Idea, Thought, Feeling, Words - 4 steps to healthy life results - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're holding on page the page in the Hebrew on the left hand side of the Tanya is the regular tanyas and we're at about eight nine lives from the bottom there's a p a word the line begins with the word and then there's a period we're at the word La muscle just to to recap and bring everyone up to date here but it's a midst of explaining how every Mitzvah and every every piece of Torah is is close to every single Jew and very close to them regardless of their education background and involvement because when The Terraces and it says it doesn't say there oh you know to who it's close to someone who puts on two pairs of Thriller you know to who it's called someone who is striking away in their coilover you know dude what's close to someone's going to visit people in a nursing home a general statement potatoes is close to every Jew so this is a very enigmatic statement and this is the downtown's tagline for the Tanya how can you tell me that and and it's and and the reason why it's just tagline why he uses that verse is because in a way he's asking the same thing you're asking Hilo um that's the question how can you tell me the Hashem then the world doesn't exist and everything else so where do I come into play it's the same question so the alternator has been on this expose of of looking at someone who calls the Bengali means average man because his book Hillel his safer is written to us the safer is not written to holy rollers and sadiqam was people sitting on mountaintops or universities or in Yeshiva it's talking to the average person meaning to every Jew so he he gives a a solution and he gives advice for this in various forms throughout the Tanya but we must always remember what his objective is so here in chapter 20 of Tanya had a question that he that he that he answers he says that in chapter 18 and 19 you answered the question I answered the question how tell him it's as close to every Jew by pointing out that every Jew has this hidden innate love for God which is inside the Jew and at some point it comes out and the point is when they're challenged with do or die for for God and therefore this shows who the real Jew is so therefore whether you learned and whether you davened whether you went to Yeshiva and whether you did this or that makes no difference you have in the Shema and you have a soul because you're part of avram and you can jump up and down and backwards and forwards you're not becoming a chicken you are a child of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and the matriarchs whether you like it or not too bad sprinkle water on yourself 65 times convert and bow down it ain't gonna help you and the proof is when the guy runs away to the ashram in India and says please accept me I want to be I want to be with the guru and the guru says I see your I see you star of the star you're a Jew go go back to your people they have a luck with the teach you so about 11 says in chapter 20. that even a Jew who's not confronted with do or die for Judaism for ye described in which case their jewishness comes to form and we see that the nashama is the essence of every Jew that episode true for all of mitzvahs so here's the question this morning everyone here put on thrill in the morning you're telling me that when I put on film this morning I had this commitment to Hashem I do it because I became I am from Jew and followed the code Dakota Jewish law and I put on thrilled you're telling me that when I put on film it's like someone standing over my head and saying you either put on filling or I'm gonna kill you oh oh I'm sorry don't put on filling if you put on filling because God said so and I and I deny God forbid God I'm gonna kill you is that the way we feel in the morning absolutely not find me a person that feels that way you have a hard time finding it so that's what the outlet episode so how is it that in every mitzvah regardless of what the Mitzvah is there is the sensation of God is the only reality and if God's the only reality every mitzvah not just the Mitzvah of kirish Hashem which requires mysteriousness self-sacrifice to God but every mitzvah is imbued with the same feeling this is what he's he's dealing with in chapter 20. what is his particular approach to it after that approach is to appreciate this he says you need to understand how who Hashem is what God is and how the world that God created there's no contradiction to his Oneness because on one hand and a person before and after something is created given to them they're different people right valve was sitting with his wife with his white dot medical doctor uniform he was a time he was a student he wasn't wearing that and he becomes a doctor and he's in the hospital he needs to there's changes we go through changes and here we say our ni Hashem nisi the prophet says I am God the name of God I am God why shinishi I don't change how is that here and that's it said later in the second section of Tanya a great more length but over here he speaks about it as well he teaches us to follow says that the how is the World created with what ha with what did God create the world so it's it's embracious in Genesis what does it say there the racism he or he this may this there should be light and there should be illuminaries and there should be fish right so it's the word of God the utterance of God We call we call them the ten utterances Assurance have my morals so