Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz 2nd Sec. Chap. 9 - Hashem is truly One

welcome to tonight's Tyne class we are in the second section of Tanya Shari hood Varuna we are holding paper tests chapter 9 so tonight we're going to be talking about as the title of shia Karuna is charming the gate hood of the oneness and a Munna and faith so tonight we're going to be talking about both of those concepts concepts one is you could the way God is truly truly one and we'll explain what that means and also the Emunah and faith and why faith is important in reference to what the oneness of God so as the title of Tanya the section is called char hey hood so what does it mean we say we hood that as one so the idea is that for example if you have let's say one watch what does that mean you have one watch that means there's a second is a third there's maybe 4000 watches irrelevant what but it's one out of many out of money and we say the hood we're not saying Akkad we're saying new hood you could means it's the only one it's the true union of one that means the only one thing that exists in the world or anywhere is what God so you could not from Akkad but near code from oneness in other words Hashem we say FM as one it's the only one existence it means God is everything and everything is God so whatever you see or hear smell or feel you've all these names for it guess what it's all gone there you go you got it you got it it's all one house ah it's truly one now now what does that mean what does that mean what does it mean practically I want to go into it that all these level and depths and everything is irrelevant if you go behind the singing and behind the mask what do you have it's all 101 in other words last week we discussed that when it comes to us humans the way God concealed himself in humans because we're really all part of the one I'm God right so there's different gifts that God gave us namely this remote and the the garments the Sphero the highest sewer that we have I welcome the highest come from seed the highest fear that we have the highest power that we have what's that power that's the power called hokhmah and that's the biggest gift that we have to be able to be a human being is what the gift of hokhmah and we access our hokhmah and when we make hokhmah the first part of our life that's what we use to engage in the world that's what you use to engage with people then our life is sort of speed in the highest level the highest level of life is what when we start with hokhmah we start parts to us - but if we start with hokhmah and we make that the beginning and the stronghold then we're operating in the highest level one is karma so - our constant two words co-op the power of ma ma means what when you ask what is it what is needed right what will always put you into a deeper perspective of life and because of that more meaningful so if you go through life and you don't have asked what guess what you're proud you're spiritually sleeping wake up your experiences what please write your spiritual sleeping but when you ask what is needed right alright you're awake what Stevie I'm ready when you're for example learning studying whether it's Mitch we're homeless Rafi missioner Talmud mysticism and again the list goes on and when you study say what is this what is the saying what does this mean now you can obviously you said what you said you read what you read but when you ask what does this mean what is Rakesh trying to say what is the verse trying to tell me right you keep on hearing the word what what it that will take you deeper and deeper and deeper and that will allow you so to speak we call it swimming in the sea of the Talmud and the Mishnah and calmness wherever you starting so what is sort of speak your your tools of swimming that's your tools of engagement and that comes from what from the highest level that we have which is karma once we have a in depth what it is that doesn't mean because God is infinite so you need got it down the what could you go deeper and ask the next what yes yes and it's actually not boring it's actually exciting because what you're really doing is you're peeling away layer after layer and your going deeper and deeper so the more you asked what the more deeper you will go now you want to have a little variety in your life all right you can't just be just you know heads now in Sultan white with studying Torah 24/7 the matter of fact the Bible application or biblical obligations to study always unless we have an exemption but God also gave us emotions and because he gave his emotions we're supposed to take that what that we asked and that information and that knowledge and that connection intellectually and it has to start penetrating what into our heart into the world of me--don't and we got excited about oh my gosh right I got a prime tool in and it's all exciting I'm going to connect the door by putting in tolling or kissing the mezuzah Wow one with God God's gonna watch over me and so on and so forth it brings the intellectual comprehension of something into a passionate so other words if you study academically and it doesn't break a smile on your face that means you're studying which is good that means but you haven't penetrated into your heart we hafta thermo-calc God wants us to love him not just know him - he died dog he wants us to love him so in other words when we study and we should study a lot and the smile hasn't broken it like you reached a whole new Plateau guess what doesn't don't stop but you have to go now not only deeper but you have to go a little more down into the world