Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Chapter 3 Your G-Dly Souls, Intellectual & Emotional Energies

we're starting now with chapter 3 of Tanya and chapter three is a very very important chapter of Tanya because here the alt herb is laying down the foundation and the structure of insight is that creating it it's dear but teaching us what we have treasures within us that means in our godly soul there's tremendous treasures if you know what they are and you're able to access them you will be guaranteed be able to live a much better more meaningful fulfilled and happy life a life filled with vitality an easy way as algebra said in the introduction Italian so today we're going to learn about the spiritual structure of the godly soul and the outer explains that in the spiritual structure the godly soul it's made up of 10c wrote ten holy powers which we've discussed many times in the class but since this is the chapter when talked about and also the practical application of it and that is mainly two parts part number one called as he calls it in this chapter the mothers which is hawk mabini in das which is the package of intellect so the godly soul has within it Hawk Mabini das now what does it mean it has come in and ask you know God is infinite yeah God is infinite but in the finite soul that he gave that we can connect to we have to get something we can relate to so he watered down these powerful energies that came from God in to Kauffman bina das which will explain each one in a moment the package is the intellectual package and also the sphere oat which are 7 30 in general generally speaking it's six which is hazard Gerty Farish that's a wholly sewed and mal hood and more generally speaking the general Meade owed our hassle and Gomorrah which is a vanira as we will explain now ok so the outer explains like this as follows and he says as follows that ultimately what is life life is being alive we're not in your head that's not being alive that's a computer if you know everything right you studied every book and you have a deep comprehension of everything and nothing went past your head into your heart you are for practical purposes a computer a lot of data but what's the univ ii about could you get someone a hug a kiss a relationship could you cry could you be happy no its data ultimately what is it about it's about living a life and where do you live you live from your heart now not that's this physical life but more importantly in our case we're talking about living a life of Torah and mitzvot which means living a godly life a godly life we were connected to God we love God were in awe of God the emotions we're studying Torah but not just academically what we're studying tour with our whole you and be all being we're doing midst vote with our whole being all 613 commandments whatever were able to accomplish and we pray we're not just academically praying but we're actually moved with our heart towards a relationship with God and a deep and deeper relationship regard and as the Alturas says in his introduction to tonya that kikora if I got a lock on the road he quotes matura that this idea studying Torah during the throat having a relationship with God is very close to you the fee club in your mouth lip service Oh bill vol crying your heart and we'll get back to heart in a second last social to do it so to speak words of Torah that's easy put on you put something in your ear or read and you can say words of Torah you haven't changed at all you're saying words of Torah to do you can do a lot of its vote and you haven't changed like for example a person go into a prayer service say all the words and he walks out the same person he walked in a person could do midsole in the morning to the night and we know putting people do that but personality-wise the relationship of God hasn't changed their relationship with other human beings hasn't changed they still not treating people nicer so there's a missing link what's that missing link the missing link is the part that the ultra vs bill vodka that serving God is not just academically not just functionally but serving God with your heart now that is what the altar commits in the beginning of Tanya in this introduction that this is what we're going to learn in the book of Tanya how to serve God with your heart now wouldn't that be a great life to be able to have your heart flowing with love and or for God for human beings for people you'd be alive right and the more you're able to open up the heart the more alive you'd be and the more you're opening the heart based on direction of tagamet smote the better life you're going to have so how does one go about creating this openness of keyword bill vodka with your heart so here in this chapter the algebra creates the structure and it takes us on a journey into this V wrote into the powerful elements of the intellect intellectual powers and emotional powers that's in our godly soul in our godly soul and by showing us a map and showing us the link from the intellect to the emotions we're able to create bridges between the godly intellect and the godly emotions that we can start living like a real Junction live with real passion and excitement who wants to do that everyone all right let's go for it ok so the altima sounds like this the way the structure works is God gave us a brain now in the brain he gave us three parts namely hakama and i'll explain bina and us what is hakama haha is basically letting your thinking about something you're trying to create an understanding of something so you think and you think and you read then you discuss and honestly I got it I say what is it you know explain it to me I got it but I can't really explain to what it is I have it like it's like you know it's like you're trying to catch a fish do you feel like you almost got it that you can for the fish out right you got the idea but you can't develop it and matter of fact tension karma comes from the word of the power of man what is it like I'm still asking what it is I know I know I have something but what I'm still left with what is it I'm not sure what it is that is the power of means you have something you don't give nothing I have no idea no no I have something as not sure what it is right if you get that feeling you trying to solve an