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What type of rest do we yearn for on Shabbat? How do we frame our mindset during the week to prepare for Shabbat and how can we transform our Shabbat experience? Using the teachings of Rabbi Yaakov Meir Shechter, a leading Breslov Rabbi, in his sefer Yom Machmadim, we build tools towards enhancing our ability to connect to the day of rest.
Okay, let's sing. I want to sing that nigun, that new nigun I wrote with my brother. If you remember it, sing it with me, okay?
נפשי חמדה בצל ידך לדעת כל רז סודך נפשי חמדה בצל ידך לדעת כל רז סודך נפשי חמדה בצל ידך לדעת כל רז סודך נפשי חמדה בצל ידך לדעת כל רז סודך אוי מדי דברי בכבודך הומה לבי אל דודך אוי מדי דברי בכבודך הומה לבי אל דודך Libi el dodecha Libi el dodecha Midei dabri bichvodecha הומה לבי אל דודך אוי מדי דברי בכבודך Libi el dodecha אוי מדי דברי בכבודך הומה לבי אל דודך אוי מדי דברי בכבודך הומה לבי אל דודך Libi el dodecha Libi el dodecha Midei dabri bichvodecha הומה לבי אל דודך אוי מדי דברי בכבודך Libi el dodecha אוי מדי דברי בכבודך הומה לבי אל דודך אוי מדי דברי בכבודך הומה לבי אל דודך Libi el dodecha Libi el dodecha Midei dabri bichvodecha הומה לבי אל דודך אוי מדי דברי בכבודך Libi el dodecha אוי מדי דברי בכבודך הומה לבי אל דודך אוי מדי דברי בכבודך הומה לבי אל דודך Libi el dodecha Libi el dodecha Midei dabri bichvodecha הומה לבי אל דודך אוי מדי דברי בכבודך Libi el dodecha נפשי חמדה בצל ידך לדעת כל רז סודך נפשי חמדה בצל ידך לדעת כל רז סודך אוי מדי דברי בכבודך הומה לבי אל דודך אוי מדי דברי בכבודך הומה לבי אל דודך Libi el dodecha Libi el dodecha Midei dabri bichvodecha הומה לבי אל דודך אוי מדי דברי בכבודך Libi el dodecha. Beautiful, Shkoiach, thank you Chaim.
Okay, good morning, Boker Tov, a Gutn Erev Shabbos.
גוטן ערב שבת קודש. Month of Shvat, the learning is sponsored by the Orman family לעילוי נשמת לוי בן יוסף. By the Silvers לעילוי נשמת בתיה פיגא בת ישראל.
Anonymously for the refuah sheleima of שרה בת רחל פיגא מלכה, Elka bas Perel, שושנה יונה בת עדיל, Hila bat Ilana, and Yisroel ben Adina. By the Pollacks לעילוי נשמת שמעון בן משה, Tzvi ben Mordechai, חיה רחמה בת רב אלתר נתן נטע. The week was sponsored by Reb Nechi and Amy Davidovics in memory of חיה רחמה בת רב אלתר נתן נטע, that's their daughter and Joni's sister. And this is anonymously sponsored, this breakfast is anonymously sponsored in honor of all of us, the Friday morning chevra, for elevating our shabbos through Torah and action.
Shkoach. Thank you, anonymous. Shkoach, everybody. All right, there's sefarim here for whoever needs.
What? He's my favorite person. He's great, he's gevalt, he's great. He should work on his anavah though. There's sefarim here for whoever needs.
And if you could please open up, we're getting close to the end of the sefer. Baruch Hashem. If you can open up to דף תקיג.
תקיג.
Is there one for Naftali? Can you pass one over here? Ein abayshan lamed. There you go, got to grab it. Okay. Anyos, welcome back.
Good to see you. You know I notice. I wish I didn't. Okay.
Sometimes, sometimes when it comes to these shiurim, so we have like quick nuggets and it's like these great vorts, but the truth is is that if they were like, if we took time with them, we would see that there's a whole development of a mahalach just through like a few lines over here. So where were we at in benching? We've gone from the beginning, from שיר המעלות בשוב ה את שיבת ציון היינו כחולמים. Remember hazorim bedima? haloch yelech uvocho. And then we did, we discussed, we were learning the first few brachos, the middle brachos.