of emotions are you excited about the fact that for example that you're putting on film today are you excited that you have a mezuzah and you kiss the mezuzah or you excited the fact that you eat kosher and you have half as a kosher home now if you're not excited about it doesn't mean you're not an exciting person you're an exciting person this you haven't brought down that intellect that what that hokhmah into your emotions once you get excited now it's time to come develop into like more of a complete human being from there as you what right Cosmo and you get excited the emotions are going then where do you go to you go to thought what are your thoughts about what are you thinking about I think I think we studied I think about the passion that you have or are you just daydreaming guess what starting BMAC about you don't write because you're so much ideas originally study Torah and you were excited about Judaism and the Torah in the middle and pray is so there are thoughts cream busy 24/7 with what with holy godly things now so becoming now bringing some life some blood into our thought then what happens is when you study something and you're excited about it and you think about it then you know what happens when you meet your friend I gotta tell you something I just learnt oh my god right what is now being activated your speech so your speech is when you're not only are you excited about it but now you want to share it speech by the way you can the idea of speech is physical speech and then the concept of speech but idea of speech is that hey I'm going to share with you oh my gosh I read this thing it's phenomenal right so in order for you to speak it you have to have thought about it and be excited and have fun in it but as you read goes back down the ladders saw some intellect emotions thought and then you actually talk about and they say hey let's go do the Mitzvah right let's do the action now if you go through all the steps properly when you do that action of that Mitzvah and it's really done in the complete package whoa that actions are whole different action it's not a dull action it's not a action to do by rote but it's something which is filled with passion and excitement of life now the reality is when you do that Mitzvah when you do the action of custard or whatever it may be you are now five steps five steps away from the initial thing to be studied right because you went from intellect to emotions to thought to speech tackling the five steps each step compared to the other one is worlds apart in other words action and compared to speech and as wisdom or energy the greatest energy is the intellect in the emotions is less energy than the intellect it's a different sense outward type of energy but you can't compare the energy in the intellect intellect is powerful it's real that's we knew what it comprehended when you go into the emotions that it looks like it's out it's more energy but actually it's less and then when it comes to thought it's even less because 92 steps away and when it comes to speech you're four steps away and when it comes to action it's an action it's an activity you're fusing it with all the energy but the greatest energy is in karma and the least of energies we're in the world of action now so with us humans as different levels right oh my gosh wow I got it right or I'm just doing such and hopefully the goal is to have some kind of healthy balance that's what we discussed last week at great length that's all referencing humans do we operate and there's different levels but God is what is infinite now since God is infinite let's look at the highest level that we have because it we can only use tools that can relate to to God what is the value of hokhmah nothing God's infinite again the problem here is now and we have to try to grasp it we are using the highest tool we have achma to comprehend which is finite to comprehend what the infinite God now that easy to ask so we're like jumping out of our our limited intellect line to try to comprehend something which is infinite but even though we can never really comprehend it because again if we put that we would be right but we do comprehend that there's a concept which is infinite and in the world of infinite what's hokhmah nothing not only that the author explains that karma and ASEA is technically the same thing think about it if you had if your goal wasn't to get to 100 and you have one so how far you weigh from you all 99 if you have 10 you still line the away from your goal but you're closer if you have 50 now you're 50 at the mark now what happened to view goals to get to the infinite infinite and you have one and then you have ten and the you have fifty are you any closer with ten or fifty no no because infinite is infinite you can have a million and a hundred million no no we can never know exactly because again we are free or finite so whatever level of finite achievement you have but whatever level of fine and achievement you have you you are still finite and you're not any closer to the infinite you're not a one and ten and a million in 100 billion and trillion whatever the numbers you want to talk about you didn't pronounce them after them you didn't get any closer to the infinite so therefore this high level of Cockrell that we're talking about to come up god in our terminology dollar so we can comprehend it it's just God God Hawk by a/c is the same thing in the other equal to actually verse it says Coulomb everything that God right created the hokhmah a Caesar he uses Hockman a/c and the same the same in same sentence why cuz Hawk when I see is