Hechaltzu chptr 6a- Opposites Attract, how, why, when & where, Soul essence - RC Dalfin

the week of we'll have a faban on Thursday. I hope you guys can attend the but now we're learning and we are chapter six. That's where we're at. Let's just quickly review in the kitser on page 41 of chapter 5. We learned that the clip of Midion opposes the particular emanation called which is loosely translated as wisdom but the alterba has a very different understanding of what is which I translate I like the word creativity it's the component of mind that creates and because it's only an idea It's a create it's it's in creation form. It's the idea of ble humility. You don't yet know what the full idea the full developed idea will will lead to. That's only in. So that's what midun spiritually opposes. In other words, midun opposes b and midion is yesesh. And he's been teaching us that yes, that this ego arrogance is the um cause of the midas, the bad midas. Okay. So that's why mid in particular poses scholars whose idea is humility and inclusiveness. The other thing we learned in the previous chapter, the division between things begins primarily and you see the word isra primarily in other words there is some isalus even in as he discussed at length of the last chapter we're not going to review that and I really urge you to read the notes the English notes in this in this volume of lessons in to understand it better. But the primary place where his begins is in Bina Valus and it causes it ultimately leads to synthesis. And this is a bigish because you would think that the the that the beina where we start articulating and analyzing would lead to a difference. So the Reb taught us that if it's healthy bina and for it to be healthy bina needs to be guided and fused by then the beina is only an enhancement of the union. The child coming from the mother and the father is an enhancement of the parents. Right? They have independence. We hope so. We want that. But but the nikuda is that that that enhances the parents. So So too although bina lends itself to division, separation, articulation. So you would think that it contradicts which is which is humility which is the creative idea. So the Reb explained to us that no the healthiest type of nuda is when it extends itself and is found in variations. So parents for example have different types of children just made right that's one child he has another child third child and people have different and some of the and sometimes you see they're like night and day the kids right or his own siblings coming from the same parents so on one hand you can say you know like this isn't This isn't it happens but it it shouldn't be that way. whatever it happens. So Del already writes, he doesn't bring it here, but Disl writes that since siblings come from the same branch on the you know the everything is symbolic with the in the in the in Kabala in the writings theal but he says you have different branches sucking and nurturing from the same tree for for for nurture for nourishment and each one wants to outdo the other one. Each one wants more nourishment. Hence the is from the writes that that's why there's sibling rivalry. So you think you might think that this is you know it's jealousy rivalry. When you learn this ma you understand that that's the ultimate of of of goodness. is when there is differences and there is rivalry. Just like we say what say the the rivalry the jealousy between the wise people the increases wisdom of of Hashem and Tyra right or in simple English competition is very healthy when they open up another shul nearby that's doing the similar thing to your sh initially you say o you're encroaching in on prophet. Well, sorry chap. According to there's no for is in opening a m of ta nearby. Now the question becomes of course if it takes away people and children who are donating money or you know but even there what I see by is that there's more leniency in allowing it because the overall the overall idea is Now I want to ask you when you say you're using the word kina means jealousy the says you shouldn't be jealous as we learn is about jealousy how how terrible it is and here we say the increases which means it's a good thing how do the two work together it should be an oxymoron and the answer is because Don't don't don't f don't focus on the kina focus on kasim when suffering when yiddish scholars when true have kina it's or it should be and that's the same idea over here when you have the and the of seeks to express its bit I shouldn't say seeks That's wrong. If you seek something, you already have a yesesh. But the automatically wants to be experienced not only in its state of creativity because you can be the greatest genius with the greatest ideas and if you don't have someone to take the ingredient to take the nuda to take the um idea and to develop it. You're not going to get an atom bomb. If I use that example, it took Mr. Teller in the Manhattan Project to take a nuda and to develop the nikuda and to do what he did with the nikuda. And there are people who are very strong in that development. So the development process is not antithetical to that nuda. That development process enhances the nuda and the nuda likes that and the nuda says that's exactly where I want to be for me to remain in the kuda state in the kuda form it only big deal you're a genius you have an idea but what does the world have from it nothing Right? So this is the point that the Reb is getting at here because he says the division in the realm of intellect which primarily finds itself in scholus it ultimately causes the synthesis which we're looking for. We're looking for inclusion, togetherness. In simple English, you should be overjoyed. We should be overjoyed when we when we experience and have connection of with others who are so different to us. And that makes the wholesome experience. Someone is doing things like you. So it's like big deal. Okay. It's it's it's another cologne. It's a clone of yourself. No, that's a kesh. That's not a kesh. That's not a novelty. A novelty is when you experience someone that's different and in the right way they they express truth but in in their way and they and the truth that you believe is the truth. So so in a spouse in a relationship it's the same way. They say opposites attract right. What's the shot? What's the meaning? Opposites attract that the opposite ultimately completes the o the other opposite, right? So there's completion and opposites. It doesn't have to always be this way, of course. And