Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Last Essays Number 1 ״Studying Torah with Love & Awe is the Best”

welcome to tonight's tiny class okay so we are thank God we finished all the four sections of Chania we have the sium in habits which was great and now we have left and Tanya is something which is called Contras a crane I'll come approximate which basically is several essays to be exact there's nine essays so we'll have nine classes one class pressing so again we're learning Tanya we're in the Quinta track or in the last section which are after the last section is called you know several essays and we are learning this week the first essay now there we say is that Tanya because the Bible of mysticism so every chapter really teaches us foundational stuff which are important in our spiritual growth and our comprehension of Torah and mitzvot and our relationship with Hashem but each chapter really has its own theme the theme of this chapter is as follows that when a person studies Torah with love and all you have the power to draw down the greatest light of God into this world so those you can study Torah but then you can study total with love and with awe and you'll be able to draw down but your powerful energies into this world that's the theme of this chapter obviously and again to make it clear this is my theme on it based on the way I learned to pay a chapter of Tanja there's no official theme but that's the theme that I see the Alturas teaching us in this chapter okay so the author were actually interesting is as an introduction to this chapter the author says that you should look deeply into the first section of tanya chapter 40 so in order to learn and appreciate and understand this chapter of tanya dr. assess to go back and look deeply into chapter 40 so in chapter 40 of tanya the author where says as follows that when a person studies Torah or you do a mitzvah so what happens you're you oh my god is the infinite God when I go sit down and study Torah I'm creating a connection a oneness with us am I'm doing a mitzvah I'm creating a oneness with a shell and from a simple perspective if you sit down and study somebody's thesis now your company handling what the person spent years developing someone asks you to do something you do it you create a relationship so in chapter 40 our Torah says that when a person studies Turin does Mitzvah you're creating a relationship with Hashem you're creating a oneness with I shown you the ego Hashem through Torah Mets are becoming one now where do you become one you will live in this world so you would come on you're in this world a Shem is all over obviously and you become one with Hashem however the Altima says in chapter 40 year that when you study the Torah the same Tori that you're studying and doing the mitzvot but you add fuel to the fire I mean you're not just doing it the expression in Hebrew is called mitzvahs I'm not sure mother mother you're doing it by route you're doing my Road you're just doing it by habit but you're really excited about it why is studying Torah because you love us in you're in over sin and you want to do anything to connect ourselves it's a sham story you're excited about it excited a from a place of love or from a place of war then what happens is you supercharge at or emits vote initially just created a oneness but you're actually connecting to the infinite light of a shell not only here but literally you're going to the Orion site because we live in this world so when you when you study Torah and do mitzvoth again adding love and or fashion you're connecting with the infinite light of a shell and the optimal goes further on to explain think about this what creates the one is Torah miss fault that creates the one is what creates the one is for you literally connecting to the infinite light of a sin the love and the or now so let's see for example you study Torah either than its vote you're creating a oneness it's not to the highest degree but you're creating a once let's look at the other side whatever you say love Hashem I mean no other sin but you don't study Thrones in this folks what do you get nothing words feelings but practically we how you creating the oneness Hashem said the sorry Torah doom it's vote I'm not starting to I'm not doing this fault but I love Hashem I'm an organ it's great but you're not connecting so the author explains in chapter 40 year that lovin or it's interesting on one hand by its own it takes you nowhere takes you nowhere but on the other hand if you have love and all for our sin together with Tory let's vote then you go to the infinite partnership and the author who gives an example practical example he says take for example you're a bird so what is the main part of the bird the main part of the bird is the head and the body that's the bird on the other we all know the bird has wings now what would be in theory if the bird doesn't have wings it's still a bird which can fly but keep mashing up bird that has wings and no head and body it's not a bird that's feathers what what is it a matter of fact even according to Jewish law if there was no wings the bird Estela cultural bird pay pending a certain quarter gift you know see where it got broken but in the general ideas if there's no wings and the bird is complete the head in the body it's all kosher bird so in other words use that as an example to show you that the love and all is like the wings when you have it you can fly the birds but on the other hand if you just have the wings