Israel: Daily Torah study is antidote to Hate & Hamas - Faith in daily life - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're learning uh P chapter 34 on Page meim in t the AL in chapter 33 gave us a recipe for Sim that involves Amun the Sim will come through faith what type of faith faith in the Oneness of God that everything in the world is one with Hashem there's no disparity there's no separation in Hebrew so here in chapter 34 the AL is responding to the following issue to have SIM from faith is great but that's only in the faith realm what about in The non-faith Realm what if what in the realm of M in in in in actuality where there it doesn't outwardly bepe Faith seemingly there there would be a lack of sim if my sim this is the argument that he that that he responds to in chapter 34 that we're about to learn if the are if the reason for the faith I'm sorry for the Sim remember we're talking the theme of the nine chapters chapters 26 through 34 is Simka how to attain joy in our life and serving God in all aspects that's the nuda that's the common denominator of all nine chapters so in 33 he comes up with a very unique idea and he says that the more you understand and the more you believe in God's Unity which in order to have that it's a yusha it's a inheritance that was given to To Us by our ancestors the more you'll be okay very good that means it's all dependent on one thing on your now what so so if that's the case what about when I'm not in the amuna state of mind that means I won't have SIM so the AL in the last of the nine chapters was chapter 34 beginning again from 26 deals with this issue how to have SIM when you're not in the state of AA yes we have it from our ancestors but doesn't mean I'm living with so if you're not living with that or you're not living with that the entire time how are you to be so let's learn page 43 in Hebrew it is known means it's a there's a public announcement everyone knows what does everyone know that the ancestors the the the Patriarchs the matriarchs are ha ha they are they they he ha ha they are aover a chariot when you see this word Mas there Chariot we already learned I believe in chapter 23 in tan the B the Nullification of The Chariot to its Rider does the Chariot have its own will no its will is subservient to the one who's leading The Chariot who's driving the Chariot even though Tesla and others believe that a car has its own will and can go itself well fellas we see that there's plenty of accidents to the point that one of these uh car makers just took it off the market this past week I think somewhere in San Francisco so so in other words you know computers are computers aree which means computers this way computers that way at the end of the day a chariot doesn't have its independent will its will is totally is dependent of from on it writer yes yes MAA dolphin where's the is this the first place we have in this reference to the m in terms of the M being being being being B to the driver to the in Tanya it is I believe and Tanya it is it it it it's either here or previous chapter I have to look back back I can't do that right now but remember the Tanya was was was said in 1790s and printed in 1797 but there wasas that the balat said earlier for 203 years so I'm sure that you find it in hisas that he said earlier but if if as far as kind of where is the first uh formal place yes I would say this okay okay let's continue so and then so just as it is beash that the merova The Chariot has no independent will but it's totally subservient to the riter's will so he says so too our ancestors the all of their life all of their life they never once stopped even for just one hour from binding their minds and their souls to the master of the universe now similarly to the bit of a chariot to the rider and and and what did they do in this sense of of of nullification to to unite Hashem to unite hasem period so this is very powerful words very very powerful and and this by the way is would be iser a the refutation Ville to today it's not so you know not spoken about but the 40s and 50s the conservative movement and earlier the reform movement you know they made changes and their basic argument was why can the rabbis of the talud make enactments and things like that and we can't so if they could say you know they need to do this because the the the scene on the ground is different and therefore they need to make what they thought was a change and all of that this is the answer to Nutshell this piece of Tanya here is really the answer that when you if if you believe that the the sages of the of the med of the the the rabbi sitting in SAS and in the Galilee for 2,000 years were analogous to the others and they weren't the others but they were as close to the others as you can get in their total subservience to God that's why their words are Godly and not your words Rabbi so and so from this congregation and that congregation and I'm not talking about in 2023 I'm talking about even in 19 20 and 1930 like you have your independent will they didn't that's what made and again and now to prove that well if you learn enough for the talud and you see the trajectory of this people you say that's the best proof no one knows what's going on in the heart of another person as we saw unfortunately with certain people you know Isel another way where they misled entire groups of people and even going back to Bara wherea thought he was mashiah right so there are mistakes but did Thea you know put that aside the the the the essence of whether someone is a holy person or not is this nuda is there do they have the B completely in every organ to so the AL says the and the had it and that's why we look at them as an as our ancestors and we dive them three times a day etc etc right so that too would be the response to those that question the validity and and authenticity of the of the the rabbi Scholars the rabbi Scholars weren't just rabbis with good heads who had time to sit and learn and study and argue and debate and give rulings that that's a that's a total misunderstanding of what the Kad of Kaz are totally completely and and and and I see how you can make the mistake cuz you can go today into areas of Lakewood or or or or or or GAA here or there and you see people sitting and learning day and night and slot and here and there and say oh they're the opinion Sayers it doesn't work that way I don't care if you sit and learn day and night the question is do you have bit like the mer and you know what I'll even give you some slack even if you don't have the level of bit of the of the do you have B that's the number one tool I've told you that I spoke once to this