Sefer Tomer Devorah: Chapter 5 - Effectuating Chesed on High #8 - Making Peace Between "Friends"

This Torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com. Hello. Shalom aleichem. Welcome everyone. We continue in safer Tomer Devorah. Today we're going to learn the eighth and final way to effectuate chesed in shamayim. And one does that by havas shalom bein adam l'chavero, by bringing peace between man and his friend. Who are the two friends in the shamayim? She'im had tiferes side. Tiferes which is the sfirah between chesed and gevurah. Also tiferes is also often referred to as all six sfirot. But here it refers to the midah of what is called the kav hamtzai, the middle grounds between chesed and gevurah. Which is also referred to as Yud-Keh-Vav-Keh. And yesod, which is the sixth sfirah. Which is connected to the milah. The Now these are two friends. However, by nature they're very different. Lafamim yisrach kuzam zeh Sometimes they become distant one from the other. V'tzarich hashlamah, you need to make peace between them. Ul'saknam, and to fix them. Sheyihu shavim, that they should be equal. V'niksharim yachad. And tied together be'ahava v'chibah, with love and endearment. Just like in this world, when there's friendship and love, there is shefa and there's giving. When there is animosity, then the channels of hatavah are closed. V'zeh al y'dei kishrei hamasa hatov. This is all through This is accomplished through good deeds. In other words, even though as we're going to see the most direct way to effectuate p- peace between the various sfirot is to bring peace through to a man and his friend, to bring shalom between two parties. Likewise, But but in a more expanded view, through any good deed, one thereby brings peace between one sfirah and the other. Shek'she hayesod Now now let's explain how sometimes there could be a breakup between the sfirot. Shek'she hayesod noiteh el hasmol, because when the midah of yesod turns to the left, v'hatiferes el hayamin, and tiferes turns to the right. So sometimes the midah of yesod could get too left-handed. And sometimes tiferes could get too right-handed. Az heim negdiyim zeh lazeh, they are now opposites. Ad she- What does this mean? It means as follows. To Typically, tiferes is the kav hamtzai, the middle grounds between chesed and gevurah. So you wouldn't say tiferes is more rachamim than din, but it is slightly more inclined to midas rachamim than midas hadin. Yesod, on the other hand, is connected to the milah. The milah, specifically, it's connected to zarah. The semen, which the zarah encapsulates all of the forces of man. All of man's ability. Namely, all of man's capabilities, whether it's eyesight, hearing, heartbeat, breathing, are all encapsulated in that one little droplet. So the ability to confine all of man's ability into one droplet is midas hadin. That's called din. So yesod is primarily midas hadin. Tiferes is inclined toward rachamim. And sometimes they draw apart. So what you need to do is at she- hayesod yiteh el hayamin, kemo hu, you need to turn yesod to the right, just like tiferes. V'chashe'eim V'chashe'eim chashvei shalom yesh is a pegam shel avon ba'olam, when there are infractions of sin in the world, az yesh sin'ah, now we have hatred, v'negdiyus bein shnayim, and we have opposition between two of them. V'ein yichud nikshar bein hasfirot klal, and there's no unity that is tied between the sfirot at all. So there's no unity that is connected between the sfirot at all. The So what we need to do is we need to make sure that tiferes and yesod are both right right-turned, both toward chesed. B'al derech zeh yihyeh gam kein bein kashrus sfirot, she'heim yamin usmol. This needs to be accomplished through any sfirot which are to the right and the left. Namely, chochmah and binah. Chochmah's on the right, binah is on the left. We need to make shalom between them. Chesed on the right, gevurah on the left. Shalom between them. Netzach on the right, hod on the left. We need to come We need to bring shalom. Bein hachochmah v'havinah, bein hachesed v'hagvurah, bein hanetzach v'hahod, tzarich l'hachil shalom beinayim. V'hainu ahava shalom bein adam l'chavero. That is the way to accomplish making peace between man and his friend upstairs. We also have to make peace between husband and wife. Who's the husband? The husband is tiferes. Yud-Keh-Vav-Keh. And the wife is malchus, the shechinah. The shechinah's aleph dalet nun yud. So bein ish l'ishto, d'hainu hayesod. Now this I don't really get. Not that I, you know, I fully understand any of it, but we just said that we need to make friendship between tiferes and yesod. Tiferes is more right-wing leaning, yesod is more left-leaning. Now we're trying to make peace between husband and wife, husband being tiferes, wife being malchus, and the midah of shalom is yesod. Uvein uv'chein bein ish l'ishto, d'hainu hayesod shalom bein hatiferes v'hamalchus. V'chol kayotzei bazeh. So tiferes is the ish, malchus is the ishah. And all other similar types of shalom, which is gemilus chesed on high. Now, just a few pointers. We know that um the sha- through the Tomer Devorah says, through kishrei hamasa, through good actions, we create peace. The Sha'arei Orah of Rabbi Yosef Gikatilla says, come and see the greatness of tzaddikim, who uphold Torah mitzvot, they have the strength to be m'chaber the sfirot and to make peace between upper and lower worlds. Now, regarding what we spoke before, the midah of yesod incorporates all the sfirot, and its tafkid is to sort of confine and encompass all the sfirot. That's why the midah of yesod is also called kol, because it's the center of all forces. Just like a tipah of zarah incorporates all the forces of man. So yesod is sort of more to the left, which is gevurah, it's tzimtzum. And it uses the koach of the smol to be m'tzamtzem everything into one nekudah. On the other hand, tiferes is more midas harachamim, and therefore we need to make shalom between tiferes and yesod. Now, tiferes is also the zachar. This is very interesting concept, we mentioned this in the past, maybe uh counterintuitive, but in kabbalah, the ish is midas harachamim, and the ishah is midas hadin. The av is midas harachamim, the mother is midas hadin. K'rachamim av al banim, not k'rachamim eim al banim. K'rachamim av al banim. Av is midas harachamim, eim is midas hadin. Now, the main way this is accomplished, not only through good actions in general, but if down here in this world there's simchah, tov, ahava, shleimus, then there will be that kind of phenomenon upstairs between the various sfirot. So again, one thing I didn't understand is at the beginning of the paragraph he says we should make shalom between tiferes and yesod, and at the end of the piece, tiferes is the man and yesod and malchus is the ishah, and yesod is the way with which we make peace. But in general, the midah of yesod is the midah of shalom. It is the midah which is meiletz tov between Havayah and Adnos. And Rabbi Said, that is all for today. Perhaps tomorrow we'll review these eight, but we'll see. Uh stay tuned. Wishing everyone an amazingly terrific day. And uh everyone can join us tonight at 8:30 for a stupendous shiur on parshas Ki Seitzei. At least the content is stupendous. Okay. Kol tuv everyone. Have a great day. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com.