Faith is real not fake, Is Yr G-d a happy one? Are you good w G-d? Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

we're learning Tanya pic M we're on page we're on page 120 actually and we are we're about seven eight lines from the top the the the the the word were at after the word which is an acronym the AL here explains to us that the difference between Hashem and us is that we we know things from the outside in whereas Hashem knows himself and by knowing himself he knows everything and we spoke a lot about and we spoke a lot about that yesterday so I'm not going to repeat it in order to understand this very well with our minds the wise man the the scholars of Truth have already elaborated on this in their usually the reference to the words means people who are studied in Caba okay so the AL says that to to understand this very very well look over there study their books I would say that here it also means not only Caba but Jewish philosophy and the Jewish philos philosophical which deal with creation of the world guide for the perplexed the reconciliation of what they call God being omnipresent and and multiplicity and all those issues are discussed in those type of says the AL although it's true that they truly comprehend these Concepts at the at the highest level and the best way is to study those don't think that if I don't study those or I'm not a m or I'm not a Jewish philosopher or I'm not an intellectual I'm a regular guy on the street that this doesn't apply to me and this is again in in line with the T that the Tanya is written for every single Jew for the average Jew the B the potential ban let's see what he says remember he quoted that in chapter 34 are believers the children of Believers SE Andi without any intellectual philosophical Bend and discussion you don't become a Believer because you studied all of the philosophical writings and you debate you know the big philosop philosophers or you read their books K says this and Yan says this and Han says this and I came to the conclusion that the t is right and that's why I believe in God says the balatan chapter 42 right here that we are believers the children of Believers without any of that intellectual debate and we say every morning in the preliminaries before you are who who referring to God Almighty the essence you are the God pre-creation and you are the same who the same God from when the world was created Etc says I explained in chapter 20 so here he posits the argument that is not generated by SE now let me be clear he's not saying that se is not important and he's not saying that se doesn't enhance the argument doesn't enhance the position he doesn't say that but he says it's not because of SE that we are believers okay and therefore if someone's going to say how can I serve AEM and believe that God is not like a human being in the sense that a human being is stimulated by the outside and is impacted by the outside so everything that the human being and the Jew experiences is from the outside in that means from excuse me that that might mean that a Jew on his own doesn't believe it's only because of an outside argument an outside position an outside an emotional experience an intellectual experience when you bring it into yourself and you think about it and you understand it then you conclude there is a God there is TOA and all that but we're saying that Hashem is not that way beem know knows himself and by knowing himself he knows everything that's not a human trait it's like we say you're living in the virtual world in the real world it don't work in your fantasy world you can have as the gar says a a a an elephant going through the pinhole of a needle thank you very much that's a Dream It's a fantasy but but in the world that we live in that doesn't work in our world as humans by Hashem Hashem is is everything so Hashem doesn't need the outside to confirm the fact the fact is in himself be now to understand this better the B says if you learn you'll understand it better nevertheless don't get caught in the mistake and thinking that if I don't learn those I don't have the am my or I have a shaky amuna a sh a weak no and this this idea is a thread in Tanya as well this and it's a very important it's a very important point in serving Hashem you know we all we all we all come to a to a feeling about others about God about t about Mitzvah from from The Experience right last night I was a at a wedding I was reminiscing with my brothers when we were 8 n 10 years old and we were the cat skills in a bungalow Colony you know someone had mentioned that to me do do do I remember him at a bungalow Colony 1970 I was 9 years old and I said I don't so I happened to be with my brother so I asked my brother he said sure I remember and I said and he says you have no recollection I said I have none all I remember driving in 1969 August or SE I think it was with the the weekend of the of the Woodstock Festival with the Grateful Dead was there I remember driving with my parents home from the cat schools to Brooklyn and the traffic was hours and hours and I saw hundreds mean thousands of cars lined up on the on the side of bethl New York some of you might have been there I don't know well you definitely know about it and and that I have a I have a I have a vision of that here I am 63 63 and and I remember it you know I that's but I don't remember more and my brother says you don't remember this you don't remember that what's the point our memories and exper and experience our experiences