G-D Creates existence that denies Him: How, when,why- Igeres HaKodesh 20a- RC Dalfin

so good day we're learning the famous sacred letter of the AL 20 on Page in the fourth section of T just as a a brief introduction the AL ever passed away shabas and on Friday the Friday before he had two letters um in his pocket one was written earlier one was written that week and he gave them to this is the tradition he gave him over to his or to his children and one of them was this 20 both letters speak about the virtue and importance of action of M and how action is associated with wedged in the essence of God and when we talk about the action we talk about action without feelings the act of putting on film the act of putting on a muza the act of visiting someone who's not well whether you feel it whether you understand it makes no difference and this is a novelty and it's the the only time really in Tanya in all of tan with Al spends like six to seven pages on this and this section in Tanya has become is the source for thousands of pages that the laaba rebes in the succeeding 200 plus years taught said discourses known as my a lot of it was based on this so thises this letter is a foundational letter of a basic fundamental principle in and in Hebrew it it is that the yesmi the physical existence the phys physical yesh and the yes and the true existence I God Almighty are one the difficulty that he comes to explain here is how can you say that the F the the real God the real yes is the creator the physical yesh The Creation in its mundane exist existence Bes speaks a lie what's the lie I created myself it so happens to be that in this week's it's about who considered himself like a God and the mentions that par said to me is the river and I've created it the Nile River parro contended he was the creator of the Nile River that is the ultimate of yeses of ego of arrogance it's the complete opposite of the true God and yet what do we say that the yes that the physical yes the physical existence and the yes and the true yes true existence a god are one and the same that's perplexing this is what he comes to address in this he get us in this letter and the purpose of which is to understand that action yes taking the physical and using the physical for God just just on its own without feelings without understanding but if God says take hide and smooth it out and make it suitable for filling and then you put on the Fillin you have the real God in your presence that's a very very uh powerful statement yet one that needs Clarity this is what he comes this is what he addresses in thees 20 let's now read inside it's a very long again as I said there'll be parts that we will explain more parts will explain less and um lessons in Tanya is always available to you guys and there's other shim online uh to help clarify different details so let's go is good morning and welcome and we're on page K by the way do do do both of you use the lessons in Tanya or not iser do you use this lessons in Tanya I use lessons and Tanya I use the Practical Tanya and I also use dinos series no no but for for what for what we're learning now what text are you using I'm using just the plain just a plain one and what about okay what about you of which Tanya do you use I yeah but but which which type of book are you got it okay so you and isra are using the same one okay so this one this is part of a series called lessons and Tanya explains it much better than what you're using you should just know so you know if you really want to understand these these these chapters that are very very difficult I I would I would urge you to to to use the lessons in T and I think in theu they they use the lessons in Tanya they don't use they don't use the trans brings some but not all of the commentary of lessons and Tanya of lessons in Tanya really yeah okay they don't they don't copy all of it uhhuh know why why not it's too much of L huh it's because of L okay okay let's go and his lights are one he and his vessels are one behind in them it's a quote I believe for the Z and it's a very famous quote used in cab and for sure and that is that Hashem Hashem is Essence Atmos okay Hashem in his all of his Infinity fuses itself fuses himself with his energies IE lights and with its causations are vessels we'll explain that soon Peter says the AL in the parentheses here we're talking about the 10 attributes of of known as thei refers to the lights the energies like I just told youi Andi uh refers to the Caleb we're on page we're beginning now chapter 20 the energies the lights and the vessels the oros and the Kalin as they are Inus are all godliness Mas conversely in the worlds of creation formation and action briefly what this means is I told you this yesterday I'll repeat it in the world of ailos the worldus come comes from the word it's near near the since Aus is the world of what we call the world of fusion the world of unity the world of aus a with God the the ammunition the tools of atilus which are which are true for all of the worlds I.E energies and vessels and and GMI are of Godly nature cuz they're in the world of fusion so God filters himself through the energies and the vessels conversely once you begin with the world of yesh where the world of existence which kind of hides and conceals God which begins in the world of creation right the world of Bria iser isn't as palpable God godliness is not as palpable there as it is Inus so in that world and surely in the lower World in AIA the energies the iris and the Cale in that world aren't fused with God in the same way as it's fused in the world of aus this is what he says in this parenthesis and since it's a parenthesis we're going to go further we're not going to spend more time on that so we must understand well how can we say that God Almighty the infinite God is fused and one with his causations with his K Turn the Page to 258 this a reference to the vessels why not why can't why is it difficult to say that vessels are limited as it says in it's a vessel it contains a certain amount so the