Charity protects you, each amount counts - Tanya Igeres HaKodesh 3a - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

we're learning AES the third letter let me say from the outset this is a a long difficult letter I'm going to go through it fast because a lot a lot of Concepts andas here some of which we've learned some which we haven't but I want to just give a brief overview and that is the majority of the letters Ines in the fourth section of T which consists of 32 letters 32 chapters deals with Seda what is Seda how is Seda when is Saka where is Saka it's all about Saka and taking into consideration the times of which this was written about it was a very dire situation for us Jewish people all over and particularly in the poverty was tremendous so you'll ask yourself there wasn't poverty in Ukraine and in Russia where the Ala was and the answer is there was but there was more opportunity for making Rubble the development and the of the country was much older than Eric in the sense of in the sense of a developed land of course goes back to to creation and all of that but the the structure the infr structure of Russia and Ukraine was way ahead than ER is at that time and hence they were able to give Seda of to give money to support the people in and to in particular to support the and those that are learning T and doubt in these letters constantly looks to to to to get people in Russia and Ukraine to realize this and to give to them through his fund called K and because of this he writes many letters that are associated with Seda so that's a general introduction to many of the letters that we will be learning about in the next you know half a year or three months four months as long how long it takes us to finish so let's see now what the AL says here about s so let's go from the text promises to do action to help us and he uses the analogy of a k is a shield but it's a particular type of a shield it's a shield that's made of two things The Shield part which are parts put together and something underne benath The Shield called kasim in English they use the word here a code of male a code of male I I've never heard of that are you familiar iser of with this concept this a coat of maale yeah it's it's a common term if you grew up reading a lot of fantasy and Adventure novels okay okay well I I didn't and to me I know the Yiddish and what I was taught is it's a shield now there are different types of shields by the way in the mishas that we learn for a yard site for a parent or someone else it speaks about different types of shields that people wore to protect themselves from arrows and and and everything else so one of them is called a which consists of little pieces of metal one placed near the other which protects you from kind of a larger bullet or Arrow that's try tries to get into your to body your body but in between these sections there is some room and if you get into if you if you get into the room between the little sections you can you can hurt and kill the person so what did they do they put something under the shield so that if you happen to penetrate between the two pieces of metal you still can't hurt the person this is alluded to in this PK again I enclosed you you were enclosed with Char with s like a shield like this type of a shield so what's we have to understand what does that mean one second yesu and a hat of Salvation is on the head a very very en enigmatic verse says the AL I'm sorry so he brings the just as this type of Shield every shell every part when combined makes it one large Shield every penny every coin that you give combined makes a great amount so don't don't underestimate the the significance of giving a pra and another pra and another PR because at the end of the day when you combine it all you get a larg amount now Dr says the next word p again and what's bothering him does he has to say Peter the explanation of the verse is what's difficult over here is there in the verse very simple you need a verse to tell you that when you give a penny and Penny and a dime and a dime you put them together you get a larger a larger amount I mean come on you need a verse in tanak to teach you that it's self-evident so the AL is asking on the as explained by the gar it seems to be a no-brainer that's his question here in the third letter of okay you know what the verse really means just as the the this Shield is made of scales right kasus from the SIM of a fish that's kosher or not Kosher something called kasas scales covering the gaps remember I spoke about those gaps in between the pieces of metal so the and the these protect that the arrows shouldn't penetrate inside through the gaps the the same is with the there's a concept in s you hear this there's a concept that Seda called analogous to the shield the parts the pieces the overall issue and then there's something more specific to T which is like the kasim the scales that go behind The Shield part that covers up the Gap from the inside so that when the sword goes in it can't get through and this the AL says is a is a novelty when it comes to it's not just about when you give a little at a time and you put it together you get a large amount of course it's no the idea is that somehow through tedua we accomplish a a general idea of protection you hear that protection that hasem protects a person who gives Sedaka and then more specifically the protection involves the details so what we could say at this point is that the there's two aspects ster there's the overall protection which is analogous to the shield and then there's the specific protection from the open gaps that SED also accomplishes and which s is going to be different than any other Mitzvah and this is what the AL is now going to go away speak a length the difference between SED and all other Mitzvah let's see what he says to explain this is greater than all Mitzvah charity is greater than all commandments what happens when you do a Mitzvah what happens when you do a Mitzvah so it's brought in theim the Holy especially in Caba is it says you create garments leim for the soul and let me for a moment give give you an introduction there's two things for the soul food and clothing just as there is two things for us food and clothing we need to eat and we need to have what to wear and we need to live in in a house right or an apartment food is internalized it's digested clothing is Mak it encompasses you a house encompasses you so in general we speak about about the difference between the study of T and the performance of Mitzvah as the difference between M