create the memories create the situation and here says phenomenal thing he says God is not that way and because we have an intrinsic relationship with hem as my and mean Believers the children of Believers it's different that's not Who We Are it's an enhancement it it's you know it it it makes it Rosy and nice and and talkable and and everything else but no no your relationship as a ye with the is because your B this is what he says in these few lines now he continues every single Jew this is the third time in the chapter 42 that the AL says a great hour right you know it's very interesting the language how would you say a normal Hebrew right or means a long hour sh means an hour sh means a great hour it means it should be a qualitative hour like I told you yesterday that the says that he does he doesn't mean it has to be it means take time this one day for these amount of time take time the next day for this amount of time he means quality time where the focus is there so let's see what he says every day what should you think about that God himself fills the upper and the lower in the heavens and the Earth in actuality Mish twice he uses in two lines the word Mish intangibility it's three words three same ideas he looks he stares and he checks out like from the word the person's kidneys which means his insights his hearts and all of his actions and all of his speech and all of his steps he counts God knows how many steps you walking you don't need to have the Google watch to know how many steps you walk up and down the steps so you you know so you can lose weight Hashem knows how many steps you're walking each day he's counting he's with you so when you think about this you will accomplish to set to establish within your heart the you hear that from one serious meditation and reflection for five minutes for 10 minutes thinking about what he says here it will help you have the rest of the day the basic all for later in the day okay you do this in the morning say and you come back from and it's the end of the day it's retiring and it's you you're tired you want to go to sleep you got to get home so then when you come back later when you resume thinking I'm I'm going to say as so you you have have a fleeting thought about God being in your presence so then so then even with a lightweight meditation not a heavyweight meditation like you did in the morning that when you were able to sit like you're sitting now and and able to learn and hopefully they won't call you from all sides to come to the the emergency room right so when you when you're able to to take some Focus time at some point in the day and meditate on Hashem and everything that we're learning here then later in the day even a much shorter and fleeting thought will be impactful any time you'll prevent yourself from doing what you're not supposed to you will do what you need to in thought speech and action you won't Rebel God forbid against the the the presence of God who fills the world as we said earlier and and you follow at least the dict of what did he say he said fear God as much as you fear a human being we don't want a human being to see what we're what not not supposed to do and all that right so you do it quietly clandestinely you hide it so told to his students students the basic rudimentary level of fearing God is at least as much as you fear a human being right so the AL says that through the meditation and the reflection a good qualitative meditation and and once a day that will that will trigger later in the day when you just have a fleeting thought as you walk wherever you're walking and do whatever you're doing that it'll keep you on the straight path so this is a the argument for the importance of serious reflective time once a day for a few minutes like I told you that Yeshiva uh the old told me if we could think about a a piece of t a piece of Tanya about God for two minutes without distractions that that's go into our head we're we're we're ahead of the game because as soon as you start thinking the wife calls um the bills come uh the patients come what's for supper where are my kids where's carpool what's going on in the war right it all comes flying in and you know of course when's the best time when it comes when we're daving especially when you dri it's the best time when the thoughts come into your head so this is what the AL says that taking a few minutes of of focused and really like blocking out and this is this can't be done this isn't for Angels this is for us it could be done and that's why we have a Talis we're all you know married you put your Talus over your head and you put your phone away and you just close your eyes or just look under towels and nothing else exists nothing nothing nothing nothing and they tap you on the back you don't respond cuz for a minute or two or three you're in a state of reflection that's what the B wants of us right here and he continues he says and this is what the verse says it goes back to to MOS what does God want of you to fear Him says is is fear of God such an easy thing that that's all God wants of you fear him thank you very much right the says in yes for it's easy to have fear of God what's the connection between the question and they answer I'm ask the Torah is talking to each and every one of us and you tell me foros it's easy now explains this inside look inside God wants only one thing of a Jew to fear to go his all way this is a what level of fear the rudimentary fear God wants is a fear an awe that will