G-d is like a king who lowers himself to lift the downtrodden - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're now on page s which is across the page 128 it says per chapter 20 46 I'm going right to the text because yesterday we had lots of time to to discuss the um the monologue and get into other things there is a right path a proper path before every [Music] person and this path is equal for all no difference number two and it's very close to every person number three four very very it's so it's so close for every person what to what to arouse and to illuminate the the light of love which is planted and hidden b in a Jew's heart every Jew has a a a love for hasem in their heart that's planted deep in their heart for that love for God to to shine with the potency of its illumination of its shine like a flame of fire like a a burn fire his go there's a lot of adjectives here and verbage with with re with the revelation of the heart it should be felt in the heart in a person's mind to have dedication to God to the point of giving away their life for the sake of God not only should your soul be dedicated to God but your body and referring to your money that a person will spend spend any amount of money on on on on on having a relationship with God a person will Tire their body regardless of what it takes to be in a union with God and a person will even give away their spirituality like so many theim that they can be init orim or you know and and learning and doing with their own people and they go out to Tunisia and to Tempe Arizona and they go Here There and Everywhere and they have no one around except their wife themselves and they work with people that's a okay don't think it's like one of the kabad rabbis who I know he said to a congregant you think that my enjoyment is you know raising funds and and and and you know doing this and that in is my my enjoyment is teaching and learning that's what I grew up with and I can relate to that cuz we all grow up with a certain love in our from our youth and that that really um is the criteria of who we are every one of us now can you can you make a transformation where you not only change careers outwardly but you change careers inwardly yeah but it's seldom it's seldom them right so so you know we need to do what we need to do for parosa and and whatever else but but the love of our life is what we got when we were you know a young a young a young man a teenager a young adult you know when we formed our beliefs our belief system that's why it's so important especially now with the with the children and grandchildren going to universities you know to avoid teachers who indoctrinate students with uh with terrible things against ER against God uh and on and on that's on the University secular side but even in the Torah World there are teachers who they mean well but unfortunately they have some ideas that are you know lead to um lead to lead to dissension um I go back to the example one of my daughters met someone years ago and uh this this young man studied in a good kabad Yesa very good kabad Yesa and they were discussing um playing an instrument you know having an instrument to for the children and their future children and the young man said no I I wouldn't want that in the house so she said why not she said because my my my teacher at Yeshiva MIAA whatever said that that's not cidic now we're not talking about going to uh to a excuse the expression a strip club we're not talking about going to uh to uh disgusting things we're not talking about indulging we're talking about playing an instrument what is so bad so let's say a guitar right AB this is your field a guitar right yeah you could be uh you could you could be a Bob Dylan if you want you could be a and you can use guitars for things that you know evoke um unhealthy desires without mentioning what they are cuz everyone knows what we're talking about or the Grateful Dead right and and you know so you could it could lead you to to drugs and everything else okay and and and what's the guy Jimmy zaplin what's his name this this famous uh singer guitarist I don't know these names whatever Frank Sinatra going back even you know to maybe Mark's time Frank Sinatra and manasha you know so of course you could use you know instruments and guitars and Jimmy Jimmy HRI yeah Jimmy hendrik whatever all these guys I I I'm sorry I'm not a buck in this thing it's not what I did Yesa Frank sinu was a big friend of Israel and the Jewish people right did a lot for and Masha I'm not I'm not talking about that aspect of Frank sinra I'm talking about you know that for Yesa boy learning gor and and gar he's not learning about Frank Sinatra and doesn't want to know about Frank Sinatra you know and he gets older and he's setting his ways and he's studying history he wants to know about people who've help the Jewish world that's that's fine anyway let's let's let's not argue let's get back to the point so so but at the same time you could take a guitar and you can and you can use it for playing G music music meditative music to to to really become closer it's the famous argument between and many other Shas okay what we're doing now could you imagine I'm sitting in Brooklyn uh most of you in AR Ro velv is in Germany and we're learning kasus together I mean we're learning Tanya together unheard of years ago I mean really mashiach's time but this computer by many of the people here that are my neighbors and you know in B Park is considered trfe not Kosher Unholy why because you can play disgusting things on computers too right so so the AL over here in talking about dedication he says not only is dedication with exerting your body to schlep the packages for someone and not only giving away from your money you earned you earned the money you made the investment you made the profit and then you take a bunch of that money you give it away to charity you give away to help someone and all that but the spiritual aspect give away of your time that you could learn and Dav and develop and grow more and teach someone the olive Bays teach someone a verse in the Torah teach talk to someone that's called it's a spirit it's with your soul let's go back to the text now says he keeps on giving these adjectives it's so deep come from the depth of your heart with the truth of the truth specifically during the time when you say in the