Existence is it Real? Am I Real? Is the World Real? Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

today we're beginning to learn chapter 20 and Tanya chapter 20 and 21 a very philosophical and very deep and I know you guys are very deep guys intelligent studied learned so you guys can handle it and uh so keep on your toes don't fall asleep because we're talking talking about how God created the world today in various aspects of creation but the question is why is the outcome in chapter 20 and 21 why does he even enter this dialogue and the answer is because in chapter 18 and 19 he said a phenomenal thing he said that every Eid every Jew has an inherent innate love for Hashem in Hebrew we call that Ava mesuterres the hidden love and the other said when the Jew is challenged to either serve God or God forbid give away his Judaism for the for the cross or you know and things like that it's Do or Die the Jew who might not even be religious and observant will will choose God so at that time it proves that who is the real Jew connected to God so the alternative here in this chapter he says well that's a nice argument for one who lived through that experience but when we say when Hashem says in the Theta impartial itself God's near you in your mouth and your heart and in your action and the issue that we're looking at how is it that God is very near to every Jew in their heart you know and I I can't emphasize enough when we say that we don't mean just you know uh cursory feelings and uh when we really love real love for Hashem you know it's it's it's it's a very very uh difficult thing you know it's easy to love a child it's it's easy easy to love to love a spouse um but the love God is it's a very difficult thing true true love I mean if you have true love you you put yourself aside for Hashem and we know that we don't do that many times but that's what the public says and not only does the public say Cara of Mia that's close to you it says it's so near you it's like it's your bread and butter and this is what and this was the tagline the mission statement of Tanya and and and this question is for every single year how can you tell me I don't care who you are where you live how long your beard is or or how much Gamora you stag away how can you tell me that the learning tell you then doing Mitzvahs is as close to us as eating sleeping and all the other pleasures of life it just it just doesn't add up it's not it doesn't seem to be reality but Hashem says on the title that means that's the truth and this is the struggle that we have and this is what we need to to work on and to understand that this is what Tanya is all about so he comes up with this brilliant idea that you don't have to if you have to create a love you know create one through meditation and contemplation it's not very close to you because not everyone has the capacity to meditate to contemplate it even if they do it they fall short so that's why chapter 18 Dr Pepper says don't create it if you can't create it I understand just reveal it reveal who you are reveal yourself who am I you have a the shama and it's an inheritance from the the others the ancestors therefore you are not the one that created your soul God created your soul it was given the reason being that you're a offspring reveal that you let that shine you uncover the Schmutz that's under the shama you know shama will gravitate to a the proof is that when one is tested for it do or die for God the proof is that the person will say I choose God and I'm gonna let myself be killed so now in chapter 20 Dr Pepper says is that is that an answer for the overall question it seems not enough that's an answer for one particular Mitzvah which is called the Mitzvah Messina Snapfish but what if I in a situation when most of us are not doing Messina Snappers we're not challenged right how can you tell and so then my album of terrorist doesn't come to the doesn't come out so how is it that even at that time which is throughout most of the day and most of the year I have this innate love that makes it very uh close to me to serve Hashem that's what he's going to answer now in 20. and what's his answer his answer is that the Mitzvah of actus Hashem meaning the unity of God that God is one and only right and also that's the message I say and the Mrs losses don't have any other gods the uh the Mitzvah of idolatry don't have don't worship idols right those are closer Mitzvahs all other midsters fall under those two first two Commandments and that's why those first two God himself sent the mother says in Marcus you know the good mother says that God said the first two debris the first two Commandments that we couldn't handle it was too overwhelming and we faith in therefore God said my son Maisha get over here come here come here you say the other eight they'll be able to hear it from you and when she comes along and he says the other eight foreign that the fact that Hashem himself said the first two you know why because the first two are inclusive of all the 613 mitzvahs and therefore if we'll understand what the first two misters are in depth I.E Unity of God and and and not worshiping Idols then when we we live with those mitzvahs which is every day is God here is God not here is God United with the world of God from but not how is he United with the world how is there no no multiplicity in God since God was there was no world and then the world came to be so when you understand that then all mitsues I say come from that mitzvah the first Mitzvah and for the mitralights all negative mitzvazar so the question was how is it that for all Mitzvahs seemingly that's not the case and the answer is all mentors are a derivative of the first two Mitzvahs and the first two Mitzvahs are what you live with daily if you're if you're you know you should be living with I just gave you basically a summary of the whole chapter 20 now inside okay pay the cuff page 50. for his name is a very interesting words it is known to everybody oh really it's known to someone who's uh Evanston University over there in Chicago and that the college student who's dealing with BDS and all the knowledge guide knows about this that we're going to learn Dr Debra says yeah why because maybe that college that girl doesn't know about filling the shop scandals and mikfin or whatever else and marrying a Jew but they know or at least they think they know or they don't want to know about God like I told you the story that I was walking home for another Pharisees in Berkeley and there was a few students walking and I turned to one of the students a girl that I sit there so do you