Following orders is hardest but a must - Kabalas Ol is the Foundation - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

it's the sixth day of so this pic I would say chapter 41 and is like the equivalent to the today there's a big uhit an Awakening to to learn that and to live with it especially in light of the situation for years the Reb suggested to study by heart the first 12 lines of this chapter which goes from you know middle of page 5 till page the following site 112 till the the second line period and you'll see why in in a moment why it's so important to to memorize this if not word for word uh at least the concepts and the ideas and to reflect on it in particular whenever a person's having a hardship a fear that AB urged many people men women teenagers even children to to to learn this so this is an important piece of information before we Le before we begin learning chapter 41 and Tanya from chapter 41 and and chapter 42 are the two pro which deal with what we call and the reason the positioning of this chapter here follows what we just concluded the importance of AA and Y as kavana focus and intent in your doing your learning as we elaborated upon in the last five six chapters so following this the balatan says it's all good and F to have a kavana but one must remember that what's most important is cab acceptance of the Yoke of AES God Almighty and that's why the the first word in the chapter is Bam Bam means however there's only one other chapter I believe in the in the first section of T which begins Witham which is chapter 26 so when you see the word baram however you have to in English grammar and writing and in sentence structure that however follows something that said earlier so what is he saying however to AB right bam however the answer is that he said earlier how important it is to have kavana so the AL says however don't get confused and think that kavana takes precedence over that's the reason why he inserts the word however here because he has to make an emphatic statement Visa the word bam to teach you that although is so important and and without the and don't Ascend don't SAR on high for sure not to the right place to the spheros to the godliness Etc nevertheless if it if it if it um takes away from cab you're on the wrong track and believe me especially people who are into Aid which the sa is all about serving God how to better serve hem we can get very easily lost in kavana and the sake for the sake of kavana forem and kavana and focus and we we we we push aside so that's why Al right from the beginning of chapter 41 he says now let's look what he says what is what is the however about what's the content of the however there needs to be this is imperative the is not telling us you can you may very very strong language is there must be as a memory as a recollection but the implication not as a fleeting memory or a past memory a a memory that's relevant to you now you must remember what you are and what's important right now as you serve Hashem today he doesn't suffice with the wordin but he has the word t constant so you have here three three ideas Leos number one liin number two t number three all of these three kind of adjectives emphasize the importance and and incence that this idea that he's going to tell us now about how it's imperative if one want wants to avoid hasem to be authentic they came out with the the most used word of 2023 I don't know if anyone any of you saw this and it was the word authentic authentic authentic Judaism a authenticism authentic life so the AL is saying here if you want to be an authentic if you want to be an authentic servant of hem there must be as a memory that's excuse me relative relevant to you now constantly what is it here it is stop he doesn't still give it to you he gives you now again three ideas number one this idea is the beginning of service and this is very important because he says it's it's not the ultimate of it's not the of it's the very beginning of a and it's the the primary idea of and it's the source of I'm going to go back in a moment but right now just remember it's three different ideas and now he tells you and this [Music] is although we stated earlier in chapter 4 in Tanya that a fear is the source is the Shish is the root of of preventing yourself to do evil to do what Hashem doesn't want you to do you have to have hem and we also learned the and love for God it is the source for to do good nevertheless it is not adequate to arouse to awaken the love of God to do good it's not enough and at least at the very least you must first arouse the natural latent that's within every Jewish heart and that is one should not rebel against the king of the world and I'm going to go back and explain of which we would call it should come from the recesses of the heart it should become revealed revealed the best would be if would be revealed in your heart and if you can't get your heart to feel it o at least there should be a sense of this in your brain in your head in your so let me first explain the three words he says here so it begins there that's the beginning if a person does not have kab soil it's just a matter of time that the person will you know forsake what what he or she is doing you have to accept a yoke the animal has a yoke on its back and it breaks its back and the animal goes whether it likes it or it doesn't the Yoke of the animal the Yoke of serving AES who is we are his aim in addition to to being his children of course and as servants we do what our Master wants that's before that if you don't have coule of soil it's all really just a temporary fleeting experience it's exciting it's it's it's it's emotionally exciting it's intellectually stimulating but if you do not come to your yish and your to with it's not going to last it's not a question that it might not last it for sure won't last and if you say well some people have it for so long you don't know