Independence requires Boundaries - Israel must be Independent & not bow to pressure - RC Dalfin

so we're learning we're on page p and the AL the last idea he he he mentioned is not only is there no other God which is a given there is nothing else besides it now you've heard it millions of times and it's AOS and the to and the AL adds the Nuance that even something that's important is also an expression of godliness and has no Independence outside of God and and we need to really knock this idea through our brain of Rome it's not that we we aren't important we're all important Hashem says I need you I want you but the importance consists of the will of God and if we deviate for a moment from the will of God and push our own agenda then we're insignificant and then we're walking on our eggshells and then don't be surprised why this doesn't go this way that doesn't go this way you have to be in sync with Hashem so the AL here talks about the name elim because earlier in chapter 4 he explained the name and this is all based on the verse of that he began in chapter 4 for the sun globe and its casing is analogous toim so first he explain and we spoke about that quite a bit and yesterday we learned all about the shim and that it would be an oxim to say that Hashem created something that can block Hashem is he Hashem or is he not Hashem and if he's Hashem if he's God and all of what God is in his in his Essence then how does he do that and the AL explained that this is the choice that God made in order to to enhance the the the god a simum is necessary from his perspective not only from our perspective from our perspective of course if if if you have all godliness if you have it's overwhelming it's too much so what you need to do what right so from our perspective we can understand there's a reason for a disguise but from hashem's perspective why would there be a a disguise and he said that the reason is because gura is just as much God as is but it's it's what we call and and he quoted the verse in other words says I'm building this world with and this is very important H this world is a world of it seems sometimes gor dick right Wars fighting jealousy addictions gor you should know it's but the format of this is in a manner of G like I gave you the example yesterday when you take away the knife and the child who's holding a knife you're doing a you're doing a kindness how are you doing a kind is by taking it away so the act of taking it away is a manifestation of within this is what we learned yesterday and he continues today on page P Al teaching us that there's a difference between the the sun globe and the sun which is the mush the parable and analogy that has been using throughout the chapters in and and creation let's continue we're now on page P after the period for it's five lines from the top therefore the verse needed needs to question us you should know today and you should make your heart be attentive Etc it shouldn't enter your mind all the the and everything that fills it is something separate with something separate God created it but it's separate God then superimposes himself on the heavens of the Earth he fulfills the world all the world like the clothing like the investing of of the Soul filling the body and similar to also hasem giving the power of vegetation to the earth and the power of movement in the constellations which move [Music] yeah and God makes them move and and and and leads them based on his will whatever God wants of the constellations that's what they do aof it would be similar to the soul that controls the body and it and it leads it like its will says but in truth the moral is not similar to the I'm sorry the parable the analogy is not similar to the moral CL at all because the soul and the body they truth truthfully separate one from the other so again the point is going to teach us now is that the the mus and the N is are not comparable why because because the creation and the source of the body it does not come in from the soul of it comes from the drop of semen of the father and the mother that's where it comes from the soul didn't create the body the parents created the body parents with the of but not the soul helps direct the body but it didn't create the body even after the the person's body is created you the the growth of the body isn't just from the soul it's through the eating and drinking of the of the mother dig gestation period the nine months and afterwards when the child come when the fetus is born and and eats and drinks on its own it exists so the AL uses three different things to show and prove that the body has Independence outside of the Soul you can't say the soul created it you can't say the soul alone makes it grow Etc conversely the heavens of the earth their entire Essence is created me from absolute nothingness how through the word of God and's Spirit through his mouth the and Not only was it this way when God created the world but it's God's words and and God's are standing it's in the world today and it influences them constantly every every minute creates creates the world from something from nothing like like like the creation of the ray of the light if not for the sun Globe the ray of the sun wouldn't exist so even when the ray of the sun exists outside of the sun Globe its Force and andak and ability to to shine and to illuminate is because