Speaker 1Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great excitement and pleasure to welcome you back to our insert your superlative here, i.e. incredible, amazing, wondrous, magical, and fantastical Kabbalah course called Kabbalah and the Hidden Architecture of You. This is an absolutely astounding course, and I hope you're enjoying it. Tonight, we take it to the next level, but first, I begin with a joke for our contract. I know, I know, I know. You're like, a joke? Listen, that's it. We always start with a joke. Jewish mother walks her child, her son, to the school bus for his first day of kindergarten, and she says the following, please behave, my bubbala. She says, take good care of yourself and think about your mother who's waiting for you. Tasha! And then she says, and come right back home on the bus after school, my shepsala. And she says, remember, your mommy loves you a lot, my ketsala. And the kid goes to school, and then the bus pulls up on the way back. She runs to her child, and she says, bubbala, the love of my life, what did you learn on this first day of school? And he says, my learn, my name is David. That's the joke. That's the joke. All right. There's one thing I want to say at the top. Prepare to be amazed. It's not a mental issue, but this is Kabbalah. But prepare to be amazed. What we're going to study today is mind-blowing, astounding, and life-changing. And we're going to encounter some of the most magical teachings of Kabbalah that have a practical message. And we're going to have a message for you and me right here, right now. So here's where we're at. Let's reset. How do we get here? Where are we? So in lesson one, we looked inside, and we talked about how the soul bubbles forth and permeates so much of our physical lives that we might not always associate with soulful energy and activities. The soul is driving those, too. That was lesson one. In lesson number two, we looked up. Not in, we looked up, and we discovered how the human being is created in the image of God, upon which we asked, God having an image. That doesn't sound so Jewish. We explained, no, according to Kabbalah, it means the image of the mystical sephirot energies, the ten energies that God has interwoven within creation. The mosaic of life itself, God has imprinted and implanted this template, this sephirot DNA upon you and me. And that was lesson two. In lesson three, last week, we talked about specific personality and what differentiates you from me and me from you. And we said that every person has. A slightly different temperature formula of the ten sephirot. We all have the same ingredients. The ratios vary. And that determines your specific personality. We also talked last week about reincarnation and how our previous iteration, or the previous iteration of our soul, necessarily and dramatically impacts who we are, what our character is, and what our mission and purpose is all about. And that was last week. So far, so good. And if it ended here, Dayenu, we would say this course, you would also say I would like a 50% refund because pretty much I paid for six lessons. But content-wise, I think this has been amazing. Get ready to completely surpass everything we've done up until now with tonight's class. Impossible, you say? Watch as we pull it off tonight. My friends, tonight we go Kabbalistic, which is not a thing, but maybe it should be. Tonight we go Kabbalistic. And we explore how not just do the spiritual energies shape our identity from the beginning, but how spiritual forces, divine forces, continue to impact and communicate with us and guide us and direct us every moment of our lives. Again, let me differentiate last week and this week. Last week, it's how those divine forces shape how you come into the world. Tonight, it's how divine forces continue to shape you as you grow and journey your journey of life. Does that make sense? That's the whole theme. That's the theme. Everything we talk about tonight is going to be the same idea. How God continuously communicates with us. Let's begin. We begin. At the beginning. Birth. Question for everybody. Were you born? Oh, come on. I know you were. I see you right here. Everyone in this room was born. At some point in time, you emerged into the world. And when that happened, something else happened alongside with it that is almost miraculous. And you know what that is? Your parents named you. Now, you might be thinking, miraculous? They just named me after Bubby or Zadie. What kind of miracle? I'm glad you asked. Let's look at Kabbalah. We begin with text number one. What page? Who's got the page here? Page 104. Dr. Izikov, Julian, do you mind please reading text number one from Rabbi Chaim Vital, who is the pen, the student, the primary student, but also serves as the pen, meaning the, um, the recorder of the wisdom of the Arizal, the mysticism of Rabbi Isaac Luria. Please take it away where it says when a child is born. A child is born and the father and mother call the child's name as it comes to their mind.
Speaker 2This is not bread and milk or any of the bread and milk. Rather, the blood places in their mouths the very name necessary for their soul, corresponding to the specific source.
Speaker 3And there's a bit of odds about which the soul can be seen.
Speaker 1Thank you very much for reading that. Let's focus in on this text. It's very important as we kick off tonight's class. The Arizal says, he teaches the following. You might think that you know why you named your child by the way, whatever you named it. You might think that you were named for a specific reason, but God has another reason. And the reason is because that's the name that's necessary for your soul. Now you might be wondering, a name is necessary for the soul. Who says, hold on, we're going to get there. This is the Arizal. The Arizal says that every soul needs a name. Why? We'll talk about that in a second. And thus, to get it right, God slips the name to the parents. Now the parents are unaware. The parents, when you were named, your parents thought they had their own reason for giving you your name. Little did they know, according to Kabbalah, that it was God feeding them that information. So the parent thinks, this reason, that reason, I like the name, it's a tribute, it's a this, it's a that, all good reasons. And yet, or, and in addition to that, or maybe primarily, it's God's work. God pulling the strings to make sure that that idea popped into the parent's mind, that that idea is what won the day, as it were, in naming the child. Now let's get to the question. Let's get to the core issue.
Speaker 4Does that make sense for a name like Ari, or Obed, that has meaning, especially in Hebrew, like this is for Jews, right? But to, I won't name anyone else, but say Bobby, like
Speaker 1that makes sense. Asking for a friend. Right. So, Bobby, here's the thing, what's fascinating about text number one is that it did not say that this is only true of the Hebrew name. And so, let's actually form it as a question. Is this only about Hebrew names, or is this about all names? Hold that thought. We're going to circle back to it in a second. But first, I want to address the core point that the Arizal says, which is that the name that God slips to the parents is the name that's necessary for that soul. Why would a soul need a name? That doesn't seem to be a thing. So let's talk about that for a second, and we're going to continue with our Kabbalistic exploration. Kabbalah teaches, and we'll read this soon, and we'll talk about Hebrew for a second, that Hebrew is a special language. Hebrew is the language of creation. When the Torah tells us, when the Bible says that God said, "Let there be light," and God said, "Let there be light." Let there be light. "Let there be light." "Let there be light." What language did God speak in? God did not speak in English or in French or in Spanish. God spoke in Hebrew. Hebrew is the original language. Remember the story, the biblical story about the Tower of Babel? The Tower of Babylon, where the people kind of were working together to build a tower to contend with God. And God says, Yeah, I don't think so. And he confused the languages. He split the nations into 70 different languages, 70 different cultures. culture. That is the origin of diversity amongst nations, nationalities, cultures, and languages. Until that point in time, which took place after the great flood in the times of Noah, everyone spoke a single language, which is Lashon Kodesh, the holy tongue. Hebrew is very special, which reminds me of a joke. A husband and wife, both are wanting coffee, but feeling a little tired in the morning, Sunday morning. And so they're trying to tell each other to make the coffee. And the wife says, it says in the Bible that you should make the coffee. And he says, where does it say that? She says, Hebrews. Hebrews. Should have stopped right before that joke. As I always say, it hurts me more than it hurts you. Nonetheless, here we are. Hebrews is a special language. It's the language of creation. It's the language, the mystics tell us, that the Hebrew letters below mirror Hebrew letters above. Where does it say it? Conveniently, in text number two. Larry, please read text number two from the Zohar, primary work of Kabbalah, text 2106.
Speaker 5Corresponding letters. Just as there are lofty letters in the higher world, so there are corresponding letters below. The upper superior letters correspond one-to-one with the lower inferior letters.
