Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Chapter 17 "The Beinoni" Level 6 "How it is easy to serve G-D"

welcome to tonight's Tonya class we're studying chapter use ioan which in Hebrew is 7 which is 17 chapter 17 and Tonya and tonight we have a prize in this chapter and that is in the introduction of Tonya on the introduction page of Tonya the altura says I am going to my goal of this book is to teach you how it is easy to serve God with your mouth with your heart and action which is based on a verse in the Dharana me where it says in Deuteronomy he corals a la caja government owed this thing which means serving the the Mitzvah studying Torah having relation with God it's very easy to you see if you say ok tor is hard okay we all agreed if to sit and studying if the midsole and something you enjoy some you don't enjoy someone harder here in the outer of a7 and based on the verse that God says this it's very easy to you now obviously now after ever said I'm gonna show you in this book how it's actually easier for you and he goes through 17 chapters in-depth serious stuff and after 17 chapters you guess what today you have the price today I'm going to bring full circle my promise I made to you in the introduction of Tanya to show you full circle complete package how it is easy for you remember Corey the lock means it's easy for you to have a relationship with God have a connection with God study Torah do the mitzvot and pray everything the fika the vocalist oh so now what does that mean in other words if the verse said it's easy for you to do it so listen you can be a robot you can do it I mean nothing and God is asking you is like picking up 50-pound weights its activities actions mitzvot to do not cetera all right you can do them you know we can we can sort of speak deal live with that one the fee how in your mouth to you know say the right things not to say the wrong things I got it you know we can train ourselves listen let's be nice as we polite let's do you know let's study Torah let's observe God with our speech but here's the big struggle doctor who says they love car with your heart it's easy with your heart to have a relationship with God it's easy with your heart to follow God always it's easy with you aren't always to pray from your heart or the study Torah from fire and to really connect every single midst on every single human being with your heart what's the question the questions you're dealing with your heart and the hardest feelings sometimes you're in the mood and sometimes you're not in the mood sometimes you're inspired hi welcome sometimes you're inspired so if you're not inspired you can't control your feeling sometimes you're in a good mood so examine to boot and here dalta Torah says God says that it's easy for you in your heart to do this so the optimist says today I'm gonna wrap it all up for you based art we studied and I'll give you a brief overview eight so the class will be complete and for those that haven't have in the beginning based on the complete theses the author presents that what they each have a godly soul and we have an animal soul and we have intellectual capabilities emotional capabilities and we have the spiritual garments namely what's thought speech and action and we learnt that the Sadiq the righteous man he is able to get rid of his animal Souls desires and therefore he's totally one with God so yeah for him it's easy what we learned about the bane early that the vainly basically is committed and actually executes amazing in the thought speech and action but it's hard he struggles with right and true the complete service mabini's when his heart is inspired or even the lower level where his heart sort of being just to go along with it you know from a surreal place so that Boehner Nia is doing great in action right in in his speech and his thought so in other words our Thurber says so here you see every single person could be a Bain Li which means thought speaks in action you can do whatever God wants on you and tells you to do in terms of studying Torah and praying and doing MIT's vote not only that but you can even with your mind and meditation what could you do you've know ahead and spa you couldn't you can direct your heart to do the right thing so even though the heart it's not easy so to speak to to transform because the heart is all over the place one day like this one like that but minute like this one like that for the feelings all over the place however we learned in depth last week was it through the meditation you're able to direct and control your heart so doctor who says and he puts eight practices it up this week and he says that even though your right to control your heart and they wrecked your heart is very very difficult however there's a concept in mysticism which as as follows and this is key to literally controlling yourself but it's a the way it is in any frustrating challenging situation and the key word is three words the outer recesses is based on Kabbalah factual truism that Moyock shallots ala lace and this is extremely important to know this in other words like this I'm gonna translate we have within us every time we have an argument whether it's from within so your self your argument yourself if I argue it yourself fun right yeah okay so you haven't you never went exactly so you ever argue it yourself so what do mean you arguing yourself you're one person how do you argue results the answer is very simple because the basis the basis of every argument if you argue it yourself right you having a struggle yourself forever if I go to here I should I go there should I do this I do that