Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Sec 4 Chap. 6 ״How to experience the greatest Love & Awe for G-D"

welcome to tonight's Tonya class we are actually studying Tonya the fourth section in Tonya egoistical desh and we are holding chapter six in Agartha kodesh it's a great chapter as always since this is the foundation of mysticism so every chapter is solid every chapter is foundational stuff and every chapter is revolutionary and powerful beautiful ideas so today's chapter the author it shows us shows us and teaches us how we can experience the greatest the greatest love and all four gods now who doesn't want to be in a real loving relationship or gods all right we all want to be in a loving people that are sitting in people that are watching right on Facebook and on YouTube so we all want to have a great and beautiful loving relationship with God and over here in this chapter and Agera to code this chapter six the Alpha is going to teach us how we can have this awesome loving and the relationship with God so the author begins and he starts off based on a verse in Proverbs you know proverbs written by King Solomon and King Solomon writes like this so Reyat Sadako's if you plant you plant charity scar the reward for that is Emma's interesting so King Solomon because again mysticism there's no there's no revolutionary idea there's no new ideas everything in mysticism is gonna take something that says in the Torah five books of Moses the prophets the writings take something that's there and it's gonna put on a pair of like glasses that you can see they're glass you can see in the future and it takes you like an egg wow and a Kabbalistic journey into the depths of a simple verse and you go oh my gosh wow how come I didn't see that well guess what you didn't have Kabbalah glasses you put on some Kabbalah classes some considers glasses a mystical glasses you'll see things that you haven't seen before so that's what the Alterman does he gives us a beautiful pair of glasses and welcome to tonight's class where you can put on those glasses and see what it means so again so back to the verse so King Solomon says in Proverbs that when you plan charity practically speaking you put a dollar in the charity box so you help somebody any type of charity you do you're gonna get a reward what's the reward not a Bitcoin no not gonna say that it says Ms truth now bitcoin is a mess maybe it's that's it but I don't know it's debatable but the point is the reward is Emma's truth MS you're gonna have MS you're gonna have truth now so the question is what is this Ms about what is the MS but we already know that when you give charity you're gonna get em s so the opera continues and brings another verse where the Prophet says T tain MS Lea Cove TT Nemus Lea Cove which means God is going to give Yaakov Jacob the gift of what of NS of truth so the optimist says that it's not God is might might give Yaakov or not T tennis means God is going to give it to him God's gonna give it to him now Yaakov receives Emmis from God God will give them and the gift of Emma's so Yaakov gets the gift of Emma's here we see one verse that you have to give charity to get MS it's something which you earn and the other hand that says that Yaakov has and gets MS but then the question the offer asked a simple question God is gonna give Yaakov MS what does that mean if God doesn't give him he doesn't have MS God is Jacob is not a truthful person ms means that it's true Jacob was not only one of the patriarchs he was the epitome of the patriarch cuz we know Abraham was Hesed right oriented get stuck Isaac was Gura left oriented and Yaakov a son and as we know Abraham had two children one went on the right path one went off the path from an extreme behaved since Abraham was an extremist yet Huck had the same thing two children one on the right path one went off the path again for an extreme behavior Yakko because he was a balanced and he was the center since he was centered therefore all his children were whole and complete because when you're balanced then you create a balanced beautiful family but again it's not a discussion for itself but the point is the author asked why should wadding if T of Yaakov as a gift ms if ms is something which he had didn't he have it okay so the Altima starts and starts off by explaining who is Yaakov now obviously we all know who Yaakov was he was the son of itsuka rifki we know his wife's worth four wives the children etc we're talking spiritually what is Jakob who is Yaakov now why is it important to know that because each and every one of us have the three four fathers the four four mothers the matriarch sand them in patriarchs of the Jewish community so Yaakov is who we all come from we all have a piece of Yaakov within us so we want to know who is Yaakov the author explains what is Yaakov and who is Yaakov and explains like this that Abraham he personified the meda the attribute of what our crescent of kindness of love now what does that mean spiritually that's a kindness and love and a simple level in the raw sense of the word so a person that is a model of Abraham a model of 100 / extreme cosette extreme love their response to everything is yes sure sure anything you want the answer is yes sure they'll give anyone everything so for example if a child walks into the kitchen and sees a sharp knife and says to a hesed personality can I have the knife I want to cut myself an apple sure it's not even a question the child asked for a knight he said why did give a child a knife it's a sharp knife well me the child asked for it being say no to a child now from a facet perspective there's nothing wrong with that answer a classic perspective it's kindness its Alba it's love so for child one tonight sure you give it to them or for example if we have a teenager that's drunk and doesn't have a license and wants the keys to your car if you're a passive person hold tight what are you gonna say yeah sure you want the Porsche if you want the Audi oh do you want the Lexus or my new Tesla which one take anyone you want right and you even think for a second oh my gosh they're