Hechaltzu chptr 26 - True Chasid isn't conditioned in their choice of Rebbe - RC Dalfin

So good day. We're learning the Reb, the fifth labb wrote in 1898. We're at chapter 26. Hopefully within a month we will finish it. Month or less, God willing. And then I'd like to learn the mimer bosani for yuchat for the yard sight of the previous in this chapter the rashab will teach us what I spoke what I spoke out yesterday at the latter part of the shir of the class and I just want to before we it's a short it's a very short it's only a page and a half so we have a few minutes to talk I want to talk about this idea idea a little more that I discussed yesterday that in order to bring together two opposites, you need to have something that is greater than both. In other words, two opposites cannot join and come together if if they're doing it on their own because they're opposite each other. They oppose each other. So in classical cabala and we have the concept that there's creativities development amplification understanding each is really uh a very different nuance. A creative person doesn't have the patience to sit still. You know, you know what we call them in in in psychological terms, type A, right? Or today they would say, you have ADHD or in good old uh where we're coming from, you say you have spilcus in your backside. You got needles in your backside. You can't sit still. Sit still already. The truth is someone who's very creative they're thinking they're always they're they're creative very hard to be rooted when you're creative then mo you have someone who's docile compared to the creative mind i.e be the not creative mind but the development mind. The one that takes that idea, that creation, and says, "Wait a second. It's a great idea. It's a great idea, but I don't know if it's going to work in the practical world. Let's see. Take it apart. Analyze it. Sit still. Be patient. Be thoughtful. In today's world especially, and I'm talking talking from my own experience, it's so it's so much harder to be patient and settled and calm and thoughtful because the world is moving at such a great pace. And if you DON'T HAVE THE LATEST IPHONE, you're not with the Jones. And if you don't have the latest model car, you're a schleer. So the culture has become such that you got to KEEP UP WITH THE JONESES. YOU YOU GOT TO KEEP UP WITH SOCIETY, RIGHT? Microsoft is no longer supporting uh Windows version 11, I think. Why? We're up to a I don't know version 18, 19, who knows? Everything is moving so fast. Beina Bina is that element of of soul that issue within the soul that is calm and settled. It it's looking for calmness and settlement and it's very hard to find. It's very hard to find today because as soon as you go into that mode, you're perceived as what they call today or maybe I'm outdated a neb. You know, you're a neb. you're a loser. So each one being creative versus being settled, calm and thoughtful has its virtues and it also has its disadvantages because if you have that creative mind, the adrenaline and the excitement is so much more powerful and passionate and that's the way it is someone who is settled and calm sitting behind a desk and typing in numbers. It's boring. Yet we have within the personality of a person from the perspective of the soul meaning from the perspective of God of Hashem both qualities and both need to be used in the right way. And the question is how? And this is what deals with and opens up to us. And and I want to tell you that this is so rich and it's the only place in the where you will find parables, commentary, explanations about these issues. You won't find it in Mus. You won't find it in Gmorra. You won't find it on. They they each have their cup of tea. But this type of talk and conversation and analysis is unique to And and what's my point? Not to say my father is greater than your father. Point is that when we when we learn and we're learning some very very difficult ideas, deep ideas, if you break it down, it's bread and butter. If you break IT DOWN, IT'S DAILY ACTIVITY. Am I acting with now or am I acting withina? Am I being passive and thoughtful or I be or am I being creative and flighty? H is flighty is settled. I refer back to the book that I've told you many times to get a hold of. It might even be some copy still at a in in the Mor Shul next to Hodes because we because I brought several of them when I was there 10 years ago or less. The 10 keys to understanding from Rabbi Matis Caner. It is a phenomenal work. What he did was exactly what I'm talking to you about. 