Feelings: Are they important in serving G-d? Solutions if you don't have them - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

today we're on page 70 and we're learning chapter 29 Peter cough test and Tanya let me up bring you up to date the bellatania until now from chapter 26 through 28 three chapters he addresses the problem of sadness you know you're governing you're learning you're doing Mitzvahs and all of a sudden for various reasons some are material reasons some spiritual reasons and it goes into the details and that we have three chapters you get really really sidetracked and upset and sad um that this is not good in your life this is not good this is worrisome what did I do in the past on and on and about Tanya in these nine chapters his is his Common Thread is that in order to serve Hashem you need to be you need to have a positive attitude and a happy attitude and if you don't you can't serve Hashem properly and that that's the underlying issue from chapter 26 through 34. Sim Club but you don't see the word simcha so much because you see more of the word oximus sadness Melancholy Marie root frustration uh a Guyver ego in other words all these issues that disturb a person are all there uh why why is the balotanya talking about them because the purpose is to get rid of them so that you could live the simcook that was so this was the thrust and theme of chapters 26 through 28. now in chapter 29 the balotago addresses another issue that he identified in the beginning of chapter 26 and what's that issue that issue is called us um the idea of Tim to believe a jaded heart what does a Jaden heart mean tip to my life means that you you understand something with your mind you understand that it's important be it just an intellectual thought an idea or a godly idea but when it comes to feeling you're like a stone you're jaded clogged in Hebrew we call this Tim tomb halev this is disgust not only here in Tanya but it's discussed also in Musso sorry and the alteraba deals with it briefly here and that's the theme of chapter 29. how do we get rid of now another issue another curveball that disturbs us the first issue of Oxford's of sadness we dealt with already and he gave us suggestions and if we follow suggestions that we won't be sad and we'll be able to serve god with simcha and will have alacrity we'll have suresus which is a which is a requirement alacrity but now the question is now the question is what if I if if I have the simcha but guess what I don't feel it and this is a very very very common problem for every single invitation I don't care how religious and how much Yeshiva background you had and all that the heart really feeling the mitzvah especially when it comes to davening is something that go into any shoe you see that few people are people are rushing people are thinking about other things people are thinking about the Alias and about barhol it's all very nice things but are you gonna say that the heart there is not necessarily and there needs to be so this is what the balotonya addresses now now let's go into the text pay the cliff test there's another issue that we need to seek advice regarding the souls of the banana name the average person who doubt it ever believes we could be an arm we eating sometimes and more than sometimes many times yes what's called the clogging of the heart the chaining of the heart Kevin their heart becomes like a stone like a rock with a Yorkie boy and they can't open their heart the Shrum life in any way shape or form La vadership Atlanta to the service of the heart which is three love now Abby why does the altadabra emphasize Fila let's say the midst of film you came from sure this morning you put on a mezuzah you went to visit someone in the hospital you're doing the mitzvah now you ask yourself when I do this Mitzvah do I feel it in my heart and and many times the answer is Noah wrong so if that's the case why does the balotanya emphasize that the issue of not feeling it in your heart is by trila implying this though it's not it's not as important by all other mitzvahs and the answer is that's correct when it comes to fill it when it comes to Sudoku when it comes to mezuzah when it comes to every Mitzvah except the Mitzvah of davening feeling with the heart is secondary it's an adjunct right you're not the mezuzah on the door you have no feelings you know you need a mezuzah Abram have you done a Mitzvah absolutely is it better if it was inspired with feeling absolutely but it's secondary it's an adjunct when it comes to trila the Gathering feeling meaning the definition of fill up is not is is it is babbling with heart it's not an Agilent it is tevila and if you're dive in and your heart's not there spiritually you haven't doesn't I'm not I'm not saying I'm not going to rule her logically that you didn't you didn't do you didn't do your obligation of darling you did but the Mitzvah we this is the terminology referred to not being that I'm an artist and knowing the terminology and those things so in the terminology of the Yeshiva World the terminology is that the gather of the Mitzvah the Hebrew word is gathered gather means literally offense and it's not good in English it's not if you don't translate it in this sense as a fence you mean the condition the very essence and Core Essence of FILA of prayer is avode Villa when we're saying Hashem with all your heart we mean with the heart with tequila Isaiah which the commander says what what is considered the the service of the heart zutila here when he singles out a mitzvah to show that the jaded heart is a problem he says regarding the midst of Twilight he doesn't say it doesn't say why not because by those you don't need the heart as sorry say say differently if you don't have if the heart's jaded when you put on when you put on thrilling you've still done the missile nowhere does it say that if you don't have your heart involved and you don't feel the midst of a filling you haven't done filming it's not true you have but when it comes to davening The Gather of trila is live okay let's continue [Music] after that but now says another issue that debating have like Yates we discussed earlier in chapter 27 the importance of sanctifying yourself with things that are even permissible to you if it's kosher you can eat as much as you want comes along the belitanya the name based on the possible you shall be holy he learns it like the ramban ramban with the noon not Manali says from here we know that sanctifying yourself controlling yourself even the matters that are