these are sort of my morals these 10 utterances are worth talking about says let's take let's look at the concept of speech speech the particular one utterance that you say right where does it come from it comes from something inside of you called the nephehammedabaris the speaking so the faculty of speech within the soul now the faculty of speech within the soul is it limited to one two or three sentences the answer is neither because it's Limitless compared to the one particular speech talk utterance you can speak indefinitely as much as as long as you're alive and you can speak so the first equation the autism makes is that the the one word the one utterance is what we call ghoul limitation and if you compare that to the faculty of speech within the soul that would be considered believable be up transcending limitation break shattering convention compared to big vehicle is like is like nothing so num the number one compared to a billion is like nothing yet a billion is made out of a lot of ones so to say that a one is nothing it's not true it's like nothing in the Hebrew that the autism uses in the chapter it doesn't say it's nothing it's kid the kid in Hebrew makes it it's a conjunction like as though it's like it's nothing because it's so insignificant compared to the ability to speak endlessly then the outer number says where does the power of speech within the soul where does that come from in if it's a healthy speech talk thought it comes from Avi you're thinking if you speak without thinking you sound like a big fool the power of mashaba is ultimately a source for divorce for speech so now he says this is the second point take this one utterance let there be light and compare it to the power to the faculty of thought it's even less nothing why because in the if you compare one utterance to the power of of of speech it's like comparing one to a billion so although it's like nothing it's still a billion is made out of many ones but now compare one to not numbers but one two psychological ideas I don't know whatever there's no comparison between the two this is a different world this is a different world in other words the insignificance of the one utterance let there be light compared to Hashem as Hashem is in the in the level of thought it makes the the let there be light even more insignificant it's because it's not like one in a billion where all billions made out of all ones we're talking about a different category God is God is from that perspective thought not speech then that that's number two then the altarez episode number three if you compare this one utterance to the essence of the Soul I.E your mind your intellect and your feelings your heart it's completely in a different world because even thought given that thought is the um what's What I'm Looking For Thought is the uh the um the I don't know if the word progenated would be right here thought is the is the step that leads to speech so there's an association so let's let's try let me let me let me give you an example like this there's a person who had three stages okay there's a person who studies something reads something and it's totally not moved even though it's speaking about something that should lead to attraction or distance the scientific not the same the college professor the rebbe you know you when he teaches something a good teacher needs to begin not from the emotional part and not even from the intellectual part but from the concept in its very raw form and and from there it it progresses downward to bringing the pure abstract concept into thought and from thought into speech ever thought into speech so you have three stages so when people say you know when people say like this they say like this Oh I thought about something does that mean to say that they they are understanding something no it's two different things understanding is bereft it's stripped from words a concept doesn't have words in it a concept is an idea it's a concept a Feeling doesn't have words once you take the concept and you articulate it and you think about it which then it uses thought or you speak about it and then it awakens feelings that's where feelings and thinking have a place and the altareb is saying give me one second unless you adopted up as saying that Hashem God almighty when he creates the world on one hand this one how does he create he says let there be light so you would think once he says let there be light there is significance to that statement and life is is here and the light kind of is in control says the altered wrong the light has no significance except when God wants it to have significance so it's the utterance is completely a product of God and God chooses when the utterance should be valuable and important and why not so the utterance doesn't make the world any more of an existence so when you ask the question when we ask the question how is it that God didn't change pre and post-creation right that's the big question the answer is because creation is all God if creation itself had any intrinsic value and control you're right it would make a change in the godhead but since in the godhead creation is his creation and he is behind the creation therefore the creation never really exists independent of God and I gave you the muscle two days ago it's mentioned this and worth mentioning because some of you weren't there and that is when you throw a rock upward and the rock is flying what happens when the power of your hand that you use to throw the rock ceases the rock