Prayer in louder tone will divert anxiety & disturbances- Igeres HaKodesh 22c- RC Dalfin

good good day we're learning sacred letters fourth section of T page now the balat here addresses the issue that he addressed in the in the first letter this really is a separate letter why was appended here by the his sons I don't know some say it's because it also deals with the same issue of not overwhelming him with with coming to see him so often and and things like that and he made what's called takna he lived at the time in a city called Lea okay in white Russia belus Etc so um he made takote he made rules rules and regulations you can't just come here every week every two weeks four times a year I'm overwhelmed I got thousands of people who want to see me so the and number two we don't have the financial Sports financial support for you for to come so often so this is probably what he is also what he's also referring to in this letter and that's why they appended it here let's look inside again we're redoing what we learned the last year but it's fine my beloved brothers and friends from the great anxiety and bother that I'm experiencing or I can't just you know cater to you guys the way you want to be catered to which which which surrounds me all together that's part of a verse in yesah and the waters and and to Hill him as well he he brings the two verses and he combines them kind of to Hill him in and it surrounds me like water all day all night and it does it's not silent in other words it's okay it's it's it's noisy it's noisy and busy and guys have mercy on me I'm trying to help the flock I need to learn I need to D I need to pay attention to people and you guys are coming constantly I can't I can't put in writing everything that's in my heart Mo you understand as much as we want to put everything that was on our heart in a book it's impossible and I can tell you that firsthand from being a writer briefly I come to do that as as I'm repeating what I've told you originally and I'm specifically addressing all of you who are worshippers of God ver Vis prayer so the AL is now giving them kind of advice you want to connect with me get into your prayer get into your davening to your prayer and what should that be out loud now make it clear's not into loud doing like carlen stolen MOA next time you're in Brooklyn if you want to if you want to experience what this is you come down to borrow Park and I'll take you into their Shool near my house a few blocks away and you'll have to have earplugs because when they pray they scream and not only do they scream in their prayer they they move back to to get to ex inhale and then they give it out with an Exhale by praying and it's really intense and loud that's not what he means here cuz kabad is not into that that's their way of of praying which is a very legitimate way and a very holy way for them okay so what does he mean here out loud he means it's not the silence mon iser have you gone into a Bas Med and it sounds like a a cemetery or it's better the morg what we call it the morg you call it the morg and it's not it's it's it's silence when is there supposed to be silence I me so what does he mean is a normal balance in other words instead of saying that's so some people take these words of the balat and they say you see you are not listening to what your own re says he says you're supposed to scream loud sorry chap that's not what it means it means not silent compar compared to silent okay and when you pray loud with Lou with a louder voice louder Tone It strengthens you to fight off to oppose everything that's see tries to prevent you from connecting to God from the inside your worries your anxieties and the interferences for the outside the phone is ringing the business wants me my wife says get home it's time to to take the kids out to school when you're ding you're supposed to be elsewhere and this and you will you will oppose these disturbances with a mighty hand as the implication is which is the will which is the which is the will of those that have offer him which transcends wisdom and comprehension Hashem has put within the worshippers to know to do as whatever God wants using the intellect and knowledge so is what is he saying in other words the commitment to daving to prayer will supersede just a a rational response in my prayer it will be filtered through the rationale and through knowledge but where is it coming from from a much more transcendental place that's what he says so and and and he and and he's implying he's saying that the K the the raising of the voice of some of to some degree will help you access this transcendental connection that will fight will oppose and not allow the disturbances of the inside and the outside the the anxiet is within and the disturbance is from the from the outside to disturb you in now a if this isn't clear enough I don't know what is he tells you exactly what you should be doing let's go rather a simple will and A Generous Heart to every person that that wants makes their heart generous to serve god with a sincere activity activ a sincere service to create a pleasant odor for the Creator every time you when you pray you have the ability to create pleasure for God and that's you know if you love someone you want to create pleasure for them you don't wait for them to ask you could you make me happy that's not real love that's that's you know intellectual love a love Tit for Tat you do this for me I do that for you right like you told me that just before we started a she your idea for the situation you're dealing with because you know you see a situ situation and you love the children and you want to help you get up and you initiate the idea you don't sit back and wait till they come and they say Mr drer do you have any suggestions you don't wait for them to ask you you initiate and say I have an idea we have a problem here this is my suggestion let's see if we