these are on you everything yourself who's the two voices yeah bone voice your own mouth but the answer is we know this godly soul and the animal soul but to make it practically generally speaking the argument if you get to the crux of every argument within yourself and obviously with other people too when two people are arguing or three whatever it may be but anything is an argument of two opposites from within from without the essence of the argument is what one is intellect based intellectual position and the other one is emotion based that's the essence of every argument if you know there's no argument emotions emotions are emotions it's great it's all wonderful right an intellect one plus one is two there's no argument here the problems when you have intellect versus emotions so intellect says one plus one is two emotion says whatever you wanted to be right and you can take this through every argument if there is should we for example send the kids to school today or should we just let them play hooky right one is an intellect hey kids belong in school right is there a question they belong in school playing hooky a dog fun it's not an intellectual thing that's an emotional thing we're not going right or wrong but that's the basis of every argument from within from without for example should I go ahead and and and do this thing an appropriate thing intellect knows the answer no it's inappropriate you just said it's an appropriate emotion says well a little fun once in a while is good right but take this take this to the core of every argument that you have within yourself without someone else get to the crux of it intellect versus emotions so the name of every fight of every argument there's a lot intellect versus emotions now here is the most important part algebra teaches us today a very very important secret to know this that when you have a fight or an argument or a debate between intellect and emotions who's gonna win huh you're saying emotions you're saying nobody whoever's who's stronger so depending what depending on the person okay all good answers the Opera says is cabbalistic we proven that when you have a fight between intellect and emotion you know stronger the emotions wrong the intellect is stronger Moyock charlotte our live that the evil words I told you before be told oh sorry in its nature intellect is stronger than emotions think about it I'll prove it to you because emotions were stronger we wouldn't be living in the world it would be chaos true emotions picks a good fight and it's a good a good opponent but emotions can never win with emotions one we wouldn't have any structure in this world no one would be in school on time nothing would run normally fine that's why this chaos and these challenges and so on and so forth because emotions does pick a fight and puts up a good fight but you need emotions absolutely no one's looking to kill the emotions looking to direct their transform it you know keep it in line and so you want to harness it you want it you want to create an instinct you want to create a fusion but the point is and this is the key point ultimately what's stronger intellect is stronger than emotions now the influx can go to sleep the intellect can give up but if the intellect is persistent and uses its intellect you notice what happens is the intellect can sort of speak go to sleep or or become emotional so if the intellect becomes emotional now it now it's to emotions and then you're not getting anywhere there's no resolution there it knows when to Lidl arguing and if two different people arguing right it's emotions there's no resolution ultimately the intellect will harness smartly and stop it's not manipulation by the way this is communication of ultimately the intellect showing the emotions a healthy way had express its emotions had expressed the emotions so this is so key because Moyock Shalit alive means that you know every time you have an argument get to the crux you will see in Floyd versus emotions but don't feel like a failure because intellect is part of more powerful than the emotions not to kill the emotions not to beat it up or it's to direct it in the right in the right way you know what's emotions emotions they're energy lots of energy more than the intellect is but it's not directed so the intellect power is the power to direct what's more what's more powerful an engine on the boat or the rudder what's more powerful the engine were powerful but what has the power to direct the rudder engineer zero power direct leave it alone or spin it as the whole day long go nowhere to the engine even the rod even though it's nothing it's just a wheel right but guess what and it just needs a little also does it create old direction okay we're gonna go a little slow out the world North little East right whatever we're gonna go right so same thing also intellect really if you think the real power is in the indie emotions and it's important to know that because you need the emotions the emotions is in the drive the emotions the energy but I think I know how do you how do you think that let's see it so you were driving the boat and you went all the way to left guess what happens you became now an emotional guy and now you're studying together with there with the with them with the engine but the way you direct is lightly a little bit here a little bit there and so on and so forth the same thing also intellect doesn't make crazy moves if it like makes it crazy moves the intellect became now an emotion so the intellect does things smartly slowly right that's how you navigate you navigate smartly slowly consistently steady and with love