falls right away down and we say it's the laws of gravity now let's define that you know what happened here the rock never became what we call a flying Rock The Rock was riding on the power of the person's hand that threw the Rock and is kind of caring it's as though the rock as it's flying the hand is pushing it upward upward upward and then when the hand gets tired the hand drops and the rock falls down but why the rock is flying because the rock never became an independent flying Rock it's a rock that's flying only because of the power of a person's hands so Sid this says this is the same thing with debris with the creation it's not that once Hashem made the world 5783 years ago Hashem made the world hey now you have the kayak hello you have the ability you're strong you can stand on your own you don't need me I get I'm the Creator and if I created the world and I gave you kayak stand on your own two feet wrong because to begin with from the first moment of creation God did not create the world in a way that the world can has any independence of its own it's all God so as soon as you strip God from creation there is no world this is what we've learned until now Malaysia before we learn inside what do you want to say yes sorry you mentioned that there are three stages you said the initial I assumed initial is the initial of the first digit is the initial thought the concept that raw Flash the second you mentioned about thinking about the cons I don't I didn't catch the third third feeling uh I mean the feeling that's generated a film that's generated by thinking about something you know if you don't feel about if you don't think about something or someone it either a distant way or an attractive way the feeling is not generated or it's a false feeling and we have plenty of that too fantasy feelings you know wannabe feelings I want to love him oh really if that's not a Feeling a feeling is a feeling in the heart something moves you you know you feel different right or or distance and fear and reverence you know respect it it it it moves you so that comes from thinking about the person or the thing but that itself begins with an idea and that's what we're saying over here in the sheer that an idea doesn't equal thinking and I an idea of thinking uses an idea a concept okay let's go into the text now let Marshall page 26 because I'd like to finish now the chapter the muscle doubt that but gives here an example foreign when there enters a certain feeling of Love and Desire in the heart of man for whatever it is for in a sense from the heart to the mind to do what about to think about that feeling and desire foreign at that stage it doesn't have yet what we call letters words when you have a feeling in the heart it doesn't have words yet it's a Feeling why do you feel this way I can't tell you that's one stage Rock what is it Abram what is it hey fits Pursuit a simple desire the Shaker the love and a Desiring of the heart and who to that item which he desires he wants foreign needless to say before the the the desire entered the heart well he said double to that particular thing it was still in his mind in hisai in his intellect he knows that this thing is a good thing he doesn't feel it he understands that wearing headphones it's a good thing before you put on the headphones and you see how the headphones work are they good on my ears are they too loud right before that you read somewhere is Sir that it'll be helpful to hear the communication that we're having in the sheer under the on the program by wearing headphones so you need so you you learn you learn somewhere or you heard somewhere or you you read somewhere about headphones that's not yet in your heart headphones it's up here and therefore Victoria and therefore you came to the conclusion it's good for me to buy a pair of headphones really and to attach yourself to the headphones let's go to another example so Abby you read something and you say you know touring I came there to throw this is the holy land this such condition here there's such history here our ancestors walked the earth I want to study Master this land and I'm going to do it by walking it and learning it and studying it and ultimately sharing and teaching others oh he liquid is a Michael curry olive another example there's a good sweet food and you understand that this is nice and sweet and therefore you want it Rock we turn out to the next page 52. last night once the idea enters the heart through the usage of the Mind one second so only after it enters the mind of the person and the person understands it and from there the person feels it doesn't make an impact and afterwards it returns and it ascends from the heart to the mind to contemplate on on it how can I fulfill my potential of wanting and understanding the goodness of headphones or sweet food or an intellectual uh study how can I bring an elap oil to the to bottom line lahasiga Michael to actually get a hold of that food or even meet us or to actually enroll and in that course and study it began words are generated only at this point I'm gonna explain a moment a little better everyone thinks with different words you see not just Chinese think one way in Japanese another way in England in England another way in Australia every person has their set of words that they use to process which makes them think about all aspects of the world but the outer ever saying here is there's a process mind heart mind initially there's an idea from the idea it you think about the idea and