Last erev shabbos, last Friday, we were learning why is it that הרחמן הוא ימלוך עלינו לעולם ועד. The Harachamans show up when kivyachol benching is more or less over. And we've discussed those that have that hetter or the minhag to not continue after yekhasreinu. And then during this week, chevra telling me this too, my benching got much longer.
It's another two minutes, but the benching got longer because they don't somech on that p'tur to end by yekhasreinu and now they're going into the end. Now we're going to, so we're going to the end. Benching is drawn up as mamash going up and up, it's a ladder, and there's a peak, there's this place where you start davening for Mashiach. You start davening for Mashiach full on from already like the middle and then till the end.
הרחמן הוא ישלח לנו את אליהו הנביא זכור לטוב ויבשר לנו בשורות טובות ישועות ונחמות. These are, this is pashut davening for Mashiach. But right before we finish, I mean, check this out. What do you feel when I do this, okay? Just, just what do you feel? What does that do to you? Like it's time to go home.
Like. It's the same vibe. It's the same exact vibe, right? Awful vibes, awful vibes, awful vibrations. In a weird way, it's like if you didn't understand, if we didn't understand that Adon Olam and I was playing before יראו את ה קדושיו, these are not, these are like pinnacle moments, these are actually very profound moments.
And that's why like in the shul we need a lot of help, every shul needs a lot of help with this inyan of like once we start talking about that the Master of the World created everything and there's nothing but Him and I put my faith and spirit in Him, the chevra already halfway out the door. Beseder, no one's doing it bechavana. Chas veshalom. No one's doing it bechavana.
But by benching, there's also this checkout already by the time we're by יראו את ה קדושיו כי אין מחסור ליראיו. Or I grew up also with that anthem. What is it from? The Notre Dame fight song. The Notre Dame fight song.
Fighting Irish. For יראו את ה קדושיו כי אין מחסור ליראיו.
שיר המעלות בשוב ה את שיבת ציון היינו כחולמים. Anti-Semite.
It's. You understand. So these words, this inyan, this inyan's going to definitely, what we're going to see today will definitely pop open something that I think is very, I know I could speak about it personally, is very much needed by the end of benching. So if you look in דף תקיג, יראו את ה קדושיו, מרגלא בפומיא דכבוד קדושת אדוני.
This inyan's going to definitely what we're going to see today will definitely pop open something that I think is very I know I could speak about it personally is very much needed by the end of benching. So if you look in תקי"ג, יראו את ה' קדושיו, מרגלא בפומיה דכבוד קדושת אדוננו אבי אדוני מורי ורבי זכותו יגן עלינו, this is what the Rav Biederman is saying about his mesorah, his father, לפרש משמיה דהרה קדוש בעל הבית אהרן מקארלין זכותו יגן עלינו, he would quote in the name of the Karliner Rebbe, shehakadoshim, if you're in the machaneh of holiness, וכל מי שברצונו להתקרב לעבודת השם, but anyone that has a desire to come close to avodas Hashem, that I hope and pray that we would consider ourselves in that machaneh, that when we come here it's to just it's really like not complicated, it's to really just become eved Hashem, to get close to Hashem. So ישימו כל מאוויהם אך ורק לקנות ולהשיג יראת שמיים. They would put all their ma'aveihem.
What does that word mean? Desires. Nachon, all their ratzonos, all that all that they want. They put all that they want only for one purpose to to be koneh something, to have make a kinyan on something. What's that thing called? Yiras shamayim.
Now, this is this is a very important sentence over here. That means like how do I know where I'm holding? What am I investing in? What am I investing what am I trying to achieve? What am I trying to conquer? I'm trying to conquer I'm trying to grasp, I'm trying to be holding in the parshah that's called yiras shamayim. Yiras Hashem.
כי אין מחסור ליראיו, because there's no nothing lacking to those that have this.
