Israel: G-d will do a miracle to end war this Chanuka - Dreidel vs. Gragger - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

we'll finish today chapter 39 we're on page 106 and just to briefly recap what the balatan is teaching here just one question I'm going to be in New York next week what time are you in New York I I'm in New York on Thursday but let's talk about it afterwards please what time time time what what time I give this year I'm not following uhu what time is it now in New York oh now it's a quarter to 8 in the morning okay thank you you're welcome so in his development of the ban in the idea which is life who we are what what what our potentialist that's why the book of T is not aabad book it's a a safer a holy safer for cl to to show every Jew their great their best potential that itself just to know that this saer it's Mand it's its objective is to bring out the best in you we we should be dancing with this and that's why you know there were who would dance like they dance with a by they would dance with a t that's how that's how galic it was for them to to to say for this little book so again the objective is to show us our best potential how to do that you need to talk about who the person is the the the the good part of the person the part that's challenging to the person you need to talk about the outside struggles that come to a person and then you need to talk about what's more important action or kavana or focus and intent and yeah quoted towards the end of yesterday's year do mitz need do not do you do if you do a Mitzvah F the Mitzvah the answer is yes but nevertheless we want that our tit mitz should soar on high and go to the right place cuz if goes to the wrong place it's a big problem a you're feeding negative energy you see the world we live in and why such a thing like ham can exist is because In Heaven There is a source for negative energy and Hashem made it this way so that there'll be free will if we wouldn't have challenges and troublemakers and enemies thousands of Jews would would not have started to put on and andab and so you're going to ask well philosophically it's an oximoron it's a contradiction it's a contradiction so in other words I must have the the challenge the bed to do Mitzvah of course not the answer is of course not but the fact is that that the the way Hashem set up the world is he wants us to have free will and Hashem will never God will never remove Free Will from from a a human and particularly a Jew okay and I don't want to go into what that means we'll have to leave that maybe for chapter 48 49 in Tanya talk a little bit about that but so the idea is there's there's free will and since this free will there's negative energy in the world the negative energy we hope and pray that it it doesn't Express itself in magnitud inal global issues like we're experiencing now for some reason or a CO or a holocaust or a Spanish Inquisition we we we wish and hope that it's just like a small little issue you know but the truth is the small issue and the big issue are all in one the same because qual quantity doesn't determine the reality it's the it's the quality that determines the reality not the quantity so there's no difference between a child got forbit passing on or and and and a thousand people passing down it there's a difference in the quantity and of course in in the way most of us relate to the world we say o but but but all these skirmishes and shootings and killings for years that Isel has had Israel has had yeah we say but you know we go on the next day and the third day and the fourth day the point is that that it all begins with the spiritual element with Hashem so here in Tanya understands that and Al says what is our antidote to this it's a Mitzvah it's a Mitzvah and in chapter 35 he brings a saying from the yanuka and the inuka says that what's most important is good deeds and we discussed it at length in our sh and it's all online over the to bottom line do the deed and hence kabad will go out to Timbuktu meet a Jew wrap his shirt up put the filling on and the guy says what are you doing I'm I'm not taking my blood pressure now I already did it at the doctor's office this is the Jewish blood pressure and we do it every day and it's called Fillin and it's called straps and why and what when I don't know remember the story I told you I came to Marine County in 1984 my wife and I did sent us as his me emissaries isim the first shabas I was there our Balaban that arranged for us to come rent to a house for this new young couple got married in uh February and in July we were in Marin County no children young Y young young people 23 years old and shabas what am I used to what is she used to shabas you haveen a minion and the my guys there that brought me brought us there wanted a minion no Hashem did us a favor we had nine people we got close so I said it cannot be that the first shabas I'm a Marine County and the Reb sent me here and I'm a yeid there shouldn't be a minion I'm not I'm not accepting it and I said to everyone you have to wait sit down read relax whatever you do I'm going out to find a 10th person I remember it was uh July it was July of of 1984 and it was a July summer in California it was boiling it must it was probably 90° it was very hot and Marine County has good weather you know because it doesn't get really a lot of the fog that San Francisco has which is much cooler it's very pleasant weather any anyway so um it's hot and I walk out in my Talis I think I walked out my Talis I was we were maving I look outside there's no one to be found as it is we lived in a 538 planned Community Development where there was there wasn't even laa church we were the only religious institution and there's a whole story about that how we had an issue a zoning issue and we won but we had to fight in court for a few years it's a mcgilla for itself I wrote a book about it's called kabad house anyway so so um I start walking up the street and I see someone and and four houses down I think 5,000 down under a car changing his oil now what am I going to do you know most of the people are not Jewish but you got to take a chance got so I go over I say Excuse me sir so he looks he looks up from under the car