Act vs. Work is key to giving Charity - Breaking out - Igeres HaKodesh 12c- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

good afternoon good morning wherever you are we're learning we're in the middle of chapter 12 and Al here explains the difference between the act of Charity which is called in comparison to a the activity the work the job of teda and he does so because the verse refers to charity with these two adjectives or nouns whatever be that as it may this isn't a course in English grammar the AL opens it up as we know his style throughout the holy book of Tanya is to analyze accepted facts that we've accepted since our childhood and youthhood charity be righteous be holy he asks what is Charity what is righteousness what is Holiness and he really dissects it and if you had to say the Tanya is a study I've said this many times it's a study of divinity of godliness in what Manner in a an analytical manner dissecting everything splitting hairs opening up not for the purpose of ethereal and esoteric walkways but rather a practical application in our life and the whole the whole trick the whole purpose is to be holy as holy as holy as you could be to be Godly as Godly as you could be on Earth because God put us on Earth M the Angels he left in the celestial beings with souls and Realms and all that he took us he put us into a body we're here for a certain amount of time and we have a job and we need to remember this every day in every moment but at least every day there's no time to waste there's no time to waste we have a mission and we need to accomplish with joy and happiness and kindness and and and friendship and what people call fun whatever but you have a mission and if you and if you don't feel you're fulfilling your mission find out what your mission is try to at least and then fulfill that mission lucky are those people who a soul geologist I sadic a holy righteous man like a re tells them your mission is to do this and this and over here and over here like the famous story that's online on the CH videos already with a a rabbi who a kabad rabbi in the Golan heists Rabbi Haber I think is his name and he wasn't kabad and he had just married and was planning on being a chaplain somewhere local in the United States and the rebba suggested that it'd be a chaplain overseas I think in Guam or Japan somewhere out there no no I'm sorry I'm sorry in Alaska although no later he went to Alaska or may what whatever somewhere maybe it was in Alaska but it wasn't you know in in in Chicago or or or the East Coast or Los Angeles and uh only later did he realiz why he was there he even not being theid of the reat the time decided to listen and not only did he listen but he convinced his wife or maybe she convinced him I don't know but they decided to go and in hindsight turns around 30 years later when he retires and he says now I see why I was there now it's time to give back in a Rabin way becomes a rabbi he's in the Golan Heights helping Yen the AL in does the same thing but he does it through the study you understand he does it through the philosophy of what is this kabad and what is Hashem want but the the the end result is the same do your mission don't waste time and be focused so let's go let's go now to chapter 12 on page uh this is where we're at and we are at after the period it's about 12 lines from the top 10 to 12 lines the last word before the period is Mahalo it's the last word on the on the line push the AL says here that in order to to accomplish the act of SED having it become personal and to accomplish that your urges that are unhealthy are removed are are uned says you need to draw down a higher energy you can't just draw down the norm you know why because the norm is we try one day we try another time we succeed we don't succeed if you want to block it out and and and eliminate it permanently you need an which is called a Transcendent energy that transcends the the the norm the progression the the the regular stuff and he quotes the gamar says that this Rabbi rear would give charity he would look for a poor person before he pray before he DED to give Seda meaning it it caused him a delay in his prayer why did he do that it's time to go to sh I cannot begin praying M until I find someone to do kindness with to give Seda too right why because he wanted that his Masha he wanted that his prayers he wanted that his doing should accomplish the moment of the urges at least temporarily during his prayer and all that so he needed to draw down something that's greater than himself when you give to someone else it's greater than yourself and you're giving away what you own your money your hard work your time right Moshe was was involved last week with with helping distribute food for Thanksgiving and things like that I assume to people don't have right he didn't have to get up early to do that in fact he missed the sheer he told me because of that okay now he did an act of kindness of that breaks the barrier because when you give away of yourself to someone else there's nothing greater than that nothing cuz what do it show it shows you're not selfish you're selfless you get up early someone breaks down the highway it's 95 degrees on Route One in thereit is RO right you get out of your car you're spitzing it's hot and you helped them change the the the the the the the tire you did it for someone else so this idea is why he first gave a penny to a poor person he gave some coins to a poor person and only afterwards did he pray he wanted his prayer to be predicated on charity on Seda and this also explains the last