the same thing I see is the world of action right the right word all of action now so in other words in reference to God I'll see you on Kaufman's the same thing action and intellect is all the same thing that means it knows look good we have five levels and they're really they're pretty far one from the other and oh my gosh Wow right to God the highest level the lowest levels all the same things to all the same thing why because God is way way higher and we want greater now so in other words let's bring your back so we stay on track so God is one everything is part of God there is no levels see in our world this is more this is less like this is a one is a five is a ten right level one level two right different levels you're getting closer to something whoever the highest level but the God is it's all one thing it's all nothing compared to the infinite it's all it's all now it's the question they ask hold on a second if you read in the Torah the prophets in the Talmud God is called rockland which means compassion I said he's kind like hakama and so on and so forth they they've given these titles now what does that mean they given these titles we said compared to God the infinite God it's all nothing so why they give him these titles if then they should say infinite what does that mean you say got a referring to God he's rockin he had compassion ha neun the great race and cuss of kindness hokhmah hello I mean pick one side the other so what does the other explain that the truth is that when we say God is Haram Castle all these attributes it doesn't mean that's who God is God's infinite well it means is any existence of ha ha ha hokhmah in this world Cassatt in this world rock from any Antony the existence world gets what it comes from God it comes from God but it's not God himself it all comes from God they act a source of God's existence now so in other words in this God's infinite everything that exists is all technically on the same level means it's infinite that's finite but everything you have just in this world where is a confirm has been a source whether come from God so here the author becomes an asset big question he says hold on a second what are we saying we're saying it's like this everything in this world comes from God but then you're telling me in the same sentence it comes from God but it's totally like nothing from God I mean has it to go together if it comes from God then it's or something and if it's all huffman I see the same thing so what do mean it comes from God so the author explains like this what the author says that this idea is interesting he says is your dua is known to the masculine masculine means the big philosophers the big brains not just geniuses but genes geniuses of Kabbalah and Zohar mysticism in other words those are comprehend Kabbalah and mysticism know how the how it works now here in the time Gaddafi actually takes a footnote and takes you on a journey to help you comprehend this idea which must scale them no so we're gonna be learning now is something which masculine no right so you're gonna take a journey into the heads and the life of a muscular someone that really you know thought and meditated and comprehended in a real deep way how it works it comes from God right it comes from God but nevertheless it nevertheless it's like almost like nothing so the author explains like far as follows he says in this footnote that basically the rate the way it works that you have to know the way the system works now symptoms any worse I'm gonna translate and the way terms some works author explains like this simply means concealment contraction and here the author explains three different levels and again there's multiple but in this case right now the other introduces three levels of to swim in deep concept will try to explain it as custom again three different levels of eight Simpson what does that mean practically means I guess let me give you a simple example let's say you have a a a nude tank let's say a hundred gallons correct of water now 100 rounds was a lot of water and you have this huge you know on and off the spicket right you open it up I can give you a shower and push you out of the way for two miles right heavy pressure without a mold or anything just opening up a speaker than the bottom 100 gallons of pressure coming out you're standing in the wrong spot you'll get knocked over now you have an 8 ounce cup and you're thirsty you're thirsty so here you are a simple person you have an 8 ounce cup you're thirsty you're thirsty I'm an alcohol you have 100 gallons of water now we have a sugar here you know we're sure that means we got the water we got the guy that's thirsty the girl to get the person that's thirsty and we got an 8 ounce cup of water now here's the problem how do we get from this hundred gallon tank to your 8 ounce cup of water in other words if I open that spigot and you hold it 8 ounce cup of water there chances are overflow it'll probably it will obliterate that cup depending on what materials made out of it will either smash the cup of it's glass or will but you know make a purse a hole to it if it's plastic or if it's something stronger it will push the cup away the other with you standing there holding it right so but in the other hand I'm thirsty you got to come up with a solution so we need to do is we need to do something which is called 8 Simpson we need to get a ten gallon jug right big opening put down the 10 gallon thing open it up close it before you within 30 seconds moving the 10 gallons filled up okay whoof now we went from a hundred gallon down to ten gallon now