lead to the Fulfillment of and this is what we be called at the beginning of chapter 42 the lower level of a then he explains now in comparison to in regard to regarding the Das the level of of knowledge of of of Das of connection that every Jew has yeah regarding our that we have and that keeps on uh fueling it's an easy thing in the brackets because it is is focusing concentration and connection that's found that it connects the hidden recesses of the heart and it brings it to actual thought as explained as known to those that study the esoteric wisdom a so that's one thing in other words we have a littlea inside give me a second top of the page and after the brackets this chapter mentions the word orar I think four times or so and I discussed this once with with a great cidic scholar the power of memory and in this chapter you will see throughout the pages he employs the word Yar that's why it's so important to remember right never forget right Additionally you need to remember just as a physical King why do you fear a king the primary reason is from his inside and from his Vitality not from his body you look something in a king and you don't want to you don't want to be he looks disgusting he he feels disgusting but he's the king why because he has something in himself that is very useful for everyone IE he's the king of people take the same King when he's sleeping the cat's out of the bag right my grandfather the my Holocaust Survivor grandfather my my mother's father he would sing when I was growing up this this uh polish uh Le leadle means this sing song that Pro that they sang in the stle okay it went like this NE F by the fer [Music] NE is the name of a woman she sits at the window fence is at the window and she's so poor the house is but she begs for a piece of Kal then he sang another tune which I think was more on the love song side you know you know clean but still love song oriented where he talks about the father and mother going away and then we can have fun okay don't don't don't think that in in Poland pre-war uh they they would sadik him people are people tyus are tus anyway why am I saying this says here when the king is asleep no one fears him but he's the king M he's the king right is he's the king but he's asleep and he cats out of the bag and I can do whatever I want I can party parents go away you can party I have more to tell you about that but for another time so the so D's point is why you have we have to remember he says that just like a king why do do a king impact us it's when he's a it's because of his insights his pus and that's why if he's asleep so if we only view the king from an external position then we wouldn't fear him but if you look at the king as the king from the inside that's what makes him the king not how many votes he gets and not not how many how much legislation he passes but this is a respectable person deserving to be the leader and the king oh then even when is asleep you still fear Him do we see his pemus y do we see the no we don't see the pemus we understand through our brain through our mind that this is the king and he's deserving of of of of respect this is the King right when we see the king dressed in a body with a body and dress with his garments the Royal garments that is a trigger and to tell us you know who's in this clothing the king here ends the now Begins the moral the N lead a fear God by seeing with his physical flesh Heaven and Earth and all the host that the infinite God is invested in them to alive in them stopping here but the last is a very important and that is that point is like this that the the the relationship with hem is much deeper than I understand we understand that God created the world and we could we have arguments the AL says here that the reason you take he says take for a mus a king what makes a person have the fear for the king and the respect for the king it's the insides of the king not the outside of the king however this is where the mus and N are different by a king the if you look if you just look at the king from the outside you won't respect him because it could be his no doesn't look great doesn't feel great by hasem when when we we think when we wake up we see the sun coming out and we look around us the very outside Bes speaks God in other words our connection our Amun in in God the Creator is much deeper than a king than the mushel and and this ties in what we said earlier it's not from the outside in it's from the inside out so so yes we we gaze at the stars and the Moon and the Sun and everything God created and we say wow take a a beautiful walk in the Bish mountains and and and and forests and and and it's beautiful it's it's beautiful right and if you know the were there and was there and they were bringing back the ark and to right but but that's all the outside stimuli right what we're saying here is byes who is that those that those things are demonstrative of God not just of a of God that has Aus in other words you see God in the GM and and then of course where one will ask well how's that possible you know they say the the mid before he passed away he saw the the word of God in the balcon in the beam in in the in his Sho right and then they say a story of a Mas that he daved for hours on shabas with such Focus that when he went out he bumped into a tree and he saw theem he didn't see the tree now the question is you know is this is this something that's in our reality the answer believes in this T yes it's in our reality it's an our