Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Chapter 51 - "The Distribution Center For G-Dly Energy"

okay welcome tonight kanya class we are studying chapter 51 Parekh and Oliphant anya and as always every chapter is unique and special because this is the Bible of mysticism and tonight we're going to be discussing an important couple of the concept and that is the distribution center for godly energy in other words on one hand we know that God's all over right is there a place where God isn't gods all over then the other hand we know that there are certain places for example as a temple code this Ark of the same the Holy of Holies it's called the Holy of Holies for reasons only and if only of Holies but nevertheless saying God's all over so the author begins this chapter chapter 51 by taking us back for a moment to chapter 35 in Tonya we're in chapter 35 and Tonya the algebra quotes from the Zohar and he brings down from the unica the único which is from the Zohar it tells us follows that it says in the verse Hakam the wise person Aine of the Rochelle that's what it says what does it mean that a wise person has eyes on his head so there's o ask simple question what you see anybody the eyes not in the head everyone's eyes in their heads so what does that mean hi welcome come come inside there's a chair here to the chair there what does it mean when we say that the calm that the wise person his eyes on his head so the sower goes on to explain no Panozzo are that a person should not go four cubits at least a man without covering his head and the reason is because the she know the divine presence is on your head now what does that mean there's penis on your head so there's always like this since the screen is on your head God's presence is on your head now if God is on your head God is right above you has I feel good only good real good real good let's go if we get a little better than that marvelous marvelous right it's awesome God is on your head and you come on if you'll say secure happy wonderful right God's on your hand so the so it says since God is on your head and it feels great and it's a good thing so what do you want to make sure you want to make sure that God Steve's on your heads right if you have a good thing you wanna make sure you keep it because in life we get things then we lose it so we want to have it but we want to maintain it so the Zoeller says how do you maintain that God should say on your head so the ZOA says the way you maintain that that the god to say in your head is by feeding it how do you feed it you feed it mitts vote so when you feed God miss votes then God stays in your head what does that mean what does it mean very simple God is on our heads free tickets but God also gave us ways to connect to him and with every connection you're keeping cooked connected to God so how do you keep connected to God by studying Torah by praying and doing the salt so there's always says when you study Torah that's great but that's you're studying Torah you're and again it's wonderful it's wonderful thing to do but as you're studying Torah your comprehension the way you understand the Torah when you're praying it's when you're bringing to the table a lot of your love prayer but it's all about them that they feel that connection they're creating the connection when comes to mitts vote who is the subject matter in the midst oh god you didn't design them at seed and create them as leaders doing the Mitzvah so mitts vote in chapter 35 based on the Zola Delta brings out that which both are the most powerful ways for us to create the connection and maintain the connection and more importantly when we do the midsole you know what happens the screener that's on your head seed there that's as a solar sense so comes one's out and in this chapter 50 one-dollar says one second what does that mean that the screener is more in your head than anywhere else in other words I want to have anything yet the screen is wrong your head but on the other hand what do we know that God's all over Malloy call the Oracle the whole world is filled with God's presence so the whole world is filled with God's presence what does it mean on your head every time your head it means God's not all over so here the author takes us into a journey an important journey based on a verse in job that says meap's re XVII Aloka that means if you want to see God if you want to understand God neap sorry Excel oka what does that mean when you look at your flesh you look at your body and you take a deep look at it and sometimes you need assistance you know from Kabbalah and so are mysticism to help you guide you with a magnifying glass and you look at the way your body structures physically spiritually mentally emotionally at all levels guess what will happen you will get to see God and the way God operates so the art based on that the author said like this let's look at our body in a physical body head body hands feeds everything that's inside and so on and so forth but what do we have in our body that gives us the life the real life is the neshamah the soul summer I need them so learn English in other words when the summers within us then we're a large spiritually when God's words are some believe the soul ease it's a body without a soul and it's more or less over now so the summer is our life force we all have in a summer now the reality is when you look at the summer the soul weight comes into the body so on one level the soul gives life to every single part of the body equally think about it is your head more alive than your feet no they're all alive and I think you where you more alive but either I'm alive or you did and that is when it comes to life either you're alive or you're dead so if you're alive you're alive all over wedding all over and the hands feed all over you're totally alive there is no difference what does that mean that means when the soul gives you life force you totally let up it's like for example let's say you come into this room and I think there was no windows and it was totally pitch black and you put the light on right so is there a place in the room that there's no light it doesn't make it if it's right next to the bulb or if it's in the corner wherever in this room has light this room is little the same thing also with our neshama when it lights us up it gives us full life we're over that is cool the f7 asama the essence of the soul the deepest part of the soul that gives every single part of us life and we're totally alive top to bottom bottom to top right to left sideways on all levels where life the someone