Speaker 1And this is speaking of Hebrew. There are, thank you for reading that, there are higher letters, there are lower letters. Just like, simply speaking, just like we have a language. And by the way, you think in language also. Right? If you're a native, if your native language is a different. Language, am I saying that correctly? You might be thinking in a different language. Who thinks in a different language than English? Anybody? Oh, what are you thinking? There you go.
Speaker 5I'm sorry, I said it.
Speaker 1You think in Hebrew. Nice. Counting is the hardest.
Speaker 5I still count in Hebrew.
Speaker 1Counting in your head or out loud?
Speaker 5Like money, whatever you count, it's like easier.
Speaker 1Is it worth more in Hebrew or it's the same? How's the shekel doing? Nice. All right. I hope it all works out ultimately at the end. So here's the deal. I wanted to tell you something, Ari. A voice from the heavens. Hey, mom. How's it going?
Speaker 4I wanted to tell you something interesting that it fits right in here. That, you know what, after we come back from Israel, you know, I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. I lived there for 10 years. We lived there for two years. But I came back, and for at least five years after, I dreamt in Hebrew. I dreamt in Hebrew while I was there. Wow. I dreamt in Hebrew.
Speaker 1Yeah. Wow. Nice. My mom dreamt in Hebrew after she came back. Wait, yeah, I was born in Israel. You can tell my heavy accent. Super heavy accent. You used to say, instead of hot, you used to say hot. Right. All right. Hold on to that thought, because we're going to keep on blitzing. So Hebrew is a special language. The letters above mirror the letters below. And what that means is just like there's language that you and I are very familiar with. We use language. We think in language, right? So there's also language above. In fact, what is the Hebrew word for letter? What's a letter in Hebrew? Ot. Ot. What's the plural of letter? Letters. Otiot. And what does ot also mean aside from letter? Sign. Well, guess what the mystics tell us. Why is a letter an ot, which also means sign? Because the physical letter is a symbol, a sign of a supernal letter, a spiritual letter on high. Now, the next question is, well, why are there letters in heaven? Or why are there letters above in the spiritual realms? Kabbalah explains. And I'm going to do my best to simplify it so that it makes sense. Here we go. We've said in previous lessons that everything, and I even said it at the beginning in our recap, that everything is interwoven of the ten sefirot energies that are the spiritual fabric, spiritual DNA of creation. The letters above, the spiritual supernal letters, the letters in the lofty realms, they are the symbols of those spiritual energies. Like we would call chesed chesed, gavura gavura, chachma chachma, we have our language for it. Above, there are letters that are signifying the specific ratio of the blend of the energies. Like we said last week, there's different blends of the energies. I'll give you an example. And the example is going to be a bit of a, a chemistry example. Which, it's been a few years. I've been focused on Kabbalah for the last little while. But remember the periodic table? Yeah. What is N-A? Sodium. What is C-L? Good. What if you put N-A-C-L together, what do you have? Okay. Let me ask you a question. Are the letters N-A-C-L salt? No. But they're symbols. Symbols for salt. Do you see what just happened? Above, there are letters that are symbols for energies. And some are direct and some are combinations like N-A-C-L. Are you with me? Maybe the most famous combination is, of course. Ah, how did you guys, I was going for my prop. Yes. Is H2O. H2O is? Water. But what is H2O? Two hydrogens. What oxygen? Put them all together, boom, lemayim, or l'chaim, right? You got water. The letters above signal and articulate what this energy is. So yeah, the energy, the sphero, but the letters signal. Now let's shift the general conversation and focus specifically on souls. Every soul exists above before it comes below. Souls don't just pop into existence here when you're born. Up, you're alive. Boom, you have a living soul. No, the souls exist above. And as they exist above, like we said last week, there is a specific blend of that soul personality. Before it ever hit your body, your soul had a personality. Has a personality. And that personality is personified by a certain combination of letters. So the last thing that you're going to do is, the last step of this idea is, guess what? Your soul above had a name. And that name signaled the energies of your soul. And so the Arizal says in text one, that before a child is named, God steps in. God stages a bit of a naming intervention and says, "Hold on. Don't let me all get a little too crazy with this. Let me guide you in the right direction." Because there's a name that this soul already has. And the name that the soul already has needs to be matched with the name that it's going to get. Matchy, matchy, like the kids like to say. It's got to be matchy, matchy.
Speaker 5So we learn and we talk about the neshama that they come back. We do neshama, so if the neshama has a name.
Speaker 1Would it have the same name? Would it have the same name in reincarnation? That's your question. - The combination of letters that you're saying
Speaker 5reflects the name, so if God changed the name, it would be kind of sensitive neshama back. -
Speaker 1If there's a similar energy, it will have a similar combination of letters. If it's a different energy, it might have a different combination. If it's slightly modified in its new incarnation, which is possible, even though it carries the same mission, but it might have a slightly different persona, it might have a different temperature set, it could have a slightly different name. - Let's take a second. Let's take a look at, where are we? Text number three, let's continue. Terry, please, text number three, 107. -
Speaker 4Hebrew letters are religions and signs pointing to wondrous and awesome spiritual realities. This is why they're called batiyot, signs, in the sense of signs and miracles. -
Speaker 1Hebrew, thank you. Hebrew letters are magical, and they symbolize something greater in the context of a soul. They symbolize the energies above, and that's why it's important to get it right. But you might be still wondering, so one second. So if my soul had a name above, so God stepped in and told my parents, not told, and guided my parents to get my name right, so that it's the right name for the right soul. But one still might ask the question, who cares? Let's say above it's Joe and below it's Frank. Is anyone, does it really make a difference? So they got the name wrong. We can still live with that, can't we? Is there, does it create a problem? Meaning the soul has an identity and the parents, it's swung and missed okay who cares the soul still has it's not like the soul is uh is homeless at this point right it still should exist kabbalah steps in and says not so fast howard please read text number four it's necessary to get it right for the synthesis of soul and body please read
Speaker 2the binding name the name binds the soul to the body the vitality that flows from the soul it flows from the soul and animates the body is rooted in the name for example reuben's vitality
Speaker 1all right thank you for reading that pause for a second on that text and let's analyze it what the altarp is the founder of khabbat what he writes in his mystical text is the following he says that what happens at birth is that your soul fused with your body to a certain degree it's it happens in stages i mean like i guess we could ask the question when does life begin when does life begin you ask a jewish mother life begins when the child graduates medical school that's the joke at least right but when does life begin it's complicated in the talmud it says that the soul is earmarked for that person slash body 40 days before conception not at conception or 40 before four days before conception which means that the soul is earmarked for that person's body 40 days before conception not at conception or 40 days before conception which means that in heaven they kind of know what's what's what's going on so 40 for conception it's already earmarked you you are going to be together you bought you sold your body are going to be a match and then the talmud says that when the fetus is in utero there's a candle lit above its head and it studies the entire torah and that also symbolizes the soul and then at birth the soul integrates and then at the naming and you have so many different stages of integration then barbat mitzvah and then whatever it is all these stages of maturity and integration and so it's a little bit of a moving target but the name is a very important step the name is another major milestone in the integration of spiritual soul and physical body and so kabbalah says in order to integrate spirituality and physicality you got to open up the pipes you don't want any friction between to use my example before frank and joe you don't want to have two different names you don't want to you want to close the pipe before it has a chance to be open you want to have that synthesis if you want the spiritual soul to flow smoothly into the physical body then one major step in that is to ensure that the spiritual name of the soul is that which the person in body is also called does that make sense to create that flow it's not just matchy-matchy for symmetry sake it's actually in order to create a flow of energy seamless flow of energy and that's why going back to text one if we look back at text one the arizal said god places the name into the mouths of the parents that which name the very name necessary for that soul what does it mean necessary who says souls need names first of all souls have names and the name that's necessary is it's necessary in order for the integration of soul and body right here on planet earth i