of the power of the sun Globe which gives which makes the the ray of the sun do its job if so the worlds both the upper and the lower all worlds are truthfully literally in in their existence completely in comparison to's word as we'll explain later it's analogous to the ray of the sun while the ray of the sun is in the sun Globe when the ray of the sun is in the sun glob is it's it's bottle it's nullified because the sun Globe is power is is is all there so says being that we were created by asem not that not like the soul and the body that the body was created by Hashem not by the soul so therefore there's always you hear this an independent idea to the Goof when you say that the soul animates the body it's true but it didn't create the body since it didn't create the body there's some Independence of the body from the soul but but the the world we're in there's no Independence existence outside of God and it's like it's like the the world is within the ray of the sun within the sun Globe again remember he says the same words the last three words in of P Al and going down to page 162 now these the this this is God's God's power of restriction and contraction through the attribute of and contraction to conceal and hide is the energy that that influences in them that is given to them that the world should appear to be the heavens and the now when you learn this you can walk away saying so it's all a mirage no like the re Maraj said if it's all and it's all as the says here then lay down on the table and I'll give you a a SM a smiting I'll hit you I'll take out the Whip and a you're not there the Whip's not there the ouch is not there is that true of course not you lay down a table and someone gives your zets you're going to feel it you're going to scream ouch so it's real the the world is real so what is the little game God's playing with us again adds this concept is just as much God as and Revelation and even for thees again because you're probably asking yourself what's the novelty here the novelty is that this concept is within the godhead within hasem it doesn't Begin by us that we need because we need to have a relationship with God so the Tsum is there for our purpose and from our perspective and it help it's for God's it begins in God gor is just as much a Godly act Asis and that's why yesterday I spent a little time on explaining and sharing the importance of gur you know they say the learn how to say no sometimes you can't help a person it's hard it's difficult but if you don't say no you're actually making get worse you're contributing to the problem by saying no by saying I cannot help you the person if they have any brains any sense and they'll stop and think and realize maybe it'll take them years they did the best thing for them for me he did the best thing for me he said no she said no okay initially we don't see it like I want this now I need this now right that that's the problem with whether it be in the addiction field whether it be in other fields it's like the TAA right the whole idea of TAA of indulgences in any in any matter immediate gratifi gratification right pleasure now I don't care what it'll be later growing up my father had an expression he wants to live a tug a pig a piggish day it's a yish cism he wants to leave live excuse the expression like a pig now he knows that that living like a pig with pig puts his head head and and schutz and disgusting what do you want to live like a pig for live like a mench no taste delicious I don't you know like but it's piggish he wants to live today don't tell me about tomorrow ssum is the is is not only a restriction a punishment you know if you live like a a pig and you live like so ugly and disgusting you're going to have issues and people as all we all know and and and iser in the medical field although he's dealing with the fies it sounds like and hopefully it's not this way but people become sick from all kinds of indulgences and later on they wonder why they're sick because you abused your body and you for the sake of self-gratification immediate pleasure you you you went you went this path so yeah it didn't catch up to you for 30 40 50 years but it's going to catch up to you I'm talking to myself as well as to everybody it's we're all this way so if we stop and that's why we need this system of the AL on a daily basis stop and and and take time out and think to yourself I'm a human being I'm not a pig I'm not an animal I'm not just a human being I'm a I'm a I'm a I want to be this so how do I live this way all of that requires the Tsum the gur stop stop hold back right I need it now I need it now no you don't you want it now you you want to end now but if you stop then you're displaying the act of gur from God's perspective cuem also stopped and said in order for the world from my perspective God's perspective to be a world that I want I need gura so this is what we need to understand that this chapter this part of the chapter is all about the importance and absolute necessity of G fromm's perspective let's continue it's appropriate that it's appropriate that you're saying it today which is I've been grateful for G yeah thank you thank you I didn't realize that and you made a nice connection good this and this this contraction and concealment it it plays itself out for us below for the but in from God's perspective everything is