in the ten gallon you also have a spigot your brother's 10 gallon to go to eight ounce cup we still it's much better than before but you're not out of the woods yet so you need to take from the 10 gallon bring it down to a gallon and now he's from there maybe down to a half a liter and then from there you can get into a cup right simple process of a Simpson now let's bring her back to our case before God created the world you had something which is called the oil ends of the infinite light of God now in the infinite light of God guess what could any finite existence exists no that would be there taking the eight ounces I gave you to 100 rounds commander it'll use infinite amount of gallons right so God has infinite amount of light so the first symptom we had to create was a symptom in the infinite light and that's called the terms of a region and that the ultimate retreat we're going to talk about three tunes from here three levels of contraction of light so the first symptom is in the infinite infinite light that God had to create a concealment that the infinite light you could be concealed to the point and there's a possibility the possibility not yet a creation yet there's a possibility for a creation in the world because think about in the infinite is there is there an option for the goal from infinite to finite now so the first tension was that there should be an option there should be a possibility to go from the infinite to the finite once we have the possibilities we have the idea we have the thought you know the concept etc okay now we're talking so an again obviously they go into it sounded earrin depth but the general concept is that the first symptom was that God created a possibility that should be able to be a little light what's that actually called Thanks actually called on certain levels it's called the world about salute because what is the world about see don't mean it means it's a told close to the infinite God but ready there's a there's a possibility to have some kind of world there's no world yet there's no world yet now so at sea look comes from the world of at Sealift which means it's eight holes close to God there's a possibility to create a world no word no creation yet what happens after God created the world about cenote which means there's a possibility for world so now know today it's a it's a no it's absolutely not does not have any breakdown of anything other than a possibility that from there we have like a step-down transformer that you can go to the possibility of creation exactly so from there the author says God created a system which is called rock now a curse actually abbreviation of Adam Adam human being a person Codman in a previous stage what does that mean means like this Adam when it refers to are down so other means human being right but when first to Kabbalah Adam or is it referring to it's referring to the the spiritual makeup of a human being what's the spiritual make a human being very good excellent there we go no this is figure out Adam is the is the spiritual microvilli is this figure out what's a spiritual human being huh Columbia dance classes were at Ferris net Scotty solo markets right that's the human being so other Macondo means now in the world of Brio minions are them contra means that the initial level of adam kadmon means there's a possibility of having a sphere not yet stirred yet oh don't act means other had known which means that it's the possibility to have experienced no sphere get there's the first to means as a possibility of creating a world possibility of creating something the next step downstream is now there's a possibility to have this remote not yet Adam Kadmon it means that the image of the Sphero can't blown in like an infant in the early stage where there's a possibility to have its attencion not the spheroid yet now because that's why it says in the Torah it says that the first two dollars a human being and then this times which says a god Kela other who he's not a human being what does that mean so depends and what level we're talking about but the right back to the points the second Simpson is that what is a possible human being and then the altar says after that Simpson is a possibility in spirit then you have which is called Sayid the secret of digne thickness is already what we already have nots that is where you actually have the formation of the spirit so in other words what happens here is you created three levels of Simpson and from the infinite light the first level was that seven some in the infinite light huh now we can have something right possibly have a creation well it's filled it's not it's still not creation real ready you have a creation what happens creation but not necessarily to break out what's the next world after Brio eat zero with its ready a formation you can start seeing hokhmah we know that right you can ready have it already spelled out and there into into lives and real sphere out now for the deer once you have these different step downs of energy what happens now now you would have actually vessels that can actually hold hokhmah beating adopts and so on and so forth now correct now so in other words once you have the level of with the formation so in the level of the formation of the Sphero what do you have now you in the first level is no stroke it's a possibility for a world in the second one there's a possibility for spirit in the third level right now you have hokhmah bina datsuk cetera now what does that mean practically that means in the third level step down what have hokhmah vena which means you have your day are demanded