוב, ועשתה את צפורניה. It's interesting he uses this לשון. That means, where is he referring to? Does anyone know? About about a אשת. Yeah, about in what? In אשת יפת תואר, כי תצא למלחמה על אויביך.
When you when you when you take a captive, וראית בשביה אשת יפת תואר וחשקת בה ולקחת לך לאשה, and then you have to take her into the house. And if you really, you know, love her, how do you know if you really love her? The תורה says all these things. How do you know if she could really be for you? But the language over here is ועשתה את צפורניה means she either cuts off all her nails. That's really what, it's not really a manicure over here.
It's not like in the nice place, it's more in the… Something to make her ugly, right? Yeah. ועשתה צפורניה means she had something nice going on and she finished it. ועשתה את צפורניה. Not she had a manicure, but you're right.
Like עשיתי ציפורניים היום? Like I don't know if that's what you, that's how you say it. Is that how you say it? You could. There's no other way of saying that? Like probably. עשיתי ציפורניים היום? Why doesn't she cut her hair? Oh she does, she does.
גלחה את ראשה. She does the whole the whole thing, yeah, yeah. No, it's interesting. Apparently, apparently already back then, that was like an ענין of like a symbol of beauty, a symbol of of like expression.
What's that? Something that that attracts. It seems, yeah, that that that the way you did your nails was something that was drawing in the eye of the one that you were of of the opposite sex, it seems. Because otherwise the תורה wouldn't have said cut off, you know, ועשתה את צפורניה. The point over here is that he's saying over here the לשון of ועשתה, עשיה means you did something.
It's done. It's finished. לעומת בריאה, creation is different. Because creation doesn't mean you finished something, it means actually you just started something.
Right? להתחיל דבר בלי להשלימו. Starting something without finishing it. It's interesting. Can anyone, can you create an invention? Yes? Where do you think? Do you think how so? You just start it.
No. Then it can develop into… develop… Then it then, it's true. That that that's so interesting. Meaning in the moment, it's done, but really you can only create certain things, because especially in the world that we're evolving all the time.
Things are changing all the time. Can you can you create a tree? Can a person create a tree? Because there is a little book about it. Sorry? Because there is a little book about it. I'm sorry, I can't hear you.
The כוזרי wrote a whole book about if you can create a tree. Yeah. What are his conclusions? So that's exactly what we're saying over here. What about regarding our language of בריאה and עשיה? Can any of us create a tree? No.
Why can't we, why can't we do those things? It's done already on a level of עשיה. בריאה means the concept was put out into the world, but it keeps on evolving. Okay? It keeps on evolving. This is very, very interesting.
We have to, we have to make a distinction. So far we didn't talk about men and women separately. We're talking about humanity. Humanity it's the לשון of creation.
All the other things that are done in the world is the לשון of עשיה. Look, look, look, look at, meaning it ends off with עשיה. Even if it starts with בריאה, it ends off with עשיה. Look what he says.
I know it's a little bit confusing in the beginning, but it's, we we need to get this clear to get to the end over here. נעשה לשון רבים, כלומר ביחד עם עוד מישהו. Saying something you're going to do it, that's, that's language of רבים, meaning you're doing something with other people. בפשטות, what is he trying to say over here? האדם עצמו הוא השותף בעשייתו.
It is what you said. Man is a partner in his own creation. It's very, very deep. That's what makes us, gives us, you may maybe like to say, we have כח הבחירה and that's what makes us separate, but really on a deeper level, what makes us really separate from all of the creation is that we're partners in, in, in the molding, in figuring out what this is.
And it's been like this since forever, and it's going to continue to be like this until משיח comes. הקדוש ברוך הוא מתחיל ויברא. So השם starts off the process saying, \"Oh, אדם, ויברא." Oh, go to sleep. Let me take a rib.
Oh, חוה. ויברא. That's how it starts. השם creates, created man and woman, והוא מצפה שהאדם ישלים אותו.
But he expects that man should be the one that's משלים the picture. The man is משלים the picture. How do we know if we're משלים, if we're completing the picture of השם's creation or not? Very hard question, right? I don't know if you can know a final at the end. How do you sense, how do you sense that what you're doing is, is, is משלים, is playing this role of continuing to complete your creation? How does one know that? So just by being, let's go שלב בשלב.
