Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Sec. 2 Chap. 2 - The key to Divine Providence & Miracles

welcome to today's tiny class we are studying the second section of Tanya Shara you could be moon oh we're holding pair of these the second chapter so today's chapter is an important chapter as I preface every single chapter by saying since this is Tanya this is the biblical Bible of mysticism every single chapter foundation of something very very important something solid to build a strong spiritual foundation of understanding Kabbalah and mysticism today the author it deals with an issue an important issue is that giving us the key but a real key and a powerful key to be able to believe in divine providence and miracles in other words I guess if you had clear connection and you live with the fact that God is involved in every year of your life how do you feel if you're wonderful I mean think about if you really take a moment and more than a moment and you really understand and appreciate the fact the concept of a soccer protest the counselor of divine providence which is by the way there's one of the foundations of mysticism that God is involved in every single step of your life from when you get up until you go to sleep and even while you're sleeping and everything you do throughout the day you know that feels like you think it feels wonderful wise if we have wonderful because it's like your mom and your dad or your grandparents and whoever you love that's standing with you every step of the way and not only standing with you they're involved in every step of the way so divine providence is extremely important to be able to live a meaningful inspired and more importantly a secure life get the house to feel good about yourself have a good self-esteem the strongest self-esteem you can have is when you believe in ask our prophets if you believe in divine providence because the minute you believe in divine providence how do you feel yeah I mean wow it feels great that's one important point in this week's chapter chapter two of fire you could muna the second important point is the idea of miracles you can go through life and there are miracles that happen constantly in our life some we call revealed miracles from the atoms the ordinary happens but even literally the fact that you're breathing that you're seeing that you're hearing that you know babies are born people are healthy I mean things that we take for granted those are miracles so we call that miracles in disguise or miracles you can close the nature and then you have miracle above nature but irrelevant the way you view it whether it's what type of miracle that is but ultimately if you live a life that you see and experience miracles how do you honey honey feel great see you went from like wonderful the great because divine providence gave us a wonderful the wrought miracles makes it great why does it what America can go you're in trouble right and you're struggling with something you see a very challenge and all that Wow a solution comes up you say Omega miracle what is that what is it what is the definition of miracle mean simple English God intervenes God intervened and make something happen out of the ordinary now the reality is we could experience and see miracles every moment and this chance the author is going to teach us how to experience and open up our eyes and live and expand see divine providence in every step of our life and to live miracles so this chance to transfer to with a continuation of the first chapter what happened in the first chapter of sorry Simona and even a step further so this whole section shower you to the muna which we as we can discuss it's supposed to be the first section of Tanya which whatever reasons outer point of the second it comes before first as a foundation to the first half of the section why is that because what a shine you can run teaching us Shar the gate of ye ho the of the oneness of God now this whole section of time you will open our eyes and help give us tools to be able to see see understand and experience that ultimately it's all about one not only one versus two oneness it's all God everything is about God so in the first chapter the Alex taught it to us and showed it to us based on a verse all of the verse the verse was nylon Hashem Dvorak all need service' my another thing this God went ahead and created the world God created the world what happens after you created the world it's it God went to sleep No what's God doing God is constantly loyola much sounds like the verse says verse oil on those that means forever what's forever mean forever when is when is forever stop it doesn't forever means it's forever so the other must run forever God your words because you know how to God create the world with deeper with speech so those words that you uttered the ten utterances and all the derivatives of it is Nitze it's standing strong mastermind Bart wherever wherever it has to be it's constantly recreating it's like the universe see the endless pools the infinite pools and columns it doesn't end that's the same idea the words of God are constantly have created but constantly keeping alive and recreating everything in the world first in this chapter Delta is great I gave it to you from the Torah so then it's really nothing to discuss but because we know that God says matura after Horatio das you were given a gift God gave us a gift what was the gift that God gave us thank you thank you what it was a gift of God gave us God gave us a mind a mind so we should use our penetration we should use our dots our understanding to comprehend understand things when we understand things now part of the game of life now we're a player versus sitting on the undie understand Arthur erase files you are given a brain that you should come freehand with your intellect and you should feel with your emotions KSM ruling of God is the God so in other words so here the author is coming to teach us from the second chapter the intellectual comprehension that God is constantly and consistently providing life and nourishment every single thing that exists in this world again what's the goal because once we get that and once we understand it with our mind and once we not only in Stenberg constantly think about it then we will appreciate the vine providence and hopefully appreciate miracles and the other