Go beyond your comfort level & you'll earn G-d's abundant kindness - Igeres HaKodesh 13e- RCD

so we're learning we're going to finish today the 13th letter 13 one and definitely this is a one-of-a-kind letter because the AL here finds a method for one who is left oriented gura oriented disciplined strict some would say cheap whatever everything that falls under uh left orientation that finds a way of giving that person encouragement and more than encouragement showing him that really his giving of Sedaka is greater than someone who's magnin because he's right oriented he has a tendency to be to be benevolent and this is a novelty because you think of someone who's giving and and all of that someone who is and Al also teaches us in this chap chapter which is important for all of and and that when you have a you have a a disagreement between B sh and B the two schools of thought and you find that the house of Shai is is stringent in every case except six cases throughout the entire talmud and Hill is vice versa we have Hill right here is and I can see it on hill hill you're probably from that school you know Hill is moreid Hill is more more M more lenient right except in six places now the question is if so and says that has to do with the has to do with the soul where does your soul come from so m is a very kind person I'm convinced his soul comes from okay but nevertheless there are times Bo has to put his foot down and say no you're not going to you're not going to get it I'm not I'm not giving in to you now I'm not giving it to you because it it'll hurt you well that is gur so so the question is how can someone he just put his he just put his foot down in uh in his advice to you yeah well he didn't he didn't he he told me put my foot down very good very good anyway so the question is if by Nature you hear this is the question if the t is if the of a person is how can he do in other words if you wouldn't argue if you wouldn't position that it's a nature From the's perspective then you would say Kum Kum sometimes it's kind sometimes I'm this you know and and like we live life the question of the balat is here since the the orientation of a person begins and is caused by their what type of Soul they have not the body not the mind not the heart not the habits all that is a derivative of the Nish so if that's the case so if a person is given a a that's kind orientation how can he have how can he even display G and like I said in one of the previous classes that was the issue with ar AB the mid says was the replacement of God's attribute of kindness God created the world with six attributes 10 attributes but six days of creation seven days of creation and no and then the med says when AB was born he replaced that's a heavy statement if AB is how can he on the third day after he circumcised go out how that he went out and he invited the guests in I explain the other day that's because the pain of not having guests were greater than the pain of that he had from the in incision from the the circumcision but the question is on the other hand at the end you know what happened he said to his guest guests he said to them if you don't thank God this is the way he publicized monotheism if you don't thank that the creator of the world for the food that you just ate here's your bill and it was a hefty Bill like my wife said now eggs here in Brooklyn are over $5 a pound in the stores that are not are considered inexpensive stores so out in the desert 3,000 years ago um things of 4,000 years ago were very expensive sa says you don't thank God you got to pay your bill that notion is gura how is he able to do that if if by Nature he's and the explanation that the AL alludes to here and he says it not allude to he speak speaks about here there is what we call and and we spoke about this said H is said the word there's the dominant gene and the recessive gene which we call this the and the T what is primary what is ancillary so has with in it an element of and has within it an element of has it and this is the reality when it comes at certain times when you need to access that recessive gene in in whatever situation it's warranted so in six places in talud shamai feels it's necessary to rule in a lenient way contrary to his nature that would be the recessive gene of shamai uses this entire idea to explain to a person who argues I can't give Saka or I'm going to give limited you know and all that because I'm left oriented I'm oriented Al says baloney what do you mean baloney yes you are left oriented but you have also an element of and when you give someone who is disciplined by nature and that's because of the soul that you have in a way it's more genuine because it's not coming out of your nature which is associated with self and ego it's coming because Hashem says give to I don't want to give to I do it makes no difference the tells you give you give it so the giving coming from from a left orientation a orientation is more genuine and that's response to the person who says well it's not my tendency I'll give you a little bit that's what he's arguing over here and telling theah who brought this letter in 1792 to the different communities throughout Russia white Russia Bia and Ukraine and to give get to give Seda more Seda to support his institutions and to support the the the the the communal uh food Fund in in in y when people came and didn't have where to eat and there were and pigu Redeeming the captives from the from the from the land owners as we discussed in the first year so all of this says is for each and every one of you but again the the novelty here is that he's arguing that the the one who wants to use the excuse I I you know my nature is not this way on the contrary you have the ability to give to with more uh honesty and more uh Purity Etc let's continue now we're on page 238 towards the botom the last line on the page and we began the pic with the with the with the verse in Psalms King David says says how abundant is your goodness God David speaking to God speaking to how how how wonderful and great is your that you HIIT it to those that fear you so you understand he doesn't say he doesn't say you know who's getting the goodness from God the abundance those that have tremendous says just no he says to the ones that have to the ones who are left oriented that's that's how he's going to explain it look [Music] inside therefore says that this goodness that's there there is to the Jewish [Music] people the hidden and the revealed on top of it's Adam for itm it's without measurement a limitation based on their souls that's invested in the [Music] body SS the Jews the Jew who serves god with in such a manner so therefore you too Hashem conduct yourself with them with your attribute of great kindness without out any limitation hanikra which we summarize and we succinctly call it's encapsulated in the words right there is ordinary then there's an abundance of the balat says this this alludes to this experience that we're talking about right here and he explains further is there's two there's two types of kindness you know like you say m there is and there is there is and there is there's kindness and there's kindness one kindness It's a limited kindness you know it's when it's good for me that's when I do the kindness the other kindness is a limitless kindness It's and explains is there is a that's called a worldly that their opposes this is opposed by judgment you don't deserve why should God give you kindness you don't deserve or why