gives us life now that's one perspective let's put it on the shelf for a second so again the effort on the Shema the essence of the soul which is the most powerful part plugged in everyone gets light now on the other hand when you give a look deeper we have for example eyes that we see right now we have the eyes that we see that's physical eyes that's the physical eye but in the physical eyes were north in and see if you need in the summer to get a Trinity spiritual activity absolutely otherwise you wouldn't see so in the eye that sees there's two parts is the physical eye but then this is a semi that gives it life force what's the biggest proof and someone dies and some will leave the body the eye leaves to do I say is it the eye is a vehicle that it uses the fee but without finish on what's the I word it's worthless it's a partnership the summer without the physical eyes can be a problem too but the point is it's a it's a you appear that goes together it's the physicalness of I the foot and the pattern of someone that gives it life now we have ears right sitting with the ears we hear because we have a physical component that allows us to hear but we also have in the summer giving it life force the power to smell for example so you smell through your nose but there's a soma gives it light you can smell speech the mouth allows you to speak with the power of the soul that gives you life force in them in the mouth descending with your hand your hands move right your feet so in each one of these unique special gifts that we have eyes ears nose mouth we took at the heart the hands the feet right every part of us there's the technical component that takes place but then there's an asana that gives it life force now why is it that the eye is the one that sees and the ear is the one that hears and the nose smell and the mouth speaks didn't we say before that when you put on the light switch everything that's lit up and it slide all over so how comes the if the neshamah is as we said before give power to everything so why is there through one part of our body we see one part of the body here we hear one part of the body we smell the other one we speak and the other only move our hands on the element of our feet if it's the summer there every part of the body should do the same thing what congrats a rationale if there are some is giving life force so every part of the body should see every part of a body should hear and speak and so on and so forth but nevertheless you see doesn't work that way you only see from your eyes you only hear from the ears and you smell from your nose and you speak to your mouth and you move your hands with your hands but why if you're saying that a summer gives everything its equal life force then why is there difference and the answer is the answer is because there is the estimation either we spoke about before which gives life and from that perspective there is no difference it gets it's a shot of energy there is no difference but then what happens is let's skip over a second we'll go back to the middle part so from one extreme the estimate is to estimate Osama gives off life and when the ethanol song is of life it's not actually differentiated eyes and hearing and hangs just a strand of energy now then and again we're going to skip over we'll come back to this then there is on the other extreme there is the physical body which has hands eyes ears accept all different functions that we have and from nine from the Etzel - amar from the epsilon the Samana goes down to a next level of the neshamah where it's how in our brain and over there when that someone gives a life once again on one hand against everywhere the same but when it goes into the brain from the year turn it transforms into a just in distribution center that from here it sends out Civic energy that work specifically in the eye in other words it's not only a physical eye disease but in the summer which is in the brain which is the distribution center of the powerful energy in there sends out specific energy that goes to the eye that allows the IQ feed that allows the hands to hear and so on and so forth let me give you an example take for example I put that on the table ten clear glasses clear glasses and I take water pitcher of water and I pour into ten clear glasses water and I'm not looking from the top I'm looking out through the glasses what do I see I see ten clear glasses of water okay I put down ten clear glasses I put them water in each I take ten glasses now what happens if I take those ten clear glasses off and I put on ten colored glasses pink yellow red blue purple ten different colors take water put it in each one and I look in and I tell you what color water do you see color the glass pink water blue water yellow water purple water the kids ready one thing is kool-aid right it's an exercise relax oh I know one everyone Ellen Thursday I'm getting everyone thirst here all right different color of order now the question is when you see the water what color is the water it's irrelevant it's the color that you see now the reality is the truth is that the water in theory didn't change but because you're seeing it through the glass the water on some level does change now when you take all the water put it back in the 50s in clear water why because the water really didn't become part with the glass however when a constant amount when it sends out energy to the eye the energy it goes to the eye is specific energy not like the water that comes into looted extractable one because the glass of pink you see pink the sum of the brain that the energy to the eye is energy that allows it to see so even though it's energy and it came originally from a neutral place but already in the brain it actually created a almost like a color right a color to the energy of a certain dynamic to the energy I want to come to the eye while I can see or for example what from the brain sends out on the summer energy to the ears so then what happens is it's not just clear energy it's actually already formed into the power that the summer come here it goes into the technical via the vessel of the ears and therefore you have over here sailing with the mouth to speak with the hands to move with the nose to smell the sea to walk and so on and so forth now so the energy weight comes down into the cific vessel whether it's the eyes the ears the mouth the hands the feet whatever it may be so there's the way the energy comes out in terms of cabela's called the pole el in actuality so in actuality is a very very very specific energy for this specific vessel