Speaker 6feel like i know there's something mentioned before the botanics named their kids differently because i know it's in a lot of astronauts so i know that my name would probably form a conclusion so maybe after my grandfather passed away very young and then they came back to my grandmother passed away very young and their their banks were still living and so my sister was named after them i was getting back to them and i don't see that there was a great deal of soul searching for expression for a name it was pretty much mark here's what i'm
Speaker 1thinking rethink everything you know discard all your prior information you came into the class thinking you were named after this person and your sibling after that you came in thinking you know why you were named kabbalah says in addition to that reason on the ground there's another reason and the primary reason is because that's the name of your soul that's the name that was needed for your soul it happened to also work out that there's a there's an alibi on the ground this is cut this is kabbalah we're alert we're here in a kabbalah we're here in a kabbalah we're here in a kabbalah course kabbalah teaches what's the secret of what's going on behind naming that the name is a divine prophecy that is aligning the physical name with the spiritual name of the soul above you that's a good question it's a very good question what happens with a miscarriage um what would kabbalah i think the question is what would kabbalah say about the association with the soul and the body and the purpose of the soul who didn't get who never got a name right it's a it's a it's a it's a good it's a painful question it's a good question and i don't know that i'm i i i would need sources i don't want to i don't want to i don't i feel i feel like it's important i don't want to i don't want to i feel like it's important it's important especially when studying kabbalah especially when i'm teaching kabbalah to teach kabbalah and not to tell you what i feel about something because i can tell you what i feel about the chances of the pittsburgh steelers going all the way this year but that's that's if i want to give conjecture we'll talk about sports but if i'm if i'm but i'm sure it's discussed and we would have to i don't but i don't have the sources in front of me and i don't recall any specific or i don't recall the specific um teachings on it it's a very good question and it requires the right research and the right uh formulation i don't want to come up with something and
Speaker 3just make up something but i know if it wasn't attractive
Speaker 1yeah there's different customs and traditions and how it's all how it's all done let's let's it's a very good question let's leave it we have to do the right research on it and then and then you know come back sure
Speaker 7right good question good so for
Speaker 1a girl traditionally you named the girl at the earliest torah reading which is kind of like a public celebration or moment not universal some people do it for shabbos okay but within within seven days and then the boy also now the question i think you're alluding to is well if it's so important why not right away so that's i was i kind of almost a little bit preempted that by saying that it's it's a bit of a moving the integration of soul and body happens in gradations so it's not like an all or nothing like before the name it's not integrated when it's named it's now integrated it was already connected 40 days before conception in utero it's even more at birth it's even more and at the and the naming is the next big stage but it's not like without the name it's literally you know um uh unrooted and and and it's still associated it's there i mean the child is breathing and he's got right it's and it's there's movement there's animation so clearly the soul is working it's the next stage in the development and we seek to do it as soon as possible based on tradition and custom within a week or so so it's uh it's typically done now this is a little bit about names um and so what is the takeaway because by the way um text four just to focus a quick second on text four so it said if you notice there um it says that ruven or ruben's vitality came through the letters ration aleph did you did anyone notice that that's seems a little weird huh yeah say it again yeah because there's three other letters to his name why did he stop when he ran out of steam out of uh like the author just like i'm not gonna bother writing the other letters but he wrote the first two that's why i think it's it's very important to recognize that um i think it's very important to recognize that the because this touches on the other question about english names versus hebrew names and let me tell you let me take a half a step back it's all going to make sense in a second just let me for many years 80s and early 90s um the lubavitcher rebbe would stand almost every sunday and hand out dollars and blessings for years if you wanted to meet with the rebbe you made an appointment and it was very hard and it was the middle of the night and the revist stayed up all night meeting with people but as the years went on and he got older and just there were too many people to meet with and it was kind of like line up and you have two seconds and you got a blessing and you've had a request you do quick but because it was sunday it was videoed and i kind of tell you how many and you can just put it into youtube later with manis friedman by the way who is coming a week from tomorrow night um and just type in rebbe sunday names hebrew names many people came to the rabbi and asked for advice and guidance as to what hebrew name they should adopt could be somebody was never given a hebrew name it could be somebody was converted to judaism and needed a hebrew name whatever it is and the rabbi would invariably ask them one question you know what that is what's your english name what's your current name and the rebel would always i can't say always but from what i've seen pretty much always say offer a suggestion of a hebrew name that matches the first few letters of the english name which seems to indicate that the energy flow is consonant based does that did i say that um clearly enough consonant is that i'm saying that's the right word right consonant based yeah ruven raish olive we're good we got the first two letters we're we're in this that's the energy match it up there you go so the name the english name that they had was also apropos you understand what i'm saying with this the english name i'm assuming english or the whatever the name that they had prior was also somewhat apropos a hebrew name is very special it's very holy hebrew is as i said before as a holy language so then the hebrew name but it was it was the suggestion was to match the english name not just because your friends will find it easier to remember your new hebrew name if it's in the same ballpark as it or it's not so jarring on your new id papers if you choose to change them but because the energy it seems is um is the appropriate energy make sense i think i loop back to that question or that discussion and i hope the uh the links were connected but we need to move forward we have so much to get to tonight let's continue so our next oh one second sorry so to conclude this this uh this topic you have a name whether you were given a hebrew name or an english name you have a name and your name is not by accident it fits your soul and how did it manifest because god directed that to happen god orchestrated things that you should get the right name that you needed at that time and so today's theme is does god orchestrate things as we live as we move on the answer is absolutely and one example is god's swooping in and saying all right this is going to be the name god is making sure the names are correct here's another example of god guiding orchestrating directing text number five laura please read text 5 109
Speaker 8uh the daily herald every single day a herald calls out and says how long will you foolish ones love follow proverbs 1 22. return away with children and i will hear you steal your story
Speaker 1so thank you this zohar says two thousand years ago the zohar says that every single day a divine voice god's voice calls out from heaven and says how long will you foolish ones love folly return wayward children etc all right now i don't know about you but i haven't heard this voice lately i haven't wait wait hold on did you say how long will you foolish ones or how long will you solish one i couldn't hear all right i couldn't hear what you were saying listen who amongst us who amongst us is going to say that yeah i hear these divine calls and therefore i will ask the follow-up question which is you know if a divine voice rings out and no one hears it does it even make a sound to paraphrase the philosophical question about the tree falling in the forest right like what's the point so every single day harold calls out and says blah blah blah and it's like okay reminds me of the joke cnn reporter goes to the western wall there's someone dressed in all you know very religious garb praying to god and he's like what's the point of doing that he's like oh praying at the wall and the reporters you know they got the camera and the reporter is like so do you pray here often every single day what's the experience like and the guy says sometimes it feels like i'm talking to the wall and that's and that is the joke but this seems to be questionable like why would there be a daily call if there's no payoff now you might say well maybe maybe maybe very spiritual tzaddikim or mystics hear this call yeah but if that's the case why are they hearing uh about foolish ones loving folly and return wayward children you're speaking to the wrong crowd if you're really a tzaddik if you're really perfectly righteous and you know a mystic then why would that be the call for you it's like i'm sorry you have the wrong number boom right that's not that wouldn't be me if that if i were here if i were on that level to hear that and if i'm foolish and wayward well then i'm probably not hearing this call if i were on that level to hear that and if i'm foolish and wayward well then i'm probably not hearing this call so then what so then what's happened so let's analyze this according to kabbalah and wouldn't you know it kabbalah addresses it 16th century capitalist rabbi lazar ben moshe azikri take a look at what he says text number six scott if you don't mind please read this one page 110. reaching us all
