Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Sec 3 Chap. 2 Teshuva out of Love

welcome to tonight's Tonya class we are studying Tonya we're in the third section of Tonya we did the first section we did a second sorry for the Munna and now we're doing the third section called a garret approval which deals with the Kabbalistic approach of returning to God trooper means to return to God so tonight is chapter 2 we're holding in chapter 2 last week the author Abba established the Kabbalistic approach of true law which is very very simple he said what if truth I mean I mean obviously discussed laughs we get length the whole cabbalistic of the letters the names of the hey excited we're talking the concept of chuhwa the concept of true is spiritually on a Kabbalistic level is making a firm commitment you're not gonna sit anymore in hebrew it's hold as Eve a socket no more sitting once you make that firm resolution you're not gonna sin you did truven done now Truvada author explains last week in Chapter one is for two issues one issue just to recap and for those that weren't here last week one issue is we know we have 613 commandments how many positive comments 248 how many negative 365 okay so what happens is when a person does not do one of the 248 positive cram she has an opportunity to do he doesn't do it you know what happens that Mitzvah that he missed you can ever make up for it how can you go back in time so you were supposed to for example until in or keep kosher I'm talking that in the from the positive Commandments Shabbat any other 248 now some over any of the 248 Commandments if you had an opportunity to do it and you didn't do it tonight you'll do future let's vote that's great but to go say I'm going to go do yesterday stone know you can do filter in Quran told twice today and three times but yesterday it's all God's of it if you didn't do it you didn't do it or that's a person let's say missed out on observing Shabbat so in you want absorb problem that's great every Shabbat you observe is wonderful but the ones you list you missed we're not saying it to create a guilt trip of the feel bad let's talk a reality if you miss the opportunity miss territory for example you want to take a trip today somewhere and you miss the flight Eunice the boss the car whatever maybe today you're not going anymore you can go tomorrow but today you can't go anymore now so when a person misses a positive commandment guess what you can't make up for it therefore it's important to make sure not to miss any positive Commandments that's step number one and comes to positive Commandments but nevertheless you did do something inappropriate by not doing it what you rebelled against God God said to do this whether it's villain shabbat kashrut whatever whatever the power and you didn't do it it's the fact that you missed that you missed out your your loss of connecting to God but you did rebel against God God says do you didn't do it so for that you need to ver and as we discussed what is chuva God you know I'm not gonna miss anymore I'm not gonna miss if I have a day comes up I'm puttin until today I'm keeping Shabbat and keeping kashrut and again this is all the 240 pounds of Commandments the means I'm making a firm commitment to God I'm never gonna miss I'm never gonna miss and from now on I'm gonna seize every opportunity truly you're accepted dad's for a positive commandment what happens if somebody has a negative comment you have to do you shouldn't be doing and you rebelled so we're there there's two parts one is I'm never gonna transgress and then there besides that something which is called Khepera where do you articulate the same those confessions there's atonement but ultimately in all the Caparo that there are four possible negative the main thing you need is to say I'm not sending any more and even the Caparo that's near which we know if someone did something which is reliable for death penalty if you do sincere chuhwa you can get you serene God brings and you basically unfortunately challenges but that the only one that can bring on new challenges and suffering is not yourself and not anyone else the only one that can do that is who got so it's clear from the first chapter of Tanya the only thing we need to do is I'm sorry now I'm sorry you're saying I'm sorry but making a firm commitment I'm never gonna miss a positive commandment and and different puzzle coming because where I'm going to do it and be I will never transgress a negative moment now that is when it comes to the positive and the negative misfit what about the author abroad blasts we're about fasting we know this pretty real fast and they've seen from eating to COSM Saul's pain for the fact that they transgressed against God so doctors know know there's no place in Kabbalah and juries and for fasting in terms of obviously what Trueba either trova you made a commitment and a sincere commitment and a soul commitment that what am i doing oh you know I'm doing never transgressing again and guess what we sometimes you know we make mistakes where you mean so what we do is we say that's what I'm not doing anymore no that's last week's chapter comes wound up her in this week's chapter chapter two and he says but guess what I wanted you to have a clearer picture that true Vergennes means what I'm not sending any more positive acremant somebody's always do the opportunity negative I won't transgress the negative but there is a place for fasting that you could fast on your own and that is if they get knocked conditional to the truven Cheever is clear right let's we cleared troopers done not conditional but if a person wants that your what is truly you want to return to God you want to rebuild that relationship you want to Risa meant that relationship you want to become one with God you want to get deeper with God you want to have an amazing relationship with God you want the relation should be Wow you want it and God wants it and if you beautiful in other words you want the relation to magical because you can have a functional relationship a technical relationship and then you can have what a magical relationship so if and when you want what the magical relationship guess what guess what you can have it how do you do that so here in in chapter 2 the author says guess what what's the goal you want the relation to be and tell you the Hebrew is not translated live rots own because we know in the sphere oath is the highest fear is rot sown and then it goes down to the intellect and the emotions knows when you can connect to somebody's not emotions feelings not intellect I mean it's great emotions are great intellect was great but if you couldn't connect to the person's will what does that person want and you're able fulfill the person's want then you really connected what does the person really want or do you spouse what what does your child walk when you panic what with your friend want once you connect and someone can be opened you can open them now you have the deepest type possible relationship so if you want your relationship to God to be what one of ruts own deep that deep relationship of ruts own and actually a visa beloved right then Englishmen