Is it possible for a Jew to be completely bad? Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

good morning to everyone we're learning now Tanya Patrick youth Olive chapter 11 page 30. I just want to bring everyone up to date as far as where we are in Tanya the altarebe here in Tanya is developing for us a the Prototype of the human being and he calls it he calls the ultimate human being the banani and it's a using the komodan Brokers there's five categories and the pain in the in-between and the altered says that if you if you follow it based on Shane mahmutual the battle name of the word Sadiq Russia it refers to you know how many brownie points do you have more reward reward than punishment is it happen half and all of that and and it's true and that's how we are um judged you know traditionally uh you know which which scale is gonna tip you know and it's all true but now that ever proved in chapter one of Tanya in the very beginning that that's not adequate and that really man and the five categories refers to the massive the place of the persons the shama their soul where are they at spiritually and that's really what determines the person who the person is and the authority uses the word the shame so we have two things the description of man the inner description of who man is this was something that the altered set up in the very first chapter of Tanya because as he begins as 53 uh chapters of developing these thoughts he has to give you the groundwork right in the beginning and he did that then he started to explain what the Netflix Obama says number one at the end of chapter one what the Netflix other kisses in chapter two that he spoke about the garments of I'm sorry the the faculties of the nephew the case in chapter three then he spoke about the chair this faculty the the garments of this of The Godly soul in chapter four and so he developed the whole thing till he count comes to chapter nine and over there he says okay we now know that we have these two opposing forces inside now for sure the case and they determine the sense who you really are so his question is what are they fighting over what do they want so chapter nine he says the domain the arena that they come into to box each other out or to wrestle each other out is called the goof I think it's a quote difficult there's the ear Katana the small City and they're fighting to capture the small cities what's the is okay then then in chapter in chapter 10 of Tanya in the last chapter that we learned now Trevor speaks about the two levels of sadiqim in today's chapter that we're beginning to learn chapter 11 he speaks about the two levels of the showim and then from chapter 12 through 17 through uh the 17. he speaks about the pain and he has 12 13 14 15 16 75 to six chapters of developing the the real theme and thrust of the Tanya is potential men average man regular man which is the banani and that's why he spent so many chapters on them versus tadiq only gives one chapter which is chapter 10. rosharium the wicked he speaks about chapter 11. but once we talk about the chat the chapter two levels of Sadiq him he said that the mother says foreign explain we're not talking about that he does something bad in actuality we're talking about the fact that he didn't yet transform and convert completely any and every every Vestige of a desire for bed there is still an iota of a desire in the heart of a Sadiq viralei that that isn't 100 percent and then he also said not only is it from that perspective but his hatred his despising of evil isn't absolute there's a person who has a atatic vertebra despises what's a hundred percent something that's against God's will it's 99.9 it's not a hundred percent now in Chapter 11 says a similar concept regarding the Russia and I just before we start inside just to tell you this chapter when you learned this chapter and you understand it and you think about it it's it's it's it's it's it's so marvelous how the Alton Abbott talks about a Russia you know in classical Jewish writing and from the gambara to Kabbalah to Musa for sure and even in a lot of cities the Russia gets a very bad rap truly why does Russia get he's wicked it's wicked wicked Russia's Russia right when you will learn this chapter and understand it and after I was talking about that same Russia but at the same time a his conclusion is completely 180 percent different than the way most others conclude with the altered Ember says in the last few lines with this chapter that even someone who's completely separated and we call him Russia Gomer complete Wicked completely Wicked that means in actuality the person is a sinner what is the antonym said nevertheless he still has a Godly soul you find me in Jewish scholarship and writing that conclusion black and white like it says it here at the end of this chapter you won't find it I don't mean you don't find it by anyone but I'm just saying but then a cloud this was a sheet of doubted but if you understand this you understand what we've gone through the last 50 60 70 years with the balcuba movement everything else in the rebels Outreach it's directly from Tanya the laborator didn't decide on his own that we have to go to you know to Wyoming and and be Makara of a Jew who who Who's uh you know who the rest of the Jewish world would say is a sinner and a goner that begins with this chapter in Tanya that's why Tanya is crucial to understand what lapovic does today it's it's it's it's it's it's an eye-opener and like I say at the end it's only at the end that you'll see it so it'll probably be the next year or two but at the end you'll see without the Debbie says he's a Russian government he's completely he's not a rush of a Tivoli he's not a Russian that has some good Russia viralei he's a Russia