Discipline is positive, Diff bet shield & vessel, Blockages & growth - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're learning the second section of T we're in middle of chapter four pdid on page I Tess and we are towards the bottom of the page we where where the AL explains to us he's he's in middle of making uh an argument that just as says refers to the the the influence of God the energy the giving of God just as that that is part of Hashem and more than that it is Hashem in the sense that it's one one aspect of God not a not a composite this is the AL in other words you could argue and say that Hashem is made out of parts and the parts are put together and they make a whole if we read carefully the words in t here the AL comes to exclude that that's why he says when he mentions about hashem's Unity look at about six seven lines in the bottom it's the second the word the line Begins the word and his and his attributes I mean that's repetitious it's not repetition but what does it mean is United simple what do you need the word p here so and he brings the zes which we explained yesterday the e I said the word means Cale technically it comes to the word gr causations to cause something it refers to the cim Hashem and his and his and his Kim are one so what we what the AL is saying here in a very brief way is that Theus of God that God's Unity God's Oneness isn't a composite of Parts is not a composite of parts it's a one wholesome and the extends itself and the two ideas whether one is a composite or one is one or one is one wholesome point and from there it expands expands to is a major difference and the difference is whether the of is absolute or relative if you understand God's Aus as a composite it's a relative Aus it's a relative Unity if you understand hashem's as a wholesome the Kuda it's all one so it's absolute there's no such a thing as particles being put together anyway there's a lot of talk about this in and I'm just showing you how in in one word and that's why uses the word Gordon that's why he says that's what he means with the word p p doesn't just means simple in the sense of simple it means also in the sense of absolute and so Dr is saying just so let's go further sh just as no no mind and of cre of create of creatures can understand hashem's Hashem the Creator so can one not fathom God's mid right there's mid of hasem mid of and then there is Hashem again so is saying that the M of hasem in this case and are part of God and if we and and and and the the idea that we cannot fathom God's Essence God's SE and God's MOS is because it's absolute godliness and a and a creature one second bar a creature a creature is already been created so how can a created being understand the Creator yes bar what you want to say uh just one question um when we when Al says about the K he's referring to he referring to his he's refering how that different from mid and not one the same thing well okay good question in in this context right here it's one of the same in this context it's one of the same in in other context is you're right it's it's not but here the the reference to the to the kaleim refers to the Midas and in other words what is a Mida a measured angle a measured approach the Kim are all measured and now you'll see let's continue reading learning and you'll see why this is true so he says as no creature can comprehend hashem's Gula which is able and does creating and creates ex NE something from nothing to enen it the world hasem made is made with is built with so this is now from the word the second to the bottom line second line from the bottom the third word begins the Al's similarity and idea of of so in actuality creatures cannot creation cannot understand hashem's attribute of gur of restriction and contraction of gura of here he uses the word clearly and holding back the extension next page top of 138 of Hemy M of from hashem's greatness the hulah hula wants gives is Masia comes along with this and puts a block on it and says we need to contain it we need to give it in a certain form CU otherwise it's too overwhelming to understand this truly as says it's impossible for a NRA for a creature to understand this let let's go on and then we'll we'll talk explain more so so M from to to descend and to reveal itself the causes that there should be a blockage to the Des to to the to the energy the light the Earth the the G the Gula re descending and revealing itself upon creatures to enen them to sustain them openly rather what does the do it conceals the countenance the face upon him and what happens the energy is there the is there but it's concealed in the goofa the body of the NRA and the actual DNA of the creature that was created that's created by and it's as though it's as though it's as though the creature is independent that's how great theum is that if you look at the creature the creation from the body from the Creator it seems as though he's independent he's on his own it's not felt in the creature that it is a cre an extension of the energy and the spirituality that's the answer to the question that he asked at the end of chapter 3 that there is in this issue there's no similarity between the Sun and the ray of the sun because in the ray of the sun when you look at the the sun when we look at the sun we know that it comes from somewhere somewhere that's called the sun Globe cuz it's sun when you look at a person or you look at a grass or you look at a stone you do not see a clear and open connection between the creation and the Creator the creation doesn't sound doesn't feel spiritual doesn't sound spiritual and that's the answer that what was the question the question is ifem is here how can creation exist simultaneously the answer is because of the Tsum and the H and the Tsum so great that it appears as though there's no