10 keys to understanding. It's since been reprinted by Cahoot by the Kabad Publishing House. Kahus or Kahut 10 keys to understanding by Matis Caner and and and and he go he takes the 10 keys which we call in Cababola the spheros the spro the emanations of God the manifestations of God and he breaks it down and brings it down in in psychological terms and I I I believe you you'll have um you'll love it you know you got but it's not a book that you could read, you know, laying on your couch and, you know, just falling asleep, then you're not going to have anything from it. You got to you got to focus and hashem, everyone here is intelligent. You focus and and you do it slow and and it will benefit you anyway. So in this chapter the hashab says that the only way to bring the two I don't only way but one of the ways or the way to bring the two together flightiness and settle settling creativity and and and amplification is if there's something greater when there is something greater than each of those individually and they realize that there's something greater here. They basically say we're going to make it work. So the example that I've given throughout our classes is when the the the deputy of min the department of education and finance and agriculture, right? And homeland security. Each of THEM WANTS MORE MONEY FROM THE TREASURY. Each one sucking and fighting and maneuvering. I need more money and more money. They come into the king. They come into Havdul the president. Then they all quiet down and they all realize I'm only a deputy and minister and representative of the king of the president. And before the president, I unnull my own individualistic needs even in the sense of for the cause for education, transportation, um finance, whatever it is. And in front of the king, it's all about the king. When that's the that's the parable, the example, the mush. So too in the nim and the moral when you realize that and that you have within yourself are coming from the soul and the soul is coming from God and God is infinite. There's no reason to fight and we can make it work. Now I want to make it clear. It doesn't mean to say that someone who is generally a creative person will become all of a sudden an analytical person and the person will stop trying to come up with genius inventions and all of a sudden go behind the desk and start typing. It ain't happening. It's not going to happen. You are who you are. But but number at least learn to tolerate and better to appreciate the other element the other the other notion that will only take place if you within yourself whatever whatever you are the creative or the or the or the beina has bit has humility subservience to the greater cause and that's what's missing in our lives many times and in the collective world. THERE ISN'T A SUBSERVIENCE TO THE HIGHER POWER. THERE'S A SUBSERVIENCE TO WHO I AM. WELL, THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH BECAUSE WHO YOU ARE is already limited. You're oriented towards the right. You're oriented towards the left. How do you bring the two together? And that's WHY PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS BICKERING AND FIGHTING AND NOT SEEING EACH other's virtue. Step back and realize there's a higher power involved and you are just a pawn in the higher powers desire to implement his wishes. And if that's the case, if there's an opposing opinion, let's take for example uh Mark Mosa, let's take for example um King David and u Shimmy Benerra. Shimmy Benerra who was so committed to him all OF A SUDDEN CURSES DAVID. CURSES HIM WITH DEATH CURSES. You know what David does? He doesn't say drop dead Shimmyi or I'm gonna send my warriors to get you and kill you. He says if I heard that curse from Shimmy Benanger, that means it was meant for me to hear it even though I believe he's wrong. WHAT LESSON CAN I HAVE FROM THE CURSE THAT I JUST WAS CURSED? I'm asking you to have such a feeling. It takes so much humility. You have to REALLY HUMBLE YOURSELF. HERE IS THIS JERK CURSING HIM. YOU'RE SO OUT OF LINE. YOU'RE SO OUTRAGEOUS. And what do I walk away with? I heard it. What's the message? What do I have to do to improve myself? That's what we're learning about. All these things are not so clear in this in in the writing of the in this chapter that we're about to start learning in the inside. But that's the overall message. And here you see how you can take a chapter that seems to be so cabalistic and soidic and all that and if you if if you know how to take it and break it down, it it's it's so real and you can use it in your work. So let's go now to chapter 26 based on what we said earlier. We have one thing and it's opposite in one in one space. We have kind what we call in English an oxymoron a contradiction. But who what is that contradiction? what you can comprehend from the point of of creativity using using an element of comprehension within right that's the idea of what is from the word this idea is contrary The little point of the letter of it is the yud represents not minuteness the opposite of expansion we call although this is true nevertheless It