Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Last Essays Number 3 “The most impactful Prayers & Torah study”

it's a nice time your class we are in Tania the lack well we finished all four sections but now we're in the last section called countries operon we called the last few essays and we're up to less essay number three of the last essays in Hebrews called Kunta chakra and English is called last essays and it is the third essay as always we say that Tania is the Bible of mysticism so every chapter is important because it teaches you things you probably never learned before and there's usually many messages but we're going to pick one message of this chapter and that is this chapter chapter 3 is very very important because it teaches you the most impactful type of prayer and the most impactful type of Torah study in other words when you study Torah so there's many levels when you pray this many levels so here the operon is going to show you the most impactful and the strongest type of Torah and prayer that you can do and accomplish so it's interesting is that the last section of Tonia gather explains things deeper that was discussed before so this section essay number three the author was calling to explain something that we already learned before in chapter 39 in chapter 40 of the first section a tiny and that's as follows we learned before that when a person who studies Torah so what happens to use when you study tote around so we all feel it experience it your soul gets elevated alright normally throughout the thing is sluggish and then you come here you're learning Torah you're like flying what what happens because your soul starts getting elevated and it feels great now the question is how strong is that elevation so in chapter 39 in chapter 40 doctor explained that the elevation of your inner summer the elevation of you sold in the study Torah has to all do with your calves Vonda come on is a Hebrew word and English was translated intention feeling emotions that you put into it and to be specific what are the emotion that we're talking about a vos a sham and year as a shin in other words the greater the love for Hashem the greater your an authoress em that's how great and that's how high your torah study is going to be elevated and the author explains again this is still an introduction of chapter 39 and 40 in these first section tanya that when a person has love for em and has offer a shim it could be many reasons what's inspiring the love in new york so the author explains let's see for example someone's an intellect or you're not an intellect but you're you're harnessing your intellect can be naturally at you and intellect or you're working yourself to be an intellect and you sit and you meditate about how great God is how wonderful God is how God is making such tremendous impact in your life and if not for God you wouldn't be here and you start meditating on this you go whoa I love God or man or God and both but a band of feelings of love and awe which is based on intellect so what happens then and then you study Torah with that love and that law so before you sit down to study talking that's what Matt's one reasons why we make a blessing before we study Torah to bringing godliness into the Torah study you think about God how you love living in all of him absolutely right you're in love of God your God come on fire it up right and you're sitting in studying Torah so what happens that is because you're studying Torah based on love and all and because the love and all was born out of intellect and we know intellectus in the world of Bria there's four world absolute the highest spiritually Bria you'd see Rossi uh and intellect this connected the world of RIA so your soul gets elevated to the goes out of ASEA out of each serie and it goes into the world of real pretty heavy stuff so when you again when you study Torah love and or if it's based on intellect took us up thank you so it's based on intellect your soul is gonna be elevated in world of real what happens it's the emotions the law and the oars not based on intellectual it's naturally I love God natural emotions so then you saw in your space that you study Torah so your soul gets elevated to the world of ASEA and into the world to get zero it doesn't go as the high as the world abrir because we need serious the world of emotions now so that is so far word to explain before again if the intention is love at all if it's based on intellect goes to the world of Bria if it's based on emotions it goes to the world if you see and what happens if you're just sitting down to study Torah no emotions oh you set out to study Torah you're not in love with God you know something that we studying Torah you're learning you're comprehending you understand that you say yeah you didn't do any meditation need to make any blessings before you know any minute you're sitting all exciting Torah so then what happens is it doesn't get elevated the world we see Umbria had you had the love in the law but but it does go up according to Kabbalah to the external world of your zero and creates angels over there so if it was based on intellect or gonna Bria it was based on the emotions to go into the internal part of each zero here just plain studying Torah it does use did study turn around so the soul gets elevated but again it's circling around the external world to beat zero and it creates over there angels for you it's alright it's okay now what happens when somebody prays so if somebody prays again based on loving or that's born out of intellect before prayer and prayed you satin you meditated and you created love and loss then it got elevated to where to the world of Riya if was just based on emotion it's like Torah study goes the world is zero why don't you just praying you walk in the synagogue or at home wherever it is in your praying and just praying no emotions no love in the war you're saying the word the words are prayer just totally neutral so the objects without or it's a tortoise based in Kabbalah that it doesn't doesn't