Fascinations aren't the End Game, Values are - Igeres HaKodesh 17b- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

we're on page uh 20 50 I believe yes and we're talking about a very interesting idea here Moshe we're talking about the difference between what's called Gan aen Paradise the Garden of Eden right which is referred to in English as paradise and Hab the world to come now I didn't mentioned this yesterday but when we talk about the world to come we think about a spiritual world the world to come well actually there's a two opinions my manes versus NES in Hebrew ram versus ran with a nonon at the end and the question is what is the ultimate reward you put F on you help make a minion Motion in the morning at the you get reward what is that reward is it of a spiritual nature or is it actually of something physical in the physical world and the question also is what is the ultimate the ultimate is it to be in a spiritual domain where the soul after it passes on to a higher World it benefits and Blossoms and but it's all spiritual or is the the ultimate to come back through the resurrection of the Dead which is by the way one of the 13 principles an me I believe just like I believe in one God I believe in the resurrection of the Dead that one day our body which passes on at a certain time will be resurrected VAV the coming of the mashiach it's a it's actually the f one of the first stages before the actual uh final stage of Mah this is explained in my Mones in the laws of Kings so is that is that the ultimate ramban says yes that and I'm sorry and ramban says that is what's meant by is is there's the hab which is the spiritual world to come but that's not the ultimate the ultimate is the the resurrection the dead in general follows that opinion and you can see it here in this chapter 17 because the alter re here speaks about a verse in Psalms inim which refers to a certain MIT broad is very broad is this Mitzvah which Mitzvah is it it should really when you read it it refers to all Mitzvah ALB says no no no it refers specifically to the Mitzvah the giving of Charity Mitzvah OFA is referred to as the broad the broadness somehow the reward the accomplishment is of a different nature and category than the reward for putting on Fillin and eating kulture and then respecting parents it's all great stuff important things MIT but the term your Mitzvah your Mitzvah is very broad that refers to T says the balat this is you could say the difference between the experience in paradise and G geden ganen and the world to come this ghen is a wonderful it's like I I like the word a Fascination imagine there's you go to the to the to the king's Palace okay where you have all kinds of side Chambers till you get to the King's Room with his throne and everything else right in order to get there you pass all kinds of Chambers the Chamber of art the Chamber of of uh education you know all kinds of different government offices you go into the Chamber of Art and you see Picasso rembrand um mosab bron mosab bron our our colleague is a Sofer and an artist and he M has beautiful stuff right great it's all good it's all good but it's a Fascination compared to the King all of that is only a Fascination when you get the king to the king you don't necessarily have art you don't have culture you don't have education and all the other sophisticated fascinating things but you got the king and if you have the king you don't need anymore you know why cuz he's the king and whatever you want you get from the King as long as you ask commen using this as an analogy DBA doesn't employ this Parable this my own based on other places we could say this is the difference vable between G and G is a Fascination it's a great Fascination and when you're in the throws of a Fascination it's hard to come out of it you like you want to be there of more and more it's so great it's so fascinating right you have to kind of remove yourself you have to you have to do something to remove yourself in the fascination and have the the brain space and the knowledge and the focus that there's something even greater that's not fascinating but it's the essence you see Fascination is only a temporary state today I'm fascinated with riches tomorrow I'm fascinated with honor the third day I'm fascinated with something else and so we go from Fascination to Fascination to you know essence you don't go anywhere it's you if it if it becomes you you have it it's not as though I have another king to choose the king is I and I am the king this is a very very important insight into human psychology and into T into relationships you know when relationships break up when it's only a Fascination and I'm not talking about a inappropriate Fascination we're talking about even a a healthy but it's a healthy Fascination if if if two spouses look at each other as fascinating each other each each one what whatever they bring to the table that relationship can't break up I'm not saying it will but it can't break up because I'm fascinating today with this aspect of yours and you're fascinating this aspect of mine and and in 10 15 years I lose that Fascination I want another Fascination Goodbye Charlie but when you see relationships and you see marriage and other relationships up relationship ship as like I told you the story with the who's