what do you have you have nothing what are you flying okay so that is what the author says go back study that will so we brought that in because obviously we're gonna need that for this chapter about the idea of love and all the artists are chopped relations like this we know that we you study Torah there's different components the Torah for example so he's sitting in studying Talmud or the Bible topics and Moses so there's the in debt in-depth study of of the Torah complicated cases complicated law you have a lot of the Torah and then you have the stories of the Torah the stories in the in the Quran there five books of Moses the stories and the prophets in the writings in the Talmud full of stories so the outer of the starts up by quite a question as follows and he says that how is it that when you study Torah means they the stories of Torah that you have the power to connect to what to hokhmah a law thoughtfully law also translate means the high level of impact which is referring to God and how can you connect at a high level intellect what does that mean x1 explain the question when you're starting Torah we have to apply your brain to try to comprehend what does Hashem saying so what are you using you're using your brain are you comprehending it and then you're really going into in-depth understanding of it so when you're doing that what are you doing you're literally infusing within you the depths of the intellect emotion why is it so hard to comprehend certain parts of Torah so Shems intellect so when you sit intellectually and study the Torah and discuss the Torah and comprehend it and meditate on then they have questions and have a discussion about it what you're doing is you are connecting with Kahului law the highest level of intellect understand why you studying Torah now when you're learning halakha Jewish law what is Jewish law or any mix of for example so a mitzvah or Jewish law isn't telling you what does Hashem want in Hebrew it's called what is the Roxxon Hashem now we know in the Sphero there's like the Sphero thi mastery road so when you're studying Torah you get you're reaching the level of hokhmah of a law the high level of karma and when you're learning the halacha and learning the mid slope of a sham you're learning the rocks inertia so think about what happens when you sit down to study Torah you are connecting either force or to the intellect of Hashem as you study and if you learn the hollow hote and the mid-stroke you're collecting toward to the rocks ownership now that applies to we're in depth sunny but what happens you read a story in the toilet and there's so many stories pick any story the tribes the Pharaoh Moses Jacob the patriarchs and matriarchs stories in the Talmud where's the in-depth study there you reading the story so how you connecting to Kaufman love Hashem it's a story pero said this and moshe said this how you came to meet to the molly law the intellect of a Shem the highest level of intellect or and/or how are you connected to the rocks Michelle what's there watching us on over there so this the altar was posing this question because we normally means study Tori connecting to the customer you love Hashem or rocks in her shell but when you're reading a story a Torah how are you connected to Kauffman Laura Turner Shem now so the author says one second we all know even though you read stories in the Talmud stories in the in the five books of Moses and the prophets and we all know there's something which is called paradise paradise means a garden what does that mean when you study Torah you can study simple party sense of trap Ramez Jerusalem swords you can study simple shock what is the story telling us a basic story then there's different hints and different homiletic ideas and then there's the secrets of the Torah and in the secret in the stories of the tour of this tremendous depth you think of reading a story about motion Elena did this and say that this tremendous said for example for example she's an example but she's a simple example romantic example Yakov meets Rachel and what does they when he meets her he kisses her romantic story you guys are getting excited Yakko Keith right oh my gosh I lost you all yeah Paul was a mover he was there you know I got you excited you should've start with the story already had you guys rolling in the beginning okay right so Yakko kisses Rachel imagine for me Yaakov our patriarch Rachel our matriarch and they kiss nothing sacrilegious they kiss each other so one hand you can sell a teeny what's what's what's the Torre telling us what do you mean a romantic story let's make a movie about it right you're smiling already you're imagining the story let's get Steven Spielberg on the case right okay but according to Kabbalah this is not a simple story because yokoi's we know are spiritually we know Abraham asked us said kindness Yitzhak is guru what's yakkin yakkin is recommend compassion so Yakko resembles what Rock'em in compassion passion compassion Rachel Ino represents who on a spiritual level the Jewish people Knesset Easter all the woman is the vessel necessarily so in Yaakov nice Rachel which means Roth from him is meaning the Jewish people he kisses her what's kisser it's an intimate relationship means he's trying to infuse the Jewish people with compassion so all of a sudden when you read the story Yaakov meeting Rachel if it's a simple story you can say what cost my law here well high level intellect but when you start reading the commentaries and the cannibalistic