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Eliyahu Pereira ¦ Gate of Unity

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We're going to continue in the different classes from the [Music] on the form and the pinute of the Torah and the letters of the Torah. This class was given on the on a Monday the 27th of [Music] 79. So six years ago approximately says like this the letters the Hebrew letters are the is the inner aspect of all of the creation and is by way of these letters that all of the of the creation all of the light and the abundance of the creation Hashem's creation comes down to the world. [Music] And when a person attaches himself to the holy letters and he clings to the light of the insult that's rested inside each letter and letter and he comes to a level attaches himself to Hashem. That's what we want to do. That's what the BM want us to do. That's what's called toalishma that you look at the letters and you're able to see the godliness inside of there the worlds inside of there the nish inside of there and to attach yourself to the leather when a person does they reach this light of the Torah started with the letter bet and us too when we come to understand the secrets of the letters we also have to go in with the bure from the letter bet where the Torah starts This might sound like a repetition for whoever is following the classes that you know we've already done I think six classes five classes on this idea and just want to say that we are in a different Torah and the same topics but don't connect this to what we've learned in the past so far. So far this sort of seems like it's a it's a whole different mala than what we've been learning. So the letter bet where the Torah starts with shows us on one side of the the side of flow of giving of on the other side it shows us of of like entering in yourself like going inwardly and constrictions. The opposite letter of bet is what's called pay. The letter pay pay is represents selfishness and going inwardly and like I don't know the proper word for it is I don't know if we have it in English but like is to go inside to enter is it could be a like a bit right a bunch of people coming together entering into the one room together but also a person could do it with themselves like you can go into yourself so pay repres represents a a selfish egotistical going inwardly and it's coming from a bad a bad place. This is how the pay looks. The pay looks like a person coming from down up in order to receive sustenance. Once it receives that right, the pay comes up to receive shea. And once it receives the shea, what does it do? It goes inside itself. It takes it to guard it for itself. And that's the yud that's inside the pay, right? It's a person coming up and then that ud is the is the shea, but the the ud is pointed inward. So the letter meaning I'm going to guard it all for myself. [Music] When do we see this idea of pay of in gathering in gathering for negativity of coming together for bad things in the generation of of many different factions which is the the generation of the tower of babel when they came together and they were one people they were one and they came together to unify but for themselves. And that's when they try to build a tower for themselves to fight against Hashem. For themselves, right? And this was all hinted to in the letter P. Let's build ourselves a city. Meaning, let's build this tower of Babel. God forbid will be spread out accord across all the faces of the earth. They wanted to come in together to to make a a UN general assembly just like they do nowadays for negative horrible evil plans and ideas which was the opposite of the goal of creation. the goal of the creation of the world the bet right that's the letter the and explain everybody wanted to live together in 15minute cities in small towns in small cities with a lot of public transportation and no cars and not to spread out across the world and to settle all of the land there's a big idea in Judaism to settle the world right We're not against cutting down trees if it's for building houses for humans. We have to have forest. We have to have nature. But the number one purpose of this whole entire world is for human beings to be comfortable and to serve God. This world is here to serve human beings. It's not here just to be a forest, right? So we need nature, but we also need settlement. And it was a big idea that the Jews or the people of the world should settle the whole entire world and live across the world. And this generation, they wanted to come together and to live together. and they didn't want to spread out the world. This was the opposite of what Hashem wanted when Hashem said in the creation of the world, reproduce, be fruitful and multiply and fill up the land. That was the pay of pay of a rectified pay. So too their main power was in their mouth which is also again the letter pay. They all spoke one language. They all came up with one strategy. They were all aligned to do this strategy for a bad cause. Like it says there was one language in the world and everybody was saying the same thing. Maybe says about them that they're one people with one language. That was their strength. That was what gave them the power to do. who caused them to rebel against Hashem. It wasn't because that they were one nation with one language. And now we have to make sure to guard to protect from everything that they tried to do. That level of unity, it's a cloud that they teach in. It's an important thing that we have to know. Unity is so powerful that even wicked people coming together if they have strong strong strong unity even so to say the can't break through it so to say why because unity is so powerful when you bring a lot of souls together it's extremely extremely hard to break that even with kadusha it's hard to break through what separate destroy we can break definitely we can right but it's taught in kazal that because the nature is wicked people usually have ego Right? So there will be a break a breach in their own unity by default. They're going to mess up their own unity because they're wicked people. So they're egotistical. Right? But unity doesn't matter which camp in the world is able to get unity. When you have unity, you get a lot of blessing. Even if you have unity for a negative thing. And you see that here their unity was what allowed them to start to build a wonderful tower that could they're going to try to achieve their goals. even though their unity is what saved them from hard judgments and they had a little bit of people that could be redeemed, a few refugees, people that survived that. What was specifically their punishment? that their lips, their language got confused in order to nullify their in gathering and their their unity which was only for the sake of evil and for bad purposes. All of this is the idea of the pay, the letter pay, which teaches us of the idea of in gathering, of getting together, of assembly for negative purposes, in this gathering for negativity that's hinted to in the pay. This is the pay that hold on to This is my river and I made it. He took his his mind into a place of who who it's all me me and there's nothing besides Pharaoh. And this is the whole essence of the of the other side that is always going in the way of pride and in the way of ego. All of this comes out of the the pit of the snake. From there is where all of the pain and all of the hardships come down to the world. Therefore, after the letter pay of what are you left with? Which letters are you left with? Bad. If a person's going to be into himself all the time and think that the whole world is theirs, then it's going to turn out probably bad. The way that the tells people to assemble for negative things and to come against Israel and come against God for negative things, to have bad assemblies, to have bad gatherings of people together, that usually always will the outcome of it will be will be negativity. On the other hand, bet is the opposite idea. Even though bet and pay are very similar, but pay closes itself off even more. Right? The bet has three walls. The pay has a fourth and then even another one towards inside. Right? So it's it's all showing you how there's this extra wall that's not like the bet. showing you that will want to go more inside and the bet doesn't go inside. It doesn't get pulled inwardly. The fact that the bet is closed from three sides and and sort of sorry like so to say gathers in the that's not for the purpose of the bet itself. The bet, right? It does close off. The bet again looks like this. It doesn't have the extra lip that goes in to bring in all the shafa to itself to keep it for itself. So, it is making a vessel. It does want to keep sha within these walls. But why is it keeping the sheffa? In order to be mashia, in order to spread it out in the world and to share that shea with the rest of the world in a proper healthy way. the bed that's closed on three sides and is only opened to the opening meaning the opening to the bed is only like if you want to go into the bed right that is a hint to the idea of what's said in taleim 67 the Third verse to know in the world your path meaning Psalm 67 is what's called the David right the Davidid what we call the six-pointed star really the magendavid the shield of David had the minor of ln on it it …

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