Speaker 3to whom is this proclamation we hear nothing at all the answer is that even through even though the person does not hear the proportion of their souls stationed in the heavens does as it is written your works are wondrous meaning hidden and yet the earth continues but my soul knows it very well the soul senses god's hidden work this is why sometimes the spirit of purity awakens within a person it is from the voice that reaches their soul but a person will merit this only if they listen to the guiding words of the same
Speaker 1this is so thank you for reading it this is so wise let's break it down almost paragraph by paragraph the opening paragraph we have a kabbalist who's asking the question that we had on the zohar the zora says every day god calls out and the rabbi the kabbalist says so for what purpose if no one hears it and his answer is powerful and he says the following and i'm about to introduce some new information that we haven't yet talked about and i i don't we i don't i haven't really talked about this over the years either another cabala class is not because i've been holding it back from anyone of you just because it hasn't come up but here it is we often talk about how we have two souls a higher soul and a lower soul a godly soul and animals that's not this your godly soul your divine soul is split into two parts the part that's in side you and the part that's outside you still your soul i'm trying to think of an example i think in like quantum physics because i'm such an expert there is this idea that at things atoms or whatever that's they're connected if change happens here it could also happen there electrons there we go that when one is affected the other one can also be affected even if they're in different spaces and in a very similar way there's two part two parts of the soul there's the part of the soul that's in you and the part of this little remains above you to break it down capitalistically there's five this we've talked about five layers of the soul nephesh ruach outside of you okay it's still you but it's outside of you it's like hovering not literally hovering um it's like you know those cars that have it's like the above camera i'm like i don't even know how that works like i don't even know how that works i don't even know how that works is there a drone every time i reverse like what is how do i how does it know and yet here we are technology there's a part of the soul that's above outside which really means to say as follows quantum entanglement i love that that's my band name quantum entanglement playing at uh playing at smith's old uh bar right after rabbi manas uh speaks next week okay here's here's the deal there's a part of your soul that is fully integrated in you it feels how you feel it is affected by what you're affected by so what happens the body affects that part of the soul but there's also part of the soul that remains untouchable meaning even if you stub your toe that part of the soul is still okay even if you stumble and fall and i mean that not physically or literally but also spiritually that part of the soul remains okay it's a part of the soul that remains above above the fray outside it's the indestructible part of you it's the part that's kind of behind the firewall that can't be affected kabbalah said this speaks about two types of fire the fire of the coal and the fire of the flintstone it's not the papa flintstone i know you were all thinking of that when i said flintstone what about the jetsons no but the stone that you strike and make the spark right that one and what's the difference between the two fires we'll take a hot coal with tongue safety first and drop it into the ocean and come back an hour later where's the fire i drive was white hot where is it now it's gone but take a flintstone drop it into the ocean come back a thousand years from now gather the stone dry it off strike it and it will spark fire because when you wear your fire on your sleeve it's susceptible to being extinguished but when you wear it in your essence it can never be broken it's too deep inside to be broken we all have a part of our soul that's too deep too high to be affected that is the core of your soul and i understand there's different terminology core implies inside transcendent applies outside it doesn't matter which language you use whether it's deeper or it's outside the point is there's a part of you that remains above outside above the fray etc circling back kabbalah teaches we just read a text six kabbalah teaches that it's that part of the soul that always remains plugged into to above in heaven and all of the heavenly emails that go out all of the heavenly communications that go out all of them are heard by that part of the soul that part of the soul gets the communication and that part of the soul hears that call return etc and that part of the soul because it's also like quantum entanglement because it's also connected with the part it's the same soul right connect with the soul that's inside of you there can be a trickle-down effect it's the same soul right connect with the soul that's inside of you there can be a trickle-down effect so that the soul inside of you your conscious soul can become influenced by the voice the echo that the soul above you heard so it heard it the that part heard it the part inside of you didn't hear the call but feels something some sort of pull some sort of tug have you ever had a moment of inspiration and you didn't know where it came from you ever happen to come across a listing for a kabbalah course and you don't even know why but you said let me give that a try maybe just maybe it's because the part of your soul that's outside got the direct call trickled down you're not even consciously aware of why you stepped up but you know but you knew somewhere that it made sense to step up and so you did and that just might be the awakening that has come over you so look back at text six we already read this but look back at the third paragraph this is why sometimes the spirit of purity awakens within a person it's from the voice that reaches their soul what does that mean you have an awakening you have an inspiration you want to do this you want to do that yeah you go to shul you do a mitzvah study some torah pray meditate whatever it is i don't know where you weren't planning on it you get inspired where does it come from kabbalah has an explanation kabbalah says you know where it came from the heavenly voice i didn't hear it part of you did you don't know that you heard it but part of you did it says in the book of daniel daniel was a uh was a prophet it says that he um he saw an angel of god and he became very frightened and then he said the people that were with me didn't see the angel but they also became frightened and that tamar asks the thomas even kabbalah thomas says why did they get afraid if they didn't see it to wax aramaic even though they didn't see it the angel their mazel saw it what's their mazel their mazeltov what's mazel mazel means the constellation but you know what that means in kabbalah it means the soul above the soul that's not so tethered the soul that doesn't only get its information from social media the part of the soul that also gets the information directly from the source with the capital s even though they didn't see mazlai their mazel their higher dimension by the way colossus the mazel of the soul is a supernatural super rational soul this this uh transcendent part of the soul but the caveat is that last paragraph of text six but a person will merit this only if they listen to the guiding words of a sage only if you're open to the messages why is somebody listening to the guiding words of a sage because they're self-growth and they're open if a person's closed like i have all the information i need i don't need to work on myself i'm good what are the odds that even your own soul above is going to somehow trickle down if you've closed the vice grip if you've closed the pipe if you're open and the indication of that is if you're seeking searching studying if you're a student if you're working on yourself if you're at a kabbalah course all good not that i'm calling myself a sage but kabbalah is the sage right you're open to this guess what once you open the channel channels are open and you get that kind of uh extra rational extra conscious communication from above make sense so to address the question of our class does god continue to communicate with us guide us inform us direct us we learn now the second example of this number one god steps in when a child is born number two god calls every day god pulls god tugs god pulls the string and sometimes maybe even oftentimes certainly sometimes we heed that voice but there's another caveat and that is it's easy to get inspired when being tugged from above it's harder to maintain the inspiration and when we feel a moment of inspiration from above when something magical happens to us and we feel like we've been uplifted and granted some sort of experience that we can't even articulate kabbalah says the next thing we must do is follow up with the work on the ground put in the work because if we don't that inspiration that high is going to quickly dissipate donna please read text number seven from a beautiful text transforming the inner self is the english version of it the kote torah is the hebrew donna please read this text seven yeah 111 page 111 where it says make it yours people people who strive in their spiritual lives while they complain that they
Speaker 9experience a spiritual obscurity and awakening for several weeks only to have it stopped entirely the reason this happens is that their awakening has only come about god's good advice in this the moment that heavenly inspiration stirs your soul immediately you immediately begin your own awakening thank you