connection between the creation and the Creator which is different than this the the the ray of the sun and the sun Globe because when you look at the ray of the sun you know it's comes from some something called Sun much more intense and everything else but it's the same I con content that's his answer to the question that he asked at the end of chapter 3 that's what he says look back inside now look what he says further the truth is cre creation and creatures are not independent we know who made them if we stop and think and if therefore since they aren't independent in truth it would be analogous to the extension of the Sun the ray of the Sun from the Sun blob this is his rort to his own question very very powerful words hey h these these this this is God's G is God's strength Hashem is what we call he can do anything guess what even hide himself he's able to make himself not seen not heard and as though what he created came here on its own and like M May said like M Maya said yesterday The Atheist says everything here is on its own continue continuing and that he could he can contract is the energy in the spirituality that comes from hashem's mouth kind of the spirit of his mouth and he can hide it so that the body the the tangibility the actual MIT of existence should not be uned otherwise otherwise listen to this if the were to be revealed without AUM boom you're overwhelmed you don't exist you we wouldn't be here and by the way it doesn't mean just physically it means in concept there would be no recognition to gmas what kind of world would there be a world of spirituality a world of Rus so the limitations and the and the finiteness of the world would not be so the World As We Know It now that we live in would not be continuing and this idea no human mind can comprehend the very essence of this concealment and nevertheless that there is simultaneously the simps there still is the actual body of the creature created just as creation creatures cannot comprehend how God did which we discussed in one of the last cuz we can just relate to yes but not yes so to says the bat we cannot understand how God can make a himself and yet be here and create and and his con constant creation Now now so what is this argument here I want you to think you guys are all educated intelligent fellas the argument is if if we were to say listen to this history if we were to say that not the name God is in creation as God is pre-creation this wouldn't be even a discussion that we can understand Masha because the the question of the balat the end of chapter 3 and the answer here in chapter four is if this is the same God which he it is he is and it's constantly and Hashem is constantly creating how can you have the two together that's the question if we were to if we were to accept that it's not the same God what what do I mean by that it's not the same God we all believe there's only one God we mean to say God took part of himself went to sleep metaphorically speaking and he says here my my my outer part you know let let it deal with creation but my Essence my Essence is elsewhere this whole this whole discussion going to begin and by the way we couldn't even we can't say that for other reasons which we we discussed and and you know there's more to discuss but the fact is this is the same Hashem in other words when we talk about create who creates the world when we call God the Creator it's all of God it's not an aota less of God pre-creation creation and post-creation that's what we say every morning in the preliminaries in in in you are the same God pre-creation and you are the same God when post creation so the question is how's that possible to this the gives the answer so then you ask yourself a question syum that's nuts it doesn't make any sense how can a god hide himself if he's in the hiding oh and the answer was with those few words this is the power of G of hem that he can be here and simultaneously appear not to be here can we comprehend that can a human mind understand that no no because if you're here you're here if you right I I could I can understand that I'm not all here and therefore but if you tell me I'm all here then I'm here that's the answer to the question now this is a very long this is a brackets a parenthesis kind of and it's really not relevant to the to the chapter but I'll go through it quickly and just uh you know there some heavy cab here this this this contraction that we talk about and concealment of energy when we brought the before at the beginning of chapter 4 were we're using the word mugin a shield here says you should know that this Tsum is not just a shield it's a kie uh briefly briefly the difference between a shield is negative it it protects you but there's nothing positive to it in other words it's it's holding back the bullets and protecting you I mean that's very positive I'm saying as far as the the shield on the Sun what was the word someone used the other day U um Yoni said the the the Hebrew wording casing thank you casing thank you a she sheath a casing all that has a not a negative it's like a the connotation of it's stopping something from going further what about the word Kaye so the Paris a book of Caba says that is similar to water that you put into a a glass what color would the water appear to be if it's a green glass green blue blue right the famous mush of the Paras what do we see that the K attributes to the Earth in a positive way the r is infinite the r is the K not just blocks theid but rather it filters theid down in a in a certain way so this is the AL is adding here in this in this brackets that you should know that the Sims this is this is deep stuff I heard this that here in that is adding over here cuz it's it's such it's like a it's like why does he write this cuz he wants to tell us don't walk away thinking that the