and warmth and all that good stuff right so here comes out honest us as long as a person has money up child I'll leave it means he holds on to his head in for the expression hold on to your head don't lose your head you hold on to your head which metaphorically right you holding on to the intellect and that allows you to navigate with the emotions we're not disconnected we're not creating a disconnect we're connected to the emotions but we're navigating it the right way guess what happens now now you have a beautiful in sync so therefore the Opera says since we have the power of maja shall I leave and yes the lave is the one that's growing wild and it wants to really really get excited about everything but the milk directs it so what happens now now you can say oh my gosh you can have a conversation with the emotions say listen God created this world god maintains everything let's be in sync with him let's listen the fans his instructions will have a better life that way you'll have more fun believe me you'll have more fun not really you'll sing it you'll have more fun because we're in line with the boss he's the one that has all the power what do we have we've run out of steam we're finished but we if we connect and stay connected to God yeah we might have to listen his instructions but guess what it's like listening to to the GPS when you taking a trip you'll get there versus deciding I don't listen to the GPS I'm just gonna go you're gonna go but at some point you're gonna hit a wall and you're gonna be lost so the point I'm not saying you shouldn't drive 60 70 miles per hour but let's follow the GPS we'll end up where we want to go to and then we'll really have fun so in other words Moya charbel llave means committing to listen to the GPS now GPS you know means God's positioning system right GPS there I sense for God so we all know that but the point so basically Moya child life means that we're agreeing to listen to God's positioning system of what where we are where we have to go to as long as we do that guess what the engine will keep on running the emotions will have a great time you're not gonna run out of steam and you'll know when to rest like the intellect with Tom listen you know what we need a rest right fit stop breakfast lunch dinner whatever maybe you need a rest say no senior spiritualist so my back to the points of Moya shontella lathe has the power the intellect has the power to rule over the heart so it doesn't go all over the place and it keeps it on the right path because it keeps it on the right path now guess what it has a conversation with the emotions that guess what we have to listen to God God's everything once it does that what do you know heart does it follow us now when you have to study Torah or do mitts vote or pray the emotion is happy to do it well you're doing God's will exactly knows even though the emotion really doesn't buy it and doesn't get it but it accepts it from the intellect because I'm not saying the emotions became also an ungodly person that's a topic got it son right your emotions didn't become transforms but it is committed one thing it is committed to follow the intellect as long as the Caliph and it's living no one's cutting it off it's committed to living and therefore what happens now is Wow what do you like new starting Torah let's go started are you want amidst all the limits wrote it really it's a it's a willing participant it's a team player willing to be directed willing to be directed now once a person does that guess what happens now so if you have to study Torah or do much salt or pray and the emotions are hooked into the intellect is it easy you're not a pilot you're an autopilot it took work for the intellect to get the emotions to agree to be a team player and to accept the fact that God knows the best it doesn't mean believe me if the intellect falls off think of two seconds we know what the emotions are going bringing out the bottom let's have fun or whatever else it wants to do right because guess what it hasn't the emotions haven't been transformed it's the same animal as nothing changed but greed and it's committed to listen to its mentor which is the intellect and as long as it greed and it actually follows the mentor guess what it hat will have a great life so this is such an important rule because this gives you literally something concrete to hold on to to realize anytime you're in a struggle listen to the intellect no one's asking you not to live you'll be doing the right thing listen to what God says you'll be doing the right thing and guess what you be able to observe all the mitzvot you have to pray about the study and life will be great once you do this for the Alpha we're saying it creates a shortcut what's the shortcut the shortcut is that your life your life means that your life as the connection to God versus doing them it slow that might have been hard for you in the past or praying or studying becomes very easy because you know what no one's asking the emotions to comprehend it but to feel it the experience yet also asking accept the fact found them found the road don't try to you know go your own route you end up getting lost for two hours accept it now so based on this after 17 chapters of work this is a culmination what do we have the answer to the question how is it easy for you to follow God while an action antes you guys got to follow in speech okay I say the right things in heart I'm not telling you to transform your heart your heart as a new heart no the heart is a heart and as emotions it's all over the place I was asking you one thing accept the fact with your mind that God