unites and it's inclus included with THAT SOMEHOW the point has now expansion says that you know why this is possible for there to be a element of BECAUSE itself gives room for the notion of within creativity there is a notion in order for MY CREATIVITY TO GET somewhere I need expansion you hear that you geniuses out there who are right in ORDER I HAVE THIS GREAT IDEA I'M A GENIUS I CAME UP but if someone isn't going to do what is it called product development product development mark you're a in this field. It ain't going anywhere. YOU NEED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT. I WAS CALLED about a few months ago about someone locally, I don't know who it is in Brooklyn, was trying to make a a game a game for children based on the previous Reb of Kabad and his life. So they hired her because her business is product development. She in turn came to me to get to because she you saw my work and my YouTube's uh my understanding of Kabad and its history and everything else. So she came to me in other words like this here IS SOMEONE WHO COMES UP WITH this great idea. Seems like a great idea. But nothing would be with the idea without her work and ultimately with my work and whatever else it takes. So the Reb says here that creativity realizes if I want my idea you need to get somewhere I NEED PRODUCT A PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT person I need a marketing person let's go further that's the idea of have next page That itself is incorporated in wisdom in in creativity in order. So that the idea should have expansiveness and then You hear that? When the when the genius says to himself, I need there to be product development although I am not that way. I am about genius and creativity but I see that it's right and necessary for there to be product development. then it can come to actually the plane of product development and be developed. But if the genius himself doesn't come to that decision, it's not going to go further BECAUSE IT HE'S ALWAYS STUCK IN HIS WORLD. WHAT'S THE WORLD? The world of genius. The world of creativity. Very nice. WHAT DOES THE WORLD HAVE from that? The world has NOTHING FROM IT. OH, SO THE GENIUS SAYS, "I WANT MY I WANT MY PRODUCT. I WANT IT TO GET TO THE WORLD. I WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT ME. I WANT TO BECOME FAMOUS. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME. CREATIVITY. ME. BUT HOW CAN I be the the big shot? How? I need product development. I need a marketing. I need tools. I need a distributor." That's what he says. So this is again genius thought in other words is willing creativity is willing to begin thinking about the emergence OF EXPANSION WHICH IS CONTRARY TO ITS MODUS OPERANDE. Its modus operandi is up, further away, genius, creativity. And all of a sudden, WHAT IS IT ACCEPTING NOW? DOWN, EXPANSION, UNIVERSE, WORLD, people that that so that's that's what he says is this notion is CONTRARY TO ITS ESSENCE. Look at the words. This idea is contrary to its essential essence. Now he says so too from the other perspective from the perspective of of expansion allowing itself and wanting itself to become not to become you know to to to lose its expansiveness to the idea. So that the idea as it is in expansion form will be proper. This is the second idea that we say next page. Here he says too this is so contrary to the concept of beina. Beina is the world of expansion. Beina is THE WORLD OF SHOW BUSINESS. BEINA IS THE WORLD OF HOLDING YOUR YOUR YOUR YOUR CHAMPAGNE glass and AND AND MOVING YOUR BODY AND IMPRESSING PEOPLE, RIGHT? That's the world of beina. H is the world of isolation. I don't want to be around people. I just want to think, study, you know, right? Vina says, "No, no, no, no. YOU GOT TO GET OUT THERE. YOU GOT to meet people. What happens is that Bina is willing to incorporate the idea so that when it does expand which is the world and plateau of bino expansion is proper. It's not ego-driven. In other words, if if it for the idea TO EXPRESS EXPRESS itself in development to come to the ultimate result, it requires humility. Otherwise, you go off on a cockeyed idea. You come up with crazy ideas, DETRIMENTAL IDEA, DISRUPTIVE IDEAS, BAD FOR THE COUNTRY, BAD FOR YOUR FAMILY, BAD FOR YOURSELF. And you know why that is? Because you didn't humble your expansion. You you you were so excited to expand and develop. You forgot about the point. YOU FORGOT ABOUT THE NUDA. WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT over here? We're talking about soul. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GOD. We're talking about humility. That's what he says. Let's continue. Um, so what happens is we have here the one, the one and the opposite together. Therefore, you must say, look at his language. You must say this is what I mentioned earlier. How is it possible for the two opposite to get to come together? BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING GREATER THAN each that illuminates and shines here. Viscalos that brings them together. Get off YOUR HIGH HORSEMA. GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE. You guys are just midgets and working for the king. SO WHEN THE KING SHINES HIS LIGHT AND ILLUMINATES IT AND SAYS, "WAKE up guys. What are you bickering about? YOU WORK FOR ME. I GOT ROOM FOR BOTH OF YOU." And you say, "Yeah, we forgot." So then we humble ourselves. So it's only when the greater light and illumination shines. This is the experience of the essential infinite God that transcends both levels. The hell vigil of concealment and revelation is the world of Helm concealment. Usually we talk about it. Wow. The unknown, right? The unknown. The world of Helm is limited to unknown to being unknown. In other words, IT HAS A LIMITATION. IF IT HAS A LIMITATION, it's not God, it's ego. Ego in a very refined way. The world of revelation surely showing off and and and BOLSTERING MY MYSELF IS also ego. That's why he says when that the the essential essence of God the infinite that what we call in English transcendence TRANSCENDENCE TRANSCENDS NOT ONLY GIL BUT HELM also so the pious ONE LEARNING IN THE CORNER VERY VERY PROPER RIGHT VERY great right guess what there's A LIMITATION TAKE HIM OUT OF THE CORNER HE MELTS AWAY AND DOESN'T know where he is and loses himself self that's the atmos but if you have the subservient to the higher power then both are able to coexist you see these words both are are there in the world of transcendence both are equal both are just representatives of transcendence next page therefore from that perspective perspective of of transcendence. There could be beautiful words there could BE FROM CONCEALMENT'S REVELATION AND REVELATION CONCEALMENT. What he's saying is Mosha what he's saying is if you're if you're in the world of expansion and and and revelation, how can you go into the world of concealment and privacy? Make up your mind. And he and the answer is you're right. On my own I wouldn't be able to do it. But if I have subservience to the higher power the higher power is limitless and even in even the notion of privacy IS A LIMITATION AND GOD IS BEYOND LIMITATIONS. I don't know if I'm speaking French to you guys. Is tell me. Do you understand what I'm saying? I I I have to know cuz you're listening. I think I'm explaining it well, but I want to hear from you. Go ahead. >> No, I'm following. >> No questions. >> Yes. >> I mean, a question. Does the same thing work with like um uh and Gabura? >> Yes. Yes. Same idea. The same idea because >> come together, >> right? And and you know someone who's has a hard time with someone is gur has a hard time with when they realize that there's something greater than and gur i.e. the nishama the higher power then if they inculcate that into their reality they can live together. It's the same idea with Abram Vinu and Rabbi Aaka. Rabbi the Gmor says and brok SOUGHT SELF-SACRIFICE AND HE GOT IT. The Romans killed him, right? They got to him, right? In other words, Rabbi Aka had a certain orientation. He was already limited. He was already or better said he already was conditioned. Ara wasn't conditioned. A said to God, I'm yours. NOW YOU DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT FROM ME. YOU WANT ME TO JUMP INTO A FIRE WITH THE NIMROD, I'm I'll jump in. YOU WANT ME TO GO AROUND AND teaching monotheism, I'm in. YOU WANT ME TO SIT BACK, I'M IN. YOU WANT ME TO STAND OUTSIDE after I'm circumc yourself. You're either a man or a Gora man. talk. Let's talk about this just simply we mentioned it but again right you see sometimes people most people are limited in their do they invite people but if if if the person who's derailed or has a a bad odor they don't let him into the house they don't invite him no their is limited someone else and I've seen this it's not just talk I've seen it by people by few people go in and you'll see all kinds of people that you wouldn't want to be around. Most people wouldn't want to be around. They're able to GO TO A HIGHER PLATEAU. I'm just saying the concept. So, so when you mentioned and are exactly conditioned to then there is what we call which says touches the what does that mean the infinite what does that mean it means that it evokes from God and and and impacts you that it's conditionless I'M TRANSCENDED I'M NOT I'M NOT GA WHAT ARE you I'm God. I'm I'm experiencing God. What's God? God's not God's not God is saying transcendent. Let me just read the unity of opposites of can only take place when there is a higher power than both that shines on them. And I told you yesterday just to repeat it now we'll finish is that that's the idea of a has their limitation. He likes this rebi he likes this. Right. When