drunk no license does that enter your mind no again if you are has a personality I know there were people probably ready to shoot me right now but relax we're talking that the customer will get to the guru people in a second so the classic personality is sure take it anyone you want take any keys here it is go for it that's what a broom represent represents hazard on the other hand gets Hawk represents what guevara Gura is initial response to anything and everything is no unless you deserve it so if you have a child that works hard and does all the right things and they walk over to you and you see this and you know can I get something basically they need well let me think if you actually deserve it did you do all your homework this week on time hello this kid is a star child well-behaved well-mannered will do anything for you what was that all about but again if you're coming from the guevara world let me check you out first I have to see do you deserve it well don't you deserve it any decision that has to be made a group erson allottee is going to the first thing is let me analyze this situation let me first aside there has to be analytical process a decision process a thought-out process again it's not bad and good but a group erson ality the first responder the first response of any group person is no unless it makes sense to me that i should give it to you and if it doesn't you're not getting it that's Laura again it's not bad and go around making judgments defining what a group melodious now put a facet and grew a person personality together that's God sense of humor and that's a rabbis full-time job when you have a lesson and grew a couple come to you it's a lot of fun not fun in in a funny way just because you're dealing with two different worlds two different worlds first response yes first response no and you're supposed to come to a healthy decision okay back to our reality so you have the our own personality yes you have the yetsko person a euro no no no and then you have which is called the aqua personality what is the aqua personality in Hebrew it's called rock Manute now Ramona's compassion is not as most people think it's a mix okay it's a mix between Castle and Laura we'll put a little cuffs I'd put a little Gura mix it up oh we got a nice blend that's right that's rock - no it's not that's a simple way to think of it but it's not it's not a mix Ramona's Yaakov is a one-hole different reality what Ramona says in simple terms you put yourself in the other person's shoes and that's hard very good empathy you put yourself in the other person's shoes and you say hmm you want that so you're not gonna say yes that's that's cousin you're not gonna say no you're gonna do what Hebrews called Chico hadass you're gonna think it through and you're gonna say you know the truth is I don't necessarily know if you deserve this but I'm gonna do it anyway for you now that's beautiful that is beautiful because Romanus basically is and hath said you're really disconnected with the person fine here knows the expressions when you're always saying yes it's not really a yes you didn't say yes you're just defaulting yes you didn't connect to the person if you're saying no you're not connecting to a person see Ferris is the first time you're actually connecting to the other human being you're saying oh my gosh you want that okay I get it you know what whether you deserve it you don't deserve it I'll give it to you I'll do it for you yes that's empathy that's beautiful that's real so the avodah of of Yaakov is the abode of Ramona's now what does that mean practically in our lives so the author explains of this the fact is that God the infant of God before he created the world this whole world was God then God decided to create do something which is called it since soon he concealed themselves and then he drew it down a light and he created a finite world find a physical world finite human beings and he put us in this world to serve God now the fact is that God say bye-bye to us no he's concealed because if God revealed then what was the purpose of it symptom what would the purpose of concealment but so God had to conceal himself but if God disappears we wouldn't be and God really wants us to succeed so the way God made us is that God created our physical body and within our body we all have a neshama we have a part of God so each and every one of us each and every one of us has a part of God within us that means wherever we go I go you go wherever you go guess who is going with you God now is God with big signs big Flags big banners big posters Here I am God no God has no signs no banners no posters God is deep within us almost hiding possibly it's an interesting using that term God is deep within us and God sitting quietly he doesn't bother us he doesn't judge us he doesn't force us to do what he wants he's sitting there it's up to us to choose whether we're gonna respect God and love him and do things that make God feel comfortable so for example when you're studying Torah how does God feel feels good oh my gosh you're acknowledging that God is with you and you're making God feel countably studying Torah when you do a mitzvah any Mitzvah this 613 commandments 248 positive 3 6 are negative when you do a mitzvah before you eat you make a blessing you get up in the morning you say modani before you go to sleep you say smile you pray how does God feel feels great now what happens if you decide to and I are going to talk about sinning right now we're not going to go that we let's assume we're all holy people we're not sinning but let's say you decide to sit down just enjoy life just enjoy the pleasures of life now I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do but let's say you decide to enjoy the pleasures of life when you start enjoying the pleasures of life you know you're forgetting about God because we are we can only do one thing at once we can toggle back and forth you can say oh my god by the way I'll remember you right but the fact is when you're enjoying life you're enjoying life again I'm not talking bad I'm not talking about sinning that's a whole