issue solve a problem and you're thinking and you discuss it with this one that wanting you still had sounds and you feel like you got something but you still you still don't know what it is that is what's called Karma you got something you're not sure what it is we're talking in the in there in the intellectual comprehension the godly intellect then you have that's right oriented ideas it's a bunch of ideas but nothing materialized and then you have something which is called beam on what is veena veena is ready where you can really break down this idea into details what it is what it is and how it works how it doesn't work and so on and so forth let's go back a little so they can see there you go perfect excellent okay thank you maybe you're going to put me another room no no right there's perfect right there is perfect perfect perfect ok so bina is what the developments more details of the idea that's been having a deeper understanding so now you got the idea it's someone I see what does it explain and you able to explain in detail what it is what it isn't the more you know explanation and analogies and so on a sofa that's like the abena then you have something which is called das what is that dass is already where you're able to apply yourself to it intellectually not yet emotionally in other words lets you have this eunos idea boom you Ava have all the details but someone what can you do with it dance is a power able to relate it to reality able to do something with it be able to so to speak close the intellectual deal I got it I see how it applies here applies there and you able to use it intellectually now so far which world are we in in the world of in for I have an idea not sure exact where it is oh I develop the idea and then I'm able to apply the idea now certain people are extremists Mahatma they count with ideas all day long but come to explain they can't so people can give you what I do you come from ideal I'll steal your idea they can go ahead and talk about for three hours and circle can cover and ideas they can't explain one someone explains them they're already making sale they already know how to make a business out of it they are we stealing someone else's idea someone else's yeah and they already making now that's three stream extremely cases everybody has a different blend of how convenient us depending on who they are and so on and so forth so that is what the godly power of hoffman beam and ask that we each have we each have that that means if I tell you listening you won't have a better relationship with God okay you have a brain we all have brains God gave us a brain God gave us a godly soul in the godly soul we have the brain mabini das so you want to have a relation of a god okay step number one in order to have a relationship with God and as we said before to be inspired with your heart has to go through the intellectual process modern terminology pie called you might call it meditation I don't give it a term but explain to you what it is you can starting you on what it is so I say to you listen you want you want every relationship with God okay what do you know about God well I know nothing okay so there's no relationship right so first what do you think goddess so you can read up rear up about it in the Torah you can read up about it in the maimonides you know big thing because I thought about it matter fact number of mine manage the beginning talks about Grodd what he is and what he isn't and so on and so forth it's been a fact that we don't now studying it now because we started our new cycle on Rambam so now we're studying the idea god right in the beginning of Mallory's other great you know kabbalistic thinkers talk about God and you think you can't you have to get you're saying you have to be your idea there's even you want ideas opening you want to get it the fact that someone else got it until you don't study it doesn't from your idea so you don't only get once you get some idea then you get more into it and more details of a goddess and what God isn't so on and so forth and then you start looking around at the world like recoveries right he says Wow who created these shreaves who maintains these trees and the skies right and the oldest earth and the water and so on and so forth so in other words by meditating on God and the deeper and more you meditate in God the more you'll have a better understanding of God as you develop a deeper understanding of God now what happens is you and God have a relationship what kind so far intellectual which is great the more time you think about spending go and spend thinking about God the more you can develop the powerful relationship with God you'll have a deep understanding and actually now your intellect of your godly soul that was dormant that was sleeping all of a sudden is alive there's data in there there's information there there's details there there is now when you walk outside and you see a tree you see water and you see skies that you meditating you thought about it all of a sudden you can have a different reaction to it in other words like it's like anything you know the expression of Talmud is that let's see for example somebody gives you a gift of a hundred dollars and and the same day you worked very very hard for an hour and you earned ten bucks what's more valuable to you the ten dollars that you were in or the hundred-dollar someone gave you the proof is very simple see how you spend it see how you spend it I guarantee the handrails are going to spend on something very very quick frivolous something that you not exactly 200 value the 10 dolls that you earned you're going to spend it differently why because you're in it even though 100 is more than 10 but there's something that's planted in there ten dollars that you earned that's much more powerful much more powerful than one hundred dollars you gotta give even though it's ten times the amount why is that because something that you worked for is yours I'm not talking to Bill the ten-dollar bill short 10 dolla bills you and 100 rolls of yours what's really yours we're is there an investment of energy on the ten dollars that's yours so the same thing also whenever you guys are gift from your parents bias mosis at home or for me about god that's a gift it's great don't get me wrong you still