Belief in G-d reconciles Him w universe - Echad vs. Vaed, Zohar, Targum & Tanya - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so the day we're learning today the beginning of sh on page2 as we've mentioned has 12 chapters in it we learned already the introduction the title page which was part of the you know the introduction and now we're going to start the header for the actual chapters which begin with P Al is all about the unity of God with the world sh means the portal of of unity referring to God's Unity with the universe and the faith in hasem in a way that it it becomes part of who we are let's go that's the in the header and I like I told you the himself wrote the header to understand a little bit means a little bit quoting the Z what's written in the Z what does it say in the Z the verse hero Israel God is our God God is the only one H and then it says the ETC refers to blessed be his name kingom be glorified who the first verse I'm sorry that goes there later is a reference to the to the way God unites himself with the world in a way which is called the upper and that's an acronym those letters is an acronym from it's a reference to the way God unites himself the world with the world in a lower way this is going to be explained excuse me in chapter 7 so I'm not going to go into it now we going to leave it for chapter 7 but what I do want to explain is you know you remember in the y in the the cover page of Tanya the beginning the the first of tan if you turn back to that that page the cover page of the title page of Tanya it says it's say for there's no page numbers I can't refer to a page numbers the title page and it says it this D says I collected I gathered it from the the the mouth of from different books various for and different rabbis and SES and all that it's based on the verse in and then he says after the period I'm going to explain to you very well how to is is close and very close to everyone so you see that the use the word now turn now back to our section we're learning now 152 the first first words after the title the header of sh says to understand a little bit why when it comes to the first excuse me when it comes to the first the first section of T says I'm going to explain at length very well how and mitz is near everyone when it comes to when we're dealing with the reconciliation of God in the universe and the unity of God and faith in God says you to understand a little bit why not more than a little bit and the reason is because the concepts here are very lofty and very deep and involves Unity of faith in God we've mentioned in the past how we we are in in the Jewish community in the Jewish world in the world of TAA we are we we're cautioned Mas not to study the guide to the perplex of the rambam or to until you're M you're spiritually mature because the questions are better than the answers if you go to a good lecture about science and Torah you have to be ready to hear very very difficult issues that need to be reconciled and if you're not and you're serious you're a serious type of person it could impact your faith in God so therefore there are all kinds of books and lectures on reconciling science and God the same thing is here the same thing sh with of the r why were we instructed not to study it in like you study a piece of because you need to be very very strong in your faith and you have to have the knowledge otherwise the questions will make you think and you won't have an answer because they're very deep and profound now it doesn't mean there's not a time to study it and the you could see in and the references brings it but the concept still exists so the AL here alludes to the fact that these 12 chapters are very very deep stuff and therefore we're going to only touch upon a little a little bit of it enough to to make our and God stronger understanding the but to say that it compares to the elaborate 53 chapters that the AL dedicated in the first section no way this is 12 chapters and that's 53 all you're getting here is 12 chapters very deep chapters but only 12 in in the first section of Tanya which talks to the ban and talks about the the self the psychological issues overcoming depression and Melancholy and how to have happiness and to avoid the ego and in the five categories of of sadik and and you know love for God and all for God and and things like that all of that is relatively easier easier for us to Fathom so that's why he says number two that's I hope that's clear to you he brings the Z and he brings the Z because the Credo of Judaism without that you can't begin right when the bombs were falling in in uh in Europe during the time what did the people say during the Holocaust people that had no connection to religion never went to SCH or Etc and the same I'm sure is true on October 7th so many PE so many soldiers who weren't you know religious from and all that they said I'm convinced so sh is is the CED of Judaism so the zes the holy Z says that the two verses the two the two that we saying the shma not the two verses CU shma is a verse and Sh is not a verse but the two lines we saying shma are symbolic no it's the wrong word not symbolic represent two ideas in uniting with God and God uniting with the universe one is called upper one's called Lower what does that mean one is uh a sensation a feeling a reality of God to the point where all that there exists is God himself and nothing else the second type is that God gives room for the universe and yet is united with the universe and as I said this will be explained later how does the Zar see that the Z sees it in the word and in the word in in Torah literature the alif can be exchanged with the V because there's a set of letters that are gutural letters then there a set of letters that are like conjunction letters and this idea allows us to what's called to exchange the Z says Al and V are part of the same letters that are a group of letters so you have a right to exchange the ALF for the V but they're really the same idea so we say is one and then you say right forever seemingly it's repetitious leol blessed be God's kingdom and he be glorified forever it says not just forever it says also the word says the Z the addition of the word v is because the V is really a but in a lower form because it's been exchanged we've exchanged the alive for the V so too with the letters of the word with the of you can exchange the and the because they're gutural letters they come from the gutural so since they come from the same place wait wait y please wait turn turn yourself off I have I'm I have to explain this this is not simple stuff so the and the are gutal letters they come from the S the gutal you can exchange them so really the of and the of are the same but the difference is so why is this a why is this a because one is and one in other words the letters at the and that's one point another point a third point theid of and the of are the same letters but you know the difference is that the that the what's it called that the uh of called a a large doet you look into right is AER it's large larger the doll of V is the regular size what's the difference says desire explain means to explain that the of is large and big I it's the higher level of unity higher larger the do of V is a regular doll that represents the lower level of of of and what we're saying over here is that when we say shma and when we say we're tapping into two applications of God's Unity One is higher one's lower and the words themselves and vo are demonstrative they show us the difference in other wordsa why should you use why don't we say if it's the same thing or why we say you see in Hebrew the letters as we're going to learn soon in the chapter are very significant they are the life force the the 22 o are the life force for living that's why it's so important to call a person by their Hebrew name many times I ask non-religious people