A Deal is a deal, or is it? Going beyond the deal - Igeres HaKodesh 10d- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're learning KES we're on page 230 this is the fourth Shear on this pic the last thing D explained to us was talking about tsha he starts off the chapter with the quote from the is but he quotes the verse means hashem's kindness never ceases but it doesn't say Samu in this in the in the verse that he starts off with it says Sam with a n which is referring to us not to Hashem kindness that's his question so the Z says you're right because there's two types of remember that's the quote from the there is and there is there's two kinds one's called which means it's a that's associated and derived from the world worldly matters the worldly experience which is limited which also includes TI mitzvah the wayra filters itself through laws and restrictions and limitations so the coming forth from that is a limited one and then and then there is the second is called ra an abundance of and this began explaining yesterday in the sheer that we had where he says that that the norm of is when you're doing what you're supposed to but when you don't do everything you're supposed to when you do transgressions that there you need chuva and chuva is so powerful that not only does it correct the mistake but it actually has the ability to fulfill what you didn't what you missed the missed opportunity the Mis chance and you know we don't think enough about this but really what what we missed is even even more necessary to somehow bring it back as much as as regret and remorse for a sin for an AA is important what's even even greater is what you could have accomplished and you didn't accomplish because you didn't do the mitz the positive commandment and there the question is how do I access that is it gone is it lost and you ask your average Jew even a Torah Jew they'll say yeah you you goofed up you you missed you can't can't you know spilled milk now spilled milk can mean transgression spilled milk can also mean you didn't you missed it too bad you got to say shma by 9:30 this morning here in Brooklyn 9:30 comes you didn't say shma you missed it you got to wait till tomorrow today shma you didn't get and when you think about this it becomes really morbid so many opportunities that I had that I missed squandered gone and here the alter chapter 10 ofes comes up with a solution and a way to bring back the Lost opportunity now that's a fantastic fantastic insight and the AL says this is where you relate to Hashem going beyond the norm not just making up the law the loss the the Goof Off I'll stop sinning I'll I'll I'll be nicer I won't be arrogant no that doesn't do it to bring back a lost opportunity H to bring back a lost opportunity you have to go into God's eyeball you have to become God okay and when you become Hashem or better said when you become Divine when you live a Divine Life when you live a Godly life so no longer is it about tit fortat reward and Punishment it's about you're a Godly being you're a different category you see Hashem created in the world Moshe four categories the the inanimate the veget the growth the vegetation the living the animals and the human beings guess what the Jewish people it says are a fifth category we have the potential of expressing a fifth category that has no comparison to any of the four now in we use the word Nish the soul the to express that idea usually I mean we don't get into it but that's if you put it all together that's the concept someone asked me about this a great scholar this morning je he asked me if a has and my answer was no a has Nees a have soul but the fifth level of the Soul there's five levels nees is the lowest R spirit is the third let's not talk about number four and five talk about nees is the animating force that creates that gives everything existence including a non-jew Ru is the spirit the emotion which is really Express it mostly in the emotional expression and also in animals and all that but it's also level we learned in Tanya you mentioned Tanya two days ago what the AL says all this talking about sadik is from this level but the r ofik he talks he refers there to if you take a good look at the theas of two days ago I believe you'll see says he emphasizes R that's a very specific it's not just you know energy uh spirit it's R it's the second of the of the three levels what's the so again the translation Moshe for the is soul but the soul of nees of the third level the soul of Nish are so vast so different and how what's the difference it's a different category what is the different category here I look this way aandrew looks this way what's the difference aandrew today they put on beards football players are wearing beards they're pitching baseball players with beards in my time in the 70s uh you know you didn't have that I'm sure in your time you know who was wearing beards amongst players that probably I think it was even against against the uh the law of the of the NFL and the M MLB you know you got to be in a certain clean shaven whatever the case anyway so is there a difference between the go the non-jew who has a beard and a Jew who has a beard of course there is what's the difference this is the beard of a a non-jew and this is the beard of a Jew what's the difference you'll ask what's the difference he thinks and he thinks he feels and he feels he behaves and he behaves comes along the holy t explained byus in particular we're talking about a different category you know what the difference is this is what we call Divinity everything is created by God God wants every every person M 100% but a Jew has the kernel of divine that that was that's what God put into the world God put into the world the essence of himself into a Jew to share with the world to inspire the world a nonu doesn't have that not because a non-jew is worse God forbid if God created a non-jew a non-jew is just as important to God anyone that says a non-jew is not important it doesn't know from their doesn't know anything but but the mission of a nonu is not the mission of a Jew and what's that mission Divinity the AL says here that when