the Hundred Islands you can spend it but it's not yours but when you sit and study and you see the meditate and you sittin like talk to God now guess what happens now now it becomes your guard till now it was your parents guard all right listen it's like the hundred dollars you got it one is 100 miles meaning to you nothing you'll go buy something either you will you won't you probably won't appreciate the thing you're buying anyway because that the money has your value to you so they set the god of your parents the god of your parents yeah it's still God and they gave it to you but you don't really own it you don't you're not very simple if you lost it you wouldn't feel it even that much because you're never really you never invested in it however if you spend time studying about God and developing a relationship with God and communicating with God a if you lose a god forbid oh my gosh it's going to be a serious loss and B you're not going to want to lose it and you're going to want to develop a relationship with it why because you use the gift that God gave you your intellect and you thought about it and you contemplated about it and you argued about it and you sweat it over it now God becomes real all invested in a real way in your intellect so that is level one you're studying and the more you study and the more you meditate now God becomes real but so far it's an academic art but what happens is when a person thinks about God and a certain thinks with this das in a real way about we God created this whole world and we got created this human being each and every one of us and then God created us in a way that we breathe we have ear we have we have sustenance and we're alive and we're healthy and all these beautiful thing God gives us so what happens is now it starts infiltrating into godly emotions that we each have namely for right now we're going to call as the package of Kassadin Gura but to practical language we're going to talk about a ver and euro in other words have said refers to the idea of kindness and giving and Ava's more about love right love is basically the is basically what is love love is when you love someone you give to the person you're as you're an order person you don't want to lose it you want to keep that relationship so as you think about God and as you meditate on God all of a sudden you start loving this God you have this tremendous love for God what does it mean a love for God now your godly emotions start I'm gonna use word boiling because it's not boiling boiling is like in heat but it starts it starts being activated and also you have another feeling for God and you want to you know you want to study more about him you know you want to sit down and play a little more to him you want to talk to him you want he asked to do a mitzvah you want to do any much for you can why because by doing emits for you actually listen to God so the more you study about God and the more intellectually now it trickles in to your emotions that you love God and once the love kicks in now you're not only showing up physically not only is showing up academically to fill your brain but you're actually now living god you're loving god you're living Judaism you have this love for God you want to do more you want to study more you want to pray more why did it a 30 it went out of the realm of intellect now you're in the realm of real life you want to do another mister you want to see how you can help this person knows how do you know loves kicks in when you start doing automatically when you want to do more like you knows what's even if the love is not being Sheila's I'm gonna study everything I want you know God's my god I'm gonna go to class let's say once a day for an hour whether it's at home on the internet on the phone whatever it may be with a friend I'm giving an hour okay does that mean you're in love with god no no you're feeding your academic intellect which is good don't let you won't do it do it but well you know when it when it started to prime the motor of your emotions when you're not happy with one hour you want you want more fine sometimes you'll have the time cummins you want at the time let's see having a spouse and take care of your kids your parents you have work fine there's going to be a conflict persons torn you want you know could you love a lot of things now you have a conflict you always trying to do everything your love rights aren't do everything but at least the fact that you love love it so much that you want to study in extra 10 minutes an extra hour that's a good sign whether you can do it or not that's a separate issue but the mere fact that you want to study more or do more or pray more that's a sign guess what the emotions were primed now are you starting to live now yes when you start living this conflict oh I want to study for another hour but I gotta go I promise I'm trying I'm going here have to go you know tonight is my parents or whatever maybe I have to have another have to go to work fine that's okay in other words being alive is being alive there's there's life crisises there's live conflict I want to go here I want to go then you can't do everything but you know guess what this one was your life I'll give her something Rabelais I'm so busy I said great I'm happy you're busy busy teeth and busy means that you're busy doing stuff gradually you are busy I'm not just talking at quantitatively busy busy means I have so many interests I have so many things involved in not just as a computer not just the same machine but as a real human being I wanted this I want to that you know could you do everything know so tell you do this tomorrow something else and you trim how it works out at the end so the goal is that from the intellect it should feed down into we're into your emotions and now the godly heart is pumping so you love God now why don't you love God love love according to Kabbalah mysticism well how do you know how do you know how do you know if you how do you know if you're in love with something exactly love by definition means you're drawn to it you drawn to it so it's god you're drawn to God if it's another human being spouse child the parent or friend you know everything and it's appropriate the manner any love means that you're drawn to it some people drawn to food