is the best thing for us and it does so so in other words if you if you focus on the verse the verse says he carve a lock of the road the thing is very near to you but feel with your mouth means you can say all the right things and then it says will love call your heart loss also to do really it should say heart speech and action they see it's but a specific okay the first thing it tells you your speech you can say all the right things whether you agree disagree and you cannot say what you shouldn't be saying and hold it resist but then it says build off your heart not me your heart is totally transformed because that's not that's not possible realistic for an average person but your heart last so so and those are two words go together your heart is committed to do all the actions you got it nothing your heart is inspired your heart's not inspired but your heart is committed to listen to the intellect and do all the actions so another take limit it's a limited connection but it's one that will allow you to do all the actions as we know what's the most important thing to the light from the bein me or all of us is to observe all the commandments and to observe them easily so you can know by each one each one's a fight or the heart can accept the fact guess what I'm gonna listen to the intellect what happens once you listen to the intellect it's easy to do and if you don't and you do it once you're doing God's want exactly so the heart is committed to listening to the intellect I'm doing or God wants now this is great news right but we know what every great news there's always a caveat it comes along the author of in the author it says you ready for this yeah this is amazing right a one hand what anybody I'm gonna listen to my my intellect done but the author is says this rule is correct with one exception one except but but he gives you a problem but he give you a solution so I'm going to tell you the problem I'm telling the solution also be one exception somebody that is in a in the terms of Tonya a Russia gum work a wicked person completely now what does that mean in our language us translate wasn't a wicked person somebody that a in action speech and thought does exactly what he wants God is totally out after window but more importantly his heart is totally disconnected from God's and not only disconnected he'll sit and he doesn't wanna connection the only can actually want to themselves so what happens is if you have bit chilly train yourself your heart to do only what you want if you do it consistently and constantly what happens is your heart gets disconnected from you intellect that even though the truth is your intellect is more powerful but it's but but the problem is nobody home so even though the intellect tells them a guess what listen to God who are you talking to the points are no one's home in other words again gift us because we're going here we don't what do we say before it's a sign it's like a ballistic rule that the intellect can overpower overpower the heart now we're saying hold on it can't no it's not a contradiction why no no but not because it's a contradiction because very simple because the outer is says take for example somebody that's faints someone faint it so you can regard the person right water oxygen mouth-to-mouth whatever it may be right you can remind the person what a song dies gotta bid can you revive them no unless you got right and a major profit but we can't revive someone that's net so the outer is says market so much that was dead it's dead there's no way you reviving it like certainly on battery certain batteries can get a boost and certain bodies once it's dead it's dead there's not even the to reduce it you have to spy anyone so the answer that says a wicked person to such a degree is like spiritually dead dead dead there's no connection there's no what are you charging up there's nothing to charge up so it's not that the rule doesn't work the intellect can overpower the emotions absolutely but there's no emotions they're totally disconnected totally disconnected so the question oh so info totally disconnected however right that's bad news because everyone should be able to be revived he still alive come on the olives yes it's true and the person could be revised oh very good how how does the person get revived optimist is very simple the person has to do something which is called Trula Trouville means repentance or returning from a serious place of marie ruse where the person's really looks at his life and said oh my gosh I think English is called you hit rock bottom you go oh my gosh my life is over I mean I'm like I'm I'm like spiritually dead and once the person comes to that realization and the person is really remorseful about his life and we'd way he's behaving and where he's living guess what it starts bringing back life to the heart because think about it here the heart didn't care about God's thing practically this heart didn't care about don't lien cared about his Self Self Self Self Talk did god it's dead nothing there where is the person who is oh my gosh what do they do this is where I am now what is the person doing bringing back light to his heart think about the heart is remorseful the only one that can do that is the person themselves no one can do it for the person the person on their own Olsson creatures like magical energy into his heart what did I do oh my gosh I first sick person God the one that created me the one that gives me everything and I just totally blew it away what what's with me and really feels bad to the point where he's trying to send electric shocks to his heart spiritual extracts then