Hechaltzu chptr 31- Birthday: Independence, Free Will. Pure vs. Adult rated Pleasure - RC Dalfin

We're holding chapter 30. >> What? >> You're not on video. >> Sorry. Okay. Chapter chapter 31. This is going to be the last chapter that we're learning in this safer. Actually, no. There's one more chapter, but it's I don't know. Okay. We'll we guess it won't be the last one. We'll learn this one and then next week um chapter 32. Um we also uh there's no shear Mon Monday and Tuesday cuz I'm traveling. I'll be out of town. So I can't work it out for the shears. So Monday and Tuesday no shear. But Wednesday we we will continue. We'll finish 32 mashem. So in this chapter in 31 inu the uh author the rabb of the fifth he will explain why tora Torah study has the ability to unite opposites that's the theme of chapter 31 let's go into the text it's known it's written God with established the earth with something called wisdom it doesn't mean wisdom of Aristotle it doesn't mean Plato And it doesn't mean higher mathematics. It means wisdom of the wisdom within the where do you have true godliness where God invests himself only in the wisdom of Ta. If you want God, someone says to you, "Where can I find God?" The answer is in the Tyra. Not not in Yellowstone and not in Yeuseite and not in Msada. They're all nice and important. But where you find Hashem himself, it's in the we're in chapter 31. This is because precedes creation. I'm going to read the note now. Please follow along. This enables the Tyra to serve as the medium through which Hashem's infinite light is drawn down into existence. With that statement, our sages were not speaking in a chronological sense because there was no conception of time before the world came into being. Instead, the intent is that the Tyra enables from a level, I'm sorry, that the Tyra emanates from a level far loftier than our world. and even its its source the higher spiritual worlds which came into existence to make our world possible. So that means the when it says say the Torah precedes the world. We're not talking about in time chronologically. We're talking about in concept. The Tyra is is is such a is such a thing that Hashem gave to the Jewish people that when you study it, you go into a precreation world. And it's from that perspective that the world is created. In other words, the you might say in psychological terms, the the the the the superconscious the subconscious is the prelude but also the way that the consciousness comes about. Continuing inside the text in the note, it is only after God desired to create that our world at all those levels of existence came into being by saying by saying after intent is also not chron chronological the entire framework of spiritual existence the sish was in traditional terminology including our material world exists as a result of his desire to create the by contrast the by contrast exists above creation and any realms or desire associated with creation but rather is bound up with God's very essence and as he is next page onto himself because it is bound up with his very exist essence is a fit medium to draw his essential light down to this world back into the text as we this is we said yesterday quoted and the metaphor and I the Tyra was onto him was for God playful delightful I want to read the note here the notes here are very good inidic thought pleasure which is kinuk in Hebrew is considered man's loftiest and deepest seated potential. Man's other potentials, listen to this, thought, feeling, and even will involve his interaction with entities outside of himself. In his purest sense, in its purest sense, pleasure involves a person feeling in touch with his inner being. In Hebrew, tino hapos, simple pleasure. That is pleasure that is not associated with any other entity. However, even when pleasure is evoked by an outside entity which is called tino hab in the kasidic lexicon that is because these that is because that entity strikes a chord within the person's soul that brings him in touch with his inner being. So we have two thing which means a pleasure that is already means mixed. It's already impacted by the outside by stimuli. Then there is simple pleasure means it's the core of your being. The core of your being has nothing to DO WITH THE OUTSIDE. IT'S WHO YOU ARE. YOU WERE BORN that way. And and and this is important because many times we we think of pleasure we have pleasure from this and that, right? That's not true pleasure. That's a stimul a stimulated pleasure. Mark, I think you should mute yourself. In other words, it's a it's a it's a pleasure that's caused by an outside entity. That's not pure pleasure. True pleasure is coming from within to to out. It's it's who you are. And and and therefore true pleasure, true tyuk is the deepest is the deepest part of the soul. Even understanding feelings and even the willpower isn't tap in and expressive of the what we call the essence of the soul because they're they're all based on a stimuli a reaction. They're reactionary WHEREAS TINO GAP IS NOT REACTIONARY. That's who you are. So why does he say this? Because the verse says Mosa that the Tyra is shashuim a toy. The Torah is a toy. What do you MEAN THE TORAH IS A TOY? A TOY YOU PLAY WITH. Why do we see older people playing with little silly toys and games and