מי שקנה יראת שמיים לא יחסר לו כלום הן ברוחניות ואף גם בגשמיות. You think he would only say ruchnius, nachon? He actually says also also in gashmius, that you'll that that it'll be a metzius that nothing is lacking. Now, stam I'm asking why would he say that someone that's koneh yiras shamayim wouldn't be lacking anything in gashmius? Because you won't feel you're lacking anything. It's not that you won't have it's not that you'll have all these geshmahkest things that that that you've been dying for, that you've been chaloshing for the Tesla, you've been chaloshing for that vacation in who knows where or or other things.
It means that those things you won't be lacking anything gashmi. Because for you, that doesn't it's not a ratzon in each person in their own context. It you won't feel the need for it. So therefore you won't lack it.
If I don't have the need for it, I won't lack it. But I want to להתעכב קצת על העניין הזה, because I think it's very important.
יראו את השם קדושיו כי אין מחסור ליראיו, a person that's put his his work and his focus on becoming someone that's koneh yiras shamayim. To be koneh, make a kinyan on yiras shamayim.
Without going ish betzar lo on us where we say הכל בידי שמיים אפילו יראת שמיים, talking about just bichlal the concept of yiras shamayim. What does that mean to be koneh yiras shamayim? How do you koneh yiras shamayim? It's a great vort. It's a phenomenal vort. It's a beautiful thing.
I'm hopefully that it'll put a dent in our benching in a good way.
יראו את השם קדושיו כי אין מחסור ליראיו, which means I want to feel like I'm not lacking anything. I'm going to do ishtadlus in being koneh yiras shamayim. What is it how do you koneh yiras shamayim? How does someone acquire this? So there's there's so many different answers to that question, obviously.
There's so many different answers to that question. When you look at a lot of the sefarim that have be written written that have be been written in our generation and the ones that are really speaking to the youth today, it does sound a little bit different than maybe a sefer that would have been written 100-200 years ago about the inyan of kinyan, kinyan, making a kinyan in yiras shamayim. It does sound a little bit different, but it's really mevusas on the same exact yesodos that have always been. One of them is that a person has to be learning the sefarim that speak about these things even if they're less exciting.
Okay? Even if they're less exciting. You have to invest time in learning the sefarim that would be mashrish into you the inyan of yiras shamayim. Like what? Mesilas Yesharim. Orchos Tzaddikim.
Derech Hashem. Now, just by the way, those are the most fast I'm stam saying not exciting keilu l'umad getting high on a vort, but those sefarim are are unbelievable. They're unbelievable. Befrat the Ramchal.
Befrat the Ramchal. Bemes, like stands out for me mikulam that the Ramchal. The Ramak also, Reb Moshe Cordovero, Tomer Devorah. But these sefarim, just speaking these learning these sefarim, do it.
It's not something like I'm I sit there to I meditate enough until it comes down. A kinyan happens through maaseh. A kinyan happens through action. A kinyan happens through consciousness and by saying this is what I'm going for.
I'm going for... this to point at it and say I'm going for this. For what? I want to be a better Jew, holier Jew, all that's nice. I want to be koneh yiras shamayim.
But for many people that phraseology, the terminology of yirat shamayim is also very frightening. In fact, I'd rather not be koneh yirat shamayim. I want to know that it exists, and I'll tap in when it's noach for me. But Hashem wants me to also enjoy this world.
And I don't know if I'll be able to truly enjoy this world if I'm in this kinyan yirat shamayim zone. And now this is a big machlokes in the world of Mercaz Harav. Not big machlokes, it's a machlokes around those that still wonder what did Rav Kook have in mind? Because Rav Kook in Mercaz they speak a lot about you have to have limud emunah. You have to have shiurim in emunah.
Lilmod emunah. So how did רב צבי יהודה הכהן translate that into fruition into lema'aseh? What sefer did that mean according to Reb Tzvi Yehuda? The Kuzari. The Kuzari. Now that's a very interesting thing and like Kuzari ad hasof.
Kuzari. Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi. Like ad hasof. People wonder sometimes if his father was alive, what book would he actually prescribe today? What would it be today? So of course, Breslover say, of course they're going to say Likutey Moharan, right? But it's a shayla.
