Holy of Holies, where is it today? How to access relate to G-d - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

I apologize that I have to slip: but I will okay we're learn we're learn we're learning now Tanya P chapter 52 we're on page 83 uh 73 but in Hebrew I in giml it's across 144 and we're reconciling here how the how God's presence is all over and at the same time the statement by the sages is that it finds itself specifically in the holy of holies in the Holy Temple so the AL explaining is that it depends what aspect of God you're talking about the essence of God is all over God's manifestation is in various different places and manif manifest in different ways so go to the second word on the top line on on that page gim itself which is the primary Revelation and and and the primary and first revelation the fact that the in infin God illuminates all the worlds raled and it is the source of all energy in all worlds for all energy within the world's is only is just but an extension of God's light it's not it's comparable he says to the to the light of the sun is the light of the sun the sun itself no it's it's a it's a an elemination a reflection of the Sun and it's that part of the reflection that allows itself to be seen in the world so it's impossible for the world's to be able to tolerate and to receive the light of the that it should actually dwell and invest itself in the worlds without a garment that will conceal the P for light and it will conceal it light so doesn't become not in in in reality in its source and this would be compared to the the light of the Sun in it Source take for example the the the Sun that we have coming to us now think about the Sun that we have think about it as it exists in the source in the fireball in the sun itself this light this reflection is not at all seen there it's the the the fire the fire pole itself the sun itself so the only way that you're able to have it is through a garment now the AL asks a question if you're telling me this that it's it's it that it's the Garment how is it that the Garment that that the that the ray of the ray of this of Hashem is not is is is not uh consumed by the Garment if the Garment is so powerful so that's what he explains now what type of garment spiritual garment can conceal the intense light to the point where the existence won't become not he answers who this is God's will and wisdom which is invested in the Torah that's God's Will and that's revealed to us is associated with wisdom this is the superal wisdom the which is above above Alma isalia from the world of Revelation and there we call God as we said earlier in tanan chapter 2 God has the virtue of wisdom but you cannot say that I know God through wisdom and what if someone m is not a wise God man and he's an emotional man and he relates to God he can't have a Godly experience sure he can so that's why we say God possesses the virtue of but he is not known through you cannot limit God to to wisdom you could say that whatever virtue there is in wisdom he has that as well and whatever virtue there is in understanding he has that as well whatever virtue there is in emotions he has that as well but the pinpoint that to limit God to wisdom or to emotions and all that is a limitation on God that's what he says here as we explained earlier that the infinite God infinite light of God is invested and in and and United with superal wisdom God and his wisdom are one however it descended many many levels from level to level through the of all the world's until a minute amount of energy of godliness is is is found in the physical world and the 630 mitz we're in middle of page of now towards the last part of the page after the period And as the energy of descends from level to level so too does the now we're talking here about guys we're talking about God's Essence in Torah and then the and he says the Torah within each world as it as it goes as it goes from world to world is divested and so it makes also difference in the that's what he says also descends in each world the we call the Chamber of holy of holies and he says the Z says this as it says book of which is the 10th sphere of skip the BR it invests itself in a lower chamber in the chamber called the holy of holies of Bri that that means the the wisdom understanding and knowledge of I'll explain soon and when it invests itself in it not only relates to the in that world it creates actually souls and angels in the world of Bri please turn to page 146 top of the page the talmud that we have right we talk about learning the talmud the gamor the talmud is made possible through the world of Bria you see everything has a spiritual counterpart we take a book and we say this is the talut right right Mark we take a book this is the tal this is the the Torah that's true but where is this Torah and this tal would begin and that's what we're learning here in this section of Tanya today that it has a counterpart and it begins the spiritual Realms in which spiritual realm depends so the the world of Bria which is the the the closest world to the world of aute which is the world of emanation the world of godliness godliness rubs off on it so if godliness rubs off how is it that there could be obscurities that are presented in the talmud right in the talmud rabbi Mark says this and Rabbi velv says this and Rabbi he says this and there's differences and one refutes the other and they're going back and forth this is all part of the tal the Tal's way of study and the answer is because Bria the world of creation is such an experience where it where the godliness I.E the clarity of God is obscured that's the difference between the world of aus and the world of Bria the clarity is obscured once Clarity is obscured abam you can have you arguing with me and I with you and he with he and and we have all kinds of different arguments in the world of there's no arguments it says there it's there's a verse in t it says no evil dwells there so says that verse is a reference to the whole concept of Bad Evil obscurity concealment doesn't exist there from the world near close close