Alter Rebbe brought tranquility to Jews via his Tanya - Yud Tes Kislev 2024 - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so in the for today later you'll take a look at it inside even though you might have looked at it earlier at the end of in today for the 18th of kave it says may you have a good year it's the same sh that we wish each other on in the study of and in the practices ofus may you be written and inscribed so number one for and the rebba our rebba um cited that I don't know if he originated that language or it was the previous rebas I think it was the previous rebas but regardless the rebba who put together the ha in 1943 I believe he inserted it so that's very significant significant that he's telling worldwide for eternity so this isn't a game you know like some out there tend to tend to laugh and ridicule saying on because sha as Mo will tell you refers really to and we are in the month of kli the 19 18 19 K what are you saying right and theba writes it and the explanation is simple that this is the anniversary for p Torah for the inner dimension of Torah it isut it took the form of the bat who [Music] who disseminated kidus in a manner called kabad hence the philosophy using the intellectual components of the mind to come to the same conclusions as the the the predecessor and the founder of the the holy nothing besides God if does Simka serve god with Sim many other basic cidic teachings is Divine Providence on every every aota in creation even when a leaf turns over from the right side to the left side all of these are basic teachings of the balov the AL the balat the one who celebrating was crating expounded it and opened it up in a manner that the mind can also grasp it and and and understand it so the AL it was a novelty is sh it's a new year yes it's a new year for this this way of thinking so we're fa bringing here today about this concept so what is different this year what's different this year you live than all other years and before I answer the question one needs to ask thems the question and guess what one needs to ask thems the question daily how am I different today than yesterday yesterday I went to work yesterday I did try doing I business yesterday I I I I I studied yesterday I taught how is this day different there is a a verse y over there with matak yov what are you what are you looking for and he says lar you know to say so and so so one of theic rebes I think the ker gave the interpretation that one needs to ask themsel daily a question what is new lar what is what's your new thought today that's the secret to staying young and vibrant is to to to from the to to to think daily from the moment you get up throughout the day how's this day different so so too with what's the difference this year than other years so I thought about the the jakov dwells there and and then we have the whole story of the dream dreams beginning with the dreams and everything else with well first with potifar with Joseph a lot a lot of important lessons but at the first P the first verse by yes Rashi says yov sought to sit peacefully God made the wrath of ysf fall upon him which means all of a sudden is copulated with all kinds of mishas and accusations and all of a sudden it's as we say in AR is a balagan we're talking about the father cuz he's the father of Joseph of ysep so if ysep is experiencing all of this mishas it impacts the father so Rashi says that Yakov wanted to sit just let me sit peacefully finally I'm able to sit and have no stress or less stress and to study and to learn and to enjoy family and time and pleasure Hashem says no Yakov you want want peace tranquility I'll show you now here's the question why why did Hashem do this Yakov wasn't so the way the way the simple answer to the question is get off your loins and and get moving but you talking about Yakov he wasn't playing golf okay he wasn't getting up uh 2:00 like I read about this uh Manu this Assad he would get up I think it says 2:00 he was like you know you know Yakov was a Jew a patriarch a student of God he was serving God he was working so what do you mean he wanted to sit in peace he what does that mean and because and God says no no no no you're making a mistake AK Yakov and therefore I'm going to make all these issues to with your son that's going to impact you because he your son and you're upset your son has all these sorus all these issues so this year in thinking about this this is this is the thought that came to me the problem is with the first word be sitting in peace tranquility shva there's nothing wrong with that because the the Sha of yov was a holy sha was a meaningful peacefulness and Tranquility the problem is Yakov bees bees means he wasn't content with what he had in the sense that if if he had a bad day he was upset and he and and he was searching and looking and saying God give me give me peace give me Tranquility that's a problem you know what the problem is if God sends it to you then you have to take the situation as it is and make of it godliness not say without saying the words but thinking God how can you do this to me you're wrong I'm trying to serve you I want to have man peacefulness and you throw me all these tus all these Bagans so the problem isn't with the SHA the problem is with the p and and and just to take it you know down to our our life and our level because that's what is about Not Just Thoughts in the sky many times not many times always we're always confronted with r the wrath of Joseph the wrath of Joseph the problems are are constant have you found a man that doesn't have problems if you have he's not human he's not normal the way this world works as it says in perova elaborate in