0680 - R' Yoel Kahn 30 - Ma'amar Chazal About Olam Shakul - World is Equal

00:01 Once I asked Reb Yael Pshat in the famous Maimar Chazal, which is in Gemara Kidushin, and the Rambam brings it, and the Rebbe would mention it very, very often, and that is that ""Leolam yira adam atzmo shokol v'shkol haolam kuli shokol"" a person should always see himself as if the scale of the good and the bad is equal, and the whole world scale of the good and bad is equal. And therefore, if you do one good deed, or one good dibur, or one good machshava, you tip the scale to the good and you bring a, a yeshuah v'at hala to the whole world, and you bring a salvation to the world. And chas v'shalom not, since it's all equal, so then by doing one bad deed, chas v'shalom, it goes the opposite. So I asked him, "What's the pshat that you have to see the world like that?" Every time, always the world is puked half and half. That's how it's always. You always have to look at the world and see that the world is half and half. So I said, "I think the pshat is that not it's-- it could only be possible that what it means is you have to think maybe it's very possible that my act now is gonna tip the scale either way." So you always have to think maybe the world-- the scale is shokol, is equal by me and the world, et cetera, et cetera. And therefore, it's very possible that your one deed will tip the

01:17 scale. But not that we have to-- it is b'pei like that, and always like that. So Reb Yael told me, "No, that's not the pshat. Pshat is that the world, the lashon Gemara is, the way the Rebbe used to say it, that ha-olam is shokol. So the simple pshat is that the world is taka shokol, is equal. The both sides of the scale are equal for yourself and the whole world." But I said, "I don't understand what that means. How could you say that constantly, every second of the, of the year, every second of the all the years, the world is shokol, the world is equal, both sides?" And he said-- Couldn't explain it to me, but he said he-- that's the pshat. Not long after that, maybe it was the next farbrengen or two farbrengens later, maybe three, I mean, but not so long after that. By the farbrengen, the Rebbe brought this Maimar Chazal, and the Rebbe takes shtus on it's not the pshat that you have to think maybe it's shokol now, and therefore you have to be careful that every act that you do because maybe it's gonna tip the scale. It is really shokol, it is equal, both sides are equal, and you could tip the scale. The Rebbe didn't give an explanation as far as I remember, but the Rebbe just said the fact that that's the pshat. And right after that sicha, Reb Yael turns around to me and says, "Nu, did you hear what the Rebbe said?

02:30 That this is the pshat." Now we have to learn to understand it, but clearly that Reb Yael understood it right, that the pshat is that it is that way. You just need a hasbarah what that means.