Gateway To Tefilla - Who Are the Serofim? What are the Ofanim?

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com I want to share with you some thoughts about the bracha of we're continuing in our series on Fila the series is sponsored by my dear friend Roberts of Los Angeles Brothers philan last week we had I would call it a Monumental share on the dispute between the srafim and the oifanim where this rafim recognize that as elevators as they are and they Propel themselves higher and higher and higher through the the levels of the shamayam the more they try to probe and study the wisdom of Hashem the more they recognize that they have not even begun to scratch the surface the more they recognize that hashem's wisdom and greatness is far beyond their uh ability to Fathom and they declare Hashem is separate mysterious hidden and the higher they go the more they recognize how hidden is and that agitates the oifanim because I found him say just the opposite that the more you study Hashem you think the more hidden Hashem is but at the same time at the same time that you're recognizing and comprehending how hidden Hashem is how elevated he is at the same time that's how much Hashem lowers himself and humbles himself and is available and is close to us and gives us Divine Providence and that's why they are they sort of disagree with greed commotion great agitation and they say no God is Not removed the whole world is full of his glory that's why whenever we encounter the ephanum it's barrage godal that was the way rip Schwab uh explained the iPhone um here it says now that I would like to share with you however Victor Miller explains the whole holy holy holy why three times they should just say it means perpetuity they they always say holy they just say holy that's all this rough him do they're constantly saying holy forever and ever and ever the first time they say holy they collect all their knowledge they exert to the utmost they're gigantic intellects to Encompass everything they were able to learn of hashem's ways and his greatness and they study God's greatness through nature and through history and with the limits of their ability they arrive at a Sublime pinnacle and they express in the word that they express in the word holy meaning holy comes from their endless study of God's wisdom but then they consider and they recognize that after all of their study they haven't even ex um they haven't even used up and expended and exhausted a drop and the ocean of the greatness that I call this burger and they exert their efforts again a second time with even more expression and they continue where they left off after the first holy and they say holy again and then they recognize it's as if they said almost nothing because and they resume their effort and they include the uh understanding and recognition they had when they explained exclaimed in the second holy and this continues Forever Without cessation all day long they study the wisdom of Hashem more and more and more and more and even after each time they conclude they haven't even begun now this is very interesting based on what analysis based on studying what conclude that hashem's greatness is bottomless based on studying the Earth the source of the Angel's knowledge is the Earth Hashem is perfect from his glory which is apparent throughout the Universe but the greatest testimony of his greatness we see in Planet Earth where you have an abundance of Flora and Fauna plant fish animal s refers to hashem's kindness we have um Hashem so is the world full of his kindness or is the world full of his glory the answer is kindness is his glory his glory refers to his kindness because of the kindness of Hashem people exclaim hashem's Glory okay so more than anything else the Angels recognize hashem's greatness from the earth from the Earth itself now they're called ifanim what do I find them in I found it means Wheels why are they called Wheels well you find him the wheels now until now the speakers in the song where sraf and fiery ones why are they called Scruff and fiery ones that's a compliment it's because of their Excellence just like fire emits light and heat the intellect of the Angels shine brilliantly forth and the heat of their enthusiasm meaning they're called fiery ones because they give off light through their intellect their enthusiasm exudes Heat they are the beginners and the leaders in the great function of studying hashem's greatness so they're called scruffim because of their brilliant intellect that gives off light because of their energy and their enthusiasm that gives off heat so they're called Shroff him they get the ball running they're the spark plug but the second degree of greatness are the oifanim the wheels because when the heat gets going and the light starts shining of this rough him though ifanim are so agitated that the Shroff him rile him up the threaten the fiery Angels Royal up the wheels they'll get the wheels turning and the highest the holy creatures they basically they're called living creatures because they're gonna move in life based on the energy they receive so when the is here this oh watch out the wheels start turning of the eiffonim and the highest so they got going barrage God oil with a great Roar they understand the importance of recognizing hashem's greatness because that's the purpose of creation that's the will of Hashem and therefore they make a great tumult nothing else is worthy of noise or agitation nothing else is worthy of noise or agitation if your team picks a good player in the draft if your team wins in the bottom of the ninth your reaction should be okay ho hum that's not important you know what's important what's important is becoming excited about the greatness of Hashem we know that in the basement they cast lots for the previously function um whatever jobs they were given to the kahanim they constantly cast lots and it was repeated many many times the truth is it could have been done one time and decided one time who gets what so why cast Lance instead of once for the entire day and the answer was in order to create a commotion in the base it's an honor for the king that a commotion is made over his service therefore they do it barash gadol maybe by the way we learned from here that if you Daven in a shul and they're selling alias it's good that the allele selling should be with a lot of and fan fear and enthusiasm and Pomp and ceremony and noise because it's important that you make a lot of commotion about the service of Hashem and the iPhone raised themselves opposing this rough him now this is unlike the way of men usually the way it goes is the listener of adrasha is less affected than the speaker because the speaker he created the thought from the Fountain of his mind so he's excited about it he understands the full dimension of what he's saying the full impact the full import The Listener is only getting the words but not so with this they will not allow themselves to remain lower than this knowledge therefore they exert themselves they raise themselves they're saying we're not going to be on a lower level than you are in excitement and they add their own Praises like hazal say that the adds learning how many years uh something he adds to it until they rise to a level of understanding equal to the thraphim yes and they say facing them after they found to become inspired by this roughim they stir themselves to equal the enthusiasm and the understanding of the first speakers they don't only want to be listeners they want to become speakers and teachers like this rough him and facing them they praise they add praises and they elaborate and they accept but they add understanding they praise they don't just equal them they add praises and they say listen to this said foreign of bending the knee it is proper to be humbled in gratitude for everything that the swatham taught us that Hashem bestows on creation and especially that Hashem gives us some knowledge of him and recognition of him but they raise themselves and they ascend from the status of listeners to a higher level and they say as follows if this is the glory that can be seen by the Angels listen carefully if this Glory which can be seen by the Angels has no end in other words if the Angels could see greatness has no end and no searching forever because it's bottomless it's bottomless it's like if you have a ray of light which breaks out through a small opening in a keyhole imagine if you were walking by a room and some light was shining out of the keyhole and it's a brilliantly bright light she said well look at that bright light coming out of the keyhole but then you have to say to yourself if that's the bright light coming out of the keyhole imagine the light inside the room if the light shining through the crack is so bright how intense must that light be inside the room so if the Angels say that the whole world is full of his glory and the world is just so to speak coming out from behind God's concealment then this world is just the light shining out of the keyhole and if God's wisdom is so great from the light shining out of the Kyo then imagine how great God must be in his place behind the wall so all that has been said or ever will be said is blessing Hashem from his place meaning the Angels say you know what everything we see in this world is just blessing Hashem coming from his place but imagine how great he must be in his place what he is in his place will never be revealed not to malachim and not to Angels but only to the tadiq him in the afterlife so therefore these wise ones here okay Rabbi say we're going to hold it over here today um and I wish you all a wonderful Shabbos of be well Cult of everyone Chavez the Chavez Chavez you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com