Colors make things exciting: Sefiros in practical terms - Igeres HaKodesh 15b- RC Dalfin

so goodday we're learning 15 we're on page 242 this is the letter in the book of Tanya that describes and explains the 10 spos from through Mal so someone says could you give me a location where I can understand about the T it would bees T this as I said yesterday why the children of the Ala who chose to include these letters to the Tanya you know that initially when the AL put together the T this was not included this is only included later after his passing I believe in 1814 or so when they when when they put it out they they printed it again they added 32 letters to the uh the first three chap chapters of through first three sections of and and get cha but and and the purpose was because to support both the local and more importantly the the that made alah with v kis uh 1788 and they needed on and this is when the AL started you know the kabad I think kabad today attributes its start time to 1788 that's what we're talking about so in many of these letters from different angles tackles this idea of giving ter is giving to his and people in and yet in middle of all this like almost smack in the middle there's 32 chapters here and this this is chapter 15 we're learning now he talks about the spos like what we're talking about giving Seda so I don't have an explanation yet hopefully shabas I'll get a chance to look into some and I'll hopefully find something but be that as a May said a very interesting thing Al said yesterday AB that the the mid as they are again in cabala in cabala we call them the speros right inal language in P Etc we would call it mid they are the the acting tool for every individual as Hashem God Almighty gave his energy of infinity into these faculties how they uh play out how they express themselves we're going to learn more about today but one thing that he taught us yesterday is that don't make a comparison between the quality the Mida the qual the quality of the Mida as it's in the godhead From hashem's perspective the way it's with Hashem and the way it comes into man and he gave a mushel a very interesting parable of a piece of wood and he says that a piece of wood com is comprised is made up of four elements fire water air and dust those are the four we call within all of matter you hear that what happens in a log of wood when you burn the wood the first three elements of Fire Water and Air dissipate or are consumed VAV the fire causing smoke and what's what remains is ashes and those ashes are the fourth element of offer H Myer the element of offer of dust Within in the log of wood when the log of wood is then burnt it separates from the three they go up and smoke Through The Fire And it settles Below in the form of Ashes so when says says I am dust and Ashes now when we read the that P you know it's humility is saying who am I I'm just dust and Ashes here says there's a lot of depth to this verse and these words of ab what abam is saying is just like dust and ashes are the only thing that remain from a log of wood that's burnt and this is really the essence of the log of wood and that's why even when the wood is burnt it remains in the form of Ashes so too the mid that we have which come from Hashem Hashem gives God gives a person are a leftover a remnant of God's energy of his Infinity so on one hand it's AAL it's a great accomplishment and a great feat to say that our character in other words MOA our kindness our Justice our Mercy isn't just a human Justice you understand it's not you just human Justice it's a Justice that's infused with godliness if we use it right it's not just I'm it's a Justice because it makes sense Yi you understand it makes sense to help someone one second it makes sense to to say no at times that's human logic you don't know need to be a Jew for that you can be a non Jew and there and that's the way the world works the the mid within a Jew are infused with a with infinity of God nevertheless simultaneously would you say can you say that the meos within a human are the ex quality of the mid ofen absolutely not just like the ashes are not a log of wood a log of wood is a log of wood you can sit on a log of wood you can send it down the river you can use it for lumber you can't do that with ashes ashes are disintegrated so we have a dual role in ashes we have a dual role in the midles that we carry that we have on one hand there is an infusion of godliness so they're not just ordinary human characteristics and at the same time they're not in its pure Godly State because they've already been consumed yes MAA what do you want to ask so rph if we say that our MOS the MOs of a Jew specific spefically are infused with godliness is this why we see that worldwide when it comes to social we'll call it social justice campaigns of any sort you always see that Jews are so often at the Forefront of and I'm talking about Jews who outwardly let's say appear not to be so you know religiously observant right iist yeah I would say that's part of it there's other parts but that's part of it no question about it when the gar says brings in it twice earlier that we Jews are born with natural traits of three things bashfulness mercifulness and benevolence give right the gar says that that's not thear says that