praying his Talus is over his head his name was was and his wife comes in and she pulls the Talis off she says it's 2 o00 shabas afternoon what are you praying for the kids are home come make kides I haven't eaten I'm hungry and she pulls his Talus off and she goes storming at her sh expecting him to take his tals off now wrap it up whatever and get home and make kides right his his colleague another another watches all this and he goes over to them and he says you made a mistake marrying this lady if she doesn't understand how important it is to for you to DAV to hasem on shabas even though it's makes The KES a little later and all that then you and her are on two different pages and it's a Mist it's not and you know he answers him he says logically you're right but what should I do that theed the holy the third he made the blessing and Kad he gave us the Kad Under The Canopy so I should now make his Blessing in vain no and the story is a very profound story the story is demonstrative that a relationship Al Torah if sanctioned from Torah re it is a Godly experience and if you live with that it's not about me making a mistake this is this is this is it in other words in other words it's not that she was wasn't upset and had a right to be upset and he and he miscalculated who he's marrying because he would should have been marrying a woman who didn't care if he di until 5:00 you understand but that's not where it's at that's all a Fascination that's all a condition that's all a situation but if you look if you if you look at at your marriage at your relationship that God blessed this how can you say God made a mistake God didn't make a mistake I made a mistake so now the question is is it about me or about God and this is what talks about without using these words and Concepts that you know that I'm sharing you know more of a from a psychological human perspective butus puts it in different ways and in this particular chapter 17 sees this as the difference between G and the the the world to come through the resurrection and Al says you should know that g Aiden is only what what he calls here it's the it's the energy of God that pervades the world based on the world's conditions and terms and that's not the ultimate in other words is different for and M and velv myself and Yi and is because each of are different and that's one one truism and one experience Gaden and that's why ville's Gaden and my Gaden got you know when the time comes is two different gadens when it comes to the resurrection is the same for everybody there's no difference in the resurrection of the Dead from the kind of the low life or the big Rabbi everyone's being resurrected in the you understand this in the there's no difference why says the here because it comes from is the encompassing light and he and he says right away it doesn't mean it's not here it means that the energy is not based on the and created by the recipient rather it's from God's perspective shining into the world anyone could pick it up and the and the mosha the example kasus gives is the sun I'm looking around the window I see the sun the sun and I see the garbage man outside picking up the garbage on Wednesdays guess what the sun shining on the Schmutz on the garbage the same Sun that warms up someone at the beach over there or or wherever you are and it's warm it's comfy right right here we got 20 25° now and probably got 50 60 in Fort lale or right but it's the same son so the sun the sun doesn't change the sun shines how we perceive the Sun and what we do with the sun and how we use the Sun that makes a diff each one of us ultimately decides that would be what we call male within so which is another discussion maybe we'll speak about it another time let's now go to the text I hope this um this monologue was was useful we're on page 250 and we are at the dot it's about seven eight lines in the bottom the last two words on the line and this is the meaning to the statement of the sages it's says that as a reward the crown is on their head and they and they enjoy they benefit it says from the the ray of the divine presence so the looks now at the words you'll see T right you know is there people in your I don't know if you one on the Talis they have this you know Silver Lining on top that goes over it's called an really means the crown it surrounds you it's and we call this in cabalistic words and Concepts the crown the k k m ker a is associated from the the atmology of the word is surrounded CER and is an intermediary that brings together that joins together an emanation of the emanator the infinite God to the emanations and in the future will come this will be revealed in this world to all the righteous ones that will be erected will stand up by the resurrection now look what the AL does in these in this little parenthesis look how he's so precise he puts a parenthesis here when you talk about only sadik talk about sadik says no no no don't walk away from here think that this is only going to be for he puts a par and your nation are allim you hear that and he inserts it here in parentheses to teach you there's the will be for everyone now there's a difference the re already brings it that actual righteous people it'll be right away and the others will take time whatever but but the concept is that the overall IDE