then you feel the ideas that comes into the heart and then wait it goes back to the mind and at that time you have already the words to articulate the idea in the initial stage you don't you this is the proper way of of studying in the initial stage one focuses and the idea not on the words of the idea because there are no words there yet and if you have words guess what you don't understand the idea when you sit and are listening properly to a Shear to a teacher you shouldn't be thinking about how to process it you have to suspend your words your your way of interpreting what the teacher is saying and let the information seep in into your head once it seeps in into you it's in your head then you start thinking about it and then you just ask yourself now that I've thought about what my teacher said how do I feel about it and once you conclude that that you haven't underst you've thought about it and you feel a feel you feel about it then you create words and I would think myself this is true in a good piece of art and I see it in writing you know when when I'm able to follow this kind of three four step progression the product comes out much better because to begin with it wasn't based on my understanding and my feeling no no no let the idea overwhelm me so first you have to in other words um who said over here uh uh Easter said before began this year another day in Earth's row so imagine you're beginning your day and you're just thinking I'm a narrative soul and you just allow that to to overwhelm you that it's a very different approach than let me understand that which is wrong what are the positives of earthy snow what if God forbid the shortcomings you know there's none but you know and and who am I see that's what we do constantly we're always interjecting who am I house relevant to me and this answers another part of your question is Sir again from before this year about that you're learning with Maisha and Hillel you have to train yourself we have to train ourselves and this is the proper way of learning anything I don't mean only Torah to when we learn not to ask ourselves at that time how is it relevant to me what am I going to do about it what am I going to get out of it there is that stage because when you need a degree and when you need to you know you need to go you have to graduate you have to get your M.A and your ba and your PhD and you need to then become whoever you are and what you're doing yeah at that point so relevant but initially initially you want to get the authentic information yes yes sir that's a personal shortcoming of me and perhaps in my training and my work is what's a task list I need to know the topless because I need to work with this and you know like you know the theory is one thing you know there there's there's the mathematician and there's the engineer and then there's the technician in in my daily life I feel I feel as a technician I'm a mechanic I need I need the topless if the tactless is very The Tackle is simple that when you deal with your patients you're dealing with your patients and the more it resonates with you at a night nobody trust me you'll have better results the more the more we the less we have a night Movado and the self and the ego gets in the way we have more issues so this is this is not a theoretical study this absolutely has a bottom line the tongue is very much but but the way the Tanya tackles the issues is a very different way than than most Hasidic response for example it's not the person here we learned the passion is effort I'm inspired yeah 100 percent but the Tanya wants to deal with all of man and all the complexities of man and that like you you said you know you know what I'm saying is okay even if I can understand how aim like Movado so where do I come in that's a real question and it's an important question but the issue is what I'm saying is there's a time for that question give me one more second I'll take your question in talking to the bank and he says Bane and Eve potential banana you should know that the more you uh you you come to an understanding that ain't like nobody and how the world is insignificant meaning that you're insignificant that's the answer you want the answer house relevant it's that we as a as an ego oriented individual is insignificant you know you're like a flying Rock you're flying or flying you're a big shot you're a big mocker you have all the degrees in under your name you you give lectures and you're only because of the kayak of the Abel so after all you're nothing at the same time you're everything you know why because Hashem wants us to be everything that's why we're everything yes Maisha I was gonna say that definitely there's no question that when I'm working on the pizza there's no question is the initial thought the initial um bursts of inspiration and then these stages just it's completely relevant completely completely relevant um I just want to ask though that last stage about the feeling or there's the initial thought they have the then the thinking the generating the feeling so once you've generated the feeling so that so so what follows after that again once you understand an idea the idea and then you think about the idea and then you have a feeling that's generated because of you thought about the idea what that what then is created is is words articulation of the idea when I say words Moshe I mean then you can put the piece of art on the on the paper and then you can find the right person that you want to use for that particular