willingness what's the intellectual proof in each other's house what happens is take any person in this world that went ahead and created something so if you think about it nobody in this world nobody never was never is and probably never will be human created something nobody created anything since I made this really tell me how you made atomos before you made it it was never nothing making something creating some means you took it never existed it literally never existed in you both and created something from nothing all we do in this world and by the way we're not belittling it but we're talking we have to define where people are doing it to be honest about it the only thing that we do in this world is create and it's a borrowed term create because create means creating really you create a medium a funny thing or nothing so we're going to use a borrower term of create but you actually form something you shaped something that's the real term the real term is you form the sakes you took something and you converted - this piece of whatever Amy so take for example take for example someone is a anarchist an artist and really a talented artist let's for example were Jewish so you have the famous the towel you know School of Arts in Israel and some artists went to school and he learned you know but he learned whether he was born that way yet his talent he can create beautiful pieces of art out of silver so let's say he comes out with an original idea and he makes and takes a silver you know he melted down not a silversmith I know exactly the process I ran and he melted down and he had certain tools and he shapes it and he put together a beautiful I really stayed one-of-a-kind beautiful candelabra and in a Wow who made this and he likes his name you know whatever his name of the artist is gorgeous and every why you heard what he made now the author was let me ask you a question will lead it who made it did he really make it he didn't make it he he started with nothing no he started with something he started with silver who created the silver God okay so let's let's get a honest playing field here this guy did not create the silver he took the film from from deep in the ground or where he bought it and he took a ready-made product that was created by God now we'll get back to God in a minute but the creation of the silver so this art artist took something that God created the against he we know that he didn't create this over he took a piece of silver but he to it he played with it he melted it he ate one tweezers pliers however he did it and he spent a lot a lot of time and he made this beauty again we're using a borrow turn he created this beautiful candle ever he didn't create a candelabra he basically designed one and shaped silver into this beautiful candelabra now so what he really did was he formed something he formed something now in the silver that he originally started to work with was there the possibility to create this beautiful menorah yes yes because if not he could never make it none of this components you know if you're able to take a you know real good microscope you can see within some of this possibilities of it he obviously had the foresight and he spent the time and he brought out that potential design and he made this beautiful candelabra now once he finishes the candelabra it's finished puts it on the shelf he's ready to sell it now does he have to constantly make and create this design no why because the rule is very simple rule of nature when you form something we'll call it what it is you form something or you save something something from something you don't have to constantly create it or more importantly reshape it and form it once you take it you cut it you will you whether it's wood and you cart or it's metal and you bend then you solder whoever you do it it's done it's done now so therefore when somebody goes ahead and make something really shave something once he created shaped it he can look away and guess what the design stage design phase unless all doesn't destroys it but no one destroys it design phase now so that rule applies to something from something something for something but what happens if someone now who if someone had anything applies but someone say its own when someone which old only one really it applies to in this case is God creates something from nothing guess what we never had this before we don't know how to do that but when you create something from nothing the rule is the rule is and the author is going to prove it the rule is that what do you need to do not only do you have to make it you have to fuel it you have to maintain it why are you why do you have to maintain it because it's math it wouldn't be if not it would it be if you went ahead and it's not possible but if you could even think that you created something from nothing why would it solve this so you have to come to give it fuel so actually in mysticism they give a simple analogy it's not the one that that brings here and he doesn't bring it if a reason not explained to you why so I want to give you an example to understand it take for example you have a rock or it could be anything else we just watch I'm not going to do with your watch so the other rock and the rock is sitting nicely on the table it's not bothering anybody what's going to happen with the rock it's going to sit here we can turn around guess what it's not walking away it's staying right here let's say raining now why isn't the walk walk around why doesn't the rest walk around it's not a creature God's created it it's called a doing name and it doesn't move doesn't move really it doesn't move I'm going to take the rock pick it up oh I moved it so it does move doesn't you said it doesn't move I just picked it up it did move now let's go even a step further I'm going to take this rock that's lazy I'm going to use my power they have my hand to God gave me actually and then throw the rock in the air the rock starts flying so not only is was it moving in my hand it's actually moving on its own you just said the rock doesn't move I'm actually showing you it's moving on its own but guess what as I'm discussing with you you know what happens all the sudden the rock falls back down whoa why you rock fall back down if I threw it why did it fall back down and the answer is very simple because the nature of Iraq is that what