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Kosher Indulgences - Today's baby naming in Shomrei Shabbos shul - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin
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let's learn now we're learning Tanya
we're in middle of page 54.
uh kind of
um the latter part about 10 lines from
the bottom
after the word
base Hashem
sorry a period
let me bring you up to a part where
we're what we're talking about so
y'all today but in this chapter
is explaining how the use of the uh the
word and the idea of Deborah God's word
is proper to compare to God because a
human being's word
leaves the person and it becomes it's
independent
and by Hashem it's not that way the word
of Hashem he or is always in Hashem
and if because if it were not to be
within Hashem every moment there would
be no light there would be no world so
that was his question in chapter his
rhetorical question in the beginning of
chapter 22.
and his answer and and even though we
said in chapter 21 that there's another
aspect of which we do find the
similarity between God and and humanity
and that is the idea of Revelation
in other words when the title uses I
want you to listen to this when the
title uses verbiage to describe Hashem
it's not always that every aspect of
that word and what that word signifies
is is true by God
we have a right to take one aspect of
that word and compare it to Hashem so
for example
the right of God
how can you say that you know God has a
right hand God has a so the rambam
already and many of the Jewish
philosophers ask this question
and some say it's a metaphoric
I mean everyone says it's a metaphoric
God it's not physical it doesn't have a
physical hand
but there's one aspect of the right hand
which symbolizes giving has said that we
employ
what if you what if you'll find a
disadvantage to the right
and you'll find an advantage to the left
she'll say well using the symbolism of
the right
is a deficiency in God
because there's a deficiency in the
right in a human aspect
what's the answer I'm not comparing that
detail to God I'm only comparing one
aspect of the right which is positive to
Hashem
so we are trained and we understand from
from learning
in particular
that it's okay to focus on one aspect
even though the other aspect is
different and this is the way you have
to train yourself to assume when you
learn for sinners in particular you must
understand this the entire always
because otherwise you will find
contradictions and it's good to find the
contradiction than to resolve it but
this is a generalization of how to
resolve sometimes contradictory aspects
in other words a muscle and an initial
don't have to be identical in every
aspect there can be one aspect of the
muscle that fits the moral Dimension and
then another aspect of the moral the the
muscle doesn't fit right
employs that in the beginning of this
chapter that although there's a
difference between God's word and our
work nevertheless there's a similarity
that there's another aspect to Deborah
to speech which is revelation right you
hear me now because I'm revealing myself
to you with the information
I prepared this it I heard it I thought
about it it's all in my brain all in my
head all my thought
it's hit it's within me if I don't speak
it out
and the computer doesn't work or the
program doesn't work you don't hear it
so there is an aspect to deeper which is
called revelation
so just as ma our Deborah reveals what
was hidden to another so Hashem Reveals
His panemias his Essence
vis-a-vis let there be light let there
be light as a revelation of an inner
aspect of God that comes out through the
words let there be light and in that way
there's a similarity this is what he
said in chapter 21.
in chapter 22 in the beginning until it
will until we got up to right now
that evidence said but one second even
though that's true but that's not the
primary issue of Deborah
that's a a tuffle an ancillary aspect of
Deborah Revelation primary thing is
speech
so if if the if if in the area of speech
there's no similarity between the the
the the the the the muscle and the moral
the nymph show why choose it why use it
it's it's giving off a wrong message
it's confusing
this is this is what he started to
explain over here
and out that episode that
even the deeper that we talk about
speech
it its core is
mentioned that the other day and after
that picks up on that thought yeah in
chapter 22.
what's the idea of symptoms so so he
begins in chapter 22.
