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so good good day we're learning T we're on page Z we about six seven lines six lines the top but let me just briefly recap began his Treatise of reconciling God and the universe as he calls it by teaching us some very very basic fundamental ideas the these teachings in sh are fundamental we call them in Hebrew Yos a a foundation the foundational teachings in a sense if you don't have these F fundamental teachings your faith in God is very shabby either you're uninformed and you care you care less you know you don't care or um you didn't take the time to explore so the AL says average person right remember this is called so remember the first section of Tanya's it's called this doesn't say this doesn't say but that means it's talking to us this isn't just for people who are philosophers you know people who are interested in understanding the universe people who are interested in reconciling science and TAA no no this is for every one of us so what does he say over here he brings the PE of the he starts off saying with the that there's only one God and says for that we don't need a we know there's one God we already established that with and here we are in Deuteronomy that teaches us this and and even the interpretation of the tar that it doesn't mean just one God it means one force that rejects as well and he says what what we're learning what we're going to what thees is the novelty of that verse is that there's nothing else nothing else in other words nothing else that is is within God but yet not all of God not God that's AES because to say that the physicality the material of the world is is God or go of godliness as we explained yesterday because Spinosa the heretic and and said that everything is God Torah doesn't say everything is God everything has godliness in it I need you to really really you know get that clear as you as you as we learn because it's a it's a foundation if you don't get that then we can't you can't really go further there's a difference between saying this is God or this is godliness Spinosa said this is Spinosa said this is God that's aicuris right heresy what's what does D say what does t say what does B say this is godliness it has a k of God now once you say it has a k of God it has a a power a a energy an amination of God then you have to ask yourself another question and that is this this K of God this godliness is it an integral part of who I am and what I am and everything in the universe or is it so powerful that it imposes itself on the world so for example we could argue we could say that the Sun and the Moon and everything else is is is was created by God but is not animated daily and M and at every moment by God it's kind of writing on the the energy that Hashem gave to the Sun and the Moon 5,784 years ago right this is be similar remember we learned once about throwing a stone upward how how long does the stone fly upward as much as the kak is in the stone when the kak ends the Stone Falls back to the Earth because of gravity so now ask yourself a question question does the stone it it does the stone itself have the power of flight or is the or is the stone flying because of the K in my hand that I throw the stone or the ball for that matter as much K as you put into the throw that's how the throw goes but it's not that way with Hashem with Hashem with God Almighty with God Almighty every moment of creation right now the the the the existence of the world and the animation of the world is because of Hashem it it's like Hashem in the in the analogy with be that the the stone keeps on flying but there's another Nuance not only does the stone keep on flying but the stone becomes a flying Stone what does it mean becomes a flying Stone while the stone is flying it adapts to the tendencies that flight that flight gives to a stone in the moral this would be that not only does Hashem create the world but sustains the world and animates the world every moment and that's the real meaning we say it every morning in dant every morning 365 days a year we say that before sh have you taken the time ever to stop and and meditate on that and if you didn't you need to you need to think what is it who renews every day constantly my separation is the act of creation Now think about this what you should think about when God Hashem created the world there was no world pre-creation no revealed World boom Hashem says I want a world and he makes a world he removes his infinite light that's called the syum as we've learned and the world emerges now this world that emerges how does it exist so everyone is going to say God by Hashem We Know by Hashem what aspect of God and what method of God keeps the world going and the answer is and and that's what we're saying it doesn't you know what the word mades means it comes from word it's a novelty it's new what do you mean it's new it was here yesterday it was here two days ago what's a new world it's like you wake up in the morning you go to sleep you say tomorrow I have to do this and this I have to pay these and these bills and have these and these responsibilities and next morning you say it's a new world if it's a new world we're don't I don't have to pay pay my bills today I don't have to take care of carpool I don't have to worry about the situation of course you do but nevertheless you say I'm aish it's new so that's the question this is what you had see this is what I'm doing with you now when I'm this is called hisus this is meditation but in the mind you know thinking about these ideas carefully and slowly and and and going back and forth in your mind okay you're having a a conversation with yourself and thought and this is very very therapeutic I'm telling you when you if you could get into a if you if we can get into a a contemplation mode and meditation in of the kabad way not just you know shouting or Screaming mantras I mean even Jewish mantras that's not that's not it's a good thing for the call of a re fine a very important thing to sayma withen absolutely but here we're talking about making an interchange the Al Al says over here in this chapter the is that God animates the