Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Sec. 2 Chap. 3 - Do we really exist?

welcome to tonight's Tonya class we are studying the second section of Tonya the first one was look at the environment second one is called shower you condemn you know and we are starting tonight the third chapter in charge for the moon Oh since when so many people have suffer so welcome every chapter in Tonya whether it's the first section ii and later on section of tonya every one every section every chapter is a foundation in mysticism this is called the Bible of mysticisms every single one is revolutionary every single one is the foundation every single one is very very important this chapter in Tonya chapter three in the second section of sherry from una is a very very important section and that is an important chapter that is as follows sorry for the moon in this section of Tanya the second section which actually the author had a thought to make it the first and on some certain level if you see the way down to write to Tanya even after you put it a second he still rule to say that possibly should not be the first and the reason is because this is the foundation to everything what does that mean sire how ye code means the gate to the oneness oneness means again like we always say not one verses two and three one isn't a true sense of the word that the only one existence that exists is what is God tables chairs buildings people places things it's all part of the oneness of God ultimately it's all one and as the author explained the first two chapters both scripturally and logically that when God created and maintains the world so the word and the word that God used to create are constantly and consistently active in the world because it's not God stop creating it wouldn't be it wouldn't be so I offer built a thought a big permit last two weeks last chapters that if God would not right now this moment say he are you near a key are the ten utterances and all the other derivatives of it if you stop saying it we would not be we him her nothing would be nothing would be so now it's like the author brought us up to a cliff and this week we're going to almost like look over the cliff maybe even fall maybe hopefully so with this chapter again chapter three were on the cliffs and because we're on the cliff the other was going to start off with something real true revolutionary now not to scare anybody but factual reality and the real question is based on we studied the last two weeks a simple question do we really exist it's not a philosophical question and it's not a theoretical question and kind of mind game question this is a very real question do we really exist in other words now that what I'm just throwing out a question he's asking a question based on a foundation based on a foundation that we start with we're studying the last two weeks that what that God created us but something from nothing and the rule is when you create something from nothing you have to constantly recreate every moment in other words hey let me give you a simple example take for example this table you see this table it's a big piece of wood whether it's made of a bunch of pieces it's irrelevant it's one we see one piece of wood we see one piece of wood okay now this table is I would say what how many feet off the ground three feet off the ground okay three three off the ground if you give a look underneath the table between the table and the ground is there anything holding up the table yeah there is leg legs right okay so once I can hold that a moment so you have the big plank of wood in middle of beautiful room sitting three feet above the ground and there's legs pose holding up the table right look and it's virtual correct what would be now that no one do this please but let's imagine right we don't need any fight in here what would be if someone magically walks over and pulls out the post the legs month Anika table onto the table where's her table it falls it goes to the ground so so in other words this table that's sitting here mid-year is it sitting meteor is sitting no time sitting midair it's sitting on legs that the legs are touching the ground in other words if I took out the legs table goes back to the ground now what would be if I took out the legs and I pushed energy whether you can see the and push energy to hold the cable up whether you want to call it the hydraulic here or any other type of you know pressure right yeah air pressure and it's holding up the table and in other words so if I tell you look underneath the table and it's being here pushed up by ear strong air for me from the what those air pressure machines and it's pushing up the air and the pressure can do it and it's holding up a table and I tell you oh my gosh look at the table is it midair it is these the anything holding it up no because you don't see you see right through the air now am i a magician no I'm not a magician before there was wood holding up the table and now instead of wood holding up the table what do you have holding up the table you have a year through a you know a mechanic of having pressure that's blowing heavy heavy air into the tables holding up in the air now before I saw legs so I saw was holding up now I don't see anything so it looks like it looks like he was called a ketose a name which is it magic which basically is a play on the eye it looks like it's standing minier and here outstanding man here you go ya rabb like standing my name isn't magic and then all of a sudden I lower the pressure from the ear lime soda table it starts going to all I didn't I didn't I didn't close the pressure I said I'd lower the pressure all of a sudden starts going down a little bit and the more I take away the pressure that's what happens it will I end up on the floor I bring back up the pressure it goes back up so in other words the only reason why the tables up three feet high it's one or two reasons either using a foot or you know a wood or metal some kind of a frame that's holding it up or there's pressure which doesn't look like we see it but the reality is propping it up but in either case it without without something supporting it it would go back to the ground in other words so when when you create some because a table really naturally belongs on the floor I mean a piece of wood belongs in the floor the reason why it's up in the air because something's supporting it stop supporting it it goes back in the ground so