as the person revised himself there's something to hold on to it's like you know things I want to take you know goes down a ditch right in a car and triple-a comes to pull you out and they send like they can't go down because all themselves gets sunk so Whitney let's say they send you a like a anchor to put on your car but what happens in your so deep the beyond the decay a cable can't reach you're gone finished well results in you pop out there's something to hold on then they can hook on and they can pull you out you need a hook to have to pull you out so if your heart is there there's no hook there you have to create a hook create something so you feel bad saying please God help me ah you created the hook you created the hook God sends it right the intellect we're gonna listen to God and all of a sudden pull it out pull it out so here the outer it goes into explaining how Kabbalistic lee what happens when a disconnect and what happens with a reconnect literally a Kabbalistic image of what happens I'm gonna explain this you it's pretty deep Kabbalah but it's I think it's important because it's in this chapter and it's important to realize really what happens the author explains Ignace that we all know that God created the world I mean things everything now everything comes from God has it comes from knowledge so the way we can relate to it is everything comes from God's the most powerful name we almost mold God's most powerfully now let's see that name record so powerful even the high priests setting um Kippur they prostrate themselves in a temple etc but the name is the spelled with four letters the good the hay and the bobbin the hey we don't pronounce out the whole name but those are the four letters now in those four letters it's a lot a lot of cat Kabbalah because little in that those four letters itself this tremendous amount the Kabbalah the numerical value the abbreviation and so on and so forth but let's look at the four letters the you'd the hey the verb and the hey so you it is the first letter what's the first letter and there's many many Kabbalistic dimensions to this I'm gonna give you one for right now to help you understand what happens when a person disconnects so you'd is basically the dot right there's something god created something which is based that's called the world about see notes right closest to God that's great now from there comes the world the hey the word hey which basically has already width and height and breadth etc and that creates the world information creation the world of creation creation then you have the valves which is a line and that draws a veil already into the world of formation we're getting down you know physically from spiritual level to more physical then we go to the lowest what look hey which creates the world of Assia the world of action now we discussed it I think many times about neshama Souls when they come down so the way they take the journey pending on which world they spend more time in that the type of soul they are no souls in this world we call them a soul of a CR which mean they spent most of time in the last the triage of the last hey where their souls of that are can relate to this physical world now when a person is born what happens you'll get disconnected from God you're still connected to God but which part of the letter of God are you bringing into this world are you living through the last hey you know you're living with the last page obviously the soul was in a much higher level now so what happens like this so let's say you're living in this world and you're from the hey write the last letter which is the world of Asiya and the world of creation so you're living in this physical world it's a physical world that you living in but you're still connected to the UK bugs you're still connected to God's name it's just the lowest level but there's still a connect now the fact is in this world are we angels no it's not expected for example every single person has a level they can reach everyone's supposed to get a hundred in their level so if you're living in this physical world you're supposed to be a human being in this world that tries the best and you make mistakes it's not about whether you get a hundred or whatever the mark you get it's about trying hard being doing the best you can and as long as you're doing the best you can you're getting a hundred for trying we don't mark based on results we really you know it's really results but results based on your ability so as long as you're doing a hundred percent of your ability you get 100 each time so your hundred and so one else hundred you can't match them up because your ability and the other person and no one has the same ability it's depending on your soul level there's no judgement because everyone's soul level everyone is there for mission in this world now so as long as you're living your life the way you're supposed to in this physical world you connected to God but you have your own identity and your own independence now so you have a challenge you have a struggle wheels trow challenges and struggles so as long as you stay committed to God sometimes you're successful sometimes you failed somethings in between guess what you still connected to God even though you don't necessarily I'm fire with God now what happens when a person starts not listening to God not only not listening rebelling against God now the fact is what happens you were created by God you maintained by God you your your energy is coming from that hey but what happens as you as you sin and and rebelled against God you're yanking away the hay from the you'd cave of means