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Kind: captions Language: en We're in chapter three, right? Come on, let's get back to business, let 's see what happens. Chapter three, let's read a little, let's read and then try to understand a little what's going on. The ancients said that the soul has health and illness just as the body has health and illness. This means that the Rambam compares the health of the body. You know, he compares, but he limits the health of the body, mental health. What is mental health? It is not mental health that we think of as a mental illness, that a person has anxieties or something else. It is a person who needs to go to a doctor. There are psychological doctors, there are things you can go to and receive some treatment for, but that is not what the Rambam is talking about . Maimonides talks about, uh, dimensional problems. So that's what Maimonides talks about. Mental health is the health of the soul. Health is not a disease that a person has, paranoia or other things, but rather it is the health of one's virtues. The balance in dimensions. This is what the Rambam says here. So he explains that there will be in the world its qualities and partial qualities of a quality that it will do in the world the good and the kindness and the pleasant deeds. Its link is that its qualities and partial qualities of a quality that it will do in the world the seeing of the damages the derogatory deeds about what is the health of the body the health of the body is the work of medicine deals with this The Rambam is not writing a book of medicine now even though the Rambam was a doctor at the time but he is not writing a book of medicine is like the sick bodies and this is a very very special point that now the Rambam says didn't we learn this last time where the sick will be bodies it seems to them because of the deterioration of their feeling and a sweet thing that he said Surely everyone here has had some time some flu and then you match the food it has a different taste you know it when a person has a fever so it is not the taste it is not no appetite no also no appetite but also the taste is strange like that right you have a strange taste in your mouth so you think it is like this it is not like that suddenly you say it is lacking salt no lacking salt yes it is you you you you lose your sense of illness. Illness can make you Loses his sense. So he says, like this in the body and in something that is bitter that is sweet, you get confused. He imagines to himself things of immovable pleasures. That is, things that are right and things that are wrong. Strengthen their passion, cut off their pleasure in things that are not at all pleasurable for the healthy. And no more are there people who take drugs, there are people who smoke, smoking is eating charcoal and charcoal, here you eat charcoal, right, and dirt, I don't know what people eat, dirt, I do n't know, and things that are putrid, it's sour and bitter, and it comes out of these things that the healthy will not eat, but chew them, the same thing with the mentally ill, that's where the wicked and those with disorders do things that seem to them to be okay, they seem to them in things that are bad that are okay, good in those things that are good, that are bad, and therefore the wicked always draw the goals that are in truth bad, imagine them because of the illness of their soul, their soul that they are good, well, so let's try to understand this because this is a very, very fundamental point, the Rambam actually In this chapter he explains that, first of all, we are simply mentally ill. Why are we mentally ill? Because we have not yet corrected our morals. We are not talking now about mentally ill people, the sick people that we define as psychologists, psychiatrists, things like that. That is not the point. The point is that being mentally ill is actually understanding that a person needs to correct their morals and when a person corrects their morals, they correct, they balance the body, they balance the body, they balance their mind, and that is the goal of correcting morals. But first of all, we need to understand that if we are mentally ill, as I explained last time, it means that we are sick. A person whose morals are not balanced, is a sick person, he is not a healthy person. But there is also good news in this . What is the good news? That it can be corrected. Well, that is the first point that Maimonides says here. Second point, the comparison of the mentally ill and the physically ill. What does he mean by that? In fact, the Holy One, blessed be He, created an amazing nature, right? Our entire organism operates in a very, very, very precise way. Then what does he do? He identifies very precisely what is good for him and what is not good for him. Right, man, I'm sure you've heard that you once ate spoiled food? Not intentionally. yes. A person ate spoiled food, so the body now gathers and mobilizes to push out this food. So Adam McKay, Adam Mashal, what what what what happened? The body recognizes. The body says these toxins are not good for us. You can cause diseases, cause infections, can cause this. So what does everyone do about everyone? Where are all these going? There's a movie