G-d's creation requires reflection, leading to true belief - Igeres HaKodesh 11b- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

we're learning which is the 11th on page k z in in the t uh to Bas briefly recap this this chapter is a most important and known of the it deals with the issue of accepting whatever Hashem gives us in the the in just you know even if it seems to be bad and no good in a good way we should accept it and the Al I elaborated at length yesterday tackles it from aidic perspective that that we're going to learn now not just from a talud perspective which he cites in in the chapter but he goes about it based on his understanding of tus let's learn inside we're at the second paragraph the last paragraph sorry not the second the the last paragraph which starts with the that large letter word in in bold it's about six seven lines from the bottom in a regular safer of T who to explain this to elucidate it ra that that's the first line the opening line and the most important line in a sense it is only pure faith I'm sorry not pure imuna amtis it is true amuna in the in the creator of everything that when you have that amuna amtis in the Creator will you succeed in accepting and everything is for the good and that gmas the physical world should not um fathom you at all and your priority should beus now remember he calls it and look what's following now is an explanation of P SE a logical explanation about how God creates the world and he calls that we had this already in in the in I think in chapter 33 in the first section of Tanya a similar seeming contradiction is it a or is it is it logic and rationale r or is it or is it faith and we explain then and if the same applies here at the end of the day it's all about belief do you believe it or not The Logical equation goes so far and it ends and stops there you get stuck and why is that important and why must that be right so so there's always an end to the why so one has to have their faith kick in or better said their faith has to be not just kick in has to be Theo the foundation if the building is a beautiful building with the best architecture and everything else but the fa the foundation is faulty we saw what happened in serite Florida it became a pancake if there's a problem in the in the foundation the building crumbles you can have the best arguments and the best logic and the best philosophies if there's a a breakdown in the ass and what's the yod the Amun do I believe do I really believe not do I understand I understand I understand well but it doesn't mean yet I believe and the am's wording here is not just that's that's emphasizing that this Faith this has to be throughout em from the beginning through the middle till the end not today I have AA but tomorrow when the bomb flies God forbid or the scud comes or someone young passes on I Lose My Faith I question my faith then you don't have am at least not yet then your am is predicated on rationale that's not what we're talking about here that will not get us to have the paradigm shift that we discussed yesterday of Rus being the Ms and the only thing that should concern us not gmas let's continue now down says what is this content of this in this case that the creation what we call EXO something from something incomprehensible May normally is translated from nothing but it's it's it explains that's really wrong you know why is there because if it's nothing how could it create nothing what nothing don't give me Hebrew words now I want to talk English now I want to talk language that we understand before we get to Hebrew literally means nothing nothing cannot create 0 * 0 equals 0 0 * 0 doesn't equal one so says the literal meaning is nothing cuz we don't understand what it is but the better translation is incomprehensible of course it's something it's a force now your words a comes into play it's a force it's an energy it's infinite but it's incomprehensible it's not in our realm so from our perspective we call it nothing but don't think for a moment it's a big zero you can't create from a zero you can only create from a one so says this creation that there come there comes to be a form a yes may I from a aspect of God that's incomprehensible hanik which is called in the verse the beginning the raous of wisdom there's an association between yes and right in in the in when you have the 10 the 10 nominations the first of the 10 H is why why do why do we attribute to the seat where yes is experienced because is the first emergence of an emanation it's the fair the first Glimpse outside of the Soul or it better said it's the first Glimpse in which the soul expresses itself there is the soul there is the nees as it's in its pure state which we call ET over there it's in indivisible it doesn't have yet 10 emanations the 10 emanations the 10 divisions begin with andma is just a flash the geometric point that is the concept of yes something as the ramban says in par Bas it's called the Uli which means the first emergence from nothing from nothingness or from incomprehensibility to the ability to comprehend we don't know what it is yet it's not yesh in the form of Bina where we have a full picture that we could start analyzing but it's left the previous Reb has a beautiful ter lushan in this discourses it's not a and it's not yesh but it's gone out from a and it's entered the realm of yeses but it's not yeses yet that departure from not being any longer Ain and being in the realm of yesh that is that's why it's called and says that is called and it what type of is it says the AL this of the of the first of the 10us where the yes is experienced at the at the at the first at the first glance first time it is it is not comprehensible to any creature this type of creature you know why because a NRA a creation can understand can relate to something that has hands and feet something I can dig my teeth into something I could delve my mind into but when it is in a state of Inc comprehensibility it's I I I can't I can't do that yet says exactly and that's what yes is yes is the emergence the departure remember what I told you before the departure from not to yes when he used to teach us he used to set in yish it we left a big impression says nit nit yeah it isn't not and it isn't yes what is it it is the departure from not not entering the realm where it isn't yes yet yet it isn't yet yes but it can become yes says the Al from that Vantage point you cannot have yet a full Bria you can't have a creature