what they do behind doors okay so so don't give me what you see on the outside is not what's going on on the inside so the first thing is and it's bous a it's only the beginning that's not the ultimate a but as a foundation there must be Caba soil number two the ikra ikra what's ikra and T right means the primary T is the ancillary what secondary in other words the idea of C is an in a true it's the beginning of a but it's an as I said before if you're lacking cab soil it's just a matter of time so you're missing thear in other words you you could you could you could uh paint a very nice picture but you don't have the Essence and you don't you're not looking for the essence and you don't want the essence the essence that's that's the idea of then he says now we have two words and this is important in in in I mean in Hebrew but used in how many times you've learned in many different the m and the and what's the difference seemingly both mean the source so it's explained that there is a difference Mak means where it comes from shes is similar to a tree the roots of a tree the roots of the tree aren't only in the earth under the tree giving the tree sustenance but the roots of the tree its source of nourishment goes into the tree Tre and into the branches into the leaves and into the fruit into everything comes from the roots of the tree and if the roots of the tree are not healthy then the tree won't be a healthy tree and the fruit won't be good fruit so in other words what the AL is alluding to here is and that's why he chooses the word versus using the word the word m is to teach us that that the the [Music] the that needs to have must have must have in serving Hashem it it it it nourishes the rest of the tree so this beginning of when you're 80 90 years old and you and and and you're serving hasem and you're serving AEM it it it it not just it it not just sustains you and animates you when you're doing it but later on when you're already a tree and you have branches and you have leaves and you have fruit guess what it's all coming because of the Shish of the roots so the roots are an integral part of one's entire life and that's a it's a insight and that's why chooses the word shes versus the word moer I believe the Reb says that explains this and I I think it's very important so let's go back so we have cab what does he say is the content of this C and what's the over here I mean on one hand you would say we know that to serve God you need you know when you learn a piece of T you know he he's saying something something something M he's saying something new he it's not just another another repetition of you know be a good boy behave yourself you'll notice he says over here on the fourth line look it's not enough it's not adequate why does he insert the word le it's not enough it's not adequate to arouse the love for what's the addition of the word le alone it's not enough to to awaken and arouse love itself love only love so but you would say he he means to elude to say it's not enough to have just love for God but you must it must have you must have all but that's not AES because we know if you if you don't have you're going to commit sin transgression here is that theem itself must be predicated on why why must I say that the my my my my love for God needs to be based on my o for God on my cab soil why can't I just have love for God cuz I love Hashem I come to understand and feel God and I love him and I and I want to do what he wants so the answer is because without being the the the mocker the for everything including for then the is a self a selfish selfish a and the from the lowest level to the highest level it's my my personal B and when when it comes to AA the the orientation of a the orientation is that the eye that the self is very much involved right just for a moment if you compare love AA to Y to fear y has less of the self in it as and AA has more of the self in it right because in G you you you have to stop yourself you have to go against what you're what what you want to do and you say don't do it so you're battling against self in NAA you're you're enhancing self so that's what the bat says here in the beginning of chapter 41 and this is thees It's the novelty that the year that the AA itself the to itself has to be predicated on and that's and this answers the question someone says I'm a I'm a good Jew I'm I'm a good person I want to I want to do this or that and you know help people and it's all good and and we say it's very good but it's not necessarily Godly it's good but not godly the difference between to and Kos KES we are a holy nationes the Holy Land what makes ER special not it's because it's ER KES what is the definition of Kes of holy H Holiness is separating yourself from ego because if ego is involved it's not holy it's I on the most refined level as we had earlier in chapter 35 and you know says even at if if if if left alone without a there's a yes there there's still some sense of Pride and self okay this is why says he it's not enough to arouse love itself for the sake of Hashem Hil could you please mute yourself so therefore going back going back to what we're learning going back let's continue inside and this this feeling of it should be the ultimate is a that this sense of Caba soil should be so palpable that it's in our heart you know when you're scared of something your heart is pounding well if you have the ultimate is that the hasem should be so again I don't like scared reverence awe for Hashem that it should be in your heart but you know the fact is that it's very hard to attain that so the AL says this is alluding to what he said in chapter 16 at least up here in your cup in your brain in your SE in your intellect you should understand that this is the right thing to do to have K and he continues the how do you do that this is very systematic that's why the Reb suggested learning this by heart because it's