I saw when I was little, I don't remember what it's called, a fictional movie where a person has some kind of disease and he's not them, the doctors can't figure it out, and then one day there's some doctor who's able to take it. It's not that imaginary. Today, there's this. Every time there wasn't a pill like this. You swallow a pill. There's a camera in that pill. Then it travels through the body and checks all of it. It films what's going on inside. In the movie, people become small and they get into some kind of capsule. That one swallows it, and people don't manage to get out well. That's another story. But no, but it's interesting. And suddenly they discover what they discover there in one of the scenes of the movie. The body suddenly sees something that doesn't belong. So then all the pills, all of this, they come to kill these people inside the capsule and they don't know what to do because they understand that they're in danger, but the whole body says, wait a minute, it's a foreign body. This body is not okay. We need to get rid of him. Do you understand? This is what the Rambam writes. The Rambam says the body is amazing and the body knows exactly what is good and what is not good. Therefore, it breaks down food. The body, you know, uses a lot of energy in breaking down food to take the vitamins from everything you eat. You eat things that are burned. So you take the vitamins and filter out the waste, and the body excretes this waste and only takes what is needed. Very, very important things are important. That's why animals really don't eat anything that is harmful to them. Not like a human being. A human being can also eat a food, can eat rubber. It's not something, it's oil. It is from oil that crude oil is made. But animals are not a healthy body. What is a healthy body? He knows exactly how to identify the enemy's cells. He knows exactly how to identify the lover's vitamins. And he takes it and he puts it here and the blood circulation and so on and so on . The body actually knows exactly what is good for it. He knows himself. He is not attracted to things that are not good for him. It is the nature of the body to live healthily. Mental illness. Once again, I'm not talking about a mental illness where a person thinks they're Napoleon. yes. I'm talking about a mental illness where the dimensions are unbalanced. What is a disease? Both in body and soul. It is a matter of the human being being unable to identify what is good and what is not good. Serious illnesses are not upon us. yes. Serious illnesses in the body are actually multiple. Many times it is a proliferation of cells. And the body is unable to recognize and say it doesn't need to include delicious food. What is appropriate is enough. So it creates a delicious, delicious, delicious taste. And in the end it creates a growth not on us this is this is the idea of ​​the serious illnesses that we can't overcome for so many years looking for a cure so thank God there are many more but there are things that are less I hope the doctors will find some cure but but what does it mean it means that the body is not able to identify itself it is a lack of recognition lack of recognition what is right for me and what is wrong for me so the body also acts correctly in mental illnesses it is the same thing that is why Maimonides compares you understand it is the same thing a person has lost his own health he doesn't know what is right he doesn't know what is wrong someone who has bad habits so he listens to them so he doesn't overcome them so he is mentally ill why because a person gets angry and then he gets angry instead of thinking that a person should do the opposite take this anger and overcome it and say no this is not right it is not good so to mobilize all the forces of his body and all the forces of his mind and fight against this thing you understand what I am saying it is exactly the same thing Maimonides is right diseases of the body and diseases of the mind in habits we are establishing once again an eighth time all this exactly on the same pretext Just as the body fails to recognize what is good and what is not good, the soul also fails to recognize what is good and what is not good. The Holy One, blessed be He, created man with a balance and who needs to work to reject his bad qualities . So much so that in the end a man should be happy to do good things. Mental health is that I enjoy doing kindness. Not that I freeze myself to do kindness. Okay? And so there are those who say that in fact the illness of the soul is all passions and desires and they come to confuse you and they come from the outside. This is not true. There is mental health. There is mental health. It cannot be said that the whole world is rotten and corrupt and the passions seize you, but man has the strength to overcome things and put the passions in the right place. That is why it is written with all your heart, with all your heart, in both you need, we believe that even with your life forces you can do good things. But for this you must first identify what is right and what is wrong. Is this understandable or is everyone asleep? What is understandable? It is really the Rambam. No, I didn't explain almost anything. What the Rambam