Halacha vs. Gemora: Will Power vs Intellect - Igeres HaKodesh 29c- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so good day we're learning sacred letters chapter 29 we'll finish it today M we're on page 300 here began quoting Mish we say Friday nights a woman of Valor a good woman is the crown of her husband we say it we use it here the AL really takes it apart and uses a gor to explain to us that to receive the crown of called says it requires the study of Jewish law now usually for your average ye Jewish law is kind of not your favorable thing because it tells you what you could and can't do it's restrictive and it takes especially someone who wasn't raised that way or doesn't or was raised that way but not interested in that type of a approach it takes a tremendous discipline and that's what we struggle with in different ways because Within there's details and details and details yeah once in a while you'll find someone who's enjoys you know SW you know swells up with pleasure from being meticulous in this detail and that detail but the average person's not that way what does the AL do here he comes at it from a cabalistic perspective and I would say that if you follow this cabalistic perspective you understand it and relate to it I think appreciation for would be on a whole different level in a positive way and what does he say he say he says that if you want the ker of You Look At You Follow You Learn you need to learn and everything else but if you want the ker of it's specifically through so right away what the AL is doing and this is again his genius and why people like salic and others saw the Tanya as a genius a masterpiece like like the rambam what the rambam did for codifying Al did for Caba what the AL is doing is he's coming at it from a whole different Paradigm he's changing our Paradigm how to look at it that that's that's the the underlying message the way I see it of this chapter and when you understand that is associated with the specifically the ker of the Torah your appreciation for it is not I I have to do this oh rather what an opportunity to connect I can get the Crown not only the se but the crown and this is the theme of this chapter so I didn't say this till today which is we're going to finish the chapter because every time you learn it you think about it new ideas formulate and this came to me so I felt that this is a good monologue for us to begin let's turn to page 300 three lines from the bottom with the alter says here is that it's specifically that opens up and he gives the mus maybe maybe it's on the maybe it's on the farhead no a where how do we know specifically where to put on filling the answer is only through in the Gar so so the oral T the is the area that identifies and clarifies and elaborates on tayor so is the is and is I don't care what type of man and masculine you are you ain't having a baby it hasn't happened yet you need an Isa and you need a Isa to take nine months s to nine months whatever the and only then can she can there come out a baby a child an offspring a result you could be the biggest Macho Man the biggest genius the biggest as we say good old it ain't going to help you in you need a woman to have a child all these philosophies and ideologies it's it's NADA in Hebrew F so the AL says that that without is closed we don't know imagine if we wouldn't have H the gor we wouldn't know where to put on we wouldn't know what means the we wouldn't know that there's in the Shad one para and in the sh Rush on one on one cl and in the sh rush there's four different pieces of parchment wouldn't know any of this and this is the r this is the r some will say well what's the difference between writing it on one par one piece of parchment or four separate ones well if you learn the G and you learn and you take it apart you'll see that that's not the way it should be done so all of this points to that which is the the implementation of the G secures and all and and clarifies what God wants and with without it it's what I want and that's the basic idea I want and decide to serve God in a certain way thank you very much who are you you're a human being frail you're a human being that's Flesh and Blood big deal but this is the how do I know because the explains it who the now of course if someone doesn't believe in all that then we have to go back to basics you know belief in God and the belief in Ty but that's a different discussion we're we're this discussion we're having here in this pic is based on the fact that you do believe there is a God and you do believe hasem has a and so let's continue now page 300 about it last three lines to we find this with all the are not revealed and known and explicit unless it's interpreted and it's elaborated and explained in the oral let's take for example the negative commandment it says don't do any work next page don't do any work what type of work doesn't say in the tah what type of work comes along the it's explained refers to the 39 acts of work that that is known til and not you know the movement of stones and heavy beams and similar and call mitz the same is true with all other MIT positive and and negative they are concealed they're closed the're secret the and not explicit and revealed the and makes the same point through the oral and this is why regarding the oral tradition it is written don't throw away don't shove away the the Torah of your mother as the explains [Music] it should call blood sorry just as the says all limbs of a of a fetus of a child are Incorporated in the drop of Sean of the father be is concealed God the great concealment what I said earlier and the mother it takes out that from that drop of Sean the details leil to re Revelation but they also by giving birth V of a child show that's complete 248 limbs Etc in the analogy in the moral I'm sorry 248 and 365 they come from the concealment to to revealed specifically in the oral tradition and the beginning of this verse says listen my child to the scolding of your father that refers to that's a reference to the or to the written T because the the written t comes from we call superal wisdom but when it says right this is the verse is a reference to push aside the Torah of your mother it's a reference to a father right gives the drop of semen which has everything in it but it's concealed hence the father symbol in this analogy of the refers to what refers to T which is concealed calling the Torah the Torah of your mother refers to because she developed just as she develops the the the the drop of seen then the child is born from it Etc so to the reveals what's in the now the goes back to the opening P that he used in this chapter a woman of is the crown of her husband why which is called I'm sorry the oral which is called a woman of Valor which put sets up and establishes many kind of armies many solid situations amount of Worlds the creation of many worlds this is a reference ref to all the laws to they last long we don't have an account how manyas are there it's brought this the I believe last long there's no there's no fin out finite amount of Al because if you learn more and more and more you dig more and more you come to moreas it says in the section of all of these they are the revelation of God's will which is normally concealed in the in the in the written in the written and the will of God right the the it transcends it's above the crown is above the head even is which we call superal superal wisdom is limited to it's already an attribute it's already a a certain what I like you like to use the word a Fascination a description a definition Ron is above that what do you mean above that the