Divisiveness among Jews leads to problems, we need unity- Igeres HaKodesh 31-RC Dalfin

so we're learning sacred letters 30 302 chapter 31 we're on page KU B just to recap this page the balatan here kind of culminates all the sacred letters with the important message of unity between Jews and this is this was necessary is necessary at all times as we very well know but he explains it using a cabalistic idea and then he gives us a very physical example from from medicine from our um biology and then he brings it back home to the concept of connection between people and when there's connection between people between Jews where they really bond with each other then God likes that right God was as we say every day bless us God when we're all together us being all together brings down the BR so but he begins with he's saying no The Bash it's known in in the gates the gates of the scholars and the and and the rabbis who gather to talk about Torah and about God and about spirituality that the the divine presence is sick in G now when you say abam sick that means there's an ailment there's an illness what is the illness this is what he describes here the illness is that the Masha isn't go and he says just as there's it's necessary for there to be proper blood flow from the heart to the limbs and from the limbs to the rest of the body the limbs and the singul to the rest of the body and if there isn't proper oxygenation of the blood then the then one becomes ill and he gives this these details in a very elaborate mush parable and the point being what's his the moral what's the the nimal what does he want to teach us how important it is to have the heart flow the blood flow from the heart properly to the limbs so in order for there to to be a result coming from that blood flow in the limbs the first thing is that the heart has to give it who is the heart in the moral the heart and the moral is as we'll learn soon is the and this if if we relate to the to the divine presence properly that the gives the blood flow the energy to the world we live to the limbs we are the limbs m so we have the is compared to the heart to the left most I would love for you one day and maybe you did this already to make uh a piece of art based on this per here in in lad Al the the heart the limbs and the result of that there's the which analogous to the heart the Jewish Nas we are analogous to the limbs and then the result being we're either in golus or not in golus what does it mean if there's a breakdown in the limbs in the Jewish Souls being together Aus if there's lacking Aus and unity there's a problem with the blood flow and the oxygenation of the blood flow and we become ill IE we have G so when will we have the Messianic the Messiah experience when the the heart does its job and it does its job because the limbs are receptacles for the the blood flow coming from the heart so this this this is what he says in this chapter and this is why it's such an important kind of it's not the actual last one the next one L B which we're going to learn tomorrow on Thursday m is the actual end ofes but this one is close enough so I was saying B what is he what is he kind of ending the fourth section of Tanya withus Unity because without Aus it's nothing you can you can be a great schol and you're and you're in your own Corner big deal the whole accomplishment of of T and the whole purpose and drive is to to be together yes there are differences different Customs different styles but we're all so let's learn now on on page where we're at which is four lines from the bottom a middle of the page okay based on these words and the and this truth the AL the AL says about his words that they words of truth you have to understand who the AL was for him to say about his own words the the truth he D was the furthest things from a b from an ego driven individual nevertheless he calls these words the words of truth and I'll explain that based on what the once said under rambam in his introduction to the Y magnum opus the r says there from like no the the son of the yeah he says from yeah from no one has stood up like such a Misha that's pretty arrogant and the rebba asked once this question how could the ra write this in his own introduction and the Reb answered that he was obligated to write it to teach us how important this book is in other words how says to rambam I know rambam you're a very modest guy I know you would never put your name and put your writing and all that but you have to do it for me because I need CLA Isel to learn rambam to learn the entire Torah and I say the same thing what the AL is saying here about his own words for the AL to call his own writing words of truth is not arrogance it's the epitome of humility and I say I've said this many times and I say it again whether it's a a musician or M an artist each and every one of us with whatever we do if we don't recognize our talents and we and we pooo them and and and we don't and we you know we dismiss them it's self-degradation and and the wasn't a the Holy says that's a form of L andas would say it's the worst type of GAA the worst type of ego right yesu asks you to play for the for the for the event and you say no no I don't know how to play you're a liar you're such a Bala you're known all over you go all over people recognize your great talent in writing and art in drawing and playing and this and that and when it comes to the Sho all of a