you do chuva when you return to yourself to to to your true self in a way that's transcendental that transcends limitations you break through that you could that you even make up for lost opportunities and that is you know even before we we studied this inside now that's the answer to the puzzle people say well you know for 20 20 30 years I was I was lost I found Hashem I found Torah I started to put on I started to keep shabas I have you know and everything else but for so many years I I just didn't know so it's not a blame game no one's here it's not a blame game it's not a guilt game but the fact is that I didn't I lost those opportunities Al says there's a way to make up for it you got to transcend that this situation calls for um an unconventional response Transcendence Transcendence is not easy cuz Transcendence you know what many people look at you and when you transcend and they say you're not normal you're nuts you're muga you give away all your money to Sedaka you'll see soon you give away like what's with your wife your kids your family your community no I feel that I I I I have to do something that's beyond convention shattering convention you know I told you in Yeshiva was this idea of going to be up all night learning of our bringing it's not normal you got to get up the next morning you got to you got to come to the studio get up all night you ain't getting up 7 7 7:30 in the morning you don't ask questions you break out the breakout and if you really break out you get up 7 7:30 I can tell you I was up almost every Thursday night for many years when I was a student in Yesa learning ofing and sometimes even taking masing you know saying and you You' get to a point where the finished and you were exhausted and you just collapsed wherever you were and you fell asleep for a few hours and the next morning I was up now in the afternoon I lay down there's no question I'm I'm not going to you know hot my body couldn't take it but I didn't make that calculation wait what's the point of being up and getting up going to sleep 4:5 and getting up 7:00 7:30 cuz Friday we started 1 half hour later instead of 7:30 you had to be in the study hall we would had to be there 8:00 and getting up and to be 8:00 in the study hall and then learning and then daving and then falling asleep either in middle of um the first s of gar or whatever later it's a good question but you see a question warrants an answer that's limitation I don't have the answer but the feeling of breaking out that you can't emulate that you cannot emulate so maybe you don't have an answer to the question but you don't have to have an answer do you hear that you don't have to have an answer why because you went into a mode that transcends and if you do it right you will you will you will make it work and you will function and you will accomplish and people at the end will say he ain't a nut he ain't weird maybe he's a little holier than us maybe he's really on the right page maybe he's really you know going on the right path that in a way that way way surpasses us again what people say is irrelevant it's what we say to ourselves so this all of this that I just said is an is the outgrowth the outcome of what he says here in this chapter when it comes to the second level ofid in other words the second level ofid which it calls ra abundance of this is Transcendence so if if a person transcends in their life in in in in matters of godliness and Judaism and Torah and all of that the reciprocal effect will be God will transcend so normally it ain't in the cards for God forbid there's a doctor if someone's diagnosed with an illness right you need Transcendence because Al the script is on the wall we have the chart we took the X-ray right no I just heard now about someone who's going to for a he was on his deathbed a few years ago three four years I remember he had the what do they call that iser shock the um he he he wore a uh a bracelet and they weren't supposed to give him certain medicine the hospital they they goofed up and they gave it to him and his body went into shock right Anais yeah and and they thought he's dead he's going to die just about it came out it came out he's teaching he's an older person but I'm just saying this Transcendence is not to be discounted so normally you know we say oh I'll have my kind of trans Dental moment what they call the you know the Zenith moment the AA you know it's like it's beyond me what Al is saying here that you could make that be and you need to make that to be part of your experience that's another Kish novelty from this chapter not to think of the Transcendence as an adjunct to you are but to who you are because you're a Jew and you have the Sha and the transcends so if you get in touch with your true self you will break through every situation that that's the mindset when you learn such a chapter you learn it slow and you look at his words and you think about it it is so uh you know the word I like cathartic it's really it opens up like wow you know it's like I could do this yeah cuz this is who you are why do we think we can't do certain things because it's beyond it's not we think it's not who we are but the AL says this is who you are just explore and find yourself you know and to find yourself get get rid of all the Clutter covering up that special thing that you're looking for and take it out let's go down to page 230 inside the text and we are holding this is six eight lines from the top towards the two last words on the on the on the line the primary aspect of CH is in the heart for when one has regret from the depth of their heart they arouse a very deep superal light superal energy the one that we're referring to but in order to bring it down into the world to Enlighten to illuminate the upper and lower world you need an actual arouser From Below then requires action what action we need the action of Charity of giving acting and kindness without any limitation and measurement and he explains just as a person when a person gives he's he gives an abundance of kindness what is the word look at the word is the first two letters spells which means to have mercy there's three