Let's say you're still here, which means? Which means you still have a job to do. So it means you still have a תפקיד here. Could a person be here, spend a lot of time here, and not be adding on to the השלמה, to the completion of his picture? Yeah. So that means that it's not necessarily correct, because just by being here alone means you have the opportunity to be משלים, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you're, you're actively doing it.
Okay. You know I'm going to grill you on what you just said, right? עבד השם. Yeah. You know obviously I'm going to ask for much more than then say.
So that means, okay, so what does that, so what does that mean on the level of השלמת הבריאה? That's the point. What do you mean when you say השם? He said over here, man is created, right? Man is created. ויברא אלוקים את האדם. And then he says that that man is different than all the other things because he becomes האדם עצמו הוא השותף בעשייתו.
Man is partner in his own, in his own creation. So being an עבד השם is absolutely the correct answer, but let's understand that on a deeper level. So how do, what does that mean? Like, explain the process. Not what you just, just explain what that means, how that, how that plays out.
Being עבד השם in the context of משלים, of like you becoming partners with השם in your creation. What do the מצוות do to us? What do the מצוות do to us? Yeah. Make us closer to השם. They could, they evolve us, but what, what are they, this, this is, it's a, don't get me wrong, it's an absolutely the correct answer, but I think what I want to, I want to understand and extract from it to משלים the picture.
My me keeping תורה מצוות, being an עבד השם, what is that doing in the world besides the right thing? It makes you a כלי for, for godliness in the world. Makes you a vessel for godliness. But in this context, what does it do? Hopefully make you a better person. It completes His creation.
אמת. and those are all right statements. It's like a contract. Like you, I set up with God.
We said, this is what we're doing. I'm going to go down and do it, and I'm completing my contract. That's exactly. Being an עבד השם doesn't mean look what kind of a צדיק you are that you took on more than you agreed.
Being an עבד השם means you're fulfilling your side of the of the bill. Because השם said to each and every one of us, let's do this together. And what did we all say? Yes. So we came down here, השם says like, okay, I did my part.
And what's what does השם's part? He gave us a world, he gave us a life, he gave us כלים and everything. We are saying, I'm choosing to be an עבד השם because I know that that that's what? That's the other side of the contract. That's משלים the real me. That's who I, that's how I become complete by living up to my side.
How's that? Is that is that a? And then sometimes you go back to the negotiation table. When you leave this world and you go back up and okay, didn't work out. That's the people who don't, and okay, let's figure out how to send me back and do it. Well, we we pray that that never happens, but השם is the one that decides if it worked out or not.
Sometimes we, sometimes we think when I get up there, I'm going to say to him, I need to come back down again. But it could be השם's like, no no, you didn't realize. You actually did. You you did it.
You did it. Who was speaking about, oh Rabbi David Aaron was speaking just about like when he was talking about like the the thought of having to come back down again, he was describing the most like painful process he could ever imagine. And we were sitting there like, really? You know, don't you like this world? He's like, no no no, I like this world and this world is beautiful, but do you know what it means to like not have to come back down again? It means that, I mean it really means this, that you're משלים the בריאה. Okay? Now we just spoke about it now in individual terms.
But I'm just going to jump to the end right now. In order to משלים the בריאה, the point of man being in this world, that is the woman's lead. It's not a man's lead. That's the woman's energy.
And that's the point of this שיעור, of all these שיעורים. That's the point of what we're trying to do by preparing ourself and at the same time to usher in the time of redemption, is that the זמן הגאולה means there's a השלמה of the בריאה. It means that there's a completion in what השם first did when he said נעשה אדם בצלמנו כדמותנו. It's a completion of the ביצוע.
ביצוע means performance. It means us being in this world, being the way we are, humanity, what not. But it's a woman's role that's going to explain to us, it's going to show us, it'll give us the lead as to how to how to live a life where that בריאה is מושלם. So, going back to what was said before, how do I know if I'm getting closer to being a partner in filling my creation? How do I know if I'm filling my side of the contract? השם told us, השם made it very easy for us.
