Hechaltzu chptr 30- Torah study synergizes opposites, conflicts & issues- RC Dalfin

So we're learning here this we're in chapter 30. So turn to chapter 30 and I want to read the note as we begin learning. The Reb Rashab began chapter by explaining that to understand the possibility of the syn synergistic relationship between the two opposites of potentials. the two opposite potentials of being identified with concealment and re revelation. It's necessary to first explain the possibility of unifying concealment and revelation as they exist in their very source. In other words, to appreciate the opposites, you look at the source and in the source they're actually they can be synergized. out. He devoted that chapter and chapter 28 to that purpose explaining the revelation of the light that existed before the tsimu. The concealment brought about by the tsu and the revelation of the light of the ka that followed the tsumsu. In chapter 29, last chapter, he explained how the synristic relationship between the revelation and concealment is made possible by Hashem's infinite light that transcends them both. So now having explained these concepts he returns to the ideas explained in chapter 21 to 26 which is the interreation of the spherus of bino identified with the letters the yud and he of hashem's name and yud hey he vi explaining the same motive applies the yud and the h are united through drawing down God's essential light in this and the following chapters in other words 30 31 and 32 I believe he explains how this essential light is drawn down highlighting how the tra specifically studying ta with the proper motivation serves as the medium for drawing down that light so now dashab is going to give us kind of a more practical way of doing something in the real world which has the ability of drawing down and bringing together the opposites of of gillu and hell and revelation and concealment. Let's look inside to draw down the essential light of God to cause the unity and the inclusiveness of the two letters of Hashem's name which are opposite. It's through the study of I'll say if he holds to my strength, he will bring my peace. He will bring my peace. That's what it says. Next page determined from this. Whoever studies, he brings about he causes peace amongst the heavenly hosts and the earthly hosts. What does it mean? Bringing peace. Bringing unity in the heavenly hosts who this is a this refers to bringing together the two first letters of Hashem's name. And what does it mean to bring together the earthly hosts who that refers to the two latter letters of the name of Hashem the VV and the K. Now in the parenthesis the reason why the is called the heavenly host and the is called the earthly host. Why is that? He brings a verse another verse in the things that are hidden and secretive belong to God our God your God. and those things that are revealed are for us and our children and he explains the is the two letters the two last letter of God's name viglo they are apparent to us they're they represent such revelation as such levels that are accessible by us next page but the first two letters They are beyond our comprehension and understanding and and etc. And they what and they are of secret concealment that belongs to God referring to. So that's why in a when it says that he brings he brings peace makes peace between the heavenly hosts. Milo and Po and the heavenly the earthly host. What do we understand from this heavenly host means that it's relegated to heaven. It's a heavenly world, right? It's it's even bina it's it's it's still beyond our world. The two last letters of Hashem's name v which is the midos the v is the six midos and hey is the mus right we divide all the spher right so the the the shisha midos six is six hey the last hey is malus royalty kingship etc that's relegated to our experience we could work with it so that's why it's called higloan you You know, it's a it if you recall when the balra reads the that section on Monday and Thursdays, usually some people in the in the sh will end off out loud with and people that kind sing together. What are they what are they singing together? WHAT ARE THEY SAYING? So simply that there's an aspect to God that's concealed, an aspect to Hashem that's revealed. This goes deeper and says that it's referring to the VK the so like realization the the higher levels that belongs to God. The voice goes and revelation is for us and our children because we can relate to it. I'm just adding that the kind of um the human aspect as it is in in in in a shoe when the balora reads that seems to me to lend itself the tune used the tune lends itself to the concept that we're learning here. That's what I'm adding to this. Okay. The note here says just as in a personal sense one can remain alone and conceive of intellectual ideas without sharing them with others. So too God's intellectual attributes are by nature hidden above direct connection with our level of existence. This is what I just said. That's why is called heavenly host that belongs that's hidden for God is revealed to us called the he earthly hosts. Here ends the parentheses that started on the other page. Now we say that what causes what brings about this peace this synergy? Look at it. Why? How makes peace and unity in the letters, right? And are going in different directions like one is heavenly, one is earthly. Who brings them together? We say that it says it's that Hashem looked into the and it created the world. Well, God had to look into the to create the world. Hashem didn't know how to create the world. What does it mean to say Hashem created the world? He wanted a world. He created the world. It