sudden you don't know how to play the piano that's GAA D knows what he put into this chapter because he's quoting the the the zes he's quoting T so he has an obligation to tell us hey fellas hey people learning this this is T this is truth it's not his Torah he didn't make up the he put things together remember what does the alter call himself a compiler right amarim D's great modesty didn't gave the name of his his sa the name that he chooses on the on the cover page by the way it doesn't say the word Tanya you know that everyone calls it Tanya do you have do you study Tanya I went to T it doesn't say the word Tanya on the title page it's only because chapter one begins with the so become known as the book of Tanya sa for but the book the name that the balat chooses on the title page is a collection of sayings of teachings all I am is a compiler that's all I'm doing so that's that's real humility so how does that jive with what he says over here that what I what I said before in this chapter 31 sacred letters is is MS because that's what EMS is EMS is not Bluff you know real modesty is truth and the truth is you know and and I saw this by the I saw this by I saw it by people who really were you know people who were devotees of hem really you know it's not as though they didn't when you needed to step up to the plate you step up to the plate okay someone comes to a who's a r who's a Mas who's a god who's a person communal person and he's asked to come to sit on the de he says no no no I want to sit in the back right and I understand that but there are times when by you sitting up front it honors the B it gives importance to the event I told you from Los Angeles he was like a b of T right he would always sit up front you know up front and and and they asked him raich is such a humble person why kind of do you he says the fre told me to sit up front I sat in the back and he said you are my and you sitting up front it's not you it's me and so therefore I want you to sit up front so when we learn these words they're like you know it's like inserted here and people skip over it but I myself I just in saying teaching it to you I just now I'm thinking about this idea how does the AL say about his word his own words the words of truth and that's the answer let's continue says it's difficult to explain well mha this concept in a letter you know there's certain things WhatsApp schat texting faxing phone calls it's difficult to communicate I think the virtue of this share that we have that we can see each other in this classroom is galic because it's the closest thing to being there live with you and you with with I right the the Dr says it's difficult to communicate what the illness to the is and the reparation of that is through without seeing each other face to face because when you don't see each other face to face so you don't right it's hard to reconcile it's so easy to do it over the screen and over a message but it's it's it's not it's not the it's not real the real is when you when you see each other face to face and one person slide at another person and one person said something and you're jealous about this or you have a complaint about this when you see each other face to face you can hug each other you can cry with each other you can laugh with each other you can say you're a jerk you understand it's real so that's what Al says here one second it is difficult to explain very well let me just finish the thought then I'll take your question or your comment it is difficult to explain well in a letter this idea nevertheless to explain in a letter the meaning that the is referred to as the heart and the Jewish souls are referred to to teach us this teaches us when all the Jewish are bound and connected together then top of page 304 the circulation and the flow of of energy and the and the affluence it surrounds it surrounds know and The Edge is wedged in the beginning to bind and to connect all to the one God and as it says you he here here you stand before me alt together the hippies and the yippies and the peppies are all together with the May ni and the lit Fox and Thea and the katnik and the breast everyone's out together your heads your your water Fetchers I looking at y I remind myself the way that's the way I felt going there all kinds I have Friday nights when I would go I had I I would look around I mean you know the uh that great U Bucky and tanak that I told you um from the scho I see him with his kid in in the car Friday night and I say what are you doing here like you belong to the sh next door he says I want my kid here to enjoy yish kite and the Sim over here is great and then you have people with ponytails and people from from from and people fromin and people from here andik and and everyone together that is the most powerful this will also explain the teaching of of the sages listen to this the destruction of the second temple and us falling into into Exile and the removal of the divine [Music] presence and its descent to the nation of Edom which some say is Rome Etc to the you know to our enemies anally speaking in what we call Gus Exile the is is a slave the is a slave here it is it's all because of baseless hatred amongst Jews and separation of hearts and and and and opposing Hearts p p isn't just difference opinion pet means I'm against you that causes the therefore it's called illness for example supports those that fall and he heals those that