I'm not saying everyone should search for a spouse who's opposite themselves. But if from heaven you end up with a spouse or you end up in a job where there's differences find ways where the opposite becomes part of the positive experience. The Reb told someone he lives today in Tel Aviv. if I know him, a good friend. And he in the 1969 1970 he in the 70s he he became involved in a nonasidic in the litfish organization on a very high level and he was a full kabadnik and when the liter and they were prominent raonim there were still many raim from Europe alive but they were litak in the full sense of the word and maybe some were even misnab them and they they saw this labavature in their organization. So they said, "Wow, you guys are unbelievable. I see that the U of Afarata outreach even reaches our offices in Manhattan. It's like how do you get here?" Right? and and he was he wasn't married at the time and he he just couldn't take it anymore. It started off as a summer job he told me and he did well and they liked him and you know I mean the the the head I think Feinstein others whatever. So he wrote to the Reb, he told me he wrote to the Reb and he says, "I want out, you know, because he heard, you know, disparaging, to put it mildly, comments against Kabad, against the Reb." And he says, "I don't want to be part of it. I I I can get another job." And the Reb told him, "Stay put. Don't leave." You know my the to par to paraphrase the Reb's words my honor the the Reb's honor and Kabad's honor you leave for me to deal with you do what you need to do you're doing a great job and it's important for you to be there opposite completely opposite to what he wants and this is very hard this is not easy you know shared over the years with you know different kinds of people come to him and you know they want this they want that it becomes very difficult every one of you know in so it's difficult so sometimes the solution is you have to just look the other way and you have to just ignore it and and go on um because you're not equipped not yet to deal with the opposition in a in in a way that you could tackle it and handle But the ultimate is to do that not to ignore but to incorporate and include and transform. This is what we call is not just isafia means subjugate just push aside you know make believe you didn't hear it make believe you didn't see it is taking the problem and somehow transforming and getting them on your side. There's a mime the previous rebba in of 1944. I remind myself now tremendous series of my maybe one day we we will hopefully can learn it where he talks about there is an oave and there is an oave oave the same letters but with a yud. Right? What does that mean? The enemy. Oh, have with an H is from the word ava. The love. The Reba speaks about two different types of ammunition. One is like a a gun or a cannon that shoots far away and the and and and and the other is I'm sorry, one is he doesn't use that is a um a slingshot like uh you know and the other one is a sword. And he explains that the the the the first type is to get the harik the enemy that is distant from you. There are issues in our character that are distant. They don't haunt us every day. They don't disturb us. Once in a while they come to to bother us. for that type of he says you use you have to go a distant type of ammunition but then this the sword is up close you a sword won't be effective unless the person's standing right next to you right so the sword is used in direct combat etc right it's it's near you so he says that the ultimate is to make from the oyave an oave from the enemy the with the yud an oave a lover that enemy itself who hates you who hated you the ultimate is to transform them they should become your lover they should become your best friend and your closest it's a there's no question about it but there are ways in in maybe in you know in in minute ways and small ways of accomplishing this thing. For most of us and most of the time, this is not the regular. And if when you learn and we learn, we understand that the avoid of of a ye average is the ben. What does say about the ben? The says the avoid of the ben is to reach isafia. of the issue. We don't have such a dish. So generally speaking that's not our although in paint 14 he says that from time to time you need to do that that's another another explanation another story but generally speaking our avoid is so all of this I'm saying because the rebba here emphasizes in the kits of chapter 5 that the ultimate of the nuda is to bring together disperate parts. Then he says there is what we call essentialis and essentialis is it leads to unity versus um soul powers that are outside of the essence which I think we're going to talk about more now as we learn chapter six leads to um separation. Let's learn now insight page 42 in the text we're using chapter 6 in everything there are opposites within the essential soul powers each one has within itself the opposite of its own its own power. So the Reb says here now I'm introducing a new concept for us and that is there's something called okay so I want you to to know this and to write it down or to there's three things four things revealed powers re revealed faculties higher than that more refined is what we call concealed faculties. God forbid if someone's under a car, somehow you find the might to lift the car to save the person. That's an example of you. In other words, you you don't walk around with it daily. You know what I'm saying? But when push comes to shove all of a sudden your your kayak goes way beyond the gilli the way it was revealed and the norm that's called then there's a third thing that we're going to learn today we're learning now learning soon there's no so I'm sorry it's five categories the soul that because it's a soul, it has faculties. It's not a faculty yet. You see in the first two stages of and it's already a faculty. The faculty means a certain form is not is not inh that's that's the name of the third experi literally means it carries but it's a very bad English translation over here it means the nephesh gives room for the concept of kis it that means It doesn't yet have an actual faculty. But the nephish in that state of the soul, it says it is proper for there to be faculties. That itself is also a definition. Right? As soon as you say the soul gives room for faculties, then that's not the essence of the soul. That means it's the soul as it already sees and understands and relates to some idea of a faculty and I emphasize idea