Israel: Belief in G-d while on the front lines - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

going to we're on Tanya in chapter 33 we're on page membes we're towards the bottom of the page after the colon third line from the bottom so the AL here teaches us that the the the hisb ofm God's Unity the more resonates with us the more our AEM is and subsequently the more our is that's where we're at let's learn inside and therefore the established to give praise and recognition to to God blessed be his name each morning and we say quote how fortunate how fortunate is our portion etc etc how beautiful is our inheritance end quote says the alar clar means what do we mean to say what do want with giving these accolades and and beautiful words about Hashem what's every Accolade and every thing acknowledgment and lording of Hashem has to have a purpose what's the particular purpose here clar so you see the word clar it means it you know that something is bothering the with what was with what's said earlier and now he responds to it now we're on top of page 84 just as a person is happy just as a person is happy with with inheritance that fall that comes to him all of a sudden a tremendous amount of of inheritance he didn't earn it he didn't work for it he didn't he didn't do anything valal but he had a rich uh daddy right or a rich Mommy and they left or a rich grandfather or grandfather and they left him a lot of money or a lot of property whatever that's the end of the mush now comes the N the mar so too and even more so Adam in no comp in no comparison there's no comparison we should be happy for the inheritance that our ancestors in gave us inherited to us which is not money not property who they gave us the true of God they gave it to us as an inheritance in other words if we were not given aam by our ancestors the ability the the I'm sorry the the the the reality of even if we would try and try we would never succeed in it in in it resonating with us why does it resonate with us at the end of the day it's because we received a an inheritance which we did nothing for all we did was we were bored or converted to Judaism the proper way therefore we are Jewish this is our real soul and you get yourself an inheritance that you didn't work for this this Unity implies that even here on Earth Below right what is he saying yes sir with and it's easy to say it's all godliness it's all it's all Heavenly it's all spiritual but here on Earth where you have and here and he says further this is the idea of making a home for hem in these lower worlds not just with the lower worlds as I explained Yesterday by taking the lower Worlds the gsh is the material the grub the course and bringing it up no no no we're going to make a b the B the conjunction the in in it here right here making a elsewhere is very nice but it's only a preliminary act the the Final Act and the ultimate and purpose is to make the home for hasem here on Earth this is the meaning of 63 given to to Jews came along the prophet and he placed all the mitv on one he said if you did if you do this one you got them all and he said as it says s the sad through his faith will make you the the the part the partition the the the person who receives the sadic live this means the same was saying as though there's only one Mitzvah you have to do and if you do this mitvah you got them all what is that mitvah he it's Itself by having faith alone it will bring you to all if you really believe if you really really believe in Hashem with true Faith unadulterated Faith you will do everything that God wants cuz you believe that he is your Superior he knows best he is the creator it's Etc that's and it goes further say when a Jew's heart will be happy in God's faith God's Unity with the ultimate of Happiness as though this is the only Mitzvah that I have and this Mitzvah alone is the ultimate of the of of his this person's creation and the and the purpose of all of creation through the power and the energy of his soul attaining and living with this abundant Joy this abundant this will cause that Mila Miler his soul will Ascend above above higher and higher right higher and [Music] higher over all obstacles that prevent the Fulfillment of 613 mitz from inside and outside this is the recipe pure in the and it doesn't mean to say I have a and I I make Somers Sals or I scream we're talking about through that it resonates that you could you could you could articulate for yourself how hasem is the only reality in every aspect of your life the more you have that the more Sim you have and as he says and that gets you to overcome all obstacles so one someone someone called me just a few days ago an ex sat right he might be a from but he used he grew up in s and Williamsburg how are we going to save the generation of the of of of Youth and people leaving from kite not just otd just talking about just there's a breakdown in in in belief in God there's you know agnostics and atheists and you know and he I says here read the words not my words he says having this will will elevate your soul above all obstacles for from the inside and the outside you know inside means the inside demons that we walk around with the guilt the fear the animosity the loneliness whatever they're inside issues that we don't you know we don't many times show them on the outside but they plague us you know we go through life we have a childhood we have a teenhood we have an adulthood we marry the challenges with children and and all these things may bias okay I was talking to some someone who's you know you know a little younger but he tells me he feels you know like empty and this guy is a big Mish okay with a with a big beard you you would never right I said to him why do you normally he would say and he would sit down next to me and he would you know K and and and and and and give a trap you know it was it was the you know s and this s he he he it ain't there ain't a drop of of of wine or scotch in his mouth and he you know he's like to the side and he's quiet and I noticed it so I went over to him and I said it's what's going on yeah he says my stomach's hurting my stomach's hurting and I'm not feeling well I can't I can't say I said okay no problem that was s night then comes the next day I told you about my early minion and then we faing for four to 6 hours right we just keep on faing and people come over it's beautiful he's not there and he's really you know one of the so shabas he was in a better mood so I said to him