So how do you actually koneh yirat shamayim to be able to say יראו את השם קדושיו כי אין מחסור ליראיו, harbe derachim lamakom and what may work for me won't work for you, and vice versa. I don't know.
יש הרבה הרבה מקומות. I was learning a sicha yesterday about the segulas, all the different segulas you do for kabbalas yirat shamayim also.
Tons of different segulas have to do with a million different things. But all I feel like we could do today is to try to know, how do you know if you're koneh yirat shamayim or not? How to get there? There's a lot of different ways. But I want to talk to you, I want to learn with you, how do you actually know if you're in the parsha or not of kinyan yirat shamayim? And we're learning one os today from Middot HaRa'ayah. We're doing a little bit different today from Rav Kook on the concept of yirat shamayim, the concept of yirat Hashem, which will help us know how to determine whether we've entered the parsha or not, we've entered the sugya or not.
Because what I said before could be very deterring for a minute. I'm actually finally happy with my balance of Yiddishkeit. Like I'm actually happy with the healthy shigra, the routine that I have. That may not be yirat shamayim and I'm maybe okay with where I'm holding.
Rav Kook describes to us over here, how do you know if you're in that parsha or not? So this is from Middot HaRa'ayah. The chevra from the machon have been learning this with Rav Shalom Weissberg for quite some time. From Rav Kook's Middot HaRa'ayah, this is a beautiful, beautiful thing. Rav Kook says like this, Yirah, Os Gimmel.
There's like, I think, eight or nine otiyot in there. This is Middot HaRa'ayah, Os Gimmel. Are there enough pages in the back? It reached the back?
המושג של יראת השם, this concept called yirat Hashem, יראו את השם קדושיו, this concept called yirat Hashem, הוא מוסיף עוז וגבורה בנפש האדם המבין אותה בטהרתה. So first of all, Yirah in my heart, Yirah infused in me would mean that I feel stronger.
I'm just going to say this as hard as it is to say these Rav Kook's words in a poshut way, but we're going to try to do. I feel like a stronger person, I feel that I have more courage.
עוז וגבורה בנפש האדם who understands what yirat Hashem really is in its purity. That's how I would know, that's the first thing he says.
That's how I would know if I'm on my way to making a kinyan on yirat Hashem.
היא עושה את החיים מלאים עניין ושאיפות גדולות. If I have yirat Hashem, it doesn't mean that I become an introvert and have to run away from the world. Afoch.
What does it produce in me? Tremendous aspirations, sheifos gedolos. I love how he says here, היא עושה את החיים מלאים עניין. It could sound very slangy also. Yesh inyan.
Meaning it makes life filled with options and interesting and motivating. And also and also this inyan of you are a person with aspirations. And these aspirations are produced and the yira ממלאה אותם ברוחניות נשגבה. And it fills your aspirations with this elated state of spirituality.
Now that does not mean that we're only speaking about spiritual aspirations. It could mean we're speaking tachlis, Hashem gave me a good kopf for business, I'm gonna go out, I have this aspiration to go and kill it this year. However, it fills my aspiration with already all the planning of what I'm going to do with all the gelt that I'm going to make. It fills me with thinking about that Yeshiva's going to get that, that Beis Medrash is going to get that, my children are going to get that, whatever that spiritual thing is, but it doesn't mean that you're suddenly turned off from everything that has to do with this world and it's just you have an aspiration only to become a Talmid Chochom.
No, you have an aspiration to use the kochos Hashem gave you and do it even more but it fills you with spiritual kavana. Okay? Maybe that's what he meant before by lo begashmiut. Oh, in here, ken, ken. Yachol lihiyot.
המזככת את כשרונות הנפש באור אש קודש. This aspiration together with this elated spirituality refines the kishronos, the talents of the soul, be'or esh kodesh, with the light of holy fire. All of us have talents and we use them, hopefully a lot. However, they're not usually—it's not not usually, sometimes they're not, like he says over here, they're not mezukach with kishronos shel esh kodesh, באור של אש קודש.
