Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz 2nd Sec. Chap. 8 We can not comprehend the Oneness of G-D

welcome to tonight's Tonya class we are holding in Tonya the second section Shara acondo muna chapter 8 perry-class as always every chapter in tanya because this is the Bible of mysticism is very very unique and a foundation and something important in the world of Kabbalah and tonight's class was about Shara you could read Munna I switch out the oneness the oneness of God and the ultimately dr. points out that we cannot comprehend the oneness of God as our operational we think no we operate is totally under level and God definitely like we cannot comprehend the oneness of God so the Altima starts as follows knees are like this that the Rambam rights that God the MU who say in Hebrew who God is absolutely the essence of God ditoy the intellect of God is all one all one and simple in Hebrew and I'll translate actors Cheeta oneness simple one is that's not Merkel which means it's now put together from wanting thinking it's all one or one the author goes on to explain not only is God's essence and God's das one but even the emotions all the names all the adjectives that the Torah gifts our God it's all one in other words there is nothing other than God the only real existence is God and everything is God in other words there's no such thing as a table and a chair and a person and a place or a thing there's nothing I only got even the essence of God the wisdom of God the will of God or any adjectives or different names and Tory's regard it's all one but then the altmer says that this idea that's all one it's really hard almost impossible for us humans to comprehend why is that why is that dollar goes deeper than that he says like this because the outer explains and this is the this is the really the heart of this chapter Tonya next week he goes back to talking about not the one in oh God but now we go into like a talking about how we cannot comprehend because we operate differently and he goes into great length how we operate and it's a really really fascinating chapter that really outlines the way you means us and all creational God works I think something this the highest power of energy that we have is called what ha ha ha that's why I found we have what does that mean that means that the first source of energy and power and connection that we have to the world through ourselves what does cackle mean chuckles we know is a flash of an insight so you're trying to figure something out you're thinking you're meditating and open oh you have the flash right here that's hot so any time you're trying to come up with a solution figure out how to do something more meaningful relate to a situation you stop and you think as you know Hawking has made of the word clack the power of math if you want to activate hokhmah you ask one question ma what you keep asking what what what is it what does it mean what are you saying you know what what is like the knock knock down the door to get some kind of glimmer and you get some kind of insight MA what is it what what do you want what's going on right what happened Claire ma the power to ask now in order to ask what you have to be humble because you're arrogant you know everything so you don't ask what happened I know what happened what are you feeling I know I know what you're feeling that's when you're arrogant but if you're humble guess what happens you ask what so it's a humbling question to ask what and that is the first level of any understanding relation connection communication is starting over Karma and that's what we operate and that's the highest power do we have so the highest power that we have comes from humility comes from the ability to be able to ask what hokhmah once you ask what and you have this glimmer of an idea and all of a sudden guess what you can start developing the idea you go into the world of veña veña is what what does it mean more details more comprehension analyzing getting more information on those specifics so benas already more of a development through the idea now the world from the world of hokhmah and Venus to different worlds the world of Cockrum has new ideas being there's nothing new but you're taking the ideas that were new that were abstract and you're making them more real more alive you're getting more information about it you're getting color to it you're getting a full picture what's going on that is the level of what Abena and this is again this would be operate after we have the flash of the idea and we have all the details what happens next dot dances now we start applying oaths what does that mean to us what does it mean to this and you start connecting intellectually it's an intellectual connection so dance is basically what the intellectual connection hakama vena and us that is all in the world of intellect from the world of intellect what happens next we go into the world of emotions emotions in general the me--don't in the mid oat you have for example the medial Cassidy kindness which basically from there comes love guru which comes more discipline and to Oldham adults but the way it works is me dote emotions love warmth discipline is not abstract by a human it follows generally from the whole Chabad specifically what's its connection to Chabad what does connection to the intellect now so in other words let's work backwards the greater your dance the greater your huffner and veena but more specifically your dance that's how great your emotions are gonna be so in other words like this the analogy doctor uses is if you're a immature intellectual person some say you're young biologically young and therefore your motional a different lecture you're young you're gonna have it for love of what simple things simple a kid was a kid want kids toys age-appropriate why because the dance is not fully developed as your dash gets fully developed a toy for a two-year-old doesn't work for a five-year-old and then for a ten-year-old a 15 and so on and so forth in other words in other words and the - develops so does the emotions develop so the emotions indirect consequence on the dolls once you have again starting with Cosmo be ngoz the intellect and then the me note which brings the me doubts and as the - causes the mido to me those come from the gas then what happens is you start taking those ideas and those feelings and starting to process it in your sort so when you think about what are you thinking about love discipline an idea the source is coming from we're not familiar it's from a feeling which came from a sole way definite or from the intellectual comprehension and I have to thought develops you have more clarity in the world of thought once you've finished in the world of thought guess what happens next the thought brings speech based on the intellect based on the emotions based on the thought you're going to say something and hopefully it's all kind right answer the world of speech what happens next then you go into the world of