Hechaltzu chptr 21a- One must have a solid foundation before going further - RC Dalfin

So, we're going to uh read uh today the introduction to the next few chapters in the discourse we're learning. And we are at chapter 21. So, here's an introduction to chapters 21 and 22. Please listen. From this point until the end of the mimemer, the rebashab, the author discusses the unity that characterizes God's name, the name that's equals 26. We know it as Hashem, right? Moshe, when we say Hashem, we're referring to this name. Hashem means the name, the most holy name. God has seven names. This is the holy one. The holiest one vaf you know they they the the Christians and others they pronounce it Jehovah. That's what we're talking about. Okay. In greater detail. He begins by focusing on the interreation between its first two letters the yud and the he which are identified with the spheros with the emanations of and respectively. There are tents we wrote. The first two correspond to the H. These two chapters, chapters 21 and 22 are devoted primarily to the explanation of the letter Yud and the sphere of that it represents. So two chapters just on the letter Yud. The size of the letter Y reflects the concept of contraction. Right? Y it's a small little letter Y to employ a moral analogy for a mashpia for a teacher an influencer. They they call a mashpia today an influencer a source of influence to communicate to a recipient on a far lower level than himself. He cannot convey the message he desires to share as it exists within himself. Doing so would overwhelm the recipient and prevent him from absorbing it. Instead, the mashia, the influencer, must contract and concentrate that message, withholding its full potency and distilling it into a limited focused form that the recipient can digest. Okay? In a cosmic sense, this describes the process of timsu contraction through which Hashem which God contracted and limited his capital capital H to begin the sequence through which our world was brought into being. Simply speaking guys, IF GOD'S ESSENCE IS SHINING, it's overwhelming. How can a world emerge? It cannot. So what did God himself do? He contracted his infinite light. And because he and what came about just a finite light. Oh, from a finite limited light, limited energy, you the world can emerge because the world is a limited experience. Everything has its place. Everything has its time. So the world as we know it comes about only because of what we call the tsum. Timsum meaning the contraction of the infinite light. That's what he just said. And that is represented by the yud. The little yud. The little yud is the excuse me demonstrative of next paragraph. that Ashab then shifts focus to the recipient, not to the influencer but to the recipient clarifying that just as the input the influencer the kamashpia conveys is described as a yud because it is concentrated into a single point. So too in its initial stages the recipient regards it as a single point. For him to grasp that influence he must concentrate and focus his energies upon it upon it. Even then it remains beyond his reach. It is described as a point because like a point it is without dimensions. It cannot be grasped and internalized. To explain by analogy, it's it is like the seinal drop from which a ch child is conceived. That drop contains the potential for all the limbs and organs of the child that will later come into being. In its present form, however, they exist only in potentia, entirely different from the state into which they will ultimately develop. So the second point that he makes here is that the contraction, the minimization of the infinite light is beneficial both for the influencer and for the recipient. for the influencer if he if he doesn't wish to overwhelm the recipient and better said if he wishes to for a recipient to emerge he must contract his infinity right Mark a teacher in a classroom if he wants you to understand something he has to contract all of his knowledge if he comes in like the absent-minded professor at Berkeley you know and I've met such kinds and probably you have as well. You know, they're geniuses, but for for the for the students, it's a waste of time. Oh, yeah. There's one thing you could say about him. Wow, the guy's a genius. What did he say? I have no idea. It's over over my head. So, a good teacher, a good influencer knows that about himself and he says, "Hey, I'm interested in teaching them. I'm interested in having them understand this thing, this information." so that they one day they can be teachers they can know this knowledge the only way I can do that is I have to I I need to contract my information that's one thing now from the from the that's why it's only a point on the se like a seminal drop of semen before it spreads in the body of the the woman which she then has the child come from it come now from the point of the from the recipient the recipient, the student, the student as well needs to first grab the point. If you don't grab the point, then your building, your idea is built on a faulty foundation. And guess what? It can h it can collapse like it happened in Surfside, Florida. A pancake flat, the building goes down. If you have ideas and the foundation, the fundamentally foundation are faulty are errors, the whole ideas are crooked. And unfortunately, we have a lot of this today where people just take for example the Nazis, the Shimom, may the name be erased, they have faulty ideas in their head. Here is the Aryan nation supposedly the the intellect and they come with a conclusion that gypsies and Jews are vermin right that is a foundational error in thinking and therefore they built a mountain of we have to get rid of a disease otherwise it'll kill people so we have to get rid of them right so they built a mountain based on a faulty foundational thought. So, so too when it comes to Hashem's name Yud V, the Yud the first the four letters is very important for there to be a healthy vi for there to be a healthy progression of everything that comes after you must have the the the the the point. So the recipient not the we're not talking about not the influencer the recipient seeks that as a beginning the recipient knows that the first thing I have to get is the point. So in in study it's this way too be and and people make this mistake many times in the way they study they go right into the details before understanding the overall point. bad mistake. In order to for to properly understand the the details that come later, you need to have a a grounded well understanding of the foundation of the point. And when you when you understand that and you have that solidified in your mind, then you can go to point B and C and D etc. Those are the things that he speaks about he'll be speaking about in this chapter. Okay. Um, good talking, good learning, and we will continue tomorrow. Have a great day everybody. Bye bye. >> Thank you everybody. Have a great day. Take care. Byebye.