believe in God he says God says God what's God so I I quickly you know realized I have to throw away a left hook and I did I said okay no no I'm sorry do you believe in a force sure of course I believe how about an energy energy oh that sounds really cool God right four God energy force it's all the same but the language at the time at least before they got into Trend the trans issues and and the VOC issues on campuses now which which now even the force of the energy is not important it's only about trans and what and the woke that that's what's important now so so so but at that time this was probably uh at 79.80 it was still uh still uh left over from the 60s 70s and all that so there was still some interest in Berkeley and um so so what I'm saying is that it doubt that episode everyone knows the fact so even what I'm saying is here's a student who didn't know anything about Judaism trust me a Jewish girl but as soon as I said God she became all frazzled and I said for us oh yeah that that I understand that's that's the meaning of my God you're you're in 1979-80 in Berkeley California the radical the radical place with everything else that's going on hate ashbury's nearby in San Francisco and all the mission guys and all the openness and everything else and when when you when you raise the word god something something you know that's what does always look good and this is true for the same people here in the in in the in the in the haters and the Steve black here in Baroque Brooklyn and the mayor was why as soon as you say something that that kind of is out of there you know when they talk about money and business you talk about something you'll see they'll wake up oh my rabbit your rabbit my God your God my nigging your Negan you have to just trigger the right button that's the whole thing the whole thing is to trigger the right button and you'll you'll see though from reminds me there was a someone who would come to the agudis Israel meetings in here in Brooklyn and generally they will talk about this or that and he was he was would fall asleep like fall asleep I heard this was someone who was there so he said but as soon as as soon as the issue of who is a Jew me hoodie he was a laborator he woke up speak and and Carry On The Rebel wants this like he was a different person from from falling asleep and I'm showing non-interest all of a sudden he's pepped up he's awake and he's alarmed and he's right there because it depends on what somebody does this look Coyle says let's continue what is known to everyone for the positive commandment that's alluded to in the word mitzvah Mitzvahs the Hazardous is warning that's the low Sensei right is the Mitzvah say for having one God vasoras is the low sassy the second commandment of the Ten Commandments of the series that's alluded to in the word means a warning so the myths is which are the first of the two Ten Commandments the first two of The Ten Commandments tells us what they are aim clueless they are the generality for all of Toyota foreign we Jews heard our souls heard only foreign because our souls left us we couldn't handle it right that's a commodity says something different here he's saying because they didn't need to hear anything more for God because if you heard if you heard you got everything because I know his clothes color Mrs essay and the year of course Columbus color Mrs lossesi it's like I'm giving you the print the golden rule of Life Maisha I'm giving the golden rule of Life be a mensch nope if we relate to that everything that's associated between men and men right all Mitch was under the topic of bmh so even even if one what is not learned in the details of how to be a mensch guess what they would be a mensch in every aspect they wouldn't Rob they wouldn't steal they wouldn't cheat etc etc they wouldn't gossip yes yes sir I heard slightly differently although not from the Tanya that the first two are essential for all the everything that files because these two are the missiles of the Moon and without these two they had to be heard directly because everything else flows from there okay okay so now tereb is going to say a similar thing but not just it's it's on the same line but with with you'll see more more detailed emphasis it's really the same that could but but I'm just paraphrasing I'm just breaking it down making it more simple for every person what am I saying I'm saying it because the gamara says that the reason why okay why didn't why didn't we hear or from why didn't we hear all the Ten Commandments of God's mouth so the gemara says because after listening to the first two from God we just flipped out we couldn't handle it it's too much so God says to my should take over Moses help me help me here because I gotta I gotta read them the uh the final rights right the Ten Commandments so Maisha said so Maisha says the other eight that's what it says nicomata down to that be here saying something different it's not contradicting he's saying why take it why really did that happen why is it just because we couldn't handle it so he says here because the first two it was important that those two were to be to be said by God himself because it because those two is God and like like Easter said it's about faith faith in God and not believing an idol so it so that's why those two were sent by God and not the other eight the other eight are subordinate clauses to support the first two and therefore all six thirteen are common as derivatives of the first two now let's see his art let's see his position let's continue and he says obviously this needs good clarification says the altered let me explain this well evaluated we must first briefly um remember mention the idea and the concept and the essence means the essence of God's Unity foreign as he was before the pre-creation Manish no difference just as Hashem was the only one that existed pre-creation Kosovo says we say in the morning the preliminaries before how you do after who we say you God actually you were God pre-creation before world was created and then we say you're the same who you're the same God Mission Ibrahim Saint Peter why why does it have to say after who actually the second time word who is Superfluous it should say we just we just we identified after who you are so we say you are the same the God that it was you are God pre-creation and you are the same God of course we're talking about God you just it's part of the Clause the sentence so that's where the ultimate says who Manish you would think that when when the world was created by God God changed just like us before we have something and after we have it we're two