We use our talents but we don't use them in a manner that produces what he's speaking about over here. That's without Yirat Shamayim. Yirat Shamayim comes into the picture, the most amazing thing happens. That which is so embedded in me, these kishronos, these talents that my nefesh have suddenly are filled with the light of holy fire.
Omnam. Now he says over here the down—not the downside, but the chashash to be aware of. Omnam, lapeta'im, petti, to the fools, היא מתייצבת כסמל של הבהלה. You know what havhala means? You never heard arutzei hatavhela? Havhala, behala.
Yeah, but the type of shock that that's almost like, oy vay, like, oh no. Hagoremet rifyon, which causes this weakening, ve'ye'ush, and despair, ve'chesron onim, and I don't have any chance. Rav Kook says understand you're going to go through something. In the beginning what may happen to you is that this moment of saying, wow, this is actually what I want, and then it starts to happen, meaning a kinyan of Yirat Shamayim, it may first come to you in the form of this means that I can't do anything, this means I'm doomed and it means I don't have a chance.
Why? Because tachlis, come on, Yirat Shamayim? That's what I'm going to be koneh now? Do you know what I was—do you know what I was watching last night? You're going to talk to me now about Yirat Shamayim? Do you know how—you know what I'm—not just what I was watching last night, do you know what I'm going to watch tonight? Forget about last night. Do you know how my luach hashidurim is tonight? Forget about yesterday. My plans for for later. Rav Kook says so the for the petti, for the fool, for the one that doesn't chap, it'll just make you weak, this thing of like Yirat Shamayim and oh, I'm good.
I believe in Hashem, that's all I know that I need to be doing. Yirat Shamayim and all those things, it's going to make me into a very weak shvach gefilte fish handshake type of person, lo meunyan, I'm not interested. Zot hahashpa'ah, Rav Kook says, hi ra'ah me'od. When that's how—when that's the aftershock of a moment of Yirat Shamayim, this is not—it means it wasn't Yirat Shamayim.
U'lech'shetitpashet, and when this mindset spreads, היא גורמת התקוממות על כלל עול מלכות שמיים. Now it comes against the whole concept of what ol malchut shamayim means to you.
מהצעירים שטעמו טעם חיים איתנים שמבקשים בצדק חיים בלא בעתה ופלצות כי אם מלאי אומץ וביטחון וגבורה. The youth, that have a—it says hatzeirim, the young people of the world, hopefully we're still holding on to that age group, that demographic to a certain extent.
They have this, and Rav Kook writes about this a lot in Maamar Hador, they have this ratzon to be. And the youth that they טעמו טעם חיים איתנים, they finally, I don't know at what age, but they tasted a life of strong life. You're doing something, you feel good about yourself. You feel good about yourself.
You're going to come and tell me now the whole inyan is to go into this Yirat Hashem thing which may make me feel weak? He says what are they looking to do? They're looking to live a life of justice that doesn't freak them out too much. They want and they have, they're filled with confidence, bitachon and gevurah. Don't, don't mess with me. Let me just do my thing.
Rav Kook says this comes from a total misunderstanding of what Yirat Hashem really is. Yes. Okay, so I've spent a lot of time thinking about what Yirat Hashem really is. And it's not, in English, it's not fear, that's Pachad Hashem.
Yirat Hashem comes from the root of yira, to see Hashem. See Hashem in everything. Everything. And therefore it's expansive.
It's awe. It's how awesome is Hashem. And when you say how awesome is Hashem, you're opening up. It's in everything.
But you know what the peti does? Listen, I think I shared this last week with some of the chevra. You know the mishna that says, it's a good Tu B'Shevat Torah, the one that's hamalech, you're learning, you're on your way, you're learning and then you notice מה נאה אילן זה and you notice a beautiful tree and the mishna says הרי זה מתחייב בנפשו which means you're going to have to, the way we learned growing up means if you're learning and something is doing a bitul torah to you, then you're mitchayiv benafsho, right? The Baal Shem Tov flipped that whole Torah over. It's good. And the Baal Shem Tov says no, no, no, if you're learning and you notice something beautiful and for you that's an interruption from your relationship with God, you're mitchayiv benafshecha.
