Creation is greater than splitting of Red Sea - Childbirth - Water's flow - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're learning Tanya we're on page 154 second chapter of the second section of T we are at the word Vu which is on the second line the third word and just to to recap what we learned yesterday said an amazing thing yesterday which in a way seems simple but there's a lot of depth to it as we'll see more today and that is that those IND indviduals who he calls Heretics mean and he uses some harsh language on their kind of excuse me stupidity he doesn't say those well he does say is foolishness you know stupidity sounds you know stronger but with a not with a sin s with a sin means intellectuals you know maybe they think they're intellectuals but he's really alluding to the fact that you're very foolish to think that the world can run on its own that God is not here and God put Power into the world when he created 5,784 years ago and it's coasting and they're and they proof their logic is M their logic is like this that just like when a Craftsman makes a vessel The Vessel he can go away and play golf and go to the market go to the beach or go go go help someone in in in in in a nursing home or in a prison right and comes back and the same vase that he made is there in the same chair etc etc so they say if a Craftsman can do it surely God can do it says this is a silly argument because the material the the for the form that came from the material which is let's say a piece of wood wood then you form the wood you make a chair a table this or that out of the out of the wood to begin with W existed right we have wood you take the wood and now you make a chair now you make a table so there was no and I want to introduce this words word to you today the AL is alluding to the word he doesn't really say it but that's what he means a novelty there's no novelty here why is there no novelty because it the the to begin with there was exist there was a material there was a piece of wood so when you change a piece of wood to various formats all you've done is in the language of the balatan here in chapter two yesh mesh you created something from another something but it's not as though you created a something from a nothing from nothing that existed it existed and I want to add a cave caveat over here not only is the the material which we call in Hebrew the not a not a novelty not something new but even the Sur means the form is also not new you know why because every material has potential for all those different types of forms that come from it so if it has the potential it's not it's not a novelty what does a novelty mean a realash there's a Hebrew word new what does new really mean it didn't exist before even in potential if it exists in potentia it's notash it's not new why the fact that it it wasn't yet revealed doesn't mean it didn't exist it existed but it didn't it didn't come to to the revealed the manifested state says the AL that the the comparison that these Heretics and fools make arguing that God left the world and it's coasting on its own and the world can exist on its own and they and they compare it to the Craftsman who makes a a vessel and can go away and and the vessel still stands even after he removes he goes away from making the vessel he's finished making the vessel and still it exists says of course it exists cuz to begin with it was an existence versus creation of the world creation there was no potential in the godhead in Hashem for creation prior to Creation the the the the physical we're talking about now the physical Material World pre-creation wasn't imp potential in God it didn't exist and God decided at the moment of creation to make it be that's a that's a novelty that's a realash so therefore sin creation is a real K it needs and requires guess what the energy of God to keep it to keep it going because if if God's force is not keeping it going right now at this moment it reverts back to what it was nothing in other words the entire the world when when when God created the world the force of God the energy of God God the of that he inserted in the world is is is a a Hu something new has to be sustained otherwise it doesn't exist so let's just just talk about another way in other words something that's that's either there in the physical sense or something that's there in the potential can Coast on its own because it you didn't create it if you if something is cre I don't let me paraphrase that you didn't create its its its Essence its material the the the the item itself you took a piece of wood that was created by God on a tree and you made a change to that so did wood ex so this wood that that you made now into a cup where to a table to whatever existed before so something that existed before can exist after on its own but something that never existed before and it only was there because God made it be there so if you take away God from from that it's no it's not there anymore so what's the difference the first day of creation or 5,784 years later the the essence you hear in in in thought the the idea that something that doesn't exist to become existent requires a force of God to make it existent is no difference the first day or 5,784 years later that aspect is the same so to argue that the world God God put put energy in five , 784 years ago and it exists based on that it can't be because the first day couldn't be and the second day couldn't be so what's the difference a thousand years 5,000 or a million years and this is also by the way one of the arguments to global warming and all of that what's the argument of a Torah je what's the of a Torah Jew the argument is that yes s