are ill it doesn't say singular right doesn't say he says why the plural it's talking about all the limbs all the souls it's not just God supports one Fallen Soul all the souls that were are involved in fighting arguments divisiveness are are analogous to the different limbs in our body we need to bring them all together and when we bring them all together then the blood flow can work so it's interesting what the AL says here that the AL is saying that it's not enough for Hashem who's the heart you have a good strong heart right I'll give you an example just my mother was show them her yard sites in a week and a half from meem right I asked the doctor Dr Deus he passed on he was a go but he was like a sadic he was tremendous so so so I asked him are my mother's um vitals organs what's what's the story he says they're great she has a strong heart she has this good this there's only one problem she has scoliosis kyphosis which it's like a question mark of the spine where it crushes the chest cavity you can't breathe you die strong heart strong mind everything's all right and you know I always thought you know she was overweight and because of that diabetes no no diabetes no this that she was born this way that's the way she was born and what's the point I'm getting at that you can have a strong heart but if they V if the limbs are messed up you're going to have problems so that's what the AL is saying here the is the left the heart the is in great shape the problem is for the for the Le for the blood to come to the need to be good good limbs oh that's our job we are the aor and when we fight and we're divisive and we say he's not good and she's not good and I'm better and I know and this minut and that minut can't imagine here right many PE many of the don't say from the 23rd I don't know how it's in your your but you know lot don't say from it's called when the was erected they had seven days of preparing so that's a reason not to say doesn't say that okay says and many others do but any we have one in our the the famous sh have been telling you about for seven eight years Moshe God bless him is the main gab and he is a stickler for saying you know you know and he says you know if says you don't say you don't say otherwise you're going to say and you know you have to understand there are thousands of people going through that children and most of them don't say by and in these seven days and he says well here you gonna say so one guy was a great guy in our minion our n's minion the on Sunday was the first I think Kim he he runs out of Sho so I tell him the next day why you running out of Sho he says I don't want to say t I say say don't say t what do you have to make you know could you imagine the such a such a issue I'm not going to say silly and small cuz by by them it's great but it's like is this worth storming out is this worth making a fight about don't say do whatever you want but keep the peace and and and and it's you know I'm talking to I'm preaching to the choir because I believe you all agree and and feel the same way but but this is what the AL is saying here this is why we have illness you want to know why we have illness you know why we have October 7th it's because we're not together we have to be together we have to havea now it's your turn actually I now I have two questions really quick one question is that just the question on the expression or the words the alter uses the The Descent toed what does that mean exact I I I I feel like I've heard that many time well without without you know speci flying exactly do we know who Edom is today they say Edom is Rome Edom comes from ASV it basically means the the nation that seeks to destroy the Jewish people that I understand Ed I meant the the desent The Descent because because the the pre Goos let's say the time of SCH right when say it's it was like a full moon and other Expressions you've heard this every man with his own garden and his own Vineyard flourishing it's beautiful let let's for a second say pre October 7th I'm just right it's great beautiful yeah you know what I'm saying then comes this This Disaster that's thrown the entire country into into a gus into a slavery you know we can't walk out Corona the same way so in other words Whenever there is a change that appears to be negative right from our perspective it's a of the the the that was in full control the that was flourishing all of a sudden everything stop tury now it is aita it it is a descent it cannot express itself in the same positive way from our perspective as it was before is that clear clearer Misha yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I think so okay I think so the next point you have two points yeah just the second point was just issue when you were talking about Al you were speaking about the issue of a person who's like like you know like like a musician for example like a musician an artist just as an example I always find it's it's always very challenging it's much EAS sometimes I find it's so much easier to try to promote somebody else somebody else's talents than your own talents because you feel very self-conscious you know about um you know about about putting yourself out there Etc you know and just I'm just making a right right right and and I I could relate to that very very well and have experienced that many many times and the the way to do it the way I've see it and and found it to be well-received