The TRUE identity of the TORAH | 10 Minutes of Meaning | Tanya #26

Good morning, Boto. Welcome back to 10 minutes of meeting safer Tanya with tremendous gratitude to Marilyn and Michael Fedak for their generous sponsorship. Please help yourself to coffee, slushie, soup, pastry and shay corner and grab your Tanya as we make our way through per we are on the fifth perk of Tanya. Until now, we have been learning about Tanya. The fifth per is talking about how the highest level of the greatest level of connection we can make with the Almighty is through the study of Torah. the Torah, the Torah Kadosha, the Torah Mosha, it is through Torah, mitzvos are an amazing connection. But mitzvos, we remain separate and apart. But when we learn Torah, when we surrender our mind, our intellect, when we are exposing oursel to Torah, when we're learning Torah, it is a phenomenal merging experience of two beings. There is no there is no integration or merging in the world like it. Mitzvah are marvelous. But learning Torah is the best. There is nothing greater. There is nothing better. There's nothing holier or higher than the experience of learning Torah. And the describes that's what he said. When a person grasps, when a person delves into, when a person studies and masters aishna, a then their intellect grasps and engulfs and their minds absorbed and captivated by it. They become literally one with the one with the shalom. So there's a room and there's a time to there's a time to sing and dance. There's a pine time to to share. is a time but it is a so there's a time for everything but we understand in the hierarchy and the emphasis in the ambition and the striving the balata parake of Tanya is describing that as the highest level which brings us to section two of parakeos this is endlessly great and a wonderful advantage when it comes comes to learning, studying, grasping Torah. This is a great and wonderful advantage over other mitzvah. So blowing chauffeur, putting on even putting on sitting in a suka, they're all extraordinary. They're all wonderful. Even a mitzvah connected with speech, speaking is an action. So even a mitzvah connected with speech, Torah is connected with speech. You speak out the Torah. Even knowing and mastering Torah with your mind has an advantage over verbalizing Torah. There are two parts to learning Torah. On the one hand, we verbalize, we express. Just like a mitzvah mas, just like a physical actionable mitzvah, you put on the and you sit in the suka, you shake the lul, and you speak out the Torah. That's the act of learning Torah. But there's also the result of learning Torah. The result of learning Torah is absorbing understanding into the intellect. And that absorbing that understanding that elevating through the intellect is the highest level even more than speaking out. Now why is that says the Balatanya? Why is that? Learning, grasping, understanding, absorbing, embibing Torah is the highest level higher than any action mitzvah, even higher than the action of speaking out Torah. with all the mitzvah involved in speech or action or there's a one-way absorption into the divine as the soul is absorbed into hem and surrounded by his light from the to the direct translation from the to the from the head to the foot when a person does a mitzvah with their being with their body when a person surrenders and sublimates their self their ego then in one direction in one way the person is absorbed into the divine then is absorbed into Hashem that's truth or an action however when it comes to addition to the mind being absorbed into the divine you also absorb the divine into you the mitzvah it's one way you go into hem but with you're being absorbed into the into but is being absorbed into you all depending of course on your level on your mind on your intellect on your cognitive ability as your mind masters and grasps and absorbs whatever Torah knowledge you on your level are able to every person according to their mind, their power. And of course, the four different levels or layers of understanding, the depths of Torah. Whichever layer and level you're on with whatever ability you bring when you absorb, you are being absorbed by Hashem, but you also absorb a piece of Hashem, which he's going to explain in a moment in the next section in an incredible mushel that truly illustrates this idea in the most powerful way. even though your capacity could be limited. Let's say a person struggles. They don't they can't sit to learn full-time. They sit and they struggle to concentrate. Person doesn't have a great memory. Person's laning up the daff goes in one ear out the other ear doesn't stay with them. Person can't really get into the bottom of tus. They can't understand that that still even if a capacity is limited filling our being with the divine light is powerful because with the mitzvah of knowing the Torah the Torah is absorbed into your soul and mind and we are engulfed in it. The Torah becomes part of us part and parcel of us. Or the way Rabstein says this in his commentary he writes it very powerfully. He says the thinker and the thought become one. A complete union is formed between the subject of the person's thought and his thought process. The thinker and the thought become one. When a person understands some other subjects I'm reading to you now from when a person understands some other subject, he unites with the idea of the subject but not the subject itself. When you study the motion of the stars, his mind unites with the concept of the moving stars but not with the movement of the stars itself. You can study. You can study. You can study all the stats in football. How many rushing yards, how many passing yards, how many sacks, how many punts, how many, you know all the data. You know all the statistics. You know nothing about the punter. You're not connected with a punter or punting. Torah, however, is not merely the understanding of a certain reality. The source of the reality it explains. In the words of our sages, God looked into the Torah, created the world. So when a mind unites with Torah, it is not