and L study of Torah is internalized we we we understand it we work to understand it it's like it's digested in us this talks about this if you remember in chapter five of Tanya first section mitz mitv is not internalized cuz you do you don't you don't necessarily understand you're told to do the Mitzvah you do the Mitzvah so in other words when the relationship to hasem the Mitzvah is what we call it encompasses but it's it's also necessary so you have one mode which is called TAA which is pemus which is digestion like M like food that's digested and you have another Mode called MIT that's what he's getting at here let's see through the performance of all Mitzvah we create garments for the soul these garments come from the Infinity of God it encompasses right it takes takes you around this is an this means that it comes from which part of God what we which is called the encompassing light of hem as we as explained the difference between the the light the energy that pervades the world or encompasses the world in the first section of the himself in this letter throws it back he says if you want to understand better the difference between Mal what chapter is that in Tanya I'm testing your knowledge do you remember unfortunately I don't okay anyone remember anyone remember chapter 48 me okay so over there in chap question yes did you know that RAB or you read it at the bottom of the lessons in T I knew it I happen I happened to see it this morning when I preparing the she I happened to see it but I could say I know it anyway it's not relevant it's not relevant okay re re yes re yes it's interesting so you talked about Mak right so in Mak in in Hebrew modern Hebrew um is considered the samees but it's used like for insurance purposes so if you want like the best top-of-the line insurance and you want to be covered for everything if you rent a car or you buy a car it's called very interesting thank you for that that's that's very interesting information very good it's a good mus we have to start including it when we teach let's go on so says that I've explained today what's the difference look into the text please he says the through the arousal From Below when doing the mitem which is ex which is expressing the the super will of God this the primary drawing down of godliness is from the Infinity of hasem who but it's only a garment an encompassing energy to the 10 compartments of known as the spos of okay now what does that mean the the is is drawn down but it's it's it's it's General it encompasses so yes you have't you're in a home you're in an apartment you're wearing garments it's protecting you but it's not in you only when it filters itself through the 10 spheres which is compartmentalized of him do we benefit from it in an internal way that's what he means let's continue during the process of the 10 fetus we have What's called the chain of reaction of cause and effect or MRE Madre and it goes from level to level that's where it's compartmentalized this goes here this goes here the same you hear that we're not talking about now or talking about or as said it's so great right it covers everything but guess what if if God forbid as an accident then you cannot explain the the the particular damage to the B fender bender or to the tire or to here or there then they'll challenge the overall issue I don't care how good your insurance is generally speaking I mean maybe there is you know a Millionaire's Insurance where you pay a premium she premium and you get you know um all in all coverage you know no no fault whatever but the idea is that in order for or to be experienced it must filter itself through the pemus of the sphas continuing you see what happens here is that the then filters itself through the spos which we then call it the pervading light that goes into details P what's the out saying here with P question is if it's or it's not so it happens to be that the way to access it and benefit from it is to compartmentalize it but it's still Mak but here he says no he says it's called This is what bothers him here and this is what he explains infinite of godest itself invest itself into the he the Hashem is the one who creates the sphas of and in the worlds of through a great contraction a great syum has explained there which is called the inner dwelling the what happens is the when it goes through this process through mitzvas and then it becomes United with the Ori now a would be analogous to a raal to a student and a teacher who learns from a teacher internalized and understands it what about a servant and a master a servant does what the master wants it's Mak but guess what why does the servant do what the master wants because the servant knows this is my master in other words there's even in Mak there's recognition that the master is a master and that is that recognition that the servant recognizes that the master is his master that's already P that's not Mak he understands he understands who his boss is he doesn't know he doesn't understand why this detail and that detail and it's and it's irrelevant to him and he says I'm going to do it anyway right that's that's what a servant does a slave does but in order to accept that you need to recognize that this is the master this is my boss the AL says this is what happens where we do mitz there's a combination of the how it's from a perspective of Mak and then it combines itself with the pnei and look what and now he explains something that we say in in in in many communities every time you do a Mitzvah you say right for the purpose of uniting the with right in we do it only once a day before and it goes for all the Mitzvah it goes for everything throughout the day but many others don't they say it each time this but regardless what's this idea of says this is when you do a mitvah is to unite which is which is Right comes the means separate it's too awesome it's too powerful it's separate from the experience means dwells IND dwelling it's here for the purpose of uniting with which is and that's why we say it before we do a mitvah cuz that's what's accomplish through every Mitzvah let's look in the text sorry next and this process is called the unity of I've explained elsewhere in chapter in further and now he says from anination ofin from a reflection of a reflection from this encompassing energy through the process of great contraction there forms a garment for the soul spirit for the person began you've heard of G Paradise there's upper ganaden there's lower ganaden when you go into ganaden you also need protection what kind of protection it's