action then you go into the world of action so the process is intellect all three steps and intellect classical meter gas emotions obviously all of them then into thought then into speech down into action that's the way every human being front functions if you cut corners you know what happens it doesn't come out right it's like if you make a cake and then calls for certain ingredients and you take out one of the ingredient what happens it doesn't come out right let me just come out at all the same thing loss of your you and being and you start show your emotions you miss the intellectual component not gonna be good knowing that attend or if you think and you don't know how you stop a feel what you're thinking and you start think thinking and talking it's not good either you have to those are the process and the more time you spend on the process the more meaningful it's gonna be think about simple let's say for example you in your mind you decide what you want to do something nice for somebody the personalized first thing you want to deny to them so you can go ahead okay say hey I want to do something nice thing you'll do anything but you can think about it who is a person what's your relationship what are the person like what do you want to do for them the more time you spend thinking about it and what was the question about mark what like what can I do what is what were they what would they enjoy right and the more you spend time with a hakama you're gonna come with different ideas doesn't you can do all them you're gonna come with different ideas they need to take the bina process and you start developing it this that all the details of it the dass will create that connection who is a person gonna appreciate it or not and you might have to go back to square one but the dice will allow you to connect to the person and see is it gonna fit once obviously it all makes sense intellectually then emotionally get excited about right knee almost thing happened then you start thinking about it then you can talk about it or and then you go do it and sometimes even if you don't talk about it but the process of talk will you basically going out of your head going into the world of delivery of action goes through the spiritual process of speech now that is the process where we operate that's what you must operate now so two things out are points out point number one is take a process start that started in intellect chochmah binah das emotions thought speech and action and you end up with a present right the analogy we gave you have a nice present you want to bring to someone whatever the present may be excuse this watch right you want to bring something to watch now the watch is a watch it's all what it is a watch piece of metal glass right to watch the watch the physical watch compared to the initial thought you had in your head can you compare to do know this is a watch so what it is in your head it was like wow a brilliant idea I want to do this with some of that person and when you got excited you know as you go down the steps the energy lute gets less so as you measure the energy in the actual watch because the watch is just to watch you don't see the watch dancing even though they have dancing watches but right but you don't see the watch dancing so even so the energy in a physical watch is really not much what's the puts energized about the watch is if you go back to where you're talking about it I was just more energy you're thinking about oh my gosh you didn't stop thinking about it right then go back to your thoughts and then your intellect so the optimist says when you give a look from the last step the step of the action to the step of what that's sort so what is the middle intellect Kozma it's like worlds apart worlds apart now so you see a major downgrade in energy with each one now that's point number one point number two is our initial first we called first and highest level of energy in all the steps is what its customer now the optimist says God what's will buy him this car from a high level or a low level compared to God huh lower it's almost like nothing it's nothing the deer for the artery says our highest ability our highest ability to really connect the things it's not to the watch its to Kozma what is it right you need these flashes are here that's our highest ability our highest ability that we have to connect around no idea it's Kozma as we used to study in a few years to relate and so on and so forth for god that's so infinite what is worth Karma it's like nothing so we're using again that's our only that's the highest tool we have we're using a tool of hokhmah to try to comprehend the oneness of God how can we do that how and they work out purposes guess what you can't do it you cannot use your highest gift to comprehend the oneness of God so what other was like this the oneness of God is means as we said the beginning in class everything is gone there is nothing that's not God and now he is everything God but even the different attributes different we call it intellect and emotions of God and the will of God all these things it's all one it's not like its pieces to the puzzle make one God you need to have all these pieces that make God know everything is one how does that make sense to us no but if I asked intellect resent collecting emotions but the but why can't we can't really and it because our highest level tool that we have to comprehend things is nothing compared to God nothing compared to God what we do know is that God's asked us God's oneness and here's the key word is pursuit which means it's simple simple means it's not complicated it's not put together from pieces it's not more curved it's not mixed and packaged up from a bunch of different pieces it's all what it's all one so here the author lays out in this chapter a beautiful - beautiful ideas one important idea is that the oneness of God is so pure that there is only one thing however we cannot comprehend it and the reason is because ultimately the way we comprehend things the highest tool that we have is nowhere near anything of God every complication that we complicate things exactly so in other words if we really want to connect to the oneness of God as the algebra calls the active shooter the oneness of God what do we need to do we need to realize we really don't have the tools intellectually and we have to let go and that's why it's called shahe a hood van Munna because the only way we can get to the wonders of God is not to appear it's through something above it faith in the oneness of God from intellect it's not gonna come it's gonna come from our facing God and we're able to have faith in the oneness of God that we can connect not again not to intellect we can see we understand because we don't understand we can connect to the oneness of God and then we can really be connected with the real oneness and then what then when you connect over to the oneness it creates the greatest happiness joy and satisfaction are able to achieve it