reality to to see God in the gas that's if you let him in if you don't let him in you ain't seeing God the gsh is you're seeing a tree and you're seeing a gun and you're seeing a war you know it reminds me of the G andus right the the see what the foxes were on the harabas and the say the Miss Right is they're crying God what are you what are you doing comes RAB AKA and he laughs and they were outraged RAB AKA how can you laugh he says if God fulfilled this part of his prophecy that when the be be destruction this will be the case how much more so will he fulfill the other part of the prophecy to bring mashiach this is not just a piece of gamorra you know and and a nice story The explained this once at length it's printed probably online too that Raba was revealing to the that your whole perspective is wrong your perspective is that the the occurrences in the world are the reality and and and The Godly prophecies is ancillary and secondary and hopefully will happen says re just the opposite God's prophecies are the truth and the iar and the way at times because God God wants it that way why we'll never know is to access it this way and point in case we had a holocaust yeah what a destruction I mean there's no words but look now 70 80 years later look how am has rebuilt all levels of am okay there was never a time of such Torah dispersion and learning and and Institution etc etc okay and in fact RAB salic who was first for the AA with the AA change to mrai although we don't follow that why and he they asked him what happened to you your grandfather brisker was with the re rashab and the against against Zionism and all of that how can you as a grandson deviate and join mrai and become the American representative of mrai Judaism and salvic said until the Holocaust I saw this was the Sha post Holocaust philosophically I I understand it differently that's the conclusion he came to the Reb obviously and others and his own Uncle brisker of disagreed but but but I'm just making the point that the entire enre World went through an upheaval with the Holocaust and in hindsight the the not on hindsight the results are positive you know no one wants to say that how can you say that destruction is positive but the fact is the destruction was no good but what the destruction led to and what was created out of Destruction is something that we've never had before in Jewish history never before so I'm saying that that what the says here is a very hard concept to understand how can I see God in G cuz he's talking here about the difference between and a The Mind's Eye versus the physical eye and what he's and and and and the the novelty here is that we can come to a place to see God so when someone tells you do you believe in God you say yes and then you ask what do you believe in and you talk about the the the idea that God is the Creator and that God creates the world daily and every moment and everything else says later in Tanya for that you don't need belief that's intellect you can it can be proven you need belief to what's beyond the The Mind's Eye the reality that's what you need believe for and M should not be wasted on something that can be appreciated through it's a main teaching in or like I've told you the rabbi the heretic says I don't believe and I don't believe in God and all that and the Rabbi says if I understood God the way you understand God I too wouldn't believe in that God what's the point what's the what is what is the cont of our the content of our what is our belief don't waste your belief on on small change you don't believe for small change for small change cter change put it in your pocket put in your bank and you see it says the balat here in chapter 42 it's the same way with creation you you could see God in creation and this is something that we could uh you know to think about it doesn't it doesn't come from you know like I say you know sleeping and playing golf Learning davening especially daving meditating reflecting you know taking some time and and if you do this every day that's right to the for the rest of your life trust me you will start seeing more of God in your life in a real way it will happen and and and and also the the the side benefit from this is things that are trivial things that are you know things that were important to you all of a sudden don't be are not not important anymore he she what when this gossip this thing that thing it's all Nish it's nonsense why do you why do we waste the time on things that are ancillary things that are silly things that are trivial versus focusing on the and this comes out of this piece of T here M you wanted to say something you can leave it for tomorrow or now what do you want okay we what you say no just it was really quickly I just wanted to know the abbreviation I thought I heard you to those that know itself is an acronym foros the hidden wisdom which is a reference to Caba so it's to those that know standing for which means to those that know Caba and you find that throughout the Tanya so I'm glad you asked write it down and memorize it and then you wherever you see um this you'll know this is a reference it's great learning with you you made my day when we learn together in morning a piece of it's a different day it's a different day we had a today thank you I'm thankful to all of us for making a minion the special day they will help it's only going to be a great day in every way with SH and peace and safety and happiness Z see you tomorrow byebye take care byebye take care