different reality a whole different discussion but when you get involved in life and enjoying life just for the sake of enjoyment and I'm not saying you shouldn't enjoy life but well soon as he had a proper way to do that when you're ass enjoying like this for the sake of enjoyment blends to God the God that's sitting within you is like you put into the back seat weekend and you forget about him now what happens when you forget about God God sitting there lonely not so happy so there's two ways you can deal with the God within you three ways sorry one way is you can be like Abraham let's just pray let's study let's do Mitzvah right let's just take care of God okay I got it the other way hey it's time from God this time for me God will have his time we'll do with prayers now we're gonna enjoy life right but then there's that hold of what of Yaakov the voter of Yaakov is rockman root is he said himself you know God created me my body my wants my desires he gave my soul but the fact is I have want to needs God has his the truth is let's split it 50/50 60/40 70/30 thirty seven the however you want to split it right it's only fear from a physical mental calculation it's a fear way to look at it but guess what Yakko says even though I can make that calculation I can say listen you know what God 50% of days yours 50% of this mind I'm not talking about selling 50% I'll pray and I'll study Newman's fault let me 50% they do what I want to do chill out enjoy life etc nothing wrong with that calculation right but Yaakov comes and says yes even I can make that calculation but guess what on the other hand think about it for that 50% of the day or however you want to divide it 60/40 70/30 whatever the percentage is for that percentage I'm going to enjoy life God's gonna sit there and I'm gonna feel like out of place because God is not gonna be the center of attention I'm gonna stop and I'm gonna really say oh my gosh you know I'm not gonna do this to you God as much as I would love to just enjoy for the sake enjoyment I have rock monitor for you and I'm going to make you my number one of my life now that doesn't mean I'm not gonna enjoy life guess what I'm gonna enjoy life because God wants me to enjoy life I'm gonna be happy not because I just want to be happy and just be Gaga I want to be happy because God wants me to be happy it doesn't mean you can't enjoy life you can enjoy life you should enjoy life you should put take into pleasure the world but do it for the reason so you're doing it and you're refusing God you're infusing God in the experience now has yak of calm about doing it because he thinks about there are Manas the compassion he has for God now what's the rock amano-san God so the author explains very simple God as we know is infinite now it's very hard for us find the people to really comprehend infinite we know that something which is whoa way out there infinite God went ahead and created a finite world now we ready to discuss that last week in Tonya how did God create this physical world so he mentioned last week and Tonya that God used the yield one letter one letter to create a Leela muhabba the world to come and he used one letter a hey to create this world a letter I mean think about that we're not talking about books we're not talking paragraphs we're not talking about sentences we're not talking outwards one letter God used to create this world so think about how much of God took to create this world I'm not gonna use the word nothing because it isn't something or is algebra we used the term last week and a very very light letter the hey doesn't even have too much weight to it Dollard has now lived it hey there's nothing really to it but God used a very light letter to create this world so compete take this letter this hey compared to the infinite power of God how much what is it it's like nothing it's like think about how much energy we put out all day we say things we think things we excited about things right we're moving etc and we had one fleeting thought hello it was fleeting it was so our thought it was a thought and it was a real thought it was a fleeting thought what value doesn't having a 24-hour day it's like almost nothing so think about the energy that God used to create this world it's a fleeting letter now so look look at this ox now this world is real because we live in this world but compared to God what is this world it's so much of nothing that it's not you can't even like fathom or kind of nothing it is think about it this whole work again let's get out of our perspective we look at this is the world oh my gosh building a house i him/her excited stuff to god this whole world the whole world is a letter was created from a letter hey this world hey the youth was the world to come hey nothing God is way greater than the whole alphabet and God is infinite so this world how much energy do you think it has compared to the infinite power of gods first of all finite compared to infinite you can't even compare but even in the finite it's just built on a whole and the whole world is a hey and God is sitting in this world sitting in this world that alone puts God like like a loser or nobody so Yaakov thinks and says to myself oh my gosh all of us think with the power of the a cobra Horus God this infinite power for God is sitting within me hello let's give him a local attention let's pray together let's study Torah let's do Mitch vote everything I'm doing throughout the day godly part of it not as a secondary thought an active part we should be obsessed with God 24/7 because he created this whole world from just a fleeting hey he's hanging out with us here he has better things to do and we're gonna ignore him it's like you get it you get an invitation to go see the king the President and your meetings at 10 o'clock and you're sitting in 10 I got you playing in the garden with the flowers and the king is sitting there waiting for you I mean hello so you have God within you and you're just totally out to lunch that's compassion compassion is oh my gosh even though hey I need time for myself know as much as I need time for myself I cannot let