A Better Perspective

04:15 There was a simple man there. He lived, well, [unclear], in a place where water flowed. The place was below a mountain, and water flowed down the mountain through his yard, creating mud near the house. They said, “We’re both older people, but let’s try to take the house and move it to the top of the mountain—then we won’t have this problem.” They take the [unclear] and bring it up the mountain. The homeowner, the villager, raises his head and looks at the mountaintop. He sees how far away it is. They say to him, “Why are you looking up there? Look from down below, [unclear].” The Alter Rebbe [unclear]. Well, he [unclear] in Torah, but he was more chassidic; once the mud is illuminated, then already… I [unclear] go dance seven times. But anyone can look in both directions, and can look even beforehand. And once we looked at it that way. But the Rebbe says, “You should take stock of yourself once a year.” [unclear] over time. But with us, boruch Hashem, we study a maamar, [unclear]. A maamar has its time. Even, even the Rebbe—a maamar has an order. Even when it is kosher now, [unclear]. He says, “[unclear] does not become kosher.” [unclear], we look inward all the time. [unclear].

06:08 [unclear] the maamar. You could say that we can dance for seven, six years from the [unclear], and do it with joy. [unclear] take your own head. And all the [unclear] of the joy. I can’t. I only have the [unclear], already among the bochurim. You don’t study the text, the text. And a bochur comes into a non-chassidic yeshiva. They say to him, “[unclear]. Oh, you don’t know yet? That’s too much [unclear], the Rebbe a little. But in [unclear], after all, already now [unclear].” I see a bochur come into the yeshiva. They say to him, “[unclear].” What comes of that? [unclear]. Well, that’s [unclear]. That much I know. That’s [unclear]. And here the bochur says—the Rebbe once related that there was a rosh yeshiva in a non-chassidic yeshiva. He says to a bochur, “[unclear] Moshiach? I know that you [unclear] Moshiach, so you need to learn through the [unclear], but you can’t learn.” Ah, that’s what the Rebbe says [unclear]. The truth is, that is the right way. The right way is [unclear].