A Rebbe isn't a good advisor rather a soul geologist - Igeres HaKodesh 22a #1 - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

today we're learning Tanya you get us sacred letters section four of the Tanya and we're starting today this is a a letter that has rocked the Jewish World the hdic world in particular in this letter the balat scolds gives muser to his to stop asking for advice for material matter and issues in other words such things like where should I live what type of parosa should I choose things like that he wants us to refrain from that because that is not what a re is about and before we actually learn the text you need to know that he doesn't say to stop asking him to DAV to pray for one's success for one's for br because that's the job of aad as his his predecessor the bmov instituted he never would say such a thing what he has an issue with is this idea if what type of car should I buy uh uh a Ford Explorer or a Alexis you don't you don't need the AL to tell you what type of car to buy okay but that that's yes h is this something in your opinion that's kind of changed over the generations because it certainly seems wait like yes yes yes but just wait just wait let let me let me let me do my monologue so that that if you if you read the text that is what he says it happens to be that this letter has a beginning and the end that's not printed here in Tanya remember what I told you I told you this many times I'm going to say it again the children of the Alba decided to put these letters in into appendix at Tanya right to the first three sections the AL did not choose to do that he wrote these letters but he didn't include them in the Tanya but the children after his passing his sons felt that this is very important and we understand really why because primarily it's about giving Seda and supporting the people nar's Ro in particular which was very necessary at the time and without it being formalized in a book in the in the sa for at you know a letter there and here you wasn't like today that people had WhatsApp and had email and everyone knew from there were groups and you knew exactly which letters are going with no one knew anything anything so so by putting it into a safer the safer was public once publish again published again you open it up you oh the rebbi wants me to support the people in Israel Israel and to give it not just yearly but monthly and weekly as we learned yesterday right but that wasn't included here that part of this letter is not included here what does it say what does he say what does he speak about before he speaks about in the introduction to this letter he speaks about the importance of of of a sadik and the role of a sadik and and and and what the and all of that and to that he says and it isn't and that the rest is what we have in the text to ask him to to help you with gash to give you Aus advice for gmas now right away you're probably wondering wait a minute the say for the first section is called sa foros and as we can see in the introduction velv of the first the introduction to the first section clearly over there it speaks about advice so how do you reconcile the two right so the answer is the advice that the AL is talking about is about spiritual matter how should I D better how should I learn better that's what you come to a reel for is is there to guide you in Aid not to guide you it guide you in in in gmas in material matter and that's that's the very clear difference between what it says in the introduction in the first section of T and the issue that he has a problem with here in in in letter 22 but as heill said and in so clear that if you think that they listened to him that time and they listened to him later the answer is they didn't and and I would say it differently they didn't really understand what he wanted fully okay because as it says in the introduction the beginning of the letter that I just mentioned that's not printed here had another issue and that is he couldn't any longer see people in y you're causing me a lot of problems