Atheist comes in different forms - Igeres HaKodesh 11c - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

the the fourth section getes 11 page 232 we are on the Fifth Line very important words every line here is is Rock Solid the reason why we don't feel the reality of yes in EXO that everything is God because we because it's it's not comprehensible we because we don't understand it it appears to the person bad the person thinks this is bad him or it's torture and pain and he quotes the quote no evil comes from heaven and everything that comes from is good however it's not understandable it's not I'm sorry it's not understood because it is so great so awesome so abundant it's you know there's a saying in the gar if there's too much I told you the other day the G with he prays for rain what does the say inness a lot of rain comes he says it's too the is too overwhelming we can't handle it it say says the same idea here that the reason why it comes out in a form of of RA orim is because the world is not a k so there's an explosion there's atomic explosion but the the seed of the energy is kadus says this is the primary aspect of faith in for the purpose of which Man was created and that is to believe there is no place in the world in the universe that's void of him of God and number two and with the continents of hashem's face kind of it is God the king illuminates the world therefore mightiness and happiness is in its place since it is only good it's all only good the entire day the first thing that the person should be thinking about and the person should be doing it the person should be happy and rejoice every moment of time and this will give life in [Music] actuality bem by having this faith in God it will actually enliven the person and give the person energy who he believes that everything is good will enliven him and G and do good with him behold every moment stop here says the now words that are very hard to swallow but he does say it and someone who is sad and he complains kind of it's not good says the person shows about himself that he has a little bed and and and things that are bad him and and and and and punish him pain and he says he's missing some favor says someone who appears to say this and feel this and feel this way next words you ready for your eyes to pop out he's like someone that God forbid it says with like doesn't say that before the is very important he is like an agnos someone who God forbid denies an atheist it doesn't say he is an atheist you have to be very careful every God forbid to say that this year is a ker he's King why is heer L said why is heer because a ker doesn't realize that it came from yeah no so AER keep literal sense denies God's existence God forbid there is no God this person that says that the actions of God contradict God is like someone who denies God so in other words this person says there is a God but he says God how can you be a God if you do something that is no good what type of God are you so he's not a he's not a literal denier cuz he says there is a God but he has a very strong question on God and he says God you're not being God I'm telling you you're not a good God so he's like a ker Hill what do you think about that I think it's pretty hard uh level to maintain when you're suffering yes yes when he taught this to us he teach it you know he says we're so far you know even the greatest people but like I said yesterday you weren't a few days ago maybe you were at this year there's the attitude see when you learn a Pedic like this and it's it's the attitude towards things what are what's your Paradigm what in other words I know I'm not this way I know when I suffer I suffer and I'm upset right but nevertheless what do you take back on and and and that is really that is really the question and the issue that we need to walk away with when we learn a chapter like this is what is our what is our comfort zone in other words what do we rely on you know the um in Florida there's a lot of you know these these storms and or hurricanes and you need generators right well so the generator has to kick in for the air conditioner to work right other words the generator is the battery that that you in times of Crisis the generator kicks in what's our generator what's our battery is it with all of them our might and you know even if I complain I know that it's for my best or do do I say Hashem you're not the best God today you're not acting like God in other words I'm going to tell you how to be a God and and and ultimately this it's very hard because the harder this challenge is and as we saw yeah go ahead what sorry go ahead I heard R once describ L as a spare tire say nobody nobody goes out driving without a spare tire because if you do you're in trouble but if you have you get a flat sometimes you get a flat but youve got the SP tire that's good good I like it good I like it good work good work okay let's continue says therefore have dist instruct us to distance ourselves have to distance depression melancholy in other words the the the the scholars of of of Truth meaning Caba usually referred to caution us to distance ourself far from depression and Melancholy brought about by all of these occurrences doesn't go into detail what they say but he says that there's so much herbage especially in the teachings of the cautioning us to stay far away from coming becoming despondent because of suffering and bra and things like that a the believer who is not won't be fathomed for any type of pain and in all matters of of in all worldly matters yes and no positive and negative are equal equinity exlo by the individ ual by this individual says this isn't just a play on words but it's an actual equivalent a true comparison that H and love are all the same and someone who doesn't have this has by the way you guys know that the one of the first titles of the first title of in is from the word everything what thank you the first teaching is doesn't mean just Place God before you make Hashem equal in the in the yes and in the no in the positive and negative make equinity is kind saying the same thing here and someone who doesn't have this is equinity oh my gosh it gets better by the moment he shows that he's from the mixed multitude and we know about the mixed multitude the who didn't want to leave MIT when hasem said go what's the problem with look at the way the AL explains it it's that they did things for their own selfish self is it going to be good for me will I be able to do as well outside of Egypt where I had all my comforts if the answer is no I ain't going the of the sin the mind the mindset of of the eight of attitude is me me me selfishness and the person loves himself to exit from under God's hand and he desires to live like a life of the worship the idol worshippers he like living like an idol worshipper again you say Al what are you saying and he explains Al what is an ID worship someone who believes that what I have comes from an idol giving credence to the dollar bill look what happened in uh the Emirates the other day right away with some very prominent Jewish people say they're giving a million dollar each God bless them but anyone with any brains knows that it's it's politically motivated because they make billions of dollars doing business with the Emirates so the pilots they're going to give s but but what I'm saying is the dollar bill is the AO today as so many rabbis and have said and right we worship the dollar so Dr says the the idea of the a of is worshiping the self so whether it's the dollar bill or or back then Idols it was the same n it's the same idea worshiping a deity other than God Almighty that's idolatry that's what he says and because this is his attitude his Paradigm he desires physical life and children and livelihood but it's all a woman a wife a mother a husband a father procreating having children wanting to be healthy and paying the bills all good things and to things but nevertheless it's it's good for