it seems scientifically there's a you know this is all happening but if it's all a if it's all a novelty when God decides he wants the novelty it's going to be and guess what if he doesn't want the novelty tomorrow it ends in other words if if if if God wanted the sun to to burn up and all of that it could have happened 500 years ago before global warming he just would remove his energy from Sun right let there be a son if he takes away his words let there be a son there's no son and that's why when Joshua Yeshua on giml was the day actually he made the son stop sheem beon in a in a place called given someone Israel I believe how can that be the Sun comes and goes shines you know because Hashem decided for that night for that day when it was a a situation where they were in middle of a battle and the son held the enemy God stopped the Sun so Hashem already did it once so why can't he do it again so so that's why so and and and the fact that he hasn't done it again means that there's no concern now that doesn't mean that's you know you have to use a styrofoam cups and things like that I'm just saying you know you know what I'm saying if if there's there's scientific uh ideas and proofs that um you know there there's the Earth and and and and and and The Greener and the green and all that it's fine but but not to the point where the it must be this way nothing must be there's only one thing that must be and so not must be he chose to be hasem God God Almighty hasem K chose to be let's continue now in Tanya says the AL this novelty of creation is greater than the novelty of the splitting of the sea let's see how he argues this his point and this is a greater wonder I I what is the third word where beginning to say what is V referring to yes my separations The Act of Creation in this Act of Creation p is a greater Wonder more so thanam than the splitting of the Red Sea for example what do we know about the Red Sea God led the the water with a wind A Mighty Wind AA A Mighty Wind all night this is from the Torah from oos not not from ooser but the you know from that section of the Torah and the water split vit and they stood like something that's gathered and and from being dispersed and now is gathered in one place another point it stood on its own like a wall that's what happened guys at the splitting of the Red Sea Hashem made a miracle look further what's the B suff I'm sorry and then he says ifem were to interrupt as the wind that was blowing that night of the splitting of the Red Sea momentarily immediately the water would revert to its natural state of flow that number one it would no longer be gathered in one place it would be like water which is dispersed and number two and it wouldn't be erected like a like a like a like a wall but Le suff D says no question about it without any doubt shadow of a doubt meaning what the the splitting of the Red Sea this is very brief the rebi has a lot of lav comments here I'm just going to share a few that I heard from in in the name of the Reb and that is that when Hashem made the miracle of splitting the Red Sea what did he do two things two things one is he gathered water which normally flows and is spersed they put it all in one place the neck that's called n right the word in the Torah is n the second thing is he made it be like a wall like like a wall doesn't need the support to hold things together the first thing of N means you have to put it together and you have to hold it together the idea of a wall means it's standing on its own look at a wall outside no one needs to hold the wall up the once the wall is made it stays there so what happened at yamu a double whammy a double m a double Miracle number one Hashem made the water which normally flows and dispersed stand still in the sense of it being gathered at one place and number two the second Miracle of Camu is it became like a wall having independ dependent stance but it stood in one place independently without someone having to hold it right now here's the question seemingly this is miraculous and it is miraculous it's called K yamu the miracle of the splitting of Red Sea however it doesn't compare to the act of creation and you know why and the the reason is because the nature of water does not require flowing how do you like that how can you prove and say that water by its very Core Essence must flow wrong it doesn't must flow God imposed us a nature into water he imposed it that should flow but water itself in its very Core Essence is not a flowing water it's water it's like a tree so therefore when we say that God made a miracle and made the water stand like a like a a wall so that the Jews can walk through and save themselves from the Egyptians it was a miracle it's called but it's not as great of a miracle as the Act of Creation cuz by The Act of Creation one second M by The Act of Creation there was nothing right I got it by the Act of Creation there was nothing before creation nothing in potential that's what EXO means yes may may means NADA eff yish Gish garish nothing in english four languages good enough zero zil here when God split the Red Sea great miracle no question about it saved our lives but it doesn't yet mean that the that the water didn't have the potential for it flowing right had the no I'm sorry that the flowing of water that that is imposed on water but water itself is an existence so remember the argument one second if anything exists and then it's changed in any way shape or form wonderful but that's yes mesh that's what he's saying here it's a deep very deep thought and it requires a lot of thinking that e you know and this is what we have to what I'm struggling with and trying to you work to