burst of inspiration that you had months ago now now I know which person which to learn to use you understand I I see this in my work in writing also and and and you know if I if I generate a title a title for a book when do you know so yellow Journal yellow journalism is such hey guy just use a uh a catchphrase we'll just leave it at that okay or or worse and you get everyone to buy your book what's the big deal but then you say wait a second is it about just selling books and yellow journalism when you want to present truth as much as you objective truth as much as you come through and you study you know yeah of course you want to make a sale but you want to sell a product that stands for what what you and and what you learned and what you believe in and what you want to share with the with the world so just to put up a a title that's that's has nothing to do with what you're writing about is false it's it's it's it's uh false advertising maybe it's like it's like when you want to open a business I know when I did this I've opened closed a bunch of businesses is that you think first of the idea of the business you think it's a good idea if there's a need if there's a market and then you come up with the name you know afterwards this is it right so that's I'm answering my shoes unless you understand so the the ocos this is Dr Robert saying the the words it's like the the name for the business the name for the book The particular verse that you're using now to describe this particular piece of art that came to you two years ago right it took you two years to make this so but only after those stages that you went through as you worked on this do you do you come up with the right words to describe it in this in in the state of mind where you're thinking about it and even feeling it it doesn't yet have the words are a a byproduct words are a result the words are a bottom line so Israel says I have to know the topless you will know the topless when you go through these stages the tacos will come to you there's not even a question you will see what the topless is and then you act on the topless if a person wants to go that route so in other words a doctor you're a doctor right you you studied you understand you thought about it and then I I would assume that you had a feeling toward a particular area in medicine that you said I can help people with this way and I want to do that so it wasn't only because you need to have the money it wasn't only because you want to be recognized in the medical books it's because you you came to some place where it resonates with you and once you have that then you you you you you find sorry then the words come to you of how to implement it which you call before the tacos Kevin tomorrow Thomas tonight the rivers yard sign the 29th yard site so try to come please and uh wolf I bring and we'll we'll Inspire ourselves and uh everyone if you have a chance either write your own pigeon letter and send it to the olol.org I think it's online you can fill it out it's simple or if there's anyone going from that shemish that you know of um or if you want you know I'm not sure I myself will be at the AOL it's it's it's so busy there but I will be there within the next uh three to five days uh but it's best if you write your pigeon it says after davening tomorrow and on the computer so whatever do whatever whatever whatever you can and want to uh and and the main thing is not to rush your writing of your petition note you know there's a lot of times we're nervous and then we're having patience and take the time knows the right to take a few minutes of thought and calmness to write children your family your friends whatever whatever whatever you whatever your needs are but it should be done with um my shovel you know what I'm saying because when it goes towards Sadiq who presents it to Hashem it's serious business this isn't just uh oh another another tadiq we're going to another one another visitation it doesn't work that way it it's it's if you want it to be meaningful to yourself and to make an impact then then do it the right way and the right way is to put thought into into your writing so in a way it takes longer to write the pigeon than to actually read it once you're at the IL or once it's a typed in to be rid of the oil or torn the paper to be torn up at the oil that takes minutes you know relatively speaking but the thought to to what you put down on paper that should be significant and that takes time so so I urge you again and if you don't have the time tomorrow after davening because you know you have a busy day or this and that then do it tonight and those that are able to to do this by by going to a Mikvah in the morning it's it's better if not if you shower let the water come down and have a mind it's like your mixer and if you can't go to the mick foe or you don't go to make food okay and gives them to DACA give some sadaka to one of these preferably to one of the Rebus institutions good but since it's I think that would be a more appropriate thing the rebel also speaks about sharing with family friends and people in the community so there's nothing to be embarrassed about that ever has a good record to helping claw your throw so um I hope tomorrow next uh maybe Issa and Hillel and Moshe can bring some chicken you know it's gimbal Thomas because they're people there most people not Lubavitch there you know and um and they'll wish it's a special thing have a great day everyone see everyone tomorrow bye bye you're welcome