says simply. So of course, blessed are those who know and recognize the bad plantings. How much do you people in the world think? Do they think about their virtues, do an account of their virtues and understand which virtues are good, which virtues are not so good, which virtues need to be corrected? What do you think? Most of the world understands this, I think not. Most of the world lives life. They go to work, go to the theater, go to that, read with them, go to freedom. So here they get angry, here they contradict someone, here they speak slander, here they return, here they leave. Suddenly the Torah tells you, listen, you have to be a human being. A human being is a person who understands what is good about his virtues. What he takes for granted and what is a burden. If you don't recognize the things that happen to you, then you are unbalanced. Morally and if you are not morally nourished, you are mentally ill. I agree to steal and murder. You are right. You are right, but these are things that are not related to virtues. These are actions more, but a person who is not concerned about his fellow man. A person who teases another person, a person who is arrogant, it doesn't work that way. You're right. People all over the world are like that. They have values. I completely agree with you. But in a person's inner qualities, it's something else. Yes, it could be that the world's religions don't need us either. No, you're right. You might be right. I do n't know. I need to be careful, I don't know. But it's true that a person's qualities are important in people who are more moral. Yes? You might be right. I don't know. I don't know if they have books of virtues. I don't know. There it's a little different. Because there are people there, holy people and ordinary people. Holy people are perfect, they do this. And the people of Derek B don't do tricks in any case. And with us, it's not like that. With us, thank God, every person can be healthy in their soul, healthy in their virtues. This is good, but it's not a lesson in Christianity, not that knowledgeable. Yes, in Christianity, I mean, blessed is he who recognizes that there are bad traits in him. Blessed is he who knows that he is, oh no, he is exactly the point of illness. It's not me, it's something else. And so you have to go to the doctor. A person who is sick in the body goes to the doctor. Why do you go to the doctor? Because you have symptoms of things that are not normal. So you go to the doctor. Well, what will the mentally ill do? What will the mentally ill do? Oh, they will go to the doctor. Who is the doctor for the mentally ill? What? The Rambam is not psychologists. Once again, psychologists do not disparage them at all. Psychologists are very important, but what do psychologists do? Mental illnesses are not related to virtues. They are related to other things. A person has anxieties. A person feels. He feels that he cannot control certain things. That is something else. The Rambam does not talk about these things. It is possible that the Rambam has something to say about this. The Rambam has something to say about everything, but he does not talk about it. He talks about virtues. So we will now see what the Rambam says. Look at what an interesting thing he writes here. It's like the physically ill, do you see where we are? When they know their illness and are not up to the task of medicine, you are not, you do not know medicine. So what are you doing? They ask the doctors and they inform them what they should do and warn them of what could happen that evening. What does the doctor say? Says, listen, you have sugar. So don't eat sugar, but it's delicious. Sir, it looks delicious, but it's not good for you. That's what the doctor says. And what if they do? They will be ready for things, the disgusting ones, they will say. Well, today these are tasteless medicines, but think about it, in the past they would make all kinds of herbs, all kinds of things, they would mix it with foxglove and horsetail, and you would drink it, God forbid. And they will call to mind the words of the musicians, saying, "They will transgress their bodies, and then they will return to choosing the good and despising the disgusting." So the sick of the soul do the same thing. What is this? It is fitting for them to ask the wise, who are the doctors of the soul, and they will warn them of those evils that they consider good and will ease them in an action in which they heal the qualities of the soul that they have discovered in the chapter "Shahar." This is beautiful. So what does the Rambam say? The Rambam says, "Blessed is he who recognizes that he is a forger." Therefore, in this, the wise are similar to psychologists. How are they similar? That they correct internal distortions. yes? I mean, what does a psychologist really do? What is his primary role? what? identify. But more than that, its primary role is to actually explain to you that you are sick. Because a lot of times a person says, I don't know, people don't get along with me, right? Who don't you get along with? I don't get along with him. I don't get along with him either, I don't get along with him either. Maybe it's the other way around? Maybe you are the problem and not