to what to the godhead yes M yeah RAB dolphin so we say that in Bria God is already obscured we saying that cus he's not correct but my question is what about how do we relate to the world of and then lower than that right okay okay good question the obscure Purity in Bria is the fact that it isn't Aus in other words there is Purity a pure person then there is a person in English it doesn't sound good who's not pure meaning not that he's a Shyer but he doesn't have that purity of aus that very doesn't have the purity of aus that itself is already impure you see so that's Bri that's Bria why because Bria says let me start with an idea the idea is called a world a physical yes is in PR yes is notus cuz Aus is considered a compared to Bria a means nothingness nothingness meaning only God no material I'm talking about spiritually the no concept of materiality it took malus the SPH the 10th SPH of Inus to say um I I I smell that there's something good about creating a world would you give me an opening so Bria is the opening the opening is already a form and I think in your work you should be able to relate to this you know there's the creation of an idea in your head before you sit down before right then you you start with a a general draft I I mean I can just talk about my work and writing that's the way I do it I have an idea this is what I want to write about this idea then I sit down and I make a general out outline that would be Bria then and that the outline includes chapters I'm just saying the way it works for me then I start just writing things that I'm thinking about as I put the as right so that's a I start forming the form and finally it's not finished it's far from finished you have to have aa aa is where you refine it and you edit it and you and you cut and paste so so spiritually it works this way as well there is the way AEM is in in the reality of ailos it's only Hashem only God then there is that it's not only God yet it hasn't yet be formed that's Bria the fact that it's not only God that itself means it's one step away from God there's now an opening for something something non goodly compared to Godliness to exist but I don't have don't know what it is yet I don't right it's just a imp potentia then we have y the third world which is an a formation and AIA action but going back to what we're learning here is saying here that the talm that we have it it the the the fact that there is this kind of you know argumentations back and forth and everything time would be it's it's really its seat is Bria because as soon as it's you say it's not God that itself is the opening for difference of opinions and and and and disagreements and everything else we're going on to the second line on 146 as we learned earlier the name of that in the world of there shines and there's an influence from God's and of the infinite God but in what way through a mighty contraction you cannot have a Bria a a Bria creation if there is no tsub why cuz God's Infinity is too powerful F again the the mush that I gave several times the teacher was a genius he comes into the room to teach if he doesn't contract his information it's he's not teaching students he's he's teaching he's talking to himself he just needs he gets paid he needs to go into a pay room to to to a room or he needs a sounding board so he but he hasn't descended and removed his great knowledge and contracted better said his great knowledge to be able to make the students understand from where they're coming from so that's what he says here that in in order for the world of Bri to emerge they needed to be back into the text for the purpose so that the souls and the angels which are limited they should be able to receive the influence from God that's why from there comes the which is also right there is the mishna the six volumes the mishna sit right it's very very brief the reasoning is not giv in the mishna if you open up a gar a talud which has the mishna and the talud you'll see always theal says we learned in the mishna this and this why who says it and if there's two opinions why doesn't one say like the other it's typical in of any piece of talud why is that because the mission itself is is brevity it just says Rabbi says this and Rabbi is says this doesn't tell you why he says this and why he says that and why he doesn't accept this opinion and why she he doesn't accept that opinion so is saying here that that tal is what we call the reason for the the reason for the law right so it says it says it says that okay you should put fill in square boxes on your head between your eyes well if you're BAS in that on a verse in the Torah the Torah says it should be between your eyes where is in between the eyes here or here here here my eyes and here's in between the eyes and the tal asked that question and Talman says wrong you don't put it here you put it on your forehead up here and you know the S Seas it's they they were Heretics and they didn't accept oral law by the rabbis and they would put on Fillin and I think I told you a long time ago I went into their synagogue in the in the old city in Jerusalem it's still there I assume and I got someone who let me in and I saw what they say is a few thousand years old I don't know but that that's a sh from theim from the that are Heretics and they didn't they took everything literal in the Torah so if the Torah says put the arm put those arm between your eyes they put boxes in between their eyes and it says don't light a fire on shabas no light sit in the dark came along the talud and the talud opened up and said you don't understand what the verse is saying and I'll prove it to you and the tal brings proofs what which is the verse in the Torah between your eyes really means it doesn't mean it means by your forehead centered between your eyes but not down here and how we come to that you have to open the T and track Theos and you'll see the the the discussion it's a discussion and the same is true with many pieces with tal tal is the reasoning of H the clarification of Jewish law okay so let's look back in the text from there comes the because