tell me you know you I know it's not your stomach maybe you have stomach issues too but what's going on so he told me you know we were like in private on the street oneon-one he said you know uh he said you know I feel like empty here I am in the Sho and I have so much to offer is a and and they don't ask me to share you know instead they bring in all of these youngsters from KRON Heights and here and there but US veterans who you know have gone through life relatively speaking and are learned and everything else were were like you know the old gezer the same old guys and therefore you know not and and he said that was getting to him it's like it's like getting to him and that's why he he just El he has a son that's 25 he's not married and in in the world that he comes from you know saying whatever whatever anyway the point being there's there's things Mayas says meas that's where he's referring from inside then there's Hoots Hoots Hoots means is's M you know mishas over there with with with with the patients who want them to write prescriptions when they you know without a visit and stuff like that that's not me bias that's HS you know you know this you know our own our own stuff from the outside not with the war now the fear and you know our kids grandkids friends who are on on the front and all that yes it causes be biased but it's caused by a something outside of yourself your your kid the war and on and on so there is the says here in that the way to overcome is through strong in the ab that resonating within you to the point of says the you will overcome all obstacles and what's the what's the ultimate goal here velv and I always when I always learn these ideas one second just one second I think of the rebba how you know he he could have been very very morbid and some of his contemporaries without mentioning names leiters and others were in their correspondence with the with the Reba they complained about this and complained about that and they were right I would do the same thing cu the issues were communal issues and this one you know what I'm saying and you know the rebba the rebba writes a general thought to all of these people drop your Mor drop your negativity now now it's not that didn't realize there issues believe me he knew there very well issues but you have to focus on the future you have to focus on the goal don't allow the goal to be changed or dampered with or or stomped on because of the issues and the same is here I was thinking about the give a message on Friday try to share a few words what I'm going to say this week the goal is mhia that goal hasn't changed I there's a war now and and and what happened on was okay I don't have an answer oh we we do have an answer we don't have an answer it doesn't change the goal and it shouldn't change a ye's and how can you pin 1940 he came to America I think March 9th and Pur was a week or two later it's printed and it's in English even translated he says how can I sell it be happy today on purum my brothers and sisters are being slaughtered in in Europe you're allow to ask the question but the answer is this is what hasem wants it's put him put aside that and go into the mode of sim if you need a little take a little you know what I'm saying but get yourself into the says here the more theem resonates with us the more we'll overcome the obstacles the obstacles W won't be obstacles rather we'll see them as stepping stones for something greater Hil what you want to say I just want to make sure I'm understanding the flow of the ideas uh it seem like a kind of big jump because he was talking about and and the and then all of a sudden he's talking about but U and maybe maybe we just haven't gotten there yet but uh so but is he kind of going in the direction of when you when you have amuna that that hasem is in everything and everything happens because that that's what opens up the possibility of s is that kind of the flow IDE yeah that's the flow but the is and in the details of not in other words so you see that hem is in everything and that and and everything that happens and everything that happens in our life and H and and and and reconciling reconciling uh disparity and div and and and division as part of the godhead which is needs reconciliation is it all one or is it Mo you know is it separate becoming one and these ideas reconciling this was a a main theme from the the Jewish philosophers the the raan the all throughout the centuries the k all all of them knew that this is something we have to deal with to the point of let's say with that that RAB just giving an example you know where people have questions how can you tell me it's all one how can you say God is a god with a holocaust you know and everything else so when all of those things are are are uh uh you know solved intellectually intellectually then the resonates in every aspect as the aspect is on the ground you understand H So when you say Bel inem it's easy to say it in your on your seat in your in a nice apartment Ines and how but how is the soldier stand going into Gaza with these Nazis all around him think about there there you know hey it it's this is right so you wherever you are have to come to a place if you were standing there surrounded by all these enemies would your would your would you be able to reconcile God as the only reality there so so I I could for maybe two seconds okay so that that's the avoid that's the avoid that's so so in other words to say I'm I'm Sim sitting over here and you know we're all you know right it's very very nice so don't this is not an easy job that's what says you'll overcome over obstacles because if you can overcome the the intellectual the intellectual challenge to faith in God when you're on the front when you're confronted then you can overcome everything and it doesn't mean to say well if so I know I can I can be trusted I can walk down a place where I shouldn't be walking down and and look around and see what I'm not supposed to hey and I'm Macho I'm still a from je you're not allowed to do that that but the idea is that a person needs to to to Really ascertain the that's why I told you the story with with his with his knuckle and his phys it's in other words it has to be in your physical bone your physical bone understands God then when you have that and it could be done you say you know it could be done it's been you listen to a like the kenberg Reb you've heard of the you could seal hin passed away same time as the Reb the right yeah unfortunately