Speaker 1when you feel like you've been granted some sort of you know magical experience from above great ride the wave but don't rely on the wave that will crash that will crash always it's important to build it out and make it sustainable on your own one very easy example of this is and i'm sure you know many of you or at least some of you have had this experience it's a holiday maybe it's a rosh hashanah or a yom kippur or a pass whatever your favorite holiday is and you feel inspired and whatever and then the next day comes and it's like yeah back to the usual the inspiration came from above and as quickly as it came it left and so what's important is to make sure that we ground the inspiration in something tangible otherwise that's like a little bit of a challenge it's like a soul without a body and it just easy come easy go and it just um flickers out it's almost like i use the word flicker out it's almost like imagine someone hands you a match and you admire it wow so the light is so beautiful and six seconds later you know what happens it's out if you want to keep the flame going you know what you need to do take the match light a lamp light a candle maybe light a whole room of candles right do a mitzvah do another mitzvah create something sustainable create accountability set up a chavruta learning session with somebody an auto app to duck or whatever it is you're inspired great make sure that it that it lives make sure that it lasts otherwise it'll just go
Speaker 3yeah so i won't comment on the wrong questions sure so i don't know if you know this but michael jackson he never believed he wrote the lyrics he received the words on one night this is a story that he received these lyrics in the middle of the night three in the morning and called this whole crew said we've got to get together now because if we don't do it it's going to go to prince because he truly meant if he didn't act on what he received it's
Speaker 1going to go somewhere else i'll tell you a jewish story about that but keep on going
Speaker 3how do we connect to our highest soul
Speaker 1excellent question all right first to address the first thing there's a story about rabbi joseph cairo who wrote the shulchan arach the code of jewish law so about brilliant mind, legal Jewish legal mind, literally the code of Jewish law, he wrote. This rabbi wrote in the 1500s. Not that Jewish law begins in the 1500s, but this iteration, this book was. So it says that he was struggling once. He was studying a piece of Talmud and he had a question and it was a really good question. He asked everybody and no one had a good answer. And it really bothered him. And one night he had a dream. This goes back to the first lesson about dreams in Torah study. He had a dream and the answer came to him in a dream, middle of the night. And he wakes up in the morning and he is so just thrilled that he has the answer. He walks into the yeshiva, to the study hall, and he walks by a table and there's two young teenagers. He was like a sage, a scholar, author. Two young schnooks, two young guys. Studying. One guy asked his question to the other guy and the other guy says, well, maybe it's this and gives the answer that he. And he's like, you got to be kidding me. Just like that. Like it was so difficult for me. And this kid just came up with it and like just. And he later said, you know why? Because he brought it into the world. And once it's in the world. It's accessible. I think the story was a little bit different. If I don't, if I don't grab it, someone else will grab it. But the same idea that things becoming in the conscious reality. Now to your second question. So how do we open up the channel between our subconscious soul or super conscious soul, transcendent soul and the soul within us? And I think the answer is, like he says, being open to the advice of the sages, meaning being open to spiritual pursuit, spirituality, being open to the hiddenness, being open to the mysterious. Not being so closed off and believing that the only information is the stuff that I can see and hear. My five senses tell me the notion that there's something grander, greater, and perhaps truer than what we can see with the naked eye is that acknowledgement of that part. And the more we're open to that reality, the more it can infiltrate. I don't know if that's the right word. The more it can influence us. Yeah,
Speaker 3because I don't
Speaker 1want to confuse higher self with the distinction between godly soul and animal soul, lower self. Within the higher self, there's higher and lower self. Simple reason
Speaker 3why I didn't use the word higher
Speaker 1self is because higher self might imply that the contrast, the opposite of that is our lower base instincts. And that's not what we're saying. Even the godly soul has two parts. Even the divine energy within us that yearns for god is still divided into two parts. The part that we are consciously aware of and the part that we're not even aware of.
Speaker 3Correct. So we have our soul within us and I would say our higher soul, our higher self.
Speaker 1Yes. Whatever, whatever. Yes. We're saying the same thing, just using different language, but it's yes. Yeah. And to your question, how do you open up the channel? I don't think there's another way other than literally opening up the channel. And I don't mean like there's a, there's like a under the house, there's a thing. That's not what I mean. But there's, it's about being more spiritually available. Now, um, let's talk, you know, I mean, if we had more time and we didn't have like the most exciting Kabbalah that I've ever taught coming up right now, then maybe I would talk about spiritual hypothermia, but we'd have no time. So we can't talk about that. So here we are. Let's talk now about the most thrilling idea in Kabbalah that I've perhaps ever taught that I've never taught before until now. And so let's do it. The core question of today is, does God, um, influence, continue to influence and messages, guide, direct, communicate? Our answer is yes. But we're looking for examples. We've had two so far, the communication of the name of a soul and in the daily call of hello, let's do it. Right. The daily call of inspiration. Good. Here's another example. This is crazy. All right. Text eight, a, this is from the Zohar. The Zohar describes the chamber of souls in Ghana, then in Paris, Alex, if you don't mind, please read text eight, a
Speaker 10tens of thousands of women. Sarah, daughter of Asher, dwells in another chamber with her on many tens of thousands of women. Jehovah, mother of Moshe. The faithful prophet dwells in another chamber with her on thousands upon thousands. Deborah dwells in another chamber. All the other women with her give thanks and sing the same song she sang in this world. Beyond those are four hidden chambers of the holy matriarchs. No one sees them. But at the day, the souls remain alone. As I have told you, the same is true for the souls of men, but they are joined together. The union in the world above is soul cleaving to soul. Like merging with life, the union in this world below is body with body.
Speaker 1Let's, thank you for reading that. Let's unpack this because it is truly magical. The first thing the Zohar does in this excerpt is it talks about the chambers of souls. And it talks about bicha or bacha. There are different sources that have different pronunciations. So bicha here is based on the soul. Bicha, daughter of Pharaoh. That's the one who rescued Moses floating on the Nile River. So she's with thousands, tens of thousands of righteous women. They're together in one chamber. Sarah, daughter of Asher. In another chamber, Yochev, mother of Moshe. In another, Deborah. We spoke about her with her incarnation last week. In another chamber, they're the matriarchs. And no one sees them. I guess it's like private villas. Private suites. You know, you can like be on the beach with everyone else. You can have one of those like cabanas. They've got cabanas. And then the Zohar drops the most incredible information, and you might have missed it. Second to last paragraph. Throughout the day, the souls remain alone. But at night, and the souls of men remain alone. Masculine souls and feminine souls are separate throughout the day. Mahjong on the one side, pickleball on the other, and I know everyone can play both, and I get that. I'm just saying, it just came to mind, so don't, whatever. But every night, what happens? They're joined together with their soulmates. Now, one second, one second. First of all, a few things. Day and night in heaven, is that even a thing? No. Day and night, the way I've seen commentaries on the Zohar talk about it, corresponds to day and night on earth, but of course that begs the question, where? Which zip code? I don't know the answer to that question. Nonetheless, day and night. By day, everyone's separate. By night, there's fraternizing. There's fraternizing. And what's the fraternizing? Continuous. The union above is soul to soul. Light merging with light. Below, body to body. What union are we talking about here? This is physical intimacy we're talking about here. The Zohar is saying, just like below, two people can merge together, as it were, can come together. In a similar way, above, souls connect with souls. Irrespective of the experience on earth, and who one might have been with or not, a soul connects with a soulmate above in heaven. But then the next question is, and then what? Because we know sometimes, on earth, when people get together, give it a few months, and there might be a mazel tov. Does this happen above? I'm glad you asked. Text 8b. Alexandra, do you mind reading 8b? In the union of Zohar and the world,
Speaker 10when souls are drawn together in one, and cling to one another, they bear fruit. Lights emerge from them and become lamps.
Speaker 1These souls, and which souls, these souls are, these souls are, these souls are, these souls are destined for? Converts, let me explain. Let's explain. All right, first of all, first of all, we've said previously that souls are created by the sefirot energies, and they're an amalgam of different energies. So what does it mean that the union of souls above are producing souls, and these souls are destined for converts? So the answer, the explanation is, these are additional souls, new souls, that have one purpose, and that is inspire someone in their pursuit of, I guess we would say a monotheism. monotheism, Judaism, etc. That is the effect of these unions. To clarify this, let's take a look at text number nine. This is from the Alter Rebbe, Rebbe Schneider Zalman of Liadi, the founder of the Chabad Hasidic movement and a mystic in his own right. Text number nine, Alexandra, please read.