Wow. What a Torah. What a gevaldik Torah, right? Meaning Yirat Hashem that I see Hashem in everything. But the way a whole generation was trained to think is that I only see Hashem when I'm learning and I'm davening.
That is such a petty, shallow God in my opinion. Right. It's like yira is also yira otiyot aryeh. It's like seeing a lion in person.
There's a little aspect of fear, but really you're in awe, wow, look at this and the Creator that created this. Raziel, chazak. Nachon me'od. Nachon me'od.
Omnam, third paragraph.
הציור המפיל איזו אימה, the visualization of Yirat Hashem that actually puts a lot of fear into you, הוא גם כן מכלל ישוב העולם והכשרו המוסרי. He's saying it also is part of the whole zach of how the way the world works. Without getting too into word-by-word translation over here.
That's also part of the zach. Zot omeret, Yirat Hashem is not only I see Hashem in everything. If you see Hashem in everything, that would mean that there's certain things that you can't do if you see Hashem in everything. Certain ta'avas you just can't do.
No, I see Hashem in the ta'ava. No, don't give me that. If you see Hashem in the ta'ava and you actually see Hashem while you're about to engage in the ta'ava, then that would put an eimah on you. That would put an eimah and pachad on you.
So Rav Kook says even though that's not the ideal state of spending every second of our life with eimah, however, it's miklal, this is very good, it's in the order of nature. Meaning this tziyyur is, it's a good thing to have. It's Yosef with Yaakov. Right.
Right. That's a, that's a gevaldika, you know, the Gemara in Sotah I think tells us that, right? Rashi quotes it from the Gemara. Nachon. I was going to pull Yosef up also.
It's Yosef in the bore. Because even though there were things in the bore, he had yirat shamayim so he knew those things weren't going to touch him. Ah, I mean he's saying it a little bit differently. He's saying the yira prevented him from doing an aveira.
You're saying the yira prevented him from freaking out. Right. So it's in everything in the tzadik's life. Omnam הציור המפיל איזו אימה הוא גם כן מכלל ישוב העולם והכשרו המוסרי, she-ra'ui lippol eimah.
You know what? There should be eimah. On who?
על הכושלים במעלות המוסריות. There should be, there should be an eimah over those that are, that are failing when it comes to being mentchen, maalot musariyot. People of ethics, people of values.
שכל חטא לא תעצור באדם מלבוא תאות לבו המזונה. That there should be a something that prevents you from from activating the impulse. Ve'etzel reshaim ka'eleh, by these types of reshaim that are filled with taivos of he says, va-etzel reshaim ka'eleh hachizayon shel pichadim, the visualization of fears שמיצטייר על ידי מושג יראת השם that comes about this notion of yiras Hashem הוא חזיון של אמת. That's their emes.
That's their truth. Meaning people that are indulged in taivos all the time, for them to take the concept of yiras Hashem to mean this like eima va'pachad thing, Rav Kook says good, good. It should be. Because they need something to freak them out.
They do need something to freak them out, to prevent them, to give them that shock. That's a good thing.
מה עם יראת חטא? Mah zeh?
זה יראת שמים או יראת חטא? It's called we we would call it yira tata'ah. A lower level of yira, but it's still yira.
And it's important. And it's actually you can't get to yiras Hashem you can't. The Mesillas Yesharim says you can't. It has to be like that.
The Bilvavi goes very, very extensively long on the different and and the Nesivos Shalom, the differentiation between the two, but don't think you could jump to yiras Hashem without a basic concept of yiras chet. Lo yachol lihyos. It's a good though children of when we were children we were told that yiras Hashem is pachad Hashem really. Is that good that we're teaching them that? Is that giving them the basic? Not if that's the end game.
Not if that's the end game. And not if it's even within the yira there's love. If there's no love within the yira also, it's not good because it's just this this yira game. That's what they grow up with, you know? So no, no.
But it's essential that it's part of the mahalach, right? Our children don't fall under the category of of the what Rav Kook described here about the reshaim hazonas libam, that's not that's not what it is. So again, ואצל רשעים כאלה החזיון של פחדים שמיצטייר על ידי מושג יראת השם הוא חזיון של אמת. That's actually emes. It's not an illusion.