that and it says it about every single Jew whether he's wearing pis a or putting on Fillin even if he's not that's what the that's the that's the DNA of a ye and by the way this is a very important position because when ye says to you listen I'm not you know age-old argument I'm not religious I'm not from I'm not observant I don't want to be from I'm a Jew and I and I I may go to SCH once in a while and I write a check and and and I'm a good person and I feel for Israel you know all of that what what's one of the counter responses to that position that's wonderful that's wonderful in addition to all of that you have in your DNA the the the the um the tools for much greater for much more in other words why limit yourself in this way so of course the argument is what the answer is cuz they don't understand what prayer is and learning and you know what I'm saying religious observance but but when when when you explain to a person that this is who you are this is who you are in other words M you know religion and frite and observance isn't an adjunct to who you are it is who you are if you only allow yourself to explore it and to find it you'll see this is who you are so that's right so that and so you said earlier is correct so too these midles are part of the makeup of a Jew and yes that's why Jews were were and are at the Forefront of everything you know um teller not the teller who with the I forget his first thing with the atam bomb in the Manhattan Project was was was was a real Jew Albert Einstein was a Jew uh Sigman Freud was a Jew what opener open Heimer and Sigman Freud I mean the list goes on and on and it's so you know it's not just oh Jews are blessed you know with better brains that's it's the makeup of a ye and a and and and because a ye has this as a DNA therefore the Jew uses it many mo many times most times in right ways not it's not always in religious ways but it's in ways of enhancing Human Society social justice and all of that you understand but yes it goes back to what we're learning over here that the mid are infused with a if it was only a a human meter there would be a cap to it a limitation you know I think I told you this once I heard from my teacher said that we find that amongst the Cults it's not so prevalent today but it was in the 60s and 70s you know that there was such a higher percentage of Jews involved in Cults than other others why because they have such such a they go from all the way up to way down you understand in other words the thing that that that that the that gives you the potential to rise high high high if not used properly it goes low low low lower than others lower than a go than a njw can you imagine and that's why when it came to these isms and you know and the communism and Zionism secular Zionism and on and on you you you see and you wonder as have we discussed many times people came from Russia from parents with beers down to the belly buttons and and and and and the kids are they look like you know such SE okay and and sometimes even evil it's like you know and what the Communists did you you can't imagine in our own families brothers and sisters were Communists from the greatest and some didn't want to speak to them didn't want to have anything to do with them at that time it was it was like you didn't know he's may he might RIT on you and inform on you so you just separated yourself okay I'm not saying all the that way all the all the would but it was a very trying time who did it come from our own so so the the is expressed with the even in theid has that potential now let's go to page 242 and learn inside okay so we are um towards the bottom of the page um with five lines from the bottom and middle of the page just like dust just like ashes has no comparison to the very core of the wood of the log in its length bread and thickness pre prior to being consumed and burned not in its qual quantity and not it not in its qu quality who even though this this is the very essence of the log of the wood and from it comes about the ashes but yet there's no comparison so so to in the in the moral a of blessed memory says Alid regarding his attribute because when a was created the med says he replaced the attribute of that was used to create the world hasem says here is a he represents says about his own about his his attribute of kindness and love top of page body that shines within in his soul and then is invested in's body although this it it is the attribute of love and kindness superal kindness she that shines in the world of and now it shines in the soul of which was a superal chariot for God nevertheless when this m descends below to invest itself in A's body through the progression of Worlds from level to level through many contractions there is no comparison the essential light of love that shines into to the to the source of it which is the superal love and kindness in the world of AAS you can't compare it the only comparison you could say is it's comparable to to the to the dust that's trans that becomes Vis it being the log being burnt aph becomes ashes El to it's there's no compar it's only compared to its very core when it was a it was a beautiful piece of wood of of a twig or tree and gave fruit right so this log which can't comes from the tree and the tree gave for bore