insights and you see this is heavy stuff going on here they get from the sphere oath and it's the level of compassion and Rachel as the Jewish people and he's infusing the compassion to the Jewish people not only compassion huge compassion of the Jewish people so there is depth so you can so that were say so simply you can tell me guess what how do you get the smell on the story be the Kabbalistic insights there's a lot of commentaries on the stories in the Toro so there's hot smelly lana so the author says true true however how many people know that story how Neil told today's clients know that insight right you guys are all smiling right and shaky you didn't know the story why cuz that already have to be a catalyst if he willing to study kabali after but in the standing kabbalah but an average person reads the story oh they kissed each other right that's all you got there and not nothing more than that so getting back to the outer his original question even though yes there is depth and if you study with that you have cost money law but based on the simple story where's the coffee mill over there so the author explains like this and this is a very very important capitalistic idea that's as follows what happens is anytime we sit in this world and study torah so who's studying told you shut down the study hall who's selling taller the human being is starting to you're sitting with you you didn't leave your head at home or your heart at home or you buy your whole being is here your head your heart your emotions your body's here and you're sitting in studying taller and this is so beautiful the optimist says when you're studying Tony you know what happens I'm gonna say the word in Hebrew okay in Aramaic actually I'm gonna translate it and the obvious of this there's D Eichner of the atom Lu Lu my Allah which means and let me explain I'll translate and explain that every single person that exists in this world has a spitting image of that person these each and every one of us and we're sitting here and studying Torah we each have a mirror of us you got this get a spooky right we each have a mirror image of us that exists at a very high level in heaven or the medallion so we're the other hatak stained with the human being down here but every one of us have a literally a copy of us on high and copies us so we're sitting here studying Torah the copy of us in heaven is stunning Torah now so what is it what is our explaining very simple there's Harley law when you're studying in-depth and when you're basically starting the will of Hashem so you down here are connecting to car family law or the Rutzen alien that's when it comes to regular studying Torah and a lahar here the opera's saying is that the other ma l ughing when you're studying Torah down here even if you're reading a story you're the your image of you the yogi the image of you which is on high is also studying Torah so that's how you're connecting to half my log because the way you start over find any means but your image of you studying Torah it's there in a Kabbalistic spiritual infinite world how do you think it's starting the story of the Torah which tremendous depth with tremendous vision and clarity unbelievable you got it absolutely so listen even when you're stunning a story in the Torah are you reading a story your counterpart and hi is reading it so in other words and therefore that how you connect the coffee a lot not through your in-depth study because you're reading a simple story but it's true you can study a story with that but when you don't study with that your counterpart on high is connecting you to consummate law that's a dollar answers answer this question but based on this dollar versus this idea it's a powerful idea that when you're studying Torah down here your image above the studying Torah and that's connecting you to Kauffman law because it's at a high level doctor says this same thing happens when a person sits down give us it down and pull out of commish or Mishnah and Talmud and you're just looking at the words and you're thinking worth saying you're not articulating the words and you're not excited about the word just simply take out a homeless mission a Talmud and you look don't read you just look you see what it says you're thinking what I'm saying so the author says guess what are you a dad time using your words no are you excited about no are you really using your mind to comprehend what you're saying no you're just reading and you're thinking so the author says what happens when you're doing that right your higher level of your soul is doing it obviously a much powerful level so it knows even though you're not really doing much but you're doing a lot through you counterpart I give a partner you have a partner yes exactly so in other words with the author of things just like then it comes to stories when you're reading a story here your counterpart at high is connecting to the story in a much greater level they same thing also when you're looking at all right you're not really paying that much attention you're just like you know superficially glance and getting some ideas so even though you're not again connecting on the deepest level but you can't the pond and highs connecting in a very very powerful level now so that is in terms of this thinking and here the Opera takes us on a journey in a very powerful journey which is big beautiful shows you the different levels of studying Torah and the optimism like this when a person uses his speech to study Torah because before