Hechaltzu chptr 22a- 2 Kinds of Grasping, Rebbe's wedding anniversary - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

So good day. We're learning. We're in chapter 22. Yi, since you have your new safer, use it. Chapter 22. You got it at the oil. So it has more significance. So the alter the Reb now is continuing his theme about the letter Yud of the Shashem. And yi when you learnus and which you've been learning for years you understand that these concept aren't just cababalistic you know where you the way you grew up and the yeshiva you grew up and things like that you should know rab hutner knew a lot of cabola andidis you should know that but he didn't transmit that to the students for whatever reason but when you learnis and you understand it then it's no it's not just cababalistic ideas you see how it actually plays out in your own life and that's what the rashab is doing and bear the fifth who's the author of this he teaches us that there are four letters in the name Hashem the holiest name yud kv and the yud is a small little letter so he says says what does that demonstrate? What does that point to? That you is the idea of the geometric point the initial flash that enters your mind. So for example, Ya, you're in the, you know, in the management, real estate management business. You come up with this idea, this great genius idea how to do something innovative in your business. But that's only an idea. It's an auda. If you don't do your if you or someone else with you whoever doesn't develop the idea you could be a genius of geniuses and coming up with ideas and submate gish nothing it's nada ephes why because it wasn't taken from the level of idea to the level of development so the rashab is talking about this first simply to understand the mechanics of Yudk VK and once he'll finish explaining the mechanics of Yudk V then we'll he'll follow through with the application and that's the style of andus is not a quick fix. It's just not a quick fix. And that's why, truth be told, most people don't study it, don't have the patience for it, and don't know it. Because it's not a quick fix. IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT jumping around and dancing and singing and and which is wonderful 100%. But if you want to understand concepts of godliness and really understand it like you learned in yeshiva gammorra rashi and typhus. So you have to there's the gamorrah and there's the way rashi understands the gammorra and there's the way typhus understands the gamorra. Then you have to ask yourself why doesn't Rashi accept Typhus's way and why doesn't Tyus accept Rashi's way then and or the difference between Ty and Rashi in the Gomorrah then you understand the Gomorrah then you could say I know the Gorrah not just I know the Taich and even if I know how to make a lenan which was a big thing for us in yeshiva if you remember to be able to read a piece of gamura on your own without your rebi teaching you and you got Wonderful. But now when gets goes to rashi especially tas it's a whole different level right the same as withidus there is the reading of a of the mimemer or the tanya or whatever you're learning and there reading the words nice ideas but to understand it in a way that you could say say it over your own words that's the proof mana to whether one understands anything can you say it in your own words, not be a copycat and just repeat what it says in on on the page. So, let's go. >> Rebi, one thing I don't know if you you purposely left it out, but I mean this is just personally I think it's yes 100%. It's definitely not va and you have to put into pract and this is just me. The whole point of and this is what I I feel from we learned Tanya last year is to take what we learn and put it into practice. How do we become a mench? What do we do every single day for amus for other people? What do we do to work on our character? whereby in gamorra there isn't a practicality to the sense of what are you going to use it you know what you learn like how are you going to learn about you know if your ox kicks my ox and I have to pay four times meaning how is that going to help me in everyday aside from intellectually right intellectually will help >> but it's not going to help me refine my character necessarily if I know >> about different things that you know it's Right. >> It's not is I'm taking something. I'm learning the and I'm going to use it. >> Yes. Well said. Well said. Well said. And thank you for adding that. Let's go. 22. Chapter 22. Yes. Badgas. When the little yud which represents the intellectual concept is revealed there are two points if there is the first stage the way it is in a contracted form within itself as we learned in the previous chapter. And at that point it is undeveloped to the point where it can come and be received by a recipient with length and width meaning with intellectual length and width with an expansion so that the recipient should be able to tackle it. The gall the revelation of the little yud is within himself like a flash. It's not yet crystallized into letters that should be able to be grasped and understood in length and breadth. Next page I believe we're on page 185 or so 185 84 85 86 now top of the page I think excuse me this will be understood an example of a manal god love great intellectual power. He's always coming up with profound profound ideas. It is impossible for him to reveal or explain that in a way that the others should comprehend. although to he himself it's it shines. It's clear. Nevertheless, it's not settled or grasped within the intellectual faculties of his own soul. What >> this is this is what we learned in when it's talking about when the when the rebi is not able to to explain to the right a way that they can understand. >> Right. Right. Right. He knows the stuff but he can't bring it to the so but but he's saying even by him by a teacher it's merely hover I'm sorry I'm sorry regarding the what you said it hovers over them just like an lightning flash the concepts are not yet defined and envisioned by him even in the in the form of a defined point. So for he himself, it's adequate cuz he's so smart. He's, you know, for him to have it in this kind of brief geometric way, a flash, it's adequate. He understands it in his mind. So to him it's conce it's called a revelation. HE HAS BEEN REVEALED THIS idea because he understands it. But to the others it cannot be revealed unless it first takes the form of a point which can be grasped and then it can be developed. That's the way the others the recipients can follow. This grasping is uh refers to the power of it's not similar to the concept of grasping from the perspective