Get rid of your negativity through realizing the problem - Tanya Igeres haTeshuva 7b - RC Dalfin

we're learning Tanya the third sectiona and we are in PEX Zion chapter 7 we're still towards the beginning of the chapter and we will now go further so here the AL speaks about two things that are I don't remember if you guys were some of you were there at the the last one but I spoke a lot about that the two words the true and and and righteous and proper path and correct path Al uses both words and I explained that so listen to that year the last year for the lower chuba and the old the the higher chuba and he said the first thing is to arouse Mercy superal Mercy from the source of Mercy for your soul and kiss that's fallen from the from a very tall mountain top of the mountain all the way down to the depths of a valley which refers to the negativity and that happens through transgressions and doing this the source of the soul is also captivity and therefore we have to have mercy on it to redeem it to bring it back through chba and now go to the the fourth line from the bottom on page 192 in middle of the line after the dot the proper time to do this TR at midnight it says the in a footnote I see over there the explanation and briefly idea is that the midnight prayer which we call which which literally means getting up at midnight and mourning for the destruction of the B mikdash is the way to do Chua for the neiss being in Gus the the fact that through my a through my sin I caus my soul Masha my Godly soul to be in in schutz and filth and you say to yourself it's such a pity on my soul that mindset of that that meditation should be processed during Kish the midnight prayer I'm sorry uh just for the record and it's important to say right here we generally do not do TI we substitute that with what we call kishma and whatever one should process during midnight prayer we do says it later and that's the Practical custom of most Jews is to do it during without putting a sack cloth on and without sitting on the floor okay but you see the sackcloth and sitting on the floor and the mourning the destruction it's all it's not just words and not just putting on a a sackcloth it's the idea is to to humble yourself and the idea is to have mercy on the soul and for that matter you could do and you should do the same thing during the midnight during Kish I did forget to say B to you AB for your new grandchild right so I I I'm I apologize but it's a big Sim and I'm happy for you I'm really happy for you and we I only wish you only simp is the rest of your life in your family okay let's go further amen thank you possession and this is what's written there in the verse quote our Crown the crown of our head has fallen wo on us wo on us that we're in such a situation okay because our Crown is ourish right and our has fallen so low on us before we have Sinn that's whyem is called the disgraced King in the chapter of the chambers as moo the one who composed right so he writes in in that saer he writes that God has called a disgraced King because when we sin we have disgraced God top of page everyone for there is no greater disgrace than causing the king who gave us a soul to be in filth and more specifically when the in when the intellect will meditate will contemplate on the awesomeness and the greatness of the infinite God who pervades all worlds and encompasses all worlds every individual based on their capacity and ability of meditation and contemplation so every one of us will think about this serious issue at that time we will be frustrated about this when you see Al using a word twice in a row you know he means means you know it's it's something very he's emphasizing emphatic the the frustration is great great very great why is it very great because we have taken the king and put the king into filth what right do we have to do that and what a mercy on the king so this is the end that's why there's a colon over here the end of the first method that is necessary to do Chua we call this lower chuva the first of the two methods for lower Chua okay number two and here comes a tougher a tougher Approach at least outwardly V the second one is to CR Crush and to sub and to subjugate the negative forces which all of its strength it's highest it's energy it is only but it is only but um conceit ego and exaltedness says in the it says in the verse if you will rise like an eagleu Etc Masha who Rises and Soares Like an Eagle in this case the Clipper how of R why cuz the Clipper nourishes off the kadha off Holiness and with that energy it rises and goes high up because it's using super extra gas it's not just the regular gas it's using now the super extra gas the regular gas is its own gas its own K that God gives clip of that wouldn't get the clip but to go so far but when it when it it it snur from us it nourishes it from us and it takes from kadus energy it can go all the way up right and the crushing the subjugation I it has to be done so much that you crush it till it becomes dust this this kills it and knows it so the question is how do we do this says the we do it through a broken and contrite heart and to be disgrace F in your own eyes Etc in other words I'm so ugly for doing this bar I'm I'm ugly I'm disgusting look what I've done I'm taking the Clipper and giving the Clipper energy could you imagine anyone that's giving the Arabs now our enemies now energy that's what we're doing do a so when we have to crush it you have to really give it a good Z the on the verse the slaughter rings for God is a contrite spirit broken heart crushed in other words when we Crush our heart a when we crush the ne for give when we crush it by saying you are you are nurturing off kadha and you're a low life and you should you have no right doing this and we really subjugated and beat beat ourselves up this is the a that was mentioned earlier bar chapter 29 in t beating yourself up mentally this is a tough guys this is not easy and it's not pleasant but sometimes is necessary you know why because sometimes we're so thick we're so coarse that the only thing that can be done is when you scream at at yourself kind of I don't mean literally you have to start screaming but mentally and you realize that you what you're doing so evil because you're you're helping the enemy then you say I thought I was just I was just sinning I was just having a good time it's my own stick my own stuff but when you realize no when you're doing that you're aiding the enemy oh no that I would never do that's this that's the second method let's continue when we brought a carbon right in the Torah it says to bring a carbon to specifically to which is which is the attribute of Mercy but when we talk about right the verse he quotes here isim not why so he says but when he he says when we refer to a sacrifice toim who this is the the the attribute of judgment strictness sever [Applause] then then we don't bring an animal only only only to crush the so that so that's why it says you see look this is the question of the AL why does it say it say says if that would be God's name used here then we would be using the first method which is arousing Mercy but because you've done even you've done so bad that you're aiding now the Clipper and the Clipper is rising High because of your transgression here you have to rectify delim the Judgment so here a sacrifice is not is um over so so over here we bring a sacrifice to do it it's not just enough in words and how do we do that because you break