Derech Mitzvosecha Ahavas Yisrael #6 - Lshem yichud begins with loving each other- RC Dalfin

So, we're learning this my mother I was just showing that something that my mother said. Just to recap briefly, yesterday we learned a very interesting kind of spin on a Gamara. The Gamara talks about Hillel being asked by a convert teach me the whole Torah on one foot. And Hillel says, "What you don't want to be done to yourself, don't do to others." And the rest of Torah is a commentary on this. The Tzemach Tzedek is addressing the issue, "What do you mean it's a commentary? As though this is the only mitzvah? Number two, what is why in the negative? He should say the mitzvah is love your fellow Jew as yourself. That's what he should have told the convert. And as the Targum on the verse says in the positive. Instead of saying the positive, Hillel tells him the negative. What you don't want someone else to do to you, don't do to others." So, the Tzemach Tzedek explained based on a concept that a person sees this Hillel is really the quote that I believe my my memory Adam ro'eh nig'ei atzmo chutz Adam ro'eh nig'ei neg'ei A person sees other people's faults, chutz min ig'ei atzmo, except his own faults. The Tzemach Tzedek says, "If you take that and extrapolate on that concept, you understand that what's the issue? The issue is that we get upset if someone else who knows us and knows our weaknesses makes a big deal about them. The the the the upsetness, the rogues is not that that someone else knows what's going on by me. The fact is that people know, especially today with the internet, it's an open book. So, you can't hide anymore. You know, it used to be able to hide. Today with cameras built into your glasses with Amazon and things like that, you cannot hide. And if you think you can, you're a big fool. So, people have been more cautious on one hand, but it's inevitable, right? So, the issue is not that you know about you know about my my my weaknesses, my iniquities, etc. The issue that bothers me is that you blow it out of proportion, meaning you say that I gossiped or I cheated on my taxes or I wasn't I was rude to people. Therefore, you say this person is disqualified, he's horrible, he's terrible, he shouldn't be part of Jewish community, he shouldn't be given a position, and you you you hype up the the issue where it's not justified. And that was that's what bothers you. So, the thematic that Hillel was telling the gear, the convert, you don't like when someone does that to you, so don't do it to others. And this is at the crux of all mitzvahs. Why? Because everything that happens here below times that is a a um replicate uh program of the way it is in heaven and the way the spiritual status is, which is the truth. What's the spiritual status? That Hashem can look at us and say, "Hey, I should you know, this issue that you you are you did against against God or against man, I'm going to blow it out of proportion and I'm going to not shower you or give you blessing." And we know that we're always asking Hashem for forgiveness and we're always asking Hashem Maran Me Dosan. Right? Basic tachnun every day, we ask Hashem to forego over the issues that he knows about us and let us be let us get a good a good a good slate. Let us be good. Let us get goodness. The Samak says, "If you want Hashem to judge you this way, you have to judge others this way." And this is a completely different way of looking at this Gemara Moshe. You learn this Gemara and simply speaking, it's not the pshat in the Gemara. The Samak says, "This is another way of looking at the Gemara." And it explains the the comment that Hillel makes, the latter part of his statement, the idach perushahu and the rest of Torah is only but a commentary on this mitzvah. And as I said yesterday, Hillel didn't tell him there are 613 mitzvahs as an an as an introduction to all the 3613, there is the mitzvah of ahavas Yisrael. That is not what he said. He said, "This is the mitzvah." Kind of this is the only mitzvah. The other 612 are only commentary to this mitzvah. And as we're going to learn today and tomorrow, commentary meaning this is the manifestation of the mitzvah of Ahavas Yisrael. And yesterday we had a very nice discussion here, an interactive discussion, on obligations to make a protest and and what we're