container is limit limits is limiting so how can you say that there's a fusion between the Infinity of God I.E a and the and the and the vessels the vessels are limiting and God is infinite that's the question so in other words the Z says that e so regarding the energies the flow we can understand how it's one because the flow would be a flow coming from the so the flow would also be infinite in a sense so we could see a fusion between the E the the the the emanator the Creator but you know much higher God Almighty Essence and its flow but how can you say that God God the infinite is one with limitation that's his question says right there's something else meant by that's quoted earlier the intent is to say their only godliness their only fused with God for one purpose for purpose of creation if you look at the the unity between God and the lights and the energies and God and the vessels and the CM the the causations in their own right there's no comparison one you can't make that statement you hear that you cannot make that statement that the zor makes when the zor says that just as it's referring to a certain aspect that God does that in that scenario it's one and what is that to create yes when it comes to creating X Neo something from nothing in that aspect the vessels also are fused with the in Infinity of God but outside of creation there's no there's no you can't say that's his answer in in short and it's right away in the beginning look inside again the intent of this second statement in the Z is that the K refers to the vessels are godliness only in the situation regarding to create just like the Infinity of God there is no logic to Creation cuz God is infinite God transcends so to make a creation to make a a a a limited creation is oxy is an oxymoron and yet it's done because God is not God transcends because we're talking about a transcendental God and therefore since God is Transcendental nothing fathoms it not only doesn't limitations fathom him even limit limit Limitless a ble is also he's also not fathomed he chooses to put himself into that situation but if one were to say that God is and by the way says this he might say it later just as God is not God is also not bleul because if you say if if you say say God is ble fo then you're you then you are diminishing God you're saying basically God is limited to INF to to ble V really I see he made a whole world here of God made the world so how can you tell me that he so the so that's why says God is Not infinite God is Transcendental so the AL alludes to this when he says that that the God and His causations God and Gul God and the Caleb are one only regarding the aspect of creating EX nilo in other words the what is important in the ex Neo creation is that it's not cause and effect cause and effect know I'm going to see in a second is cause and effect in other words let's say mid And the emotions and logic you have it you understand something you either love it you either fear it or you have mercy on it right so the feelings come as a direct result of your understanding of the of the situation that's called cause and effect so by by by by by definition when you say cause and effect the cause impacts the effect and the effect impacts the cause that's why there that's why they that's why they are the way they are in other words if if if the cause and effect to begin with wouldn't have already a pre-existing relationship then then the cause can be the cause and no effect would come from it but it's not that way because as soon as we think about something being uh that we understand as loving and kind we gravitate towards it and we think about something that is fearful and and and we're scared and and aw we we we have distance from it right why why the answer is because we already are in a realm that's defined the the realm is called cause and effect creation X is not that way completely not that way there's no cause and effect God is Not forced to make the world God chooses to make the world and that's why we call we call it yes what do you mean something from nothing it's what do you mean from nothing a world which is a something was created from God God's not a nothing the answer is yes God in this scenario compared to our way of thinking we don't know what this God is we because we can relate to a a a cause and effect right a cause and effect situation we can understand we can gra we can talk about we can relate to but when we talk about a Creator one second a Creator creation has has no understanding whatsoever of Creator they're two different worlds and yet that's what God chose yes so we call that God we call that the Creator a yes H so we call AEM an but but an is not like a shame of a as far as I understand no no it's not it's an attribute it's an attribute an attribute uh so I was going to ask is that are the sheos that the different permutations of hashem's name there really are by definition functions within the world of cause and effect within the world of simpsom is that right yes yes you you're on the right track absolutely let's continue and and and and this idea that God is fused with the Cale with the causations with the with the G is only in a matter of only regarding how it creates in a way of and it's not done in a way of progression of Il cause and effect itself stop okay now the AL brings a rhetorical question based Ono right from the one inas it's buried inas the concept of progression V cause an effect and so even earlier in the you'll find a similar idea so that's where the rhetorical question ends so what are you telling me that the creation is if the and the say seemingly otherwise it's Al answers how know their reference to the world being um is it's regarding the progression from the spheros of each world to the spheros of the next World involving their receptacles in the book of sa book of creation the Spas are called believe without anything without definition they aren't an existence and a comprehensible Essence and just like the the the no one can grasp the Infinity of God as we as it says my face