Discipline is positive & necessary for healthy living, Love requires constraint - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

we're on page s z uh where the last word on page Sam Z which is uh towards the it's page the 48th chapter the alter here is in the following idea and I want to correct myself I think I made a big mistake yesterday so I'm correcting myself for the record that the alus says just as hasem made aims contracted his infinite light and we discussed what inite light is in in yesterday's she I'm not going to repeat that H um try to hear the she because it's very very important for a lot of ideas in what we discussed yesterday so it's about or what that means so that was in yesterday's year so Hashem the infinite or and sself contracted himself he did a simum as y said yesterday he contracted himself so that the world should uh be to be the there should be it should be possible to have a world because if God's energy would remain infinite it would you would have worlds but they wouldn't look like this the world would be a limitless World an infinite World and and God wanted a finite world so Hashem anamorphic speaking placed upon himself AUM a a contraction a minimization of the light that's that's the concept that we learned and therefore how's this relevant to to the ban remember we're learning the first section of Tanya this I didn't say yesterday I'm adding this today very simple if Hashem if God Almighty can contract himself meaning he puts himself aside he says hey I'm God I this great God you know what and I can't have it my way you know why cuz I myself want to have a world so I'm going to put myself aside right I'm there but I'm on the side so to we have to put ourselves on the side a continuation 48 of the love that he starts speaking about on 46 just as water reflects mirrors the face of man so does the heart of man reflect the heart of the other man so here was talking Hashem o you were able to contract your Infinity for the benefit for us to evolve and to emerge I can do the same thing and put away my desires and indulgences and all my stuff so to have and to to to reveal a love that I have within me for you because the love that I have Within Me is being blocked there's a blockage the block what's the blockage all the isms all the stuff all the issues so if so we learn from Hashem if you God can do this up on yourself I surely can that's the the connection of this chapter to what we learned before however he still needs to explain which he's going to start now what this concept of Tsum is and now we continue on the bottom of s going on to page 134 key next page 134 yes even Paradise we call that in Hebrew Gan Aiden and Hab which is uh the world to come there is a limit to the com their comprehension don't think that the soul in go the souls in Paradise comprehend all of God they don't because G is also a limitation it's also a definition and as soon as you attribute condition and definition to anything that means that it it isn't able to experience Infinity but only f a finite experience much loftier than what we got on Earth and that's why it's considered m a reward ganaden but ganaden ain't God ganaden is a fascination of God ganaden is a style of God and trust me after 120 we all want to have ghen and God willing we will have it but we must understand that their perception of God is also limited that's what the alab is bringing out that you should know not only and this is also important for us because hey how can I put myself aside for God take a look at ganaden ganaden doesn't have all of God cuz gan's perception is only through their what we call you see the word the third word why does he use the word because the Mand of G is comprehension our comprehension our comprehension is a limited one more limited finite in the sense we're in a human body with a brain and right ghen which is ghen says yeah they comp over there you comprehend more of God but it's also limited let's continue why because as soon as ET refers toas and all the T spos as soon as the infinite energy of God invest itself in him in the intellectual components the emotional components the Practical components the result is a limitation it's a limitation even of the even the best even the best of the spot in the highest level is a limitation because if you're going through the kabad system it has to uh coincide with kabat if you're going through the KAG system it has to coincide with KAG with the emotions for example just a pra you go into a it has its style you go into a whether it be uh any other which is it has its rules and regulations and style you go into a sh which I never heard of aim Sho but kind of more of a practical Sho you know where we we're not we don't get too intellectual we don't get too emotional we just do well then you have to do and if you don't do you're not with the shoe so in other words every system brings along with itself a limitation a definition and if you fall within that you're within that so therefore the AL says even in Gaden which is so holy and that's the reward the rabbis teach us at the end of the certain tactics of talmud that after our lifetime our reward will be we will bask in the ray of God in Paradise which in Hebrews G Aiden and we we l that and we look forward but we start learning which and when we learnis right here in chapter 48 tells us it's a very great uh reward but please know it's not the ultimate the ultimate is God himself G is already a certain form and definition let's continue there is a limitation to the benefit to the satisfaction that the souls benefit from the ray of God's divine presence and which have pleasure from the light of God but yet it's limited say in G the