then there's a general energy a comes down but also related to the vessels so that is sort of speak a one extreme again recap on one extreme the energy is 100% neutral no color no shape no form there's an energy that gives off to the body from top to the bottom everyone gets the same energy in other words the same manager goes in the head and the heart and the eyes feet all over same energy that's on one extreme on the other extreme when it goes down through a step-down version which we're going to talk about the step down in a minute we'll go back to the second but I want to give the other field we'll go back to the middle part when it goes down to the final so the energy are comes into each vessel is diluted and a specific and packaged to give the right amount and the right quality of energy to that specific part of the body is giving life force to get eyes ears nose the mouth every part of the body is specific okay where does that all take place that transformation so that transformation takes place all we're in the neshamah the way it's sitting alive in the brain so in the brain basically it's almost like a transformer in the brain receive this neutral energy and in here is a transformer that sends out specific energy to the brain to the heart to the feed to the hands to the MOT to the ETD to the ears to the eyes and so on and so forth in the in the brain so in other words you see that I was describing three different types the essence and that part every part of the body the same then you have the weight comes down into the brain and from there it transforms it from a neutral where everything in theory would be same and actually we do have a part of that of enough we actually transforms that it makes it personalized what we need and then the way it actually comes out into a practicality and reality now so what do you see clearly from here when it comes to our bodies which we're going to try to learn from our body that's what we can relate to much easier on one hand there is a godly energy which we're going to call this trauma which we have which is a very powerful for most powerful part which comes into us which that level there's no difference in the head and the feet even in the healing if you did nails on repeat words such a low life energy to the brain everyone that's equal to the same from the highest source we all have that but then we also have the way it comes down into the brain and it gets diluted and everyone gets its specific energy because the energy that supposed to go to the i-4 went to the feet even in the problem you can you walk in something everybody's let's Christine's going to go you have a problem so you have a specific energy to go to each one now how does that play out in the world very simple there's the infinite part of God which Kabbalah calls are your aims of the infinite part of God totally infinite part of God that's infinite part of God just like in a body we have that extra - trauma which is head feet or everyone gets equal that infinite part of God is in every part of the world there is no part of the world there's no part place time in the world it does not have a connection to the infinite utterance of the infinite part of God the biggest proof is very simple who created the world who created space who created time guarded if God stops creating what happens everything is gone so everything in this world has from the infinite part of God just like every part of our body has from the source of the neshamah so in other words if you're able to and some righteous people could and again pleasant company excluded we're not you know we're not going to publicize anyone's powers there but if you're able to see beyond the surface beyond the veneer you will see the infinite cut part of God in everything like you look at the table so we see a table I'm going to be humble and talk about as a table right but the truth is if you were able to see beyond the nakedness on the table what would you see the infinite power of God it's what created it that's what maintains it you look at a chair what would you see the infinite funnel don't you look at anything the walls you look at people what would you see hands see heads your shirts no you would see infant a part of God if you're able to see that now it's sadiq a righteous person sees that automatically and that's why he only sees good and godliness that's why you know the trick answer in this class is what God and good because the truth is that everything is a part of God and therefore everything is good so you're seeing other than godliness and when you're seeing other than good guess what you're seeing not the essence so if you're able to look deep enough in everything you know what you're going to see what's the magic answer come on good God and good there you go my two star pupils God and good everyone prettiest off evil and it's very humble you have to memorize two words God and good if you're able to see deep beneath the surface at some point you will eventually see God you have to eventually can see right away but the point is that eventually if you dig deep enough and be patient enough what will you end up seeing God and you'll see good exactly oh my god an ode to God and have good I know the ganya goodies I love it okay so this back so everything in this world has the infinite part of God everything from something as you look at a hamish a total or to that the trash is bad I'm just using something that you wouldn't think is god godly for a minute it's all it all has it all happened some level the same part of God write it all because otherwise you wouldn't exist how could a trash bag exist it didn't have gardeners so the same vitality that gives let's say how much energy gives everything a piece of wood a piece of metal anything everything that's everything has that living from the infinite part of God the problem we have is that we don't have the right glasses where we have the wrong glasses but we're able to look deeper what would you see you would see God you wouldn't see you wouldn't see the physical obscurity of God now so that is when it comes to the infinite part of God and that is really the essence and that's how you believe the essence of every single human being and every single person in this world is all good because it's all from God and all not only for I did God so that it turns out the essence just like in the estimate amount where the whole person gets the thing but let's go to the third step like we discussed before just like for example the eye has specific energy it comes to the eye which you can see and not