you will not see the pus you can't see this is the connection to the previous chapter 19 and the prophecy of in his comprehension was was was only from the upper level of of without going into it and when the progression came from there when the when the causation the effect came from there who it is surrounded by the cause andf to it like the r of the Sun in the Sun as the says from the raak famous Marshall you have a a street light you have yellow red and green how many lights are there one one second H one second one the light itself is one it's the cover of the light one is green one is yellow one is red that makes it look like green red and yellow but really it's one the patus uses this as a mush this concept he uses it with he uses it with glass three color you know glass that the you see the water is reflected as y this color water that color water even though it's really just the same water so in other words with then the spheros themselves do cause and effect that's what that's his answer his rebuttal on the rhetorical question that he asks on himself from the REM and The Zo yes H can you speak about the relationship between this usage of the phrase BMA and when the Torah describes an that people would lead us astray and so on uh we're going to see that soon when he speaks about Atmos you w you weren't here at the beginning of the chapter uh but this is one of the themes in this chapter that the yes God Almighty the true yesh and the yes aashi are really all are one and the same the the fusion is one and the same in other words the lie and the truth are one and the same but you'll see how he develops it so I think that will also address your your question and even when there are many contractions you will never get physical material to offer like Dust In other words contractions here contractions there on the infinite light of God will that create a g no in other words when you talk about an in ins and you say we're Contracting the fine so it's more of a limited a but it's still a how how do you get from that g you don't that's what he's saying even and and you'll never get through the progression of of of from the spiritual Creations called separated intellect even the angels what you'll get is What's called the spirit of the from the face of the ax on The Chariot so is saying here just to briefly these last few lines to make it clear that to get G to get physical material of from you can jump up and down and and and use any word you want it will never happen it's impossible so that's why the physical object as it is the way we know it is not here through IL cause and effect but rather God says I want it here it's here it's called creation X something from nothing look further when we sayous elim in the beginning God created so we use the word borrow says this word borrow although B implies a creation which seems to be um causeing effect he says no but that Hashem in the uses the word referring to the creation of and even though the the physical yes that's been created is in comparison to God totally nullified in existence in comparison to the power and the energy that flows down to him from the vessels of the Tas of the four Worlds the line of Infinity of God shines through the like the shine of the Sun and coming from the sun we explained already in the second section of Tanya H so this is so in other words here's this is his question this is a retor another rhetorical question there's going to be a lot of rhetorical questions in this chapter so his question on himself is you're telling me that the yeses is the yeses is nullified to to the Creator so what kind of yes is it you're right it says if you take the yes or you compare the yesh to before before him it's nuli that's God's knowledge from above below God knows everything so therefore what from God's perspective the yesh is is it's not a yes this is a very important line here but from the perspective of our knowledge From Below to above we call that the opinion of the lower the yes is completely separate from God separated from God's knowledge because this energy that makes the yes is not on understood by us below so is saying you're asking me a question this is the answer you're asking me a question that the yes has a Creator he say thank you very much has a Creator but from our perspective we don't know that and as far as the yes is concerned like I said in the beginning of the of the she it's like says in this week quotes right leori I've made a river I made the Nile River not God he denies God he he says I am a go when you look at the yes the yes says I exist where' you come from myself the yes denies anything outside of himself that's what Al says here so when you talk about from God's perspective yeah from God's perspect perspective which we call Das Elon the superal Das from above to below we know go there's the truth hey guy you didn't you come from me it's like it's like a a child a student who says I made myself who is your teacher there are such teachers to they they don't they never mention that they they learned their they got the information from this professor and this Rabbi and this parent yeah and I've discussed this with some friends of mine some some people when they teach they always give credit to their teachers their parents their you know their superiors and then others you won't hear a word as though that they made themselves right so the AL says it's not a contradiction from the perspective from above to below there's a Creator and the yesh is nullified to the Creator but that same God the Creator chose to allow the yes to deny God you hear that God chose for something to deny him that's an oxymoron and the answer is that's right that's the of that's the novelty the novelty is that the same Creator who from his perspective he knows the truth gave gives room for denial of God and that's coming from him himself why for free will for various reasons but that's what he chose that's what he says here in other words okay we'll stop here and tomorrow we will continue mem everyone have a good day Z bye bye