is you you you let you you you you you make people aware and that's it you know when you start nuding and when you start pushing and that's where it becomes problematic you know you know one of the things I do is I you know I I do um oral oral family oral history biography and and it's it's not a cheap it's not a cheap thing because it takes hours and hours of interview you know and it's not for most people cuz it's you know quite a bit of money right I know so I identify different families that I know could afford it you understand so I let them know I let them know and I make make my case that you know it's not about me you know being paid of course I got to be paid for what I do that that's my pasosa but that's not it it's about your grandfather or your father who this information is valuable for the future generations of your family and if you don't record it it's going into the Earth and you you're not going to have it because everyone knows a little bit this a little bit that and I'm telling you I I I could give hours of conversation about this point because I've had these conversations and I see it like this 90-year-old man in Chicago right here is a man who God has blessed him with a tremendous amount of wealth you know the the money here is pittens like for us pennies right and he don't want to do it so I sit down with a son and I say my dear son your father's 90 God bless him he's he's going around he's he's springing around he's like the god BYO he gives out alas he's he he's he's in charge right that's great that's now do we know the Future No he has a story so he says yeah yeah I know a lot of the stories I say okay has it been recorded and then I say to him I bet you you don't know a lot of the stories if I were to sit down with you and challenge you and throw out questions you're going to uhhuh I don't know maybe when and yet and yet it hasn't happened what's my point my point is that's it I made the presentation I'm not going to go chase them I'm not going to go you know beg them you know so they're saying that's my my answer to you my my comment to you my you know you you you you are obligated to share your talents what you have and if you have a gaval piece that would be so well for this particular family this particular person to hang you know yeah you should let them know you should let them know that so it's not just it's not just coming from a business you know money perspective to make parosa it's the inion is EMS that's what you have to look at is the inion EMS if the in is EMS and it's valuable for that particular person or family you have an obligation to tell them that's my point my and by not telling them you're not being modest you're being Sor to say a fool or you it's not modesty modesty means that although God has blessed me with a certain Talent music writing art whatever the case whatever we do in our lives but if Hashem would have given it to someone else they would do a better job that's what said that's modesty but you know and and and and and that's why that's why I shared with you the few stories during the sh RAB raichik and others RAB raichi was the furthest thing away from any sense of ego RAB KH I mean these These are people who are you knowem but yet RAB will get up and and speak from the podium about what he believed was the Reb's message and the proof is that when the Reb had as a heart attack in 1977 the Reb told RAB Groner to have re yo communicate a certain message that he told RAB Groner and to explain it so the rabba knew not RAB Groner could do it and not only Khan can take this concept and explain it with a syringe a medicine cuz the Reb was had you know um injections for his heart during the heart attack and all of that so the took a lesson from from the the injection and he said grer have Khan explaining to the whole crowd I was there 5,000 people in the room were all shattered and thankful that the that he had his heart attack but that he was saved because he could have died easily and yet what's the message and the Reb Shar a message right so imagine would say no no I'm not going to get up and you know I'm not a it it was it was in 770 it was like at fa and there are pictures of it because was and I have pict of it you know and it's amazing to see I I flashback you know to 1977 and I was there and I heard it right and what's the point he could say no no oh so he he he positions himself by the place where the rebba says where the rebba would speak he could say I should even stand over here it's such a big embarrassment for me to stand to the same place as of the rebba no this is the call of the hour this is the call of the hour you know so I I think it's very important to to to know this and I'm very glad that you you brought it up you know uh because it is something that I relate to and what you said you know it's like you're pushing you're pushing your own your own self and you feel like it's like it's not nice you know yeah so there are certain ways of being too pushy and that's not not nice but then there's the Other Extreme not letting people know and then what what what you're offering for for their benefit is just as not nice and it's a balance that's whyem gave us a cup Masia a r a good friend a spouse to to know as much as we can you know and we do make mistakes but that's fine we're not perfect we we'll learn tomorrow good conversation Z thank you for bringing up these issues take care byebye take care