#4 Privacy: Is it possible today? - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so good morning we're learning Target which is a page you know doesn't give an English page here but it's giml the folio too the introduction so this letter this is a letter actually that the altariba wrote and it was printed together when he published the Tanya in 1896. the letter is about the following issue and the issue is how can a book a safer replace private conversation one-on-one conversation as I told you already in the past that the outer ever gave you his he had a private audience with his hasidim and others who wanted to see him to advise them on spiritual matters and other issues in that setting it is very appropriate and very correct to have the partitioner the hasid the individual seeking and needing help to share their inner makings of their heart what's bothering them etc etc and the rabbit Sadiq in speaking to the hasid in yechidus isn't just a good psychologist and a therapist an adopter and a businessman and a rabbi but rather it's the connection between the soul of the Sabbath and the Sham of the Sadiq and the vishama of the person coming to seek see him in yehidas and this is the understanding of and I say that because only in Chabad you have this idea in other Hasidic groups the idea of meeting with yereba is that you believe your episodes will help you and it's all right but there isn't any emphasis on on this nakoda that it's not about the physical makeup of the person with their physical mind and heart coming into a room with an intelligent person a righteous person who has a body and a mind and heart and and and you who believe that he knows more than you and feels more than you towards God because of his holiness seek his advice that's not the bad idea a bad idea if you hear this is something totally different it's of a different category It's About nashama's Soul in other words even though you're coming into the room with your mind and heart and you have a question about how to had a thousand better let's do it than I disgust you know you need a for your son your daughter to Spirit you know it's like of course it's a physical thing to stand on the hopper but if the Torah says you a child should get married right so it's not just about that but if rather it's about your soul connecting with the Celtic soul and your soul bearing itself to the Exotic soul and guess what an exotic Soul bearing itself to you and that is why the traditionalism will tell you famous story with the middle of rabbit that when he came out of yehdas he was sweating and they asked them what what transpired you know in that short few moments that you were together with the and the rep said when when when I have to dress myself up I have to invest myself in him completely and his rookies and spirituality and from there I have to try helping him and that makes me sweat the gosh me is physically the spiritual energy causes the physical sweat that's what's going on in yehudas so it's not about you know uh my son my I need paranosa I need a blessing for for paranosa and I believe that at Sadiq has you know is plugged in more because he has less uh what do we call that static so the reception is clearer therefore I go to the topic that's true but in Chabad you know this is much deeper than that it's about the soul it's not just about you know the physical it's about the nashama and that's why in Chabad we believe that a rabbit Sadiq when he tells you whether it's in yechidus or in a letter or nasika or in a mimer does it you belong now to be a dentist in uh Timbuktu in Wyoming in China and you say the river I just got married I have a practice waiting for me in Chicago and the rabbit tells you to me I think you would do better there he doesn't explain himself he doesn't show you how necessarily he just says it believe that the river's Soul sees your soul and he sees that your soul needs a tick on and needs to create taken in that particular place that only you could do as a dentist not he is a rabbit sitting in Russia or Ukraine or Heritage Road Etc and therefore you are the one charged by Hashem Almighty to go as a dentist at this place but he doesn't say those words he might not even feel and realize those words it comes to him in a way of uh how an epiphany uh it's it's um you know it's something beyond the mind and Beyond the heart that's and that's the Chabad belief of yahidas and I'm saying it clearly others do not believe this other do others do not have this understanding or care for it and that's fine but I say this as part of the introduction here to understand and appreciate what the rabbit is going to Dr is going to speak now about the introduction to the Tanya this is the type of Realm of relationship that the outer Rebels hasidum had when he saw them in yehidas so now the question is how can a safer how can a book called The Tanya replace that and Dr Rebel will now give two reasons why seemingly it can't and then in the second part of the introduction explain and answer why it can that's the structure of the introduction any questions okay let's now go into the text abdominals have a locket again the Antonette doesn't refer to himself other than the compiler hamalakid means the compiler because remember what is he doing he's compiling his sayings that he heard from his teacher the maggot and and the name of the belchemtov and things that he learned in morale and in shalom the introduction of the