Derech Mitzvosecha Minu Melech #7 - To reach someone you must be in their world - RC Dalfin

So good day. We're learning the mitzvah. We're on page test 109 and we are about 16 15 lines or so from the bottom to the bottom. The word begins. It's the question that we reviewed yesterday. Misha wanted to understand it better and Y wanted to hear it better when we clarified it. So let's go right to the to the explanation not to the answer. The answer is not going to be for a while. However, seemingly we must understand since we're talking about Adam, Adam, first man, and Jacob and Yseph, giving David, giving King David, spiritual faculties and energies. Let's use the word energies. So why did IT TAKE AWAY FIVE PHYSICAL years from a 70 physical years from Adam etc etc if YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SPIRITUAL ENERGY SPIRITUAL energy doesn't make seemingly seemingly remember the word I'm saying now it doesn't seem to detract and impact the physical item on earth here below and yet we find lived less than a thousand years which he was supposed to live by was supposed to live 180 and only lived 175 says that look look at the behold when you light here's a simple example you light one candle from another It doesn't detract and deny and reduce the original light, right? You have a candle, you light it one from the other. It doesn't it doesn't make it doesn't MAKE THE FIRST CANDLE ANY LESS. TRY IT OUT. You've tried it many times. You know that. So the question is why the spiritual energy that they gave Abram and and Jacob and Yseph and Adam gave to David did actually detract five years 70 years etc from from their life. Now here he begins his explanation. And the idea is this affluence of energy coming from the patriarchs to David to says this is a great descent means lowering and it's one that's of a of a categorically difference descent. It's not just a matter of degree. I want you to remember this. But it's a matter of kind. And he explains we explained earlier. We said in the name of that is the level of the 10th emanation 10th of the world. And it says about it says it says that there was nothing that David was prevented FROM knew every detail of his nation. There was nothing hidden and concealed. It's hard to imagine, but imagine a a a king knows what's going on in your house. He knows what's going on when you're driving. I mean, like he knows every detail OF YOUR LIFE. THAT'S WHAT IT says in Tanakh about >> in this age of surveillance, it's not hard to imagine. >> Right. Right. Well said. And how is the same idea in in in in in the spiritual realms? This is when mus of the higher world descends into the lower three worlds of to enliven and to sustain all the detailed worlds within the worlds of and he quotes the verse infam thousand upon thousands serve me in other words IN ALL THESE VAST ENERGIES WORLDS. It's all a descent coming from and this this descent of the energy is done in a way where it's it impacts every detail based on its composition and and it also it also is the divine providence THE THE PROVIDENTIAL ON ALL acts and on all thoughts. That's interesting that he adds the word deception, trickery, when it goes into it knows about all the and all the stuff that's happening in it and that's part of that's what it wants to accomplish. SO IT'S JUST like David being the Melik is he knew the perspective of the of the little Jew of any Jew of every person every detail. So too this level of malus is already oriented and shaped by the details in the lower worlds. This is a descent that is kind of Adam is it's not just in degree but of of a different category. If you compare this descent, this energy that's descending compared to the energy as it stands in because the energies are infinite are godly. So to just summarize in in simple hopefully simple English that is there is the way the energy is in the rabbi in the ra and then there is the transmission of the same energy to the world of the talmmet right we've used this example many times uses ra and talmet so before you could teach the talmet there has to be within the rav uh a realization that there is what we call the world of the Talmud, the world of the student, then you could teach the student in detail. But if you don't have the middle step, you can't get to the third step. So the says here that that that as you have to know that King David, he was about he understood from from ground up. You hear he understood from ground up BUT THAT'S THAT'S A VERY DIFFERENT energy than on top because the way THE ENERGY IS ON TOP IS in its own world. In other words, the rabbi, the rav who has this idea in his mind pre