should I give you kindness you're acting inappropriately no so the lower level of has opposition and therefore the argument on that type of is that hem should reduce and contract and minimize his kindness and his goodness there's the higher level of but the superal that's called an abundance of there is no opposition of judgment on that level to minimize and restrict God's abundant kindness from expanding itself without limitation it comes from the energy of that's called the encompassing energy the of I'm sorry ski the line Sorry a few words I skipped the hidden within the hidden that's that's the level of which is called K so we talk about his you learned many times this ker the crown so the kesser is on the head of the King right so you have the faculties the the mind the emotions action you have all that right faculties and and and garments but then there's a crown the crown makes the king no Crown no King ker ker right now says this and is not in the head it's surrounds the top of the head it's it's the encompassing energy of God in other words it's not generated and measured by the recipient and therefore it it has a infinite power that it has within it so if you tap into ker you get the Abundant good from a plateau from a reality from a level which is not generated by you okay what do I by you meaning to say sure if you don't do anything you're not getting kesser you're not getting kesser if if you don't you don't work and you don't achieve but at the same time the the the the what you get when you tap into K is Way Beyond what you deserve that's ra and and if I want you to you know as you go through the day to think about it how in your own life there there are times when you see Hashem blessing you in a way with showering you with kindness that you don't really deserve doesn't mean you're a bad guy you're a good guy you're doing good things but you know I I think about this certain times when you know the it's always true but you don't realize it and when you when you when you take a moment and you think and you realize it it's it's really it's really RA in other words Hashem you know am I what what what am I after all that you blessed me with children [Music] wife house friends health no naturally there there's issues the life is full of issues that's the way it is but in in the great in the bigger picture ra so again the normal the normal the normal day-to-day activities is hard to see the what you see is usually the most but again right you do something good and all of a sudden someone says Ah why' you say that ah no good like all I meant was good but you have opposition that's the way it works but then there's a time when you say something or you do something where it's so pure it's so because it comes from ra where it overwhelms everyone and everything and it's clear that this is genuine the the the the greatest thing is when a person is M we've spoken about this many times when you're EMS you break through all barriers just last night I was watching uh a clip ofal futa speaking inad in 1973 UT which to you know it's tomorrow night and and shazar was there president shazar he passed away I think that following year or whatever but he was there and dignitaries were there that's what they used to bring all the many dignitaries to the Utes bring once a year in and rendel it was a Russian Jew and he spoke and this was after y after yum war and he spoke with such fire I was looking at the faces of shazar and other people who you know who some were religious Wen they just like were mesmerized and it wasn't you know the great wisdom that he was saying cuz the man was speaking with heart and honesty that you know what he heard from the rebba what we heard from the rebba that year that Jews will be protected and there'll be great blessings and all that the way he communicated it was EMS and EMS people melt for EMS because many times many people most people aren't EMS 100% so when you you meet an experience of EMS you just like Melt Away says this in different words when he talks about the ra versus ordinary can have an opponent will have an opponent right is there's helping helping people as a physician this and that he's like right and people have complaints why did you do this for me why don't you do that for me you know like I'm m is trying to save your life I'm trying to make you healthier you know what am I becoming rich of the S system over there in Israel no I'm not becoming rich maybe in America I would make probably five times the salary right so like I'm doing it for to help I want to help I want to help and yes I need you know and there's complaints his complaints we have to train ourselves I'm to myself to not complain we have to get that at you have to work hard to it's hard but you have to eliminate that in other words complain about yourself don't complain about others they might have done something wrong and they do something wrong and God knows the score don't worry people know the score and people aren't foolish people at the end of the day know right and and when we learn learn mus especially the B the B raises you to a to a different plateau and that Plateau it's about in the sh that that's what's unique over here in this whole T is looks at everything from a soul perspective shabas I have to speak m shabas in in Forest Hills North Forest Hills Queens at a gathering and the topic is you know what is you know Etc so I'm thinking of you know how to say succinctly to the people there they're not you know katnik faing you know what I mean it's all kinds of people the whole idea of study of divinity yeah that's that's my usual translate that's what I said and I still stand by that that's very succinct yeah yeah but I I I want to also you know maybe in M shabas tell him this V that I'm sharing with you now that it's the the soul perspective the Nish P perspective the the b in other words like this before the B the argument was very simple you know how to learn you're a men you're a Jew you don't know you're naras you're a nothing comes along the B and says oh really maybe the guy who doesn't know how to learn has a has a a deeper and better Soul than you how do you know and and the AL chapter 32 expounds upon that in great length but that's the that's a soul perspective that's that's what the B says don't judge a person by the garments they wear by by by by how they act how they behave look at the soul look at the Nish and that's a whole different approach so the AL does this over here that's what he's doing here you see a person who says a person says I'm left oriented I'm G I'm I have a nature this way so what do you want for me says you it starts with the soul and the soul is not limited and the Soul has an element of therefore access it that's his word let's continue and finish so he says this is called you hide them in the hiding of your face another verse you will be hide them in the Suka the idea being a Suka accompass a person right takes you around you go into a Suka it's a revelation of the that he began chapter the letter 14 13 that's the Suka experience if you use it right tomorrow we'll make a for everyone have a great day try to tell some of the yes some the to come tomorrow others yes my my my father used to say this and he got it from from H from he says the is like a hug hasem is hugging us yes and that's BR so I I I believe I know where kovski got it from but that's the vert that is the vert yes it's a hug Hashem is hugging us through the through the Su have a great day tomorrow take care byebye