Speaker 11Text 9117. Thank you for reading that. So it's a beautiful
Speaker 1answer. Idea here that he's saying. He's saying that what happens, a person one day, maybe it's a slower, maybe it's not just one day, but maybe it comes to a crescendo one day. A person says, you know what? I want to convert. I want to embrace this. Where does that come from? So the Alter Rebbe says, you know where it comes from? It comes from an additional soul that has been granted to that person that was created, formed from the union of souls in heaven, like the union of Abraham and Sarah. Why Abraham and Sarah specified? Well, what was the mission of Abraham and Sarah on this earth? What did they do? They taught people about monotheism. They taught people essentially Judaism, Jewish belief. They were the first Jewish couple and they taught people Jewish belief. And so the inspiration, that kind of monotheistic Hashem, it's one Jewish kind of stirring. That comes from a person being granted what we might call an additional soul. And that doesn't mean that their soul, their existing soul is taken away. It just means that they're being granted an additional boost, an additional inspiration. And a person might say, I don't know what, I don't know where it came from. Suddenly, I was curious. I started a journey and it culminated in this process. But where does it come from? Kabbalah says, you know where it comes from? The union of these souls above. These souls getting together above, producing new souls that then are sent down to earth to inspire individuals. Now, if you're wondering, well, do these newly spawned souls do other things? The answer is yes. We'll talk about that soon. But one, I don't know if it was example, but one, or even utility, sounds a little bit too utilitarian. But one outcome of these souls is that they inspire a person's, um, uh, conversion process. Now, I will say this, and this is very important, that this is not the, this is not synonymous with the Jewish soul of the culmination of the conversion process. That's something else. Meaning this is the soul that inspires the journey. But like we've been saying up until now, it, God reaches out continuously to inspire, to direct, and to guide a person still has free choice, whether to go along with it or to not go along with it. And in this case as well, God might be inspiring the journey. God might select a person and say, "Hey, I want you to be inspired in this path. I'm going to give you a unique soul, a special, um, extra soul boost to kind of push you in a certain, guide you in a certain direction." But the person still chooses whether to continue the path or to not continue that path. And based on the choice, either it will culminate in the process or it won't culminate in the process.
Speaker 3Very quickly, this is going to be too technical. If souls emerge from the heavens at night, firstly, does the world have
Speaker 1souls in the heavens at night? Because at least. Say it again? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. One second. To clarify. Excellent question, but pause for a second. These are not, this is not the same thing we were saying before about your soul, the transcendent part of your soul. These are souls of those that are no longer living on earth. These are souls of those that have passed on. That's why the beginning of that quote from Zohar talks about Batya, daughter of Pharaoh, who lived 3,000 years ago, Serach, daughter of Asher, Yocheved, mother of Moshe, Deborah, the matriarchs, et cetera. We're talking about people that have already passed on and are in heaven and in Gan Eden, in paradise. And whatever's happening there during the day is one thing, and at night, extracurricular activities are happening. And that's when new energies are being spawned that then can influence below in a very real and practical sense. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. In fact, as we'll see soon, those new soul spawns can actually come into you and me and inspire. This is one form in vis-a-vis conversion, but there's other forms, and we'll talk about that soon. Yes, Mark. In that Abraham and Sarah were both converts, does that mean they each had two souls, not one? Yeah, but, okay. I think your question, we can, we can pull it away, but I'm going to ask you a question. Okay. We can pull it away from Abraham and Sarah specifically. I think the question is on the capitalistic notion itself. Does this mean that that person granted that soul now has two souls? The answer is yes. We would call it a, look, I draw, I have a minivan as one does. And every time, it's happened a few times, right? The battery dies. I take it to the place and I'm like, how much for a new battery? And they're like, well, and they, pull up, they pull up at the computer. Like if it's one battery, it's one price, but your car might have an auxiliary battery for the starter. And then it's like double the price. I'm always like, I just have the one battery. Like, are you sure? I'm like, we've, we've done this before. I only have one battery. You can open it up. I'm not trying to like get the price down. There's only one battery inside. There's plenty of room. Since souls don't take up any physical space, plenty of room inside you and me for an extra soul. No problem. Especially for a guy named soul-ish. Anyway, plenty of room, huh? I was waiting for years for the right opportunity. I hope it, I hope it was the right opportunity. Basically, this soul is kind of like a booster soul. Not like a college booster. Um, what a car, even know what that is, but right now, but a booster, a, an extra battery pack to propel and inspire. But again, free choice is never taken away. A person can choose to follow the inspiration. A person can say, ah, not right now. Everyone has the choice, but this is a force that is guiding a person down a certain trajectory sent at a specific As he said, at a specific time in a specific person for a specific utility to put, to, to guide them along this journey. And if it, if it culminates, it culminates. If not, not, but either way, this is for the inspiration. Did you have a question? Okay. Yes. Yes. Another example. So one second, let me explain your question so that everyone can be in on it. So it says that on Shabbat, we all have a neshama yisera, an extra soul. So what is that? Where is that? So it's not in that we don't have sources here in Kabbalah. So again, I'd rather present the material that we have. That way we know it's authentic as opposed to having to trust me. I like to say things that I can then show you the sources. My understanding is that that soul is operating within us on Shabbat. There's always extra forces in general out there, but on Shabbat it is operating internally within us to give us an extra boost. Similar to some of the stuff that we're talking about here. So we'll now talk about another example. And this is now text number 10. But let me lead up to text number 10. Kabbalah teaches us that not only the prospective individual who is exploring perhaps Judaism might be granted a little extra soul boost from these souls, but the souls that are being newly spawned in heaven, and souls that have already existed could also be sent down into a person that already has a soul as a second soul boost to guide them, direct them for any sort of reason. Again, not just for the sake of potentially converting to the faith, but for any reason, for any mission, for any activity that a person might need a little extra boost, a little extra inspo. As the kids like to say, i.e. inspiration. Kabbalah refers to this process as ibor. What is ibor? Ibor means pregnancy. Why pregnancy? Very simple. When someone's pregnant, not only are they carrying their life, they're carrying a second life inside. Ibor spiritually means a person not only carries their own soul, they're also carrying a second soul inside. Or a part of a soul inside. That second soul is the ibor soul, the present soul. Pregnant soul, i.e. the second soul that is now joined. Doesn't take up more space. Don't worry. You don't need any new wardrobes. Don't worry. This is just a spiritual boost. Let's read about this from Rechai Vital, who again is the pen of the Arizal. This is it. Mariah, please read. Text 10, 118.
Speaker 7Mariah? The gestating soul. Gibor literally gestation describes a soul that enters a person not at birth but later in life or in an adult or really alive in the world. The person becomes, in a sense, like a pregnant woman, carrying within them a second life alongside their own. This visiting soul is not only for its own benefit. It comes entirely for the sake of the host, to assist, to elevate, and to guide. The duration. of this gibor remains dependent on the person's choices. If the person improves their conduct, the gestating soul remains. The more the person continues to do good, the more deeply the second soul becomes bound to the person. But if the person's conduct is improper.
Speaker 1Such an important and profound text. What is gibor? Gibor is when God sends an additional soul. A second life within the person. And he clarifies. It's not coming. This new soul is not coming for. Although it could. We'll leave that aside. But in this instance, it's not coming for its own benefit. It's not like it. When we talked about reincarnation last week, it was the soul needed tikkun. It needed to come back again or whatever. This is not coming down for its own benefit. It's coming to assist, to elevate, and to guide. But how long does this gibor. soul remain? And once again, the answer is. It depends on you and me. It depends on what we do with the inspiration. If we hold on to it, if we utilize it, if we leverage it, if we utilize it for its fulfillment, then it will stay. If we neglect it, ignore it, or are unaware of it, it's going to just go. That is the nature of this reality. The gibor is there. It's there for us, but it doesn't take away the free choice that we have. So to answer. So to, once again, address the question, is there influence? So last week we said that when a person is created, they are shaped by heavenly forces. But as we continue the journey of life, are we still impacted by heavenly forces? The answer is yes. In what form? In the form of a name, in the form of the heavenly echo from above, in the form of what trickles down. In the form of an additional soul, a gestated soul, an ibris soul, etc. In the form of all of the above, there is inspiration, energy flowing from above. But it depends on how we react to it, what we do with it. If we utilize it, it'll stay. If we neglect it, it'll go. That's the way it works. Yeah? So gestation usually results in
Speaker 11like a baby being born or something coming out of it. So in this case, does it just keep going in perpetuity as long as the forces are right?