coming to the point that there is an other there is a student in concept he's in his own world and you see taka sometimes a genius professor he can come into a classroom and he's it's as though no one's there he's like in his own world both you know like I've told you you know he could put on two different color socks and short pants and he's like, you know, he's like looks like a like a nut, excuse me, a nut, you know, like what's going on? He's in a different world. He's not in the world of the student. He's not in the regular. I actually knew someone like this from Berkeley, California. He lived in WEST MARIN COUNTY. JEWISH, A JEWISH MAN, A PROFESSOR. I REMEMBER HIS NAME. RICHARD WEBSTER. I DOUBT HE'S ALIVE. And he was a Yeid from Brooklyn. and and I met him and I met him I spoke to him. He was so like he was in a different world and and um you know I I think I put on film with him I believe u I put on I met him I met him at the higher regency on on the embaradero in San Francisco when we made a dinner for for the Kabad house that's where I met him and I kept up with him uh didn't see him in shul but you know he he he he was this type of this is my if I had TO HAVE AN EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE WHO I MET WHO WAS THIS LIKE absomminded genius it was this picture to Webster professor at Berkeley, you know, and that world is necessary too because it ultimately you want to communicate that level of genius and information to the student and not only in a way where the student has information. You want to you want to teach the student how to come to that realization to come to that information. In other words, you want to give them the pedagogy of the information. IT'S NOT ENOUGH JUST give them THE INFORMATION. YOU WANT IT to become a pedagogue in that area, right? I don't know how if you know if there would be a mush in art, Mosa, but it's like it's not only I'm sure you know that there are there are teachers of yours or people that you know you look up to and you say they're not just knowledgeable, they are the master. We spoke about this yesterday, right? the master. I remember I once was shabas with one of someone who I brought to years ago in the old city in the kabad, right? And was like the unofficial rabbi there. You you probably know that uh for years encouraged him. He lived in a German colony and the Reb encouraged him to walk every Shabas, Shabas day only, not Shabas night and and Mina and he would walk and he would come sometimes, you know, late and you know it was a long walk uh and he would DAVEN HE WOULD D for hours he would d for for two three one two three hours after the minion everyone left the shul and he would ding and think you know he's so after ding I brought my friend over to him to introduce him to him to see this type a person that's a unique person and he asked my friend what are you learning so my friend said he's learning I think it was track day to Sanhedrin I think so he asks him what section are you learning and he tells him what section he's learning and then I was there I was standing there and he and and he went on to explain the garra in a way that I it was it was amazing it was it wasn't the particular details of the garra he he he he showed the the greater concept that the Gomorrah is pointing to and it reminded me of listening to the Reb at how he analyzed the piece of Gomorrah at the Fabangas when he made sum that's I'm talking about that level of pedagogy that that level of master it's it's it's a whole different level it's a whole different level they're not looking at the details they've already looked at the DETAILS BUT THEY FIND within the details the greater hole okay so why am I saying this Because the the the the the way the energy of Hashem is inos it's a self it's infinite it's God it's godliness WHICH IS COMPLETELY different than the godliness that Hashem makes come to the world of and right it's two different worlds what do tremendous accomplishment By getting the years from from which is not he he was able to bring this level of through the filter OF SO THAT THE average person on the street should have a connection to infinity that's a that's a kush that's a novelty because to say that us we as human beings who are limited can can be infinite technically it doesn't make sense and that's why Adam gave David 70 years I'm giving you the answer before before going through the whole page next page he gave him this so that he should be able TO GIVE EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO IS HIS SUBJECT BECAUSE he is the king of Israel every single Israelite should have a connection to the