world World daily every moment within the in inner workings of every creature that means that the particular Nuance of BHA and and and Ari and and Ai and and Yi and myself our individuality not our similarity that we're all human beings and we're all here on a listening to learning a tan here but our individuality is from God and that's a that's a tremendous Insight because if we were to say Hashem is so powerful that he imposes himself on the world and the world has such power from his imposition that guess what it lasts 5,784 years God is all forceful all powerful and just like the rock continues flying as long as the kak of the throw is within the rock so too will say that hashem's kak is so powerful that he gave a onetime boom what science calls the Big Bang right because we could you know we could argue that the Big Bang is creation what I don't want to go into that right now but he made a big bang and the world came about and it's riding and coasting on that Big Bang that God made 5,784 years ago TAA belief is not like that that is not our tital belief our total belief is he didn't just do it then he's doing it now the Big Bang of creation happens every day how mades every day and not only every day T constantly why do you have to say the word t every day without the word t we don't say that we say why because this emphasizes it's not just oh a once a day experience it's t when you're sleeping when you're dreaming when you're in the bathroom in every situation alive or awake in our state of sleep or awake Hashem is there this is the overall of the B that the AL shares with us in chapter one then D says how is this filtered through what we call the 10 utterances of the let there be light Let There Be firmament right and he says that Hashem CH channeled his energy to Viv vivify and enliven all of creation through the 10 utterances and therefore the Hebrew name that's associated with all of those items becomes very important becomes the becomes the Hebrew letters of the Hebrew name of those items become the C The Vessel to facilitate God's energy and then he asked the question well guess what we have a word called evim Stones rocks try to find me in the of my mothers the name Evan so how is it that that aim or an Evan is animated because the AL says he brought the Aral that even the inanimate objects of the world where there is no Li living sense of growth like in vegetation or animals who walk around and humans who speak and use their intelligence but it's inanimate it's silent it's called domain even they have a a neish they have an animating force and where does that animating Force come from the 10 utterances that s my mothers wait a second I checked in all the tent utterances I don't see the word heavan so how how does an Evan how does a stone exist if we accept the argument of the B and the ARA and the AL that it is the Hebrew language of the words that sustains and vivifies every material object in the world well and and and and that's all part of the of my how is it part of the 10 of my says you're right it doesn't say the word Evan openly Stone it doesn't say that but we have a system in to which is a valid system called we have the exchange of letters like I mentioned to you several times the AL of with the as we learned in the the tagline of the 152 after the header it says and we discussed there the exchange of letters ideas which is a valid and important way of filtering the energy either through the the higher level or lower level then there's something else called gatri which is gatria which people like to have fun with and unfortunately don't know what they're doing and Hing a chin it's not about just makea so you have something to say to make a cuty and everyone should like you and everyone should laugh and smile and walk away feeling great it's much deeper than that if it's Alor gatria it has to have an inner connection if I say A's name or initials Moes or masas have a similarity in the gatria that's very very nice and it's cute but it doesn't yet mean that this that it's that it's total sanctioned why because unless it's coming from the inside out not from the outside in it has no validity in other words if I could find a connection between M's life and mha and AI in his life and I look from the inside that there's a there's a similarity in and therefore it happens to be that the gatria is the same okay that's the system of Torah gatria I heard s my teacher many times here alludes he speaks about the system of and exchange of letters and so says that somehow there's something called 238 portals gates in which you can combine letters and combination of letters you remember there was a a a craze about Torah codes remember years ago Torah codes you know people oh they oh now we can prove that God exists because we look into the Torah into the Bible have BL blah and we see this and we see that it's very very nice and and and and I myself have have brought you know speakers to speak about it but but I'm you know because the people I felt need that and for example I think you Bible codes Bible codes and arim I think in the early days used to use that a lot to bring in the cucko of ER for them to cut the cucko so they had to prove the existence of God because if it didn't prove the existence of God the cuckoo is very important a lifestyle of a cuckoo so therefore therefore D says sorry chap sorry friends that's very very nice and you know the system of Kad D says is understanding that the gatria and the exchange of letters and the of the the large of shma and the large iron of dalid isn't just a play with words and a cipher you know has Caba tradition to write it that way there's an inner meaning of the word shma and an inner meaning of the word and because of its inner meaning it requires a large and it requires a large doll and if there weren't to be the inner meaning of um of and they wouldn't be large letter they would be the same size letters as the rest of the T so it's from that vantage point I need you to understand this it's from that vantage point that the AL puts together his thesis in this in this 12 chapters and again here if we don't if we don't we need to you know come to