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#9 Ego is Human, Even a Tzaddik is born w Ego - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin
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good day we're here learning Tanya
tagging psychology when Paige revolves
about to finish the first chapter we are
on the first line the last two words
that's where we're at but before that
just to
not only recap but really spend a few
minutes on some of the ideas that we've
learned yesterday we'd rather went
rather fast at the end so I want to just
go back
the outlet here
brings something that that
was the closest pupil and student of the
arizao
and it's his writings that identify for
us where the Ariza said are many or
maybe most of the becoming the holy
sites inherit Israel that all of us go
to
you live there
um I'm not talking about the biblical
You Know Places uh near in the service
or nearby and
um with the orange it passed and all
those things that's that's biblical
talking about
where the buried
and and Etc you know
there's a lot of places
so if if LeBron would not tell us and
share with us that the arena said here
is this where this Standalone lies and
here's what this I might do is we
wouldn't know
so the prime vital is credited really
for being the one to
tell us what the adisal said about those
and that's
a very important thing but in addition
to that
foreign a great person and I'm a couple
so Dr Deborah quotes him in the name of
the arizao
that every Eid has two nishamas so first
of all
the idea is not unique to khabar to the
balatonya the adiq starts the idea
starts already from the Ariza so that's
very important to know that the concept
of a Jew having what we call Two Souls
Two nishamas
it's our reason
now if you don't accept the Ariza you
don't follow the Kabbalah and all that
it's a different story but that's
important to know when you when you
discuss these things with others and
yourself okay number two
he quotes a pasig
about regarding the shamba
and deposit I'm sorry he says
I sent yesterday your innocent did you
get it I sent on the on the group
look it up over there the the if
you didn't see it during this and you
asked me a question so I sent it on the
group okay so you have the The Source
the citation and the lotion of the Posse
because the Posse the support
uh they are these are these out
but now that ever says makes one one
Nuance that is not in the Arisa as far
as I know and that is
foreign
these refers to two souls in other words
the meaning in Hebrew of the word
nephesh and the word nashama In
classical Biblical Hebrew in the
talmudic literature is the same so
but in Hebrews two different words
so you have to ask yourself what's the
difference
and we're not the first one to ask and
to analyze tighter that way
already the commentator on on Tanakh
that later the malbeam in the
in the uh in the 1800s the famous melbin
he he does it and kind of his entire
safer which is a wonderful safer and
commentary on Taylor is heavily based on
the language
so
what we learned here in Tanya that the
author episode
obviously he's making a point and I told
you yesterday that technically what the
out there ever saying technically is the
following that
not everyone merits to have an
experienced call of of the level of
their so-called the shama since there
are five levels
the acronym of which is
the level of the Shama
is a very
high level just leave it at that and not
everyone has that shine into their body
and and shine into their nephilo kiss
needless to say to them is
that for that you you need the schools
or you need a gift from God
what level does
Kabbalah say is accessible to every yeet
nephesh
what is the difference I didn't say this
yesterday I'm going to tell you now and
it's important of it
because this will be good for the rest
of your life when you learn to see this
what's the difference between between
these five levels
is the lowest because it represents
action this world
you don't need to be a World's genius to
to put on a period film or to give to
duck you just gotta do
okay spirit
ruach represents midoise emotions
feelings
you could put on filling and you feel
dull and boring and it's like nothing
you want to feel something you have to
develop and work on your feelings
emotions so that's ruach
in other words if a person is living
with the ruach within their shama
they're not only serving God by acting
doing their their the emotional
component is active as well that's ruach
the Sharma the third the third aspect of
the Soul
the the shama that represents Sega
intellect not only do you do with your
hands
and do you feel with your heart and the
emotions but you actually understand
and I'm not talking here about that when
I make this clear that you know
when you learn something and you read
something I understand it we're talking
about
uh a spiritual understanding a deep
understanding that that transcends just
you know a cursory reading and
understanding of something that's not
you don't need to be uh