explaining to us what is the result of
symptom of contract contraction of God's
infinite light of Rome Hashem is all
infinite Hashem is all powerful
and Hashem is all intense if you don't
contract and minimize the light
I.E Simpson
it blows up the situation it's too
overpowering
you know
you shower someone sometimes with too
much love it goes nowhere and so much so
too with too much fear and then it also
goes nowhere but the same is true for
too much love in a situation where the
people can't handle it
I think I told you I was speaking once
for a group of women you were July
so how about the program for women very
successful very they've really done
great work and really climbed the ladder
and I got a little emotional talking
about something I forget there was a
room full of women and
and uh you know some women uh afterwards
they walked out they walked out it was
too much for them to handle and I didn't
intend you know just as I was speaking
whatever was it caused an emotion
it's too intense for them
whether it triggers you know feelings
and you know or the story I told you
about the guy in Bell Harbor who heard
me speak about their results view of the
second marriage and he walked up and he
left and later and said I said what's
going on he said listen you know I just
got married last week and I tell him I
should find a second wife
where sometimes your second wife is your
best shared and not your first wife are
you out of your mind I don't want to
hear it
too intense
my my intent was pure but you know that
you know there are these issues and
that's why as a speaker and then you
guys the speakers you know you have to
be sensitive and it's you're not gonna
you're not gonna you never if you think
you're not gonna make a mistake there's
always going to be a mistake it's
inevitable you know because almost
everything we say right almost
everything we say someone will react in
a way saying uh I can't hear that so Dr
never says that's why there needs to be
a filter
the filtering system is a great system
like Maisha is a great filter for for
the show right you have a tine on the
rabbi you have a tine on this guy so
instead of attacking the rabbi and the
guy in school you go to agaba you go to
Maisha and you let out your frustration
on him
and and really that's a good company
and it's a it's a big job it's no small
task because you have to be a filter to
to hear out the person's anger
frustration problems and then somehow
communicate that to the rabbi to the the
people whoever else whoever is relevant
it that's so he the filter is the Tsum
Tsum
the symptoms so the rebel says in
chapter 22 Tanya says that the deeper of
Hashem
is that Simpson and God's Infinity in
order for hashem's energy to make a
light and a sun and a moon and a
mountain and a fish and a human being
the energy had to be reduced contracted
once he speaks about that he says guess
what
too much Simpson
brings about negativity
and he says that negativity we call in
Kabbalah Clipper or clip out the
hospital
the forces that aren't antithetical to
God that go against God
these forces are ages of God so it's an
oxymoron seemingly to say that the same
forces that are ages of God go against
God and what's the answer after that
ever says the answer is in the name of
Kabbalah the answer is
that Simpson which God made on himself
was made in such a way that there should
be the creation of a Clipper which is
Tommy to challenge the Jew to bring out
the best in the Jew so why is there a a
a a a a cheeseburger with a good smell
of a plank steak as you walk down the
streets they started in Manhattan or
wherever you go why it's to make you
stronger
but meanwhile
you need that
Temptation has the Temptation created
through Simpson
yes typically is it your example okay
here in Israel we don't have exactly
that madrega well you will you you walk
in Tel Aviv on peso right walk then I
saw them
restaurant open serving Travis and and I
don't want to say what I'm Pacer at my
heart my heart fell out
never said
they're telling me there's all over
theirselves okay let's go but my point
is the flip side the flip side to where
the point
we see they've taken all these
Concepts like cheeseburgers for example
cheeseburger and made it into a kosher
cheeseburger where there's fake cheese
or the shrimp kosher welcome welcome to
go Lowe's
welcome to the welcome to the papayas
and the beard and 55 types of non-paser
bread the potion of the place of bread
and cheese
Yoni it's a golos but listen
they just came from Shu I just came from
shoe
a man comes in
you know
looks and smells like an ex yaylee I'm
sorry for saying that a next stopmer I
mean like I could smell it just from the
first moment and then when he starts
speaking and here is Hungarian Yiddish
and the guy's clean shaven with this
little yarmulk
and he goes over to the guy bye and he
says please put down the hayam and some
brazilus and my wife had a baby girl I'm
here to to to to get an Atlantis into
this and everyone say look higher
and he gives him money I think he gave
him a good amount of money to pay for it
and they call him and he buys the alias
and after it's after that we finish
chakras I go over and then you know what
I say
I say to him I say to him quietly