each individual is the problem? not. I'm fine, they're not . Suddenly, a person comes along who understands the soul and explains to you, clarifies, gives you this and explains to you that there is some understandable problem here in your personality. I mean, first of all, the psychologist gives you an understanding that you are really sick. I mean, I'm willing to go to the doctor because I feel like I have a problem. But it's psychologists, but it's the same thing with rabbis. What do smart people do? They reflect to you the difficulty, the problems of morality. And so you need to fix it. You need to fix this. The sages, their main role is to guide you on how to correct the qualities that are defective in you. First of all, recognize the problem and secondly, provide a cure for it. First of all, there are people who recognize it on their own, even if a person knows after a few years that they have pneumonia or that they have a sore throat, then they need the doctor to give them the medicine. The same thing here is a comparison between the physically ill and the mentally ill. You make a rabbi for you, and then you go and he explains to you how to correct your habits. Okay, okay ? It's a bit like the Ramchal's Garden of Embarrassment , isn't it? You can't trust yourself because you'll get lost. So what do you need? You need to go and look for someone who has already gone through this process. The important point, but as you said, is to admit the mistake, to admit the illness. Do you admit the illness? I mean, there's a positive and a negative point. You admit the illness, yes, but it's an illness. It's an illness. It will pass. I mean it will pass, it will pass on its own. No. If a person doesn't do something about it, it won't pass on its own. I think this is one of the most difficult things that the Rambam says here. Because not so young. I don't know, you guys are young, right? When was the last time you thought about what dimensions? What are the dimensions? It will be in dimensions. It may be difficult to do this work. not. It's digging. Dig a little. What are you digging? Digging is prohibited. not. Mom takes you away and says hello, I came to talk to you. Don't dig. Everything is fine. Everything is fine. Everything is fine. There are things you want to share with me. No. There are special things. No. What do you do in the yeshiva? Nothing. It's very difficult for a person to open up. It's very difficult to open up. Where? Who was the strongest? Only you. Mental illnesses are relative. I'm talking now. Yes, who reveals the most about a person? His mental wounds. What? Who knows him best? Dad and mom are half a clutch. Wife and husband. It doesn't matter which side you look at. Dad and mom. Since the ninth grade, you went to boarding school. You just came to the yeshiva. Okay. How much do you support them? Well, we won't ask any difficult questions here. How much do you support your parents in what you're going through? What is it? There are those who share 2% of the population and there are fewer. Right? Or am I saying nonsense? I'm saying nonsense or not. What is it? It's really like that a person doesn't share that much. So if he doesn't share a person then you have friends then you have good friends but good friends usually they don't really say good things to you listen there's some problem here that you need to fix you would like a friend like that oh right it's good to have a friend like that but it's not but your wife lives with you all this she says hello sir what's going on here what's happening here what's happening here it looks like then your children, your children wow wow wow wow wow told you wait a minute wait a minute why are you faking why are you bluffing why are you like that why are you like that no matter how they say it you have to say it respectfully but children are very understanding very familiar with this but this is the most important point is to admit the illness and decide that I'm going to a psychiatrist who is the psychiatrist is your rabbi but for him to be your rabbi and for him to be a psychiatrist he has to know you know you. How can he know you? number. So it's very important. It's different from what we say, right? Use of a wise man. What is the use of a wise man? It is the custom of a learned scholar not to bring a glass of water to a rabbi in a lesson. It's important, it's beautiful, it's nice that your father is like you. But that's not what this is about , it's about something else. What is this about ? That a person knew you and could give you spiritual guidance, again not spiritually that you are mentally ill in the normal world, but that you have a flaw in your values ​​that you need to fix. Oh, and even if he says hard things, you can't look for a rabbi who keeps telling you how wonderful you are and how good you are and how nice you are. That's nice. A rabbi like that, but that's not it. You need a rabbi who can understand you. What does criticism mean? He says, wait a minute. He loves you, so he says criticism. If he doesn't love you, he just wants to make you feel guilty. So that's not good. But if he loves you, he says criticism. What does he say to you? Listen, you went too far. Here, you did this. Here, you did this. Not