that doesn't prove yet you're learning
with the Sharma that me what is what
does it mean that you're going to shama
within you the third level is active
this means that your your mind becomes
permeated with godliness
with with God consciousness
so that when you understand something
with your Seiko what happens is God's
kind of Seiko God's intellect
permeates your mind and your mind now is
a Godly understanding
maybe later we'll talk more about it as
we learn the Tanya because that just
needs more clarification but I want to
go on
then there is the fourth level called
higher
what does higher mean life highest life
is it right
says refers to the Russian
The
Willpower within the individual
in the willpower
it's much more than just doing it's much
more than feeling and it's even much
more than understanding willpower is
determination that whether you do
understand you don't understand whether
you do what you want to do you don't
want to do the willpower drives the
individual to the point where they do
what God wants
and willpower and therefore willpower is
not
an easy thing as we all know it's it's
it's difficult
but when you experience and you live
your life with or part of your life
where at certain times with Russian
you're accessing
the higher within your soul
and then there's finally
nothing else is there it's just yachid
that's already uh
Messina's nephe self-sacrifice where
even if you don't do and you don't feel
and you don't understand that you don't
have the willpower
somehow
it gets you do it it moves you why
because
you're just one with God and the
classical example is during the
Holocaust this is from the Frida kareba
or he's standing with other Jews who are
not observing that the bombs were flying
overhead and they said
and these people
that he talks about you know they
weren't the people who were going to
school every day they were secular and
probably anti-religion
but what but yet what happened here
their pintali yeed their essential
quintessential Jewish the Shama
was touched that's
and I would say that when someone is
touched to come back to yiddishkite or
the sky
where they they were living another type
of lifestyle and they you know were
enjoying it or not but you know there
wasn't and all of a sudden they're moved
whether they were moved in a way that
was very drastic whether they moved in a
gradual way at the end of the day it
comes from yehida
for example is the fifth Fila right
so the ELA corresponds to the
conitre is
the five fellows the five prayers
and your keeper is brought in the Swarm
hakadashim and the Holy Spirit
is represented by the Ilah what's the
Ilah
what's the healer is hey
it's the last time we can get in but you
know traditionally
the doors are open the architis is open
doesn't get shut the whole time you
don't open and close it like you do
throughout the evening on your Kippur it
stays open and everyone knows the greats
hosts of buying the opening of the ELA
it's a big big schools
because the feeling is I'm in the ark
with God
that that's the emotions right
there's no one else around
it's my private bedroom
no one else
these are the five levels
so in the Shama
forget it forget about they talk about
the shama is already a very very high
level and the outdated says
we do not
expect and nor is it the reality that
every Jew I.E the benignly the Prototype
of this safer Tanya the average Jew is
living with you with them with nishama
they're not
they're not one second their mind and
their Seiko is their Seiko it's human
intelligence understanding a piece of
gamara
to tell me that the human intelligence
become God intelligence no yes Maisha
from correct
as life
and you see the
bespoke about the private moment of God
go back just from save to netfish the
very beginning
Netflix is the basic the basic level of
Living Action of being alive without any
necessarily feelings and understanding
just doing myself
so in in Hebrew Maisha nephilis
represents action Micah
to do
right so so in other words the fact that
a person is alive
because God gives them highest that's it
without you feel you don't feel you
understand you don't understand you're
willing to give your life for God you
want to be private with God no no well
that's already
different
animations and levels so Netflix is
considered the basic
level that every
Jew has for that matter every person has
do we make a distinction between the
first three of the Shama
and then
the answer is yes
yes
what we call the hasidus
inner
compartmentalized
faculties
whereas
periphery
all-encompassing equal distant
throughout
The Willpower of the foot the will power
of the Mind the power of any other part
the pleasure of the Mind the pleasure of
the foot but I I don't want to really
give a about that now but the
answer is yes there's a difference
between Naran and Hai
okay now
so therefore let's go back without the
Napa says Shaheen stain the forces
but he's telling us here is that these
that every Jew has the basic two souls
in the most basic way
the first race nephesh