and two other materialistic stuff love means you're drawn to it so love is basically when the flow of energy is drawn towards something whatever and whoever may be that is on the right side love what's on the other hand what's hero gira is what you're in all it that's an emotion you know you study about God you think about that oh my gosh god it's like whoa this is like way beyond anything I can relate to now what happens when you know of God I didn't say see there's different levels when we say euro that there's different levels we took a high level euro low-level year or just for the record low level year is where you're afraid for example of a punishment that be the lowest level next level above that from the bottom to the top would be you're afraid God forbid of messing up that's that's hero but the lower level we're talking high level year hi lover year means you're in awe whoa you're blowing away with this thing god I mean like how do you create this whole world and this guy is palaver created the world when Kayne's the world I could even create one leaf if I have to you know it's funny thing like kids were eating the other thing in the house raspberries I said try to create one of them I think it's impossible it's impossible Thank You Angela we had a whole box of it right and who created it and there's millions of them right I just see if you stop and you think about it for a second Wow how does he do this and wouldn't you mean oh I mean I'll else were just living by robots and we're just totally numb about life but if you're not knowing about liveing it stop for a moment and matter of fact that's what we make a blessing before want to make a blessing before we'd stop who created this food yeah I know your spouse made it for you but they didn't create it who created the food who Oh God created so we stop and say hold on a second God created this and there so one second so so in other words so if you stop for a moment and say God created this I'm not talking functionally intellectually go got great very nice it's calling let's go let's go eat dinner no no God created it so God created it he created this thing and I'm consuming it so if God is the power to create things and he gave me things that I can consume and have energy I visitors god amazing shouldn't I stop and thank him so you can say the blessing again functionally like a robot like a computer or you say no Oh God created this he created for me that I can have energy to live and doom its vote etc I'm gonna bless him so I'm gonna say broke another broker or gonna say baruch attah right am I gonna say each word and think what I'm saying blessed are You God the King right of the world I mean get to think what you're saying God is the king he creates everything ever you gotta feel it you got to feel it saying it was all exactly there you go bingo saying you at all I see a blasting should be said with all whoa I mean take anything in your house that you had for breakfast lunch dinner today could anybody create any part of it I said the word create and you say cook nobody so God created it all we cannot create anything we can only do something from something we cannot create something from nothing so the only one that created something from nothing is so everything that we consume was once nothing right at one point didn't exist God put it into existence so therefore we say borracha Tasha look how you like the changes now it does when you practice being grateful you know what happens you know you're really doing practically simple English when you're being grateful what do you think you're doing that's the functional part what are you really doing what I you know being an oil but you're being a no that's true what else you doing no you're being weird godly presence in your joy you know you're doing you're doing worthy of this wonderful true what else what given its true but come on skip that's a basic simple socks basic simple English okay getting warm are you getting warmer getting one what are you doing your loving God that's true but look you give it or using ourselves again everything everyone said is correct I'm not this night disagreement everything was correct the port I'm going to make what you're really doing is you're priming the pump of your emotions you're waking up your emotions don't be just a robot that's sitting there and it's consuming physical foods be alive so when you stop and you're grateful but the biggest gift you're giving is ultimately to yourself that you're actually priming your pump you're alive that's the biggest gift otherwise you're just a machine or computer or someone has to manually fed to stay alive but when you are actually say baraha Tosh I mean you actually mean it you're becoming alive true you're thanking God absolutely and true you're being grateful and you're thankful all that stuff is true but you're really priming yourself to be alive not just a robot just walk going to the next thing in life so life takes on a meaning life becomes meaningful life becomes joyful life becomes a life of living real life so ultimately the goal of the intellect is to prime the pump of the emotions you should have a life of love which is giving in or being grateful now so in the Alturas terms what is the goal the goal is to live a life whether it's what you're doing daily whether it's prayer Torah study doing mitzvahs or just even living life eating sleeping whatever you're doing it should be primed with your heart but your heart not just excited about the external part of life but excited because God created the world God gave you all this stuff and now I'm inspired I'm inspired to do all the stuff so the question is having you take somebody or yourself and go from an uninspired state and become inspired I say to you hey you're not in a good mood bingo get into a good mood if I can't not in a good mood right how do you get become a good mood so here is the author is key not only the key but the tool that will allow you to take yourself and anyone else at any moment in your life to go from an uninspired state to an inspired state by doing what simple thinking about God meditating about God and applying that meditation in real life and priming the pump to get the other spot and you'll automatically be inspired your prime yourself to be inspired