Hebrew letters says break up the word you get have mercy on the one that does not have to have mercy on the poor person who and there's a both mean poor but every is even more poor more poverished than thou the he doesn't have anything on his own and the person doing the doesn't just give a limited amount he gives Adam for Transcendence he does he does mercy on the one that's the L the L means that he doesn't have he's a d he's poor and he goes all out just as it's by in the human by the human being so to gives an affluence of his energy in a manner which is called which is called an abundance of illuminates in a way of infinity without limitation invest that energy of transcendence into the world upper and lower should because all the worlds I don't care how high you are and how high flut and to you are you know you're walking around with the angels you're still part of the world and compared to God you're a nothing you have nothing of your own look what he says the L the less the less in God's eyes you on your own refer to the upper and the lower worldes even the upper rules is nothing everything compared to is like not and okay so therefore says in order how is this implemented by and when we transcend we cause God to to transcend and this this corrects all thing all blemishes and also coming from the word lackings things that are missing that a person blemish through his transgressions in heaven upper and lower worlds this is what the verse says do righteousness and and law and properness was chosen to God the altar why the altar he explains when you talk about ordinary and ordinary charity properness and and law it's compared to the altar there's certain sacrifices for certain transgressions okay you don't bring a sacrifice which is called Ola which means to ascend for a tri for a forgiveness offering called K it's just two different Vibes two different energies two different ideas so in other words the whole idea of M of the Altar and the caronus the sacrifices that are associated with AB with the with the altar are all Li it's the limited aspect of God it's important but you have to know that that's the limitation and because it's limited make sure you bring the right sacrifice for the right thing next line [Music] conversely when it comes to you can um Splurge Adam for item beyond measure to correct your transgressions stop so throws us the bombshell and he says you know the answer of transcending is giving TOA without measurements whole idea of using an accountant for your tadaka ain't this inion guys this means don't ask your accountant don't ask your wife don't ask yourself don't look at your stock account and your investment account just give just give give freely that's Transcendence and that's not easy but that's what we're talking about if we want and if we need to bring down hashem's which we we really want because we have a lot to make up and a lot to that we missed out and we need and we want it in our life and we want it to happen you have have to you have to transcend there's no other way about it that's what there's no other way about it other you you'll get good things you'll get but it's all measured limited for that how much did you give what did you do what didn't you do okay that's what R ker generally is about let's look at the books what did you do right wrong we're going to make a decision right I tell you a little story story so someone who uh helps me with the you know supports my work my my writing my publishing and all that so I'm coming out with a book about um kabad and um well it's called um kabad on college campuses okay so I I sent out a few of my supporters uh a note that you know be I could use the help and to get it done properly and I wrote that I would uh someone who gives a large donation you know I would give them I would give them a hundred books or something I I wrote a I forget what a if they gave a real large donation some one of them writes back um he he's doing it now when he said that he he somewhat supports my work I didn't think that you know he's doing it anyway but but there was he wanted I should match the donation so I said I'd work on it the bottom line is I couldn't I matched it but not on the level that he wanted so I wrote back I said you know um I really want to get this done and I need some more funds so he wrote so he wrote back to me a deal is a deal and and this person is a tremendous okay he's a real charitable person and a nice guy he's he's unbelievable but and so it took me back like wow a deal is a deal says here there is a deal is a deal now guys what do you think I did I wrote back I said you're right a deal is a deal and from that vantage point I'm not coming and asking you again because you're right we made a deal we cut a deal but I'm appealing to your Rahim to your mercy he didn't answer two three weeks went by the Y went by one day I get a in the mail I'm giving you so and so more I didn't ask him I didn't ask why there is the appeal to the ra to the mercy of the person to what we call here the ra you're right a deal is a deal but a deal is a deal is not not going to get the books from China here and be able to give you know weigh a 100 books because someone who you know because I couldn't put together all of the funds so a deal is a deal but it ain't going to change the situation so what do we do so I I went one notch up I went to Transcendence appealing to a person's Transcendence Hashem was kind and I don't know what happened but obviously the the appeal uh did something and the same I'm just hearing the story to understand what the AL is saying here don't and you know mosha is dealing with people in business there is a time when a deal is a deal but it's okay to say hey can we go beyond the deal why should I go beyond the deal what' you do for me I don't have to do anything for you look at yourself who are you and who who are you a Jew God God can do anything I'm appealing to the God within you think about it you know this is the notion here so tomorrow will continue and Al will address that uh the issue giving more than 20% of Saka how how do we deal with that have a great day everyone zun take care