not protection from kind from evil but it's protection in the sense of enhancing the product fine wine needs to be in a seller in a cool seller rare manuscripts need to be locked up they need it right just can't they're very very precious when you're in ghen and you're experiencing Hill ghen it helps to have a a garment a not a garment to protect you from negativity cuz you're inen there's no negativity in G right in G it's all good so what do you need a garment for in ghen the answer is the purpose of the is not to keep away the Clippers the negativity but it's to like the shell of a fruit which makes the fruit be more ripe and more delicious that's what Al say here I believe Le through this that the soul has Vis my Mitzvah that I do in this world it creates a garment for the soul that will benefit the soul in to to enjoy to comprehend understanding and explained elsewhere and this is what the mean a very another very tic K there is no reward in this world why doesn't it say h there is reward but if you don't do what you're supposed to you don't get the reward when the say reward for mitvah on Earth Le means it doesn't exist what do you mean it doesn't exist it exists but I don't get it you know why when do I get it when do I get it right when is thear given you would think thear is given now I put Onin I did a Mitzvah I did a Mitzvah I get a reward for the Mitzvah but I don't see the reward I don't feel the reward I don't until till the world to come but but not that it wasn't it didn't exist now that's not what the say the say Le means doesn't exist so wants to look at this and and connect it to what he said before let's see what he says because in this physical world in the physical world that's so physical and so and theight has been so contracted you cannot invest any amination whatsoever of infinity there right because everything is so everything is so limited and contracted he's repeating what he said ear the only way you have a relationship with is through the T we talk about the there's the Goof of the king the the body of the king is the right arm just like there's no comparison between the physical body in comparison to the soul there's no comparison to the T of if you compare the T spher to the superal Creator God why because even the theh of superal this is the first of all the a it's considered you hear this outrageous it's considered like physicality a means action physical if you compare it we talk about says I'm sorry we talk about the lower spher even without cus compared to the m alen means god the Creator is nothing it has nothing over if you know when you compare something to something that's limited you say this has more value so 10 is closer to a million than one is closer to a million but a million itself is a limitation now imagine a a million wasn't a limitation then there would be no difference 10 compared to a million or one compared to a million again in the in the in the in the Marshall it doesn't make sense cuz 10 a million is limited it's only a million not a million one and not 999,000 Etc and 999 it's not it's not a million so there but but I'm saying take it what I'll still take it million and you'll give and you'll give me 10% anyway anyway the point being the point being that when we talk about the MIT the Creator then evenus is considered not that's what he says here as explained in in the second section of T let's continue so so to yes now it goes back to the opening verse about the shield and the gaps in the shield there are gaps for example the the overall garment that surrounds the body they are the vessels of T that they illuminate and shine and give light to the energy from comes to which is the right arm long life you guys want to know where long life comes from you want to live long the right arm of a God is the is the place for so if you want to live a very long life make sure you focus on he's talking about living a long life on Earth recovered wealth you're not so interested in living to a very long life you know you want to have 780 years and you want to go on but you want to be wealthy those 780 years what you focus on smile gor discipline because that's honor covered you're not interested in long life you're not interested in money you're interested in honor you should be honored by people people should stand up for you in Bas then you got to focus on discipline this is brought here right the different so this is The Shield oh wait a minute when when these things are accessed guess what everyone can benefit from it including the negative energies the Clippers says in order for the extru forces not to nourish from this great affluence and energy that that descends and and and it below way way the physical world right you don't want to the the Clippers the to have for example here below to a person should protect himself to guard himself and watch himself from every bad thing oh here you have to bring back the thei is not strong enough to avoid nourishment to the negative side the arimi can protect itself from an enemy that's around you and you see them and all that and you know they're getting you but what about people in tunnels 20 ft down and people who are plotting I remember how the would say they're plotting all kinds of how to hurt the Jewish people but that's why we say right so says here in order to protect yourself from these type of issues you need to bring back the or the or even though it's only it's not digested encompassing it puts you in a place where the Clipper can't get to it let's see what he says it stuffs up he the gaps those gaps is that the shield doesn't do the kasim protect what the the sense he says this refers to the for example oh we went over way okay we'll stop here let me just let me just read two more lines it comes from the this is what remember we asked the question what's the giving a little at a time it makes a big amount so says the is that the virtue of conver compared to other mites the other Mitzvah only give you and individualize a general idea a general protection Sedaka makes draws down the kasim that the gaps should be covered as well so that the the enemy can't get in the sword can't get in what does that mean our life that the giving of not only um protects you generally it creates an overall protection that the enemy can't infiltrate and he quotes the verse because Hashem is great and very praiseworthy without any limitation okay we'll stop here and tomorrow we'll hope to finish the pic again there's there's there's a lot more here but we'll leave it at that zaz have a great day everyone yeah bye bye