it doesn't get it elevated to the external world of eat see where there's like Torah stuff so you see this a major difference the Altima comes in this chapter he says we have to understand the difference why is it that when it comes to Torah study and when it comes to prayer that's born out of emotions love and or so if it's born out of emotions of level of intellect they both go up to the world of real Torah study and prayer if it's born out of plain emotions it goes to the world to get zero but what happens if the Torah studies done without emotions of love and law so then it does get elevated to the external world of you'd see her and it creates angels there but prayer doesn't move if you don't you're not you're not inspired it stays right there it doesn't it doesn't have any any engine any horsepower - too high it stays where it is enough so the question is what's the difference what is the difference so the author explains like this what happens is when you sit down to study Torah you're studying Torah it's an intellectual depth whether it's the five books of Moses whether it's the prophets whether it's the Mishnah whether it's atomic whatever you're studying so when you're studying good what are you using you're using your intellect you can't say okay study tones like glanced at a book if you're not cognizant mentally intellectually you're not going to grasp it so you have to think deep into it and connect to it so the author explains when it comes to study Torah let's say you're not inspired there's no emotion there's no love no war none of the emotions are there but you're still sitting down and arguing and getting into a piece of Talmud's again you know you forgot it for a moment that is God's story you're studying Torah but you're using your brain now the fact is Arthur explains every single person every single Jew has an innate love for God is revealed but there's anything we'll have with the interval so since we're studying Torah and using our brain to study Torah to comprehended then referring to the Torah study here it's even though you didn't meditate or you didn't have your natural I'm flowing or the oil was not flowing but since you is studying and using your intellect and we know that everyone has a natural love for God so therefore it does get elevated we're to the world of ceará albeit externally and it creates angels over there now obvious upper explains you can study Torah summer we'd study we studied three two levels one is you're studying Torah based on love and law and India that was bringing it zero so it's intellect or emotions or it's neutral sand goes up but doctor makes it clear if you're studying Torah literally for ulterior motives for example for financial gain or for honor or for any other negative reason or personal agenda not for God then that Lutz rule then actually the Torah study gets downgraded that's the shore now so that's in reference so he explains why tourists study has the advantage when you're doing it neutrally wide gets elevated why is it get elevated again because your natural because you're using your intellect and we have a natural love robot but Danny's gonna focus on the other side however when when a person sits down to praise if you're praying based on love and the law gets elevated but what happens when you're praying you're just saying the words right you're saying the words came here and sitting like I'm reading the prayers you're not I'm fired up and love and or forgot love and or for God's what happens is we know that the mind is working so when you're studying Torah as we said before so you have to be thinking about your study but in prayer if you're not thinking about if you're not excited about we start with your praying so your mind is wandering what happens when your mind wanders so strange thoughts come into there now when strange thoughts come into your pray you know what happens to your prayer it doesn't get elevated and exactly and it gets downgraded now what's interesting is what's interesting is as follows yeah and this is a powerful Kabbalistic idea it's extremely important to know this let's say you pray we have the prayer service morning service afternoon or evening service and you didn't have any thoughts so technical we just learned got downgraded watches yet strange tours however the author explains powerful if you at some point go back and pray that specific prayer take for ease of Ashley let's see you said Ashley for 30 days you have won one holy Thornton loves thought you said it just read the prayers at that rate it but let's see a 31-day for it whatever it is a year later 10 years later you sit down and you say eye strain your soggy and you meditate on how you love God then you're feeling the love for God then you're in or God and you say I sure with that you know what it does it elevates all the ashtrays you said until now that's pretty powerful or you say smile one day and you sit and meditate it elevates all this Mazz until now well go over something like write the scores cost are coming in you like that when you do this man you have to do the whole Shema whatever you're doing this that's the point any parent card any any prayer that you focus and as you first meditate and you bring in a love for God you bring in the or for God and you meditate on then you say that specific prayer you've elevated all the past prayers and that's why that's why it's very very important if you can have the proper component for the whole prayer service pick they one one prayer that you're gonna really really get into it this way that one prayer that's holiday it tomorrow and again if you can do the whole thing do the whole thing but if not the next day do the next prayer have in mind oh you love God noon or of God and you really have the proper intention for that prayer not only do you elevate that prayer but you elevate it all that pray as many times you said throughout your life it could be hundreds thousands maybe ten thousand times it elevates it all out that's pretty powerful and the next say another