the natural place for this plank of wood or could be glass or any type of material is on the ground you prop it up either with something that you see or you prop it up with pressure but in either case the minute you stop propping it goes right back down so back to the point when you see the table in the ear is a table reeling the year is a table in the air is a piece of wood in the air yeah it looks like it's in the air but it's only in the year you got someone supporting it so if I ask you do does these planks of wood fit in midair the answer is absolutely not they don't sit midair something is holding it up let's bring back to our case we each and every one of us and not only people but things that exist in this world are we here right now we are here just like your tables in midair the reason why we are here because God is saying keep this guy alive create this guy maintain this person the minute God for a second not even second split-second stops saying that galley just like throwing pulling the plug in the pressure tank and a table falls and we would disappear simple in vessel sailing straight why are you here oh very good he got it he got it holding us up in two words thank God right or Hebrew Baraka send the ball Center was very stormy Baruch Hashem bless God because if not for God I would not be here the second so matter-of-fact I'll cut we say alcohol machine machine for every breath that you take you have to count call you have to thank God because if this second God would not create you maintain you you would not be so every moment that you're here you have to thank God I'm here thank God thank you I'm here I'm breathing I'm alive you got it okay so back to the point do we exist in the true sense of the words do we have this yes really only that is a greater guy only in the mind of God okay do we exist or don't we exist let's get real this is a table exists minier it looks like no it doesn't there's something pushing it up so in other words this what is let's get to the truth of it do we really exist no no what really is this that God is the only real existence we would only good well they say that when Columbus ships came to America and the Indians that were unsure when they looked out into the ocean they didn't see anything okay and no concept okay what a ship is so they're you know they just looked out in the ocean right see anything okay so to them since they had no name they hey I got it there's no concept of it I got it begin we're talking deeper we're talking true existence do we really exist the answer is we do not exist the only real existence is God another would say so so so the reality we do not exist all right okay the only thing that exists is God so now comes the question we don't establish the fact that the truth is we do not exist the only thing that exists is God so how come I walk around saying hey my name is Reverend quitting you say your name is rather John and Warren and we said are we spending on a table and I mean by the table on a chair we have a book any tiny about God and we write and we're talking hello do we if you're saying that we really don't exist so why you think I or you or what are we doing here right in other words fun we establish back we don't exist the only real existence of God so now are we over sugar you know we certainly don't we crazy so then why are we saying I you and we have plans who are going in five minutes and we can tell you we were yesterday and we're going to dinner and tomorrow where we're going to go pray pray and hello do we exist that we are is this so we don't exist so then why do we have names and why do we have titles and why do we have hats and jackets right my mindset and what alkylating though I don't know anybody at the convention in the mind of God Lisa's right okay so the ultimate eyes he's going to give us an analogy because what happens when you deal with something deep it's hard to deal with it head-on you need an analogy the analogies all terms of the scholars to try to comprehend this concept I 100 own exists the only thing that really gives is God on the other hand there seems to be this seems to be right and we think seems to be a certain existence that we do have which one is correct to others that will give us an analogy and so it's a it's a very practical analogy and so like this take for example you go outside box from the live in Florida right so we have like the sun is shining always in Florida and other parts of the world I know in Florida the sun is shining so we when we took out the sun shining we can go outside actually and see it I think certain parts of all doesn't showing it right landscape certain times of the year right okay certain okay but in Florida thank God we have a sun shining now you go out to the your outside I didn't actually thank God even like these long days the Sun is still shining nicely and you give a look in the Sun and then you give a look in the world in the world there's something which is called that the Sun produces something which is called light what does the Lightning light means it's light you have the ability to see and we created this term light and I say to you point to me at the light it's everywhere but really we're the light what is it like you touch it can you feel it okay let's trace it where it's coming from we will swear the light coming from so let's up the kind from the Sun now if we were able to if we were able to take a journey now get into a private helicopter right Halleck up jet jet plane and we take a journey up into the Sun and I say they come let's go to the Sun and we come to the Sun I say okay you said the light that's in the world this physical world is coming from the Sun can you please show me the light in the Sun do you see you can show me to light into the Sun no because in the Sun light does not exist in the Sun you have the Sun in the Sun you have the Sun you have no light Wow one second let's say that's one thing at a time we take a journey into the Sun I say show me the light hello you have the Sun you're on the light okay so when I take you a journey to the place where the lights coming from you tell me there's no light here there's only son okay goodbye going back to earth take a jet come back to earth if we see the Sun here no thumbs up there we left Sun lame right you know it's called some land right we fly down back to earth and all of a sudden we have light so the question is that is a very simple question in the source