things that little children play with? Right? The answer is it it could be that because this tickles their fancy who they really are. SO REGARDLESS IF THEY'RE 75 OR 95 or 55 or 25 or 15 or five, this expresses who they are. SO WHEN YOU ASK A QUESTION, HEY, YOU'RE A 55 YEAR OLD MAN and you're still playing around with these things. Come on, get over it. The answer is this is who I am. This is my tinino. Now sometimes the tiny is messed up. In other words, it it it if I have pleasure from from cravings, unhealthy ones, you got to change that time. It's true. I remember when the Reb spoke about the whole idea of of homosexuality. I think he spoke about it one time that I recall. The Rebba did not say in that talk that the argument was at the time and probably still is that this is who I am. This is my my my tendency, my nature. Why are you blaming me? I have a tendency to be this way. And the Reb didn't say like, "No, that's wrong." wrong. He didn't say that because it could be that is your tendency. That is your tuk. But what he said was when someone wants to jump off a bridge or mountain, I remember he said does don't we need to help them. Yes, they have a TENDENCY TO THEY WANT TO THEY WANT TO HURT THEMSELVES. THEY WANT TO JUMP OFF and kill themselves. We will do everything. We're supposed TO DO EVERYTHING TO TRY TO STOP THEM. The said the same thing for those people that have this tendency. Okay. The TA instructs US TO WORK WITH them to try to change and direct those feelings in a different way. And it's not an easy job. But I'm thinking what I'm saying here about Tuk. Some will say, you know, and and people say Hill is not here. He's the therapist. You know, people have tendencies to to to punish themselves. That's who they are. Well, I'm sorry. IT COULD BE THAT'S WHO YOU ARE, BUT IT'S VERY UNHEALTHY. And let's let's get healthy. But going back to the text here, the the isashu is is a toy, is playfulness. It's why he calls it pleasurable. Now, go back into the text. This comes from the essential delight which is called the delight of the king and his essence. This is what we said earlier the simple pleasure which transcends the level of wisdom. And this delight includes in itself what we call the rebounding light. and the straightforward light energy. Look at the word the word has twice shin of and then you go shin but shin as well. So he says it has twice the shin. The sha which comes from the mean is the word sha to to turn it mean movement and turning the is from the word meaning of the word of movement and turning theem embraces by he. So what's the idea? The idea is that that you're turning you're you're moving the two antithetical types of movement. Yosher the pleasure of the of the rebound and the pleasure of yosher. Some of us have pleasure and thrill from a rebound. We know such people they LOVE GETTING INTO TROUBLE AND THEN bouncing back. Yeah. Yeah. And then there are people who just want to be straight. I want to right. It's two different worlds. I mean here is not the place for but in psychology there's a lot of discussion about this to understand the mindset of a a murderer the mindset of a a thief etc etc. Um the mindset of what you know uh what do they call that? Um a chronic liar right? So >> narcissist >> a narcissist and all that it has to do with this nuda here the nuda is are you an orer type of guy or are YOU AN OR YOSHER TYPE OF guy right are you straight or do you get a thrill risk some people love risk they thrive on risk they live with risk other people they they don't know how to eat risk. Risk to them is dangerous is is bad, right? Well, there is risk and there's not risk. One is our rebound. Rebound meaning the thrill the risk. Our yasher straightforward even keel every day. I eat my eggs in the morning. I have my afternoon nap. I learn a sed in the evening and I come back again and do it tomorrow again and again and again and again. It's all okay for those that and and by the way we have this concept THE CARBON WAS A DAILY sacrifice like the order. Then there is the mus the additional. Are you a are you a tamit or are you a musf? Right now the best of both worlds is to to have each and incorporate each. But usually a person isn't that way. They they they by nature are a certain way. They have to work on themselves to make a change within nature and that's not easy and that's avoid that's a very difficult thing to change your habit to change your personality to change your character very very hard we look around you know today as it says and you know I'm not not I'm not 15 anymore you know I'm 35 either. I look back and you you ask yourself, have you made a change in one mida? Have you made one change in one mida? A certain mida that you had when you were a boy and you were a teenager and then you were a young adult and now you have a family and then you become a grandfather like Mosa, right? No. And it's and now you're supposed to make the Reb writes in his birthday. It's a day of isolation to be by yourself. What? Just to look at the walls. No, to be introspective. That's the idea. To be introspective like what have I done and what rich Hashem will I do in the upcoming year. So this idea of Tino and Tino Murkov is is very real. Let's continue in the textra is so powerful and such a special experience that it