morning we have blessings and in the evening that precede the actual Rec citation of the shma so later on in chapter 49 ALB will explain to us we'll have to wait till then I'm sure we won't be able to sleep between now and chapter 49 but we the AL rebba says that there I'll explain to you the association between the inherent deep love that a Jew has for God and the blessings of shma shma for sure right shma is hereo Israel God is God is God God is the only one is The Credo of Judaism everyone knows that right what about the blessings before we talk about angels about the angels that are called circles angels that are called fire these angels that Angels what does it have to do what like uh you know what does one have to do with the others Al says I I'll explain that later on the point being over here is that there is something and now he's going to tell us what that something is he hasn't yet told us what it is he gave us a Prelude he says what I'm about to tell you the style that I want you to think about in order to to have love and reverence for God in your prayer in your story study in your performance of Deeds of Mitzvah he says it's such a powerful thing that it's relevant to every Jew and every Jew has easy easy accessibility to it now this is the first time in in these chapters where we have five six lines of verbage about one about the path that he he proposes I want you not to look inside and continue who and that is it is when a person will reflect on the following there's a verse in Proverbs called Mish written by King Solomon the verse says quote him just as the reflection of one's face is seen on water when you look at Water you look at the water your face is your face is reflected so too so too is the heart of man reflected to the other man that you look at and you and you care for and you love that is the verse that's a verse in mishle now the normal meaning of the verse is the following the book of mish as it says in the introduction is it's a it's Proverbs for the purpose of wisdom being smart and encour and giving us instruction how we should lead our lives that is the The Credo of the book of mish every book in tanak in the 24 books the holy books of the Torah and the writings and the prophets has a message right when you learn uh Calis when you learn Song of Songs when you long when you learn this book of of um shamos Exodus the O the overall book has an identity has a message that that's why we call in English the book of sh sh means names in English it's it's called The Book of Exodus because it the overall message of the second of the Five Holy books of mos of M is the book of of of Exodus the the book of of VRA the third book is called Le Leviticus which you know like thank you what does that mean but it's the book dealing with sacrifices and the fourth book of of the Torah Bidar numbers numbers so somehow there's a correlation between each of the portions in each of the books to the overall name so bringing this back to the book of Mishay mishle is the Book of Proverbs Proverbs riddles anecdotes you know um hidden messages so that's why scha says my dear friends he says you should know I didn't write here a book of riddles and jokes to be able to use for speakers who need to give a good um Talk they'll have a joke and a riddle or or a bright concept The Book of Proverbs is about wisdom and instruction an instruction of what one should be be a mench this way be nice this way don't gossip this way and all those things so this verse in the Book of Proverbs just as man's face is reflected in water so is one's heart towards another one a reflection of the other person is the way it should be and and and SCH King solom is telling us hey your attitude toward towards another person should be a reflection of your own heart and since you love yourself love him just like when you look at water and what's reflected your own face so if you have hatred or you know you know not even hatred but you don't like this other person that's the way it's going to come out guess what that's the way other people will feel about you cuz it'll be felt and heard you know it's like I was discussing with my wife the other day you we had the and I said if someone really wants to be at a Sim they're going to be there they're going to get there I mean barring you know barring that they live out of Elsewhere or something but the if you feel close to someone you you don't you don't say ah uh if this equals this and this works out you make it your way to express your love because it's in your heart so so excuses are not acceptable again barring Hashem not don't hasem not wanting you to be there for whatever reason so then you can jump on your head upside down you ain't going to get there right how many of us know stories of people have gotten into their car gotten you know have gone to the airport have gone to the train and the train is delayed and then this happens that happens and you end up missing the SIM right and and such things that's HP not you but HP so that's that's God's score that's the ab's you know go go Hashem but barring that if someone feels close to someone they need this is what king SCH is saying express your love show your gratitude just like you see your own face reflected that's what it says the alter re here is about to give a different interpretation and it's not a contradiction to the interpretation that the the common interpretation when you learn Proverbs mle and that's why the next word look on about the seventh line the first word is p I've told you many times and I repeat it when you see in Tanya the AL using the word p that means he's adding something that is not the way it's normally understood because if not he wouldn't say everyone knows learn Proverbs take out the commentary read the the the artc or the kab translation and you'll know what the verse means Al does he adds the word p p means like I'm I'll tell you what do you mean you have you don't have to tell me it's in tanak it's a verse in the in in in in tanak no so that's why the word purish implies there's a a new Nuance that ALB is going to share and what does he say look what he says just as the image of man's face is seen becomes apparent on the water so to it becomes a parent that very image on the water now what this means is like this the alter's novelty in interpreting this verse in provins is not that