with all of its details cuz it's it's description it's condition we Asim creatures we relate to something that has a script has a beginning a middle and end a why a before an after you know we could trace it but something that is just in a state of of of a geometric point a state of of just departure and it hasn't yet started what is it chapter 3 in it's the potential the for something to be but it isn't yet it's only the potentia let's continue and he says he this idea is at every time at every moment so when hem creates the world every moment it's that is the experience it's the beginning of creation the emergence from not not to become yes or you know that's that's what's taking place and then that enlivens everything stop so the Al said so far here and you see he starts going into a philosophical discussion of creation and you ask yourself what does this have to do withina is I don't have gilter fish in my refrigerator and I can't afford to buy it and I have children who I need to give gilter fish to what does it have to do with but this is the system of the bat of that by exploring and understanding Who We are the world we live in how Hashem creates the world and the details of creation somehow either we'll have the gilter fish in the refrigerator or theil the fish not being there won't be a disturbance to who we are because we don't pursue that we pursue Ras which is the point in this chapter 11 that even you weren't here yet H but you should listen to the she yesterday because it's very important for the flow that even the most basic necessities of life Children Health and sustenance and livelihood shouldn't detract you from your Mission what's your mission the in this chapter takes us into his world he takes us Mish into the world of aad without LSD and without M all those stuff you don't need LSD to be in the world of the AL you learned this chapter and you missing on it and you don't allow to get into your head into your being you will be a Godly person on the line you know of the alter you won't be the alter but you'll be in that realm and like I said yesterday and this year I knew such people this isn't just you know hearsay or good thinking or wishful thinking I knew such people and as I said we knew such people cuz someone who can say to his parents I'm going to fight in the war and I know that might never come back but that's what I want to do for hasem is exactly what it says here in chapter 11 because by that person I'm talking about that letter that we that that that this this Soldier wrote three four five months ago that we spoke about in our classes is the sameish that Y and had in Russia under Stalin and during the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust and on and on and on there's no difference no difference and and Ne this last kogan who was murdered in in the Emirates the same idea a person who can make a life in there right he gets up he marries a girl from kronites and they pick thems up and they go out there to run a Kosher Supermarket and put fil on with Jews and have shabos for for for tourist who to celebrate chabas why does he need it trust me he ain't getting rich okay it gets a regular salary he's not getting rich and even if he's getting rich is it worth what happened you ask yourself that question of course not your person logical person will say it doesn't make any sense and the answer is Miss and that's what this who who um eulogized him at the Shamar at probably 1: in the morning I I listened in here for us it was 5:36 but it was probably 1 yeah 1 in the morning or 130 and it was a not who in his eulogy which went on and on and on said that this is M this is what K talk about so all of this when we is encapsulated in these few lines in T and that's what the AL wants us to become he wants to become M neph Jews let's continue okay she is by name last line on the page when a person will meditate will reflect will contemplate with the depth of their understanding it's not just a fleeting thought you're going to spend time in in thinking about this and trying to understand it and delve deep into it intellectually [Music] and he will kind of put this image in his mind existence top of page May that creation comes from uncomprehensible every single moment not just isem did this you know when he did it by shab when did he do it 5,785 years ago but since then the world's been flying on its own no way it's called continuous creation every moment look at dr's words on top of 232 every single minute every single moment Hashem recreates the world from uncomprehensive ability May is if so look at Al's question if he's saying to us if we have this if if we understand this and at the end of the day we believe it this is this question how can it even enter your mind that such and such that happened to you is bad or there's pain that you consider torture of from the children that you have high health issues and parosa issues or other perceived torture and Punishment how could look at the lotion Masha look at the lotion how can you even entertain the thought continuing out this creative Force which we call which is's wisdom it's the source of life we just explained before how creates it's the beginning of creation so you're telling me that this that creates you know what it's bad it's painful it's torture it's evil it's oxymoron is it cre the creative Force which is all good because God is good Hashem is good or not make up your mind and we know cuz we believe that the creative force of Hashem is only good Hashem only does good CU that Hashem is the nature of the good is to do good and other so it can't be that from the creative Force should come forth something that is RA that's what he says the creative Force which is the wisdom of God is the source of life and goodness and pleasure and so much so is this pleasure pleasure wow this seems to be the epitome of evil of of bad of torture of pain don't have what to eat don't have where to sleep don't have good health says wow this type of experience is the Gan aen the Garden of Eden Aiden which means delicacy and pleasure that's even greater than than the world to come right M we talk abouta we're going to geta I got some news for you Moshe you heard it today you heard it today you didn't hear it in those classes in the past there something greater than you know what's great at when you experience life and you look at it all positive even though it's a real real perceived curveball we shouldn't ask for it but when it happens you you're