Speaker 1Excellent question. In this context, the birth would be the good path or the good deed or the mission that is being fulfilled with that extra energy. Meaning in the context of gestation, so there's a pregnancy and then it culminates in a birth. Well, what would be the birth here? The birth is, and it says in Jewish books, that the children, the offspring of the righteous are their good deeds. What are the offspring? What are the children? The children are good deeds. And so if a person, we're about to get to an incredible example of this, but if a person has a mission, like a really important mission to accomplish here on earth, but needs a little bit of an extra, whether it's a push or extra inspiration or extra energy, what happens? God sends. God sends it. But a person still could ignore it. Like, I don't want to deal with it. But if you follow it, it will culminate in the activity. That would be the birth, the good that's done. Here's an example. This is a biblical story that I think many of us are familiar with. It's, I would call it famous, but maybe even more appropriately, we would call this an infamous story in the Torah. It's a story that you might have learned maybe many times, but I can guarantee you, I believe, that you've never studied this story like you'll study it right now. I'm going to read these because there's a bunch of texts here that need commentary. So I'm going to read and comment and weave it all together. Let me give you some background. The story that I'm talking about is a story of the spies. But let's get some background so that everyone's on the same page here. As often, we begin with Egypt, right? And so a lot of stories begin. Slavery. God hears our cries. Sends Moses. Ten plagues. Exodus from Egypt. The Egyptian chase. Splitting of the sea. Great miracle. The enemy is defeated. We stand at Mount Sinai. We get the Torah, the Ten Commandments. We have our national mandate. We have our freedom. Can't beat it. Forty days later, we're dancing the whole time. around the golden calf have Nagila have Nagila have which ironically enough I encountered recently and I know what you're thinking where did you encounter a golden calf recently I was at the barbecue festival at the kosher barbecue Jewish kosher barbecue festival in Atlanta and I see on some of the tables they have their past trophies what is the trophy of the kosher barbecue festival in Atlanta it's a golden cow you cannot make this up so there I was and it took me back and I know it's literally it's Google it Google the the trophy and you'll see it's literally a trophy with a cow in the color gold with a black it's not a joke it's a trophy it's a legit trophy and it's a golden calf it's a golden by the way I'm not this I am a huge fan of the barbecue festival and this is not in any way a condemnation this is not a at all it's just a funny observation but I found myself yearning to bow down to I'm kidding I did have the brisket and it was great and award-winning and all that stuff back to the story so we're at the golden calf the Jewish people repent God forgives we build the Michigan the tabernacle the portable sanctuary made out of Lego kidding it wasn't leto Lego it was made of portable planks they pulled it apart they loaded up in wagons and they moved half Temple will travel now it's about a year after the Exodus and it's time to go into Israel and the people get a little bit uneasy ah maybe we're a little scared shoes being scared it happens sometimes choose being having anxiety also happens sometimes not often having neuroses again very rare but sometimes it can happen and so the Jewish people went to Moses and said Moshe Moses we need some Intel what are we getting ourselves into God says go into the land tell the people to go and take over it's for another class by the way one second one second by the way by the way our next JLI course in the winter in January 27th is called the missing piece all about our connection with the Holy Land speaking of which I know we have some folks here that just got back from the Holy Land Holy Land look for more information coming soon back to our story the people are getting a little bit uneasy they said to Moses we need some Intel on the ground this is before drones and beepers this is before drones and so so what happens or was it walkie-talkies I forget um so what happens is they they let's send people in to check out the land Moses selects 12 leaders one from each of the 12 tribes they go into the land they tour they scout it out for 40 days they come back 10 of the 12 say not happening the cities are fortified can't even get in the people are Giants Jews are small you ever see a Jewish basketball theme it's you know we're very good dribblers we're the schwitzers on the side you know it's like the uh yeah whatever the inside game is not the strongest like there's no chance it's not happening 10 of the 12 spies say it's not happening just shut this down people panic two of the 12 spies Caleb and Joshua say no no we can do it faith in God we can do it their voices are drowned out and God ultimately decreased 40 years of wandering one year for each day that it took to scout out the land That's a story that you might have heard. And that's a story as it's written. ready to study it according to kabbalah in a way that you've i can almost guarantee you have never studied it before text 11a i'm going to read these texts page 119 the mission moses so now we're just going to go through some of the texts that highlight the story punctuate the story moses sent them the 12 tribal leaders from the wilderness of paran as god at god's command all of them were notables the heads of the children of israel those are the 12 spies let's continue text 11b they returned this is again excerpts they returned from scouting the land after 40 days they went and they came to moses and aaron and to the entire community of israel in the wilderness of paran and brought word back to them and what was the word not gonna happen there's no way we can make this work the people panic joshua and caleb said no no we can do it their voices are drowned out the other 10 spies you perish text 11c joshua son of nun and caleb son of jafuna remained alive from among those men who had gone to scout the land only they survived of the 12 spies only they survived they were the ones with faith comes along kabbalah and says the following before the spies embarked on their mission something extraordinary happened to the 12 spies they were the ones with faith extraordinary happen what is it text 12a i'm going to read this as well the arizal says before the spies set out to scout the land the souls of the sons of jacob how many were there that's right the soul the souls of the sons of jacob entered them through eber you know what that is by now right they got an addendum soul a booster soul this is the secret meaning of what joseph said to his brothers you are spies remember he accused his brothers back in egypt when they came down to buy food joseph not moses joseph years earlier joseph accuses his brothers of being spies miraglum at them spies arizal says he called them spies you know why because later on in history their souls would come and re-emerge in eber form in the spies that moses said that's the illusion in the biblical text he was hinting to them back inside that their souls were destined to gestate within the spies that moses said this is also the deeper meaning of a verse that we just read a few moments ago that the heads the moses sent these people and they were heads of the children of israel they were literally the children of israel sons of our forefathers jacob these 12 here's what happened moses selects 12 leaders one from each tribe says the arizal guess what happened before this mission which was so important and we'll talk about that soon god sends an extra boost extra power extra rocket energy i mean i've seen those youtube videos you want to make a cargo really fast you put like a rocket and then it goes and it breaks up in part that we've all modded cars in our theory uh theoretically like that god sends an extra booster soul to these miraglum to these spies 12 spies one from each genitors 12 12 tribal leaders great they represented a tribe great they got the soul of the original head of that tribe the original shavit ruvane shimon not levy now you're wondering who matches up to who there's a chart for that page 124 you can look at it right now uh we'll do it quickly 124 the secret of the spies jacob 12 sons boom the 12 uh 12 spies at the bottom one for one again levy is not included like batteries in the boys that you got as a kid levy not included because levy had a different thing but the two sons of joseph uh become two tribes joseph splits it to two and that's how you get your 12 and that those were the jest those were the eber souls given to the miraglum given to the spies listen to this the result gave hooks in the text the brothers of joseph were called spies guess what they ended up as spies the spies were called children of israel they were literally the children they had that extra eber but how did it all play out how did it all play out it all played out that 10 of the 12 squandered the extra boost that they got it didn't work out like i've said consistently throughout this class god may send what the gifts that you need god may guide you direct you give you messages put it on the billboard put a neon sign that says go there go there go there go there give you the boost and you can choose to ignore it and be like i don't see anything i don't hear anything i don't feel anything i'm just gonna go and turn over my bed and just cover myself with the blankets it's free choice free choice has never taken away from a person and so 10 of the 12 a vast majority of these spies given the extra boost of the eber souls of the actual shavatim the original 12 sons of