energy to the ASO and that requires movement from the abstract energy to the energy as it as it's filtered through and includes the yesesh the subject and there's and that takes that is similar to detracting five years of your life. Why five? You'll see later. In other words, the answer to the question, I'm giving you the short answer to the question is question was if it's energy that should just like from one candle to the other, it doesn't detract. THE ANSWER IS IT'S NOT LIKE THAT. THAT'S THE ANSWER. IT'S NOT LIKE THAT. YOU'RE ACTUALLY TAKING SOMETHING FROM THE FIRST CANDLE AWAY FROM THE FIRST CANDLE BECAUSE the only way THAT YOU COULD HAVE ACCESS TO THIS IS YOU have to shift to a different category, a different world. It's not a matter of degree. It's a it's a it's a it's a difference in kind. And I go back to what I told you two days ago, you know, with the concept of a rebadic. That's what a Reb is. That answers Mosh asked many about this, but that's really the answer. This is not a rabbi a great this IS A DIFFERENT CATEGORY. THIS IS SOUL. THIS IS NISH. RABBI is an so you know a rabbi, a ra A GOD IS NOT NISH. BRIGHT PEOPLE, good people, important people, leaders, it's all true. But when you talk about someone who sees your soul, sees the that's like a god, you know, godliness. And what does SAY IN CHAPTER 2? EVERY ONE OF US HAS THAT. Soaki here based on his grandfather's idea back in Tanya chapter 2 he's saying okay everyone has this but you have to understand that in order to to get this there has to be a shift of kind from infinity as it is in its world of infinity abstract removed from the physical physical material subject etc to the subject to the physical material that it too has a connection to infinity that's what he said he's going to say now let's When there needs to be an effluence from for coming from superal wisdom to that the world should conduct itself with wisdom with intelligence and so too as we said earlier having's impact which is It is impossible for there to be an emanation coming from the essence of it should reach the there's a vast difference between that level and that level. How is it how is it possible? It is an actual part of that is DRAWN that's drawn given to Malus to conduct the world. We turn the page now to to 218. It it it then it it it's removed completely and it goes out top of 218 from its place and its position completely UNTIL YOU WON'T FIND IT ANY LONGER IN ITS ORIGINAL PLACE. It left Mo and it it went to a distant place a great jump very great jump as we mentioned before and look at the says and it's not like the example brought earlier of the candle although the candle standing in one set place nevertheless its light shines AND REACHES IS THROUGHOUT the house. SO HE SAYS IT'S NOT LIKE THIS BECAUSE THIS IS NOT so only. Hello. You light a candle in a dining room, it it'll light up your kitchen and your living room if YOU'RE THERE NEARBY. TELL ME THE CANDLE IN YOUR DINING ROOM LIGHTS UP YOUR bedroom upstairs that's in the CORNER OF THE HOUSE. ABSOLUTELY NOT. WHY? Cuz it's not the right am. So take this examples and apply it to the way it is in heavenly heavenly issues. You talk about in the world of itself going from one LEVEL that even when it stands in one level it can impact the other place. That's when they're there's an association between them. In Hebrew there's an when they're very distant, a very great, you know, jump and leap. The emanation that's in one place will not reach the other one. Skipped it very essence from the upper TO THE LOWER CANAL as we mentioned before. When will it reach it? When it will move itself and it will LEAVE THE CANDLE WILL BE TAKEN FROM THE DINING room and BROUGHT UPSTAIRS TO THE BEDROOM. Then you HAVE LIGHT IN THE BEDROOM. Then you have it. says what is compared to he gives now from a candle that this is compared to that from its place it shines for 10 CUBITS and if you want it to reach it should it illuminate 20 you got to move it up 10 MY FROM IT was before cuz it it only has the CAPACITY TO REACH 10 CUBITS. YOU WANTED TO REACH SOMETHING THAT'S TO TO ILLUMINATE SOMETHING THAT'S 20 AMAS, YOU GOT TO MOVE IT UP TO YONYI, RIGHT? WE'LL USE THAT. YOU GOT TO MOVE UP THE YARD STICK AT THE at at at the 50, you know, as it goes on. If you know if you don't MOVE UP THE YARD STICK, NOTHING. You have to move it up. So that's why every 10 every 10, you know, um you go further first down. You don't you don't get the FIRST DOWN, YOU'RE STILL BACK THERE AND WON'T HELP YOU. OKAY. So too in the in the in the moral itself that could be that shines from a great place and it does reach below although it's far 10 emanations. You