Arousing Compassion as path to G-d, Get into yr essence as way to Mercy - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

okay good day we're learning Tanya pic M chapter 45 and where we at on page on page s which is across page 126 the AL here begins a new idea as far as attaining ye attaining LMA for T mitz if you remember in chapter 39 the made a very big point and 40 that mitz need to be done and if they're not done they're not done for the sake of Torah study on its own without any conditions and ulterior motives then that Torah and that those Mitzvah don't soar on high and what is it that makes Torah be two two issues called AA and AEM andem now you know today we we all put a very big emphasis on M on Deed on action the B he doesn't forget about a and in fact according to him and his way of understanding the approach to without is missing is lacking although the primary thing is to do the action but if you don't have inspiration either with awe for God reverence for God feeling that while you do the Mitzvah Orem love for God in various forms when you study TI your Torah study and your Mitzvah doing is lacking so from chapter 41 through 43 discussed ways of attaining hem or and reverence for God from the mid chapter 43 till 51 he gives us primarily different ways of attaining in this chapter in chapter 45 which we're beginning now here he introduces another way of attaining of attaining LMA not through a not through y but through the third notion the third movement the third the third idea called ra the is called the the middle line is to the right is to the small to the left and R Mercy is in the middle so before we just read inside just to give you an outside idea of what is Rus now the colloquial interpret you know definition of ronus is Mercy right do you have ronus on someone would you have r on someone but is so when when you position it that way it's like you know the person is a NE the issue is terrible have mercy on the situation that orientation although true but has a negative connotation it has a connotation of a problem like pity like pity exactly good that's a good word pity when explains it says if we have the idea of raus in the right way the pity will be there as well so what is Rus so I like to interpret based on what I've seen and heard raim as Charisma now Charisma has a a whole different connotation than pity what is charisma Charisma is a a beautiful blend of and that's a charismatic person a person who can who can on one hand be tough when he needs to be tough and at the very same time show the heart and I always think of the rebba that I saw and lived with with the Reb by aan on one moment the Reb be Mish choking up crying unable to speak when he spoke about Russian Jews in the SE 60s and 70s when they were still unable to get out etc etc Imam he couldn't talk he was so brokenhearted and in that same talk as he continued on and he came out of that emotional state he would he he would finish the S and then clap and sometimes dance and sometimes even sing you know nigan like how do you go from one extreme to The Other Extreme the ver is if you have a good blend of and which expresses itself in Charisma the so when we say the PK says and he quotes it I think later here in this chapter we quoted earlier to yob who redeems AB why sometimes your your aam cannot redeem the situation because the person who you're looking at is so far gone the issue you're dealing with it's it's so antithetical to God so if you were to apply just my kindness myid says sorry I can't go so far simultaneous ly sometimes is indiscriminate and just gives and gives guess what you're giving to the wrong person at the wrong time and in the wrong way and you're actually contributing to to bad to wrong so said is very much like an All or Nothing type of a notion which is very risky at the same time says no Law and Order order you don't deserve it you didn't earn it you don't get in too bad I don't want to hear anything discipline gor on one hand that's a very good thing to be disciplined and and uh you know guided and balanced and there's Law and Order there's reward and punishment but at the same time people will fall out and do fall out because of too much discipline comes along raim raim is the blend there are times where only can redeem CU can't save the day what is rim rim isn't just isn't just pity means I touch into the essence of God it says in is it's a it's a a key that unlocks all the six mid and we understand from that and or and there's another statement it touches the infinite what does it mean touches the infinite if you have the ability to overcome the shortcomings of and the shortcomings of gura and still do what needs to be done that's insa that's infinite that's Infinity ra is that element so we call it you know I'm using the word Charisma what do I mean Charisma that the person is able to see the higher purpose of the situation to put aside the limitations to put aside the All or Nothing giving and to find a a way to give and help in a way that is useful so in colloquial you know regular day-to-day terms we say have mercy on a person have pity as as Yi said before right but ra y touches a deep cord much deeper than it's much deeper and what I'm what I'm adding now is it's not it's deeper because I have more love for you that's wrong ra means I have more of God for you touches God so when you touch it's the response is a Godly response not an emotional response of because if it's your or your it's limited whereas is Limitless why because it goes it touches a now let's learn inside this concept so says is going to say now that it's the that can also trigger T remember the the objective here is to how do