mbal here in in in in our area I needed I was learning I wanted information and he was so arrogant I mean I wanted to hang up on him but I didn't out of there I don't care you could you could know cabala there from here to there and then really know it you don't have B you're the furthest things from Caba from T So b b is the element and we learned it already in chapter 6 in Tanya and here it comes to mind even though it doesn't say it openly but the AL is is is saying that the others have this bit so let's continue so let's continue CU what's the relev how is this relevant to us let's see what he says following the others here you see all the prophets which was already A Thousand Years Later every one of the prophets based on his soul and based on his capacity of understanding and then he says and even the level of I'm sorry sorry stop and he says when he talk about a prophets the level of M who even greater than all because the divine presence the speaks out of's throat says you see the word means similarly similarly it's not exactly like it it's not identical vvo you have to be m in the words in t it says it's similar but not identical the Eden merited while standing at sin to have a flash of inspiration of this level of B however they couldn't tolerate it they said no and they all fainted each time said one of the Ten Commandments their soul left them jumped out it jumped away from them says what's the idea of you know when you learn this Mas it sounds like you know a movie says yeah yeah yeah I understand but you know means their physical existence could not be normal because of the Gilly of the revelation of God at Hari okay and this by the way is a reality there are times when you encounter exper an experience where your body feels dist stress I've experienced and it's sh to everyone at times whether it be because of fear or you're scared of something my physical body starts sweating I'm sure the the iser can can it's aash I start sweating you get you get very anxious and nervous so when th when when Kaz say that when hasem revealed him you know it sounds like a you know oh fantasy your soul left them it means yeah you know why their body couldn't take the Revelation it was too intense so it it they felt as though that the something is leaving them because their body can't be in this intense light and energy so what's Al saying Al is saying at M every single Jew merited to something similar that M raenu the prophets and the Patriarchs had on a daily basis they had on a daily bases the Patriarchs the B of theover theim had May which is something similar to that M was the greatest in the v so he had even greater than that but nevertheless so therefore okay these are very holy people sadim and and godly people what's the relevance to me says the the relevance to you to us is the concept of B and let's go further now hasem said immediately in to m m repeated to the Jews Mish build a sanctuary a and in the sanctuary the Mish there'll be the holy of holies which will godem will be able to rest dwell his presence which the revelation of God's Unity it says later in chapter 51 in what is that what's the point here when when saw that the yeen couldn't their bodies couldn't tolerate the Gil he didn't say I'm stopping he said I want you now to transfer the energy to another location build a sanctuary a Mishka and I'm going to instead of IMU each and every one of you with this level of godliness which you you cannot tolerate I'm going to put it into the sanctuary to the holy of holies meaning into the tah as we're going to see in a second once the temple the was destroyed the all the all has in his world left is a dwelling place for his presence within the four cubits of is the will and wisdom of God the substitute of for the Tabernacle for the Mish it's God's will and his wisdom that are invested in the laws that are arranged in in the code of Jewish law after a person would delve their mind into this idea of B that we just discussed quiet based on his capacity in other words every one of us has a different capacity of how much we can perceive of this B right right in other words when we talk about this idea it's not just I believe you have to understand this B every one of us understands it in a different way but the bottom line is we're all dealing with understanding how subservient we are to God after we will do this thinking and meditation the next thing that a person should think about is since my mind is so small and the source of my soul is MD and small from bring a true um Chariot and dwelling place for God's Unity of truth because my mind does not grasp and doesn't perceive God at all and and we have no we don't have an iota of understanding like like like the others the Patriarchs and the prophets right nevertheless I will make forem Mish a dwelling place and a dwelling place for God how learning based on the amount of time that I have by setting aside times like we do every morning by day and at night next page top of page 86 based on the amount of that's given to each person as enumerated in the obligations of each individual how much to learn when to learn and everything else and here he brings the famous but he brings it to to say a magnificent thing even if you just learn for one half hour in the morning T with right together and you learn some Torah at night between or whatever after the say that is considered for you like you learn all day and you made and you made for Hashem a sanctuary all day so let let me now let's expl let me explain the TR the continuation of this chapter the issue he yes yeah I'm sorry just I I I lost the train that the AL was talking about how did the how did the AL get from the right right right I know I I'm going to explain it now so so the issue that he that the AL responds to at the beginning of this chapter is you weren't here for this so fill you in you'll understand better the issue is how can it be that I can have SIM in my daily life if I just base my meditation on chapter 33 which is a about amuna amuna is if you're in the if you're in the mindset of amuna and you live with that amuna guess and if I don't live with that so that means I can't be so chapter 43 in in 34 says no you can't be even if you're not at the level of the amuna that he spoke about in 33 and how is that so first he tells you the answer so the answer the question is through learning to that's the answer to the question that when okay God is in so when you learn T you have God so now from chapter 33 you know you know what it implies if I'm not learning if I'm not in the in the mod of the that and I I see it every moment and we don't many times I'm a gor I can't be with Sim I