God sit there by himself and let's include God in the time for myself and guess what use a little thought a little cycle a little feeling and you're built include garden everything you do and guess what God loves hanging out with you God loves hanging out with you guess what when 24/7 when you're awake and doing all the great things God loves hanging out with you while you're sleeping God loves hanging out with you God is sitting right there while you're sleeping and he's with you invite him in let God be with you 24/7 whatever you do why because it's God and he's in you might as well include him so what you only get included when you're praying it's nice or when you're studying Torah no Yaakov the power of responses I will include God in everything I do you're going out to play a game of baseball soccer you're going swimming golfing you need that to recoup and to you know give yourself some physical exercise as we know it's important according to the Torah the Rambam would do exercise take God with you say God what does mean take guard with you make sure you're wearing it sit sit if you're a man and the yarmulke and make sure you know you pray to God oh my gosh like so the game should be great successful God I need your help so we should win guess what you take God with you you'll be a winner you'll have a better experience women better you have to sleep better include God in your life make God part of your life that is what that's called rock Monod it means acknowledging gods they're realizing gods there and even though yes I want to do my own stuff no we're gonna include God now then the ultra centers follows when a person has love and or for God there's two ways we can experience love and or forgot two ways here's one way that we experience love love and all for God is high welcome come inside have a seat there's two ways we can experience love and offer God one is based on the gift that God gave us our mind and we meditate on God how great God is the infinite God God created the world and that's part a the meditation two parts in a two part in a meditation and part be ten meditation is this infinite God loves me he created me he gives me everything I need and when a person meditates and the more you meditate that's why it's important to meditate every single day the way God created everything and God maintains everything the way God loves me you know what happens guess what happens you start loving God back and you're in awe of God so by us meditating on two parts the way God created us and the way God loves us you will naturally love God back more now if you're not feeling the love guess what go back to meditation and start thinking thing what are we doing the prayer services we think that all things God created and the way God created it for us the regard gives us a great life and guess what we start having a tremendous love for God now if we're lacking a love for God simple open up our eyes see all the gifts God gave gave and gives you that's one type of love love that is built and based on our meditation then the altmer says after we do that and we really really you know meditate oh my gosh god it's amazing right thank you for creating me for loving me and you develop this now two-way street love with God then God says wow this guy put his foot in the finger in hot water this guy worked on this person worked on that and developing true real love with me guess what I'm going to open up some of the gates the floodgates of love I can open up and God will open up within us the floodgates of love and all frosh m that we cannot achieve with our meditation it's 100% that gift from God so in other words there's two types of loves for God one we get because we worked on it we meditated we meditate on God's greatness and when God loves us and then we love God back tremendously the second type of love is after we do that God give us a gift and you go whoa now dad you can work that you'll get only when God is ready to give it to you but he'll give it to you after you put the effort in now the algebra says guess what are they both cold loves the one bakes that in meditation one but based on a gift from God they're both called love sure they're both called love it's love but what's called EMS buzzword remember the word from beginning what's called MS what's true love the one that you meditated the one that God gave you obviously the one that God gave you why because the one that you meditated you only got so far your mind is limited so you're only able to go so far and when you stop meditating it wears off but when God opens up the floodgates of love and since we know god's seal God's signature of life is what there's MS guess what you don't kind of love that is that is the real deal that is love which we call ms now obviously what do we want we want that love who doesn't want that who doesn't want that type of love so the optimist says very simple great so what's our goal in life what's the goal in life to have low level love or do you want the endless love love that's Emmis you want to love it's a mess so if you want to love the tennis how do you get that so the optimist says you know you got that very simple you get that by having Romanus by having compassion for God that God is an exile and we feel bad that gods in exile we feel bad that God is living in this world where God has not revealed and maybe sometimes concealed in a serious way he started having compassion he started having bracamontes as we discussed earlier which is the attribute of Yaakov when we act like Yakko when we act with Rahman ode and we think about oh my gosh God is totally the Wow in this beautiful world and totally alone am i including God in my life every every minute no the gods in God looked gods and gods so what happens when you really think about that with gods and dollars the way gods and get gods in exile and not only do we do we think it and feel it but we do it the MS we really have compassion the fact that gods in exile you know what happens then then God gives you as a gift the MS of his love for you now so the author of a central question great who would not want to have