in other words there's an orientation
of Godly Soul within a person an
orientation called
bahamis animalistic soul
within every single person
and as yesterday user asked the question
and we spoke about even government he
killed this yet Sahara
that means to the point where he killed
it he obliterated it that he had no
Trace whatsoever or no urge but it it
came because a human being you hear this
a human being when they're born in this
physical world they're born which day in
the flushes so in other words yes sir
when we say when the Ariza says
you see it says Russia
just to continue on the line of your
question whether he's righteous whether
he's Russia
that means even David Miller has stayed
in the first so how do you reconcile the
two if you're outside the car you have
to in the Fortress the answer is you're
born with tuna fishes and then you
reveal that Sadiq within you if you have
that to get rid of the yay Sahara
you know one of these Souls it comes
from the perspective of the husk the
Clipper like the husk of a fruit
covering the fruit
the negative side and the other side
and it invests itself in in the Bloods
of man to sustain the body
and then he says um
excuse me
this is the fourth line from the bottom
on page 10 the second word
um
now if you ask the average person what
is the nepheus tell me they'll tell you
all the character flaws that a person
that we have
from Idol chatter to to frivolity to
gaiva to boasting ego on and on
it's often enough
and is that true the answer is yes
but not entirely correct and why
because
before he says
there's a verb ooh
what does The Verve imply and and from
this Soul comes about the ugly character
traits that means
that before you get to the ugly
character traits
say you're
you're a young guy and you you don't
have yet these ugly caricature traits
you still were born with enough as
Obama's why
is the
downside of the nepheus if you strip
from it
the Midas rolls
in other words what the alternative is
saying here this is very important and
this is an insight into Tanya that you
only get from a tradition
I heard this from my teacher to be all
kind lord it's from his teachers
and that is that what the alternate is
saying here is that independent of the
Medusa rice
there's a problem with the nephew
promise that we have
and that is
that it's Miss La beshe
is a goof and what are we walking around
with just from that ego not ego because
I know so much or I'm so smart or I'm so
accomplished no
the fact that you're alive and you think
and you feel you're alive
and you walk around that I am alive that
is
and that's why Dr Eva says
boys meet us rice is an afterthought
only because we have enough
that it's issue it's it's it's it's its
Core Essence what it is is yesh
existence do
character flaws follow so in other words
if we were to
eliminate the feeling of yesh just the a
the essential idea that I exist
there wouldn't be the character flaws
the character flaws are a result of a
core essential problem
that's inherent to life
so it's like an oxymoron on one hand we
say the arizo says we're all born with
this
has two souls and one being the nephew
that means I'm born with it and then and
then and then you tell me
that it brings about as well bad
character why am I to blame
and the answer is you're not to blame
one second
exactly the answer is you're not to
blame but that's who you are
if anyone you want to blame anyone
blamed God but it's not a blame game
here
this is the reality
and this is a very important
psychological insight and understanding
humanity and human beings and the human
species the human nature that human
nature on its own
bereft of bad character and bad behavior
and all of that is problematic
so well I shouldn't be a human
of course you should be a human but
recognize that if you don't change your
Humanity
you're in for a lot of issues later in
life
and that's it it's so deep you know I'm
not a psychologist you know to have the
right you know words I'm sure Dr twersky
uh actually he spoke about this a little
bit in the interview that we did I did
with him but you know to find the right
kind of psychological words and terms
and ideas to express this idea but I I
hope I hope what I'm saying is clear one
second Maisha because it's yasadi it's
foundational not only will you learn
Tanya but in life
because usually usually we we identify
ourselves and others with with character
issues with flaws
as the altered
puts it in the first chapter in Tanya
this is the Assad
for all of Tanya's my dear friends is
saying my dear people
before we deal with
problems and character flows which is in
the books of Musser this is a book of
khasidis this is not a book of Musser
and the Book of hasidus we look at core
issues outside of this negative and this
problem their problem for that go to a
book
and and the sales your children would
give you
solid suggestions important ones how to
improve yourself or obeying if you want
to go back a thousand years or racist
and over there you'll find you know