you're pulling away the hay from the bubb's you know don't think we're gonna fit in a physical plane but in the spiritual plane you're disconnecting from God up to the point where you literally rip the hay away from its connection to its source and callously it's cold when you sort of speak go into the world of clipart we when you're not connected to the first three letters of God's name and as you go into the world of clean phone you're disconnected so therefore if the intellect tells you hey let's get inspired there's no connection there you lost the connection you look look action and action the operon says that's what it's called it's actually called in the world of Kabbalah it's called the galoot Hashanah that the the Skeena the divine power goes into exile because when you go into exile you don't think God's with you how you live God is with you because he's there because it he has to give you he asked to give your oxygen but he but you but basically but God Himself is an exile so in your sinning you're actually pulling God with you anytime a person sins any time personally Bill's guess what God's coming with you because guess what God's not forsaking you he forsakes you then you have no oxygen it's like if you go underwater with a tank right and guess what happens also the thing stops working where's your oxygen so even when you go underwater guess what you need oxygen so God so to speak goes with you on the water and that's what's called galoo touch screen now with the schema itself God Himself goes in exile and that's one of the things that we pray for in this in this generations we cry for the fact that not only are we in exile God's an exile because if we're in exile God's in exile we're suffering God's suffering if we're disconnected God is disconnected so what has to happen now so in the world with the word of world of Kabbalah really what's there has to happen is guess what we got to come back and reconnect ourselves to what the youth gave up the light the hey that we're the world that we're in that got disconnected you have to reconnect it exactly we have to reconnect it so it's interesting now you're gonna see something so beautiful you ready for this what is repentance called in Hebrew teshuva to Schumer's actually two words what's the two words Tosh of to return hey you returning that hey that got disconnected back to its connection you got it so jouvert is what touch over returning the hey which is our existence that's in garlic we're in garlic gods and dollars to returning it back to its connection so the author explains chuga chuga is going back to this connection now true of a regular Trueba so to speak true batata a low-level Chile's bringing it back to as if before you send oh my gosh am i doing gets it from now on I'm gonna pray I'm gonna study I'm gonna do MIT's load I don't want to be disconnected from God and I love God I want to be only with God so you're back to where you started from there's something which is called chuhwa II law which aren't gonna go into right now it's what I mentioned this is I'm talking about it will you take the hay and you actually shift it up to the first hey you actually go to not only before you sin but you even living in this world and a level even before you were created now that's a high level which it's nice to know about because we always want to have a higher bar to go to but you're able to live in this world not only it's from a pure level the way you were born but even from the way before you were born in extremely in idealistic and spiritual level that's a high level of Chula but back to our point let's at least get to the true butantã is what when a person goes back so what happens when a person in Russia Gummer does chuhwa and he's remorseful and guess what he toss them hey he returned his a back and he's connected again could he do lo Oksana la llave could he have his intellect bring his heart back to be one with God absolutely so ultimately everybody it works for everybody as long as you're alive but if you disconnected you got to reconnect so knows my a child I laid the fact that our intellect is able to direct and control our heart that applies to everybody yes correctly now the only one the only way it doesn't work the only way doesn't work if a person was sitting there and hit the hay got the note disconnected but when a person repents what happens the hay gets back we connected now you part of the team you're part of the team then you can bring it back so you see why this chapter chapter use I in chapter 17 is an important chapter because here you learning to me three important things one important thing is Valtor was explaining the full circle full package the question in the ass in the instruction of Tonya how is very very easy for us to serve God even in our heart and obviously as he explained because our heart is gonna follow our mind and most importantly the technique he told us that Moyock shall Darleen that our intellect has the power to direct and take charge of our heart that will direct the heart to be in a loving relationship with God in terms of at least in terms of being able to do all the myths vote automatically because the heart is lined up in the right direction and unfortunately if you sin you disconnect and leave for the Merkava it's not going to work not because it doesn't work it just being disconnected but once you do the true ver which means you bring back the hey to the to the you cave of Kate the God's name then even someone that was a Russia as long as you repented also has the power and the ability to have an experience this beautiful gift of Moyock Charlotte al-hallaj