it doesn't move that's why God made it so why did it move because I or you took energy that I have and I put it I infused it into the rock and it pushed the rock up now how far the rock Oh as far as I pushed it the minute their energy that I gave right stop guess what the rock came right back down so in other words here you see clearly and it's not really something for nothing but here you see the concept when you create something which is the the fact the rock moves from nothing because it normally doesn't move and whether you attached your energy the only now if you want to be put in pushed up 10 feet and you want to go another 10 feet giving up the climb for another 10 feet grab the rock and keep them going higher and you'll climb up another 10 feet and keep it going higher so as long as you give it energy you can get it going 50 feet but you have to come see peace the minute you stop feeding it you know what happens comes right back down America so in other words so what do you see from here that when you create something from nothing you have to transfer given energy the author is not putting that analogy you've been slipping now he says like this he's going to prove it to us that when you create something from nothing you have to give it energy and he brings the famous story what's the famous story the famous story is a Bible story so we know it's a true story the Bible story says like this with an introduction okay so we said before a rock what's the nature of Iraq that's it you look at Iraq it doesn't move if you turn around and snap here somebody moved it somebody gave it energy but on its own doesn't move let's take for example water water who created water God now what happens in water what's the nature of water that's it the nature of water take away all take away all the all the things that are stopping it if you put down water where's the water see Oh as well water moves water moves interesting it moves without feet by the way even thought about that moves at our feet doesn't have feet but it moves I didn't think about that if I really am you can meditate on that water moves water to smooth so the nature those do this God created water in the water it has everything that God created takes up time and space rock takes up space the time water extent Allah but the water has within it a component that God created a nature that what that water moves what it moves now if you want water to stop from moving what do you need to do put in a cop seal it off exactly now when you put water in a cup and it's not moving isn't the water the check is the nature of the water stop no you stopped it peel away the cup you don't have the water it's moving I think we all know that's right you have water going in a pipe the pipe decent contains where is the hole in the five not a pretty thing we've all had those leaks in our houses right or wherever we are right what does that mean because water by nature moves water by nature moves you have to have something to contain it that's what God made it it's it's niggler it moves okay but you can paint it so what are the Torah tell us when the Jewish people were in Egypt and they had to leave Egypt you had the Egyptians behind them and they came to the sea what are they going to go you need to go right so they have to go forward pain the story knocks and jump in and gods perform the miracle God split the sea split the sea and Jersey walked in dry lands in the water only the waters that means the water was two walls water one side one on the other side people walk through now did God build instantaneously or middle of the night walls and holding back the water no so how does the water stand how did the water stand they walk through water and decide water in the side kamancheh you wanted people to walk through the heart of the other the water in the earth any anybody of water so you build tunnels what's a tunnel it's basically it blocks the water from all four sides if you have a little leak no more tunnel all right here God push the water aside people walk through water and the right water on the Left how come the water is not coming right back okay you can say it's a miracle you can take the river I'm not disagreeing with you so let me ask you a question is what is the tourist City what is the tourist thing huh again it's a good answer it's a good answer a miracle God all those games that are usually managed again I'm with it I like that but let's look what what is the Torah say the tourists of like this Chehalis Hashem guru Akkad him as a kala Lila the EVOC om i am initial commode made oklahoma well it was the torah say again God could have made Oracle and got to know anything agreed but at some of the process God said the Torah says which is God says that God brought in a wind a very strong wind and the wind just like water moves but you can have a wind which could be stronger than right we have hurricanes we know this in Florida and a hurricane I'm not going to call the hurricane it's a wind a very strong wind pushed the water aside so it's a push to the law aside and it says it was a very strong wind and if God brought the wind the whole night and the obviously because the wind the waters was one out of the way and then the Torah says it stood komoi neither which means which means that it was like um the wind was pushing it so it's like it created like if there was a wall as if there was a wall another one I guess it stopped the water from caving on the Jewish people the cause of the wind that was pushing it so really the water change its nature no it was at the tourist that would have fast come on need that one word to letter would need what would that mean you have the water that that was all taking up all the space somehow man with Rankin's he came in this spot where the jutila goes through blue right air-conditioned right blue the water to the side and it created like almost like an invisible wall and invisible wall that was pushing and holding so that the water changed the water didn't change the water remained as it was but the wind was stronger than the water and therefore the water was not caving in but then the Torah says okay coma the water became like a wall what do they mean it became like a wall so just like when you put up a wall we can look around right this will fall walls in this room if somebody holding the wall up know why and you