the person and the Cur person feels has a pleasantness to it but it says say it's best that man was not created hasem creates us why because then it would be easier this is the meaning of the Kaz it would be easier not to be created not to do with all the challenges you mentioned before you know the tests why do I need the tests and guess what this argument is happening right now worldwide why do I have to get married we can just live together kids who are kids why bring kids into the world what a bother the starvation and can't feed them the world is cooked both they're religious they're not religious from all sides just right it's much easier if L we don't have to bring children into the world in a Kosher Way the normal way Hashem puts man on Earth and creates man in this physical world not in with the angels and the stars and the constellations and all of that to test us and to see what's in a person's heart will your heart turn follow other gods which refer would refer to the indulgences of the body the needs of the body that case which come from the negative side the is this what you want I'm testing you or is it your desire and your will to have true life not not flesh life true life that comes in the Progressive manner from the Living God some in this parenthesis it says that in some versions of the Tanya the original it didn't say those words but the the point being that here is the test what are you living for what are you looking for and and this is and this is a very very real issue in every aspect of of life so what is the Al doing by sharing by by teaching us the this these last several lines about the one second one second he's saying I think this is what he's saying he's asking the question that all of us here are asking Al you calling me a like come on get real so the AL is saying the kazal understood that too and kazal say that you wouldn't be created if not to pass to to go through a test the whole reason why you came is to go through a test so don't tell me this is what he's saying don't tell me that you don't have the ability to rise above the gmas you do it's a test but otherwise you wouldn't come you wouldn't come on Earth know God Hashem would not create a human the world and a human being and and the whole system if you just want to have a good time to have a good time you doesn't need you he needs to see if within the gmas you can rise above the gmas yes yes sir so um I'm struggling a little bit because he seems to be phrasing these challenges as yes absolutely also come in Ras meaning when you can't get your kid into a school how many how many boys and girls in lakwood can't get into a school you don't want your kid to get in school from goshas you want them to learn Torah and there's no school that'll take them or a parent raises a child and that child chooses a different path and that's not a gsh it's it's a R challenge okay okay and if a person is really living with Ras he accepts that he accepts that and he knows that a child that a son or daughter has their own life and they're allowed to make their own choice it's very tough to accept it but that's the that's the end of the day so and and and if you want to enforce your way on them you're not living with you're living with gsh it you have to feel better at the end of the day let's not kid ourselves we don't want someone else saying oh my kid went off the D we don't want someone to say my kid is on drugs we don't want someone to say my this my that on and on so in other words it's the peer pressure the fact that there's a problem God knows that but Hashem doesn't know that there's an issue and Hashem says I give a person free will you don't like it too bad see that so we're trying to really um control God we're trying to make the Hashem in fit into our box don't make him fit into your box now does that mean to say there shouldn't be any rules there shouldn't be discipline of course there should be but when when someone that's what I said yesterday to to to to uh to who was it um to MERS the idea of is a real idea in this world and you can never strip that as soon as you strip P Free Will from a person you don't have a world that's the way God wants it and made it you don't so when of course I agree with you iser that there's a type of Rus that fall would fall more in line with the Al is calling GM here and then there's the selfless Rus which is the r so if a parent let's talk pra a parent parents do whatever it is both in their private life in their public life in their family life and they provideed a a beautiful titer life and way for children and a child or two whatever the goes a different path that's the way it is that's the way it is um and and it doesn't mean to say that a parent shouldn't say to him for that child it doesn't mean that a parent shouldn't contact a professional right maybe the person needs therapy you don't sit on the sidelines but at the end of the day you you you work with with the objective truth and and and and that's and and that's all and that's it and that's it so I I do relate to what you're saying I mean you know my children are from but that's not you know are they me they're not me and I'm not them and guess what they shouldn't be me and I shouldn't be them they have to explore and find Hashem and in their way so yeah when I got married and you know for years that's that was my thinking coming out of Yeshiva and coming out of a tight community and aidic Community is like what's the question they're going to be like me you know I learned you know 123 hours a day and you know in yiva and I was the best student and I was popular on and on and on so of course my kidss are going to be that way well and if it's not that way and if it's not that way they're not my children they're not outstanding members of of the community yes they are and they some way better than I much better but you know you're you're so I'm going to use the word that sometimes we don't like brainwash to think a certain way that it's hard to move back at the at the same time the you know Counter Culture which we spoke about yesterday the freedoms and everything that you know just do whatever you want is also not a tah away what do you mean do whatever you want let me present to you I want to teach you I want to share what the beautiful way is and and hopefully you'll see it and look have we all know whether we have you know family members like this or or others it's this is a reality today this is no longer just theoretical conversation this is an every community in every home in every you know place where these are the challenges you know you know I look around at the world of kabad it's not the world that I grew up in the 70s 60s and 70s it's a whole different Kad and guess what that's the way it is I went to Crown the shabas I was there I have no one to talk to all my teachers all people I look are passed away they're not around there there's a lot of good people nice people but people who I identified with and like one of the kabad rabbis said when you're on the top it's very lonely now it doesn't mean you know top in a conceit full way but you know here it's shabas I would like to sit and listen to someone who's older and more intelligent and who I respect I can barely find them either they're too old and they're half dead or they're sleeping or they're Crossing or I'm crossing so what are you left with nothing let's just have fun that's not my type of fun I'd rather you know uh spend a different everyone has their so so the point is do we close up shop no we have to understand this is the world right now what's going to be 20 30 years I don't know maybe it'll be a Resurgence of and I see young people who are starring who are Mas who who are and hopefully they they will you know refine them themselves where they will become these people that that I knew that you know were really top people we'll learn tomorrow the rest we'll finish on turkey day we'll finish the chapter Z byebye take care take care