tanyan chapter 27 is the norm is problems not the norm is tranquility the norm is problems if the norm is problems then then you understand that it's not that I that I need to reject the problem I need to take the problem and use the problem for serving God that's an accomplishment that that means someone is a strong person that's a person who has their life together and I am sure those days when we succeed in this aod is then we're happier that day then we're more pleasant and people like being around us those days days when we don't accept the problem and we fight with the problem and reject the problem and we're unhappy those are the days that are our worst days and that's what happened over here P yov don't be accept the problem if it's if today is a peaceful day great if today is a Bagan day day just as great but you don't want to remain in balagan mode because if you're in chaos mode in chaotic mode it's messed up it's problematic so fix the chaos and I say this with the balat if you think if you think about Hill the the Al's life and you think about what he did and what he what he did and what he had to go through you see that our lives are you know we have it easy here is a person who is really a special Soul a massive of the highest on and on and from from the time that he was a young man till the end of his life he was a wanted man he was a man on the Run look when he was a young man he was a litak he wasn't Aid and all the sudden he's exposed to the maget of MRI now that was a very Earth shattering or better said a a mind shattering revolution in this individual because the more you are disciplined in a certain way of T the more it's hard to not leave it but to change that or to upgrade it okay it is a lit Fox thinks in a certain way and a a German Jew thinks in a certain way and a Jew the third way and they all think different ways we're all ye and we're all fine but I always say this you got to go back to culture if you want to understand a person in a community you have to look at the culture people don't put enough emphasis on it that's something that I've dedicated myself in my books to always study the culture to understand the broader situation for what we have today so the balatan culture before coming to the maget was a litak the previous rebba writes in in in a talk velv he WR writes there that that that he kind of didn't like or hated simple people like the lit at the time why because if you weren't learned you didn't know gar you didn't know tal you didn't know Torah you were a nothing had that mindset it's it's it's when I read that the first time I had a hard time relating to it but that's what it says and I understand it now so that's one transformation then he's about to leave the Magid because they're learning too much Caba and he's not ready to give up his study of talud and he he he decides to stay that's another transformation then starts the whole par with the and the and he's part of it and it was it was vicious okay today we could talk about it laugh about it and and and write about it in books but during that time it was was a vicious it wasn't just two opinions guys it was a a fight and if you read the history your hair will stand up just read certain books you you wouldn't believe that what was going on that the fighting and the animosity to the informing on each it was okay so he's part of that JRE at the time then he's appointed by rendal of and of kalis as the leader so his rebies kind of leave leave him they go to and he's left alone then the same person who appoints it becomes his opponent then we have the whole issue of utas kli where he's informed on that he's funding the Turks against the Zar and all that okay you would think now Utes kiss Liv 1797 uh he's a free [Applause] man now he can Coast right you're out of jail you can Coast what happens two years later again he's put into jail in tal in 1801 approximately and then towards the end of his life Napoleon decides to chase him and get him and understands that he is the leader of many many Jews in Russia and he's on the run and he dies he passes away I should say he passes away on the road so he's not buried in lead right began in Le he was called the Magid and then he moved to lead but he had to run away from lead that's why it's called or zman of liadi he runs away from lead and he passes away on the road and they bury him in had I think MOA Brun was there I know if any of you were there y might have been there anyway right that means he wasn't yeah you were there so you he wasn't he wasn't buried in in his hometown cuz he was on the run now you tell me this type of life and and like why couldn't he have some peace the last five years of his life so we don't understand God's ways but one thing we know is that this person who wrote the Tanya and who founded kabad movement and kabad philosophy andus took everything in the right way he didn't he didn't seek B he didn't seek B cuz he had plenty of R he had plenty of Wrath and Chaos from Joseph and I don't mean his sons although one of his sonsa had a about later his life with health and that caused issues and I'm sure it was very painful to the father although truth be said it really came out after the alter passed away this the story with I think was in never passed away in 1812 but nevertheless and the all of these issues are so when we and we talk about the Tanya that we've been learning and we continue to study and it's AEM we will finish it one day from cover to cover with's help gives a ye way to to to counter this this chaos and to stay cool to stay focused it's a so we can share a a sharp word there's an expression in Yiddish which goes like this in English don't lose your pants