that has good has bad with that means he's the worst of the worst and nevertheless the out that ever says on all ten Jews guess what even if they're sinners like I've told you they're sitting on the beach on Shabbos and sinning right if they come together ten Jews the good murder in San headlin says the shrina is how can that be how could that be make up your mind are they sinning or not is it God or not God without the devil says both are true outwardly they're sinning and they'll be punished for that but inside they're still having the Sharma and that's why when they get together in one room ten Yeadon even if they're already that's it's it's it's it's fascinating it's it's a fascinating understanding of in a way of human psychology because what it tells us even that there's always hope for a person for a moment go let's get away from you know Yiddish guide from kite Just For Humanity God believes in the human if God wouldn't believe in the human he wouldn't create the human that means he believes that every human even in a sinner and this answers that look you know the the the the question that we joked about the fabrina's your constant question over the five years will there any Tanya you know all these you know Jews self-hating Jews and all of that that's the answer this chapter isn't the answer to your question the end of chapter 11 is the answer to your question and that is punishment wise they'll be punished they'll be jailed there's tits attack you just can't do whatever you want there's a red light and there's a green light and you'll be thinking it but it doesn't mean to say you can't do true even if you're such a bad person or even if you're so evil that you're a Russian potato even such a person can do true and that and again y'all today and all ten Jews it doesn't say in the Gomorrah on 10 Jews that are wearing sitsis or a yamaka or have an earring or this doesn't say it just says akobe a son I'm all ten Jews you bring ten Jews into a room like I described to it wasn't to you as I described it in my son my son I met in um which is right there in Tel Aviv nevaised it's a very you know fancy neighborhood today you know with artists and restaurants there's a little little Taman issue that the builders wanted to destroy and they went to court and they lost the judge ruled it's a show I don't care if it's foreign and there's one gate there God bless him he's keeping the shoe going so I happen to be walking around there with a friend and we needed my River so we went in there and was an experience who comes into the shoe someone with a big ponytail with a stick with leather okay and earrings all over his ears it's like you know what you know what I'm saying I wasn't on Melrose in Los Angeles I remember the last time seeing that was on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles I hadn't seen the Empire Park we don't see it you know and and he takes a scissor and he starts stopping me and he answers on me and I I just had to say to him like you know tell me a little bit he says my my one of my parents at Ashkenazi one of my parents is farty my father passed on I come to shul in his honor and Isaiah and I say yes sir I'm telling you I was floored you look at this man and and after when we left shoe he says to me I'm into punk rock everything's about punk rock you understand this exactly without that emphasis he goes into thousand he dabbans with dominion and when it comes out what does he saved me man it's I'm into punk rock and he just continues walking with a stick like a like a messiah you know what happens like walking with you know like wow where did you come from maybe we'll invite him there he's not too far away but what's my point that's exactly without that ever saying here a co-bear son of shinta sharia you can look like a you know a certain type and you can act that way and you could even come out of davening and say I'm into punk rock into leather you know every whatever that whatever else that goes with that which I don't need to know want to know okay and this comes from this chapter in Tanya that explanation a code base so we're going to learn now about it Russia when you learn about to show you it's a little difficult you're talking about part of us and part of the Jewish people and you're talking about Australian but you have to know the conclusion that's why I gave you the conclusion now before I begin let's begin inside now pay the good Olive chapter 11 page 30. one opposite the other again another he used this I think in chapter six he uses it again over here if there's something in good there has to be an opposing um sample and bad otherwise moisture we don't got free will there's there has to be free will in this world because God wants free will right for there to be for he will if you have two kinds of sadikin you gotta have two kinds of shyam so Russia the wicked that has some good the UMass corresponds to Sadiq varaloi to the Sadiq who has some bed you know he's going he's explaining the I know this means the good that there is in The Godly soul that that rests in the mind of the individual as we learned in chapter nine of Kanye money and the right ventricles I believe it was hard by this Rush of a tableau it's subjugated and nullified to the bed that is coming from the left ventricle in other words I've run this this individual who we call Russia the type of light he is wicked but has some good what does that mean there's a little amount of Vestige of good that he's still that he still has is subjugated it's outnumbered both quantitatively and qualitatively by the bad that the person does how much of it is is is how much of it is subjugated says this is also divided gum cane as well regarding the quantity and the quality of Habitual of the subjugation the creepers