we said for example that's when you just think but when a person sets down the study Torah again it could become a Shipley Mishnah for me Talmud it could become ball up i meanso are it could be how long whatever you're studying and you literally say the words you articulate the words so now you're a hold of the lead because now you're using your physical body and your physical speech to say the words and here the author puts it into several categories if when you're saying the words you like totally nullified you have like clarity of vision and you're like just accepting exactly what God's telling you you reading the hummus you're saying it and it's clear you're not confused and you're totally one with Hashem this is what I was saying this is what Hashem wants like you're just a 100% that clear conduits think for example if you had a pipe right and you're trying to get water through the pipe but in the pipe there's junk in there so a junk is gonna come through and it's not gonna be full full pressure burn to be a pipe that's 100 unclear clear water just gushing right through you have a good flow of energy so the same thing all services when you sitting down and you say the words of Torah and you're just really like one with her shell which opera says that's all unlevel of its avec then you're actually connecting to the highest world the world about salute so just since we're gonna use the terms of different worlds just remember again there's four different worlds absolute being the highest briea the second creation it's zero formation and i'll see you the world of action and we say high low we don't mean physically even though we mean more godliness less godliness more concealment obviously and therefore less cárdenas God is all over the questions how much revealed concealed so when you sit in study Torah and you're totally in acceptance mode you're not in a confrontational mode you're accepted oh my gosh shun wants us to do great ah I got it right you then you're elevating yourself to the world of what she looks now that's the highest level going to be sitting and you're saying the words at Oregon speech but here you're trying to comprehend it and the comprehensions oh I get it and because you get it you get excited about it so you're saying it but you're excited why because you got it you spent time thinking about it and you're starting something in talador Mishnah and it's hard for you to comprehend and you sit and you work and you discuss with someone and you finally oh I got it like the light bulb went on you know what happens then and then you really get excited about it so in other words we live in the world of excitement but the question is what's inspiring the excitement so here the opportunity when the inspiration is being inspired by the intellect then you actually elevated yourself to where it and what you're studying to the world of briea not the world of it see that signal is the highest we totally won but when used your intellect inspire yourself then you have elevated yourself to the world of real now what happens if you not you just don't see it or you're not meditating though he should but you're inspired you see something up it's wonderful right you get excited without really thinking too much that's great you've elevated yourself where to the world of its it's zero now what happens if you just read the words of Torah it knows you're not like one with Hashem and it oh you're not even thinking too deeply or you're not you know singing and dancing and getting excited you're just reading the words of Torah so then again you're reading it it's more than thinking because the original one we said was thinking that's where you count the part is scoring do the points but here you're actually reading the words you're saying the words then you elevate yourself to the world of a seer because we're living in a physical world so we're talking in the world of a sea of the spiritual world of a seer now so that is all the four levels of speech again the highest level we totally one other Chamonix eludes we're using your intellect to inspire your motions the world of Bria where you're emotionally excited it's the world needs zero and we're saying the world is the world of a cm and again just to recap what happens if you're just thinking you're reading and you're thinking oh you're not saying the words so then what's happening is your counterpart at high is connecting you to high place so thought doesn't really accomplish major elevation it's you counterpart to get you somewhere in speech also gives the four different love goals how you go now so the author asks a simple question we're giving obviously we're saying when you when you say the words of Tori there's four different levels you can call the without salute if you see the one is of a sham or if you inspired based on in telepathy goes tabria or if it's emotions it's it's zero or if you're just saying the words are siient but we did say that what happens if you just think the words your counterpart at high mate puts on the spiritual light over there so the optimist says any quotes from the Zohar and there's almost as many many places that guess what if you just think you're not accomplishing anything you actually have to say it you actually got to do something thinking doesn't accomplish anything and here we're saying that guess what though thinking just like the stories you know when you read the stories it opens up the higher level of light so the same thing else when you think it does that has