one so again or you can decide one day you really image hard but it's not easy to meditate you can do the whole prayer service if you can't that's wonderful but it's not a good practice and we actually learned in one the jail on courses is the proper intention is take this and remember the story with the guide the bent over prayer book say so every day you add another page that you have the proper come on and then you slag off a little you shouldn't but if you do then you go ahead and you do the proper come on there and it and it credits you back so in other words it's not bad credits it's right now may be a bad credit but it's 100% totally redeemable and elevate able how very simple go back and read their prayer you know just meditate the way you love God you're in awe of God go back and actually read that pray with it that proper lovin or they all go to elevated is that as I say huge bonus it's not a huge bonus huge one prayer go back and do it now but we took you've card you get for the restaurants during the season yes yes yes yes yes so now so it's interesting is what's interesting is so even though Torah neutral has a tremendous power that tow ritual because you're thinking what you're studying it does get elevated to the world of you see you right prayer doesn't on the other hand prayer has tremendous gift one prayer proper qivana elevates all the other ones Tory doesn't work that way Torah doesn't work that way you can reallocate retroactively so simply so now you're gonna say one second maybe I shouldn't the we're total with prayer I'm gonna show up the services why cuz one day I'll be in this great mood and guess what I'll get I'll get all the credits from all the praise I didn't do which is a good thing to know you say come to the show I'm not in the mood no problem yeah that's fine show up read the prayers it's it's a neutral zone I'm gonna be downgraded to drop but wouldn't you go back and you're praying you'll elevate it but you can't elevate something you never prayed for it so you can't elevate if it doesn't exist a zero can be elevated so but if you pray and it's there but it's not elevated later on you can elevate it however we're torah study if you sit we sit in study torah and you have sort of speaking negative thoughts hey elevating that so the answer is the upper says even though it does not get elevated in that way but we have the power to go ahead and repent you can do Trula and when a person goes ahead and those chuhwa for not studying torah properly you can actually elevate that Torah and that's what we know for example the thomas is very very clearly a person should always study torah even a person's already started even for the wrong reasons i mean even if you're starting toward because I was paying you or because you're gonna have honor or you someone's gonna give you a compliment to see you or whatever the point is study Torah anyway I it's not gonna work and it's gonna be done with and I can't even elevate where one day studying that piece of hard the answer's no because you can do Trouville and when a person does true but gets totally elevated now so what we just learned what do is learn that when a person when a person prays for some phrase so if it's mutual it gets downgraded nothing happens so the Opera interesting he brings two pieces of ZOA two pieces of zone one place and as oh it says like we just learned that when you pray you don't the proper cover note it doesn't get elevated it's in a downward position and another place we learn doctorate brings that when you pray without the proper intention it goes it gets elevated to the level of what malkos which is the last sphere in the world of a seal so one end was saying it doesn't get elevated in one place in the sower and once it says it does get elevated and you have to experience very very simple it doesn't get elevated we're to Zhou the six me--don't of asea but sure goes to Martha says it's not a contradiction but we're saying it doesn't get elevated meaning doesn't get elevated a world of Zhou the sixteen dog of a seal we're saying it's elevated yeah only to Malthus never see you what's the problem the problem is very very simple that everything in this world we received from our shell how do we receive everything default setting is from Malthus now seal from the lowest level Marco's in the world of a seal that puts us in a neutral state but in the other end you want great blessings you gotta go higher za Vasya you go to the world it's Syria briea obvious you can bring them greater blessings so let's see for example you're praying for something and all and you have the wrong intentions you only going tomorrow I'll see you back to your you're at zero you didn't accomplish anything so it's an elevation which annihilation it's not accomplishing in order to accomplish something you need to go at least as Elvis yeah in order to do that you need to have the proper intention so that's one the explanation other news to to the contradiction seemingly but it's not a contradiction and the algebra says that that's one one issue he dealt with then he deals in another should we find two other places it says that when a person prays with the wrong intentions it's really powerful it's cute but it's powerful when a person prays the only tensions guess what meant one place isn't it so it goes up even to Tsar the six me note not only asiye I'll get sirrah the world of Bria we just said the mostly goes to Malthus the ICR for sure doesn't murder Java C and here he says one places up girls Bazaar Bria and the algebra explains hello it gets elevated to that level but unfortunately because it's not a healthy player it causes a blemish it causes up gamma so you don't want that elevation yes it does get elevated but elevated in a negative way where it actually causes a blemish field back to the point again when you pray without the proper coming out it's definitely not a not elevated and again so he clarifies it even when we say it gets elevated it gets elevated to the point where it actually creates a blemish