learning here to forego and forgive. So again, I I I I don't want to go over that whole parsha that we did yesterday. Those that heard it heard it, it's online, you can hear it and see it. But basically, we're not talking about in the case of abuse, we're not talking about in in in in other cases which halakha will demands and requires public um public knowledge of of this person and what they're doing, okay? Like we discussed yesterday. We're talking about interpersonal relationships, my share. We're talking about interpersonal relationships. We're not talking about someone who's making pledges in a sense and ripping off the the community. That's a that's a cloud, that's a seaboard. It's a different thing, we're not talking about that. Talking about you and I and uh you know something about me that's not good, I know something about you. How do we act with that? In other words, there's a blockage between us in our Ahavas Yisrael because we know something about each other that's not, you know, that's not nice, that's not the best, etc. That is the that is the question. So the Talmudic says, when someone goes and turns that into oh yeah, and and you shouldn't and you shouldn't know how that's terrible. And you know this happens I I remember there was once a speaker, he's already passed away, a very very prominent good speaker, and someone made a comment, another very reputable rabbi who I knew, and he like, you know, he made with his hand or with his nose, like, "Yeah, he's like he's a faker, you know, he's a bluffer. He doesn't mean what he's saying." And and we do this constantly. And it could be he doesn't know what he It could be he doesn't mean what he's saying. It could be that's a fact. BUT THE FACT IS, does he deserve public humiliation? Does he deserve a lack of love for him? Says the Tzemach Tzedek, no. Cuz we all have our issues. We also have issues that we're not perfect in and we're wrong in, and we don't want others to expose them and make a big deal about them. So, don't make a big deal about the other person. And then we turn to Hashem. Hashem, you see, I'm not making a big deal about this other person, and rather, on the contrary, I'm displaying obviously a lot of love for him. Therefore, you too, Hashem, don't take our weaknesses into consideration by blowing them up, but rather, just let them go and look at us favorably. So, it from that sense, from that sense, this is the essence of every single mitzvah. And how? Because putting on film, the putting on a mezuzah, keeping Shabbos, or visiting someone at a home, right? Or giving someone a ride, and all of that, the the ideology behind the mitzvahs is one and one thing only, and that is augmen- augmentation of God's of God. Having Hashem Echad be in the world. And Hashem Echad should bless us. That's what all mitzvahs are about. The particulars of the mitzvahs, how they express them are different. But the overall cloud the ideology of all mitzvahs is one thing one thing only. Which is God's good, I'm good, bestow goodness. And the mitzvahs that you want me to do are the are the vessels, are the tools and instruments to implement that goodness. That's what we learned yesterday. Let's go to page chof tes. In the or there with the secha avas Yisrael and we're in in the middle of the page. After there's a it's towards actually towards the latter it's about 15 lines at the bottom. The line begins with choli and then there's a parenthesis Shir Hashirim shin ayin shin hey shin ches zayin. The word after that v'lochin. Chaim Zev, do you have it? >> I Not yet but I will find it. Thank you. >> Okay. Okay. V'lochin. Zeh kol ha'Torah hakula. This is why the mitzvah of avas Yisrael is the entire Torah v'al tzai day is kavush b'shomesh Yisrael through the inclusiveness of all Jewish souls within each other. Eilu b'eilu these within these v'hoyu l'achadim mamash and they become as united mamash in actuality k'ilu he kayma echad l'vad as though it's one edifice. Right? Moshiach. The noshin when you and someone else unite, it's two people separate who unite. The high the highest expression is that although it begins with two people uniting, the unity, the bond is so great, we're one. We're one. So, when your when YOUR TOE HURTS, MY TOE HURTS. We're one. I you days agree him and by having that level of of this world in