Sounds like it's very hard, it's not. השם made it very easy for us. He gave us a תורה. And by השם giving us a תורה, he's basically saying, here's the way that you could fulfill your side of the contract.
Would then it like the written תורה is like the עשייה. And the oral תורה is like בריאה? That's very nice. That could work, yeah. You know what I'm saying? I mean I think I do.
I think I do. I mean if I if I stopped now and I said, okay, let me ask you a question. When was the last time someone can say they felt these words? Like when was the last time your עבודת השם led you to feel that what you're doing is completing your role in the creation of yourself? So most of us would say, I tell you the truth, I never thought of life in those terms. I never like, that's not the way I live my life.
Like I don't go to sleep at night and say and ask those questions of, did I justify God's decision to create us today? You know, the real צדיקים, that's how they're living every single split second. That's their מציאות in the world. That's their reality in the world. Every second.
It's not like sometimes they're in that and sometimes they're not. Every single second. But ideally, essentially, accepting a life of תורה ומצוות is so much more than doing the right thing and feeling and and whatever that means being closer to השם. It means justify it means filling your part in the creation of you.
So it's a it's very much it's pretty different than the way we were usually, you know, learn the story of creation. Anyway, let's try to go back inside. But are there are there any questions so far? on any of this? None? Okay, let's continue. ביום השישי בשיא הבריאה, נאמר וירא אלוקים את כל אשר עשה והנה טוב מאוד.
On Friday, at the end of בריאה, right, the end of creation, it's called ששת ימי המעשה, the בראשית, of the בריאה, ששת ימי הבריאה. So it says there, וירא אלוקים את כל אשר עשה והנה טוב מאוד. Interesting. When השם looks at everything that he created, it says over here, השם saw everything that he עשה, that he did, והנה טוב מאוד.
Very good. כל העשייה האלוקית נעשתה בשלמות חוץ מהאדם. Everything that השם did, all the Godly עשייה that השם did was perfect, other than man. Man wasn't created perfectly.
Not only because a male needs a ברית when they're when they're eight days old, but also a woman needs a man, and a man meaning there's a need of each other, there's a need of a much bigger picture than just the way they were they were created. That's what I said before. A tree was created perfectly. Is there evolvement of nature over the years? Yes, but that has nothing to do with the way השם created.
השם created it in a perfect state. השם created all of nature in a perfect state. It's man that was created imperfect perfectly imperfect. How about animal? Meaning it's the same thing.
They need each other to procreate also. I think it's more than just procreating. They're self-created. But that's instinctual.
But they don't need to they don't need to perfect themselves. They don't need to work on their Instinct. It's just it's not a, they don't have to activate anything else other than just like, what do I what's that thing I need? Right. Oh, that.
Okay. So, at the so, ובאמת בפרק ב' נאמר ויכל אלוקים ביום השביעי מלאכתו אשר עשה. So in פרק ב', it says God finished the on the seventh day his מלאכה, which he עשה. ובהמשך כי בו שבת מכל מלאכתו אשר ברא אלוקים לעשות.
So השם Meaning now he ended his part, his בריאה. Now he ended the part of of בריאה, of of עשייה, right? Yeah, but first he finished his his עשייה, and then towards the בריאה. כי בו שבת מכל מלאכתו אשר ברא אשר ברא אלוקים לעשות. So now it's now that's up to us, right? מצד העשייה הושלם הכל, מצד הבריאה יש צורך בהשלמה.
Now, when does השם, when do we say ויכולו, like what's that whole when when does that the reference to? שבת. Whatever. That's a total tangent. I'm stopping myself.
Sorry. כל הנבראים נשארו בדיוק כפי שנולדו בראשית ימי הבריאה, מלבד האדם שהוא עדיין משתנה תרבותית והתנהגותית. Did you ever see a dog go to a therapist? They have dog therapists now. What? What do you mean? What are you talking about? A person chooses to take their pet to the therapy.
I don't know what they do. They don't talk to them though. They work with them for therapy. Oh, maybe they For the animal.
Okay, here, forget, forget, forget I asked. A dog doesn't take itself to therapy. Okay, maybe that's the האדם, so the point here, sorry. See, I have to really stick to stick to the text.