so systematic theu how do you implement this this [Music] recipe so In classical style it comes through his meditation and contemplation him at least get your mind involved in thinking about the following what's the following the greatness of the infinite's kingship it is the kingship the of the entire world the upper worlds and the lower worlds furthermore hasem God pervades all worlds and number two and he encompasses all worlds as it [Applause] says God says behold the Heaven and the earth I so stop right here this is the meditation this is the meditation to to think and to work on understanding how Hashem pervades all worlds Hashem is in everything and at the very same time Hashem is outside of everything he's not restricted by everything yet he is in everything or many times mentioned as and heard as and means filling pervading and means encompassing and we'll learn later in chapter 48 that sa doesn't mean like a circle where you you you Encompass from the outside you surround the enemy from the outside saiv is also in the world in your life but the the manner in which saiv impacts you is not the way the let's say the faculties of the mind and the Heart each one has its compartment and each one has its place but rather it's the general feeling of let's say Will and the willpower and the Delight light power pleasure which isn't doesn't have one place in my body this is the place of will no will is is equal throughout pleasure is equal throughout so this is the concept of so says when you will spend time in his bonus in meditation reflection and contemplation on these ideas then it will generate the the feeling that cab that I I I I'm God's servant and then he continues go further this is another part this is the second part to the meditation okay the same God that is the god of the upper and the lower and pervades and and and encompasses he forsakes the upper and the lower and he designates his kingship over the general over the Jewish people General in the general way generally speaking over the is but not just over CLA ofat over you over me the ofat and the points out in his in his explanation his chapter why answer adds these words when you make a when you meditate God is so awesome God is so great he makes the heavens he makes the Earth he's here he's there everywhere right what does it have to do with my stomach ache what does it have to do with my belly button what does it have to do with repaying the bills what does it have to do with me says this isn't just God over the Jewish people but you the individual is encompassed by God and pervaded by God in all your matters and therefore brings the Tom statement man is obligated to say a Jew is obligated to say the world was created for me right now how could right was he was one man what do we learn for that Kaz say that just like Adam Adam was one man when he was created and the entire world six days five days creation was for this one man created on the sixth day so too each and every one of us has to say the entire universe the entire world was created for me and not in a Hoy way but in a modest way and therefore I owe my life to him he gave me food he gave me Birds he gave me a sun he gave me a moon he everything for me therefore the individual accepts upon himself the Yoke of hasem Le Hashem should be the king over him over myself therefore I serve him I do his will with any kind of servant work don't tell me oh this I have a degree in this I I like this work but this I didn't study about it in college I can't do it you imagine they come now to iser who's a doctor and they is we want you this morning to wash the windows because the the B sesses needs to be nice and and we need have dirty Windows this says I I wasn't trained to washing the windows okay you weren't trained but God says I want you to wash the windows now if you really believe that that's what God wants at this moment if that's the you go and wash the windows of course not to to neglect your patience and everything else but the concept is don't tell me just this type of service as a servant that I'm trained in that I'm comfortable and this is not easy all of this is not easy but Al is giving us here a meditation see he wants you to reflect and meditation doesn't come and this contemplation doesn't come you know one two three it doesn't work that way theab model of medit it doesn't come through mantras or even holy montras Jewish mantras cabalistica that's not what we're talking about here we're talking about a reflection a deep reflection of who God is as far as as much as we can understand of God how God functions what God wants of us and all that leads to the fact that he's my God he's my God he's not yours and you say he's yours not mine and each of us say that then it becomes personal finally another part of the medit meditation God stands upon us and his presence fills the Earth and God looks on the person on the individual and he checks him out CL his kidneys and his heart meaning what's going on inside top of next page if you served them properly by the way from the word till the period of the after the first word is one of the 12 uh sayings that the suggested children memorize but my dear friends it's not just for children it's for us as well and it comes from this chapter right here of this is the med God's standing on me right now right here right here he's right here and he fills the he fills his the world and he's looking at me and he's checking me out on the inside of the if I'm really serving him well and therefore we must serve before him before hem with Dread fear and fear like you stand before a king here ends the first 12 lines of chapter 41 which is essential not only reading but memorization again if you could do it word for word do it in Hebrew in English and if not at least the concepts will continue tomorrow inem but um and we'll talk more about it okay have a great day shal a good and a good take care byebye