includes both the rebound energy and the straightforward one is explained elsewhere. Next page this is the the inclusion of and within the pure delight of the infinite God. This is the meaning which is by the way relevant to the up the chapter 16 that we learned this year for the yard of the previous and that is that God is God is infinite Adam for without an end. And the same God that's above above is without limited. And it comes down from this very sophisticated lofty level, the level of pleasure to find itself within the wisdom of in other words is when you learn you're playing with God. You're having a you're HAVING A GAME WITH HASHEM. THE TYRA IS HIS GAME. And when you learn Ta and you understand the TA, YOU'RE HAVING A GAME AND IT'S FUN and it's exciting. It's that's what he says. And this refers to what we call the reasoning the reasons for also incorporates the two opposites of kindness and severity says from his right hand a fiery law for them which in includes both levels of Buddha if because it comes from comes from the essence of God that incorporates kindness and severity the infinite God that's above trans above and at the same time below therefore even the way descended into the progressive worlds has within itself the two levels of kindness in Buddha. That's why it's called next level which in includes the ascension and the descension as we mentioned earlier. Therefore, where where specifically is invest itself in God's specifically inma summary although the has been identified with its source is actually is in God's essential delights. which incorporates themselves the antithetical movements of the the rebound light and the straight light. Therefore, has within itself and within it is the investment of the infinite light of Hashem. I have a few minutes left. So I'll just say a few words about the whole idea of a yoy malletus. A yo males is a day when Hashem takes a nish and the nish is happy. The nish the kazal say has learned the entire and hashem says to this nish you're happy up here you know the whole well this is not where it's at where it's at is on earth says to hashem on earth the earth has all these challenges and problems and kishuim and difficulties let me be let me be in a place of happiness happiness. So what say you're forced to live explains HASHEM FORCES NAMA GET OUT OF HERE I'M DUMPING out of the THE TREASURE OF OF OF OF namas down YOU GO AGAINST YOUR will and we have another clout kazal say sages say call hadima All roads are dangerous, right? You fly a plane, you think it's not dangerous, it's dangerous. You go out driving between Bamesh and uh Betar Mosha once took me, I think, on those back roads. I must tell you, I was scared. Okay, I'll say you're a wimp, Rabbi Dolphin. You're a big wimp. Okay. The point is when you go on a road and and I know I I know what Y is thinking, right? He says, "I'm walking down THE STREETS OF BUROUGH PARK AND FLATBUSH AND MANHATTAN, especially now in Montami. You you you have worse danger." And you're right. You're right. Boy, do we have stuff. But the point is, all roads are dangerous. So Mark You're out in Fort Lauderdale and the sun is shining and it's 80° and you're going to go later into the pool probably, right? And listen to Rabbi Rabbi Gordon in the pool as you as you're taking a suntan in the pool. Very nice. But this world is a world that is fraught with challenges. We call it danger of challenges. At the same time we we know the the the verse and song of song that associated with the yard side of the previous coming up you've come to a garden. So make up YOUR MIND IS THIS PLACE DANGEROUS OR IS IT A GARDEN? You know what the answer is? It depends on us. We either make it into a garden or we make it into a place of chaos. And that's the beauty and that's the reason and that's the answer. Why did Hashem chase the soul out of heaven and send it down to this world? The answer is to gain one thing and to experience free will, independence, free will. When we were when our nishambas when our souls were in gunen we didn't have any free will you had to do WHAT EVERYONE UP THERE IS doing learn dav shuckle and and and in BASK IN THE GLORY OF GOD THANK YOU VERY much but I'm miss if you're missing free will in a sense you have nothing free will >> exactly so free will is so valuable DBA once spoke about this on Kayell. I'm just rephrasing in my own words what he said. The whole idea of independence makes it worth IT THAT YOU JUST SEND A SOUL INTO THE WORLD WITH ALL THE FRAUD AND DANGER involved because the benefit when we change the world and we elevate the world and we make it a better place. And by the way, that is not something that you need to wait till the Msiah comes. PART OF MESSIAH IS EVERY day making the world a better place, making a home for God on earth will be experienced when Messiah comes. Chapter 37 of Tanya says that. So this this is something to think about today that that that Hashem has given a person when they have their yuses, they have their birthday, Hashem has given them an opportunity to what? To celebrate independence. puffes. So ask yourself the question, am I doing enough to to to celebrate my free will? And and and ask yourself the question, is is my free will always in the right place? Just because God has given me an opportunity to to be