my life that causes in spiritual realms in the nifla, a wondrous idea. She who you say the top was quoted to cool which is the foundation and the ultimate purpose of the entire data. But, who in the end and now he's going to talk about something that you say every day in the oven and Khabad says it only once before Barack Shama and many others say it before every mix for. You who could should be who is she in the day. We say that through this mix we unite could should be who God with she in the day and his divine presence. She she in the day he ain't my that tall or my true nisa. She in the day is the lower mother and the matron. The coin is showing this is low who is the source for the Jewish souls. Without going into the cabala cuz we're not learning cabala, we're learning this. The idea being you live that she in the day is already a lower level of God which is the source for the Jewish souls. I eat it's called mouth whose kingship the 10th emanation. The 10th sphere. He may will be whole so free of the other. May I so free of the other. You have a statement the beauty of is similar to the beauty of Adam. >> [clears throat] >> Actually, it's a statement in the Gamara above Mesia, page 84, folio one, eight. Oop, it is. This means she Yaakov for your clothes call on the Shamash that Yaakov was the overall father figure of all souls. He may aim that idea is similar and or or you could say it it's similar to Tiferia, the beauty of Adam HaElyon, of the supernal man shall I kiss say that's sitting on the throne. This is referring to the prophet of Ezekiel who modded by Hashem, he shows the the appearance of the of the glory of God. He Hashem for God for Hashem is a portion of his nation. Okay, so the scholarly neshamos of Israel and Jewish souls are united and become one. They we become one with one. She is blessed that God Almighty is Yaakov and Israel unites with the Jewish people and Adam. AND SUPERNAL MAN AT THAT TIME, AFTER this unity between Hashem and us, us and Hashem, supernal man does not see guilt for us who over Look at the words I told you before. I am only dosa. He passes by our Pasha. At Pesach, he he foregoes as though he doesn't see, as though he doesn't see, doesn't doesn't make a big deal about all sins of the soul of Jews command the mistake he be on my rather like someone who is this is the from I believe the Zohar, someone who is covered in much water. >> [clears throat] >> It says in Torah he doesn't see the sin of Jacob. He doesn't see the weaknesses of Israel. Because Hashem is with him. Just like a person doesn't see and make a big deal doesn't make a big deal about his friends shortcomings. Enough is said about this concept. Says the Tzemach Tzedek. When it says IN THE TORAH GOD doesn't see God doesn't gaze. God doesn't see the transgressions of Israel. It doesn't mean that GOD FORBID IT'S HIDDEN FROM GOD BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS REVEALED AND KNOWN by Hashem. Yes, feel the what? >> Uh since we're talking about we're we're we're on parshas Balak where this is from and I just wanted to share a quick idea I saw this morning I thought it was really funny in the Tzemach Tzedek where he explains this pasuk lo hibit av in Yaakov. Uh he doesn't uh um perceive the uh the iniquity in Yaakov and so the Tzemach Tzedek explains cuz he he says Hashem knows that even when a Jew was sinning he sinning he can't really enjoy it cuz he's going to feel guilty that he's causing in his soul he's going to feel guilty that he's causing a a hefsik beat him and Hashem. He's not going to be able to enjoy it anyway. He says, "A could really enjoy it, but you can't really enjoy sitting. That was a great idea, wasn't it?" >> Thank you. Thank you. Very nice take. A feel of sicha kala, and even sicha kala, which means a lightweight conversation. You know, kibitzing. Let's use the word kibitzing. You hear that? I mean, this is so interesting that some of them puts this in, Manasseh. HASHEM KNOWS EVERYTHING. GOLEM YEDUAH, EVERYTHING IS revealed and known. And even a sicha kala, even you're standing on the side over there waiting for the minyan, and you and your friend are kibitzing. Hashem knows about [laughter] that little kibitzing, too. A feel of sicha kala. In other words, OF COURSE HE KNOWS EVERYTHING, INCLUDING SEE BUT THE SAGES ARE TAKING