מלבד האדם שהוא עדיין משתנה תרבותית והתנהגותית. It's man that keeps on evolving and changing culturally and behaviorally. That's happened from the beginning. Meaning, if we would see a person, if we would meet people from 1500 years ago, we think because of מסורה, I'm talking about יידן right now, because of מסורה, that we'd have a lot of a lot of common with them because that's the beauty of the תורה שבעל פה is that if I was ממש transplanted right now into like סורא or פומבדיתא 2,000 years ago, and I go into the בית מדרש, so other than trying to crack my teeth around like Aramaic slang, I could probably pick up what they were talking about in the בית מדרש.
That's crazy. But everything else would look very, very bizarre and weird to me, very weird to me, even though we're the same people. Why? Because there's we're constantly evolving. Like, I always get when when I always get like a little, I don't know, something in me gets like touched when I when I I could sense see footage if it's the early if it's the mid 80s.
Cuz I that's when I was beginning to notice things. If I'm born in 1980, so mid 80s, I remember that's when I was started to notice things. The the colors were different, not not literally, but the choice of colors that were emphasized more were different. Obviously the way people dressed was different.
Even even like צניעות wise, the צניעות mannerisms were different. It keeps on changing. Man keeps on changing. His evolvement is always very much affected by behavior patterns and whatever the culture is out there in the world.
Even if we think that we're immune to it, it seeps in, it goes in, besides maybe one place in the world. Like מאה שערים. No, like like meaning there, I don't know, and they'll probably say even there it's also, you know, on a certain level changed. Could certain places I'm talking about where it's like wow, there's nothing has changed.
In LA, things change every week. Every week. Every week something else is going. נכון.
Saying the non, I'm talking about for non-Jewish world, I'm saying I see דווקא in LA I see it the most that every time I go, everything looks different, but people seem to be on pause. But everything, everything looks different. Like the נשמות seem to be on pause, but everything else looks very different. There's always evolving with culture.
It's amazing. Maybe it's the headquarters of culture. Maybe that's why it's maybe it's why it's like that. האדם שונה משאר הברואים.
Now why is man different from all other creations? בהיותו לבוש הבגדים. He's gonna say something that's gonna seem here very shallow, but it's very deep. How is man differentiated from all the other creations? Clothes. we did to ourselves.
Apparently and dogs also. I hope it's not that we did that to ourselves. Ah. We did? I mean, the truth is our עבירות did it to ourselves.
Like אדם הראשון, אדם וחווה. When did they start getting into clothes? Right after they didn't listen to השם. They started being influenced by how they covered themselves. It's very interesting.
טבע האדם לשנות מלבושו כפי התפתחות, התפתחות הטכנולוגית והתרבותית. So you're saying how we, literally the nature of fashion, fashion affects us. כן גם הופעת הלבוש במובן היותר הכללני, הבית, מקום משכנו וצביונו. So the house is also like a cloth, it's a לבוש for us, right? It surrounds us.
So the house itself also plays a role. משתנה כל הזמן and and what it looks like is always changing בהתאם להתפתחות הטכנולוגית והתרבותית, in accordance with whatever technological and cultural התפתחות, developments are taking place. כל השלטון של האדם על הטבע מורה על צורך בהשלמת עצמו. Man's governing over nature is just showing us how much man needs to continue to משלים himself.
הוא עדיין לא מצא את עצמו. Why is it when we go out to nature and we always say, I can breathe. Whenever we go out to nature, why does רבי נחמן say go and be real with me out in nature, go do התבודדות in nature? Because nature never changed. Never, it never evolved due to a certain, I don't know, what do you call it, no? Like a fashion trend.
There's no such thing. So why does man goes out there, oh wow, I could breathe again, because you're by something that was עשוי, that was already completed by השם. You're in that you're in that לעשות area. So you're able to express like the real you that is also like original.
That's longing that, yeah. That that that no, but but then that's the problem is that I can connect to what השם had in mind when he created me, but I can't connect to what השם had in mind when he completed me because he didn't complete me yet. But the but the trees could. They're in a state of completion.