permissible is a Mitzvah it falls under the category of them you shall make yourself holy sometimes a person doesn't succeed in battling his yet Sahara to sanctify himself and with things that are permissible and he indulges in permissible manner because his heart is heavy again he doesn't feel it it's jaded it's blocked in other words if something's kosher if something's acceptable and we tell you the Torah says don't indulge because you don't need it for the Existence it's only an Indulgence and a pleasure that requires feelings you don't have feeling for that then you're not going to do it so in this case being that the feeling is Jaded and clogged then the person will be lackadaisical in there in their sanctification of things that are permissible so this doubt that ever says is a second issue that will haunt the vanity so these are the two problems now the alternative gives the answer the advice how can I told you in the previous chapter that the language I believe is from from uh based on a first in in Tanakh and it means like here is the advice of all advisors in other words listen carefully and he quotes the zayab he brings desire akadosh it's written in the Holy zoyard um the rabbi of the massifter of the academy began Aiden in gun Eden there's a there's an academy where rabbis are sitting and studying and there's the rabbi who's against the Russian Shiva over there and he says the following is a piece of wood a piece of wood that doesn't catch on fire when you're trying to ignite it what are you to do says the rabbi the rav and functionally cut it into splinters now you know Avi that there's another solution for a piece of wood that doesn't want to catch on fire bring a larger fire if this little fire doesn't doesn't the wood doesn't take it this fire why break the pieces why break the log into splinters just bring a bigger fire he doesn't say that he says move optionally because here what he wants to prove is that this piece of wood itself will turn it will catch on fire to bring a bigger fire is no big deal we understand if you bring a bigger fire from the outside of course it's going to catch on fire but then the Little P the piece of wood that didn't catch on fire is not now be catching a fire because of itself but it's catching a fire because you brought a larger fire but we want to see accomplished is that in itself should catch on fire how do you do that so he says unfortunately you cut that beat log of water into splinters that's the muscle now the Zohar the robs of the massifter says there's a Nimble there's a moral Google if there's a body a Jewish body that doesn't catch on fire to the light of the soul of the nishama leg you need to cut the Goof and you have to cut it into little splinters holy that's the end of the motion that's the end of the citation from the Zoya accomplish now Dr Lambert says Peter those are his own words muscle what does it mean the light of the nisham Allah that the light of the soul and the intellect amen doesn't shine so strongly Lim Shale to dominate over the material corporeal body in other words that we have is Holy shama hears God then Hashem understands God this the shama comes into a body and its purpose is to transform the body and the problem is the body doesn't catch on fire to the light of the civil [Music] and has a body can understand and can contemplate with his mind with her mind big doulas Hashem upon the greatness of God nevertheless ain't enough it is not grasped and it is not attached and cleaved to the Maya to the minds on the show say you can live sale so that it should be able to control over the corporeality of the heart foreign because of its materialism in the sense of corporeality because its courses they have to stop here for a second what the answer is saying over here is that here we have a double problem earlier when he began the chapter he speaks only about that the heart is Jaded but the mind is functional fully into God the problem is I don't feel it here Deltona says the wording look of Roman obvious plural you son the gasu's son that's not whom the youth the gas suit why is it plural because here it's the problem that it's corporeal and it's in its course is a is a double-edged sword that's talking about it the mind is also corporeal and the mind is also course why so the Deb explain was that the beginning of chapter Dr Deb is talking about bathing we learned already in chapter 17 it's Moab the status of abandoning is that their mind they control their mind is connected to God the problem is it doesn't impact the heart it doesn't impact the heart but the mind is in sync with God so therefore by debating them the issue which is what he look what he says in the second line on page 70 of uh after the first chapter 29 the second line he says he's addressing dressing the banana that's why the addressing the pain in the the problem is not the mind of the brain any the problem is the heart of the beginning could be jaded but now over here after he quotes desire he says goofa a body look at the look at the top llamas above the third to last word on the first line go a body that the fire doesn't enter what type of bodies he talking about not just banging him even to show you anyone so over here it's not that they have control of their mind the problem is their mind is also not in control their mind is jaded as well that's what that's what the altenebo is addressing over here so in other words what we understand from this distinction as the rep explains it is that the zoa's advice form a virtually for splintering the body shattering the body so that the body catches on fire on its own without being without having to have an overwhelming spiritual fire to ignite it is by everyone not just by abandonment but also by this giant makes no difference so now the question is why is this why is it that not only is my heart shaded but my mind jaded as well it says the altered it's because of the coarseness of the negative extraneous force force called Clipper the raises itself upon over the Holiness of the of The Godly Soul um and it conceals it and it darkens his light in other words doubt that ever now employs and tells us hey fella because you know why your mind is impacted too because the clipper is a control in your life the clip is in control and once the cliff is in control it not only impacts the heart like it's only by abandon the heat because by a pain in the knee the Clipper is not in control in the Mind by obeying the knee the mind doesn't sync with God as he says in chapter 17 the Moa the mind is into