only with the understanding of something but also with the thing itself because Torah is the essence of the thing's very existence. So when you study any other area, you're studying facts, information, knowledge. But when you study Torah, you're connecting with the author of Torah itself. You're connecting with the essence of Torah itself. That is the highest level. The thought and the thinker become become one. And now the explains it through an illustration so powerful. The Torah in many places calls Torah is bread and food of the soul. Just like physical bread, hopefully healthy food. It's wheat. Today it'd be sourdough. In my home, we don't call it sourdough because Manila. So we call it artisan bread because sourdough simils you don't want to eat something sour you become sour. So artisan bread you're eating some bread healthy bread. So it nourishes your body when it absorbs inside you and it only keeps you alive after it's transformed into blood and flesh of your flesh. Listen to this mush. When a person eats food, person eats food. You eat bread, but you eat food, what happens, right? I think there used to be an expression, a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips. That was a way of telling you don't eat too much food. Why? What happens when we eat? You got to loosen your belt. When you eat and you eat too much, if you eat too much, eat too much of the wrong things, then now your clothing doesn't fit. Why? The fact that you put something in your mouth and swallowed it, now your stomach gets bigger. Now your size is bigger. Yeah. That's what food does. The body takes the food and it transforms. What you ate becomes part of your flesh. Literally. You get bigger. You get bigger. You get larger. Eating what we eat becomes part of us. Part of us. Shalom. And the same is true when your soul's knowledge and mastery of Torah, when you study it well, focusing the mind to the point that Torah is absorbed by our intellect and it merges and becomes one. It provides nourishment for the soul and life for the giver from the divi blessed infinite light. dressed in his wisdom in his Torah now absorbed inside it. This is the meaning of the your Torah is in. It's a inm. Your Torah is in myishkas. What do we mean? That's like a metaphoric idea. Hashem, I love you so much. Your Torah is in my kishkas. It means literally the Torah is in my kishkas. Toris in mishkas just like when we eat food it keeps us alive. If a person starves they'll starve to death. How does Torah keep us alive? When we eat it it's absorbed and becomes part of us. The magnificent factory that is the human body. This is what the bra of ashy is all about. If one successfully came out of the bathroom, it's a miracle. It's a miracle. It's the most magnificent factory on earth created by the almighty himself. You put one thing in the conveyor belt called the mouth. It extracts the nutrients and all that you need. It disposes of the waste. It's an extraordinary extraordinary plant manufacturing plant. It's an unbelievable factory all created designed by the reon shalom and when it works you say in a yatar thank you that it works. So you eat the body extracts the nutrients it gives us life and how it's absorbed in the body itself becomes part of our flesh. So Baltana says this is the comparison between mitzvos and [clears throat] tamaturra. Mitzvos are malbush. Mitzvos are like a garment. I'm wearing a garment. I had to choose this morning. Not the shirt. That's the easy part for me. But what tie to wear? I'm putting on a garment. And when the day ends finally at whatever time you get to take off the garment. The garment isn't you. It doesn't become absorbed by you. It's not integrated into you. It's not part of you. It's something one wears on top of us. We choose it. It identifies us. It's a un uniform we associate. It protects us from the elements. But we wear a garment. The mitzvah are the malush of the neph and the sh. The mitzvah are the mal the mitzvah are the garment that we wear. But Torah, Torah is like the bread, the food that we eat. Unlike the clothing that we wear, the food that we eat, it enters us. It becomes one with us. It becomes part of us and it becomes our very flesh. So Torah is called because the Torah unlike simply the mitzvah that are lavush that we do externally with our actions. Torah is something which we absorb which we integrate which we eat. It's delicious. It's the greatest meal. Torah is what fills our our belly. And that's what David said. Your Torah is in my kishkas. He didn't mean it metaphorically or symbolically. He meant it literally. When we learn Torah with that intention, when we learn Torah with that mindfulness, we learn Torah with that goal. I am embibing Torah. We should it's three. There's an element of for another time. But there's an element not just of there's because I'm about to eat some delicious Tyra. I'm about to consume some delicious Torah. We need to add this to our intention and mindfulness. Whether it's adults too many, go to a shir, open a gumar, go to the da, it's just a check. I did today's da. I had today's ka. I went to today's t. You have to go in. I'm sitting down. I'm about to consume. I'm about to eat some delicious Torah. I want to take it inside me. I want it to define me. I want it to turn into my flesh. I want it to become me. I'm absorbed into it. It is absorbed into me. The thinker and the thought become one. Unlike the study of any other area of knowledge, the thinker and the thought become one. That should be the introduction every day to our learning. Let your Torah enter my kishkas. I'm going to make a like I'm about to have a delicious cup of coffee. I'm going to caffeinate with you make a shak you remember. So I'm make that the Torah enters our Torah becomes part of who we are. The this is the highest level. So of course we wear the you can't learn Torah but walk around without clothing. We got to do the the mitzvah. We gota we got to make we gota share of course but we strive for the so that the Torah enters may I stay happy stay healthy stay holy have a day of bis Soros. >> Okay.