that work there's always says that doesn't happen the optimist is like this that the truth is that when a person does think words of Torah your counterpart in high is thinking and there because you can't do I was thinking and you do create light we're in the higher worlds however however because you're just thinking and who's creating the light you count the part of the high are you creating spiritual London ain't no question as but it's also true there's always saying you don't create anything wasn't meaning for anything you don't create any opportunity for that light to come back to the squirrels you got it so the other side of this when you think when you read and you think you're creating a light on high through your counterpart that's doing the same thing however you're not drawing down on the light back to this world now what's the problem with that the problem is very simple we were created and put in this world why to bring light into this world so be sitting and just looking and you're creating light in heaven that's very nice but it's not your mission your mission was to bring light into this world now if you're just thinking you're not gonna bring down light into this world so you're not fulfilling your mission therefore there's always saying you're not accomplishing anything nothing economic there's nothing you accomplish you nothing you're accomplishing you're putting light in the high but you're not accomplishing for your mission you have a mission in this world to bring light the world you created you put into this world to have to bring light into this world to bring light and high you could have stayed in heaven also what did come down here for so that's what the sower is saying you're not accomplishing anything because you're not bringing the light down to this world yeah the artery continues what we learned before that when a person studies Torah bit deeper so what happens then is so we said there's different levels you can look through the world of Etsy Lord that's straight up you totally nullified the world abri of using your intellect the world of youth zero etc but the and if you're just saying the words then you can go to the level of a seal so the optimist says you have to be our mind that without based on again this is based on the doctor's introduction we said go back look in chapter 40 what did we learn in chapter 40 that in order for the Torah it's vote to connect to the infant like what has to happen you have to have love and all of a sudden you have to love it all so since you need to have love an or without love and oh you're not gonna go on high what we just learned from this hour what's the lowest level where a person says the words and what we say it actually pierces through it could leave the physical world it goes into the spiritual grant you only the world of ASEA but it does go on high without Lebanon so how come there's over saying here that it goes it goes it gets elevated but under their hand we know with that love and all it doesn't go anywhere and the offer explains very very properly she's like this that when a person studies torah and again just says the words so true it gets elevated to the world of ASEA but it only gets elevated to the optimal use of the term they carders and the and the houses which means only to the external part it does not go internally into the sphere oat or into the soul in order for it to go into the sphere oat or into the soul or doctoring is actually a very very strong deep internal world world word in order for it to go kendama sham in front of a sham into the depths of sham you have to have lovin it so doc what we're saying like this if you sit down in your reading Torah it's gonna go up Tasya but we're the external part if you sit and read but you do with love and awe then not only is gonna go up it's gonna go up to the internal part and it's actually gonna go up we're together Michelle so as you see this chapter is a very very important and beautiful chapter because it shows you doctor ever what happens when you study touring you do MIT's note meaning to say is that the highest and most powerful and potent level is that when you're studying Torah a you have to make sure to work on your love for our sin and you have to make sure to work on your or for share of a sham because with the love and with the over sham you will take the torah study that you're studying to the highest level it's gonna go pierced through I'll see Bria it's zero all the way talk salute all the way to the highest level again obviously that's the goal but if you can't get it it's still gonna go somewhere pending on again it depending on the different levels are discussed but really the goal is to really as you seek importantly in this chapter it's really really important to develop a loving relationship relation to be in origin and this way when you study Torah out of love and all and you do miss hold out of love and all you will take the Tories studying and bring it up to the highest places and more importantly as authors in this chapter you will actually draw back down the light into this world providing you're saying the totem it's votes and then you're fulfilling your mission because we were born into this world for what to bring down the light to this world so the key is study say the word saying out of love and/or the tour will be elevated and you will draw down great beautiful light into this world and this way you fulfilled your mission that we came to this world to bring light into the world [Music]