and as you use a tool of hoc ma oh my gosh let me think about like another was like this I cannot you cannot you cannot inspire solar or push someone to be inspired I'm not inspired but 100 you or yourself for that matter but you have a hundred percent control to meditate about anything that you want even though you're not really moved by it because you will get moved by it so tell you listen yes what are you talking about look look at this beautiful world God gave us okay that means nothing to me right what am I going to do you can't do anything I tell you hold on I want you to stop for a moment stop what you're doing think for a moment about this world that we're living in well let's try to get to the world think about your own self look at your own your own physical existence you have a body right you didn't create somebody created it it grows you have eyes to see you have a mouth to speak and to eat you have ears you hear you have hands your feet right take for the next 10 minutes I want you to meditate about that I want you to think about yourself and think of we where are you living from when you get this energy from where would you have vonage to move and do all these different functions and to comprehend things and just wait where's it from Oh God created this okay great I want you now think about what it took God to create this and he created you and you're alive and start thinking about the fact that you have the ability to function so then even though you're not in the mood of of it was a song as that inspired that inspired it's an emotion you're not the unit you don't have you don't have it but you could start meditating about yourself your parents your children your friends the world the water the trees all the other blessings that exist in this world that you have a hundred power you can think of it you can think about things whether you agree with it or not you can still think about and as you start thinking about it guess what happens fixed you think about more more details and then you start applying it to reality and all of a sudden you start saying oh my gosh the love comes automatic and she and you everything you see gotten everything absolutely so the point is let's say you go to shoulder pray right and you read the prayer service you'll walk in you'll walk out you'll be the same person wherever you sit there and you read the prayer service and you take a page you can do it all but I'll take many many hours and you think about the way the prayer service they talk about the greatness of God when he created the trees and the waters and you stop he spent 30 minutes I was speaking esli to rabbi in Jerusalem he told me that he does every every single day so like let's see the chakra prayer service takes an average 40 minutes to 15 minutes an average so he told me just the small nursery which takes spend an average most people between Nazi 5 and 12 minutes I mean you can go more or less 40 minutes every single day what's this point they a study they read they met at hey they applied and you know what when you listen to someone like that talk he's out transform your bank because every single prayer is internalized now obviously there's the communal prayer service but the truth is that pray is really supposed to be from your heart and even in the communal prayer service in the Habad world you know you don't necessarily have to be with a Hassan's holding here to pray at your own pace there is a structure for service for whatever reason its structure people known as a beginning a middle and certain people come in the beginning it however you want to you know wherever you spend more time on but prayers about really meditating about something that catches you think about it and you think about it long enough that will move you little Prime a certain emotion on you once at prime that emotion you guess what happens now your comment living you think you're alive you're inspired so even so even though you cannot kick start your heart and you go straight to the heart but by going through the access panel of the intellect you will eventually prime your heart and your heart will be in all of God and with tremendous love for God and basically that is the essence of the third chapter of Tanya which gives us a view of what the back room or the inside structure of the gauley soul is intellect and emotions and the way its way to reach the emotions is strictly to the intellect we each have the intellect and each can access it and the only thing we need to do is how much time I spend meditating on things that we think about some people might go quicker somebody takes to longer but eventually if you think about God and the world that he created and the human beings that he created and everything else in between and you meditate on it and you apply it it will start taking shape and you'll start feeling a love for God and you'll start being an or for God and you live at home for life the practical application would be you know is being grateful like for example so you know your your parent you have children or your teaching of students the biggest gift you can teach your children or students it's be grateful why because grateful is basically like the oil that goes between the intellect and the emotions because what do you what is grateful me grateful means you're acknowledging intellectually that someone out there did something for you and guess what the heart has to start pumping I start kicking the love analysis are going that's a grateful thing one plus one is two if someone did something for you shouldn't you be grateful what you're really saying is hello use your head I want to see your motion start kicking in and now say thank you what you're really doing is you're just allowing them to be a human being like if you tell us in hey say thank you I don't want to say thank you I don't feel the good ending for me okay grateful different grateful means it's a process is it is it correcting did something for you yes okay it's now automatically they're going to say thank you and I do think that if we practice this consistently every single day many times a day we will be total different people and people that were have an influence on family friends will also be transformed in a real way and their emotions will be flying to the roof