they called magical like the magical relationship then there is a place of fasting again not that you have to fast for the true virtue verse done but if you say you don't got I'm never gonna miss an opportunity right and now I'm never gonna cemetery I'm gonna make sure never gone through the trance rest don't truly accept it but here double roses but you want to take but you want to read cement the relationship you want them in relation to start flying again you want the liberation to be strong then what happens is fasting does have a place why does fasting have a place very simple and your operator like this what happens in the time it's Hampton temple when someone did ascend so you okay I'm not going to do anymore what else people do they would bring the sacrifice they would go ahead and they would take hard-earned money and they would buy a sacrifice not depends there's different levels of sacrifices a poor person this is a desert there's a one animator flour and oil and there's some little moth your bird then you have animals and salt go you know video animals and so on solvent sheeps Exedra the point is what's the purpose of a sacrifice because basically you're taking hard earned money harder than under you today you can do any person you works hard for the money be we do anything you want with it and you take that money instead you buy something whatever the item is and you bring it to the temple so the money is not yours anymore but not only that you take this thing that you bought and you're giving it as a gift to God a gift of God why are you doing that you're doing that because you want to create a rut zone a pleasing relationship with God and that's obviously all throughout the Torah biblically or a command to do so if you want to create that relationship today unfortunately we don't have that we don't have that opportunity so if somebody wants to bring a sacrifice to God it means you want to show something it's really important to me I'm going to give it up for God something that I would get enjoyment from I'm not gonna do it because I want to show you that God you're more important to me I think it not that I'm doing it to try to persecute myself or hurt myself I'm doing it again it's a major difference when a person sacrifices you can you can sacrifice two reasons you could be a martyr all right you know what I'm a nobody you have a low self-esteem I don't need it I don't want it that's at the point the point is no I am as somebody I am Who I am God created me etc but God I want to show you you're important to me now you're more important to me and therefore because I love you so much it knows the key point here is the whole concert or Trueba is not a negative concept I'm a bad person have to repent no no you're a great person God said the minute you say I'm not going to do transgress anymore he accept it but now we want to create that relationship and the way we created that relationship is by withholding so for example let's say you said okay God you know I did something wrong either I missed the opportunity or I did something wrong which I shouldn't have done wrong and I want to be back one with you God I want to be back one with you God so what happens now see you say to God guess what I was gonna have a regular date today but instead I'm not gonna do anything today I'm not gonna be anything why because when you eat you feel like you're getting enjoyment and satisfaction of something physical but instead today guess what I'm not gonna do that but how you gonna live so obviously my stomach's gonna be turning and I'm really living off the food from yesterday but I sacrificed today that I want to show you God that materialism and physicality and food and drink and enjoyment that's not what's important to me you know what's important to me you and because I messed up and because I missed an opportunity or I did something I shouldn't have done I wanna practice restraint and I'm not going to enjoy enjoy and indulge and I'm gonna make today a personal fast day so that I can become more connected to God on a spiritual level and when a person does that guess what happens God says Wow here's been half too fast I didn't ask him too fast I left me not to eat and ever asked not to drink I cut them done right I'm not you know and I forgave you but look at I forgave the guy I told them no problem God says hey you committed you're not gonna send any more phony back go back everything's good but the person says not about God I want to make sure and I want you to know that you're more important to me because I I'm more important to myself you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna sit down and get an indulge I'm gonna eat things that taste good and drinking good and it's all Batley I want to show you today guess what I am living off of my loving relationship for you so it's not it's not something that are fast its own can ask you or make you do that's not the point on the contrary here we're saying is I'm the kind of new choose that you want to basically become closer to God because you didn't miss a few mid so that you should have done or you did certain things you shouldn't have done that's what it works and the only it works but it actually creates a loving relationship of God it creates a relationship of being ruts own one with the will of God and also what with the being Habib for God and the author went on over here brings down from the Talmud many many rabbis and many many leaders that speak about how many fasts that they've done throughout their life to afflict on them a reminder that what's really more important is God then he quotes first from the Talmud many different sources and then he quotes from their result so not only the revealed part or even the hidden part Dora where the ariza would actually prescribe like when you were a doctor Goffe not feeling alright so they give you medicine right if you voted that reason who was a Kabbalist he has to give you medicine too so he would prescribe for his students pending on what they did wrong and his pending on which Mitzvah limits even was the small literally missed or pending on what remit for they actually transgressed he would say okay these how many fasts these how many fasts and you would go ahead and do the fast prescription of fast but again these people came to the result they didn't have to say we have to fast but they said listen you know what we basically want to go ahead and we wanted to come closer to God you want to become a little nuts on the Hashem do you want to become covered by ash and we want to become loved by God and God please give us and the ariza would give them fast to do but again to make it clear what doctor was saying in this chapter is he still stands with the position in the first chapter what if true VAR Aziza yet I am committing not to sin anymore not to miss opportunities and obviously not to do anything wrong that is 100% Juba and there is no reason for fasting but here in this chapter chapter two doctor introduces idea fasting that you're doing it on your own I'd have love for God to show God that God is more important to you and you want to create a beautiful loving relationship with God