that. You need to change what you wanted. Yes, the doctors will say. They say, listen. You want to be healthy. Every morning, you need to take a. I do n't know. There was a trend once that on an empty stomach, you drink two tablespoons of olive oil. It's excellent. It cleanses your entire body. And who can drink two tablespoons of olive oil? I admit it. I'm not the one who created it. It's not this crazy disgusting. These are the disgusting things. You understand. No, the disgusting things are saying, sir. You need to fix it. You need to do things. The opposite, you need to change your trend and it's hard, it's harder than taking two tablespoons of olive oil in the morning because they tell you, listen, you're stingy, if you're stingy, you need to fix your measurements, you're fine, I'm stingy, what can I do, I'm stingy, no, you need to change what, how do I change? First of all, I'm not stingy, oh, you don't know your problem, second thing, fix your measurements, what does that mean? The rabbi says, you give charity every day, you take from your pocket, not on credit, a good correction, what does it look like, chapter four, but he does say, yes, yes, it's a good correction, so Homer or is it sweet? This correction is Homer or is it very bitter, Homer, very bitter. It's like olive oil in the morning, like the scroll medicines of the past. They used to drink . This is actually one of the most nightmare things in life. I was still too small, thank God, but I remember the big stuff: castor oil, some olive oil, fish oil, something. Just thinking about it, you, you, you're suicidal. Is it bitter or is it sweet? This is Mr. Medley. This is very bitter. But people thought it helped God. They used to put God on the person so that he would suck their blood. This is what the doctors did in the Rambam. This is not a problem. Because the Rambam believes that a person follows his actions. Actions can change the face. So if you get used to giving charity, in the end it will be easier for you. At first, you will faint every time you give a shekel. But the 1,000th time, you will faint less. The 5,000th time, you don't have it. The 10,000th time. You have changed the face a little. We said it in the Awakening. We said it in the Awakening. This is the Rambam. The Rambam says that actions and habits can change a person. A method. A method. In the first place. This is the Rambam. It is certain that it is certain that it is true. I am making progress. We are together for now. So it is really interesting what he says here. He says, but the mentally ill do not feel their illness. The mentally ill are with me. The mentally ill do not feel their illness and imagine it to be healthy. You come to a person who is belittling people. You tell him, listen. This is not how it is. What did I do? What happened? You do not know him. People like that don't know the disease at all. They don't know what needs to be done. They live a good life with it. A lot of people live in broken standards. You tell them, listen, this is not right. No, they don't understand what you're talking about. So Maimonides says, the mentally ill who do not feel their illness and imagine it as a human being, meaning that everything is fine, or that they feel the problem but they do not get better, then this is a terrible thing and today. After all, there are awarenesses and they do not work or there is no awareness at all, then their end will be said that the way to be the end of the patient if one of his ancestors went and is not cured that he will be lost without a doubt they say man listen you must go on a diet without knowing what sugar is man says okay okay okay understand the problem and then repeats the same thing so in the end he has diabetes so what will he say what what can he do okay on the way forward but those who feel and follow their desires their desires the book of truth the Torah said in the Torah their words that in the service of his heart my heart will go for the sake of many tongues you will quench meaning that he means including his fasting but in fact he adds thirst to himself yes man all the passions they work like that man says to him I will do it only once. The passion seized you once and you continue to stimulate the passions. But those who do not feel said what King Solomon says On them? Be exalted, Solomon, many said, "The path of the wicked is straight in his eyes, guarding the side of the wise." That is, the one who accepts the essence of the wise, whose teachings the path that is truly straight is not the one he thinks is the straight one he thinks is the straight one, but what they tell you. And he said, "There is a straight path before a man, and its end is the path of death." What does that mean? There is a straight path before a man, but before this man, this path seems wrong. He said, "In those mentally ill people, they do not know what will harm them or what will benefit them. Sermons of the multitude do not know what will hinder them. But the work of healing souls is as described in the fourth chapter. Oh, the sick person seeks pleasures from the sick. This is what is written here in the Rambam. But note, enjoyment in Rambam is not a bad thing. It's not that you shouldn't enjoy life. Enjoyment