G-d and Existence: Are the two possible? Global Warming: True or False - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so good day we're learning chapter 4 Page 156 in Tanya 156 Misha please mute yourself so the AL the AL until now has explained to us how Hashem creates the world called Bri X something from nothing and he began his his thesis his in which is the second section of Tanya about God's unity and God's faith faith in God and and understanding how God is united with everything in the world and the Al said that there's two ways of of viewing it and both are true but that there are two Dimensions one's called upper Unity once called Lower Unity what does that mean is God our God God the only one blessed be God as kingom be glorified is in other words there is the view of the world that the world never existed kind of it's all a manifestation of God it's all God and there's the view of the world the world exists and it's made by God this is also explained the you might have come across it the difference between and y y means the only one means one one out of two and three y means there is the only one there's no two and three what's the difference the difference is that y doesn't to begin with give room and place for anything else gives room for two and three for and for the seven heavens and the earth and the four sides of the world and all of that is nullified within the AL of in the one both are true but it's two different perspectives it's analogous to The View and the feeling all there is is God nothing else it's all God or it's all God but it's God as God has perceived through the physical Material World so the physical material world is also important to God because it's God's creation and God wants us to come to understand him and appreciate him through the world that's a y the only one means there there is nothing else not only there is nothing else in actuality in practicality there is nothing else in concept it never began material physical never began means it began in concept it began but the concept the purpose of the of of the beginning is God this is this says would be the difference between what we call and here this is the source of it the is the Bible the mo the the the the the code for these Concepts the way kabad understands him in chapter three the AL concluded the chapter with a very strong question he brought as a parable to understand this idea of God creating the world and how creation is nullified within God the mushel the parable of the Sun the ray of the sun within the sun Globe the m hasem in Hebrew the sun globe and the Al said it's not that there isn't a ray of the sun within the sun globe of course it's there it would never be able to exist outside of the sun if it didn't exist in the Sun how is it in the Sun the ray of the sun it's not a ray or better said it's nullified to the sun glob because the sun is so powerful so the Ray makes no difference as the gor says a candle during the day May how how is it helpful it's light and bright outside and and light a m light a candle the candle adds no light cuz it's the middle of the day when the sun Globe is in its full force which is the sun Globe the source and you have a ray of the sun there it's not a ray of the sun it's a ray of the sun because later when it comes out of the sun Globe it does its job as a ray of the Sun but within the sun Globe it's nullified says the AL is so too to Creation yes began in Hashem in the godhead Hashem decided he wants the world he wants creation but there is the way creation comes technically out of God and the way creation is within God so the Al said only one part of that muscle of that Parable makes sense to the moral the part that it comes from God like the ray of the sun coming from the Sun Globe but the there's a difference and this was this F his question at the end of chapter 3 to which he's going to begin answering now in chapter four and that is there's a major difference the difference is that once the the ray of the sun leaves or better said is sent by the sun Globe to do its job to illuminate the world as a ray of the sun the sun Globe isn't there where is the sun globe in the sun in the source if the sun Globe were to be here on Earth together with the ray of the sun we wouldn't see a ray of the sun cuz it's overwhelmed by the globe so what does the the sun Globe do it says I ain't going there I want you to do your mission what is your mission to illuminate the world as a ray of the sun however that's not true for the moral what's the moral Hashem and creation Hashem is here now once he created the world he's also here so if he's also here how can we exist and the Al said a fascinating line which I pointed out to you in our she before P that the only reason we don't see God here all of Hashem is because Hashem took that ability away from us but if we if he if if he were to give us the Merit of seeing him here we we would see that and I told you then say that when you learn you see God what is God Divinity and you study you're studying about Divinity of course all of is divine but brings it to the brings it out in a in a real way in a palpable way anyway the question is so the question of the AL on himself is a kind of rhetorical question how can I say how can I say that the musall of the sun and the and and the Z Z means the ray of the sun and the sun Globe is the shees is a good muscle in its entirety and it's all its details for Hashem and creation Hashem is here if Hashem is here how is it that we exist the Sun the the globe the sun Globe is not here cuz if it to be here y's walking there and I could see the sun shining on him you wouldn't have that sun shining on him because the sun Globe if it if if if it shines it's too overwhelming it's too hot and you and you burn up so it can't be that the the illumination of the Sun is from the globe of the sun it's from the ray of the Sun so the so if the sun Globe were to be in this world in the universe right now you wouldn't have the ray of the Sun and you would be and you would burn up so what does the ray of the sun the sun do it