souls cannot not they don't they cannot receive the actual desire uh pleasure from the in infinite God in its pure State impossible they would they would they would cease to be the soul again metaphorically speaking okay put yourself into ganaden if you can for a moment and if it's like overwhelming it's overwhelming you know sometimes I heard recently a story The ribit the great sadic he he didn't he was n and and and and M the famous singer who was Ackle gab attended the F for a while because he lived for a while in Seagate near Cony Island in Brooklyn by the ocean by the Atlantic Ocean over there and there's a you know Mor and some other guys live there too so um he was there the re for fresh air or he lived there for a while anyway so he became close to him so when they went there he said let's you know I'm going to go to the let's go to the kle to the wall so he says no I can't go and he wasn't it's not because he was a theic or SAR who didn't believe you should go to the wall because it's Zionism and all that no and and so what happened he said that Tish abov um you know people sit with a sack they do the midnight prayer so that's when he went to the Cil and as he was getting closer M this his body was shaking and he was like having an out of body exper he was like flipping out you know you know so he he was a sadik who sensed the Holiness of the Kil and it was overwhelming for him for him you know and I think about think about this how far how far we are we go to the Cil yeah we pray we D we cry we we you know but who's flipping out from going to the co show me someone okay and here is a this this person who was you know living with angels and you know and and the kadha the Holiness of the Kel was overwhelming for him so there's a concept of being overwhelmed so says here that ghen if ghen were were to were to experience in the Infinity of God it would flip out it would be overwhelming it would go Bonkers so therefore ALB says the word they cannot receive the the pleasure of infinity look let's look further so that they don't become they don't become unold in their existence whatever the existence is in ganaden they would become zil zero eff from the overwhelming Holiness and what would happen they wouldn't be able to experience ganaden but they would rather return to their Source they would be overwhelmed and ceased to be now the Al has a very important line the details of the and you notice the word is plural not simum why why AB because there isn't just one contraction on the infinite light of God there are multiple contractions each level has another contraction says to get what they are and and how they are ain't says right here in chapter 48 of T is not the place for me to explain to you the the details we're not giving a sheer on chapter in chapter 48 on simum just letting you know there is simum yes just a quick technical question yeah uses here is that rare for the to say something very rare very rare it's the I I I believe it might be the only place I I I I can't say I'm not the buck in every line but um it's definitely very rare and the reason is one second y one moment please the reason is because you know to go and explain here the det details of Tsum would take pages and it would it's not I'll say one it's not relevant to the ban remember the trajectory of of the first section of T is b a b doesn't have to know all details of Tsum if the B knows about the general Tsum and another Tsum it's it's adequate for the ban to to become more refined yes M it's just it's interesting because many places the AL says something like um and this will suffice you know for the for those this you know the right vial VI Maven and this will suff right right but he but yeah it's very good very good point you make but here he's really spelling it out um I mean this is like eight eight words no it's very very unique here you're right that's a very good question I didn't think of it why doesn't the alter say the and and and avert saying these eight words that's that's something that's I doubt I the Reba would be the person who would address such a question or his father you know but uh the average M I don't think but I'm going to bed talk it up and Sh the shabas and see if anyone knows yes Yi I'm sorry I didn't mean to push you off go ahead not at all I'm just the the concept that he's talking about now now that that it's basically this world can't the K of can't be contained so it's kind of like being Blinded By the Light yesan the world can't handle it or yes yes exactly exactly and that's why you're driving and wearing and wearing glasses Sunglasses you see it's let's go on so has a little and he says I'm not going to give you um I'm not going to give you you know details and details about the Tsum but I'm going to give you a general picture of Tsum and this will be adequate and trust me it's in page and a half you imagine his CL is another page and a half till the end of chapter 48 you could imagine if he would have if he would have written of the probably been 10 pages let's go this refers to the concealment of the drawing down of the energy and the light it should not illuminate the the below in a revealed way to invest itself in other words basically says that Simpson caused the yes the EXO existence from non-existence came about through the Tsum that that's what he said in this line and a half rather what do we have we have a a a minute amount or of light and energy so that it should be limited this is a a miniature amination a minute amination very much so and it's actually as not it's considered considered as not in comparison to the amation in comparison to the amination that would be Limitless in other words we're getting a