compiler the he again is and this is a letter that was sent to All of men of Peace which is a which is known as an acronym as well anash alif noon to ditto's shin out of noon stands for anshay the shin stands for shlomenu so each Hasidic community called their members who belonged to their hasidish anash yes you will IM may God watch them to rain their Rock referring to God the yechaz came and give them in other words may God watch and give his or give strength to andu to the to the the members of our group The anash so basically Dr Rep is saying I'm right he's he's writing a letter to and he says here he quotes a few verses we're not going to go into the sources but then you can look it up yourself to you man I call shimoyalai rates Hashem listen to me pursuers of righteousness The Seekers of God may God hear hear you let me God love our cotton from old to Young saying to all answers of our countries referring to Russia and Ukraine Etc and also those that are nearby outside of our countries anyone that's identifies with the anash community of Chabad every person should be should come to their place peacefully have eternal life that's a celebration may be so is it's known him it is accustomed in the mouths of the people referring to anash you can't compare hearing words of moral ethical moral ethics improving yourself you can't compare it when you hear it directly from the person when you see it then read it in books why not number one a person who reads a book a safer reason based on their approach in their mind will the Fiat suggest retrieces sickly and they wait and the way they comprehend it in their particular way ver he is at that time and therefore volume and if the person's mind and thus and Consciousness are confused at the time and walks in darkness Hashem in regard to matters of serving God the cushy it is very difficult for that person yogolita is to be able to see as an architive the light that is good how God is that's hidden before him in these books so basically how can you expect us to read the Tanya and see the wisdom and answers to our issues if we are walking in darkness so we are going to interpret vitanya and for that matter any safer the way we are today and guess what tomorrow may be in another way and the next day and the Third Way why because each day we have mood swings and we wake up grouchy one day and one day we'll wake up happy so depending on who you are at that particular day that's how you're going to perceive the Tanya and any other and that's going to say from that matter so if that's the case how can you tell me that my spiritual malady and dilemma will be solved through a book versus if I go into you and you see me and I see you and the rabbit detects in the closet that today this is where he's at he's going to give him a tailored response and advice for his issue whereas on the Tanya if I'm going if I'm walking in darkness I won't be able to detect that that's the first argument that the hasidim gave to the outer rabbit or that the antarepants says I know you're thinking this way and I'm going to address it why nevertheless the Kanye is a good substitute for for that I failed to say earlier just historically that the altebra was overwhelmed why did yeltebra why is he writing this the answer is because he couldn't no longer see people as much in yehidas he didn't have simply the time and I can understand it because I so we saw it and I saw it with the rabbit the rabbi in the 1950s officiated people's marriages in the 1960s he stopped and he said I don't have the time he said would you rather me do that or answer someone who's crying for a bracha for health and it's pecoach what would you prefer I do and the rabbit said the same thing with writing his own discourses which he and the balotanya were the only two rabbis that didn't write primarily their own discourses whereas the other five in between did and the rebel said I just don't have the time so you prefer me sitting and writing my own discourses to pacify your bellies and your mind and your heart or your you you prefer I answer someone's letter who needs a bracha or needs advice to continue being a youth and have a family and everything else which is more important so therefore since the altered no longer had time to take everyone into yahidas he said I'm going to write a safer that's going to be a substitute to yahidas and to this the question says it's not fair we won't get the answer because of the first argument let's go to that let's continue Dr ever says although the light in the Tanya is sweet to the eyes and healing for the soul so granted the Tanya has sweetness and the Tanya has healing but when you're walking in darkness you don't see its weakness and you don't see that and you don't see um healing you see you see a black hole you see a dark place you see you see a a uncomfortable uncomfortable situation and you say to yourself my gosh this isn't at all talking to me right that's that's the first so here ends you can make a little battle over here if you want or a note here ends the first argument why the Tanya is shouldn't be a good substitute for yegridas now comes the second argument in addition to this when you talk about books of Ethics which bring to all for God that are based on human intellect like we mean like muscles Forum they're written by individuals good individuals right now for surely they're not similar for all because not all mines are equal they ain't say hello and one person