Man isn't. So what happens to me when I go out to nature? I'm by things that are unaffected by trends, by anything outside. Why? Because it's מושלם already. Man has a longing to be one with nature.
The only problem is is that how does man become one with nature? By working on himself. How? By by working on himself, by doing your מצוות and תורה. With with a load of בלבבי energy in in what you just said, right? נכון. But that explains our what happens to us when we when we're out in nature, I can breathe again.
Why why? You have air where where you are as well. Because we're so מושפע from our surroundings. But when our surroundings... surroundings are not trying to do anything other than just be themselves, it reminds us for a second like, oh, that's right.
That's how השם designed the world. That's how השם created the world. Everything we said right now is based on is his pointing out of עשיה and בריאה. בריאה there's no לשון of עשיה by man yet.
We're working on that every single day. So far, so good? Okay. I was hoping we'd be done by now because you're gonna hate the next paragraph. I thought I could start next year by just saying this, then move on, but השם has it in his way.זהו חלק מתהליך השלמת האדם לקראת עתידו הצפוי.
This is part of the process of man completing himself towards his expected future. בהתאם לתוכנית האלוקית שהאדם יעשה. In accordance with the godly plan that man will do, meaning that man will complete. הלבוש בא לידי ביטוי מיוחד אצל האישה.
כידוע, אישה עומדת מול ארון בגדים מלא ואומרת אין לי מה ללבוש. Woman stands in front of her wardrobe and says, I have nothing to wear. And the husband's always standing there thinking, do you have crust in your? Do you not see what's in front of you? Are you kidding? אישה עומדת מול ארון בגדים מלא ואומרת אין לי מה ללבוש. Now, where does it come from? He's saying that's a very deep statement, actually.
That's the that's the cool part of this. He's saying: הנשים מודעות יותר מהגברים לצורך להשלים את עצמן, והוא מובע אצלן יותר. So what what did he just say right now? Does anyone want to give a crack at this? They're more aware. More aware of what? The fact that they need to complete themselves, that there's work that has to be done.
Meaning, you can't just throw something on. That doesn't work. Man's like, why not? All you got to do is just get dressed. Why doesn't a woman, why is a woman less inclined to talk like that? What are they aware of? What is the לבוש? There's a purpose for the לבוש.
It's not just throw something on. It's because what is because what what does it lead to? The completion. Feeling like yourself. To feeling like, to find yourself through through what you choose to surround yourself with.
A man's awareness is much, much less than that. It's not it's not something that they really they really pay that much attention to. I want to make sure that this that this point is clear. Cause this is the opening to the rest of this piece.
Is everyone hear what he's trying to say over here? By a woman's awareness towards דוקא לבוש. What did I say about men? You know there's some men who are very into it. Is that like a it's I was going to say that it's like a more modern thing where the gender have been a little bit intertwined, but I think that was all even though, I think it was always that there were certain men who were more into it, no? Could be. No.
Absolutely. What would you think it's called out on? Not as a rule, נכון, not as a כלל, but even if it is, it's actually a good סימן. It's a sensitivity thing, meaning women are more keyed with sensitive and and the men who are into that are usually more sensitive. They have more of a female.
Those men also care much more about how their wives look. Right now. Yeah? I think so. Could be.
Because they notice. Because they notice, yeah. I don't think it's necessarily a negative trait or like a bad thing for a man. Yeah.
It could be. But Esty's right, ככלל as a meaning on the level of like סתם like generally speaking, that's not the way as a כלל it is. And we always look at how השם created things in the כלל to understand, you know, it comes out of the כלל, but whatever we derive about certain things. Not about יוצא מן הכלל.Okay.
So, he says over here, יותר, he quotes here יותר ממה שאיש רוצה לישא אישה, רוצה האישה להינשא. That's not exactly a shocker in today's day and age. More than a man wants to marry a woman, a woman wants to be married. אבל אצל האישה בולט יותר הצורך הדחוף להשתנות, להיות במצב שלם יותר.
By a woman, the need to evolve and to be in a more completed state is more expressed. Man is not, the man does not have that same דחף פנימי, this inner desire to be evolving all the time. Their their concept of growth is usually more with like I would say in a holy way, is more like מידות and everything. And by a woman there's something about the world of fashion does משפיע on their need to be living with the times and be משלימת in a more beautiful way.