of the subjugation of good to Bear God for good and he says for example yes by one individual the subjugation is excellent it's very minute in other words he the the bear doesn't outnumber the goods completely it's a little bit it's not constant number two with broken craving and it isn't steady constantly very often Ella number three Kim it happens um at at distant times you know not often what happens is the evil dominates over the good the cravish is and it captures the small City that's the the body and even when it does so it doesn't capture the entire body element only a little of it that the body should follow its dictates of stupidity and evil the NASA limit cover and the body becomes a chariot type of page teziah in a garment with slavish boy allowing some of the evil Vestige of evil to invest itself in one of the three things uh garments which are the high note it allows the Vestige of evil to get into action but not to do very severe various to do easy light weight of Aries not heavy ones God forbidden that's if it that's if the Vestige gets into action oi or not both or but debut it allows the Vestige to get into its speech Levant without their avocado it to allow it to speak the dusk of lush and horror you know this hardcore and there's something hello an indirect lie a white lie let's say Okay Village or it allows us to be frivolous is similar to these type of inappropriate speech which isn't hardcore sin but it tinges on you know sin or it doesn't get in to action to your mindset to your behavior it doesn't impact even your speech but this little Vestige of evil it impacts your mashava your thoughts only a thought which are available thoughts of evil that a more stringent and worse than an actual sin now this explained in the writings the realmi Prague in the sea of precious where he talks about the uh the the the issue of thoughts of sins being worse than sin in actuality it you could think about sins who today to tomorrow you don't do a sin you're not punished but as far as the soul is concerned you make a bigger dent in the shama when you have thoughts of sin versus the actual sin there's two mashup is uh it's again it's not a critical but the thought itself is a remarkable thought in other words stealing you steal you've done navera what if I think about stealing and I fantasize about stealing and I plow to plot all in my head but I never stole have I done Nevada no comes to my Island says not only before also that he huri Aveda custom it's a commodity Aveda these that quote thoughts and Invaders worse than Nevada is a Gamora but the morale explains it why because it touches the soul in other words when you do something with your hands you steal something it's one time I stole and that's it and hopefully I'm gonna do truva in other words my action is a one-time thing I could do it another time but each time it's an independent thing but when something becomes part of your thought process and I'm sure Hilo could tell us based on the psychology the imagination and the fantasy and I don't only mean a sexual matters so there of course it's uh very prominent because we're going to learn soon the example he gets from Cardinal sexual thoughts which comes which touches the mashaba but I'm saying even not non-sexual issues other issues you want to plot how am I going to get this person and you think about it and you plot it it's all you know you're not sure you know and the same and and and if you think about it there's so many things even in 12 and good things how am I going to get a better job are you thinking about it and you're philosophizing and you're you're fantasizing and it's like a you've built a virtual world in your world of thought well guess what that world that you build in your virtual thought touches your nepheus more than actual stealing or doing because the sensitivity the sensitivity of thought impacts so more than than the sensitivity of action and that and this explains what is this explain this is important to know since explains that there are the thrill of worship right we call them the Garment of thought the Garment of speech or the Garment of action from the Garment perspective right from the from the from the action perspective action is action speech is called partial action myself thought is completely removed so from that perspective Avi do me a favor please put on your mute um but from from that perspective from that perspective you know action is action speech is partial action and thought there's less action but from the perspective of Soul mashabas called levus Hami you had it's a garment it's an instrument Hillel that's United with soul you cannot separate from the the soul from Isla Bush of course there's the essence of the soul but we're talking about from the in when we're talking about in this scenario of garments what type of garment is it it's like your skin can you ever be undressed without your skin no and God forbid if there is someone's burnt you know it's a problem but the average normal person their skin is always with them that's who they are clothing they're sheer clothing their sick clothing this winter clothing the summer clothing there's no clothing is removable in other words it's not me you had it's not United with nephesh it's less bound to sow so Deborah speech speech we can be quiet and we can talk always when we're sleeping we're thinking and that's one of the reasons for dreams right so mashava is constant why because soul is count as long as you are alive you have a soul so as long as your soul is working your thought is working Deborah at night is we're sleeping we're not speaking you know once in a while we have some sleep talk but the norm is not to speak why because deeper already is less me you had with Netflix it's less