but not nothing to accomplish anything now and the offering is an example for example he says he we all we know that it says when person doesn't Mitzvah so emits every Mitzvah is like a garment you are garments you are clothing right jewelry for ladies when you work on clothing so how do you get how do you get clothing how do you get jewelry how do you get gifts when you do when you do good things so when a person doesn't miss every time you do mr. you get another garment now generally speaking where did the garments come from spiritual garments so Kabbalah it says it comes from than Adan Catoctin the lower level of good Adan of which world of the world of a seal that's where it comes from and but in the other hand we find in other places it says where did the garments come from it comes from Haeckel days the second chamber in the world of Bri which is much higher doctorate retains obviously it comes from getting the top analyst here but the fact that it comes from a higher place that's not the part that's tangible that we can use so it knows even though mentions it comes from other places but the real tangible place where it comes from is some emplacement of GaN Eden attached them other let's see it just to show you an example that when it says it comes from higher the question is what's coming from higher so what is over okay now back to the point so what happens a person prays with strength sorts versus a person studies Torah for selfish reasons so as we learnt already before when a person prays with strange thoughts it is elevated we're two mouths estancia it doesn't accomplish much until you go ahead and reach and we pray it but praying with strange and negative thoughts gets you elevated for mouth as you see it right now with the compost is not much obviously later on you can go back and credit however when a person studies Torah if it's neutral he said it's higher than prayer neutral but on the other hand studying Torah with negatives is actually lower than prayer as we discussed before and that the only way to elevate is right by doing true true true true ver true repentance now on the other hand getting back to the original point of the chapter without was explained what's the missing Torah study and prayer why Torah study neutral affects angels in the world against ero versus prayer doesn't see explained to him wise Torah study so powerful in says like this because when a person studies Torah neutral getting no love and all but getting that negative he said it's not worse that worse than when an innocent child studies Torah when an innocent child studies Torah there's no love there's no war but nevertheless an innocent child's Torah study is very very very very impactful not only that doctor explains there were an innocent child studies total neutral and not only neutral but he's being bribed to study give him/her candy giving reward guess what it's 100% elevated again why because a child is pour pure say the same thing also in a personal studies Torah neutral it gets elevated now with the actually the interesting is the opera finishes off and he says the so ourselves that when a child an innocent child studies Torah the Angels take the torah study literally to the highest world a world of excellence and that's why it's really really so important to inspire and encourage children even again with gifts to study torah or study with them because their torah study it's elevated all the way the angels take it all the way through the world about see look so you see the important factor most of torah study and prayer that's the recap and a very very practical way and I think the tiny over here teaching us such a beautiful lesson about Torah study and such a beautiful Astana prayer and it's really an inspiration to be able to study Torah and obviously the place there's no question about it that the best way to study Torah and the best way to pray is beforehand to meditate about God to imbue yourself with a love for God being or of God then when you study Torah and you pray it gets totally unrelated obviously to the world of Bria now if you come one with gotta go to the world let's see loot on the other hand if at least you can just be excited about love and all for God we'll go to the world gets here Torah study on the other hand neutral also gets elevated to the external world meet zero and that's okay and even if you're doing it for negative reasons there's not okay what else obviously do it because one day you'll do two but a lot of it at all elevate it as well and the same thing also with Prater I was in the highest level if it's based on emotions and you meditate and you study some huh students before handing you're inspired but even if you're doing for neutral reasons which we just learned gets downgraded or even when you think negative thoughts and talk in prayer guess what don't don't don't freak out don't go crazy why because you can sit back and say that prayer again with the proper qivana and it will elevate all the prayers of the past which I think this lesson is really really a very very inspiring lesson it teaches you a the right way to do things meditate get inspired love God being off God study Torah pray based on that and life is great but even if you're not holding that level the prayers could be elevated later on and the Torah study still works and even in the worst case knowing you study for the wrong reasons you have the power to do chuva and really really growth after we finished off on a beautiful a is having how much is important to spoil your own children other children to study Torah because their togas study and again even if they're inspired for role reasons literally the angels take their Torah studies to the world of attendant and thankful we have a school this we have children learning so we have these clothes right our community that we have children that are studying Torah innocently and their tour is going to the world of a solute which is a tremendous blessing for them and Burke Shannon for our community as well thank you so much thank you