I should know. not be giving this שיעור. Today's שיעור. I think it's more of a need to create.
That's what's truly moving through you. Because a woman really, create anything, because a woman does create. That's where it's coming from. A woman does, she's more קשור to that נקודה of בריאה than the man can ever be.
However, creation of meaning she was create, you know. She, it's funny, the creation, because cuz man כביכול created, well כאילו it came from a man, but she's משלים the תמונה afterwards. The only thing is is that what's left for man? The world of בריאה if the woman is the one that's really מתעסקת in עולם הבריאה. Well, he has to think that he has to be בטל.
בטל. בטל. Let's talk about this at home. So now he brings this to our to our point over here.
בעידני גאולה, in in times of redemption, כשהצורך להביא את האומה להשלמתה מתחזק, and it was never more חזק than it is right now. This like, this national level of like realizing how much longer are we gonna continue being like this unless this שלמות starts taking place? עד מתי. הנשים in this era, הנשים מרגישות מזוהות ומשולבות יותר בקידומה. Women find themselves more identified with playing a role in the front than ever before.
That's what we started the שיעור off by saying. שזהו תפקיד היותר מיוחד. A much more important and special role than before. Because he's saying like this.
There's something in the air and there's something in the נשמה. In the air, there's this need of women's role, women's, excuse me, women's leadership בכל זה. Like with every מפלגה now, it used to be how many ביטחוניסטים do you have on your first five, which means how many people that served in the army in high ranks are in the first five seats of your מפלגה, because that's what people need. That's what people needed here for 60 years to feel like I can trust a certain political party because there's someone behind the הגה, behind the wheel that knows what they're doing when it comes to מדיני issues, when it comes to security issues.
Today, it's amazing. All the questions are, how many women do you have in your first five or six six seats? Because that means you're connected with the times. That's still on the outside. On the inside what we're speaking about is that there's a sense of we need to become שלם.
We need to we need to finish the בריאה. We need to put עשייה in the בריאה. We have to complete creation. And because we have to complete creation, who knows how to evolve more than anyone else? Who knows better than anyone how to get closer and closer with more of a שלמות feeling? The one that brings בריאה to this world on a physical level.
The woman. That's why women are, and I understand why this is saying the name of the בעל שם טוב it says, right before משיח comes, women will find their place again in the world. Makes perfect sense here. Women are going to find their place.
It's like for thousands of years, women didn't really know their their place. Don't tell me their place was not as much as we laugh and their, how can a human being's place be in the kitchen? How can a human being's place be in a place that's confining? How could that be? Like that's their, that's the הגדרה of their מקום? It's the source. Sorry? It's the source. No food, nothing, like it comes from the.
Even if it's the source, it's still can't, it's still very hard to say that there was ever a time where a woman's, a woman's מקום in this world is, defining her מקום in this world would be in the kitchen. Even if, let's say that in most houses, that's the way it might work. When we're talking right now on a נשמה level, a woman has not found her place yet in the world. Now it's coming at us from the other side, and we have to be very clear that's not how we're learning how what a where a woman's role is.
And the greatest example in the world is that what's happened now in America, that the women's march is basically a platform for straight out antisemitism. Straight out antisemitism. I'm sure you've followed the news recently. You haven't followed the news recently by the women's march in America? Last...
did anyone follow this? You did? Did you see what they you heard what it was was being said now? Watching like Ben Shapiro on his... Because they see it as they see יהדות and ציונות. They would never say that straight out, but what happens is that now on these women's... marches, there's a platform for it's BDS.
And now they're saying it straight out. Yeah, they you know, they're in line with Farrakhan basically. נכון, בגלל זה שקר. And what do you have? A bunch of confused יידן running to these women's marches singing songs of uh, uh עולם חסד יבנה and all these the easiest slogans that you can take and just ignore everything else the Torah says and get so confused and warped.