here it's going to be pretty scary if you have to hear from where you can see now by the magnet or when God gave the Torah people able to see from the ears and they heard from the eyes so that's done that was like a one-time one-time you need God around to make sure the don't match up people got scared people think it I'm scary but in reality what God can do anything okay so but just like the way God made it the eye sees because it's specific energy for the eye and you can only see another year the ear here is it doesn't see your mouth speaks right it doesn't see and so on and so forth so the same thing also God made and everything in the world it has specific energy that allows that specific thing to function with that limited finite energy what does that mean so in Hebrew it's called order light and high int and energy that's in the world now what does that mean practically why does something have more light than something have less light very simple because God is infinite and in order for can't create a finite world so he allowed the light and the energy to be to be a mix it's created sense or concealment concealments through garments so for example let's say forget we're in this room and let's say there's a huge window right and there was no there was no Saints on the window and it's during the day to say 12 o'clock a day or whatever it's you know perfect angle or skyline right sky roof I'll totally sky window guess what we pretty bite in here something's too right so we have to get to put a garment so there's different levels of a screen you can put you can put a fixed screen you're going to get a little shade you start putting real sinner holes you're gonna get more safe so the more Lucian the more garments that you play to obscure the light that's how much less you're going to have and then so quantitatively then also all terribly pending on the type of shield you're going to create that's the type of light use and a half of the specific purpose that you want so in other words I guess there's another type of light but God basically is concealed and constrains the light with where jewels in a specific amount for whatever is needed over there now so again so we have to in this world again we have on one hand everyone everyone everyone gets the same amount but it's deep buried inside but coming down into the deep part of God but then we have we have our revealed connection but again pending on how much light there is depending how many garments our job in life wanting closer to the artists or not to break take off the garments you know hey it's an obstruction I want to see God and you can take off from the spiritual garment sleekly boats that are blocking for God to be revealed or if you feel like it's too much so then obviously you can you know put on some curtains so you don't you don't get so much but the reality is even in the lowest level even in the lowest level what does that mean below even with it with light is so Canfield where you do not see anything godly not only don't you see godly but what do you see you see counter to godliness you see the opposite of peace and happiness and and all the good things that should be in the world so the garments are strong God is not revealed but even in those places the others have for example you know this is the highest world that salutes up till it means the curtains are opened BRE already now the curtains are closed you see you eyes closed more fe have closed more now as it closes more we can more exist but God is more concealed but the others are even in the world of a CR and now in the world let's see of this materialistic world is for different levels of God revelation there is the highest of the Buddha bear because we can talk we can talk about God even though it's you know it's not apparent then this coyote animals you see the animals nature you can obviously my god tone created the stuff songs maintained as long as you see God which is less than but us then you have things that grow so against you if you look at you know nature like things grow you can see the garbage after actually starts you know we're looking closer to nature and paying more attention and then you have for example in doing so the answer which says doing them inanimate you look at a piece of cement in this materialistic world you say where's God there I mean come on like I tell people you know when Messiah comes the cement is going to say to you while you step on me what right and they start laughing when the cements going to talk yes the other thing your talks now it doesn't program you don't think it talks we don't see it we're seeing concealment but the fact is in the domain which means the inanimate cement that exists in this world in this materialistic world but God is concealed guess what even though God's concealed absolutely because it's again four worlds down in this world four rungs down of energy it's like the lowest of the lowest of godly energy God is like totally masks and totally covered but guess what in that mask that exists God the infinite power of God has been there as well sure it's in there God in here gods in that part as well so in other words what do you see doctor missing is that there's two different levels of energy there's one level of energy Malloy collards Komodo that God's presence is everywhere there's no place in the world that God is not that means we are going through the greatest experiences of life God is there you're going to the hardest struggles and challenges God is there as well Roy Clark Roy that God is here the same God all over on the other hand there are certain places God's will revealed when you're going through a good experience that you see is good when you're going through a challenging experience God is pineville concealed and they're both correct it's not a contradiction it's in one perspective we say God is all over whether God is we would we feel that we don't feel that's God's all over it's deep deep down he's in there when you say God is revealed not revealed that's you talking to revelation part of God well it's interesting the answer brings out something very very powerful and extremely helpful and that's what follows what we say before when we use the analogy of Mathari XL loca when I look at my / I see godliness now what does that mean what we said before that the God the one hand is all over which part of God the source of our soul then it goes into the brain now from there from the brain that's the distribution center with distributes of energy - all over your body so in front of the brain itself it distributes to the