Sim to having God is when I feel the presence of God if I don't feel the presence of God or I don't feel the presence of God always I won't be with Sim says the AL 34 Hashem understands that and it happened already at MRA right where he gave us this great Revelation which was analogous to the others right who they lived with this Faith every moment of their life the n didn't live with it as much as they did but similarly right Moshe definitely had similarities to the others but nevertheless what about the average person so Hashem saw that so what he did initially you hear this he tried to in impose the level of amuna and faith and B and ble that the Patriarchs and and the prophets and M had on every Jew so at Mount Si he said here I'm giving you a gift and we cracked up we can't tolerate it because on the ground that's not where I'm at so Hashem said right away made a quick U-turn he said o right after said you know what said I'm going to dump it into the sanctuary build a mishkan and go to the mishkan and in the mishkan there's a k T him which represents the T identify with that and you'll be able to tolerate it cuz then then you don't need to be on the level of a and mha and the prophets to experience God so this is an interesting point is that before we Hashem told mha to make a mish you had in order to experience the level of B and the level of ma you had to be like uh like an AR like a Moshe face like a prophet and Hashem so that's why initially Hashem tried it out but it didn't Jive it didn't work it was overwhelming soem right away made a realize and he said okay I have a solution make make a mishun and just go making a mishun yeah yeah cuz a mishan is gmas taking the Earth and everything and and the curtains and and and and the WS making the Mish and in this Mish excuse me build the and when going there and identifying with the whole Mish you have me as well says the what is the Mish today we don't have a mish so he brings a the sages say not not and why why Jewish law cuz Jewish law is the is the will of God all it's all very it's all one second one second but nevertheless there's no bottom line there's no bottom line since there's no bottom line the will of God is not necessarily expressed because the will of God is that in this physical world there should be a bottom line on how conduct ourself yes is is what do you want to say why because is the ultimate when you put your left on and says no you put your being to the of EXC that's why it's and it's not P right excellent good and by the way for your reference and I hope one day you'll get to it there's a series of MIM of the reab in the in the M that are called s which is the year 1906 where he really re really elaborates on this idea of uh I think that you know maybe you Anda few the would learn that I don't know if it's in English but it's it's it's a worth worth learning because he really explains what you just said at Great length the rashab 1906 okay so M this is the answer mha is clear now the connection between what says and this thing welcome Ari Feer good to see you and now we continue page 84 AR chapter 34 so Al now says he says um alcain we're on the we're on the yeah we're on the I'm sorry no I'm sorry we're on the yeah the page 86 86 second line towards the end of the page of 10 end of the line this will bring to your heart remember the the the the punchline of these chapters is Sim that how to attain Joy Sim says learning twice a day once in the morning and once in the evening and that's as if that's all you could do and gives you that out I'm should say that out that ability cuz you're busy working and doing and all that this will make your heart happy and joyful and and you and give thanks acknowledgement it's Thanksgiving soon Thanksgiving you don't wait for the turkey on Thanksgiving every day a gives thanks on his [Music] portion that with and and a joyful heart look at the next word right what's right means a when you learn when right now we're learning each and every one of us is hosting Hashem right now God is in every one of us right now we're learning T so when you do when you learn once in the morning and a second time in the evening right based on the time I'm sure IFI had more time he would be more often based on the um the gift given to the person's hand in other words that God makes it Broad and all of a sudden you're able God you know you you get an inheritance and you don't have to work as much and as many hours and you sit and learn and you learn with your kids and you learn with your friends but the idea being the idea being from the last two three lines is that that the the learning of T is today the the arena the arena and and B you know setting aside time not I'll learn then I'll learn then I won't learn you know that's a balagan and it usually doesn't get anywhere set aside a time a commitment 10 minutes 15 minutes everyone that's why it's five six years and we learn every day half an hour not learning three hours but it's a the and by the way the previous Reb speaks about it's called the previous re in this discourses talks a lot about making a a set time Benish not a set time on the clock okay of course but if it's if it's set in your soul it's going to be set on the clock and if it ain't set on your in your soul the clock means nothing in other words the feeling that this is air I'm gasping for air I got some air I'm able to learn I'm able to learn in the evening I have some air understand and that's why the idea of and ra all the different things that the re instituted of the learning it wasn't like as though or even aapo with the da right even I mean right it wasn't shapo it was at the the convention in 1923 with the attended which today you can see the picture that's you see a lot of um I'm I'm fasc ated with the people that were there and I've actually taken out clips from the the video and put in different pictures in my books because they're let's say Rabbi I'm coming out with a book about the aabad so I took out you see the we of from Kish of Romania to mava then Romania comes to the to Thea of 1923 that's that's historic you know and the you see him bent in with people right there his son and of PKA next to him and when someone wants to take a photo they block the photo that's where the video ends right what did ra Shapiro two two major things happened there one was RA Shapiro brought the proposal of learning da that was the first time that it came to the table in Vienna 1923 I think was August 15th 1923 I think it was then and uh and it was it a a try to learn a each day a a little more a little less so the AL the same thing here I'd love to talk but I have another stay safe now bye