with a light comes from there's no light it's called front and it is Sun once the light leaves the Sun and comes down to earth there is no something you have light well what is that all about but the author explains very simple and it's correct in the source you have Sun when you have Sun who cares about light who needs right who wants light light doesn't exist because you have the Sun once you go away from the Sun so you don't have the Sun the Sun is up in heaven close to heaven you come down to the Sun is not here you look outside you see so you don't look at you look after the wind you don't see the Sun but you see light which the light is coming from the Sun fast ending of the adult services in the source you have Sun the light down here there's no something you have light in other words what the author is explaining as follows in the source the only thing that exists is the source the only thing that exists in the front once the salt once the source is gone or hidden or concealed then you have the possibility to create something which is called light which actually comes from the Sun but has its own identity and as why do we call the light outside Sun because it's not the Sun it's not the Sun it's light it created an identity because it went away from the source but in the source it's nothing and out of the source down here is a new concept light has has a source in the source it's nothing the author uses this analogy to explain to us our original question what's the question do we exist and the answer is oh the only real existence that exists is what is God so if God is only real exist in so I would say God God God right I mean and that's the truth but the author is very simple just like in the source it's the Sun but the source gets hidden so you have all sudden this thing called light the same thing also the truth is the only real existence is God there's no need there's no use there's no him there's no her dance on tables and chairs this built there's nothing there's no cars there's nothing this just got but because God's concealed so all the sudden you have all these like pop-ups we in her you table chair building glass house car boats planes whatever writing the books keep on going on so in other words like this without them saying like the rule is a simple rule when the source is revealed the only real existence is lost the source just like in a storm the only real existence is the Sun the only real existence of God but what happens when the source is hidden all of a sudden we got something called light you created our own identity the same thing also God didn't also we have tables you have cheers you have this one that one he said she said and I'm right and you're wrong and he's right and she right why is that because because the source of hidden in other words practically speaking when God is concealed all the sudden you have all these like let's use simple English all these arrogant things that start growing up in other words if God was really revealed with a cheer stand on the sammich here where the table say on the table I stand up and say hey I'm giving the class tonight no it would be God because God is concealed all of a sudden is me and as him and there's a book and etc so in other words the only reason why we say or think or feel that we exist is because God concealed basically because God's concealed there is us yes yes that's it not really us a theory feeling that's my book you write your own book I got it okay okay but the author of it says he brought a beautiful analogy he brought dr. Bhatti analogy we says but there's one issue with the analogy that you can't compare it to it's very simple when you have the Sun and you have the world with the Sun so to speak Sun is sitting in help you higher up and the world the Sun is not revealed you have the light so the reality is where's the Sun what's the river source of Sun all the way up there down here the Sun is the Sun here no just the light you have the light from the Sun so beer makes sense you can have a creation or something that we call light but the author is to ask a question hold on we're is God only in heaven no God is everywhere if this God would not be with the table be God is where the table is God's wouldn't share God's will I am you are God is everything and everywhere so could you compare the analogy of the Sun with the light with us and God know because God is everywhere and God is everything so in other words that much different knowledge I gave you it's a good analogy it's cute and there is some basically we could understand a certain concept when something's concealed or suddenly pop up but the Altima says one second that would be true if God was really concealed but God really concealed can you say God is concealed no because you said God concealed you wouldn't be we wouldn't be so it's God here and not here so that is here so back to square one really so is God within the emptiness of the table and everything so he's the emptiness of not everything why emptiness dancing is the fullness everything of God everything is God it gets even you know interestingly the way our understanding is even the concept of emptiness is God yeah exactly very you got it it's like the man's against in the closet class conceal the son sometimes fine but and but that's the dance we talked about the someone took line now back to the point of God so God is everything so based on that the ultimate comes back to the question he asked them to getting in the chapter or the statement that important again chapter that's the case that God is really everything and God is really everywhere so if that's the case you ready for the question how can we exist we don't we don't really sit here we give an answer within for your financial the quadrant here the question if that's the case how can we really exist can so why are we saying I me and her and why are we going to places and doing it got we don't really exist to here's one and allows us to breathe but God is allowing us your jumping for an answer let's forget the question straight the question is how can we exist with God there it will be let's forget the question the rule is you really want to have an answer you first need to get the question let's first get the question the question after baldies if you haven't answered me the questions I'm really bothering you the question has to bother you know the purpose of chapter three is that this question should be ingrained