know the sheetrock right why that why is it avoidance you are gonna fall down why is that for that because the nature of walls whether it's wood or cement excetera that use the stands you put it up and it stands obviously the two toilets the fascinate but the point is by nature a wall would expand so so the Torah says Oklahoma means that dear God by bringing the pushing it in not only did he stop it from caving in but actually there's a miracle that took place that the water turned change its nature the water change its nature and it actually became like a wool wool had wool type of energy or nature to it that actually Gifford stood straight so straight now had God stopped the wind or actually I had God's what happened the morning when God stopped the wind the water is not like a wall it's not being held back boomer came again so the algebra says look the nature of water is we God's made it it moves God north got to stop that moving you have to bring a force to push it back and actually the change of nature why is that and the answer is because the other was showing us God is showing us in the Torah that when something has a certain nature and you want to change the nature of it what do you need to do that's true what do you need when you want it you need a force but you have to force constantly and though the wind wasn't just there you know if it would be like a man making a candelabra like before so God brings a wind the water stands up wind can go away that would be if you're making if you have taken a rock I'm moving on point A to point B but if you have water that the nature is that it moves if you bring a wind and it goes away stop the wind it's gonna come right back oh so you need a constant force as long as the force is there pushing it from not doing its natural thing guess what I won't do it but the minute you stop giving a force to change it gets rather goes away see after the sand from here you see that God's could God himself follows his rules what do we say before what's the rule when you make something from nothing you need to have a godly force not only when you did it but constantly in it that's why the authors didn't bring the example of the rock why not so there's a rocket yeah that's true but God can make God could Gaza God's not limited by that rule God can change the rules God can make the rule I can create something from nothing and you don't need a constant force and that would be okay because God can do anything but when the what reason when he brings this example of God pushing it by the water because God himself own up to that rule when he split the seed now you didn't say okay I bought a win if Pro certified guys go the wind went away no no as long as you guys are going through I'm gonna have to keep it bringing a win to push them to the side Walker the nature of waters to move so the Altima says that is reference to splitting of the sea how much more so when it comes to creating something from nothing in other words I get in the water God created a water okay god this God has to recon see you know God created the water once you created one of the water is there then he created a second thing in the water that the nature of water that moves so God's brought an energy to stop it from moving and you needed to come to bring the energy but that's the only of a nature of the water an activity that the water does that it moves but how much more so when we're talking about the thing itself that never even existed it never existed so when once God makes it happen not only does he have to make it happen or as he did but he asked the constantly recreated constantly created and if God wouldn't constantly create it would go away it wouldn't exist and not only wouldn't exist it'll be as if it never was here before so the author Explorer has gone do that so the others are very simple because we know that God uses the tenth utterances in the Torah that he used to create and every time we it says that Barak we say Birkett Ali bless God borrow you after God after referring to others you trying to God what is at coming all of saw hey I love sup hey refers to the Aleph which is the first of the 22 letters self is the last so right but the Singh you which part of you the one that used the 22 letters first or the last referring and hey we know there's five different ways the mouth speaks and the lid sort of they get from the throat from the tongue and so on and so forth so there's five different ways the mouth speaks so the same thing also even though God is not limited to us but even though but nevertheless natori does the Gaddafi regime God spoke by your mother and God said and so on and so forth but you see clearly that it refers to God when he speak to use the power of speech to create so in other words when God created the world he used after the 22 letters of the alphabet which through the haematoma path and that's what he uses to create now what does that mean practically so it means like this when a placid cloth the other uses of example when a prophet prophesizes so what happens he prophesizes in the name of God when the prophet prophesied his name is God he has to use his intellect to comprehend what he's saying he asked to use his thoughts and he has to use a speech what does that mean that the words that he's saying he thought about he thinks about is he comprehended it he thinks about and he actually says it and once he says it what happens that creates the message of God and it becomes internalizing papers now when the Prophet prophesizes obviously we know that the there's different worlds at solute Bree I get sera cf now what does that mean different little worlds so you know I see Luke for example comes from ATL close to God the highest spiritual world Ria's reading over creation means less godly more reality you see Reformation and a seer this materialistic world when a prophet prophesizes he prophesized in the level of Aquila even though it's going to his intellect and his thought in a speech but in a very very high level but with God when he created the world it wasn't lovable he actually had to create a materialistic I see a physical world and not only do you have to create the materialistic world but he asked actually create the the design the essence of the world but even the components of the world in other words everything in this world the existence of the