he when he identifies properly with a sadic and a reb it's no longer about my what's good what I like and a lot of people CAN'T RELATE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS. We've seen it and I can document I've documented it. people who who were part of let's say yonyi of a previous rebba thing when our rebba became a reb you know in 1950 at at at 48 quite a few of the elders couldn't relate to it and his style was completely different well not outwardly completely different right what does that show that shows that their commitment before was conditioned it was conditioned to a fur hat called and this new young Rebia of 48 years old even though he's a relative of sin he don't wear a stry like hey isn't a reb supposed to have a why does it say THAT OH IT SAYS IT BECAUSE THAT WAS tradition you either you you could either believe it came from BMP OR NOT WHATEVER everyone has their argumentation positions but what >> is that the same is is that the same thing I know I don't know if it's the same parallel but like in most today like uh you know most with vishnit and and and g and and and and sat is that what you're referring to I mean you gave an example of the rebba but you know we all know that afterwards everybody accepted the reba as the reb I I don't think there was anybody in in Labavash that ever had anything in lab that he wasn't the Reba and you know maybe in the beginning I'm saying like in the beginning yes but I'm saying like afterwards people uh you know they they they accepted it. >> Okay. What's what's your point? >> So my point is what you what you're talking about is it happening today. Well, today like my rebound. Yeah. But today to today I'm saying asidic jewelry started to come into being after the holocaust you know um changes were taking place and people you know had this image that a a rebby is some kind of you know angel uh who looks like an angel talks like an angel feels like an angel and if you don't feel like an angel and you're a good man but you know and you take that same notion now 2025 26 right we're going you know it's like well I don't have a reba in a body to visit came to New York he saw 770 he saw some he liked some he didn't like but he didn't see the rebba right he saw the rebba's base medish He saw the went to the oil maybe went to the Reb. Right. So there is a and and I just heard a someone who was a teacher speaking and a fine guy. I know him and he you know he's struggling with like where's Mashiach? But Babarb said Mashia is coming now and it's there's no Msiah here yet. like and I'm saying to myself, I listen to this. I happen to listen to it as saying I would never have that question. Why? And I'm not bragging because I was raised from birth with this DNA. So if in the Holocaust we didn't have Messiah and of the Spanish Inquisition, then today not having Msiah is the same thing. And we we need Messiah and we want Messiah. But I don't like is is my commitment based on a certain statement that the Reb made? Absolutely not. See, so there are who become and it's not just whether it be bel because they they're looking to get something from the Reb. That's not why I'm I'm not looking to get anything. I really am not. I see this as a truth OUTSIDE OF WHAT I GET OF IT. I CAN GET NOTHING OF IT and it can even backfire. But this to me is a truth, a paradigm. Since it's a paradigm, I'd like to be part of that paradigm. That's that's pureassid reba relationship in any the way it should be not like if I have a friend here he was a bianassid he left beyond became kabad asked him why did you LEAVE BANAN OH HE SAID BECAUSE SOMETHING HAPPENED WITH HIS DAUGHTER AND he felt he was treated wrong and another thing happened and he felt the rebba WAS NOT BEING HONEST I mean that that whole scenario but in us by real kabad is is um is disgusting. It's not it's not an if and and there were but truth be told there were such AND MAYBE THERE ARE some still like that like this guy who's so such a fine person but like you're questioning the is saying what's a question the are you god am I god do we have answers like that's what your is based on or just be AID IF YOU WANT TO BE THIS be aid of the and that's my answer. If it's an answer to those that say, "Well, we don't have a physical reba to look at and to to speak to." And what when he was alive, HOW MUCH HOW MUCH INTERACTION did you have? Little little. I'm right. I'm I'm from the inside. I'm telling you little. Okay. I did see him by fabins. That's true. I heard Torah from him. But I'm saying that's not what makes the that's a that that's conditioned and that's what we're learning here in the mimer that the connection goes way beyond any type of condition. Okay, we will maybe one day fab more about this. Have a great day everyone. We'll see everyone tomorrow. Take care. Byebye. >> Thank you. Bye.