United with soul so therefore even though the soul is constant you don't have to speak always action is even more removed we could talk about everything and anything and it's great conversation and it makes a lot of sense no did you put your children on nope you understand of the importance I understand could you you know that I love put the feeling on put them on nope not ready yet action is removed the same as in in in in in in other as I say Tov in in surmeira you know you shouldn't be involved with certain behaviors and yet we're involved I so in those talk is cheap right so this understanding see this explains is an explanation of why the gemara says of sin kashim are worse than sin I'm here too just for a moment you could say that about symptoms this was one of his again but maybe doesn't write it clearly right exactly that's that's the birth of the whole Terrace you don't find so much in in Terrace and in that approach you don't find this emphasis that's considers you find this emphasis on makshava and like I told you if I bring in the story with the with the river Rashad and they said that was a contemporary was older remember whatever of the Rashad but he lived at the same time he made it safer salvation everyone and not speak English doing this this and everything else and then as well we don't see they're putting any emphasis on this on the contrary you don't touch them you know and this person said this and this guy you know how it is so they asked the rashab about it said did is wonderful and special and everything else but by us it says we put an emphasis not on what you speak about how careful but what you think about and and Lisa this is it's a very deep Point that's relevant today it's not that a Bible hasid says it's all right to speak Russian that's nonsense that's against Allah it's not terrible but but put your effort into the um change the way you think not just the way you speak when I told you that story I was in L.A teaching years ago and then I'm speaking about these issues and a woman raised her hand they know God bless her she said you know my friend and I decided not to speak on the phone because every time he got on the phone we go so about our friends so we decided we're not gonna talk so I sat there it's a good resolution but why not decide maybe talk about higher more Elevate sophisticated things and when you do that automatically you won't speak about John and Jane and June Jack you know and this one to this to me this one is doing this and all the all the Cosmopolitan Inquirer garbage that that's full of our society right gossip and gossip for your post gossip and one big piece of gossip there isn't talk of ruachness talk you know that's what we need to do so what how do you have these they could talk it doesn't come just from of course you know you see a lit for Chicago come to uh there's a video I told you about it uh you know with two Dylan they come to a wedding and they're tearing themselves apart shot in the modern entitles you know so obviously they have come to a point where their thought is is basically a piece of gamara that's cavali but the average person is not that way they come to a wedding they like the piece of steak they like the music they like the dancing they like the temples they like to talk that's the way it is right and in a way that's the way it should be it's it's it's it's an opportunity for people to socialize in a Kosher Way and all that right but nevertheless when you change one second hit one second when you change the way you think automatically you're talking so I just want to finish over here says drama says over here this is exactly what we need to know that thought is the closest to the soul so you have to change the way you think and a Russian a Russia why is here Russia one type of Russia he didn't do anything he didn't speak bad but his thinking is messed up yes yes sir great story Buddy Miller yeah that gets on the way over to him and started talking to me I said can't you see I'm busy like uh no what are you doing he said I'm thinking yeah yeah that's you know that's a lost art it's unfortunately a low start the whole idea of mashava It's a Wonderful story you said and it's you know look around look around how many people are lost in thought you know developing thought you know anyway so I just want to conclude here so the altareba says here and we'll continue we'll we'll add some more points tomorrow some important points Dr Rebecca said that the Russia the rally doesn't mean that he's messed up in all three garments thought speech and action he's just messed up in one of the three but it's adequate enough to put him into the category of a Russia right and when you say in Russia you mean you mean in other words when you when you when you think inappropriate thoughts that's an Avera that's why it's called the Russia you're not called to Russia if you didn't do a sin that's what so whether it's dust of Russia you know uh the White Lies frivolity um or any of the other kind of lightweight sense it's still enough to put you to the category of Russia but it's Russia the type line they're still good that's there that's constantly saying hey change your way change your way change your way when you think about this this is really who we are when we talk about us I said earlier in the in the introduction to the chapter where potential where potential being a knee but we're not getting banging them we have the potential to become abandon me so who are we Hillel if we're not a potential if we're not a billion who are we practically if you ask that question we're Russia the Timely yeah what Hilo you want to say something yeah we aspire to be occasional vanity okay Heather have a great day wonderful reconnecting we'll see everyone tomorrow Zion