the shoes of the never really kiss the problem is the heart so therefore here we talk about in the beginning of chapter 29 of jaded heart I don't feel it stop it and I learned I do mix with saying I'm like a stone I don't have any feeling that's that's the one issue that he addresses in this chapter but that is when he brings desire accomplished the muscle of the piece of wood that doesn't catch on fire he and then he's and then desire says not the Valentine the desire says so to goofa a body that doesn't catch on fire what type of body is he talking about not only a body of abandoned knee it's from the body of a Russia too everyone oh now talking about everyone then it's not only a question of a jaded heart there's a jaded cook because Russia doesn't have control of his cup either his mind either his mind is also jaded his mind is not a sync with God so therefore the out there ever says and and and what does that mean that the reason is because Clipper dominates what in other words by abandon the the clip of dominating is not as much because in the in as far as is it his intellect is concerned and the Clipper doesn't dominate it's in the heart with a clip of dominance and we need solution for that which is going to give us but but but by by a desires muscle is talking to every person someone that's not opinion it's a Russian over there the Clipper dominates not only the heart but also in the head you need to crush the Clipper and destroy it and knock it down and lower it to the to the dust the high knew like Voya e team how do you do that the set times to humble yourself to be be kind of disgusting in in your own eyes nimasu but it says in the verse Dr represents not my advice it says in the Posse if you have a problem with it asking when a Jew will have a contrite heart that will cause the spirit I.E the Clipper and this butter to shattered this is the Citra so now that was gonna say four words which he repeats three times on this one page is it he he her other marshmallow his man himself is a revolutionary words Clippers man himself now of course you're wondering well you shouldn't be wondering wait a minute I'm a Jew having to shumble what it mean Cleveland I thought we are the Shama so the explanation is very simple the truth is that who are we the Shema the problem is we don't live within Usama so from the christiania's perspective the external perspective we're living with of course we have in the drama and that's the difference by the way between Sadiq men and and banana Kim manifesting they live within the shama outwardly as well that's that's why that's no outwardly we live with goof we live from that was Obama's we want this indulge in that indulging even if it's kosher and it's acceptable we're basically animals spiritual animals but animals outwardly hourly our Essence is the shamba so that's without the dev is saying here that you have to break the Clipper and then he throws us this uh this this four words one second he level say he he her other them actually if if the Clipper is man himself don't get confused to think that this is the essence of a Jew the essence of a Jew is not clear okay that's why every Jew can and does chuva because that's who they are but we mean from the Chinese superficial daily life outward approach we live with clipper yes hello what is that uh the process of identification how to reform an identity so we have an is but we don't identify it most of the time most of our actions are identifying with her goof and that's what I think he's yes the he says very eloquently yes yes thank you for that yeah what you said is exactly what he's saying I'm not Shirley Keisha boy so now the after that but you know he's going back and forth he says okay so where does my name Sharma my nephew Shirley kiss play over you know what what what's his role in in man if he he or the monster way of clipper if as as he'll use the word the identification is with flip up so where does an opportunities come in and explains regarding The Godly soul that we all have Neymar it says and he quotes pure stop right we say that in the morning Brothers says look at the language that you have given me diaper like me specifically that's the Duke of the words what does that imply that man himself is not the pure Souls by them it's just the opposite that their pure Souls will necessarily kiss men we go from and their body is nicer ambassador of them flesh of man so we have two things Covenant we have Adam is Sir and we have basarado so by sadiqi who is her Adam necessarily kiss who is the name I will show him it's just the opposite and the proof is it says you put into me that means there is a me who's the me what do you mean you've given me on the shama if I am on the shama even externally that what do you mean you've given me that's who I am so doubt that ever says that's a proof that that's not who you are externally externally you're a message of balance you're living your identification I like that word hello identification is you put a sweetheart in there that's the shout and tomorrow we will learn further any questions or comments anybody actually we don't usually learn Friday I'm sorry I meant I meant Monday that's what that's Sunday either no no no not Sunday just Monday through Thursday so it's shopping at the same time a quarter to three year time so so I wanna okay yeah I want to wish everyone a Shabbos Liquors it's the the first call to reshashana so uh make the best of it I have very fond beautiful memories come with my father as a child to 770 at one o'clock in the morning uh that time we first went to the mid club and people came from all the five boroughs many people who had a connection with the previous celebrity in the 1940s and 50s and they they still they came like once a year Slickers night so um it's it's a special time make the best of it the rep is once said that in the city of the Babbage is they came into sleep his dancing so after they never said that in my days we didn't know about that the devil must have said this in the 80s I mean my days when I was a buffer laying around I heard it later from then on they make fabrangians before they say a good look I am and they come in like I told you the other day they're dancing and dancing and dancing and finally it's like major dancing circles yeah I said it's called the the washing machine cycle you know we just go in and you get moved around and then they start uh and everyone stops and it's like it's almost 5 000 people on the shore have a great Shabbos have a great Shabbos take care bye bye everybody