true love for God we all would now what's the key to get the true love for God we have to start as we know we discussed last week also that the rule is very simple when you do a Saru salute akka when you do your work down here God gives you back millions of times over so when we want to have that love we have to have the compassion for God the love for him so we have the awakening oh my gosh God's in Dulles guys let's let's pray right let's study let's do mitts vote let's for brain what's we're bringing in for bringing as hey let's make God real in our lives let's make God number one in their lives when we do that we awaken it so the optimist is great it's wonderful but how do we jumpstart that we should have that Rock'em honest actually how do we jump that we should have that Rock'em honest so the optimist says that's what King Solomon is referring to in Proverbs what he got a record in the beginning of the chapter Reyat sadaqa is much me a chemist when a person plans charities he asked the question he plans charity but you give money in the Prussian green plant in charity why is use determines planting when a person gives charity not planting charity because King Salman was teaching us because when you plant wears one's home plants planting is you take a seed you put into the ground and you water it you pray boom something comes out when you plant you're basically revealing revealing what the potential that a seed has you're taking it from a seed into a real revealed fruit tree etc so the same thing else when a person gives charity you're actually revealing from what something what's within the person plans charity when a person gives charity whether you give money or you take credit cards or maybe you give a Bitcoin or you help somebody you do a mitzvah when a person gives charity you and a person that's not God when a person helps helps and helps another human being you're planting charity you know what happens God gives you a gift you get the gift what's the gift the gift of Emmis now what's the connection because we know we said before that when the person is an awakening below you get an awakening from but what does that mean very simply what does that mean when a person that snuck a person who's charity very simple a person the nature is you think about yourself but you stop thinking say you know oh my gosh the someone that has less than me whether it's a person in institution whatever maybe I want to basically reset reach out and help the person who has less than me whoa you're taking someone that has less than you and you're giving something that you could use for yourself and you're giving to that person so you're opening up your heart to somebody you're planting charity now else and that person feels wow someone cares about me and you're doing what God wants you to give to charity so when a person that does that type of charity you were waking you basically gave life to somebody you sprouted someone's life you gave someone a new life guess what God does now for you God opens up your heart that you have the power to have compassion and you're sensitive to the fact that God is an exile once you're sensitive that God is an exile you know what happens God now gives you the gift the real gift what gift the gift of the true love which you cannot achieve through avodah only God can give that to you now obviously since the key to start the process is giving charity so there Alturas says the best charity to give is as you quotes from verse Eretz me Eretz it's mark where does where where's-where's get where does the greatest growth come from the land which land is our land Israel Arijit off our land so the best type of charity one can give and should give is to do what to give charity in Israel or to Israel because this way that will be the greatest charity and that charity will revive our land and that will cause us to have the tremendous compassion so the process is very very simple pointed out there in this chapter if you want to have the greatest love first thing is give charity and that's why we give charity every single day before we start a day we give two pennies a dollar whatever you want to give give something every single day into the charity box because I starting off the process of giving you're hoping up your heart if someone doesn't have your think about when you give if you don't give your hand is closed and your hearts closed when you give you opening up your hand you opening up your heart so the first thing every single morning get some charity with a small amount of lodge and give charity when you give charity what happens you open up your heart and then God opens up your heart and when your heart is opened you say to yourself now you're saying oh my gosh what's your heart open most - your heart is open to the fact of God's and dollars and you have Ramona's compassion for the spark of God that's angola's then when you start meditating on all the great things God does and does for you and where God loves us then Hashem will give us the greatest gift and he will give us what kind of love the real love which comes from our sin which we cannot achieve in our own and then we'll get love which is real so in other words the process is simple if we start off our day or throughout the day anytime you want give a few whatever it may be to charity that will start the process that you'll have real compassion real compassion compassion more important for God and then eventually you'll have the greatest gift what is the greatest gift the gift that God that will love God in tremendous way and God will obviously love us and we'll have to live a beautiful loving and happy life so another is Yaakov has MS but what happens when we practice rock - God gives us the greater and us the greater MS is that we have tremendous love and all for God's says you can tell this chapter chapter six and the guys are called a very very important chapter because it literally shows you the path to be able to receive the greatest love that we can have for God and obviously we have that love for God which is a gift from God we'll be living in a beautiful loving and happy life