brain even though a thousands it but still needs energy so the first stop is the brain it goes to the heart to the hands the feet the eyes and everything now so again the distribution center of all godly energy the limited finite energy which is personalized all starts where in the brain so in simple English who's the king of the distribution center of godly energy the brain the brain is the king because it starts from the brain it starts in the brain so therefore what the upper City for he was explaining what the Zoeller says that the wise person his high during his head what does that mean everyone said what item to him but he realizes that where's where's it all start from the distribution it from the brain and what is how do you feed the brain how do you feed the distribution center because it's all coming from godly energy what does God want me to vote so the wise person has his head on this is either in his head not gonna mean physically license that you know true but as I had realized oh my gosh where does all my energies my whole body come from comes from the brain so in other words right never power with my hands is this with the problems of the problem of the brain in the brain so if I want to basically fix my hands my heart my eyes where I fix it in the eyes you got to go back to the brain what is so what is spiritually the brain that's the place where godliness um is how do you feed in a somehow by doing this fold and every time you do a mitzvah and another medicine you refrain from sinning and you hold back listening you're actually feeding the brain so the brain is stronger and that it produces powerful and godly energy to all your body so here you have a powerful insight don't feel the symptoms deal with the root of the problem the root of everything go back to the speech defender where is the spiritual center in the brain you want the brain to work so what is it so si feed it see what are you feeding the brain that's not chocolate bars and ice-cream right you've eaten let's vote when you do a mitzvah to feed the brain and if you feed the brain the right food you take care of the brain you recognize God guess what happens he sends more and the proper energy to your eyes and to your ears and to your mouth and to your heart into every part of your body everybody money and the other is something so powerful which is really practical what happens a lot of times in life really practical advice a lot of times in life we get nervous present company excluded right doesn't get nervous anxious worried afraid right our faith our thinking all these emotions now the reality is all these stirrings where's that take place in the heart so what's the first reaction oh my gosh I don't feel well right my face is shaking right I am afraid of this I'm anxious if you can even that funny at least articulate with your problem is I'm anxious I'm nervous I'm worried so now this is a hold on a second what we just learned the authors are very very simple what we learn here a very very powerful powerful line which is a power foundation in true spiritual healing Moyock salat al Hellenes and i'll translate the mind rules the heart who sends the energy to the heart the heart doesn't start with the heart if the heart is when it started producing the energy then you're right if you're afraid talk to your heart don't be afraid don't be afraid right don't be worried that's correct if it started in the heart what does the author of saying this chapter 51 then olive where does it start it all starts in the brain so why are you talking to the heart to fix up to fix the problem of the art we could get them problem of the heart I got it you have problem to have wins the heart get eternity from the brain the heart gets up in the brain so in other words so therefore so who rules over the heart not the heart the brain no your child are leaves so if you have a problem with your heart you're not feeling great today aren't you feeling worried anxious go pay a visit to your brain and reprogram it life is good what we sing for God created the world and God is good and if of life God is good so the brain sends down a message to the heart life is good life is great be happy now when the brain sends the message to the heart if the heart feels differently goes why I don't feel happy you don't have those feelings they disappear because the monkey brain salat rules your rules means it rules over the heart it has the power to tell the heart half of the day we're sending down new new new life force why we're sending our new troops new truce good truce good truce gaali troops troops of faith troops of happiness gone in other words you're learning such a powerful idea today that ultimately weird is where does the distribution center for all the energy every part of your body come from the brain so therefore if you change the brain everything in your body changes up to the point we all know if someone's nervous for example they walking slow and they're walking like they're a failure right what if the brain tells you you're a winner oh my gosh this person every part of your body you walk like a hall you walk like a hero every part of your body every part of your heart everything changes for the better all because you worked with the distribution center and you change the message in the art in the mind which eventually changed the message throughout the body so here you see this powerful chapter of Tanya Parra Canales 51 teaches you and we'll recap number one is every one of us every part of the world has 100 the connection to God if you look deep enough you'll find it number 2 and that's equal number 2 is we have a distribution center in our mind that sends off energy specific to every part of our body and every part of body we seize it but ultimately if we want to change something in any part of our body go to the source and the sources in the brain and if we change the way we think we will change literally feel you will change where you behave and the good thing is we have the full access of our brain by praying by studying Torah by meditating by having a you know rabbi or mentor or a teacher because they'll change the way you think and the minute you change where you think it will automatically change the way you feel why work with the feelings when they'll keep on going back and forth go to the source and this chapter the Altima teaches us where the sources who is the source is how to access the source and we access the source we be able to totally transform our lives to live a much better life and a much happier life and a much more meaning collection