we get ourselves to learn to do so until now we you explained through and now he explains a third way which is called ra and that's why he begins the chapter please look inside me he there is one additional way and he calls this wayer the right path yashar right how do you say it by in where am I to go yashash straight straight straight what's yashar because yashar is is not inclines to the right is not it inclines to the left it's straight there is another a right path that there is available before a person every person to accomplish the objective is that our should be for the sake of God not alterior motive and how is that what is this this is by tapping into the the attribute of which is the mercy before you can be arouse RA in your heart you need to be you need to arouse God's mercy God's ra on you and who what do you mean on me I'm a nice guy I'm a good guy I'm a fine person yes but we all have a nit look what he says you have to be and it's not just look at the wording not just Mercy an abundant Mercy next page top of 128 which enlivens a person's soul that has descended from the source of the Living Infinite God that pervades the world surrounds world and everything is not before him one second the first issue that we need to encounter and ask have mercy on my on on The Godly spark that you put in me is the fact that you it came from you God infinite God Ain s and where does it go it goes y look at the second the third word on 128 imagine imagine you're in you're living in Isel they take you and they put you in Antarctica start for two years to study the Penguins and the and the snow you'll say what what's going on here this is such a Ura what am I here for this is a this is it's not a good muscle because for the N for the spark of God to go into the world before we talk about Sin and issues that itself is a big slap in the face to the N it's a y it's it's true you read mute yourself please it's true you read and everything else but the fact is it's a big says the you have to be God Hashem have mercy on your nits that you put into me it's yours and you threw it away so far into a foreign pasture in a foreign place it's it it's lonely have mercy on that that's number one let's continue number two guess what is where did this nit end up and he quotes thees look at the wording and this spark has enveloped enclosed itself in the hide of the serpent which is an expression the serpent the no represents the kipa the height of the kipa is also related to kipa so the The Godly spark has descended into the world but not only in into the world with as a garden or nice swimming pool or nice Beach but it's ended up in the hide of The Serpent and look at the Al's wording which is very dist from the face of the king the countenance of the king with the absolute distance is the distance why because this world is the ultimate place of the corporeal grub CPUs you can't get any more grub than down here you got it this world World gives you the best of grub kite I think that should be a posterboard um slogan come to this world to encounter and face and have the best of grub kite why should I do that oh cuz you want to make a de you want to make a change you got to make a change where it counts sitting on a on a rooftop or a Mountaintop in in Idaho I don't know if they have that it's flat flat land but in New Mexico or wherever else yeah yeah very nice you escaped gmas you're living by yourself you know you're not in the real world you want to get you want to you want to want it to really count get down and dirty so says that this that God puts into the Jews goof I.E The Godly Soul the spark and all that it now not only is it distant but it gets involved in specifically when a person will bring to mind all of their actions that they did throughout their lifetime and their speech and their thoughts from the day the person was born came came to the world those things that were no good that person did that were not [Music] proper and this this is an expression the king is Shackled is in jail so it's explained that this shackling is the shackling of the brain of the Mind one second okay you have you have the fact that we lost your video we lost your video what do you mean we H we okay we just came back the video just came back okay I'm sorry the the we have the idea that there's shackles when when when someone does something wrong it's taking the Mel the king and putting the king into jail tied up tied up with handcuffs and shackles adds here we believe it's from the it's not just a phys it's not just that you took the king through your sins and we dumped the king into jail what happened here is we made a shackle on the brain on the cup on the mo and again the AL path to avoid isab so to the alter what's most what concerns them most is the mo that the mo be free that the brain the the mind be liberated from shackles what does it mean what it means is that when you invest your entire Essence and your entire being your entire Vitality into things that are unhealthy spiritually and against God it touches your brain in a way that your brain now was Shackled and tied up and in jail that's a real crime and and there's a lot a lot of verbage about this Inus in general that as much as the Goof the body the body the spark of God is is um is is captured by the physicality in the materialism in the world what's even worse is when the might is caught when the May is a slave and tied up and we see in Jewish history just think for a moment let's take a Russia with Communism and and and all the isms it All Began from an ideological and philosophical shackling of the of the Jewish brain to all kinds of isms naturally it led to other results but where