how about putting on TuneIn with me
essential
he just got Malia
he didn't put on he didn't say he says I
put on already
and then he says are you habotnik I say
I say are you are you a satmer
as he's going out of shoe five minutes
later ten minutes later a friend of his
who looks like he knew him from Yeshiva
comes over to him and he says come like
thrilling put thrill now
and he said and he just walked out when
when his friend walked back then I said
you got to be a chabotnik to ask someone
to put on to him of course everyone
should I mean to say you gotta use their
Style
a sensitivity
you don't embarrass a guy in front of
everyone whether it's noticeable any
anyone in that shoe knows what we're
talking about here now I want to make a
point and that's the
you know
one attitude will be get out of here
we're gonna give you an Alia you had a
baby
you know you know I'm sure some are
thinking your wife went to the Midfield
what are you hacking the China you're
going up to the toilet to name your
daughter
when you you're not really you know
you're you're not religious you put on
the yamaka just because you came into
school right
that's not that's not the data I'll tell
you though it's not a delicate and I
think there's an Aveda a mixed with a
mitzvah
so the same thing I'm telling you with
the sheet with with the kosher the fact
that we're we're deep and golus and like
I've said over and over that if we
thought covet made a difference
it made no difference we're back making
a hundred thousand dollar weddings and
and and and everything else okay it's
like covet never happened it looks like
over it never happened
you know I remember during covert I was
saying oh there's going to be a change
in the weddings and the Extravaganza and
and extravagant you know expenses and
we're going to live more modest
we're saying yeah
you know what that means uh wrong is
I don't know how to say it in English
it not not it's true and not it'll never
be true that's a paraphrase what it
means but again
you know
let's go joining but we have to stay on
track if we go off track because of
what's going on around us
we're in big trouble and that's the
beauty of from
the sky
you know stay focused
but stay focused no way
that incorporates every eat
so don't
give up on your values you know at the
same time if there are Jews that need to
have kosher Cheerios on pesach because
it'll make their kids happier and the
market provides it okay
you know when our school came out with
the Gomorrah in English you can't
imagine what kind of uproar there was in
the Jewish World in the from world in
the yeshivist world
hundreds thousands of years we're
learning
Gamora it was from a regular Gomorrah
without interpretation and that's that's
what made a buffer you know go through
the system and and however and and work
harder
to figure out how to learn the whole
idea of I'm coming into basement post
high school was can you learn a piece of
gamara on your own
could you figure out the shot in the
Commodore Russian toys was on your own
that was the criteria
right now
a Steins out it's an art scrolling
Edition Hebrew in this language it's
spoon fed to you
so should we say we're gonna ban all
those gamoras why because we're taking
away the effort necessary to figure out
a piece of Gamora and the answer is no
because there are thousands and hundreds
of thousands of Jews that would not
learn a piece of gemara if not for an
art school gamarra or Stein's out there
the translation etc etc
does that mean the crime dolphin should
learn tomorrow that way truth be said no
I should be learning the way I was
taught in in Yeshiva now if I if I if I
want to check if there's more me first
shame commentaries and if I understand
the shot right I could check it but it's
very luring and the same has happened
with hasidus you know what you got guys
you learn
right
it's wonderful
and in a way it opened up because it is
for thousands and thousands of Jews to
understand the Peace of time you're a
piece of liquidatara and now the girl
the girl has see them have their version
of since mothers could be the the
Slenderman have you know various groups
are are realizing that just like there's
an art school on Gamora there should be
an art scroll
um you know a Steins outs and hasidus
that's the world we live in so again
it's the same thing the saying we're not
going to do that because we are
splurging and indulging and giving in to
the nourish kite and making 50 different
types of kosher breads for pesach you
know no no it's it's it's you know it's
something you have to Common Sense very
important for a rabbi especially in a
god body and any teacher you gotta use
the common sense you have to know when
to say to talk and you have to know when
to be quiet
and even when you talk that's why I said
to these guys I'm sure
you want it you want to encourage them
to put on film do that but in a way you
embarrassed them by running and grabbing
even though it's his friend
the whole show is looking go outside go
over to this air say it's your daughter
was named by the Toyota put on trillion
come on you and I know you didn't put on
film today but I'm feeling
you can't you know and I was thinking
I'm going off topic I really wanted to
learn I want to learn Italian sight