you know you only hear him in Yiddish but if you hear him speak I mean your heart melts and you say it can't be there is such a Jew a man who lost 11 children killed a wife and and what he went through and and he talks like like nothing happened it's it's amazing it's it's like you know it's it's a so you're talking about so you say he's aad not talking about the aspect that he's a sadic that's another we're talking about the how embedded is the amuna in our being so he's he describes how he's laying on the floor the Nazis around him he's starving to death and he thinks okay a wants me to die I don't have what to eat I'll die and all of a sudden laying there someone comes and says here's here's a loaf of bread out of the blue in other words he didn't he didn't say if you're God if you're the ab how can you do this to me how you do this to T didn't do that he said if this is the I accept it I accept it completely but you have to you know for me to say it you have to hear him say it cuz he he lived through it yes is is go ahead um I don't understand Yiddish um but I did hear a tape recording once of the closenberg doing and you can hear in the middle of su he starts talking to he's just living in the middle of just like we're talking to each other right it was it was amazing amazing right no he was you know he was a very special ye so again this nuda is not just not just for aad bigb bigadic big go whatever every the bat believes that every one of us can come to this the more we work on it and the more we think about it and more we under reconcile and and and everything else and then and then you can be Bim CU otherwise it's hard to be when we have situations like we have now and like you all have we all have now it's it's you know constant like again I open you know every day sirens and tell Aviv but again every day you know my daughter has a school the school basically can't operate they tried going here going here it's like you know you know it's like you say so Hashem you want y to be educated in in a in a from way in a way to say that they get the the EMS of Tyra she's doing that with her staff and everything else no so why why are you disturbing them with these Rockets but that's the reality that's the reality so the same is with our inner things with our me bias why is a child this way a child that wayuu why do I have this worry and that worry these are all issues yes my maybe Hashem wants us to serve him through the Rockets that's right maybe for some reason the Rockets are integral the missiles are integral to our V some okay yeah could be could be I mean you know you have to you have to ask yourself is this the only way Hashem can get you know it's like what a holocaust not enough Co is not enough Rockets you know but you're right that's that's the attitude of a of a of a Believer what you just said is the attitude of a m that I believe that if Hashem is allowing these enemies to do this it's somehow to make us stronger and to us to be able to serve him even under the circumstances and I think we have so not I think I know we have so much to show him from everything that you see how although it's such a stressful time look how ye not together and people are singing and dancing and and S the millions and millions of dollars and ties and it's it's Mish and packages it's like am is really really showing D but for some reason he still wants the Rockets to come down today or yesterday you know so we have to go further and the said this nuda with Messiah the Reb on one hand said I remember Reb would say 1987 other times I don't understand see a realist a real ye a real person is allowed to say I don't understand I don't understand but even though I don't understand we have to go further don't lose sight of the goal cuz as soon as you lose sight of the goal you've been caught in the web of the negativity depression Melancholy and bitterness and you're a old old man with a lot of anger and oh and this is no good and that's no good and this no good and this is not vo and we don't want to be that right and all of us with our grandkids do we want to be old grandpas you know where our grandkids will say oh you're such an old guy oh my gosh oh I don't want to go say hello to my grandfather or my grand my grandfather cuz all he's going to do is complain the the spent a lot of time with his own teaching this and good people and very good people but you know listen I told you I heard it from it's a very respected individual and everything else and he was a he was down you know in bet whatever and he spoke kavis when I was there about five six years ago was mid day cuz whatever and and he started says if when I get up in the morning I think about personal family issues I get very depressed you're looking at a person who's like the stars of the Jewish people in yush really a m a special ye and he's telling a 100 people in the room if I talk about my family I I my day is very very crummy and bad so you got to focus on the larger picture okay so you know don't we all have as we say our Peele I just want to finish give me a few minutes okay actually no I I'm I don't want to rush it we'll continue mitem on on on Monday you weren't here I Monday next week you guys changed the clock and and I we still haven't so I I going to start 8 8:00 15 minutes later I got I can't rush I've been rushing and I'm missing the kardan so okay 15 minutes those that can make it try to make it those can a little what do your best but 15 minutes have a great shabas so that means we'll be meeting at 8 o' our I mean at three 3 o' no but you said you you said you're you move you're changing the clock yeah that's right so it's not going to be 3 o00 it's going to be 2 o00 your time am I right you're falling back okay yeah so um so so 15 minutes and accounting for the hour so we'll be starting at 2:00 at 2:00 if if anyone if I have the right time okay right right now by by me it's 8 8:30 and by you it should be now 3:30 am I correct right so next week you fall back 1 hour so so by you it would be now 2:30 yeah okay it's starting we're starting at to two Okay at 2 o'l your time got it okay for one week for the four just the four days yes MAA I was when do you guys change the clocks a week later okay I just want to say that it's POS and says why you know we don't have any issues it's a a and it's it's all he leaves he leaves the negativity so this is the week of leaving all negativity have a great shabas everyone Z on stay safe byebye bye bye good shabas good shabas