says goodbye I'm leaving I'm staying in my domain in the sun globe and all I'm giving to the world is a anination a Ze a shine an illumination fine but by Hashem you can't say that b right did is did Hashem leave us for a moment no this is his question at the end of chapter three and now in chapter four answers the question with one concept at least for now and the concept is called ssum the contraction the Restriction but to explain spends time in kind of introd introducing the concept of Tsum what is the concept of Tsum before we learn Insight the concept of Tsum is that AEM is here but but Hashem in His Infinite Wisdom wanting to creatures to emerge is his his in infinite light he contracts it's here but in a Contracting Manner and therefore it's possible for creatures and creation to emerge and exist and and this symtom is is as much of of God as the power of infinity in God giving the world energy in other words Hashem is not limited to just giving positive energy Illuminating the world creating the world but it's the same Hashem it's the same God that contracts himself he contracts himself so therefore the contraction is part of him that's the basic idea of simum as explained in now let's learn inside P chapter 4 behold it's written quote Hashem elim for the Sun and its Shield is Hashem is God Elohim is God two names of God so it's a but right away when you read the PK you have to ask yourself what is King David saying in what does this mean that the son and his shield is God God it's a verse that is very enigmatic say says the Al I'm with you P remember I told you whenever you see p you have to stop and say what's bothering the the the AL that he's saying the explanation is p means the explanation is that's what's bothering in this verse makes no sense says the AL explain it because it seems to be rep repetitious Hashem elim it's two names of God but it's God so why repeat two names of God number two what's the comparison for like the sun and it Shield God God what's the comparison one to the other pet says the AL explains the The Shield is a cover an Arctic a cover she to the sun globe to protect it to Shield it so that creatures should be able to tolerate the sun if Hebrew Nar me Hebrew is you the casing the casing okay good fine so what is this the Sun the the the sheemish is the sun Globe is is is too powerful it it will burn it'll burn us up so hasem puts it in a casing like says a ntic which protects us look look at the words to protect us so that creatures should be able creation people existence should be able to tolerate with C to tolerate the sun otherwise we wouldn't be able to tolerate it we would burn up brings the AL a quote from the sages that in the future will come will take the son out of its casing and what will take place then the wicked who conducted themselves throughout life in a wicked way will be judged by it and basically be burnt up by the sun there is there is such a so what do we see from that kazal what do we see from that that statement in the in in in this of the sages that the purpose of the of the casing is to protect the creatures from the burning Sun from the Sun globe and just as the casing protects one from the Sun Globe from the Sun so to this is Al explanation of the verse in so too shim the name of God which is known as El Megan is a protection and we read it as why look at the top of page I in test now top first line first word the shame what does the word hav mean the meaning is that everything is created May from nothing to [Music] something the says if you take the three letters not the ud right there's four letters in the K the you is the first of the four if you take y the he the V and the he what's the word HOV what does HOV mean create it creates it now to create says theth the the the not the youth the the of the refers to Hashem creating everything X Neo something from nothing something nothing second line next line and what about theud of the the first of the four letters m it denotes it means that it's a constant activity it it implies that this creation of of hav right of he hey isn't something of the past but the ud added to the word hey hey means it's constant so yud implies as it is in simple Hebrew grammar it is it is constant and he says he brings rashi's interpretation of there's a PUK in joob so does all of his days and the question is why does it say it should say so job did it doesn't say that on page test the third line it says there's a before the word Assa I sin what does the you imply Rashi says it implies that he didn't con he's do I'm sorry he is doing it constantly present tense also means he did it he made it past tense adding the you to the word USA Rashi says makes it present tense he's doing it now so using this Pik in in job and with rash's interpretation brings it as a a a a support for his position that the ud before the k v k of the Shem k v k what does the yud imply not only that hasem is Hov he created the world once but you he's constantly creating it this is the concept called his to this constant creation right I told you in P one of the arguments of the early philosophers was in the alut in Chapter 2 of sh that God was so powerful that he created the world once and the world is coasting right if since hasem is Yi infinite his power is infinite so he put into creation 5,784 years ago such a k such power that based on this power it's coasting and it would be analogous to a stone flying upward when you throw the stone that how long does the stone flow fly as much that you put into the throwing of the stone as soon as it finish it it goes back the laws of gravity goes back to the Earth it falls down right but asem is infinite so Hashem has infinite K so it's hasem it's it's as though has the the the stone never falls back down you hear that it's like a it imagine someone who would be able to throw a stone a rock upward and it would never come back down why why because the of the the power within the hand Vis A the throwing is pushing it constantly to stay up there like in space like in space like in space but but but again it's