isn't impacted the same way the other person is so the fact that you wrote in a certain way talks to one person but not another person strengthens the argument of the hasidim by quoting the gemara and brothers when you see there's a prophet called that God is the the wise the wise one of all the secrets meaning that God created so many different people with different Secrets uh when you see 600 000 Jews conjugated you're supposed to make a brother the God is what's the reason ain't they say I'm Dei Missoula Zoo because people's opinions are not similar and yet Hillel of Rome God made God made them all wow if you can make all these different opinions you're God you're great tomorrow says interpreting a account a thought in this free government Yeshua regarding Yeshua she never boy it says about Yeshua is a man who the spirit was in him says Yeshua who wasn't God embodied this concept he was able to relate to every person with a different opinions hence he became the successor to mosherabino that's from the ramban what do we see from this we see that it takes an individual like Yoshua to be able to relate to all the different opinions so therefore what's doubt that was saying he's strengthening the question of the hasidim how can you say that the book of Tanya is replacement for yeh this when not from the reader's perspective but from the writer's perspective he writes it in a way that it means something else to every individual so it's not similar so if he writes it in a certain way for this with it the way he understands it's maybe you'll listen and we'll relate to it than I won't maybe doesn't relate to it and Hillel won't in other words by Nature the writing of a book of an author is subjective that if I had to sum it up that's the that's the argument it's subjective and I can tell you as a writer and that's that's a hundred percent the case one person will read what I write and say wow you spoke right to me and it's great and and unbelievable another person sits lousy meant nothing I disagree why the answer is because at the end of the day every writer's subjective anyone who thinks he's too totally objective should go see a psychiatrist okay everyone writes with an agenda a little more and a little less fact of life you know it's impossible to strip yourself from your writing the academics things they do but it's baloney big baloney at the end of the day it's their feelings and subjective self that's in their academic research okay yeah they can polish it up better because they know how to write better and they know how to cite better and they know all that stuff okay so yes but at the end of the day every writer from top to bottom has an agenda okay if anyone tells you otherwise they're foolish so without that ever saying if that's the case the symphony those books of Ethics that are based on rabbit throw salanta's writing is different than the Palatine is writing on on Tanya each one is a different objective and each one is subjective thou terebi is not about Sir and then both are great people and genuine people but each one is coming from a different perspective so if that's the case it's not just because the reader is walking in darkness say hello the reader is not walking the darkness the reader has a clear mind that has plugged in it's great the fact is a book has an agenda and if a book is has an agenda how can it be that it should be similar for everyone that you tell me that the book of Tanya cancer everyone's problems that is the long short explanation of what's going on here let's continue says and this is also true not only with books with sperm that are based on sekal and ushi human intelligence and logic with the argument is as I said it's subjective but even swarim that are based on Tyrant let's see what he says books of of ethics and era where their foundations over this how do they call this the great holy mountains all they're doing is quoting measures it's all majors and Gomorrah in other words there's no kind of self-opinion there I said oh Hashem the word of God spoke through these individuals who wrote those swarm quoting measures and demurras and cabolo Etc foreign and God's word was on their tongue the rice according of section the Zohar of a line of Desire God Torah and God are all one and therefore what they wrote him is not human intelligent logical writing but rather they wrote God's wisdom of Torah vis-a-vis their minds and their pen because she should believe because of the column and all the 600 000 General souls and the details within details of souls until the very minutest spark Sheba Kali of the most by nudist and lenient type of Jew that doesn't care much and the and the lowest category amongst the Jewish people culo miscarriage all bind themselves to tied up Verizon Tater he is so therefore this is a rhetorical remark that the outer lab is saying wait a second if if you're talking about books of ethics that are based on Torah gazelle Torah has everything for everyone including for the lowest of the low so why it can it can it can it can address everyone so if you're going to tell me this is without trouble saying that the Tanya is such a book if right it's not my own writings all I'm doing is I'm collecting from all that and therefore the Torah is an answer for everyone so in my book which is basically a Torah book and God binds himself with with the trainer everything is here that's the counter argument so right away he refutes it and he says here