understand what does it mean that water the nature of water the flow of water isn't the essence of water cuz my question is if that's not the essence of water what is water so R says that the Reb said that I don't know if the re said it or he explained it let's say space a tree takes up space a table takes up space water takes up space what's the space of water whatever the space of water is that is inherent to water the flow of water isn't inherent to water it's an additional imposed nature that God wanted to give water and he gave it to water but that's not its nature that's not its Core Essence its Core Essence is for example it takes up space so in that from that perspective the space issue within water is analogous to the space issue of any other material matter and therefore and therefore the again the Kash the novelty of Kus yamu as miraculous as it was is not as as miraculous as creation and that's the point Al is getting at over here that creation is the most miraculous thing in the world because there was no aota of a potential Creation pre-creation in the sense we're talking about in the sense of a a physical world not spiritual now spirituality we talk about spiritual ideas before creation but beash there's no there was none none at all M what do you want to say yeah was I was just wanted to confirm that was you answered it yeah again it it you know you don't find the yes words of the alamu here directly openly he says it before when the the Craftsman leaves the the Kaye there he says yes but that's that's the that's the flow and continuation and I'm I'm I'm glad you you you follow that logic which is great that's you got the Lo that's the continuation here so let's continue I think I think the the only other question I have is do are we saying then that besides there isn't any other thing that is falls in the category of or or or we're we're saying that and the question let's say let's say taking a seed taking a seed planting in the earth it dissolves it connects to the power of vegetation that God gave in the six days of creation of the earth it connects with it right and it grow and it grows something now that seems to be that seems to be but it's not you know why because there's a kernel there even when it dis disol there so to the dissolve for but there's always something there yeah now the question is birth a child coming from a mother and a father I think that's that's the closest example to Creation but I I need to think about it more and and you know is is is is that a a a is that exactly like that's your questiona you know is there anything else so the anything else might be the the the creation of a child but there too you can argue that the semen exists in the father and this exists in the mother so as far as the form is concerned it's but as far as the essence the essence is yes right there's a male has semen a woman has you know her private parts when you put the two together and and you know and there's nine months of gestation and all that you get a baby I mean with God's help of course you know with hashem's blessing so so so I'm not sure that it's it's a I would say it isn't I would say that's why only creation mous is the only thing that's yes M so again um sometimes you might find that they'll use yes for a CH having a baby having a child but it's it's it's it's not you know the the St you have to look at I've said this to you in the beginning where you started learn you have to look at the greater context of the mimer or the the chapter Tanya that we're dealing with here we're dealing with a very narrow issue a very important issue a fundamental issue so here this Nuance that you that you asked me about is very relevant and therefore our discussion is appropriate but if you imagine you're learning about I don't know changing your character and it it might say it might bring up something about uh you know as an example having a a child and it might say a concept of yesim the yes over there you hear the yes in that chapter or in that m is not the same study of yes as it is here so you have to always remember that that that sometimes will will use the same words in the same language but it means something totally different because the context is different a you follow that idea yes it's pretty clear to me okay let's continue although you see he says it clearly this nature of water flowing is also a creation and new yes one second a a a a wall of brick of stone stone can stand on its own without a wind right so so what's the big deal but the nature of water is not such water God imposed on it it should flow so how can it stand so that we say it's a miracle called the the the splitting of the Red Sea where the water created a wall on the right and the water on the left as it says in B and the Jews walked through the Egyptians were chasing them they fell into the water the water came back after the Jews went out the water drowned them and the Jews were saved says to the real idea of EX Neo creation of the world some which is called something from nothing which is definitely greater than nature and he uses the words wonders of Wonders is it much more than the splitting of the Red Sea so therefore needless to say if there were God forbid a moment in which the energy and force and power of the Creator will would remove it himself from the creation the creature would return to nothing and to not Mish in actuality and therefore it requires there must be the power of the Creator in this case being the maker the in what was made in the creation constantly every moment to enen it and to sustain it we're going to stop over here and IEM tomorrow we'll continue and finish the pic everyone have a good day byebye