did it begin in the if if the is is liberated there's a strong chance and a good chance you can untie the situation on the ground but if the May is messed up forget it and that's what the the the communism sought to do was and they did it by millions of people for 70 years to eradicate God from the brain of of of the average Russian person it was a mind a mind setting and that is the worst problem the the the the shackles of the body can be dealt with but if you teach and that's that's probably the main problem with your the Palestinians and everyone else is that they teach their kids to hate they're being they're being educated to to kill Jews to hate Jews Etc that's the problem in other words the the The Firs and all that we see we're getting rid of you know much of them and and you know but the problem is the next generation and the third generation a new king will will come about so it's here talks about that's why he quotes here come in backing up uh at the beginning of the par I just wonder if you could comment on the phrase meaning I'm I'm interested in the word as opposed to like meem you know to ask from like why are we saying what's the concept of okay good good good question so is explained in by the AL in different places it means the face of God the continence the pemus of hem when you seek to be and when we when we want to use ra it's not enough to just oh it hurts me have mercy you have to you have to go inside yourself when you go very deep inside yourself then the Rahim comes out that you that then you're then you're then your request for of of God please have mercy on my spark that you gave me it's yours that you gave me it's really in in junk it's autz get help me get out of it so the more you the more you areem you have the pus of Hashem the more you're going to feel and if and if it would only be kind of as you say mayem that's a very um external conjunction mayem it doesn't denote the P from the word p and also from the word p I would say that's what he says let's going back now we should get in God's face so to speak on behalf of our soul yes but but it has to come from your pemus it's not we we just get hey God I'm here you know I could have knock punch me out no we're talking about that you know I it really touches me I I really feel the pain that that here I have a a n and sent this nit into this world and it has all the challenges and then then I'm I you know I messed up I'm not perfect and have mercy on it it so you have to really do an introspection you know listen H you know from your work you know if a person doesn't acknowledge if you don't acknowledge the problem you can you'll never really be helped it'll just come back so many people yeah I do Tru I do Tru remorse and it's not kite okay I mean you know you want it to last you really have to go deep inside you know and and and really realize the mistake that you made and and the more you go inside yourself not to not in a way to make you depressed or morbid or God forbid you know I give up not at all but that you know I really hurt someone I really hurt myself and I don't want this anymore it's so unhealthy for me you know and the more you do that with then the the call for is very deep and profound you see as I said he's using this here as a means to make Torah and mitz that's a very hard agenda we all know that we all have a little alter alterior motive here or there to make it really a you have to go deep it it's not it's not just because I learned sh so I learned a lot of or a lot of mus and all that it's automatically it's not that way it's not that way at all it's not that way I'm sorry I don't care what they preach and what they say it's not that way it's an inner transformation that a person goes through and that takes Hashem and uh understands that I just want to conclude with one thought here and that is the next words for is the the Rope of inheritance what does it mean a r so explains get over there he explains that when a ye when a ye does something on Earth Here below the Rope between the Nish and himself is moved now now when you're doing a Vera a rope a right a velvel is thick it's not just a little string it's it's it it's a real rope and it has it's made up of strings so you peel away it gets peeled away one two 3 6113 chords strings and each time we do something that's not good that's against hem we're peeling away one of those things until it gets very very very narrow and if someone has an Edict of chus on them that's cus means it cuts the Rope specifically the mid of yak the mid of raon is been given to a Jew as an inheritance to keep the Rope connection strong so that when we do something here on Earth it has the opportunity to make a change up up there not on I'm sorry better said not just the opportunity it makes a difference when you shake the Rope here it shakes the Rope up here Yak it doesn't say and it doesn't say it says why yov because only can touch the can't do it can't do it but ra can do it so that's why brings here the the idea of in continuation [Music] to he's saying you want to make a change in the way you think what we call in Psychology the Paradigm Shift you want a paradigm shift then you need to tap into so again when we when we translate Rahim as pity you this whole flow here this whole explanation doesn't really fit in but when we understand ra to be Charisma in the sense of touching a the beauty why is it why is ra beautifuler right why because fer what does it mean something that's beautiful touches the infinite because Beauty means that you take both the Cav and the and you put them together and and then it reveals the higher infinite light he will continue tomorrow Z have a good day byebye