It's because as as פרומע women, like there are certain פרומע women that I think really are getting the picture, like ימימה מזרחי, very, very, very much. where the מלכות of a woman is being represented again in the world. I was with her, the first time I met her was in in Johannesburg in the שבת project, the first שבת project. So I went there to do the first חלה baking, was Thursday night.
streets of Johannesburg, 1500 women came to to do הפרשת חלה. It was it was it was it was ממש, I told the chief rabbi who was standing, I was like, I never thought I'd feel like the משיח coming would start here in Africa, but it felt like it. She gets up and she speaks, I was hanging in backstage with her husband, it's a really, really cool guy. talk about ביטול, he's so מבוטל to her, it's unbelievable.
And she was speaking about these like, he's like, why, she was saying not not in a in a haughty way but, איך אני נראית. She was trying to give them, like, איך אנחנו נראות? אנחנו נראות כמו בנות מלך. לא יותר הסמרטוטית שבמטבח. Something like that she was saying, right? That's done.
It shouldn't have never even been like that. Women are still trying to find their place in the world because it's clear that if we're feeling like we're closer to גאולה, the סימן will be that women have figured out more or less, that we've helped also create a space for how they play a role in not just that they are able to do more things, women's rights, but even on a level of הנהגה, of leadership, which that's the rest of this. I don't know if you were thinking we were going to get this far with this stuff, but we're talking about not just woman's role, woman's role in leadership in the זמן הגאולה. because you're gonna have to lead us in order to figure out how to be ממשילם לבריאה.
Yeah.So about what you said about women shouldn't be confined to the kitchen. So the whole, like for centuries, you know, especially in Judaism that women were, do you feel like it's just like the rest of the world was affecting Judaism's perception of women? You know what I'm saying? Cuz like, Right, I hear your question. women are going more out, like the, you know, the first Orthodox female judge and like women are taking Right. So is it like the world was affecting what the role of women should be? Because that's what women were in the world in general? I think it's true about the way men were as well.
I think the way the men were in יידישקייט was also very much affected by, yeah, standards of the world, but not to the same extent. I think by women it was it was even more felt because of the nature of women which which what we were speaking about. What do you, do you think so too? I don't know, I'm always wondering if it's like our roles are changing, you know, Jewish women are changing their roles because of the world around us or because that's what it was supposed to be but we were being confined.I I would now I retract what I said because I realized I never answer that question. uh, in front of you, because I it's not I don't think it's fair.
I I don't know. If I again, if I had to assume, it'd probably be that, but I'm not sure. What do you think? I don't know. Does anyone understand, does anyone understand what Tova brought up? Do you want to explain it a little bit clearer?Like the fact that it's more accepted that women are out in the world starting a like in in New York they're doing uh, one female הצלה or מד"א or something.
And like, and here also right? And like just the first female judge, no one's saying like that's not צניעות, but 100 years ago or something people would have. It'd be כפירה. It would be considered like a The whole woman's, like even the whole בית יעקב movement, like the fact that that girls go to school and learn stuff other than Torah is a response to what happened in our culture. Like you can't just continue to be living yesteryear because you're a frum person when the whole world is changing.
Like they נכון. came up with that. What so you're saying that it is a direct result of השפעה. It's a counter to to like whatever was before.
a response to society but within the means of, you know. It's a process of. Dresses, the dresses, you know, the שטריימל, that that's all society. Right.
So then so then comes dress like that, you know. Right. It's not. I don't think so.
And like what he said, it's a process of like getting closer to the שלמות, so like It's a process that that's that's really what he's saying. I mean he didn't he didn't get it he didn't get it too clearly yet, we're gonna get there. But he's saying if you have to understand the process of גאולה, you have to remember how how man was created in order to remember what the purpose of גאולה is as well. It's your, it's your השלמה.
It's the completion of you. It's your בריאה that's still not completed. But the חידוש here is that it's a woman's leadership that'll help all mankind, and that includes man, to be מושלם, to perfect wherever they need to perfect as well. So, this is, listen, this is just the beginning.
I thought it would take us two sessions, I see it's probably going to take us a little bit more. If you didn't write on the pages and you're okay with not doing חזרה all שבת over it, I'll take it back and I'll bring it back next week. In the פסוקים, it never comes to say that it's a woman yet. נכון.
Absolutely.