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0:07 All right, I want to say good morning. Sorry about that. What I want to say good morning, good morning. Let's get in a couple of minutes of of Bill Bobby and Mary Sasha. So we are picking up is actually a really really beautiful piece on page Lamed. Oh, I realized that did I Is is it on the PDF? 0:25 Oh, am I up to date still on the PDF? No. Okay, so let me actually just post this quickly over here. Just while we're uh So if you remember again, we were discussing the concept of the closest to our college park. And specifically, all right, this is going to be a terrible picture, but it'll accomplish the task for today. 0:46 Posting that to the DAF chat. Sorry about that. And it's there. Okay. So in section Lamed VAV, page Lamed, section Lamed VAV. So the the Mahara says something beautifully. He says, "Nisaya Latsmenu." Let's imagine the following scenario for ourselves. 1:07 So remember again, we'll say the the the the striking example that the Mahara chose to dwell upon was the example of the reunification of Yakov and Yosef. And in that moment where father and son were so profoundly connected, Yosef, you know, clinging onto his father clinging onto his father and crying into that crook uh we haven't confirmed if that's the correct word or not. But crying into the 1:31 crook of his neck. And the Mahara pointed out, he says something so beautiful. He said, "You know, that is the moment of such incredible and overwhelming closeness." And yet, how long did it last for? It lasted for whatever, as long as it took Yakov in with the say hours. 1:48 But at the end of the day, then it came to a close. It came to an end. Be at the closeness that we enjoy with our college park who is the type of closeness which has the ability to endure forever and ever every single moment. So, he gives an example and this is great. It's all last minute. Let's imagine for ourselves in that moment when Yosef was finally reunited with his father. Get ready for this. 2:14 Imagine for a moment that Yaakov has finally been reunified with Yosef. And imagine in that moment, right, his phone begins to ring. >> >> Imagine his phone begins to ring. Would he answer his phone? Would he Would he answer his phone in the middle of his reunification with his father? 2:37 Or perhaps better stated, in that moment when he was being reunited with his father, the phone call, the WhatsApp, right, the Facebook post, whatever it is, none of it would have mattered to him at all. Right, for many years in isolation. 3:03 And finally there's that moment, that beautiful moment where he leaves isolation, he leaves difficulty, and ultimately he reunites with his father. Now, in that moment when he's finally together with his father, does he have time to think about anything else? 3:25 beautiful idea. What What's the message for us? This has to be in the way in which a Jew lives. Who double call us man manage the body all of them. Now, let me say here's the interesting distinction. As the Mahara pointed out yesterday, no matter how close your human relationship, right, no matter how much in love, no matter how close you you're with someone, it's impossible for it to exist 3:49 constantly. Right, in other words, he says, "So of call so who by all of them are over." Right? Think about this just a moment. Now, our goal our goal is and this is really beautiful because I think this is the first time that the Mahara gave us I think like a almost something we could hold on to in a tangible way. 4:07 What's my goal in my relationship with Hashem? My goal in my relationship with Hashem is I want what Yosef had with Yakov in that moment of reunification. That that closeness, right? And I will say again, it's not just the closeness. 4:22 It's a closeness almost to the exclusion of everything else. In that moment when Yosef was holding on to his father. So, remember again, no phone call, no interruption, no even matter of state, right? Cuz Yosef was a viceroy, the head of state. 4:37 Nothing. Nothing could have and would have interfered in that moment. Anything and everything was put on hold for the sake of that closeness in the moment. So, Mahara says, "That's our goal." That that's what I want with the Rebono Shel Olam. What's the problem? The problem is so called so who have all of them are 5:01 over. I live in a physical material world, right? I live in this world. Who is a sick emo the fall host is a porter. And no matter how much you try to like not make the physical world your primary pursuit, at the end of the day it is impossible to divorce yourself from this world. Who am I never sure cause my number one but then but here's the incredible part. 5:25 The incredible part is as we're going and we're going to learn about this was that we're going to is that as much as at the end of the day it feels like there are many distractions in my relationship with just in day-to-day life. At the end of the day I am perpetually connected. At the end of the day there really is never a lapse in my connection with Hakadosh 5:47 Baruch Hu, I really am that Yosef who is constantly clinging onto the neck, constantly clinging on, locked in embrace with his father. Even though again, it looks like I'm interrupted, I'm not. Hin b'zman is k'neged ruchniyus, v'hin b'zman k'neged gashmiyus. Well, so this might be the most validating piece of Torah, the most uplifting piece of Torah ever learned, which is we think we think