Solomon is giving us that schomo is giving us in the name of God instruction how it should be but rather that this is the this is the way it is in other words when you learn the verse in Proverbs it's like it should be this way the ALB says no no it's not just it should be it is this way you just have to reveal it you hear the difference a very big difference it's like saying do I have to create the feeling or do I have the feeling and I just have to reveal the feeling so the Al's position and understanding and what he's teaching us uh about this verse is that the love that one that one ha the love that one has for another is INS is in the person it's in you you don't have to create it just let it come out see when you say when you say you have to create something that's right away Associated oh I have to go to my studio I have to you know think of the idea and start drawing and you know in other words it's a creation it's a creation of something that doesn't exist yet and M is going to create that hopefully will'll create it that's a that's something new right when you talk about something that's imagine the the painting the piece of art already is lodged in mha's heart all he has to do is open his heart and it comes out so that's not just that that that's not creating something it's revealing something says here lab other just like water reflects it's not that you have to it's automatic when you go to water and you and you pass water and your face is seen on the water it's a reflection it's an automatic reflection so too a Jew's heart it has an automatic love for another person but if so why don't I have that feeling oh that's because there's a blockage a blockage doesn't mean you don't have it you have it but it's blocked by something from the outside it's temporarily out of order it's a detour right you know you can't go this way take this route go to the right go to the left there's a detour but the issue is there let's continue so to in the analogy in in in in in the moral so too is the man of heart that is loyal to the love that he has to another person love this love that you have in your heart towards your friend guess what it arouses his love towards you because they are lovers loyal to each other and this is a very important nuda and you know in a way Mark in a way it's like sometimes I think how far how far I am from what he's saying here what do I mean to to we we all F do things to create a love right what we're talking here about is not creating the love is revealing the love so that is a that is a that comes from a very deep place within a person and Al's argument and position is that we have it and he says as soon as you reveal that your friend will feel it and reciprocate and and it's true sometimes people live on other the other ends of the world and someone in one in one part of the world re has this tremendous love for someone else and the other and the other person senses it and they call you or they email you this you I was just thinking about you I had a dream about you you know so what's point because we're one all Jewish souls are really one the the the bodies our bodies are different we learned this in chapter 32 in Tanya when he spoke about this idea remember Al spoke about which is part of the blessing in the in the in the morning before we finish the we are all blessed because we're all one and that's what he says here let's let's just continue a few more words this love that the two people have to each other this is even more specific not only do you sense it believe it you see it when you see it when you see the love that that one has to the other that uh Vision that seeing establishes more it it secures more the love between the two people this is a nature that is conducted by every that by every person every person has this naturally within him even if both are equal in in quality says the needless to say if a very great king shows his love his Great and Mighty love to a simple and someone who is disgusting in a way in in in different aspects of their life they life okay I mean he doesn't stop with the adjectives here how he's disgusting who finds himself in filth and garbage and the this great king he descends to him from his place of honor and royalty in together with all of his ministers together and he lifts up the simpleton who is full of Filth and on and on right he's homeless dirty Etc Etc and he exalts him from his filth and he takes him into his Palace the chambers of the king he doesn't just leave him outside he takes him into box seats he's going to the Super Bowl and he's going to be right there and have the sweet of the sweet with all the beer you could drink and everything else he takes him inside 50 yard line 50 yard line you can't get closer no one no servant of the king no Minister gets to sit there it's reserved for the big knockers and he unites with him with true closeness and he Embraces him and he kisses him and there is the attachment of spirit to spirit with his entire heart and soul this type of feeling that the Great and Mighty King who seems to be so removed displaced towards the simpleton this will surely it arous a love and a doubled love in the heart of the simpl and the lowest of man to the soul of the King by that the person will bind his actual soul from heart and soul from his death laying cats let me just finish two one line and even if the simpleton is as hard as a rock he's so coarse he's so stoned okay stoned in a sense not you know stoned with the the the drugs but stoned the heart is stoned he he he's going to melt when you have the king coming and pulling you out and saying hey guy I love you come with me where am I going am I going to to to to to sweep the the palace no no no no no you're coming with me inside we're inside to the 50 yard line to the CH my my my room my my the the the room that no one goes to unless does has an appointment on he'll melt and you and he will become like water and his soul will pour itself out like water with cation of the Soul he'll say I love you I just want to be with you and I'm completely giving my soul away to you m tomorrow we're going to learn what the Nim is what the U moral of this wonderful elaborate mus that the just gave us and we will talk a lot more about this inem have a great day everyone love you all see you tomorrow great cheer byebye thank you thank you you're welcome byebye