part of the verse it says and Man based on his praise to God what's the connection between it says the refinement of silver and refinement of gold and and a Man based on his prayer like it's a very enigmatic sentence verse says the now let's go to based on one's Praise of God with the depth of knowledge is an acronym for which means fear or and love that's the Aramaic word for AA for love to give birth to have The Offspring be the result be a fe a awe and love for God this is the way you refine the good and it separates itself from the bed it is similar it's analogous to the separation of the the excrement in in this case you know different type of excrement the the in silver there's you know pure silver and there's the the no good part it's called the SE and the same with gold those that are Jewelers would know this there is pure gold and there's then you know bad stuff you have to take out the good silver and gold from its cha right whatever the chaff is for it so how do we do that is based on your ding based on your prayers the more you D the more you pray the more you you you you you delve deeply into contemplating God God less so that your D and your prayer isn't about I need this and I need that and my grandkids need that I want ding is about separating yourself from the world in in for that time while you pray to be only with God I mentioned this yesterday that Jews by Nature they're merci benevolent those are the two out of the three qualities the third one is bashfulness by sh he doesn't mention it here why are Jews by Nature this way it's because their souls come from from God's attributes a in which kindness dominates within them over judgment and strictness and contraction in other words being that our faculties come from our souls come from Hashem from God who gave us the soul Hashem who's kind and overpowers strictness and judgment and all of that we have that as well within ourselves that's why is that's why the says when you learn the Say by Nature what what are we God's gift to mankind what why why why do we get this why why M yes yes h i just wondering as you were saying that said of three three those three qualities and we have there's a lot of on that this that Yakov saw the three camels and they referred to the they were a symbol of the three hos I wonder if if we we think of these qualities if there's any source for thinking of those qualities is descended from specific AOS um I don't know it's a good question I don't recall I'll have to uh ask look into it over shabas so thank you for bringing to no thank you for bringing to my attention as it says God's benevolence overpowers Al over those who fear Him that's why the soul is called look at this pay attention the daughter of the priest the Jewish priest called the Coen why what does a CO represent in Caba is did you learn this co co is Le is G did you know that so Bas is the daughter of meaning the result over of what's the the result of overpowering gura so when charity when comes from this level then it's called the act of because the word the the name act it means something that was already done it happened already or it's happening constantly automatically and it's something that's present and constant so here too the attribute of kindness and mercy B the fies has been um planted within the souls of C B of all all Jewish people from the past from the time when they were created and as they progress from God as it says be of and God blew within the nostrils of man of Adam a soul and it says and you blew with the soul within me number three and the one who blows who exhales he exhales from inside he inhales and then he exhales so what does it show it shows that the that the soul that GAR says that every Jew every Jew possesses these natural traits it comes from Hashem who instilled within a Jew this and this drama comes just like the breathing compared to speaking when you breath you get tired quickly when you speak you can speak endlessly why is that because breathing comes from the depth a comes from God's depth in comparison to speaking to every day with his goodness he creates my is the act of creation [Music] means and there is new newness something new him to B to the mornings to the the new experience in other words it's a what does it mean to wait a minute if you say yes if you say that the has the of within it from because hasem gave it to the Jews he implanted in us what's thees thees is its manifestation and that every moment of its manifestation the real the realization is that it comes from the essence so the is in the manifestation not in its inherent core that it's it's Godly a it's it's God it's Hashem so that's why it says you see the connection 2 he said before m means something that either happened in the past or it's happening now it's a constant it's a constant this idea of this act of is a constant because God gave it to us by giving us the let's continue ah here Begins the Al's now insight into the second part of the verse look look inside the term used this latter half of the PK the activity of not the act of but the job of please turn the page top of 236 refers to something that someone does only with much effort negative contrary to his nature it the the person exerts themselves to an know to subjugate their nature and their will for the God's will for example to exert yourself in the study of Torah and in prayer to the expiration of the Soul have we ever seen someone learn with so much or with so much intent intense feelings that they have you know is fainting so you might say well someone who doesn't eat and sleep will