and and you know do you mind if I call you by your Hebrew name and why do I do that I have nothing better to do cuz I want to bring the energy of hasem to this person Vis his Hebrew name and that itself will be a springboard for many good things so the question is why andha why is the word and the word vo is the word v and the answer is cuz Al is the first V is the sixth so number one repres represents higher number six compared to one represents lower so to the and the right and the there's the difference between them as far as the level of godliness and therefore we again I'm not going into the details Al will explain some of this later so I'm going to leave it for later but just giving you an overall picture of what what he means to say in this um introduction in a way um or you could say better his his this these two lines I would call his a tagline right in marketing you have a tagline the tagline these two lines if someone asks you what is what does the second section of T come to teach you AR the answer is that there's two different kinds of unity that God and we Rel Unite with and faith in God has different expressions and there's there's a higher way and a lower way and both are Godly ways and we're going to learn about that Y what did you want to say okay so first of all you're coming in loud and clear I understood everything you're saying but one thing that I'm I'm still grappling with you asked the [Music] about why why it's repetitive to say right so then I'm asking I'm saying why even put put what you for if it's repetitive then it's repetitive also that way it's also repe the no the word makes sense in phrase blessed be the name the glory of his king forever the word is not repetitive the word L is [Music] necessary no because the the word Ved is a non-conventional word to mean forever the the the the the word used in k for eternity and forever is the word is it's it's it it also means that but it's not the traditional word so the the when they when they say they use a traditional word not the word v they wouldn't that's not the traditional word find find me find me verses and and and and not just verses but K where you don't see that you don't see that so the question is not on the word the word is necessary we use the word and soon we learn the word he brings another time the word a different time place the word is the traditional word vo is not the traditional word here we have an addition to the word le the word vo and hence the AL thees makes the point it's not from the Al from the zes that the word v St to interpretation that the word v isn't just a repetitious repetitious blessed be his name his kingdom be glorified forever and forever no that's that's not that doesn't make sense you said already forever you don't have to say forever and forever so obviously the Z says the word vo has another significance it does mean forever even but it's not you know the usual word used when we want to say voed so why is it used over here so the Z says it's used to represent a certain style of unity a certain manifestation a certain way hasem relates to the world and Y I'm glad you brought it up because that's the really the next 12 chapters it's a about the way Hashem invests himself in the world unites with the world the fact that Hashem is in the world you don't need Tanya for that you don't need you don't need for that and Sh in particular come to explain the manner in which God unites with the world that's significant and what would the Z says there's a higher way and a lower way and that'll be explained later let's go to the P chapter one oh one more point the fact that we exchange letters between the Al and the and the V and the The Exchange itself shows there's a similarity like I've told you till now but it also shows that they're not exactly the same and one is lower and one is and one is higher because if not it's not an Exchange in other words you know we we're used to the words Masha an even exchange here it's not an even exchange you understand how do you prove it's not an even exchange through the doid cuz the doid the in the Torah you maybe can show it to you guys on a piece of parchment theza whatever the doid or was the best place doid is large what does that show that the dollar is large why why whyem has in his the doll is large let it be the same size it's called DOI the large doid why the large doid because it represents not an even exchange you hear that but if we would only have alive for as an exchange and both dollars were the same size you might think that the alive and exchange with v and I is an even exchange and then would it wouldn't prove the Z's Point higher and lower they they're all the same two different two different but it's the same in a way the manifestation the energy that's why hasem put into thei to tell us it's not in the even exchange it's an exchange but it's not an even exchange because is a much higher energy and experience than V it's a very important Point let's go on okay chapter one you should know today you should make your heart pay attention be attentive who that Hashem God is our is Elohim is God I mean that's if you read it literally God is God and that's explained elsewhere you know there's which is em and then Elohim is is another name ofm representing nature and yut represents the supernatural but he doesn't go into that right now so we're going to go on you should know this today and make your heart be attentive to this in the in the heaven and what's above the heaven and on the earth below stop period or comma there's nothing besides besides referring to besides him that's a the and this needs clarification we have to understand will will will will a person think could it enter a person's mind that there is a God soaking in the water below the Earth that the Torah has to warn him so much warn the person it's not enough to you shall know but the the opening of of the verse over here the section is you shall know today and you shall make your heart be attentive Al question is very simple go that there who who needs to have this warning you better know and you better make your heart be attentive that Hashem hasem is the only one and and there's nothing Below on Earth even below below the water and all that that is a god oh thank you very much I wouldn't know that that's what question how do how would you even come to think this way it's like it's sunny outside now or it's day now and now you're all going to think it's dark it's it's not Day come on that's the question in simple way now some answer this question by saying the tarus on this verse had the same question and he answers it by putting into his translation that it's not a question about is there another deity of course there isn't another deity another God the question is is there is there anything else a force of God that hasita that has Dominion so you might think yes there's one God but Hashem allowed there to be a force an energy that has some outside of himself and to that the verse is saying the F the the following verse the e rejects in know in a sense not in a sense he rejects the explanation of the tarum without even quoting the tarum because if that were the case listen to this if that were the case why would be adequate look at the question the question is before the period on the fourth line after the beginning of the chapter he says why does the PK have to warn a person so much by why doesn't he say why does the p have to warn us about there's two opening words in the PK look at the words is number one you shall know today number two you should make your heart be attentive so one's referring kind of to the Mind ones to the heart but why is that necessary if the issue is that there's that there is no other God we know it's simple if there is issues like the T says there's no other Force so why isn't the first words adequate you should know today AB you should you should know