the tal is demonstrative of using the your intellectual components in understanding and the reason is the reason for laws not just understanding means very well now we have the the reason right the the reason for Jewish law what about law itself law itself he says is an expression of the Midas of the emotions meaning do this and don't do that and he explains why why we have three three Notions kindness kindness benevolence D judgment severity punishment all that and then we have ra Mercy compassion so all of all fits into one of these categories either it's an expression of judgment or expression of kindness or expression of mercy so for example exle don't take right the Torah says you know look don't take the mother bird from the child right right there's a Mitzvah it's a difficult Mitzvah to do but actually I did it in Tel Aviv in my daughter's building there was a nest and there was I was able to take away the the the the the the the the the egg and be Mitzvah here in Brooklyn's very hard to to find that and they have people in shoes putting up if you want to do the Mitzvah call this and this number you'll see that once in a while but in there seems like it's easier right what's the what's the purpose in the mitah there many the basic idea is RA have mercy the the the mother bird shouldn't feel the pain of of the S of the of of of of of the child being taken away from her so that's a mitzvah that's that rings of Mercy compassion Torah says Don't Close Your Hand on someone who needs and asks for S why compassion then there's other Mitzvah which are Mitzvah that are oriented towards kindness and other Mitzvah towards G so that's what the AL is saying here that theas themselves are associated with with the mid with the emotions with the character and he says that's why from that comes about what permissible what forbidden what's koser what's not koser what you're obligated what you're exempt from now when Mal of the highest World invests itself in the of the next World of that's when it makes it possible for it to emerge and invest itself in what we call the holy of holies of sh which is a reference to of and once the energy has gone from to then was created in the world of which you asked about are the spirits and the angels so basically angels and spiritual uh realities are all associated with actually I take that back what I said earlier he says here if I understand it correctly that's what the Mion is the spiritual counterpart of the Mish is there she which are definitive laws that draws itself and comes from the Infinity of God the only difference is that the level of which is the reasoning for laws they're invested and and and and hidden in the laws themselves they're not revealed and then you have the actual laws not the reason but the actual laws which are revealed they are said earlier they a reflection an amination of God's idos his emotions the character real revealed as we say in the name of they rest that's what it says in the Z we say it on Friday night in before before Friday night in the in the service refers to two orientations the right and the left which is the right being to be lenient for the side of kindness which also is the reason for perm permitting things that so because the energy is able to ascend to God or the opposite to be stringent and strict all of this is based on the peral wisdom of God as expressed in the and is also included there so it we stop right here just because this will end tomorrow but what we're learning here and only a uh a t drop of what the the the the what's going on here because it's a very very loaded chapter as I told you from the beginning but the AL is saying here is that the idea of the being in the Kim the holy of holies is not only a reference to the being in the Holy Temple uh over there today you know in by thei on on the over there where they have their mask that's a physical thing but spiritually there's a concept of kiim what's kiim Ki Kim Torah so there is the way Hashem invests himself in the Torah and there's the way Hashem invests himself in and what we're saying is that the is the manifestation of God's of God of Hashem investing himself in Torah so that it's true and there's no contradiction between God filling the entire world and Hashem being Asal say the rabbis say Hashem being in the kiim because of course God's all over God's Essence is all over no question about it there there isn't a place where Hashem isn't but nevertheless nevertheless the way that manifests itself is in Kim and this explains another general idea why is it important let's say to go to thei you know when possible at least three you know three times a year whatever why is it why is it why can't I pray at my house if God doesn't hear me of course Hashem hears you hasem Hears A A Prayer anywhere and any time the doors are always open nevertheless there is the like antennas and there is static so certain places the there's less static there's more intenance and there's more clarity and that's the whole idea and and others you know go to a sadik's Cav the Reb's Cav other sikim right what's the whole idea what do I have to go to a cave record D here at my wall the answer is that where a place where holy person's buried the there's less static there so you're asking that sadic to intercede on your behalf and because you know that this person led a life of Holiness to bring your requests to Hashem right that's the idea of going to whether it be a caver a a holy grave site or going to the coel or going to the the Patriarchs the matriarchs are buried the mar or anywhere else so I think it I think it's it's important to know both sides of the coin a person can't get to a sadik's caver okay they need to know that if you if you if you pray with you're genuine and you really mean it you can connect from wherever you are at the same time at the same time a person should make an effort you know to get to to a place of and the same is true for a synagogue and the same is true true for a study hall right you could learn anywhere why do you have you can learn here at my dining room table what do I have to go to a Sho