not is like nothing before him like the light like the um the ray of the sun within the sun where all you see is the sun the Glo Sun Globe you don't see the ray of the Sun and God forbit to say that the attribute of conceals is a concealment for God because it isn't an independent thing for itself there's a that if you want to cover your head for a or something else have you ever seen a sh people go like this if they're missing their hat or whatever and you know technically you see when you have a yamaka you have you have a lineing usually if you wear these type of yamakas so you have a second covering right but you this hand of RA this is is me for me to put my hand like this let's say I didn't have a yamaka no it's with your sleeve if you're wearing a sleeve oh if you're wearing a sleeve right right but what if you go like this meaningless it's meaningless why is it meaningless because a master it's one it's one goof this and this is part of the same body so one part of the body cannot conceal on the other part this is a dma for the concept here says those are the words I'm focusing on next to the last line in the chapter it isn't something of its own independence if simum and Hester were to be a then it would be a real concealment From hashem's perspective too meaning there would be it would be missing Unity so it wouldn't be unity in other words there would be an area in the world or in something that that's not United with God so so for example how do we see the unity of Hashem in clippos in negativity in evil or in the bathroom in the bathroom Hally you're not allowed to right so how is there unity in a bathroom if there's if there's Unity with of hem all over and any every time and everywhere what about in the bathroom the some will say Oh by not taking a safer into a bathroom you have it's deeper than that the to begin with as it as it is expressed through a bathroom is the expression of Tsum it's the same idea it's AUM it's a and that's part of hem in other words we need a Clipper we need a challenge we need a bathroom we need a negativity why do we we need it because this is Hashem through as as gur is part of Hashem as is but from hashem's perspective there I he's not he himself is not concealed in the gura the sun Globe who has the ray of the sun does it know that it has the ray of the sun absolutely the ray of the sun is not felt and doesn't present itself from its perspective while it's in the Su Globe but from the Su globe's perspective he know it it knows that there's there's a ray of the sun even more so says that the ray of the Sun is stronger we learned this earlier very important point it's stronger in the sun Globe as it is later it's meus its existence as we know it is not felt there but in essence it's stronger you know why because it's near the sun Globe it's like when you're with children your family imagine go to to a gathering of your your children your grandchildren and and kind of your children are now adults and they and they uh conduct the ceremonies and you're the grandfather right it's like you take a backseat or now you know you know my children you know got you're married you know it's like they're out of the house it's like you know you you know so on one hand you say o sad I don't have them at the table every shabas uh and they don't communicate on the phone they're independent they don't want to be nuded and feel like I'm micromanaging their life I think we all can relate to that on the other hand you be they they become stronger as people and as adults and as what the Hashem wants of them through this syum and we become we parents become stronger if we don't it's a problem it's a problem it's it's not as though oh I've given I've given something away it's like they say you know my son-in-law isn't I didn't you know lose a daughter I gained another child my son-in-law my daughter-in-law that idea the ssum is gaining more of God the ray of the Sun the way the ray of the sun is in the sun Globe it's a more powerful Ray of the Sun which will be expressed later but while it's in the sun Globe it's not felt but there it's getting its real energy it's real yes he I I just wondering in this final sense he um I was wondering earlier in another context the euphemism that uh that we see often in in t writings calling the the Bal um first of all is that does that have a show Mak and the gamor an expression I know that the gumar and S talks about the Yar having 10 names uh but I don't think that's one of them if I remember correctly and uh I just wonder what if if it's a more contemporary uh relatively speaking uh idiom and if it its meaning is Bel like you know like the uh the um master of thingness uh of uh separation of separate existence is that the context in which we use that appalation that's my question I I would answer on the first part of your question uh I don't know um it's an interesting thought um you know is the Bal have any origin in kazal I don't recall now I'll try to find out it's because I'd like to know myself it's a good point but regarding the second issue you could connect the two ideas you're thinking nicely um but I'm not sure that's I would say that's not theat but but but you know for H for a a Mitzvah or it's a good all right anyway we'll stop here and we'll continue mem on Monday with the new chapter have a great shabas everyone and everything byebye