in Rambam is a positive word, but you have to be healthy. yes? The Rambam calls people who know about their illnesses and continue in their lust, calling them what he calls them? Wicked. Have you seen what is wicked? It is a person who knows the problem and is not willing to correct it. Someone whose morals are broken is then a bad person? No, he is not a bad person, because he did not know. And you do not seek or you know and you do not correct him, he calls him wicked. We are not embellishing reality here. Look at what the Rambam says. The Rambam calls him wicked. Where did he write, "He brought me a path that is straight in his eyes and keeps a wise side," meaning the one who accepts the essence of the wise, who informs him that he is truly straight according to his sense that he thinks that he is straight and said, "There is a straight path before me and another along it." The paths of death, sermons, and a slap in the face, did not know what would be difficult for him. That is, the Rambam does not just bring these verses. What does the Rambam bring in these verses? The Rambam says, there are good pleasures, there are pleasures that spoil a person, and therefore you need to do a good calculation. Therefore, a spiritual doctor needs to be raised . What is a psychiatrist? This is a person who knows how to fix the standards, a person who knows how to guide you through the broken standards and fix them. By the way, okay, are you with me? It's simple, it's Rambam, it's Rambam, it's simple, but, but, what did I want to say? Some people think they go to a rabbi, so you go to a rabbi, what do you do? You are asking for a blessing. Is this good or is it bad? yes. That's excellent. But if you go to a rabbi and ask for a blessing, do you receive some kind of tools to correct your habits? No, no. It's good to go to a rabbi who blesses you. You also leave feeling good, giving you desire, strength, it can also help him with certain things. But in my personal work, will working on the measurements help me? not. So don't get confused. We are not looking for virtues, virtues, and rabbis now. Rabbis are important, but rabbis are important. They can guide you to correct your morals. That's what matters. That's what matters, otherwise what else? Otherwise, what are rabbis for? So some people think that rabbis are just virtues. I tell you to be healthy, you are happy. You will have good children, my God. You will have it, Amen, you will get married soon, Amen. Okay, this is important. I'm not saying it's bad. I didn't say anything bad. But that's not the role of evil. It may also be a small role. But what is the role of rabbis? The role of rabbis is to guide a person to make a change. Real change, internal change. Where do you see this? Where do you see this? Parashat Vaychi. Parashat Vayyhi, what does it say? It is written that our father Jacob came to bless the sons. How do I know it's blessings? Because it is written in the Torah. What is written in the Torah? beautiful. A man who is blessed. I told you that. A man who blessed them with his blessing. So is it a blessing or not a blessing? Who wrote this? As it is already written, the Holy One, blessed be He, blessed them . So is it true or false? Well, what kind of question is this? So that must be true. So now I say to you the blessings of Reuven Fahz, like water on the altar. Haha, that's fun to hear. You have defiled your father's exports. That's good. Is that okay? not. But the Torah says it is a blessing. Shimon and I and my brothers, a vessel of anger in their young women. Cursed is the mouth, for it is fierce. You will say, I did not understand. The Torah says, "If it were not written in the Torah that it is a blessing, it means it is not a blessing." The Torah says, "A blessing is a great miracle." This parshah has a simple answer: What is a blessing? A blessing is a person who knows you and tells you, "Gives you a gift." What is the gift he gives you? He tells you that there is a bad point in you. Fix it, you can bring up all the personalities. Oh, Yehuda, that's a positive point you have. Use it. You will be able to move forward in fixing your life. That is the true blessing. Not a blessing, be healthy. Being healthy is always good. This is sick. It's good to greet people. To say good morning, good evening, good night. Be healthy. God will protect you. This is really good. I don't have a bad word to say about it, but it doesn't fix anything in the service of God. The work of God requires work. The work of God needs a definition, the work of God needs a plan, a work plan. What is the disease? What is the difficulty? What is the dimensional problem? How do I solve this? It is not solved by blessings, not by virtue of saying the Upside Down Psalm 20 times. These things don't work. It doesn't work. I'm not saying it's bad because there are good Sephardim here who would eat me alive, but it's not, but it's, but it needs to understand the truth. The truth is that our father Jacob came and told people a blessing. What is a blessing? Points for correction or positive points. What is wrong? What is good? Stop here. With God's help, we will begin chapter four, which is the main chapter. We are progressing. We are progressing, thank God.