That's true. That's their truth. Where they're at, that's what they need. The visualization of such things.
מפני שבאמת ההנהגה האלוקית העידה שהיא קנא ונוקם לצרב. We sing this, and it's a very funny thing that we sing Friday night. Kel kanno ve'nokem. These are heavy words, right? Hashem is kanno ve'nokem, meaning there's this is 101 Torah.
You're gonna have there will be a bill at the end of the meal. Not because you did something wrong per se, rather that's just the way the world works. Ein mah la'asos. There's that category of yiras Hashem, but hopefully that's not what we're stuck in.
Hopefully. However, now Rav Kook says how do you know, how do you know again if yiras Hashem is a kinyan that has become something that you've acquired? So in the beginning we said, I feel stronger. I feel there's strength, I feel like there's courage in my heart. Not rifyon, not weakness.
I feel strong. I feel filled with aspirations. I feel like I feel like what was President Hussein's campaign in 2008? Change. Hope and change.
Yes we can, right? That, keilu I the tikkun of that in all in all in all ways, right? Yes we can, right? So therefore, therefore you have this yes we can I'm filled with like with gevurah, with with with might, inner might. Sometimes people have a lot of good thoughts, aspirations, and the second they start thinking about them for more than one second, they're filled with pachad of are they worthy? Are they not worthy? That's not Rav Kook says that's not yiras Hashem. That that's that's the other side coming and taking a jab at you. Mamash.
Maybe that's what makes them reshaim. That's what leads them to become I'm not going to give definitions here. I don't know. A narrow vision of Hashem.
Yachol lihyos, lo yodeia. That's what we learned in Nefesh HaChaim. The idea of Beis Avadim, yeah. Okay, so now he says like this.
Bottom paragraph.
וחזיון של תועלת גדול יש בזה גם כן. So this vision, this visualization, it really has a benefit though for for the bigger picture.
שמכל מקום היראה מחלשת את הכוחות הרעות.
You need to have yiras chet at a certain shlav because at a certain shlav what does it do in the beginning... It weakens the bad powers, the bad strength, the bad potential, ומשיבה על ידי זה גם את הרעים שבבני אדם לדרכי יושר. So and it returns those that are the evil ones to hopefully a path of straightness and tzedek. But now look what he says.
This is the key. And I give us a bracha this should be we should feel shayach to this. Well, you don't know what he's going to say, but you said amen. Na'ase v'nishma.
It's a bracha from you. I mean, come on. Na'ase v'nishma. That's a total na'ase v'nishma moment over there.
אבל הניגשים אל ה' בתלמוד תורה ובבקשות מעלות מוסריות. But when I open up a sefer and I actually my davening is not only about please make sure I have money, but there's much more to my davening. My davening is Hashem, please, I want to be a person with maalot, I want to be a person with true anava, with true ahava, with true simcha, with true bitul. That that is my tefillah.
שהם כמובן רחוקים מכל תועבה רעה. These people that are kamuvan they understand in order to get to this place of learning like this, of davening like this, that the taivas cannot be part of my life.
צריכים להשכיל ביראת ה' ציור, then you have to also do a visualization, but a different type of visualization.
צריכים להשכיל ביראת ה' ציור שמרומם ומחיה את כל הכוחות הנפשיות.
Then your visualization is I'm standing before Kisse Hakavod. Now, just to for the halachists in the room, I know what you may be thinking. There is a machloket Rambam Ra'avad whether a person's able to do a tziyur of Kisse Hakavod or anything that has to do with Hashem. So kamuvan we have an interesting dialogue and we have an interesting machloket about this because the Torah did choose to use very much graphic, physical graphic images kiviyachol of the Ribbono Shel Olam.