jacob squandered the extra boost squandered the opportunity and swung and missed and why was this so important to get right i mean this mission was so vital for the jewish people for their future and for their destiny and yet they missed two of the 12 utilized the opportunity correctly take a look at text 11 c sorry take a take a look at text 12 b the result continues this explains another nuance in the text that you might have noticed when 10 of the spies decided to return to moses with a slanderous report the souls of the sons of jacob departed from them remember they were given to them for only one reason your eber your eber booster soul is only given to you to facilitate that good mitzvah that good deed if you don't utilize it you know what happens to that eber soul off it goes off it goes because you you didn't you didn't hold on to it off it goes this is why the verse says something that makes no sense i read it before the spies returned and they went and they came to moses that's the literal quote from the apostle from the verse listen to that again the spies returned they went and they came to moses there's an extra went over there they returned and they came to moses makes sense they returned they went and they came makes no sense the result says you know who went the extra soul they returned back to where the jews were their souls left and then sans eber extra soul the 10 spies came to moses let's read that text while b when 10 of the spies decided to return to moses with a slanderous report the souls of the sons of jacob the extra eber soul departed from them this is why the verse first says they return from scouting the land after 40 days and then having already mentioned that they returned goes back and says they went and they came to moses and they came to moses and aaron it should have simply said they came why mention they went if the return was already reported the secret is this i love that i love the secret the secret is this they went refers to the souls of jacob's sons they went they these souls the eber souls went from them when they returned with their evil counsel they came refers to the spies themselves who now came alone without the eber souls within them god gave them a gift and they dropped the ball and this is not about pointing fingers at them and you know these were so it's a it's a it's a it's a reminder that you and i get inspired sometimes out of nowhere you and i face challenge and we believe in kabbalah teaches that anytime you face a challenge you are given the strength to overcome it but not always do we do that and it's because god does not take away our free choice god doesn't do the work for us that's the one rule of thumb god did that once he rescued us from egypt he forced pharaoh's hand he doesn't do it god gives human beings free choice how come god doesn't stop god doesn't step in he helps he assists he guides he directs and he communicates but you and i still have to make the choice if we don't make the right choice then it's like the spies just dropping the ball and letting that eber soul go back to where it came from leaving us the poorer for it hold on hold on hold on we're at we're past time let me close it out and we'll take questions let me close this class out my friends oh one more one more 12c you asked for joshua and caleb the two spies that that remained faithful the eber remained with them for they did not send the soul of ephraim the soul of joseph the son of joseph had entered joshua and the soul of judah had entered caleb this is why the verse says caleb the son of jephun and joshua the son of nun remained alive such a weird word they remained alive why does it say that from among those men who had gone they remained animated by the special souls that had entered them kabbalah says you know what you means i'm telling you this if you know hebrew and you read this story of the miracle you will notice these wrinkles in the text in the hebrew that make no sense they came and they went, they went and they came. Chayu, chayu is such a weird word to put over here. Chayu. Kabbalah says it all makes sense when you understand the secret of Ibra. Chayu, they remained alive with the extra soul. They remained animated by the special souls that had entered them. These souls did not depart when Caleb and Joshua returned because they remained true to their mission. My friends, here's how it works. It works like this. You have a mission and you have a, yeah.
Speaker 11What do you think the sinners were of the ten of the spots?
Speaker 1So according to Kabbalah, it was actually quite spiritual of a sin. They were afraid. They did not believe that God could conquer the land. They believed that God could do anything. They didn't believe in themselves. So put very simply, in the desert, they were living, in the wilderness, they were living in a spiritual oasis, meaning clouds of light. Clouds of glory, divine clouds of glory protecting them. Manna from heaven feeding them. The miraculous waters from Miriam's well giving them water. Their clothes were laundered in the cloud. The clothes grew with them. They had everything they needed. They had Moses, the teacher. They didn't have to work for a living. They didn't have to earn any money. The food was ready on their doorstep every morning, ready to go. It's like an all-inclusive hotel. And who wants to go home? I'm actually not joking. Who wants to go home? This is great. I have a beach chair. I have everything I need. I have room service. I was just this weekend at a wedding in Miami at a very nice place. It was a beautiful wedding. And trust me, when you're in that environment, it's like you don't want to leave. This is incredible. And so they knew that stepping foot, the second they stepped foot into Israel, no manna from heaven, you want food? Okay. So earn money and buy food. You don't have, I don't know, no miracles anymore. You go, you have to earn. You want clothing? I don't know. Figure that out. You want protection? Get an army. Now it's real. I mean, which, it's like a kid wanting to live at home and have that kind of protection as opposed to going out there. And so the spies, it's not, they didn't believe the tent. They did not believe. They didn't believe in God. They didn't think that they, they said the land will consume its inhabitants. You know what that means? We will be, we will be destroyed by the, by the physical experience. If we want to remain a spiritual people, we have to remain in this type of spiritual idyllic oasis. But that's not what God wanted. It might make all the spiritual sense of the world. That's not what God wanted. God says, I want you to go into the physical world and get a job and transform the world into a holy place. I don't want you to, live in heaven. I want you to live on earth and make earth a little bit more heavenly. And that means rolling up your sleeves and getting, digging into the dirt a little bit. Literally and metaphorically. And that's what God wants. And wanted and still wants. The tent spies didn't get it. And so God knew this was going to be difficult, sent the extra souls, still didn't work. Here's, here's where this leaves us. Everybody has a mission. Everybody has a purpose and everybody gets signals from above and everybody gets boosts. Whether it's a holiday boost, whether it's a extra soul boost, whether it's a whatever, a name boost, everyone here in this room has gotten a boost. And if you think about your life and you think about your journey in life, you will, you will recognize that there were moments in which you felt energized and you didn't know why. And the simple question is, what did you do with that energy? You capitalize on it or did you kind of let it slip between your fingers? The message tonight is does God help? Yes. Does God communicate? Yes. Does God guide, lead, assist, boost? Yes, yes, yes. Does God do the work? No, because we need to do the work. And that's the, that's the core of Judaism. God helps, but we have to get the job done. Could God do it? Yeah. But what fun would that be? God already did it. There are realms in which he created perfection and is enjoying his own creation of perfection. We call that heaven. And then God went further and created earth. And God said, all right, y'all are in charge of this place. I'm going to tell you what I want, but you need to do it. And that's a real relationship when you have vulnerability. It's hard to give up control. God models that. God gives up control. He still helps. He still guides, but he tells us, I trust you to do it. And if you get it wrong, we'll wait 40 years and the next generation will get it right. And if they get it wrong, for any time, eternal God, there's a lot of patience, right? God has a lot of time on his hands. Not this generation, the next generation. Ah, you're not around? OK, you had a chance. This generation had their chance. And they swung and missed. OK, the next generation will go in. The message is not supposed to be a negative one. It's supposed to be a positive one. When you feel inspired, jump on the opportunity. When you feel alive with purpose, seize the day. Never let an opportunity pass by to fulfill what you are here for. Thank you very much for joining me tonight. I hope today's lesson made sense. I hope you were blown away by Kabbalah. You guys are kind and generous with the interaction. Next week, very important announcement. Next week, what is the topic? We turn the tables. Until now, we've been talking about how we are being influenced from on high. Next week, we talk about how we influence what happens on high. Can we influence others in other parts of the world? Yes. Can we influence the heavenly realms? And even God himself, the answer we will see is yes. How? Stay tuned next week, same bat time, same bat channel, for more information on how that all works.
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