because hasem the person the is infinite in a finite being it cannot be and the proof is throw the stone upward I don't care if you're you know shim or anyone else who's the mightiest of the of the of the mightiest and the strongest the stone at some point will fall down like you have a a a baseball player who has you know so much kak and he can hit a ball 500 ft what happens after 500 ft the ball falls down and if there's a fan there the fan gets it and it becomes a piece of memorabilia and if it was hit by Mickey Mantle or Babe Ruth or the the Hank Aaron you know oh boy I have a collector's item but this the the the the ball fell down at some point it's not infinite right because we are all finite but might is infinite so when he throws up the stone the stone can keep on flying for example so the says here this is all implied in the word in the mosha of the in other words what what we're asking is like this why is the name of hem why why isn't the name of God just hav hey V why would the y m right you've heard many times y the the fancy word for it is the tetr Graton right the tetragramaton that's like saying you know like reading the word in Chinese what does that mean the Tet Graton but that if you look in the Old English um the books they use Old English they'll you they'll use for the tetron what it means for us is you what I think it's Greek but anyways yeah right it is Greek it is it is Greek but anyway anyway so so it wouldn't say you so let's say he V the Creator the god the Creator who created the world says the B he he implies he created it in the past adding the yud in front of Y he K implies he's creating it now not only did he create it 5,7 he's creating it right now and if he's creating it right now if you take the yud away from creation Now the rock falls down there's no creation It all becomes null and void you know if if we have to have an example what happened with Co overnight things changed it's you know it it it's unfortunate it's a it's not the best example but you know it's like boom what do you mean we're used to a certain lifestyle in a certain way and we're healthy and all that and overnight everyone becomes sick and everyone has to hide you know so the ud of Hashem hasem is yes I made the creation but just like the stone falls down so too after it finishes the power that's put into the throw ends it goes back to the Earth it goes back to its heaviness and it doesn't keep on flying so the world ends and by the way and I've told you this so so in the past this is the argument for for global warming and and the counter argument is mha that Hashem is not a finite being so if Hashem says I want a sun and I want a moon and he created them he didn't just create them for a limited amount of time and then they're going to burn up and cease to be you're right if you do the measurement the scientific measurement it seems like the world will burn up but that te that's nature that's finite so from that perspective you're right but science dear science you're missing one thing science itself is God so God the infinite says that I've put my power of infinity into the into the sun and the moon and the stars and everything else and I want them to be so they're always going to be they're always is going to be that doesn't mean to say that there are seasons that are hotter and colder and everything else that can also be true you know why do we have you know we've had here in the east coast uh you know so much less snow the last 5 10 years compared to earlier okay but not that the sun will cease to be they'll be burnout Hashem in His Infinite Wisdom decides and decided that this year I don't want any snow so you're not getting snow and I'm going to make it go through the Sun the moon and all that but it's all him so if it's all him it's the yud he can change it at any moment cuz he can do what he wants so this is the alod let's back go back to the text the energy and vitality that's given to the universe to the creation every re every moment Mish in actuality in all of creation coming from the mouth of God and his spirit and this mouth of God and this energy of a God in in in en livens them it gives them may coming from nothing Le to be coming to existence because it's not enough for creation the fact that it was created in the six days of creation that that should be enough to keep it going yeah we spoke about that earlier in the chapter and I just mentioned it earlier no if you don't have constant creation by the You by God then what was created in the six days of creation would cease to be and I just explain that went okay tomorrow mem we're going to continue from the ne after the period but I want to ask any any questions go ahead yes that's just a like you're talking about global war warming right how how people that don't believe in Hashem it's very easy people that don't believe in believe in global warming and all these things because they don't believe that it is the Eternal Supreme Being they don't believe in hasem so they say okay there's limited resources to Li work an example today this morning I went to SCH and it was raining when does it rain in May and it was cold you know end of May middle of May and it's raining usually doesn't it stops raining BYU so I mean it's open change everything exactly exactly it's like you see people they come out in the morning it's raining oh the radio says the newe says the weather report is it's raining got to take an umbrella bab cha never took an umbrella well he he didn't hear the news probably didn't hear the news every day but if it rains it's a blessing it's a different perspective of rain so hasem wants it to rain now now naturally not I'm not suggesting we don't use an umbrella I'm just saying the perspective is that it's it's all AES and that everything that happens is an opportunity for godliness and we have to always remember that but let's not get sidetracked and remember that this is part of the Al's introduction to explaining the concept of Tsum which we're going to get to tomorrow have a great day everyone and we'll see everyone tomorrow Z byebye amen