terms and understand this you know when the rebba in the early years the Reba with faing in the 40s before he was rebba and people sitting on the same bench he would say what's your name and then and he would connect the people sitting to each other on the Ben you know next to each other you think that was a little game he was playing what is it called R ret rouet you know this was cuz the was a was such a that he understood the the pneus of of of of yanku and he and he the of and Y was on his right and was on his left so he said there's a reason why you're on the right while you're on the left and why I'm in the middle and there's a connection between between and the names denote the connection they denote the connection they aren't the connection the connection is because yank have some kind of connection and because they have an inner connection of meaningful connection it expresses itself through the names so this is what the Al said and now let's go inside and we're holding um we're holding lefi it's one 2 three four five six six lines from the top of page eight I Zion the word is Lei it's the three lines from the end of the line since individual specific creatures aren't able to receive their energy from the 10 utterances why because the energy in its pristine pure state is too great is overwhelming for the creatures they don't have the to receive the the only way they are able to receive it is that the the energy digresses in a way it's called it progresses and digresses from level to level which are less than it itself than they ATT 10 utterances look at the next words exchanges exchang of the letters this a reference to the account the the worth the value of each letter of the letters until the energy can contract itself and invest itself and enen particular individual issue and object the this is what we mean the name that something is called in the Hebrew language who K this becomes the vessel for the minimized energy that are contained now in the letters Hebrew letters of this item the Evan or the bias whatever the item is is again he reiterates which has been which comes originally from the 10 they have the ability to create something from nothing and to give it energy forever now you'll notice he says the word not means to create means to vivify to sustain to energize again the novelty in Tanya here in this chapter is not create the creation of the of of of the universe of creatures of everything but it's the highest that becomes its internal mechanism and Al concludes the chapter by saying and are all one and the question that we have to ask ourselves why does why does the AL say these words why does he have to end at the end it's from desire that hasem and his to God and His to are all one thank you very much and the explanation given is that unless we we kind of bring Torah into the situation our existence not just as Jews as creatures is incomplete the t is the the blueprint for a for a living reality of God and the 10 utterances are so important because there are the 10 utterances sh you'll notice when he says when he mentions 10 utterances the son of my mothers he says a son of my mothers why because if you had a mimer Let There Be Heaven let there be light without without ta it's not it's not animating you from the inside it's all an an animation and a force from the outside and I want to take this idea the last few minutes of the class excuse me and explain it more practically what what what we can walk away with and should walk away with as as far as one thought and that is people wonder why is it that inspiration that I had when I was younger in in in all Fields but especially in T and mitzvas why does it why does it tend to like get less and less and less and you know the answer is that TOA if you don't have TOA as your reality you don't learn to and you don't live with to more than learning you don't live with TOA the natural progression in the world we live in is materialism and gmas as the Al said in Chapter 13 which is a lot older and a lot stronger than Tyra right in other words the DNA of the world we live in is G material gashi is a material right from Health to wealth to happiness you know you come to a Sim last night but right you greet people you have to put on a face maybe you're not in the mood no no no you're the b right if you don't smile and and and and and say and shake hands and give hugs you're a terrible host now the truth is you are but at the same time are you being honest with yourself and what's the answer the answer is follow what the Titus says if you follow what the Titus says and Titus says that you need to be and you need to act and you need to work on it that you really be and if that means saying once twice or three times do that if it means dancing do that if it means smiling do that be pleasant be present that's what the T says in other words I don't go to a Sim and I don't do what I'm supposed to do at a Sim because I want I decide if we live it up to leave it up to ourselves we might decide not to do that I remember coming to a Sim of a friend and we standing at a at a pole in the KAS hole and he was quite morbid and quite you know like like uh serious and I went over to him was a good friend I said what's going on he said I'm not happy with the this is the sh right this is the situation on the ground so in the hall you're going to protest and stand and theci side for either don't come don't fund the wedding which he funded I'm sure you're here you have to you know if there was if there was no and there was a breaching of Tyra openly I can understand there was a great M you and your son or daughter or whatever the case don't get along you remember that story I told you um I got a call I remember this must have been 25 years ago I still remember it it was like 4:00 in the afternoon on on a on a winter shabas here in Brooklyn a woman calls me and she says I need your help I read somewhere that you you teach Caba and you're a cabalist and therefore I need you to um I I believe my son is possessed with a diok and I read that you you dabble in these things and maybe you can uh you know take the DI book out this is for 4:00 I got to get ready for