for fruit such beautiful Delicious Fruit and even more much more ad thousands of separations you can't compare the two so the question is why does our say and I am dust and Ashes if the dust and Ashes In A is not is is uncomp is uncomparable to the dust and Ash the essence of the tree and the log and and in in this case if the love and the quality the meida within a human within a Jew isn't comp isn't at all the same as the in infinite quality of Love of Hashem so how how do how does AB say I am so says now the next line it's only because the Torah expresses itself in human language by using analogies and and Parables Parables and analog IES and that's how he started the chapter uh Yi that said to to to comprehend in other words the whole idea the whole idea that we find in the t is an important rule human using human uh body parts the right hand of God the left hand of God sitting standing and so too you know the love and the awe and the mercy it's the word in English is anoris foror isms okay which simply means in simple English is just an example it's just a um a way to bring it down to a human mind and that's what is uses throughout its teaching next now starts another section now starts the section of explaining the theid let's go when we talk about the T within human within a person's it's known when you talk about the Midas they're divided into seven em emotions character traits all the details of the character traits within man they all stem from one of the seven which becomes the source of all seven and it's inclus it it its generality what are the seven number one theid of kindness to give Adam for item just to give end endlessly without limitation stop that's C period number two here comes the of justice and and restriction and limitation to restrict to give endlessly you give but not so much not to give it all CU you don't deserve period That's number two that's me number three there's the third of Mercy this is to have mercy for someone who it's applicable the the idea of Mercy all of and what is says it is an inter intermediary attribute B between discipline Justice and kindness and what is that means it means to give everyone a bit even someone who's not really deservant you should give as well someone this what means someone who's not even in the case is not a is not a case for he he has what he needs right someone who doesn't have and this individual doesn't have pain at all his life is going fine so why do you have to have on him but R touches a point within you that even even if he's not a ronus case you have ronus you understand ronus isn't just on the individual who needs ra it's an attribute in you and the attribute you is there's to the right of to the right means give give give no questions is don't give as much or give don't give at all they don't deserve it is well it's a tampered giving why because that's the quality in you and the third is the intermediary between and we call it beauty Beauty beautiful like beautiful clothing for example this is a colorful garment with many colors what do they call it psychedelic clothing it's very colorful right MOA is wearing a black sweater I'm wearing a white shirt we're all wearing one coat imagine we all had here psychedelic colors green purple blue together like my old Cafe in Los Angeles on Beverly Bullard in 1994 so the New York Times wrote up about this Cafe Sho that Rabbi dolphin made and what did they say the colors were awesome dark green banana yellow and hot pink couches and KRA if you think that K dolphin chose those colors you should know me by now a little better who chose it French students Jewish students college students and some of them from France and we know what college students especially from France what they're interested in and those were hot pink colors with dark green Walls and banan yellow Shades and when I said to them this ain't flying in my Cafe they said here are the keys Rabbi if you want us to sign it and not charge you do it as a favor for the Mitzvah you be quiet and you let us design and then we'll see who's right and they were right 6,000 unit people walked into that uh hidden kab house called Cafe Schmo across the street from the auditioning of the Hollywood stars with CBS down the road and I bre knows exactly where that is and Y might know too on the corner of Fairfax and Beverly and we were up the road on between Kuran and another Street Gardener I think and 6,000 people went back went there including the the performance of Peter himman the Bob Dylan son-in-law on a m shabas and you couldn't walk through the door so what's my point that when you have a mixture of colors it it it attracts having one color it's not exciting that's what Al was saying over here you learn this piece of Tanya and you go you remind yourself of what you did the 40 plus years ago 1994 four it's already 41 years you know it makes all sense M can conversely beg you have a garment with one color you cannot say it's beautiful we're going to stop here so we today we learned in this last section about the first three mid and and tomorrow will continue with the other attributes great great mha great seeing you again hope you can join us again it adds a lot to the year and uh we'll see everyone tomorrow zaz bye thank you thank you you're welcome you're welcome