in other words in other words vable in other words s this that you lose your pants in other words you that's it I might as well take off my pants that that idea so in Gish the expression goes well in English it doesn't don't lose your pants stay stay focused come on it's easier said than done we know that but this is why we study and we continue to study and and we need to study moreis is an antidote to all of these issues I'm telling you we've seen people that were down and very down and they came back and they came back strong and it came back with families and with students because they studied now let me bring you up the part of what's going on today and how this is tied into the AL today there's thousands if not hundreds of thousands of non that are learning from the Polish Hungarian to the people learning seriously in addition to other too we're talking about this is a feather in the cap not just to the alterb but to our rebba who was his successor the seventh Reb of laich because the Coming to America in 1941 and seeing the situation here together with his father-in-law the sixth Reb who at the time was already an ill man the Reb took all these ideas to another level and particularly he opened it up through translating in English in different languages and of course sending schim worldwide beginning from the 1950 51 to Morocco North Africa and then started in America 1958 to Detroit etc etc so all of this you would think okay those that are interested in kabad well you all know you're sitting here you all have and had involvement in leich and kabad and you know what I'm talking talking about I always repeat the story when I came to bemes in 19 in 2017 I believe and who we need to always thank for making this K happen so he said get you know why don't you get to know some of the raon here so that's where I met M over and I met Rim Sal and and various R and I remember I had to speak I think it was RAB it was an August day I think I was staying with SCH and I had to walk up this hill it was scorching Hot 90 to 100° it was and I I didn't carry you know I whatever if I try to avoid carrying if I don't have to in shabas and I passed the playground and I saw there a a grandmother with a mother with a young girl girl playing on the swings and um they had some water and she offered me some water and I said sure I'll take some water and she told me I'm always thankful to kabar in Cleveland because the the the the the there made me part of his household and I became a BAL tra there I'm not kabad today my husband's not kabad but I know what is that was in 19 in 2017 my introduction kind of to bemish and then getting to know all of you and all the people and all KES and everything this just became more and more and it was it was very clear so what's my point my point is that t andab isn't just for katnik it's it's it's such a big mistake and if we could all together kind of get this through to other people you don't have to be a for that matter of to study there are LX and if they're no today the says but LX that learn learn it's it's it's it's a li that lends itself to accepting the reality of and dealing with it properly and I want to I want to add one another point you know there's a difference between beov and being a by putting that me which is a conjunction in front of the word b you get the wordes mes means to search someone who has a quest someone who is searching a Jew should be on aish I'm always searching for the truth I'm always searching for more I'm always willing to listen whether it's my custom or not I want to hear I want to be informed a aak so aish is a kind of pulis we say call a ongoing activity if anyone says they're already done they know that D they know that you know of course every person has a d has an approach and all that but be open to hearing and the and the same I always say and I put it in my books the katnik have to be open to other approaches it doesn't work one way it's a two-way street and anyone that's close-minded is close-minded and I'll be the first one to say it whether you throw rocks at me or not okay you don't have to give away your what you believe for yourself is the right d but listen listen to everybody there's there's there's a there's different that's what makes our Jewish community so wonderful the different from the to the to the to the you know it's such a colorful opportunity Yes again that doesn't do mean that you should be changing every minute or having 75 men hug him and confuse your kids and grandkids no but but but the overall idea be informed be be studied you know when the Reb when the when the previous rebba told the older to go greet the rebba when he came when he came off the boat in 1941 with his Reb the Reb said to the go my son-in-law who who's a Buy in shasi he knows the entire talet the Babylonian talet in Jerusalem the entire and all printed books he didn't say all printed books all printed books whatever there was at the time show whatever there was I don't know what there was out there there wasn't much out there so UT this this explains another issue is we in kabad we call the Festival of all festivals I remind myself of what my father-in-law told me my father was centuries from Russia Ukraine and he lived in kov he he grew he was born and raised in kov where there's all this bombing today that's where he's from so I once asked him how did you and celebrate you kave it it it wasn't uh it wasn't you had to go to work to have a piece of bread to the 1930s talking about 35 36 37 you didn't go to work because of you you were in trouble so I asked him how did you celebrate how did you guys celebrate he says whoever needed to go to work went to work but one thing