cultural Judaism it's amazing here it's
like okay I don't feel soccer maybe it's
business but it was a a guy okay
he's coming to show I'm talking about
now 6 15 in the morning
early morning
my baby's wife had the baby last night
he was coming from the hospital could be
because he still had the band on him so
probably that was it
cultural cultural Judaism
in a way how's that different than
reform a conservative
cultural Judaism
we're going to celebrate an event
because it's a culture
and you see in that shita has to be
broken
that doesn't mean you shouldn't
celebrate the event
but the sheet of the ideology motion the
philosophy the Jewish that Judaism
dictator is a culture and and we
celebrate culture and history that is
very dangerous and it's wrong it's
factually wrong and dangerous
yes
could you give us an example
that you know man that's the example the
example is you don't put on filling you
don't keep Shabbos your wife doesn't go
to the mix
but you come to shul because you want to
name your baby that's a culture the
cultural thing that people do
you think it's cultural or you think
maybe it's a situation hey forgive me
for Sinners you think maybe it's a
situation where you've got somebody
who is hanging on by a thread
and he maybe he was abused or maybe he
went through some some rough something
rough right and he's like hanging on and
he knows that he just did a baby and he
it's like you know like at least he's he
you know he he wants to do this okay so
so
there up
I was there so I'm asking I'm asking you
why when I offered to put on film with
him would he not put on two
because maybe maybe the person who
abused him abused him and then he looks
in and the guys are from you know is
this Rabbi and and he looks Phil and
it's like why would that would be the
last thing I wanted okay so why okay so
what what actually then why would you
get an Aaliyah why is it important to
come at 6 15 in the morning to have
getting Alia
so that's culture so that's culture what
is that
because that that's the pencil he is
that's connected was trying to screaming
out to be connected again I'm I mean how
how else can we look at it no how else
the way I'm looking at it which is I'm
I'm not saying I'm right
I'm saying from the overall what I'm
saying is from the overall picture the
way it felt to me and I I'm the first
one to say I could be wrong and and
frankly I hope I am wrong but from the
overall you know you have to be there
you have to you're only probably
understands more because he comes from
Brooklyn you you have to understand this
this mentality he's not one there's
thousands like you
and they're like slick you know it's
like they're like they're like it's like
it's like it's breathing out of them
it's like I'm cool yeah but but my my
that's another issue the cool issue
we also had here you know I remember in
the 70s
mid 70s I remember yeah go ahead little
Hill yes
I could give a different example because
it reminds me of what was happening in
um pre-war pre-World War II
um Europe uh I know somebody who
um became about sugar and his wife were
where it became literally like readers
in their community and whatever happened
they pulled off of being Shoma Chavez
and it pulled out of keeping kosher but
he continues to learn Gamora twice a
week
so we know this in Berlin or I think it
was Berlin that guys have learned Gamora
and Shabbos although smoking cigars I
think that's another example yeah yeah
yeah
so I'm not sure I I it's important to
clarify this
you're 100 right that it's important to
to find schools
of a person
what I said was just based on the
overall situation that that I
experienced this morning you know but
I I believe I said it and I say it again
one has nothing to do with the other
even if it's just cultural
fact is that he he he bought the locals
named this baby
I mean so much so he didn't know his
wife's Hebrew name
yeah I think one of the things should be
added and that is that we have to be
careful when we see something as being a
deviation or an aberration from work
because the the curve percent is by by
assuming oh that person must have had an
earlier traumatic or abusive experience
you know and and contemporary Western
culture that is overused and I'm saying
that as a professional who has seen
thousands of people over my career
who who are abused and also some people
who perhaps imagine that they were
because there's a thing called false
memory syndrome so
thank you very much for saying we just
said I I I I thank you it's very
important and and it definitely
is being you know it's being over abused
and overused but but it does happen so
so you know Malaysia is referring to
when you know we know him but but hello
so listen the bottom line is we
shouldn't be judging others I'm just
telling you just telling you what I felt
you know I'm not I'm not saying I know
but regarding I just said it to to refer
to to yoni's comment
about you know this idea of of the
indulging the from people indulging and
you know when we talk about the Clipper
the contraction of God's infinite light
that we're learning here in Tanya you
know
um it comes back to smack us and the
answer is it does and that's why we're
learning what do you think we're
learning Tanya for other people they're