that on some 6:11 level, as much as I want to remain connected to Hakadosh Baruch Hu, there's a when interruptions, I have to go to work, right? I have to make a living, I have to do this, I have to go to this, right? The whatever, whatever, the the the the activities of daily living. In reality, yes, those things look like interruptions, but when you pierce beneath the surface, I am always constantly, perpetually connected to the Ribono shel Olam. L'olam ha'nefesh lo 6:35 misnatkes min ha'borei olam. My neshama never disconnects. Now again, I'll say, what's the challenge? What's the challenge? What's the challenge? The challenge is how do I feel it? You know, there are some things which are reality, but I don't feel it. So now, what the Mekubal is telling me is I am always connected. You see, remember, here's the incredible part. As much as Yosef was connected to Yaakov in that incredible 6:58 profound way, how long did it last? How long did it last? As long as it took him to say Krias Shema. Afterwards, you know, you you can't you can't hold onto someone forever, right? You can't hug them forever. At some point in time, you have to unlock from the embrace. Yet, the Mekubal says something amazing. When we have that embrace with Hakadosh Baruch Hu, it's forever. Well, so let me give you I'll give you even just a more tachlis example of this. I will say, you 7:22 know, as right, for many of us as we come to shul or first thing in the morning, comes to shul, right? You have to say Birkas ha'Torah. What's what's what's Birkas Why do we say Birkas ha'Torah? Why why why do we say Birkas ha'Torah? I know this is too early for interactive, right? Right? Right? But it's still again, we say Birkas ha'Torah because again, like anything else, before I have a cup of coffee, I have to say Shokol and you have to say right to recognize that it belongs to the particle. So before I learn Torah, I 7:46 have to say to recognize that comes from shamayim. So let's say remember even if I drink a lot of coffee over the course of the day, if I make a shakal now and then after shacharit, I have another cup of coffee. What's the law? Another bracha. Why? Hesech hadas. Right? Hesech hesech hadas lapse of awareness. 8:04 So interestingly enough I make Torah in the morning. Great. I learn the daf. I davin shacharit. I go to work. Whole bunch of things. Let's say in the evening I sit down and I learn again. Do I need another Torah? Why not? 8:20 No hesech hadas. What do you mean no hesech hadas? What do you mean no hesech hadas? What do you mean no lapse of awareness? I spent my day going to work, dealing with a whole bunch of other things that may have occurred over the course of the day. You're telling me that my mind's been on Torah the entire day and the answer is yes. 8:36 It's like 50/50. It's like 50/50. It's like 50/50. Absolutely the wrong answer by the way. I'm sorry. Yes. On What What it means is that on some spiritual level I'm constantly connected. So let's say even before we get to this, the fact that a kid only has to make one Torah every single day and that goes to my whole day even though I wish I was sitting in front of 8:59 an open sefer the entire day, right? So my cup of coffee, as much as I love coffee and I know I'm going to drink another 17 cups over the course of the day, right? Once I move on to something else, this act is done means another bracha. But yet you see when it comes to Torah, I make one bracha in the morning and that guides me the day. So what that tells me already is that there is like a it's almost like like 9:23 What is it? Like I might use this as a metaphor like I not idle mode. You know in your car, sometimes if you if you if you push down on the idle, right? Idle, right? Idle stop. Idle stop, right? That you know when you when you push down on the on the on the brake like at a red light, kind of goes into a little bit of like a sleep mode, but then all you do is you lift it back up. You don't have to turn the car back on. It's there. It's there. 9:45 You just You just lift up and suddenly it's back on again. That's what it means to be a Yid. That's what it means to be a Jew. So, my soul is always connected in somehow, someway, I'm always connected to Torah. And what the points out to over here is I'm always connected to as well. That at the end of the day, I am always connected to the 10:07 I'm always locked in that embrace. What's the challenge? The challenge is feeling it. Sometimes there are things that are there are things It's just like in any relationship, you could be in love with someone, you don't always feel the love. Right? You know, you don't necessarily always feel the love there, but the love may always be in existence. And then the says this is what happens with the 10:32 That love is there. That connection is there. Sometimes I feel it, sometimes but it's always present. Our of course is how do I feel it? Now that I know that I am always locked in an embrace with my father I'm saying one there. That closeness is there. So, fascinatingly enough, my challenge is not in the creation of the closeness. 10:55 That closeness is almost like a de facto state of a Yid and his father. My challenge now becomes how do I feel it? How do I become aware of it? So, I was I was I have to stop over here for today. We'll pick up the lesson with this tomorrow. A lot more to do on this journey, but we'll do it together. Thank you.
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