world and the operation of the world comes from what from the 22 letters of God which ultimately gets internalized in this materialistic world and God totally gets involved in this material the world which ultimately which ultimately that gives it its life force so the reality is if you look back into this world at every single moment God not only created past that's past God created the world at once but every single second every single thing in this world never at one point never existed God made it happen it's something from nothing whether it's us humans whether it's the animals out there whether it's the things that grow the trees appliance etcetera whether it's the inanimate objects at one point did not exist so because at one point it didn't exist god created something from nothing so since God created something from nothing and just like in the analogy when God had to split a seed he's constantly was giving it energy all night so to say from caving in up to the point where he actually change its nature and the minute he stopped giving that energy force what happened it okay been for the same thing also every single thing in this world God is constantly and consistently through the Asura morote whether it's a direct mama or whether it's through the derivatives we discussed last week through a different and si will film the way the the words and the letters are interchange or through gimmickry or etc God is constantly giving light forces to anything at everything this world so everything in this world whoever it may be wherever you are you are constantly and consistent in this moment the present you know the president the greatest president you have to be the president in this present moment everything that's taking place God is giving it life force right now what does that do that makes you in the president that makes you aware that this president is real and this president is important because this moment is important you know it's important because God's taking out of his valuable time and he's creep recreating it and he's giving it life force what that does is it puts you on alert it wakes you up it's not just okay how do we kill time what do you kill time guys aren't working on killing time God is killing himself we think to keep the create and maintain you so since God is doing that guess what that means divine providence is real active at every moment it means every single moment something happens the miracle now unfortunately if you don't believe and that's the other brings the people that that believe that God wouldn't created the world and walked away first of all it's not true because based on the based on the verse and based on the the count you big exploration other gate but what but the practicality is you believe that God creates it and walks away guess what there's no divine providence there's no miracles there's no meaning in your life besides the fact that it's not true but on the country when you are aware that God created and maintains God's involved in every moment your life becomes full of meaning full of joy because right now at this moment God thank you for creating me what do we do we get up in the morning what's the first thing you say Lloyd I need open alcohol metalic avec I am sure gravimeters frothy and we're excited so at least we should be excited right we're talking about we should be right and hopefully you are excited but that's not only when you get up in the morning every single moment every time you breathe I'll call Mishima Mishima every breath is a gift from God every time you're able to see your eyes are working and your ears you able to hear and you able to speak and you able to eat and they just food and and walk around etc it's a blessing but it changes you to be living inspired and really being alive because there's no greater life of being connected to the truth and being connected to the core and the way you do that afterwards raisin ball is to think and realize and to be not only subconsciously conscious about the fact that God at this moment that's the past one time Saul is gone but at this moment right now it's taking out from this busy schedule and God believing has a busy schedule everybody imagine and he's giving me life force now not only many years ago he created me now right at this moment we're living in the present right at this moment God has given me the ability to be alive to speak to hear to comprehend that is called living in the moment living inspired living house caca prophets God's involved my life living alive miracles but it's all based on the fact that we realize and we don't take for granted and we realize that in order for me to be here right now it's not passive God is actively recreating me and giving me life and give me true energy think about it we're not just by the spin of a dice or just happen and we're a product of somebody's you know somebody was born no no God wants me to be here because God did want to be it guess what he'd stop creating me I'm gone but God actually wants me to be here and have a feel that God wants you to be here it feels lovely hi feels great so this chapter and Tanya happens to be I think one of the most important chapters in Tanya because it really allows you to put a smile on every second you know babies born everyone's happy - you're there but it's a bris or was it's a girl and everyone's coming with flowers and everything right someone was born while you do it every more with your lives right people growing reborn so every moment you should have the same so huh and if you're lacking at some crop go back to the source because you've stopped thinking that God is creating right now the source of all this chapter if you're lacking the simcha that you oh my gosh I'm alive right now hello you're sleeping wake up wake up right God created you and it's creating you right now and if you really feel it and believe it guess what you'd smile and every moment is a reason to celebrate to thank God Royden right hi doll yard to thank God to be grateful for this moment not for the past moment and now for the future be grateful for this moment and if you're grateful right now for this moment how do you feel you feel grateful and you feel grateful you be happy so it's a good circle to be in called the dance of life and as we go through the dance of life we live a happy and fulfilled and beautiful life