simpsom is Hest upon him all blockage and casing and she and all that no simpsom has another aspect of to to it which actually helps the A and that's the concept of a let's continue is the energy itself is called our energy light just as when you have a vessel it it it covers up what's inside theim conceals the and the that come that comes it blocks it it it it it limits it what about the K these vessels it these refer to the letters the five Hebrew letters you have them in like small capital small letters and large letters right me final n when do you use a final when do you use a regular me sadik you know when in the middle of a word it's always me sadik as a small word but when it's a a at the end of a word when you seek to separate two words and two concepts you use a and a and a and aay a long pay and a long look what he says is you always want to learn a little Caba here you have a piece of Caba explains this refers yeah I haven't heard someone refer to that in 40 years all0 years to hear that welcome to the Dolphin Show this is the five hours of severity of which divide and separate the um the air kind of and the sound in the five gutturals of the mouth us to create the 22 letters in other words what the AL is saying look at the five letters they seem to beatum right if you in other words when you have a sentence and you seek to to to put a clause a period kind of between two words in Hebrew instead of doing that you use just a long one Al sadic you know and all that so what what do we see this is his point that they aren't only a break they're a break that communicates a message and that's his point here in the idea of that ssum isn't just a blockage and a negative it's a blockage that it's purpose is to make it possible for the Aur to be filtered in the right place in the right time that's that's the pretty much the the idea behind this piece of Caba that he brings here that's all we have to know for our purposes continue and the source of these five elements of means the light is when it's dark in the morning like Dawn it's Dawn in the morning it's the night it's it's C right the night and then all of a sudden what emerges day the Sun so he says that the heos when you ask someone in sh on WE bang five times to sweeten the heos right ask anyone so he is negative bad energy harshness and we have to Sweet sweeten it up that's true but Al say another that there are times when the hate are really the ultimate good why the ultimate good cuz they keep you out of trouble you see the energy the K doesn't discriminate it just gives to everybody good bad right wrong here comes along and puts a block and says no no this one deserves this one amount this amount this one deserves that one so the purpose of the gura is for the betterment of the individual but from our perspective we want to have sweetness so we hit the the five times those shanas on the ground to sweeten them up right from hashem's perspective if we're living with that reality the he are not a negative that's the point they're not a negative they're like the and the are made to help the or not just to block the or continuing this refers to superal the of the of the of the inner the Deep level of ker known as old days says that since we mentioned before which is you should know that this is also the as it's known to those that study Caba so again this this brackets is is is an important one but it's not really relevant to the question and answer that the AL asked in chapter three and answered in chapter four that's why it's in Brackets any questions what's the time now what time is it I don't know it's it's 312 but Reb I I would like in what you're saying now or not what you're saying what the B is saying yeah to like you have a bul light bulb so you have like you know the lead bulb or regular bulb and if you don't have the casing around the B what ises what does the or help you it doesn't help you you're not going to get that life it has to be in case so I'm saying that maybe that's what he's uh referring yeah okay it's a good mus I hear your mush it's a good mush but but but that's the thees in these brackets versus so in other words so when we say just that verse and that concept the way explains it is that the mugging the it's to create blockage you know and that's a so and as he said we don't understand it but that's what God God does on himself every moment for our betterment but from our perspective it's simum what he adds in the what what he's adding in the in the ha in the brackets is that that it's not just Tsum it's also the concept of cim so if it's also the concept of kaleim even from our perspective as Yi just gave this nice mush it's beneficial that that's the ver that's the Kish in the brackets don't look at the simpsom as just one big black hole one big blockage and problem and negative and just to conclude as it's coming chabas it's chabas emor to to understand that the whole idea of of that to instruct the the elders should instruct the youngers young youngsters and to teach them it also the same way education requires discipline you don't discipline you get chaos and you get a jungle you need to discipline but good discipline is giving the person within the discipline the ability to break out of the discipline in a in a better way in in a in a in a in a greater way the the idea of the discipline is not that you should remain a neb a neb you know okay just made a little a little toddler no no no we want you to grow we want you to succeed we want you to create and become a contributor for hashem's divine plan and of of creation but the way we we the healthy way to go about it is through discipline so in that and from that aspect discipline becomes only an aid to Greatness and growth we'll see back in Brooklyn mitem Monday morning have a great chabas only Sim take care all the best bye-bye