for ourselves we're learning for our
issues so you and I maybe are not
interested in you know in in all these
in those peso so we have other issues
that we're interested in
page 54 about 10 lines from the from the
bottom second words
God's will which we which we call Face
continence
is the source of Life
enlightens all worlds well the fish
ain't initiated
at this level of life doesn't rest and
dwell on the negative side
and then we have the total opposite of
Life of highest of positive life which
is called the backside the back side so
that's an alien of the will of God Amen
nevertheless God gives life to Clipper
right The Temptations do exist says the
altareba but they exist not in the way
where God is
um I've run you see the word
means it enclosed but better word
invested God is Not invested in Clipper
but
God hovers over the Clipper
therefore the clip was a place of death
and contamination
may God guard us from such things
takes a riddle of the
holy energy into itself
and it captures it like like we talk
about the reincarnate the the the
gilgulian of a soul where a soul is is
is in this galgal becomes reincarnated
into an animal
imagine human a human being in the soul
a human soul in the body of an animal is
like in a sack
or a prison for that matter we just came
for you base Thomas right
you're alive but you're not in control
because you don't have the key to the
cell you're a prisoner that's what we
call between
the same thing here it is kosher and
what we're taking kosher and kosher
we're putting in to Indulgence
it's called shirt it's called shirt but
the Simpson was so great of this energy
that the same culture now is being used
for indulging
now and this is the concept that the
shrina the divine presence of God Maisha
is in ghosts
that is why we call Clipper foreign Gods
it's actually about the Zara idolatry
recruited
and denial of God's Unity
in other words they Clipper says there
is a God but guess what
um
a god of gods I'm also a Gods you're
you're the God and you make me a little
God
and the call to lakaya that's Clipper
Clippers I worked for you God but you
gave me power to tempted you so I also
am a a yatra madame which means I'm a
macho I'm a big shot I have something to
say I have some power
says
this is denial Kira look at his words
very heavy words
the king of all Kings God Almighty okay
since the energy of kadusha is in golos
within the Clipper next page
it is not at all
to the sanctity and Holiness of God on
the contrary what does clipper do asthma
connection it rises like an eagle
I
uh
I'm I am you know it I'm everything okay
my man look at my man you're only
parallel says
the river belongs to me I see sunny and
I made the river that's Clipper in other
words recognition there is a God but God
gave me power so this power May denial
who gave me the power to make denial God
but at the end I was the one who made it
happen
like actually worshiping an idol why
the son of the primary concept of
idolatry
before
means the idol thinks I am independent
separate from the Holiness of God
says
the idol doesn't deny completely in
God's existence God is in existence but
I'm in existence too and that's
haughtiness Holiness is God made me my
parents made me but I'm also a day as
ogre I'm also an opinion maker
he said because mother says he quotes
what I said earlier Dakota lay that they
call and look God elaka the god the
lakaya of all gods ELO
yes although they call God the God of
all gods they consider himself also for
an independent being if they answer me
when this and this makes them separates
them from the Holiness of God
since they're not announced to God
we said in chapter six of Tanya God
does not rest and dwell only on a place
of humility
that is the answer kevra if you want to
know someone's Godly if you find your
ability there it can be Godly if you
find ego and haughtiness there stay far
away it's not godliness could be a great
head and a great speaker and a great
teacher and a great
it's not godly it's not holy it's yes
it's I it's ego
that's why we call Clipper the mountains
of Separation that's a quote from desire
foreign
but separates itself from everything
else
in the God's true Unity the cool commit
corruption if there's nothing compared
to God or Buckle them
and everything should be buckled
nullified to God into his will I'm the
highest
which enlightens them and sustains them
and and creates them may I L yes coming
from nothing to something constantly so
this is the idea that in this chapter
the outdated explained to us the
ideology of Clipper and he brings it
back home to the beginning to tell the
pain and they look clever pain in him
you're talking about God's actors God's
unity and how we have to realize that
God's Unity is in the world
so
part of that is is is denying and
recognizing that anything that's outside
of that Unity including someone or
something that says you're a God but I'm
a God too that's clipper
Kevin Tomorrow there's no sheer as it
stands now there's a change I'll let you
know but it makes a sham Wednesday okay
so I just don't have to go flying
tomorrow yes Hashem unless there's a big
delays we'll see tomorrow I'll let you
know Shalom bye gotta go Florida yes yes
Florida come join me zaga's going to see
you