hear that? They're all of one category. ANYTHING THAT'S OF ONE CATEGORY is has a connection. In other words, you know, one and one trillion have a connection. It's one out of one trillion. YOU CAN'T SAY there's no there's no association. There's an association. It's a very far one because one trillion is made of ones. And he says so too in in in as far as the godly energy. Hashem and his vessels are one. Hashem is united with the absolute unity. Says he's the knower. He's the knowledge. He's the he's the information. Sudden there's no reduction and deficiency in the illuminary WHEN IT SHINES FORTH TO THE other because the illuminary the source of light it does not leave the essence. But if you wanted to reach the subject in in it cannot be if it stands AND SHINES FROM THERE. SORRY, YOU'RE VERY HOLY. It's very simple. A lot of holy people, a lot of good people. They're not talking to our generation. I'm just talking about this last night. You know, we're from a different generation. The kids today don't relate to us. You know, you know, a smart person looks at the reality. That's the reality. So, in other words, so we from the previous generation need to do something to move ourselves intellectually, emotionally if we want to touch the the new generation. WE WANT TO SIT BACK AND SAY, "HEY, it's not going to work. You want to be in your world and you talk to me about what's going on." So the that's what he's saying here. As holy as it is, it's in a different category. If you want to impact Bria and you GOT TO GET DOWN AND DIRTY. THAT'S THE POINT. And when you get down and dirty into a bria, then you can make an impact. I remember Ramat Bachmesh. You remember Dr. um Ben new? He lives out in Baltimore, I think today. Forget his last name. He's a friend. Um so I heard that Friday nights he used to go up to the park over there with all the kids. Used to hang out and he used to you know smoo with them. You know he was into health and then some of them what? >> Yeah. Right. Right. I'm just saying you can remain, you know, in in the in your world, but the kids don't have anything from it. So, it's a balance. It's a a sensitivity because you don't want to give you don't want to give away who you are. I'm sorry. You don't want to give up. That's who you are. In other words, I'm not talking about losing your authenticity and even the way look I always think of Rabbi Dr. Abram >> Tski >> Tski. Look at this. A man who's a top a top psychiatrist with HIS FULL BEARD AND his long record capa out in in in in in Pittsburgh over there, you know, like and and he trained I think at a at Catholic university, right? And they just respected him. But he had to go there. He couldn't he couldn't do that as his own family wanted to go to you know to learn a ban by by the the stipler who he had a relationship with and that was you know it was if I'm going to if I'm going to make an impact in this field of you know alcoholism and all the issues I really have to get down I have to get get in there but he retained his he retained his who he was it's such a important lesson. So that's what the seamic is saying here. You take with the words and he's saying that atus as holy AS IT IS HAS TO UNDERSTAND THAT IF IT WANTS TO IMPACT Bria it has to kind of leave some ofus and yes leave completely go into bria and dick you hear that in bria and that's really what the rebb did with the he takes this this young man and woman from kronites from with Russian backgrounds or Polish BACKGROUNDS OR HUNGARIAN BACKGROUNDS and this and he sends them to Albuquerque, New Mexico or HE SENDS THEM TO CASABLANCA, MOROCCO OR NAM, RIGHT? Like it's like what you you tell me how many how many um renounced denounced their their no perfection. Not going to say no one. We know that there were some, but but overall by and large it's not that way. So, it's it's a hush. It's a talent to be holy and holy and holy at the same time to be holy within those that are not holy. Everyone's holy. I'm saying right. I'm saying, you know, and when they see that, when the kids see this, then they say, "Oh, you know, I I'd like to have more of this." And they and they come and they come, you know, whether they they, you know, they they satisfy our our positions, you know, we want them to be a certain way. We want them. Are you God? Well, they're my kids. So what? God is your father. God is their father. Just, you know, relax. But the point is they see a positive yiddish kite, a beauty inidis, a beauty in being a a Jew and how they could make it happen. We had a good shar. We will learn tomorrow more. All the best. Take care. Byebye. Have a great day. Byebye.