mere glimmer of gods because Hashem had to had to God doesn't have to do anything hasem chose to for there to a world to emerge so he he puts upon himself theum on the and from it comes out the light there's no comparison between the Limitless light I.E ble infinite light to the finite light there's no comparison and there's no association here gives a very interesting interpretation and definition for the word like you know the organization so means assessment we we use it in we've used it in there is no assessment but so it doesn't really there's I we always use most people teaching use the word there's no comparison but the word is in the Torah right when we talk about um you know the right bah you know the the idea of how how much is an animal valued and and all that right and there's a is called that's all the same says you always enjoy looking at the word so look what the Alis here about the word as is known the meaning of the word in regard to numbers the number one it has a comparison value an assessment mean comparison to thousands and 10,000s and and what is its comparison him one is part of a million a billion and a trillion when you take away one from a trillion you have one trillion minus one left if it if one was nothing then the trillion should remain trillion cuz it's so overwhelming but that's not the case so so in other words so one second so the point being that the whole comparison between one in numbers and other numbers both both M are both have both already have a definition one in a certain way is just like a trillion it's just a trillion is a trillion ones and if so if you don't have a trillion ones you have one trillion minus one which makes it less than a trillion that shows that the one has value even compar in comparison to a trillion the difference being that a trillion overwhelms one right another example he might bring it later you go into a room right oh I'm sorry the says a candle in the in bright daylight what does it help you got the sun now let me ask you is a candle that's lit in the Sun a candle absolutely what the gar is saying is May what's the benefit of the candle because the sunlight is out but the gar is not saying that the candle doesn't exist the candle does exist so so that's another example but this example there brings here is very very good as far as ER in other words so everything in gmas this is the point everything in the physical world the comparison and the overwhelming from the multitude to the one the singular it it it's overwhelming but it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist so so in other words as far as existence is concerned one has as much existence as a trillion has as far as existence is concerned now look look at the next line but if you compare something in comparison to something that is infinite and has no number at all ain't connect there is no comparison in numbers T and millions and thousands of millions and all that it's like nothing so when you compare one to a trillion there's still comparison but if you compare a trillion to Infinity it's like nothing because Infinity's rules is very different than the finite world so a trillion is still in the finite world so therefore there's no comparison between and for that matter one second for that matter there's there should be no difference between one and a trillion in comparison to Infinity because infinity is infinity but you'll say this is a this is a TR this is one that's within themselves but if you because they're both finite yes H in uh in modern mathematics there was a Jewish um mathematician named George caner Who uh in exploring the concept of Infinity uh described the the uh the idea of an infinite number of Infinities and he called it the mystery of the alive really it's a yeah it's a fascinating modern history when when what period when was this done he lived in the 20th century uhhuh and and he was a he was a Jew a Jew yeah so he and he call it the mystery of the alive alive yeah the and the the uh when you start contemplating infinitud so there's an infinite number of Infinities possible infinities uhhuh uh you know it's a um uh there's a fascinating podcast called from physics to God done by two from people fascinating one's a mathematician the other's a physicist and um one of the interesting points they made in talking about modern physics is that the only way you can make sense of certain realities in modern physics uh that it that the only way the scientists who are not uh who are not open to the idea of God is to to postulate what they call a Multiverse which is an infinite number of possible universes so in a certain sense it's like uh in a certain sense they approach the idea of of infinity through through this um postulate the the idea of a Multiverse which is which the the only way you can make sense of that idea is you have to have a certain Faith uh that there was was such a reality in order to make your mathematics make sense I'm I'm following a little bit not entirely but uh it it sounds fascinating SS fascinating I guess it's time we finished right I I I guess what time is it I don't have a watch right now it's 3:18 38 okay so mem uh you know I I don't want to rush this chapter so that's why we're going to a little slower in explaining cuz it's a very very uh deep chapter of philosophical ideas but it's important for the study of and other places so mem um we will learn to one day and everyone should have a great shabas Andor oh tomorrow tomorrow Thursday I thought it was Thursday sorry jumping the gun I'm jumping the gun yes we're learning tomorrow are you kidding we're not GNA learn have a great day all enjoy take care byebye bye bye okay you come the next day bye-bye