shop this it's 4:20 I remember but a woman's calling she's brokenhearted and I speak to her a from woman an older an elder little older I say to her what why do you think that your son is possessed by a diuk why she says I raised this boy in my kosher home and now he's engaged to marry and he wants to give into his fiance his kala his girlfriend whatever and they're not going to have a kosher meal if my son who I raised in a kosher home can can agree to not have a kosher meal at a wedding he definitely is cuckoo cracked up he's possessed by a dbook I'm asking you Rabbi dolphin to get the dbook out of him I promise you that that was the call now what am I saying I'm saying is the time of a time of a Sim you know that's a relationship issue you and your son don't get along and there's a skis and you've been fighting for years and now push comes to shop there's the wedding and he's saying to you yeah I'm going to do what my my my my my uh future wife want wants and not listen to you so there's a problem between you and you know you and him you got to work out the relationship what I'm saying is that we have guidance of to the to gives us guidance and many sometimes and it's h we don't want to listen it's hard why don't we want to listen cuz it's not the way we want to do things and this is where you see if you're living with this reality of chapter one in Tanya if you can put yourself aside and do what the toy wants what does the toy want you go to you go to a re go to aad go to a in but I don't mean in arrogant way I mean that's and everyone has thereof right but at the B the end of the day is you need to follow the T I give you an example in Sunday night is my his wedding so you know she has her name is bayor so you write it with two UDS or one yud so we always wrote it with two udes and speaking to Samra they said it should be with one UD because it's Hebrew not Yiddish Yiddish it would be with two UDS so I checked my father because it's a name after my grandmother and he said he doesn't know how my grandmother wrote it but he always wrote it with two you so I communicated that to the to to the to the r who's being M officiating but in speaking to some other it became clear that really should be with one yud it's still a Kosik subba even if you write with two yous it's still a Kosik subba but I I I'm sharing this not for your benefit to seek you know T in other words I'm also learned if okay you know but every person needs to go to Tyra and get into it and discuss it and I was ready theba was written because it was made by an artist so he wrote it with two yous but then I after talking to the other rabim I decided I really want with one you it it didn't work out at the end so it's two you but I'm just showing you that the these are details who cares one you to that's what the life of to means you know and when and talk about a life of in addition to to there's The Way live and behave and what we breathe okay and it it's it's very important to to understand this and when you understand this and you do do this then you always be fresh there won't be a day in your life that won't be fresh it doesn't mean you won't have responsibilities and worries we're not talking about that we're saying that you'll be it will be a a fluid situation a fluid situation the sense is oh um today how am I going to experience Hashem today through and that's what the AL says these 10 utterances my that give the energy to and vivify the world from inside out and the only way happens from inside out is you follow T if you don't follow t t even if you're doing very nice things but it might not be your mission right and as I've said many times one of the worst things is to wake up late in life and say I missed the boat I'll never forget I interviewed someone it was already in his 80s and he told me I wish I would have listened when I was you know when I when I was uh in my 40s or 30s I would have been much happier and I and it was very painful you know because and he and he cried you know it was a very painful thing to hear and very respectable person I was like shocked I walked out I walked out of that interview I said I can't believe this here is a man who is like a uh you know comes from a prestigious family and a a from theic Jew and everything else and it's telling me that he feels like he made a big mistake by choosing a certain uh job and not holding on to another job because of money and other things and his wife pressured him and I want I you know I want to I do want to mention this sometimes it's the wife sometimes it's the husband and my personal belief is that a person needs to hold on strong to what they believe in it doesn't mean to make fights and you know shom bias but don't give up on your beliefs and don't give up on your values and don't give up on your dreams because if you if you're a dreamer and you believe in that it'll become reality yes maybe you won't make the millions and may maybe you but you'll have happiness because inner happiness comes from from dreaming and doing our dream in accordance with Torah so so what does that mean if you're a dreamer and you don't have food on the table and you have children to feed and to pay bills and your wife says you're a lazy a lazy guy get out and get a job and stop dreaming or wasting time and playing the guitar and you know get out and get a job that's the way my father raised me my father I always said you don't have the job you want you get out and paint buildings you go sell milk and newspapers until you bring and that's what he did that's what he did my father did jobs until he bought a a business with partners that were um that were degrading that were difficult up at nights working two shifts in the Brooklyn and uh you know big buildings down at the Navy yard and such places before they made it into luxury condom minions when you had all the rats and mice running around the the the the the buildings yeah I was there I I wasn't there at night but I came sometimes and I could see that this placey yeah today they've already redone a lot of the Navy yard but I'm just saying the idea by him of sitting on your loin you know sitting and and not and not doing anything