independent, well, what if my independence ends up in left field? Well, then you got to really, you know, ask yourself those questions. So, a birthday is not a sad day. It's a serious day. A serious day in the sense of a meaningful day. And everything that we do when we make a a fabangan or a party or a or or this or that what whatever we you know we mount of and it's all wonderful. But let us not forget in the kuda the point it's a meaningful day celebrating independence and that is part of what we're thinking about as we start uh the day we started last night and hashem we were able to um say already half of tim I try to say the whole tieum on my yoma led and later we'll go to the and together So with that, we have another sim. My grandson Zman becomes 13 tonight, the day after my >> Thank you. Thank you. So um we'll celebrate his bar mitzvah. They came from Florida. Mendy, Mark knows Mendy. I don't know if Mark's still on, but um they came to this. They decided no large parties. They just want to have an experience at the oil and in 770 and a family get together with some guests, you know, just lowkey. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. So, and we have to be grateful. grateful to Hashem for all the and the kindness and that includes also those difficult things you know and again without the the you don't appreciate it you you you appreciate it when you go through you know we we had for October 7th on and on you know you have to look at the big picture. If you get bogged down on on on the the thing, you'll be depressed and upset and angry and where is God? Then what kind of God? You see the big picture and you see you see Clausro coming out of three of you know thousands of years of gulos and we're still and we not just still we are thriving as as a nation. And hashem mostly you live in the which is a tremendous that you have you know and more and more people are making aliyah and um it's only you know going to be more and more because it's getting impossible all over including here in in in the big apple which who who would have thought we would have you know a mayor who you know etc. like who who who would have thought that but that's what the world he got 70 80% I mean it's a you look at the stats and and and you say what is going on over here you know okay New York is democratic and liberal but look at the the whole picture it's it's a sign in yes sir >> it wasn't a question it was just I was the person I'm sure that I was that one of many 30 years ago I said anybody who thinks that America is going to forever be a safe place has not studied history. It's, you know, you're you're but you know >> it is so hard and we I've said it many times. >> It is once you become comfortable, we're comfortable. You know, we're comfortable and it's very hard especially when you have obligations to to wife and children and family and friends and jobs. It's it's a very difficult thing, you know. Um but but like people have said over the centuries, you know, so the Gim will make you leave your comfort and go to his throne. Well, that's what's happening now. That's what's happening now. It's it's just uh beyond. I don't know if you guys heard this guy wants to take away everyone's houses. He's a communist. A COMMUNIST. HE WANTS. I MEAN, MY GOSH, PEOPLE ARE PUTTING THEIR LIFE savings in a house and all of a sudden you wake up in the morning, it doesn't belong to you. It belongs to the community. It's like maz, you know. So, so um but >> I'll tell you something I'll tell you on the edges last month my daughter was my daughter and my wife were walking right near Time Square middle of the day like 1 2 o'clock in the afternoon like right near time time square and this African-American elderly guy not a youngster yelled out at my wife and daughter Hy Hitler but like nobody said anything Nobody cared. Nobody said anything. >> Yep. Well, it's it's, you know, it's definitely um there's it is what it is. And um you know, in Hashem, I mean, in a sense, sent Trump, not I'm not talking politically, but you know, in a way to be a strong friend of Eric. Can you imagine if not I mean anyway so my wish is that everyone should be blessed you should all be blessed with your families with good health better health you and your wife your children and grandchildren great grandchildren those that need for their kids should it should happen now it should happen now and and with with with less heartache and of course should open the floodgates gates >> shower everyone with all that money so you can do all kinds of good things and we should and the main thing is we should be mashia because we need mashiach it's way overdue there's no excuses so we should see him because of mamesh and we'll see everyone I'm not going to be here Monday and Tuesday cuz I have them traveling to fabin somewhere in Montreal so um we'll be back on Wednesday you know anyone in Montreal thank you if you know anyone went to Montreal 8:00 at at the showroom lab. I could send you the flyer. It'll be on YouTube, too. It'll be live stream. So, I know it's the middle of the night for you guys, but uh um we'll go probably 2, three hours, so maybe when you get up if you want to join a little bit, whatever. Anyway, have a great chabas and um we'll have you in mind. Z doesn't love you all. Take care. by