doesn't say that. It says so says next page, how did Hashem, in other words, how did Hashem create the world that first there was darkness and then there was light? That means that There was the joining of concealment and revelation like we learned before. In other words, Tyra takes the opposites and brings them together. So when it says God gazed at the Tyra and with that he created the world. What does that mean? That's how he created the ABILITY OF OPPOSITES COMING together because itelves brings together opposites. So in other words since he had to he he he seek HE SOUGHT TO ACCOMPLISH that on one on one side and mid and on the other side are each in their own world and they're opposite EACH OTHER AND HE WANTS TO BRING THEM TOGETHER. So what does he do? He looks INTO TYRA MEANING TYRA IS THE SAME WAY. Tyra brings together top and bottom up and down revelation and concealment. That's the meaning what why it says and the meaning that Hashem gazed into and with that he created the world. Is it called the essential delight which is enclosed in tyra? Shashu means like playfulness. God played with tyra. What does it mean? He played with tyra. Well, t is a toy. The answer is yes. IT'S A SPIRITUAL TOY. IT'S A SPIRIT. A TOY FOR A CHILD IS PLEASURABLE, RIGHT? What's the biggest uh thing you could do for a child? BRING HIM INTO A TOY STORE. I remember my own youth, we lived uh here in Burough Park and around the corner was a was a toy store, Linux it was called at the time and just the thought of going into Linux was fascinating. I GET TO GO INTO Linux and I CAN EVEN BUY SOMETHING IN LINUX AND YOU'RE SURROUNDED WITH TOYS AND games all over a lot of playfulness cha Hashem says I'm going to give you the I give you the you COULD PLAY WITH THE TRA THE WILL bring you delight and pleasure it's called tanuk BECAUSE YOU GET TUK FROM playing with a game a child gets tanuk from playing with strateggo and risk and and all the other games that's the you know the child the teenager whatever the young teenager right so so too is such a pleasurable thing and you should know those people that learn and love Tyra and really get into IT IT'S LITERALLY A GAME FOR THEM they get I um I once interviewed a Raid in Montreal in Canada his name was Rabbi Sapachinski. He has children, fine children, friends and all that. So he was a Benias by labor which the commoner rashiva a litak but a a tremendous Yiddish. He told me a lot of things that I'll never forget that great told me about. He grew he he was taken in as a as a young teenager going in you know was 14 15 16 17 and the war broke out there's a lot of details but so he told me that when a borak bear when 39 when he had to leave the Nazis were coming and they told him reb you have to leave if you don't leave to Vna I think to Vna you you you'll be killed you'll be Anyway, so he went, he said this, HE SAW THIS WITH HIS OWN EYES. He went over to the bookshelf in his house bear and he said, "Goodbye Reb." Who is his Rebes? The Rajba, the Gmorra, the Rambam, the T. And he said he stood there crying because he was leaving his house. He was leaving his people. Someone who who who loves Ta is Shashu but this is not just you know an intellectual pursuit. IT'S IT'S LIKE YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER. You have TO LEAVE YOUR PARENTS' HOME. If you don't leave now, THEY'RE GOING TO KILL YOU. YOU HAVE TO GET OUT for whatever reason. So, you go. BUT BEFORE YOU GO, YOU YOU SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR LOVED ONES. WHO ARE HIS LOVED ONES BESIDES HIS FAMILY? WHO IS HIS LOVED ONES? THE they were not, you know, that's what I'm talking about. and and and there's other such stories you know with with sadikim and all that. Sois talk doesn't you know doesn't talks talks about it in a maybe in a more sophisticated way capitalistic way but it's the same idea shashu the playfulness of tra I knew I knew I I saw uh Rabbi Hersroom the chief re of Montreal and he would come in the n to the arala in camp gangro in the catskills And they would honor him. He was a buck of shas. And I mean literally he knew every word of shas. When this man got up to speak to say he started to jump. I never saw such a thing IN MY LIFE. A PERSON WHO'S AT A MICROPHONE SAYING OVER A PIECE OF GAM WHATEVER HE'S DOING. and he's jumping like and he's LIKE YOU CAN BARELY UNDERSTAND WHAT HE'S SAYING BECAUSE HE'S HE'S JUST HE CAN'T CONTROL HIMSELF. And what is it about? A piece of gar. Did you ever see such a thing? I saw it. I saw it with my own eyes. I'll never forget it. Shashu play that that a person is is so is so excited. Another example, MAYOR SHARIM. I TOLD YOU THIS, BUT just I'm walking back from Maya Sharim up to Yafo was a hot 905. It's boiling. You got to go up a hill past Slenim over there. You know the base medish and going up the hill. It's a shortcut over there. There's a kiosk. THERE'S A LITTLE STORE. I WANTED some to drink something. It was terrible hot. So I go in and two are talking to each other and learning. Okay. And I have my my bottle of water and I want to pay my for it. And I'm standing there. And they're going on. After 30 seconds, whatever it was, a minute, I said, "Excuse me." I said in English. I said, "Excuse me, you know, I would like to pay for this." One guy turns to me, who I think was the owner. He says, Yeet mister, if you don't have the patience to let us finish speaking this and tell you to you could go find yourself another store to buy the bottle of water. Now you could say this is very rude, right? And then you could say it's not very rude. His world is tighter. HE'S MIDDLE OF SPEAKING TIGHTER to someone. He will lose a customer. We will get a customer. I'm saying I saw with the Reb I'm giving you examples when the Reb Shabas would would teach a rashi explain a rashi in a para. So he would take out a while we were singing in the interval the niggan niggan between the talks the and then he would look into his and prepare. You know he already prepared the night before. All night he was up, you know, doing that. The Reb once says it take it TOOK HIM 8 HOURS to prepare explaining one rashi. 