to learn because there's some holy energy that envelops a Sho okay the rebba always said I remember hearing this from the rebba hundreds maybe thousands of times he said about 770 this is the place where my father-in-law the previous laab his father-in-law prayed and learned for 10 years he came in 1940 and he passed away in 1950 and therefore this synagogue is imbued with his Holiness I heard that from him many times so there's extra value to pray and learn in such a place if you identify with it if you don't identify then it's meaningless for you you know the Kim the holy of holies we didn't listen the average person didn't get into the K I don't know if any I don't think anyone here is a k right only a Coen went into the k Kim the holy of holies once a year so what what connection do I do I have to k k and yet the rabbis the sages make a big deal about the holy of holies y Kipper look at the Y Kipper service talks about cing him look at this chapter in Tanya so in other words in other words in in other words that even though we are not kohanim and we don't have we still are told to relate to it so I'm saying in the same way even if a person can't get to the B's Cav over there in measur Bush Ukraine wherever it is today or or or this sadic or that sadic if you identify if you identify that itself is already a a a connection let's say up there up the road from um raot whatever not raot over there from the from mayor sharim got cver you know what that means Samuel the prophet's Cav you're talking about a prophet thousands of years ago we open up and we learn we read afteri and just 10 15 minutes up the road you know you could be right there again if you believe he's there if you believe they've identified the right place so if a person can get there and I know I know I know someone from Russia actually who made Aliyah and he goes every single week with with with he tries to take people to Shi he's found solace in 's place then what about shimad right across Mayim what they call East Jerusalem right where there's been skirmishes and all that literally to walk from May to there is 10 minutes walk you're right there as long as it's safe you know whatever and right you're talking about a sage of 2,000 years ago is lying in your background if you you know so now people here in America and we don't have that or even bemish you guys got to you know take a car or a bus or a train whatever to get there but the point is that we whether we could get there or not it should be important to us it's a Cy cutu I think if we walk away from from you know a piece of Tanya like this which is loaded and very you know heavy and difficult and we walk away with this concept that itself is very very soothing and important and people like Moshe and AR who are drawing art and they and they draw you know about these places this isn't just you know a picture it's trying to show and Inspire the person who will look at this picture by the picture you know the art the you know it it talks to you and and the artist puts their soul as though they're standing there and and probably a lot of the thing some of the things that you guys draw you've been there so you have a a sensation a feeling when you draw it you know cuz that's the best thing you know as a writer as well those things that i' I've been a I can say I was there my writing of that is is on a different level cuz I was there if I wasn't there and I'm writing about it and trust me a lot of things I wasn't there or I didn't meet the person who was there because they already passed on it's a different it's different so what what happens here is that the Kim creates a reality in the person writing about it drawing about it learning about it talking about it and and that's one of the reasons for tours really touring can be just a secular mundane experience or it can be a Holy Experience you know when I took people on tours years ago when I was n and I leted tours of spiritual places I just didn't take them to visit it I would tell them who the person who was there some of his teachings had to kind of identify with the person who's there that's dir it you know it's it's not just okay uh you know here's it's a Blue Dome we're driving the up the road to to toat theia and we see see off the road pan have you guys been to pikan right there's the new padash the old p and the old and the new P right when I went into p and I didn't even know about pin but someone was going to take me up toas and he knew about he says let's let's make a detour I I thought I'm I came back 3,000 years 3,000 years and I snooped around I'm talking about now 20 25 years ago you know allow yourself to be submerged by by where you are or you go to the my my daughters went to the um to the Mahal okay you know in Prague I think mosha said also told me went to Prague you know there is an opportunity for a a soul experience really to live through a person like the maral the Golem you know or or Ville is out in you know in Germany and in Cologne and and the re J he told me um was there I think one yum we don't know exactly where you know think but but these things aren't just okay I was in Poland one time and I was driving back from where my mother was born and my grandmother and right outside of wara 20 25 minutes cuz someone so I was looking for records so someone says in this place called po uh po pusk they keep records so it made a detour over there and as we're driving in he the driver says to me look at the wall and he takes him into the city center before we get to this city hall or whatever it was and on the wall it says Napoleon was here Napoleon stayed in that house now laav don't know Napoleon's a non-jew and you know but even even that it's oh that's you understand so when we talk about kadim it's not just I'm going to the K because you know I need a when you're standing at the co and you know that right above you the was the temple service with with were were great people and they prayed and they sang to hasem wow you you know you have that opportunity okay we'll see everyone tomorrow have a great day take care Shalom bye byebye yes byebye bye