the time to to to write it cuz there might BE SOME FOOL THAT'LL THINK, YOU KNOW, when I'm when I'm speaking in the middle of davening, oh, that's a big no-no. God knows. And but when I'm on the side over there, you know, in between aliyahs, you know, my friend and I are just rapping and kibitzing what's the latest score AND WHAT'S THIS AND WHAT'S THAT, Hashem knows that, too. Nevertheless, he sees the sin, but he doesn't meditate on it. He doesn't highlight it. Meaning, IT THERE DOESN'T COME FORTH FROM GOD'S KNOWLEDGE which Hashem knows with his mind, metaphorically speaking, IT doesn't translate to evoke GOD'S EMOTIONAL RESPONSE with judgment. You know, you've heard it many times, right? I'M GOING TO SHOW GOD I'M GOING TO eat a tray uh hamburger, CHEESEBURGER. I'M GOING TO GET BURNT. COME ON, GOD. STRIKE ME DOWN WITH LIGHTNING. Guess what? It's not going to happen. Usually. It can happen >> [laughter] >> if God wants that. What's the shot? Hashem knows our sins. He knows them. And he knows even our kibitzing. Wasting of time. BUT HASHEM CONTROLS HIS emotions and HE DOESN'T ALLOW THE GVURAH to impact us. And this, by the way, you guys IN ERETZ YISRAEL, ESPECIALLY with all the babas and all the people what's COMING OUT WITH PROPHECIES. WE KNOW WHY OCTOBER 7TH HAPPENED. AND WE KNOW THIS AND WE KNOW THAT. You know better than God. Here it says, and the Tzemach Tzedek, HERE IT SAYS Hashem knows and he doesn't, right? Right? That doesn't mean you it's scot-free, you can do what you want. There is There is a judge and there is judgment, but what we're asking is, first of all, you don't play God. Like I told you many times, I would never write a book if I were God. Cuz I don't want to BE GOD. >> [laughter] >> LET HASHEM DEAL WITH being Hashem. But more so, to the point over here is that THE THE HASHEM is mavri midosav. He passes over the emotional JUDGMENT THAT SHOULD TAKE PLACE BECAUSE HE knows our transgressions. And he passes over it. He says, "I'll let you go." Ki avos chesed, let's continue inside the text. Because love covers up um koso v'yosef kavod Hashem, Hashem covered it up for him. And who is made of two words kale above kale. The name of God kale and above kale the two last letters of the Tetragrammaton of the youth kale above kale. Which refers to supernal benevolence which encompasses the person which causes as it says in the skip the parenthesis. BUT ALL OF THIS WHEN IS THIS the case? When there's Israel amongst us. I came to tell you TO TELL THE BIBLE IS instead of emphasizing emphasizing MORE OF US ISRAEL OF US ISRAEL INSTEAD OF PROPHESIZING FUTURE EVENTS WHICH IS OKAY PURE NONSENSE. OKAY? Why don't YOU PUT YOUR YOUR PROPHECIES AND YOUR your your ideas into let's have more of us Israel? How? Okay? Not excluding people and shunning people but bringing people together. Conversely if there is separation amongst you. As we cited earlier from the title an animal can't is not allowed to be is not allowed to be brought as a sacrifice if it has a blemish a moon. AND THIS LACK OF ISRAEL AMONGST US CAUSES SEPARATION IN THE GODHEAD. And then God not only sees the the the the the the sin and specially such a person he sees how he is marketed. HE GOES AROUND SEPARATING PEOPLE judgmental and and people into boxes and separating people that wrong. we say and Hashem sees that. Next page page 458. Hashem blesses us when we're all one. Then all with beauty and I my my friend my partner or movement both and you have no blemish cuz you're all together. And that's what causes the of Kuzu Shinte. So here we are in the morning we say BEFORE SHMA HILLEL SO THE SAID he's saying WHAT ARE YOU SAYING WHEN YOU SAY? YOU KNOW people who are into this the Kabbalists and they know they know they they know the details of the Kuzu based on the Kabbalistic ideas in the from the etc. SO THEY'RE SAYING VERY SIMPLE. THE KUZU SHINTE MEANS ONE THING YOU HAVE TO BRING TOGETHER THE YICHUD between yourself and your friend which causes A YICHUD BETWEEN HASHEM AND US which is Shinte. THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE IN MIND WHEN YOU SAY HASHEM YICHUD. YOU ASK people who are into the Yichuds they'll tell you oh this is the Gematria of this name of God with these and on and on and on. I'm not wondering cuz it's Kabbalah it's true. But but I'm saying is that simplify the Yichud into I'm now about to say the Yichud for the rest of the day. What is it about? The Yichud. Ask yourself am I Yichud? You know that two people before husband and wife before they're intimate they need to forgive each other. They need to have achdus, yichud. And if there isn't yichud, look at the Zohar, it's it's it's a problem. I don't want to, you know, say more, but there's SOME HEAVY THINGS SAID ABOUT THAT. THE FIRST THING YOU HAVE TO DO is apologize, make up. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Yichud. BEFORE WE DAVEN, THERE NEEDS TO BE YICHUD. YOU CAN'T CREATE the yichud without having hating another person. That's what he's saying. That brings the revelation of God's infinity into the source of Jewish souls. That they become one and truly one. Possess Possess soid, and this is the esoteric secret. Tomeem tiye im Hashem Elokecha. It's a verse in Parshas Devarim in Devarim. Whole, tomeem, sincere shall you be with God your God. K'Moshe Hashem Elokecha. Just as God our God, in closeness to shomrei Yisrael, just as Hashem is with all of our souls, THE JEWISH NATION, ALL JEWS, COMPLETE, TOMEEM, the high no how ohr is chachmei love, using Kabbalistic language, the illumination of supernal wisdom, b'chlala sevorim in the Shchintei, into the overall limbs of the Shchinah, you have to love each other through the loving each other loving each other, vein d'reiya voice of, and one doesn't see the doesn't see again. Every time he says he doesn't see, he means he doesn't make a big deal about it. K'mo kein, so too you Hashem after tomeem in chaveircha, sorry, just as Hashem is that way with us, so too you, the person should be Tommy, should be whole, sincere with your friend. Kadeish Hashem Elokecha, so that Hashem should be our God with the seed of Naphish Be'Echod through the self-sacrifice of Echod K'Mishnas Bo'el as we said earlier and as I pointed out to you that when the the Semach Tzedek says No, it's proper to be mekabel the mitzvos asay shall from the Ari Zal to Semach Tzedek so that will make the Echod of Shema real mesiras nefesh. So he repeats that point over here. In other words, without ahavas Yisrael, true genuine ahavas Yisrael between us and the what and what and what type of ahavas Yisrael as he explained here, the nuance and the uniqueness that just as you don't want someone to make a big deal about your shortcomings, don't do that to someone else. When we act that way and we put aside Now, however, this is this is very practical. I'm not saying it's easy. But this is very practical. We you know, we all live together, we know about each other and we know weaknesses, right? Of each other. Can you get your heart to feel so close, so much love, so much oneness with the other person even though they they have weaknesses. I want to just end over the course of my life, there've been situations where people have asked me for various favors and things and you should know that I could have easily, you know, turned them down, found reasons why not and believe me, I'm far from perfect. But I didn't I didn't use that trap of thinking. A person asks you for a favor, don't think about his mother, his father, what he did, blah blah blah blah blah. Again, if he's if he does IF HE'S A CRIMINAL and he's an abuser, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT. AND EVEN THEN, that has to be looked at carefully. Talking about just day-to-day things. Help them. Have Now, train your mind to see the the good in a person. And don't make a big issue about the bad in a person. That's That's unavoidable, but it could be done. What? >> Like always give always give someone the benefit of the doubt. >> Yes. Yes. THAT'S WHAT THE TZEMACH TZEDEK IS teaching us here, how he interprets the saying the teaching of Hillel. YOU DON'T WANT YOU DON'T WANT SOMEONE NOT TO GIVE YOU THE BENEFIT OF the doubt, don't do it to the OTHER PERSON. AND WHEN YOU DON'T DO IT TO THE OTHER PERSON AND you and you give them the benefit of the DOUBT AND YOU HIGHLIGHT their goodness and you express that love and you and concern and you help them, Hashem will do the same to you. And I think that's a very practical practical uh idea. And the less you know, the less ego we have, the easier it is to accomplish it. Everyone have a great day. We'll see everyone tomorrow. gezunt. Bye-bye. Take care.