Even saying the words Vayidaber Hashem is problematic for the person that's trying to connect to the to the concept of real Elokut. The Ra'avad says that if you want to be this is in Bnei Machshava Tova because he he has to basically in the beginning of Bnei Machshava Tova he has to give a whole hechsher to his talmidim with the art of visualization of coming before Kisse Hakavod. So the Piaseczner Rebbe there says and יש על מי לסמוך, you can be somech on the Ra'avad that says that if I'm using these visualizations only for one purpose only, to me'orer my heart to serve Hashem better, then it's mutar. But if it's taking you to a place of thinking that you have a concept of what it looks like, stop at that moment, don't continue.
Here Rav Kook is saying I think that those that are looking to enter this higher chamber of yirat Hashem, they need a tziyur, they need a visualization, but what kind of visualization do they need? One that sees I mean, we had the greatest and we still have it, the greatest visualization ever. What's a tziyur of something that gives you the strength to do whatever you need to do? I'll show you. Actually, you do it with your right arm. Yes.
That no, no, but I mean it's k'ilu I'm being funny but b'emet b'pnimiyut that's exactly that. Stam, this says much more than than you really think you need to hear in order to get This is a yirat Hashem movement. What do you mean? No, this is farbreng, this is hafatza. No.
This is מלוא כל הארץ כבודו, go and shine your light. This gives you oz v'gvurah. That's what it is. That's the tziyur.
This one tnu'ah. It gave Rebbe everything he needed. It gave Rebbe everything he needed. Yeah, like Rav Weinberger said, this one thing gave him everything he ever I think I shared with you one time I had a dream that I had three dreams with the Rebbe in my life and one of them was chasing after him after he came out of the car going into 770 and I ran after him and I said to him I wanted to get his attention and I said to him in Yiddish איך בין א צעבראכענער כהן and he said to me, no you're not, and he went like this and the dream was over.
Wow. Never, you know, he was like the most amazing thing, it was the most amazing thing in the world. I remember such a I remember this was like 20 years ago, this dream. I remember, just and he said no you're not, and he answered me in English and he said no you're not.
This This is the tziyur that doesn't just look at this. Yirat Hashem, shemeromem, second to bottom line, שמרומם ומחיה את כל כוחות הנפשיות. You need a tziyur, a visualization, that at that instant it lifts up all of your kochos, of all your potential and capabilities to take it to the go there. Yirat romemut.
So he says over here this is very important. This produces yirat romemut, David Yoshua, the higher level of yira, and Yosef be'emet, this is what you were bringing up, yirat haromemut, the real type of yira. But for many people the real type of yira is paralyzing. Rav Kook says that's not the real type of yira.
That may be yira tata for those that need to be paralyzed for a few minutes before they go on the next website. That's a good thing. The next shlav is the one that fills you. Yirat romemut שיש עמה אהבה ועדן פנימי.
This yira has with it love and inner eden. What a great name of an album, Inner Eden. Eden pnimi. Eden pnimi.
והתענג על השם ויתן לך משאלות לבך. So now when we go back to benching, this is where it came from right? Think about it for a second.
יראו את השם קדושיו כי אין מחסור ליראיו. Why? Because if you are koneh yirat shamayim, you don't need anything else.
Why? Because with that kinyan on yirat shamayim, it means, it doesn't mean I have acquired a mida and now I'm sitting with this mida. It means the aftermath of it is how do I know I was koneh yirat shamayim for real? Do I feel alive? Do I have a cheshek to do? Do I have a cheshek to go? Do I have a cheshek to take my aspirations because now they're filled with gevaldig ruchni, a ruchni lining? And when I have that, יראו את השם קדושיו כי אין מחסור ליראיו. So this should Baruch Hashem, there's a seuda now, you don't have to wait till... well it depends if you stop by yechasreinu or not but there's a seuda right now.
I give us a bracha, chevre, chaveirim, to have yirat haromemut, yira ila'ah and which will lead us to feel that like we say Yonatan Razel has a beautiful niggun on this. Is it Yonatan or Aaron? They sing it together.
השם אלוהיך עמך לא חסרת דבר. Hashem elokecha...
it's a great niggun. Do you guys know this niggun?
השם אלוהיך עמך לא חסרת דבר.
השם אלוהיך עמך לא חסרת דבר. Whatever the visualization that you need to fill you with this should fill you and go for it, go for the gold be'ezrat Hashem.
Shkoyach.