in you and this question to bother you look I'm jump for answers yet because guess what guess what I tell you something a secret which I'm next bomb is going to say the altar of finishers finishes off this chapter chapter 3 which is revolutionary distillate may create question right so the author of finishes off chapter 3 which is very revolutionary and unique and one of a kind he finishes off the chapter with this question and the question is he started with the question he ends with the question and he's still remaining stronger if that is the case that God is everything God is everyone it's not like the Sun how can we exist that's the question all of that you know whatever the whatever let me participant let me it makes me feel a little insecure one second one second one get we're going to get to that in a second hold on so now the question is and like you said it makes you feel insecure why we have a rule that we never finish of a chapter with a question why what's the problem of the question because what if you leave off a chapter no question people can start thinking and when people start thinking we know the mind is limited and the mind is is subjective and you can come up with crazy ideas and crazy thoughts like you said you can become insecure and you can feel inferior exponent of it so the question the question is and this is a big question everyone asks how come the Alpha have finished off this chapter with the question how can we finish over the question the answer they give is very simple because normally you're right we don't need questions but let's analyze this question Arthur is leaving us let's get to the depth of the question and you see how the question is really important what is the question alpha is asking us the question is sins everything is gone and the only reason why we're here is because of God and the only true existence is God so then the realities we don't exist or how could we exist so the article what they what they explained is the reason why Gotham is answering leading over this question is because when a person thinks about this question where's the schoolers question and take you when you start thinking about the fact that the truth is everything is gone everything comes from God where is it no again we're not we don't the answer yet but we gather once he thought of one sort of think about the question not an answer he wants us to go into the question deeper and deeper because when he's not answering you know you're now you veered away from what the messages the message of this chapter is that we should have the question once again no answer and we should continue the question and the question is going to lead you to great places why there is what's the question the question is saying is the truth is that everything is God so if you ask that question over and over again since everything is gone then really I don't exist so really if I don't exist what's the real existence God and since the real existence of God so who's the one ultimately that created the world dot who maintains the world God everything is God so the truth is I don't really exist right so where you're jumping around side on here and says I don't hear the question again the point of this chapter to teach us to ask the question and this is the only question that you're like to ask forever you start eating answers you're missing you're ready veering off from the message of chapter 3 chapter 3 is not about looking for answers chapter 3 is about looking for quite the question keeping them making the question stronger so the truth is again thinking about as you're walking in the street the only thing that really exists is gone everything that happens in the world is from God now what are you what are you going to so what do you even end up with but you're going to end up with one thing you're going to end up with I'm giving you my opinion but you can share your own you can only end up in a good place why because you're going to end up with true trust in God since he created and maintained the world and once you have to trust in God and you have because you have because you have to faith that everything is from God and everything is God how you gonna feel ah you got it you got it you're going to feel wonderful you're going to feel great you know why because whose world is this God's world and we know God is good and God wants the best for us and God wants us to be safe so if somebody opens up the mouth or says something inappropriate not nice or etc how do you feel you feel safe because I'm in God's world don't open the wall maybe we've got opening his mouth maybe he wanted to tell me a message I don't know let me hear what God wants in other words if it takes away fear from you it takes away literally any fear any worry any insecurities any concern that sort of negative it takes it away on the positive wanted to bring out love happiness joy compassion but again in order is a very big place to get to and a great place to get but you're going to get there by asking question of chapter three and it's the only chapter of the whole time you general any of mysticism do they leave you with a question because this is the only question that will lead you to great places again what's the question that's the question is who is God and who I believe in God no know the cost in the country God is everything God created everything God maintains everything if that's the case we don't exist I want and if we don't exist and we quickly of this and God is the one that created everything if you maintains everything so guess what who runs the world God's world we're guests we're like on a free cruise with God around the world all the time sure it's better than a timeshare it's like a pressure point I got it it's kind of you know you just won a couple lectures yeah I got it okay so in other words recap this chapter chapter 3 Shari's Emunah is one of the found strongest foundations and mysticism and once you get this and get it deeply and you realize that the only real existence that exists in this world with God and we really don't exist not even compared to the Sun with the light the only real existence is God and like the question is not a question with an answer how could we exist the answers we really don't exist the only guess was God that will lead you to real faith in God real thing on real trust God which will lead you to an amazing beautiful life that everything is wonderful loving and hate