can make it happen well the same is true with prayer with f when we D to hasem we should be coming from a place a we're not waiting forem to knock on a door A B come here please pray to me a little bit no no you should be on the page where you know that Hashem wants you to pray and Hashem you know asks for the prayer so you give him that ahead of time that's what he's saying here and this is what the the verse refering to Jewish people there's a very strange verse says in the Torah you are a stiff neck nation and boy have we heard this over and over we're stubborn mules and God says nevertheless I will pardon you and forgive you even though you're a right you're stiff necked you stubborn guy why why AB why would is why would hasem pardon pardon us if we're stiff neck if you're stiff neck so be ex use the Expression then too bad go somewhere you did it to yourself you didn't listen so look what the AL says because pardoning forgiveness coming from God also transcends wisdom what happened over here okay also transcends wisdom they asked wisdom there's four things they asked wisdom they asked truva a when you do a sin it says in the in in Leviticus when when a soul will do a sin how do you get forgiveness so they asked wisdom hey wisdom give me an answer how can we get pardoning and wisdom said you know what you have to you have to do chuva you have to behave better when they ask God Hashem Hashem said I will forgive don't put any conditions on me because it won't help CU I transcend wisdom Yi wisdom is TI for you don't follow the rule you get punished you don't get forgiveness you get locked up or you pay your fine for your ticket okay but when they ask God God how do we get for how do we deal with the situation God says I will forgive so the the ALB brings this over here to show that God the Transcendent Hashem is greater than the the way God is manifested through wisdom through because God through has conditions and rules and regulations but because that's not the transcendental God that's the limited God if you want pardoning you have to connect with the Transcendent so the AL brings this here regarding your prayer has to be such with such po potency and such uh strength and such connection that you go beyond just the norm in prayer I need this I Pray I'll be behave I'll be a nice boy God you make you'll send me parosa you'll send me livelihood for my for my to pay my rent and to pay my bills and to to to pay my gift you know that's conditional you want Transcendence God maybe I'm not doing everything you want okay and and maybe I have a lot more to do but listen you're loving and you're pardoning please forgive me and just give me give me give me you know give as much as you you know so I could I could I could help everyone Etc says I have another Quest request Ed means not just it means I really have a request of you from you honorable [Music] ones don't put my words to the back burner that I I established in the past to have conversations with you and you went straight on the path and do not and now do not look for excuses many excuses May alos next page top of page 270 such excuses which many times are corrupt they corrupt they ruin MIT man's steps man's path and man's thoughts and his schemes says listen guys I know you you've been here before you've spoken to me don't allow yourself now to get messed up and to follow the schemes of the mind and to come up with cutesy excuses that's what he says because this is the work of God not the work of humanity very beautiful line and therefore since what we're talking about is Godly work not just human work to I he he's he's demanding of them he's not just I said suggesting but really he demanding of the of his they should you should believe with complete fa faith in the instruction of the sages quote one should be humble before before all human beings generally speaking because it is a a a a saying of strength and a a phrase of of of corre of correctness every person Isen is corrected because because of their friend in other words he's telling his people look you might think that this message that I want is for those that are sophisticated elevated more connected and you look and and you don't you won't share the message with those who you consider to be simplon so therefore he quotes what it says in P be humble before all people and if you remember the Tau in Chapter 30 of the first section of Tanya he explained there that this is a truism for everyone from the sadic from the most righteous Jew to the most wicked Jew it's true how can a sadic be humble for a wicked person the Al said you don't know what they're tested with you're sitting in your corner in the Sho and learning and doing and you don't know what's going on but just walk into a a situation where like our dear student mosha drer is involved with where there's a lot of lot of problems and a lot of lot of danger and a lot of you know a lot of stuff and if you have to deal with that then how can someone who sits in a shoe say I'm better than you mosha drooker you know why because I I serve God 24/7 if not 24/7 but you know daving and learning and doing Mitzvah and and all that and you know you're on the streets with guys guys who are you know dangerous and all of that says just the opposite he's holier than you if he's able to be in these situations and still come to learn and put on a y and and put on filling when he's called to the minion and all of that he's better than the guy than than me and Park cuz for me it's it's like you know a bread and butter of you know water ding with a minion I have 500 shs around me so the says if if you want to if you want this you want to touch Transcendence you have to be humble and always look favorable how the other is better than you that's what he says let's continue and it says we're on the fifth line on page call every single Jew is like our friends we're all friends all Jews brothers and sisters