you do a intellect starts taking shape an intellect start taking form in other words ultimately whose intellect is this it's all from God but now it's in a way that it has an identity but nevertheless it's coming from where it's coming from God so in other words with the mouth speedom explain how is it possible to have on one hand it's coming from the infinite god but on the other hand it's really almost like nothing because the way it comes down through the proper tune soo-min so it's definitely it's NIM shock it's coming down right it's coming down as God's intellect efforts everything comes from God but nevertheless compared to the infinite God stuffing now after the Alpha B explains to us which is very nice right he teaches us according to Kabbalah acquaintance masculine you know how it's possible but then he ran he turned around he turns around he says and no that's all great and was nice you had a good time because it's really enjoyable right to comprehend the stuff Tim some deception in the infinite light right you liked it and I'm symptom in the eye in the eye I'm Carl all right with you ready these are potential for the zeroth and then you have the day sorry the dick now you have different levels right beyond the sphere and so on and so forth then he has now take a deep breath he says however us simple people now if you want to remain again present companies I was excluded but us simple people not this high-level intellectual Kabbalistic intellects not talking that IQ we took that chem ballistic of intellects our simple people have to use and here's the word Emunah sliema know now only faith and mooner slammer uses two words complete faith complete faith that what the Hashem God all God's attributes and he says he spells it out emotions intellect the will the will of God is all really what is all United what with the infinite part of God and as he quotes from the Zohar that everything everything is all part of the oneness of God which is referring to the spirit and it's actually called rows of the secret right of faith which means and here you finish you off with a very powerful statement which that is the faith which is actually higher than intellect so he written out so not only is it tell me we have to have faith but he's acting the faith is actually higher and deeper in intellect why because intellect is a lower level at the end of the day you're using yes true the highest level that we have of of a sphere ah but faith is higher than this you don't and ultimately if we really want to I don't use or comprehend those we're going back to intellect but we want to connect and relate to the oneness of God the tool to use that is what not intellect it's very exactly and which is interesting is that what's the name of this whole section of Tonya charlie hood the Munna the days of the oneness and faith so in this chapter chapter 9 the Alpha author actually brings it all together with telling you it's really all about realizing that what it's all one everything is one all the different levels great hi welcome welcome perfect timing all the different levels are great that's why it's the beginning all the different levels all the different levels all part of the oneness all the different levels all part of the one is but ultimately if you want to be able to really connect and appreciate the idea of the oneness of God you're not gonna get it to intellect you have to be higher what is higher Fyers faith not only faith and munis Lima so when a person has a mourner flamer complete faith that's almost like when you're jumping off the cliff who's ready to jump off the cliff huh without the parachute absolutely we have to parachute yes if you're jumping off the cliff with the parent or you didn't jump off the cliff you still on the cliff a different type of cliff but the point is when you are ready to jump off the cliff and you take that deep breath then it's either all over or all starts right now that's when you will really embrace the oneness wake up so in other words if you really want to comprehend I'm gonna keep it using one comprehends not comprehend if you would want to connect connect and relate to the idea of what the real one this is don't use intellect not gonna get you too far because you're gonna get stuck at some point you're gonna be locked in the Yakima to get your acting else to get past what intellect has to offer intellect will only take you so far what's the expression right intellect will take me so far that's when faith takes over so when a person has a munis leymah complete faith that God is really really one then your belt and not only relate but you have to feel it you got to see it able to live the true oneness of God that everything is God now what happens when you actually put get into that place we have 100 faith that everything is God it means that means everything before you everything with you everything after you time space it's all God it's all one is how do you feel you feel real you real you feel really peaceful you feel joyful why because everything is God I mean everything is God and God is all good right you're awake you actually see director see so in other words in this chapter peyrac test chapter 9 in Chinese extremely important chapter because this chapter and Tanya will give you the greatest gift the gift of being able to experience the oneness of God and it gives you the tools how to get there which is basically having faith in the oneness of God that God is everything and yes God is the infant God is a finite but the truth is the infinite in the finite really is all one in the same one collect