Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman - Tomer Devorah: Chapter 2 - Keter: Shabbat and the Festivals

uh we're on lmit design um towards the bottom so there are these uh portals in time of uh infinity which it's appro within which it's appropriate to work on the MAA of of keser which is itself uh humility and greatness it's like an aperture we said also between the lower Realms of Creation in the lower parts of the spheros which are a greater degree of Tsum the ker is a connection between that in the higher realm of ins so you have space so you have kind of islands of time uh or Islands in creation which are also like these portals between Sim Tsum and and infinity in which it's appropriate to act according to the meta of keser um other times no right now he's working in in you know on on these what I'm calling portals so one of them was shabas that's what we discussed yesterday you know it's it's really you know like this portal in time which gives you an I don't know an added venue to to connect to the to to the to the Infinity of God in a greater way than is normally possible but there are others well as well and that's what we're going to work on now therefore a person uh on shab and on the festivals and also oner which he mentions here as being separate than the other y even though it itself is certainly a yum it's a holiday but um the difference between yum the other holidays is that the other holidays are enjoyed partially through eating and drinking cohabitating elevating the things of the mundane world into the realm of the infinite yum Kipper is refraining from all those things um but it's still of course a very holy day and um it's a day which um is about atonement and the receiving of divine mercy and certainly that fits in with the what the authors told us earlier about ker being the origin for the of so that Yumer itself is like ker Yumer itself is Shabbat shabbaton the Torah says it's the Shabbat of chabas so it's it's an even higher and elevated degree of chabas itself and therefore arguably yum Kipper as a yum is even a higher degree of ker than shabas itself and we do find that the whole theme of initially R and culminating yamer is is M right Mah of course is connected to keser it's it's the crowning of God that's the kesser it's the pl it's it's like the crowning glory of God that's J Kipper how many days are between R Ander how many I'm guessing 10 like this her uhhuh very interesting yeah very interesting where you know certainly rashash does talk about you know malos the kingship that's the lower sphere You could argue that it goes up and up and up until right yam Kipper is ker and um we do conclude yam Kipper with you know you know with the statement seven times and then we say that's the final uh coronation uh of God accompanied by the trumpet the chaar the long blast that right the the the te representing the the culmination of the of the coronation of God which uh which is which is KES so yum ker is certainly relevant for this whole discussion so that's true regarding these portals in time which would be shabas and the holidays and uh cluding Kipper um that would be in time but also in in place or or in creation during prayer all learning Torah all of these times are times when there are no G there should be no deing there should be no judgments J Kipper is called the day of atonement it certainly culminates a period of judgments but since it it culminates in K and is the and we do say in the conclusion of Y the service right the 13 attributes again and again and again blasting blasting blasting blasting way up to ker in order to nullify on the lower level any manifestation of ker in but rather it should be reverted back to its source it should be all Mercy Divine Mercy so these are times and so also during prayer and certainly during Torah study where literally when a person is learning Torah speaking words of Torah our sources say that God as it were is literally mouthing the words of Torah is he speaking says he kisses me with the kisses of his mouth because your love ly things are more beloved to me than wine so this is understood referring to to Torah that when person is learning Torah he's engaged in a type of Kiss where just as two lovers are kissing there's an exchange of vapor so when a person's learning God's Torah there's an exchange of spirituality between he and God and Torah study therefore is considered to be a very beloved and uh and loving experience of you having a type of uh spiritual intimacy with God and therefore this is also um a wonderful time of where there should be no deing no anger no judgments no being uh particular or indignant or proud or jealous but the Torah learning should all be done in the spirit of U of of of of a loving and sharing Union These are times of These are times of the revelation of the will on high and if Ron is the will of God before kesser to create which it might be might be something else but if it is referring to to that so then these are times when a person should be penetrating upward through kesser in order to try as best as possible connect to the r like it says that God the Holy One Blessed Be ver and the Torah are one they're inextricably bound and the Torah itself is an expression of the will of God they're all one so if a person is learning Torah with the right intention he's he's he's he's he's he's literally engaged with his beloved as it were in order to be brought into his bed chamber through the door of ker into the into the realm of the r AEM and literally I don't know what the word is but to become connected with the with one with the Oneness of God and this will establish all of his deos where I think he might mean here MOS meaning all of the lower spheros they will all be established through this connection to God that takes place through either the context of shabis or Y or Yer or or Torah learning Torah but the rest of the hours of his day meaning when it's not these portals in time or or in circumstance then he should use the others of these attributes that have been established properly through the connections that's been made in these time during in these portals then the rest of these hours outside of those portals he can now use those MOS which have been established properly through the connections that he's made during these portals and use them for good and not for bad so for example if you take uh the MAA ofed which is loving kindness orur which is strength as just two examples H to the rightor to the left where H is generally positive and is you know perhaps generally negative the point is that if a person has connected to the ratem through K in any of these circumstances of chabas Y or Tor with that would mean is that outside of those times when it is appropriate to live Sim Tsum then he will be living tsim Tsum in a balanced proper way so that is truly expressed positively and not negatively because sometimes giving can be inappropriate if you're giving something which is appropriate or to somebody which is inappropriate or at a time which is inappropriate that giving is not something good it's something negative right and the same thing regarding gura or strength even though um uh strength is something which is good when you're ex exerting that say control over yourself for something good and not for example exerting control over others not for their benefit but to manipulate them and things like that so that's what he's getting at therefore that when a person utilizes these portals correctly it will affect the rest of his M so that when he is living tsim Tsum as it is the will of that we do live Tsum then he'll at least be living it properly I think what it means is that these negative side these negative negative aspects of these attributes are really not given sway over a person except during these times ofum so it's there that he has to be particularly careful to maintain the balance and therefore then when he uses these attributes properly then he can be rest assured that using them properly or or that their application will result in in an opening up of the sources of bounty and blessing for a person and not God forbid the opposite where if he uses these attributes negatively they would actually be harmful to himself and to others like we said in two simple examples either doing good in a bad way or or or exerting control or power in a negative way but if he's using if if he's using them with the proper balance then he can rest assured that even if he's not in these apertures of kesser he's actually living within simum he's still living aligned so that those actions in simum will still bring about an influx of of blessing from ker and not God forbid the opposite so you need ker to like recalibrate yes yeah very nice so connecting to to ker during these portals of shab these are all ways of constantly kind of like you said recalibrating or restarting or rejuvenating yes in order to maintain the the proper balance that's a very wonderful idea but a person spends too much of his life without chabas without yum without yum without prayer and without Torah so he's bound over time to be eroded to the extent where his MOS are going to take on more and more of a negative manifestation and then he'll be a conduit this person for the influx of negativity into the world and not positivity positivity and our exertion in the physical finite mundane realm of Tsum during the week would tend to generate that result if it's not retracted if it's not refracted back into chabas for example once weekly or the holidays on their Seasons or regularly through tourah study or through prayer okay very good let's um let's stop here we'll try and uh continue tomorrow