you're in shock so they they say oh K say someone who accepts their punishment their torture their pain will have the AL says enough with you got something greater you got aen in other words Haba now the question is Hill why isn't it Haba because Haba is the descriptiona is already in the realm of definition so in the realm of definition if if there's pain in how can it be make again it's a it seems to be a contradiction is it Haba or is it bad so D says you're right Haba is not this type of experience but there's something greater Aiden the delight and pleasure of God's Essence there the whole system works differently it's no longer TI forat you know it has to be this way nothing has to be anyway so you say if nothing has to be any way let me just live it up and just party that's the way early philosophers believed and that's the way millions of people today believe Jewish or not there's no God God forbid you know do whatever I want just party live my life like a real Glutton and just Heathen and just live it up cuz there ain't anything and ain't right God forbid Hedonism it's called exactly Hashem says to us in the T there's a God and there's a t and there's but nevertheless what do we relate to and and deal with when we have that curve ball being thrown at us the only way and this is this is why it's so significant y the only way to deal with this is if we have the amuna amtis the true amuna that the abish transcends every moment of creation including in my pain and in my torture and in my difficulty there is Hashem cuz he's the Creator and I relate to him as the Creator last night RAB dman the father of the head of kabad he spoke and he mentioned and that you know I know where he's coming from we went to the same Yeshiva you know and he comes from kabad Dynasty you know that we do not understand nor should we understand when Hashem does things that don't seem to comply with our way of understanding but the fact is that he does them so to go on a a path that I must understand or I do not do or I discuss or I don't like it's a very risky path and people have done it and people do it and the chips fall when they fall but tell me are people happier that way I've told you the story in La going into the lawyer's office with all of his fancy rings on his right he asked me to close the door and every every Friday I would put filling on with him and the door was open he was a proud Jew he didn't care that his non-jewish secretary saw him put on filling me this is when I was a student in Yeshiva in 19881 but one day he tells me to close the door and he breaks down crying and he tells me how his daughter how he has to hide the silverware in his house so his daughter shouldn't take it to barter it for drugs and this is with his being the chauffeur blower with the big chauffer at the conservative synagogue with his house in Hawaii and his fancy house in Belair on and on and on the whole story as we say you ever heard that expression there's an English expression but it ain't so nice I'm not going to say it on online okay okay it's it's piss it's it's narish it's nonsense so don't tell me that those the heathenistic way of living is better it's not he by the way wasn't a heathenistic he wasn't heathenistic I mean you know but nevertheless nevertheless the the the question such a how can you even think this way you know the we're so far from this cuz we think this way and then we find a way justify it how can you even think this way my friend what's your priority godliness or G but it's not but it's my kid it's my family that's also gash Hashem knows that too but this the so the AL says only this is what he's saying here only when you understand the way hem creates the world yes and that everything is he and if everything is he and he is all good then that's it it's his problem it's his issue I don't I I a question on this yes go ahead look I don't want to sound you know disrespectful in any way in love hasem and disrespectful to you or anyone I just I had this question recently after our last class the question is every we we keep we hear over and over everything's from Hashem right Hashem is one and but yet there is such evil what we saw hamu the the atrocities the level of evil that exists in mankind it didn't come out of a vacuum right right so I don't want to say the words but is that not also from Hashem yes it's from Hashem giving a person free will to make their choice and be evil but the idea in a man's mind to do such depravity such horrific because you have free will the Germans did it in in in the Germans did it the Spanish this is not something new so they did they took it to another level but I'm asking that very heavy question if everything's from hasem then the seed of that concept that that's right that's right and hasem Hashem in his Infinity allows men to make a free choice including acting evil acting bad but so so that conceived of conceived of this evil it's not that AEM conceived of it and allowed it to exist you're saying that men had that freedom to come up with those yeah right Hashem gives a person the ability to have free will now it's man's Choice how to use that Free Will understood okay okay okay that but you know that goes to our partnership with Hashem in the world we can either choose to go hashem's D or right right so so so in other words how is that going to make us feel better and and the second question is it about us feeling better you see when you learn Tanya this isn't just a Rabbi giving a speech a sermon and making you feel good this we're talking here's very specific he's tell he's asking us to he says here meditate reflect delve deeply into this thought do you understand creation once you understand it do you believe in creation and if those two things add up then you you then what what are you looking for for only Hashem if I'm looking for Hashem spirituality yeah an evil is done but that doesn't mean that I reject God because of that person's Choice I'm in love with God the fact that someone makes a choice that is so vicious and so wrong and so outrageous that that's that's unfortunately the choice that they made now how we reconcile that with the verses in the you know and all those verses that's another question another discussion but here is not is he's not challenging us on the kind of practicality of it he's looking to us to delve into our belief system and do we know how the belief system works we'll talk more tomorrow have a great day only only good news only good news am