of understanding of the concept of grasping from the perspective of benum. It is the idea is grasped with many details when every detail is individually defined. Conversely, by contrast from the perspective of it is it is only grasped in an accomplishing way that the concept that the entire concept is compre is is as one comprehensive point. mayor since it's grasped in one in a in a point not in a detailed manner it the it shines in other words it illuminates wow I have a great idea so when you say I have a great idea when something right you grasp IT BUT IN WHAT WAY DID YOU GRASP it you didn't grasp it intellectually where you can Now uh enumerate how this idea is a great idea. You just know I got it. It's right. So it is a grasping but it's A IT'S IT'S A grasping not a being a grasping. That's what he says. It's explained elsewhere that when many particulars of a concept are revealed, the original light is obscured. But whereas when it still exists as a point, then the subtle light of the idea shines it is within it. You hear that? The more obscure from details, the more the light shines. It's true lit. When you have an idea, once you start developing the idea, as wonderful as develop development stage is, the idea flash becomes less and less. You understand? It's it's in other words, once you get dressed, once you dress up the idea, the idea is not in its pure form. And when it's not in it p your form the shine the illumination let's use that word the illumination becomes less and less whereas where when it's more abstract so true I I don't have the details I don't have an ABSTRACT FORM BUT THERE the illumination is more and he says um therefore The way the idea is it is not limited by the understanding. Once you start understanding what happens is the idea becomes limited. It's brought down is called water and is called firmament. The maya the become water is is fluid and it can come in many forms. Whereas the heaven the firminant is already you know it's sealed to it is what it is. It's firminant. So why is that? Because being that it's just that the idea the flesh it has more of the illumination and the illumination is limitless. And he says another parallel if father's seinal drop the semen contains the genetic code for all the limbs and organs of the body of the child to be born. Nevertheless, the form of the child has not yet as has not as of yet become entirely defined and is subject to change. The garra says until 40 days after conception, prayer can affect a change in the gender of the fetus. Right? So what what do we see? We see that until 40 it's still the se the seinal drop is still in its pure state. So if it's in a pure state it's open to changes. So if you pray and you want a boy and you know that it's going to be a girl somehow right the say your can accomplish that it can change if that's what you want whatever conversely the firmament it's congealed water it's water but it's been congealed so it's comparable to the fetus. After 40 days from conception, the fetus has become reformed in the womb of the mother. Then you can no longer alter the state of the fetus. It's either a boy or a girl. So too in the moral when the when the concept has become understood and grasped incomprehensively in details it's literally limited it won't change from the way you comprehended the idea it's locked in but the idea the It's pre comprehension i.e. it's in the state of it can be expressed in many different ways. No, I'm sorry. holding what he's saying here is he he sums it up that the geometric flash of is not yet grasp by grasp is one of actual limitation this type of limitation doesn't exist in the realm of as explained earlier. If he says if you compare the grasp the idea of to higher than then itself is also limitation. So in this scenario till now he was talking about the comparison between bina understanding and the flash the idea but he says in the parenthesis that you should know that if WE COMPARE TO HIGHER NOT to lower but to its source then is also a limitation. Okay, we'll stop here and Monday we will uh we will continue and uh get today is the Reb's B wedding day, his anniversary kisliff. So they got married in 1928 in in Warso, Poland. It was a day of celebration and thanksgiving and all that. And um the Reb said in 1953 on this day I think it was Shabas it was a Fabangan and the Reb said this is the day which connected me to you because who was the Reb at the time the previous Reb. So even though the Reb is a Schneerson and a great great son of the Takic but the the lineage went through not his great-grandfather the oldest son of the Shalom but actually through the youngest son of the right the previous Reb's grandfather was the Marashm so the Reb said that I became connected to you to all youidim through marrying my wife. He didn't say those words but that's what he meant. So it was a it was a very very powerful statement to understand the connection that had to his father-in-law and to the lineage of Kabad. again although he's a a great grandson of the and alter and everything else but there's thousands thousands of schnes there were thousands many probably you know got killed or whatever the case but there were a very large family so what makes one special over the other so the made that statement now for us it's now uh you know it's 70 years later in a sense like you know the Reb is special because of who he was. We don't need in a sense we don't need his like I'm I I HAVE I'M SPECIAL BECAUSE I I I I came into the I married my wife I came into her family you know of the ourb didn't didn't like you know they couldn't they couldn't relate to that in a way in a way I'm saying in a way because you know what you're not good enough you are good enough you're holy enough you're you know you're a big sadic so everything has to be put into perspective. It's not a contradiction. There is the kind of >> Was it the Reban the rabbit and cousins? >> Yeah. >> Were the Reba and the Rebbit? Yes. >> Like what number cousin? >> Yeah. The distant cousins, but they were cousins. In other words, the Reba's greatgrandfather and the previous Reb's grandfather were brothers. You hear that? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> So it's the second cousins >> like second cousins. Yes. So today is Yehuda day. I came home and I sang a song for my wife. She thought we're getting we're getting remarried today. I said nois. She knew it was your kisliff. I took an aliyah and shul and uh we should be to see the gulma. Have a great chabas everyone. We'll see everyone next week. Take care. Good. Bye bye. Good chabas. Thanks. >> Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Bye bye. Gachabas.