rectification for your avarice and
whatevers are and how bad our favorites
are this is
I see this it it goes to the core
element of the individual which if you
deal with that then the issues that
follow will be easier to
be rid of Etc yes my
I was just going to say that
how you put it
changing one's
we're fine maybe we're finding one's
Behavior to be able to deal with
Humanity
so
I mean isn't that is that all that
that's that's does not debate on me
is not the idea yes that's that's that's
the idea of debating me of the of the
average person that's right
and that's why
not not like hello you know was thinking
with you know that a bit it's not
applicable to us debatingly because it's
so lofty no
dealing with the core issues for every
average human being yes yes
dude
there's no when the when the baby's born
until we reach I know we try to develop
the self-respect of self the consequence
of the uh of the king
so that 2016 movies in the person the
yeast
beautiful
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right but but the alternate
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okay
okay exactly uh now put the mute on if
you don't mind so what we're saying is
could you yeah thank you so that's why
Dr Pepper's language is
the fact that it's Miss labess's
which is really a very interesting
expression
I was thinking about it here we're
talking about a soul therefore the soul
is spiritual right
what do you mean the spiritual Soul
invests itself in the blood of man yeah
really if I cut open my hand here and
blood comes out my soul is here
that's what it says
foreign
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need it
I I know what it says I know it thank
you I know what it says now today but
brings it the question is do you
understand it does it make sense
so you're learning hummus you know Adam
who are nefish
the translation of which is that the the
blood of the of man and soul but in that
context you're in a sin it's not like
spiritual demo on Netflix
here in the Tanya taltrep is bringing it
to support a spiritual idea not a
physical idea and and what is he saying
that the spiritual soul
because he was talking about the
spiritual Soul he's not talking about
the Goof the spiritual soul is
bislabeshit and you need to answer your
question the word Muslim according in
the literature of Tate including
refers to
getting dressed up when you dress up you
go into it not too far from the outside
that's why the language is Miss La beshe
so again maybe it's confusing with
today's modern Hebrew or whatever but in
the language of of this in particular
refers to an inside a panini youth I get
involved I get dressed up inside whereas
what you set up defies like from the
outside and what's the explanation so
what's the explanation the explanations
I said
as soon as we're born we're born with
ego
the yes like you listen said before
that that that's felt it up his message
from birth
there's a there's a famous
um
that my teachers shared with us when we
started at military below the Sheldon
games
and he was the first one and it's from
the rapper Seekers but I've never heard
it before this was when we got the
Morristown so that our box set it's now
did our bag or or uh no I forget the
another name the other safer anyway it
sounds like this team look
Mission
an infant from the moment of birth
begins to dry up
you hear the quote
Mission Island
what's the point death begins at Birth
not death comes at 118.
that's the conclusion of death
the beginning of death is the moment
you're born
why what's the what's the Havana what's
the deep understanding of that that by
the very nature that yesh is created
yesh is associated with
drying up dying withering
meaning that the issue of yesh
it is is the problem
so ultimately the end of one's life the
yesh comes to its end
but but we understand from this concept
that it's it it's a process throughout
our lifetime of which we are to elevate
and rectify and everything else if this
is not said to be a morbid idea oh I
started to die when I was one day old
that's not I mean you know it sounds
that way like oh wow what a what a
religion I was born into like thank you
very much right go out to a college
campus and tell it to the young kids
right they'll say leave me alone with
this religion
it's not something but here we are you
know learning and deafening mature older
it's to me it's it's a very rich idea
because if you understand and that's
without that ever says here that's why
I'm taking so so much time and talking
about this episode here that the issue
of
them in and of itself
independent of women of boys
that from it comes this ugly character
trait this ugly anger and costs and
giver and wasting time
no no no no no no before all of that
just by existence you got yes
and you got problem and you have to
change it and you can change it like
Marsha said this definitely have been in
it
what time is it
I guess
we didn't one sec yes go ahead
okay so my wife asked me does she want
me to ask you