Yourself by breaking your spirit you break the cleb he Contin saying this now how do we shatter and and and Destroy crush the negative Force to C that's when a person's heart is broken and crushed I'm sorry how is that a little bit look notice the language a little bit consists of torturing yourself the tin and fasting so this generation we don't when we don't have much strength that's why he says don't do this much he says only a little bit we don't have the the strength to do the fasting like his heart was hallow within its within why k who fasting but we don't have that strength the primary aspect of subjugating the heart for the heart to be contrite and broken to remove the spirit of of of contamination and negativity you have to be an account but not just the employee but you have to be the master of accounting which means when you make an accountant right I don't know if any of you accountants or have to do with accountants but an accountant he can make the figures the guy might lose a $100 million and he just makes figures it out and hands it to the boss and he goes to sleep at night very well the boss doesn't sleep that night I thought I only lost a million I lost 100 million he has almost he probably has a heart attack who knows if he'll wake up the next morning so that that that's the implication of the word it doesn't just say he should make an account he's the master of of of accounting he's the boss he's not the employee so as a boss we take responsibility for whatever we do that's what Al says here so he makes an accounting of his situation from a boss perspective using the depth of his mind to delve his mind into his situation one hour each day it doesn't mean literally 1 hour it means an amount of time a serious amount of time it could be 10 minutes but if you're focused fully that's fine any time during the day or night listen or if you do it at night before the midnight prayer again by us that would be to realize what he did with his sin causing the that we mentioned earlier the divine presence to be in go and exile that's the first he also call his AA of crushing himself for his transgressions which crushes the causes also you see until here he was talking about crushing the and which crushes the the Clipper now he says that also will will ostensibly also remove the ne of the kiss who was who's been captured as a captive in the neis he'll get now L he'll be removed from the situation released let's learn inside this also causes for the removal of his soul and his God which comes from the Living God had been descended lowered to a place of contamination and death this refers to the chambers of negativity and it was it was lowered so low that it became a Godly chariot but to receive its energy at the time when it's been it's been slept into negativity it was receiving energy you understand the is going through abis and what's fueling the body that's coming at that time negativity because they it's been it's a slave to to the ne at the time and therefore when you do this method of that he's suggesting here in the second point to do you also earn the benefit that you remove the from this situation and this is the meaning what the sages say Wicked people even during their lifetime are called Dead this means that their life pre while they're in the mode of negativity and evil you know where they're getting the life force from negativity you walk around the streets and you see the enemy and you see our own enemy and all of that and you think they're thriving they're not they're all living off negativity of contamination let's go on to the next page page 194 we say say the dead cannot praise you it's not considered making fun right other words what do you mean we're not Mason we say we say when we which comes from right what do we say the dead do not praise you we're not dead say so like it so the the whole set the whole sentence that section of the of the of the chapter in seems to be a joke it's not true right says it is true this refers to the wicked people that during their lifetime even while they're alive that c dead so we say it is not the dead that Praise You other words the dead can't praise the question is AB why didn't say the the dead are dead they can't praise you so what what is saying the dead don't praise you the of course you're dead you can't praise says not talking about dead we're talking about people who are alive but their mindset and where they are is in a state of deadness because they've sinned let's go look in the text the the they are plagued and Disturbed m means they're Disturbed through foreign thoughts no good thoughts unhealthy thoughts inappropriate thoughts while they are in their wicked state of being they have these and they don't want to do CH they're happy living as pagans they're happy living as heathenistic people they're happy living in a coarse way of just stuffing themselves with indulgences and pleasuring themselves so even when they're alive they're really dead now even someone who never desecrated a Prohibition which which would you one would be obligated to get excision and if someone never desecrated a Prohibition that the punishment is Heavenly death again he mentions as an example what he mentioned earlier inua the wasting of SE of seed in this case doesn't mean which normally it's the acronym for a blessed memory here it means Zer wasted semen masturbation so so we learned earlier the punishment for that is the above so even someone who didn't do such an such a transgression the idual did lighter transgressions nevertheless since any transgression makes a stain on the soul and on The Godly [Music] soul and similar to what we learned earlier that less transgressions that are not as severe serious but there's still transgressions it's like the cutting pimas the the blemishing of the Rope chipping away one one less two less three less four less what happens ultimately the Rope becomes weakened and it doesn't work anymore says by doing a sin multiple times there can be the sameem in other words like this B A Certain transgression which it's punishment the Torah says is C excision or or Heavenly death is a one-time shot man okay but let's say something else speaking whatever right so it's a it's it's a minor transgression but still a transgression so when you do multip mulle times multiple times he says the multiplicity of of doing it so many so many times is similar to the result of a onetime cus so at the end the the Rope will be cut off anyway even doing one sin repeating it over and over and over like the prophet compares the sins regarding the darkening of the light of the sun I've erased the the The Cloud of your sin that refers to severe sins separate separating the inner effluence of the infinite God to The Godly soul and it's compared it's compared in this verse to a thick Cloud a dark [Music] cloud which separates between the Sun and the Earth all those that dwell on Earth Al using this as an analogy and then he brings another and and like the The Cloud of your sin that's another type of sin this refers to the lightweight sins that a person steps on them with his heel it's not a big deal a little L Hur here a little cheating here a little arrogance over here big deal it's like a light type of a cloud that the sun you know comes in the out and you still have a little light right he okay the rest we we'll finish a mitem tomorrow any questions okay everyone have a great day zun and M sh will learn tomorrow all right have a good day thank you byebye