different people but it's two different experiences that's why it says who came who the same who the same God that that that that was pre-creation is the same one iota less after creation and that begs interpretation how is it because in The Human Experience it's not that way and let's continue and he says Peter who mamish the leaves it's the same God who without any change can you see it as it says I am God says I am godlessly I don't change because of creation top of page 26. I'm sorry I need an estimation you see who and the establation you see sorry Key island has it because this world is all the spiritual rules ain't a paleem but if they don't make an impact poorly they make no effect at all in God's Unity back to see his body he bought them by creating creatures and eyeingly Ash ex nilo nothing for some some something from nothing she came just as God was one and only before Kratom had bought it before creating them so is he got the same one and the only one after she brought him after creating why he gives a reason mishom the Kule kame so here he brings a reason because everything you see is like not kulai kame they they're not Kashif what does khashib mean important means everything that was created by Hashem is is like they all stare the cooling kame all of it before God Killah is like nothing the f is and like zero why okay because the creation of all spiritual and lower worlds from is X nilo is buying you yes and their existence that keeps them going that they do not should not return to be North it's only because of the word of God here may be this be that right that's invested in them says but you know why that there's no shinley in God there's no change in God pre and post-creation it's the reason is because everything is created by God's word and if it's God's word it's God's word so it's Incorporated in God so in all of existence is basically the word of God and if God were to remove his word there would be no existence so even when he makes the world it's just his word and I give you an emotional is brought elsewhere later in other places you have a rock and you throw the rock up in the air and the rock is flying would you say that The Rock has become a flying rock or not and the answer is no the rock is not a flying Rock The Rock is flying because of the kayak in my hand that throws it up and as soon as the energy the kayak ends gravity falls back down if the rock were to become a different Essence I.E it would become a flying rock that even when my energy would end the rock would continue flying so what does that tell you that the the flying of the rock is not that The Rock has changed the rock is the same Rock gravity The Rock want is heavy The Rock wants to rest eyes flying out because of my energy now you take that muscle you you think about Hashem Hashem says let there be a world yeah he ought let there be in existence so how much is how much is the exist so what is the existence his word it's not that existence became a reality on its own it didn't and if it were to take away for a moment he are there would be no light and it's because if you have to have a proof what happened by by Yeshua with the stop the sun because Hashem decided for a moment to stop the search for those nose stopped so in other words and this also answers the whole global warming argument than everything else with nature the fossils I know some of you are very scientific you know the fossils yes there are fossils and there are rings and there's aging and all that but it's all because of him so he if you take away the hymn The God Who made the nature who made the trees would have made the fossils and made the Rings there would be nothing so if it's all about him and he tells you that it's only 5783 years then that's what it is and you say how could that be ask a question on God nature according to the limitations in accordance according to the calculations it would have to be millions of years old you're right that's if the world was an independent existence that depends on the rules of nature but if the rules then of nature themselves is God made so in other words nature is God and if God decides in nature to position it differently so be it but that's another discussion I don't want to talk about the science and and Titan and all that's all the discussion what we're talking about over here is a very important point he that's without that ever says that since the entire existence of the world depends on the tavarashem the word of Hashem that means so this it's exactly like the Rock The Rocks flying upward depends on the on the power of man how much he put into the kayak and every person's kayak gives you a different amount of time that the rock will fly Etc if we were to say that that that that The Rock itself has become flee flee to flee Mr fly if The Rock has become a fiend flying Rock by its nature that even when the kayakans it should continue flying it's now changed that's the proof that it's never become a flying Rock if we were to say that that varashem left Hashem separated from Hashem and now is in the in in the Bria then the Bria should be able to exist God forbid outs independent of God and that does that's not the case why because the Bria is part of the varashem have a something to think about do you agree disagree have you thought about this you you're doing good today this is this is the outdated like you exerted yourself well you know I did exert myself and I I prepared and thought a lot about it then it it's still an unfinished product this is not the this isn't the cheese and crackers he's a lot of you know a lot of thought yes Maisha give us enough of what we covered today so far in this chapter why would you what would you say I would say it's only the first part tomorrow and the second part to Sham but the first part is that the first two debris the first two Commandments are the focus in which Ajit needs to uh needs to know well and identify and as Israel said believe you know believe in after understanding it I just wanted to say insert you see in the Chabad model it's not just about believing it's understanding and here you see as the outlet Evan is very unique Chabad style you know he's he's grappling here philosophy uh racer you know science in those few words so Maisha going back to your question the answer is did they share the altariba spoke about how is the key to kikare if you want to know how every Mitzvah is close to every Jew and very close and and it's their reality you must understand the unity of God the unity of God you must understand Hashem that's that that's a one-line kids of of this year we'll see everyone tomorrow