the Sho was open there was and someone made Kasha cuz it's customary to eat Schwartz of Kasha B right the Kasha buckwheat buckwhat thank you yeah buckwheat cuz Al ate that in the in in in in the cell over there so someone made kaser and brought Kasha and what else we were there dancing and singing and being happy no Dres no no sermons just being happy we that's what he told me I'm repeating to you what he told me okay that was you live in kov in the 1930s which he himself as a young boy experienced so that's the that's what the day is about being happy that you have the to to celebrate and this is this is why we're faing and this is why we're together I heard a story just yesterday that I want to share because it's a it's a good story to think about the fifth Reb of laich was someone who was very involved in communal work helping yeden throughout Russia Ukraine Etc and also in study of Deep study ofus his discourse is as I've told you over the years is very articulate like it was called the r of very analytical and it was very hard to kind of get him to to have a private minute with him it was it was wasn't easy he had certain times and even that select it wasn't easy someone wasn't well and he was very ill and he needed a br and he wanted a br from the re the Reb should bless him that he should become healthy well well he should but he couldn't get to see the re and have this one-on-one short conversation so someone said to him you know what when the rebba goes to the excuse me to the bathroom and he comes out maybe then you'll have a sec a few minutes to talk to him privately and ask for a so he he he waited for the Reba to go to the bathroom he waited outside and the made a this is the blessing we make after we go to the bathroom blessed hem who heals All Flesh and he said he heard the rebba make the and the BR is about healing and he said he didn't speak to the rebba and he was healed a very powerful story sometimes ask you know I I I I I need to hear a br from the Reb to me personally right now those those of us who are you know so unless you are on a you know spiritual level where you can hear sounds and voices um the average person even standing by the R by the oil doesn't hear I want to hear so first of all you want to hear is is also a stickle yes you want to hear obviously God doesn't want you to hear now you who are in this situation for whatever it is that's the way it is but even if we don't accept that or we don't like that we don't want that there are ways of hearing with the rashab it it he said the braa and this person who was Ill who heard it okay that's one form for us today if you study which we do and you you you you you write to to the re to the O you talk to asem and you have him in mind trust me if you're focused you will hear you will hear not maybe a physical voice but you will get an answer you will you will it will resonate that you will get an answer now whether you like the answer or not it's another question hopefully it pacifies you so that your uh self feels good about it too fine but the point is this ties in with what I said in the beginning I'm a I'm learning I want to see and hear God what what are you doing everyone has a Reb them who are so you know prominent and large andah and do so much for Jews and they don't have a living Reb at least not in the sense you can hear and see him it's not fair that's the problem beish who are you to say it's not fair God says it is fair and you say it's not fair together with together with with accepting you need to be mes you need to D and learn that M should come and and all and all of our parents on and on should be the resurrection of dead and mess Go full force with that in a normal way not in an outrageous C way in in in a way that makes sense for Jews and people can handle it and relate to it right so with the rashab it was listening to his br and with our I can tell you being focused and thinking about him will help you you know after the previous re passed away the told RAB mha hon he's 90 years old maybe well he's the H of New Jersey he was from Brazil and was born in 34 right so 35 whatever and and he came in 1951 so he was 16 years old or something you know young young man and that year the rebba spoke to him privately and the rebba said you should have a picture of the previous rebba with you and from time to and or in your wallet he said that and from time to time you should look at the picture trust me the rebba wasn't into this voodo stuff and cuckoo stuff you know but this gives a this gives connection so whether it's having a picture in your house whether it's carrying a picture with you again I'm not going to tell you you must have a picture you know you find the way that you relate to and what what lifts you up but then the the the idea behind the picture is I want you to think about this sadic that you are relating to that he is there for you today so we come all around and we conclude the in a manner that it's of the famous to him and the song that we end this we end the King David says I trust in you Hashem always remember be inem I'm sure you guys are having faans whether it be in in in whether it be in Ville in Germany whether it be in Fort Lauderdale or wherever KES KES okay you're having a KES for but make sure you speak about and go to whether it's a Kish whether it's tonight they have also I think this big book fair in in someone in you know participate and not only yourselves there must be program for women and children to be uh you know like I said just to be happy find ways to be happy and share the happiness with others have a great chabas we'll see everyone Monday M we're starting chapter 14 in t kadish Shalom bye good jum