higher the the fourth stage or you can call the second stage or whatever is essential which basically would mean the ne itself the soul itself not the way the soul gives room for so and here the rabbi adds in the beginning there's something called theos wow I hope I'm you're going to later on you know you got to take time and read the notes here there's a lot going on here but the the atmos and especially the Reb and and and the Reb and his talk about a phenomenon called comes the word essence but you don't really find this language by the way in the alterbas in Tanya and you don't find it on the Torah you have the beginnings of it in the mbasidas but also not much the rash then has it more and our reb really pours it on. He's like he he's like living with Atmos on a daily basis. But but I'm talking now about intellectually and and and and Yes. Yes. He >> do do you understand that it's a kind of progressive revelation. >> Oh, for sure. >> For sure. Not not a question. And it's associated with that we're living in you know closer to Msiah or Mashiach's time whatever you know where it's um but but that's a faban to elaborate upon let's talk now about the huska the concepts here the intellectual concepts here so atmos has is is definitionless formless it's when you say exm nephesh, you're talking about the of the nephesh. And when you talk about the of the neph, that's also a certain form. Why? Because the nephesh has five levels. Is the essence of the neph level. Even ruts which is kaya is also it's not a co-ak a faculty that's designated and has a home and abode right the mind the se is in the mind the midos are in the heart the the the you know advice are in the kidneys comes from the kidneys etc right those are all boxes and definitions and very nice ones and good ones, but they're all defined and one is not the other. When you talk about neph excuse me nephesh you're talking about nephesh. So fine on one hand you say it's stripped of faculties of any sort of faculties and it's even stripped from the concept of of a faculty but it's still essential faculties. Atsmos doesn't have any word nephish next to it. Doesn't have the word kos next to it. It's pure as pure as could get. And that's that's what the Reb starts explaining here. Let's go back to the text. So he says in order to experience the ability to bring opposites together you have to touch within yourself that transcends even the faculty of essentials because in atmos You see the word mameish insmos everything is there but in a inclusive way. So in other words, its individuality is not felt and heard. Right? Here's an example. The melik, the king, he has a minister of of education and and and um transportation and this and that. The way they are in the in the mind of the mel, they're all melik. It's all about king. It's not about you know the there's a king the king needs education the king needs transportation he needs finance he needs all these things so the way they are in the king in the mel they're there in concept but they're there from the perspective of the king theos everything lower than that is already. They're there because they're they have an agenda. They have an agenda. That's the difference. Look further. For example, the transcends also the essential the here we go. See the words I told you that level it gives place. It carries within itself top of page 44 all of the faculties and over there they're all incorporated there are no specific detailed not even the way the are in essential state and he says in the parenthesis built Meris there they are nonrecognizable as an entity says the very nice when you tell me something is not recognizable that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist in concept it means you and I don't recognize it but the idea exists that's what he says so Even this refined idea of you cannot say that it exists in nevertheless simultaneously. We must say that this level of carries within itself in concept all faculties because all the all the faculties come forth. In other words, like this, if the neph was stripped of, how come faculties come from the soul? This is an abracadabra. Either there is an idea of in the soul on some level or they wouldn't exist after and the fact is they do exist etc. Right? What does that mean? That means that in the level of soul in level of neph there's a concept already of that's one sec. Therefore we must say they do exist there but they're included. They're incorporated. They're inclusive. They're together. [Music] They're all one without any division in any any kind of division. The division part is not felt. Therefore, as the faculties come out in detail, every has the opposite within itself. So you know this means you know a person you know yourself I'm a cold person I'm a warm person I'm this I'm that the truth is we all have a detail of the other one there brings a beautiful ayah for this hill a parent at the time of their their child's wedding especially if it's an only child the same parent who might be a cold fish is dancing with joy and is a stad had it. Where did it come from? The answer is he always had it. Yes. Yes. Yes sir. >> It sounds very much like today's the lesson in >> which even somebody who's whose identity is he's got within him he's got >> as well. He brings the whole >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Both. It's all together. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. one. >> But but right that's what he's saying here. But what what he's adding in this chapter is that specifically kind of the more removed you are in the more the the differences are healthy and they and and and and and the more they will be expressed in a healthy way because they're not differences in the essence. So it's the manifestation, right? The manifestation. And that's why usually either I'm this way or that way. But when you when you when you go into and there is it's all is scalus. Okay. We're going to stop here and tomorrowe we go. If if if I'm asking you again suggesting again that you really need to read the notes. I mean if I would read them it would take just take us days and weeks and months. So that's why we have these volumes but and if you when if and when you read them and you have questions then either you know ask me during the sh or better on the WhatsApp and I'll try to answer. Okay have a great day everyone back. Welcome back. Welcome back and maz for your wonderful sim. >> Don't hear you. Can't hear him. Okay, it's not working. I'm sure you said mazleto. Bye-bye. Take care.