because you don't have the perfect perfect job that you want and your dream was not acceptable and push he did those things and he built himself up and he put away funds and he was able to uh to buy together with a a few partners of business and he was mat he was successful in business the same is in service of God the same thing that on one end you need to dream and by the way dreaming keeps you also going like let's say Zev would have would have a dream he wants to memorize the the um the shakar the discussions of the chapters in Tanya someone say you're 25 years old you have a white beard already your memory our memories is not so sharp and you're never going to do it don't give up your dream you can do it if you want to do it you can do it if you want to do it there's a very famous saying in in Russian I don't remember the words now it basically means you can do it but you don't want to don't tell me you don't you can't do it you can do it everyone can do it everyone can do it everyone can be everyone can be a TI everyone can be a soldier of Hashem everyone can be a person who's Aid there's no such thing you want to be Aid you can be aid but I was raised this way I was raised that way forget about what you raised today you want to be Aid make a firm resolution you can be Aid this was a towards the end in honor of the two that has blessed us with which is really really clearly because um I mean you know it's it's hard enough finding one as we all know for a child and have have two in in you know back to back is a a gift a one second a bit BR and you have to be a mock you have to be mock you know I'm telling you you know it's like for so many years the an the worries and the anxiety the conversations and the phone calls you know it's like it like it all it it all went out it all went out it all went awayer Mah is going to come it's going to Beery yes Y what do you want to say Y what do you want to say yeah so first of all two things first of all what we were talking about in the beginning of this year about the stone yeah right so I mean what from my understanding basically means that hasem is gravity so whatever you learn in science class we have to throw that out the window I I I I wouldn't say throw it out the window we have to put it in the context of T correct and and the second thing is is that from what I understand also from this year specifically is this is probably the reason why a lot of do not learn or t specifically because of the thing we mentioned yesterday about the certain that's not learned and things like that this is something I could I can see that the yeshivas would not want the kids to start getting into because they would be afraid okay but that but Yi that's you could say specifically with this this sh but but the first section of Tanya it talks about AA and and and and character and depression and happiness you know and in fact in a fact y when used to give the shear here in B Park when when he taught chapters 26 to through 34 which is like the psych psychological chapters of Tanya he had 100 yet had 100 attendees many G and the the rash would tell his students go to the she but what was before and after you had only 30 40 people so so um but yes there are teachings here that con connect to philosophical issues and when it comes to philosophical issues we need to be strong but but not just the AL who's the founder ofis he believed that is for everyone the bat took it to another step where he said we need to use our mind and get into these ideas and that's why there was an early dispute and still exists some in some way between most and over this issue over this issue of studying in depth these ideas but it's it's clear that um many more people are learning not to become katnik but to understand it's become it's becoming more more you have Bish when I was there I don't know if you know but Rabbi vosner um from you know from down there he he or one of his people asked me to give a sheir I I didn't I didn't do it I couldn't I forget why but but I'm saying to there's there's a great P today I don't have to tell you but I do want to end with giving everyone a has the ability to give a br I want to give everyone a br number one want to have good health manasha and everyone else we should all have good health Better Health you know and not not not only not only ourselves our spouses our children our families that's number one and of course the the soldiers and everyone to be safety n the hostage to be returned and number the other the other issue isim those that need for their children come easier it should come at the right time and we should have the parosa I say I say my to people about is Happy is with Masha mute yourself please I thank you one second happy Hearts A is yish it means pockets and large Pockets right happy hearts and large Pockets to pay for the but hasem should really bless everyone and and with all with everything in your personal life your you know I'm only thankful to hasem always be thankful why does it take you know aim to bring out the thanks we that that's how in a way we're Petty we're so petty we're so into ourselves that only when you're you give the I'm saying you have to wake up wake up but but but but it does say and Sim brings out the best of of yeden so it's wonderful I celebrate with you um it says the B says the place that you want to be so I'm sure you all want to be at the wedding Sunday night in CR Heights and by the re will be the right in front of the Reb's room and then which is you know a block away and um I'll have you all in mind say together and there won't be a sheer Monday it'll be a sheer Tuesday okay believe re is there a zoom link I'll ask them I if there is I'll give it to you I I'll I'm not so techy but I'll ask if they can make it you know I'll I'll ask we wanted to come but [Laughter] before hey hey how many weeks it's three weeks to P you know listen it's h it's all good it's all good we need mashia that's the bottom line we need mashiach now not yet yesterday we meet Messiah now not yesterday because only Messiah will bring uh sh to this the world anyway love you all see you all on Tuesday have a great day thank you thank you