rutson is not limited and measured by a specific area you can one second you can have in other words willpower is bereft of of a domain it's equal throughout yes H yes so implicit in that is that the idea of rone is is prey preist of any kind yeah yeah yes but you as you learn you see that there's levels of too but that's that's already what we call there's there's a term there is and there is meaning there's a which we're talking about here and there's a but the the concept of R even I'll say this way it's a good point you're making I'm glad you brought it up the concept of R even if you compare if you compare it to the for the particular tion it's more pure but being that it's already after it's governed by so so so in other words rutson is a mindset The Willpower but there is the willpower the way willpower transcends everything and there's the willpower that's already in a domain which is non Transcendent but within that framework there's still a difference between Ron and kma okay okay we have to have to think of a good muscle this for this point let me think about let me how to explain it not right now okay so he says says and this is analogous to a Crown V Crown yeah sh that's on the head right it's on the head you see in the beginning he brought the concept the words someone who who um who uses for their own benefit in in their own selfish benefit will cease to be will die so the the question was why the word not the word why the concept means a crown because we're specifically referring to so if you abuse it the punishment is heavy and if you use it in the proper way the reward is whoever studies is Promised the world to come because a person's soul Spirit Soul the person's is then invested in the so what we walk away with is that our neish our our our our NE our soul is when we learn G because gar is a plateau and a domain which is open for argumentation and all of that so though it's see we have two things going on here in this chapter there is and T oral Torah versus written Torah so if you make that the scenario oral Torah opens up oral Torah is the ISA and written but within oral itself quotes the and there is the the crown within the oral tradition so there you make the comparison between gor talmud and which by the way lot of referred to as mishna because mishna is brief right night of the 14th check for how do we check what do we use right but it says there that's the instruction so when you relate to the oh when you relate to the do this and don't do that and you don't necessarily and you have the gamor to explain what the this and the that is but the bottom line is the commitment to the will of God to the ruton so in other words the ruton is out is is is transcended it's outside of of a situation where you can you can argue with the rut you can't argue with the rut you either believe the rut or you don't believe the ruts but the will willpower what's willpower willpower is strength right willpower when you talk about SE the mind the mind to it lends itself it was created by asem in such a way and in such a domain and Plateau that it wants argumentation it thrives on argumentation so automatically it's not unadulterated it's not pure there's more of the eye in in in intellect than there is in rum I will say you might be asking yourself willpower comes from me yeah so that would be H like would be similar to the what I said earlier The Willpower that's below his list or the willpower that above isus the willpower that's below isus already is is the eye is mixed in but nevertheless right we say no obliterate get rid of your will for God's will that's a lower level in other words that's accepting there is God's Will and there's my will and what are we told put yourself aside the higher level of will of willpower is there's no I will there's only God's will and I i' I've um obliterated and gotten rid of any trace of yesus of GAA of ego to the point where the my will is God's will that's already a higher sense of of Ron that transcends the progression Theus and D says that is demonstrative of this of this idea because in as much as I understand and as much as I disagree I follow that is the the Beauty and the impact of is in other words if you're able to to put aside the way you understand something and which is contrary to the way H says it should be you're a great man because the average person doesn't want to do that in other words God gave me a cup God gave me a braids God tells me to study and to learn and I come to another conclusion using my head my brains and how am I supposed to do it contrary to myself right doesn't make sense and the answer is you're right it doesn't make sense because rutson is greater than sense so doing the through the specifically is is the test it's the litness test to see whether is this my agenda on some level or is it God's agenda and this is what we struggle with we this this is is daily there's not even a question from the most you know minute issues to the greatest issues it's not just about whether I should eat the pork sandwich or the ham sandwich or not that's okay fine that's it's whether you know I should control my Med and say something nasty or or or someone who you know I'm poor him you know you go to someone who who and he gives you a dollar you feel like taking a dollar and shoving it into his face like come on what what are you what are you embarrassing you you know no it's poer it's a higher energy there's a higher energy don't embarrass yourself don't embarrass others just let it go and and and so in in so many different ways um theem but it says it's that's the hardest thing I want to conclude that is somewhat lives in my block actually he's a BOS well he's not so much a Bost but he comes from the boster Reb family hars he's a big so he learned in brisk in the 1974 75 his Z his grandfather lived in konit his name was Rabbi ker and he was a big p and he wrote gon he was known and he was himself came from Bell of gal you know he whatever he was a bell of so his his grandson you know was if any you know he was aligned with the Buster family but he wasn't really and he went to brisk so you know he wasn't so cish you know got had a whole beard and L but so his Z who was close to the re asked him suggested to him he go in for his wedding to the rebba for a br the people used to go in with their kala before so I don't know if he went with her kala with himself but he told me that the rebba looked asked him where did you learn so he said in brisk I think Lake wouldn't then brisk and then the said you know like you know in brisk it's it's all about the anal the analysis of a of a ra you know what I'm saying and the said what's going to be with and and and the explained to him the concept of which only years later he said he find because the Reb spoke about this later inin and wrote about it the his understanding of versus it's a whole thing and and he and he and he didn't realize that ever spoke to him when he was a a in 7 1975 and and kind of saying hey guy you're a you learned them brisk you're going to cut what's going to be with when we learned this chapter we we understand better that that attitude and you should know when mus passed away 1988 he asked grer to bring him a not a not not The Bigs are that's why I was learning with you the beginning when we started the I think was there we make light of if it's good enough it's and and I know that my father-in-law was a Russian he learned he knew everything's you have to then open it up so anyway this is the chapter we're going to continue tomorrow learning Chapter 30 we'll finish it because it's a very short chapter have a great day everyone Z bye-bye