8 hours. I think that's what he once said. Anyway, so he's looking and I saw this also in my own eyes. His brother-in-law, HIS OLDER BROTHER-IN-LAW, THE RASH COMES OVER cuz that week there was a dinner for the yeshiva. So the ordinary he would go over and the reb would there was a bottle of mashkid that was waiting and the reb would open it put some wine into it and and give give the person in this case his brother-in-law and say give him a and then tell him to distribute it at the dinner and the brother-in-law is waiting and the rabb is looking like he doesn't REC HE DOESN'T REALIZE HIS HIS BROTHER WAS STANDING there I saw it and when he does. He like jumps up like, "Yeah, how can I help you?" You know what I'm saying? He's his older brother-in-law. He had respect for him. When you're immersed in TA and it's at the level of shashu, shashuim, playfulness, it's a whole different experience. Let's continue the text. I gave four different stories to support the idea. We'll explain later. So what is it about says that is called truth the ta of truth was in in his mouth it says buy yourself acquire mis truth and don't sell it this is a reference to the study of This is the meaning. Next page acquire truth. By in other words, what does it mean to buy wisdom and buy understanding? By that aspect of that resonates and and demonstrates truth. The the attribute of truth is the intermediary between kindness and severity to the point where there is no opponent to the world of truth. Normally the discipline severity opposes kindness and itself has an opponent the attitude of that opposes a resolution in between blending kindness and judgment in appropriate proportions. A LAK DOESN'T HAVE any opponent. And what is that? That is the attribute of which is when is the truth of expressed specifically? specifically when it has both opposites AND THEY BOTH COME ALONG FOR THE RIDE. You see this this idea is true in every aspect of truth in every situation. It's the middle point kind OF THAT BRINGS TOGETHER THE OPPOSITES. When is it truthful? When is the experience true? When you're able, listen, look at this. When you're able to unite and get together with the opposite. You understand? When you're able TO SIT TOGETHER WITH YOUR ENEMY AND YOUR FOE and and that shows that you're you're at a level of ems. You don't allow the other person's opposition, negativity, arrogance on and on to disturb you from seeking out the truth and including him somehow. And therefore is everlasting. As it says, the language of faith shall be established forever. And if you look at the letters of me, it's the first, middle, and last letters of the olive base. Meaning that the it it exists in the beginning just as it exists at the end. It says the beginning of your word is truth. Next page and similarly what is the seal of it says is truth this refers to it's written seal the among my disciples this a reference to the oral because that's considered the final conclusion. usion the actual law which reveals the will of God which which which reflects the inner interaction of the written explained elsewhere. The world endures only because of truth. Next page as it says in upon three things in the world exists regarding justice the truth and this is referring to the truth of specifically through truth the world exists. because it brings together the opposites. We say this in ashem is close to all that call him all that CALL HIM SPECIFICALLY WITH EM. Why with the a reference to the truth of as we mentioned before what does it mean to call Hashem with truth to call upon and draw down the essence of God through the in with the infinite light through the truth of this is the Next page. When we talk about learning, we mean that you're learning TA IN A MANNER OF TRUTH. Studying for the sake of Tyra, not to be a rabbi and not to be a gabi and not to be, you know, not even to just because it's Hashem's TA. for those who shan this he goes back to what he started this chapter with. Then he brings peace to the heavenly hosts. It's because of the emas of summary drawing down the essential light to is the way to bring together the how is that through is identified with truth and truth encompasses and unifies opposites. So we'll continue tomorrow and um I want to learn as told is the basili of the reb of 1951 uh as the next mimemer uh after we finish which will be hopefully towards the end of next week. Um Iser said that there is a similar volume called uh I guess what lessons in what what is it called? It's called the lessons in safer >> lessons, >> right? >> And this has several of the but it includes >> right okay I mean again for the next mimemer uh I think it's found in various texts. So >> I bought this in New York by the way so I don't know where it's available. >> I know >> maybe >> maybe Kabad uh will ask my shabbron. uh but uh again you don't need this text that text for the next mimema that I want to learn because it's found in other texts it's basani tshing 1951 the first mime of the reba but uh since there are other mymorim that I would like to I would like to use this text to because it has other that will be good to learn anyway have a great day everyone we'll see everyone tomorrow take care shalom bye >> take