will faint that's true but most people don't the point being this is a tall order but Al he he gives us tall orders you know if he ain't going to give us a tall orders who's going to give us tall orders gives us a tall order right someone will say I and I learn and I get up early means expiration of soul you learn so much where you just can't move anymore and you'll say well is that the cavana the cavana is that of course you should stay healthy but nevertheless exert yourself you know when you go on a treadmill we have the doctor here you're going to a treadmill you do some right what do they tell you it's good but really you got to work up a sweat Mark you got to work up a sweat MOA you don't work up a sweat G okay it's better than nothing but real I know this from the pool for my swimming I swim and swim swim till I can't anymore to knock myself out and then I know ah I probably lost a pound so the is says here you hear this the is a whole different category of s is very important very good but it's within nature we have a natural tendency to be kind give is I don't want to give it's hard for me to give I have to exert myself and I and it's uncomfortable and I break through that's let's continue you see here too regarding the MIT it this means to give s Way Beyond the nature of your of your compassion and your will the Torah says give you shall give say even 100 times I gave already I gave it the office I gave this for the knocking on my doors they come I gave already you understand representing the 10 10times 10 in other words I I've given here and there and there and I've refined this is the meaning of the verse what I want to ask a question about thata yeah so um so uh we got a lot of that come around and so it occurs to me as we're saying this so if if I meet a m and I already gave to them I I say to them I already gave to them I'm wondering here if the balatan is suggesting that because this is a I should D if he comes back to me should give him a second time if I wonder what people do I if if it's uncomfortable for you to give him a second time he's telling you to do it all right that's a good and and and and and H the the way to do it I mean you know is you have a lot of change or whatever and I mean I look at the rebba the rebba gave out you know even just in public he didn't ask did you get it ready you know I mean to say not when he gave out dollars to distribute but people were didn't never asked you know and I saw you know so again I'm not saying in other words like this if you give a m or someone nice amount the first time and the second time he you know you so don't have give him a little less you understand but no yeah AB no no question about it if you want to call us SP I think that'll be a challenging aot for me okay listen that's that's why we're learning it that's why you're learning it good so you you know what you know what Y is you're a lucky man let's go further what is what I'm saying was a challenging a for me as an Ola who was taking buses who didn't think he could afford a car when I saw these M driving cars and and and I said to myself heck they're going around collecting shekele here shekele there every morning for years and years if they can afford a car certainly I can yeah yeah listen you know so Hill you keep giving I'll give to the organizations okay let's go V I'll be in charge of the individuals you be in charge of the organization right and this is the meeting in the verse this shall be the activity of that even the first level of that's called with the name it's called in the verse with the name the act the and it's not called with the second word in the nevertheless with the arousal From Below we arous from heaven you arouse the revelation of the infinite God in a in a most abundant emanation and a mighty effluence it makes peace in heaven even here below it makes peace however okay we have three things we have in heaven then we have pal Shay sh is a group below but it doesn't mean a group below here like Hill said practically you know coming into sh it means the counterpart spiritually to the the superal group but when you talk about so so the First Act OFA accomplishes in the first two in the heavens shom hasem makes peace spiritually between M and fire and Nation all of that then it even accomplishes a piece say through learning it accomplishes a piece between the Heavenly group and the lower group but it doesn't yet reveal itself below that's what he says this physical world the low world this peacefulness and this refinement and this separation of bad from good won't be revealed till the time the end of times when Mia comes and not during the time of Gus that is true in a cosmic way in in a microcosm but in a micros this refers to man every opportune time IE this is prayer I will seek you I will see you God with righteousness canal in ining says this is his point and we'll stop here tomorrow says in doing in prayer that's where you come face to face with reality you hear that when you do when you pray we think sometimes ding is talking about this and that but no no the purpose of ding is to Face Reality what am I doing about in reality so Hill but you said before you know may part of the daving is after you understand this this would be the his BND the meditation according toad after you understand thoroughly the concepts over here you you meditate you reflect on it then in your mind you say so what am I doing about it so that's where your ding becomes part of bringing down these ideas in a practical way have a great day we'll see everyone tomorrow you're welcome Shalom bye bye bye