all of us just like a person who is comprised of what of many Limbs and when they're separated no it impacts the heart our doctor is will tell us when this limb is out of shape it makes an impact and that's what they say if you have gum disease for example in your teeth you can have a heart attack I don't know if it's true it's not true but that's what they say I once CH challenged questioned I once questioned the cardiologist on that but the point is Dr says that when there is a blemish in a certain limb it makes an impact on the heart because the blood comes from there the the heart the lungs Etc right and therefore there's going to be damage in the limbs if the in the heart and Vis vice versa if there's an issue in the heart of course it's going to impact the Lim this is the analogy now the moral if we're all like one person we will establish the service of the heart and do justice and do right and from the positive he doesn't even want to write the negative he writes Etc look a he says hul Etc he doesn't tell you you know and if you don't feel humble before the the every Jew and you see yourself better the result is it's like damaging a a a a limb which will cause a problem with the heart cuz the blood comes from the heart and the lungs and all that right so so D employs this muscle this analogy to tell us we're all one heart and if and and and and if you see yourself who's a limb one limb in the body separate from the others you're going to make damage in the heart and it's going to impact you in a negative way that's what he says that's why the verse says to serve god with one shoulder kind of one way in other words feeling all together as well V now he concludes his his his opening idea my beloved friends please please exert yourself with your entire heart and soul to implant within yourself love for your friend in your heart what's the loc need you have TOA like the city in AR not far from you guys TOA you have to stick like you take a uh whatever it's called and you stick it into the ground when you you know to to hold down a tent right in in other words it takes what you say whatever it takes a it takes a a a AA it's not just enough you put your hand on the the bottom of the tent not it'll fly away you have to nail it down into the ground Al says you have to do the same thing when it comes to feeling love for another Jew who's not like you and maybe observably outwardly lower than you different than you you have to work on it it's not easy that's what he says and therefore a person should not think about the other person's bed it's said this in your heart this is from a verse it should never enter your heart such feeling in other words when you see someone suffering when you see someone hurt don't say I Told You So to yourself I Told You So if you would have just listened and what if that thought ascends comes to your thinking to mind push it aside from your heart and make it be like smoke that evaporates these are such P harsh words but important it should be considered to you like idolatry looking at your friend at your neighbor at another Jew and and looking at their suffering and say that's because they did this and this and all of that is like you are worshiping Idols okay so if you need a a source chapter 22 towards the end in Tanya you can quote the balatan gar the the severity of Gossip of theal the sages say is connected it's equal it's greater it's worse it's worse then idol worship uh it prohibited uh relationships and murder now says something that very important if this is true regarding your speech gossip Etc how much more so he doesn't say but I'm I'm explaining what he means with the ETC here how much more so it's worse if you think negatively about someone else so we make a big deal about Lush and Hara and it is a big deal but it's even a big a big bigger deal if you think bad about someone and I told you in the last time I repeat it just briefly this was the way kabad dealt with the issue so it's not that kabad wasn't wasn't sensitive and didn't care about it's a lie and it's not true but the emphasis was change your thinking I told you many years ago in Los Angeles Pico Boulevard I gave a Shear it was Tuesday nights and it was well attended and a woman who was still friendly with the de je woman said after hearing my lectures she said Rabbi um stop me to talk to my friend I I in public she she raised her hand with 50 60 people in the room and she said I'm stopping so I asked why you stopping she says cuz each time we speak we gossip and she heard the lecture they were based on I believe the laws of of of of of human of decency based on Torah um in the rambam she says the best thing is not to talk to my friend cuz every time we gossip I said no no no that's not what the rambam says just change your conversations to something more spiritual okay keep on talking to your friend it's important but change the topic that's what he's saying here the the so that's thinking that that's speaking but if you elevate yourself to a place where you change your thoughts automatically your speech will be different let me just conclude it's known to all wise Hearts the advantage to having kosher thoughts kosher thoughts correct thoughts over speech in all aspects in other words if you change your Paradigm this is today's language if you change your Paradigm automatically the behavior will change change the way you think that's the concept and the good go Lord the good good God who blesses his Nation with peace is blessing the people he's writing to may God Place upon you and give you shom peace right your friend our good friend Moshe shalom peace and life for eternity NE with soul love of the Soul coming from my heart and my soul it's a very endearing way of blessing and ALB says I'm blessing you not just from my heart but from my soul and I hope this reaches your heart and your soul tomorrow we'll start chapter 23 have a great day take care