aide of the Resurrection is for all Jewish people okay this is what the sages say in the future comes people will say before holy the concept of holy means separate it's so it's so holy that it's separate than the from the ordinary this level of kades is separate separated is separate from the level of wisdom in G we're now on top of page the next page it says may from where will will you find it in other words is baffled why is baffled because you're talking about you're talking about nothingness even though is only and it's just a point but it's still a point K compared to is is May that's what he says this refers to superal Crown which is called in nothing and it's Revelation where will the Ultimate Experience this iron when our soul enclos itself in the body in a refined body and clear after the resurrection guys all our stuff and all our stick and all our nonsense when we come back through the resurrection it's going to be gone he doesn't say it here but you know one of the ways is it begins with geh or Purgatory the Jewish concept of purgatory where it's you're going to go through that spiritual wash machine to wash out the stains of ketchup and coffee stains and all the Schmutz that we pick up uh throughout the life because of our foolishness that we do right so that's going to be rinsed away and washed out and when the soul comes back to the body it's it's clear it's refined and the AL employs a very important concept for the end is is wedged in the beginning and the end the end which is action ascends in thought first K and I want to explain this so who's building a house here any of your kids building a house okay when you build a house you say like this right this is what I want I want to have a property where I can have a large Museum a great pool to do my exercise to entertain people a large library of books and swum where am I going to have it how am I going to have it know it's a a dream right but what's the dream consist of when you think about it initially the ultimate end you you envision what you want at the end then you have to get to it where's the money for it how am I going to finance it you know who's going to be the contractor and the architect so the end the action the bottom line how it it ascends first in thought so what what comes first in is the end product but to get to it you have to go through all the steps Al employs this and so so the says this idea of the the end it's [Music] wedged this is very it's a phrase that's used a lot in the ultimate of the it's the ultimate so even in the initial stages in the initial stage when Hashem decided and wanted and created a world his his ultimate is not the Angels not the souls not the celestial beings his ultimate is the final product a soul being in a body that's the objective and that's the objective of R for us in our life too we have to go through the phases and we go through many phases whether we understand why we don't we go through phases but we have to know that the ultimate is the end phase which is a soul in a body in the time of Messiah that is the end and the and and and that kind of drives those phases even though consciously maybe we were unaware of it so the AL uses this to explain his idea over here that ghen ghen is ultimately for the purpose of that's that's the connection here let's continue so look what he says you can't reach this level just like you can't have the final house that beautiful house that you want you're dreaming of until you have the finances and the money and the architect and the contractor don't work any other way so to order to experience you must first go through which over there you comprehend the superal wisdom skip the brackets delay everyone based on their own capacity and he quoted this idea that the do the do of Torah enlivens us because it says that the do will bring up this the body from the earth will happen through the do he calls the verse and this will make it come back goes to the beginning of the chapter this this refers to it's a vessel and a broad space and a wide space it's a very wide space it's so wide that there's room for the infinite God to to invest itself there as it says we say that you know during the God's garment is it will shine in the future in infinite way with through our AR which remember he quoted the verse earlier so why does it say the word the it say it could said is very Broad in the sense of very broad because the word means very much so referring to no B No Boundaries breaking all stereotypes all laws of convention quoting another verse to all ends I see an end what a what a statement refers to the cation of the Soul as it as it's experienced in G and that's a great Fascination but it has an end it has a limit and why is it say all ends because there's all kinds of levels in to the to the most exalted level is explained in theer in the book The where he explains the saying of the sages quote Scholars Jewish Scholars don't have rest not in this world not in the world to come they're always climbing on from level to level by comprehending through comprehending which has no end to it when will have rest when it'll come the resurrection they'll have rest why because then they'll EXP experience not the fascination but the essence tomorrow we will begin chapter 18 have a great day everyone Z Shalom you're welcome