it's here starts the refutation to the rhetorical question had he said that a clueless Israel this is a very good generality but when it comes to details hey I have this thought and davening what should I do today this and this bothers me the morning I dive into I couldn't concentrate over here because I was thinking about this and this I need a practical answer and suggestion don't tell me to go look into the gamara you know deal with me on the ground it's nothing ever since my option did not tell you the leaders because [Music] and although the Tate instructs us hey take the generalities of Toyota and delve into them and delve into them into details because everything is there so even your even our issues that we had this morning the governing guess what if we open up the good morning now we open up the title we'll find an answer now so that's the counter argument and that I could ever finally puts it to rest and he says how they ain't called Adam not everyone has a source we expect him to clean the approach I love this line to recognize their particular place entire universe you need us to know where in China does it say hello should now be in Ramada chemist it says it somewhere but I don't know where it says it I know it's there I believe but where that you need us need a merit so Hassett believes one second hussard believes that his rabbit sees it and it's inevitation tells Hill this is who you should be and if you believe that if you believe it you follow if you're normal and you're normal because if you believe that this person is plugged in and he tells you you should be here and it's best for you to be here that's where you go even though your logic says elsewhere I'm a therapist I'm a social worker I have a practice here and the rabbit tells Rabbi tokaya after he gets married a newly married man go to um Okinawa I think or out there somewhere and this is Redman I just got married to a young lady were you sending me to to to to to The Boondocks he was a little Babbage the rabbit says I'm telling you they need you there that's all the rep is going to say he's not gonna fight with you he's not gonna argue with you and and took care 25 30 years later it's on gem you can hear it he says later he realized what kind of brilliant advice throughout the game but again he's not you know he's not talking like you know the big hussard he's a brilliant advice a husband believes the rabbit saw my soul and they never saw my soul needs old canal and if I wouldn't go to Okinawa I would be plagued I'm paraphrasing and that's a you know if you talk about a relationship with a sadak internet but that's a heavy heavy one but that's what it is that's what it is ultimately and it's it's that easy you know it's you know the people throw around words oh I'm connected this rap and that red but really what you do for him what are you doing oh maybe you know you're you're living your life it all fits in it's all nice you're getting your candy and also you're going to a river great you're you're this great who would you give you a medal come on so you know we have a lot to if I bring about and think about about our own connection to Hashem and to what Sadiq what does it mean and that's why it's not easy to be accustomed you think the lip are wrong they the original lit facts they must not have understood this and they said we're not willing to do that willing to go to a rough and to give us our good advice it's very nice good go and tell me that if the rabbit says this girl is for you or this girl is not for you to make a given your brother not giving your brother really you're gonna break up from a from a relationship where you want to marry because the Reba didn't give you a blessing find me I want you to find me people I want you to find me lots of people who would do that we'll find some not just the Chabad and other healers too but it ain't easy it takes a lot a lot of soul work so why am I saying this because Dr never says here how to aim call Adam not everyone recognizes their particular place so does it there is in the Torah guidance for you why you came to energy throughout now a few several months ago why not five ten years ago when you had three or four children told me living in Arches Road there's an answer there is an answer and I'm not talking about a logical answer well I still had a practice and I couldn't sell my home the real estate was down I needed a bit you know when I had an old mother was 95 years old those are all important things but that's not the answer the answer is that you're nashama Hashem said wasn't ready yet to be in there to stroll or better set needed to be in Chicago to do ticking and do issues there and only you could do not me not Hillary or not that Roman not and not your Houston and now that your nerves are slow from Heaven If the message is you need to be here and the Torah says that if you would be able to find the part of the tiger that says that you'd be a very lucky man and that's why Donald says not everyone marries to it so the after that is refuting his own rhetorical argument how could that you want to tell me that a book can replace this because everything is in the book because the book is a book of Torah he says my dear friends but for that you need us and most of us don't have this course so we go back the original question how could the book replace the yeah look you wanted to say something uh yeah it was one was a total from the telna river where he says that