with his hands full of grease of oil and he yes I say may I ask you something says sure it's they're nice we in County everyone is nice at least on the outside until you want to make a Shool in the neighborhood and they want to they want to put you back in in jail anyway so so he says yeah what would you like I said what's your name Andy Brown Andy Brown Andy Mr Brown do you happen to be Jewish so he comes up he gets up now to answer my question from laying under the car and changing the oil and he gets in gets up and he says yes I'm Jewish I say good and I just stick my arm under his arm and I start walking with him and he walks along and he says where are we going I said I just moved in four houses down just come with me you I need another Jew he he doesn't know what hit him he didn't know anything and he was number 10 for the minion that was the first chabas in Marin County n July 1984 it was written up the story in the Marine in the Marine Independent Journal I had a good relationship and all they always enjoyed covering us thank you what what what what why am I sh why am what's the message of the story here is someone who oh and I remember one and I remember when I said to him you're Jewish good he says but that that's all I am I'm born to a Jew I'm born Jewish but nothing more I don't practice I don't know anything about Judaism I said I don't need I I don't need right now anything more I just need a Jewish body cuz you need to have 10 Jewish bodies to say kades Kad and lay the that's the everything else is gravy everything else is is is is a nice addon this idea comes from what thees says what what the what the that the Yuka says ER Good Deeds this is what we learned in 35 but then the AL comes along in 37 38 and 39 and 40 and he says regardless of the Mitzvah being the bottom line you want the Mitzvah to SAR to [Applause] soar on high you wanted to go to the right place and for that you need a prescription you don't have the right prescription it's not necessarily going to the right place in a fact it's not even going up and this is where we're at now in tan please turn to page 106 we're about seven lines from the top Vu the last word on the line after the period Vu let's learn inside say you're learning and you don't study the T with the with the intent of not in other words there is three things listen to this that it is learning to for the sake of God not for the sake of my PhD and my SM and my rabet and my my I'm learning purely cuz God says says T is for a Jew to learn that's called lishma for the sake for the name for the Holiness of God then the opposite extreme is sh you know why I'm learning P you know why I'm learning I'm learning so I can become a rabbi I'm learning so I can when I go on a date with a girl for a she'll say oh I like this guy this guy knows a lot of to so I want to know a lot of to have to learn a lot of that's that's not for the sake of that's for the sake of it's a great thing but don't tell me it's it's so is the opposite ofma then there's a third category in between not and not not this is what we're going to discuss now over here says even if you learn t not for the sake of rather God forbid you're learning for an ulterior motive for the for the rabet for the money for your wife for your kids to see you you know why you learning you'd rather be playing golf or or baseball or going to a movie whatever else but you can take the time to learn cuz you have kids and you don't you want your kids to see that you're into the good things so they learn from you good things and they develop properly so you learn Tyra that's a that's an ulterior motive that's not so even if that's the case let's continue inside you learn tah because it's the style that's the style my father learn my grandfather learn my re learns T my Rabbi learns T my wife learns my friends learn I learned to to it's haill it's accustom it's become customized this means because you were trained from your youth that your father your teacher taught you lead usem to fear God to serice serve him therefore you learn TI and you're not learning purely for the sake of because if it were for the sake of of of the to itself without any ulterior motive it's impossible to have some feeling of love and fear for God that's natural revealed from the recesses of the heart to to the revealed at least in your mind and the recesses of the heart now he says something interesting gives a mush that I think we can relate to listen to the mush a person doesn't do something for someone else to do what the person wants he loves him you're scared of him in other words someone says to do me a favor give me an Al and gives him Al why either mha has a relationship with him and he with mha a a Rel a bond of love and and and concern and friendship or there's a fear a big Rabbi comes into sh and you know really wants to give someone else Al gives him an Aliyah because he knows the rabbi the sh would want him to have an Aliyah that's a little bit of a you know or in other cases not not MOA necessarily I don't think MOA but others sometimes are fearful a certain balos who gives a lot of money to the sh and if you don't give him the ma the check becomes less you you know about that right we have it in our sh they feel they have to give certain people Alas and M and honor every shabas why don't you honor other people cuz this guy is writing a $500,000 check for the new Renovations of the sh well if if I gave $500,000 they would probably give me every shabas the point is there's y there's a little there's a little fear so in other words why do you do this because you either have an Ava relationship with him or a year relationship so too that's that's the end of the mus now comes the the the moral it is impossible to do God's will in truth so need to fulfill God's will believes without reminding yourself of God's love and God's a mind so is saying here this action is oriented on some form of love or awe that it it it cannot be that that that you should should do what God wants and not have some form of a feeling for God it's not AB it's not you know heart palpitations of love I love God no but you know Hashem you're so good to me you're so good to me you gave me a wife you gave me children you gave me a community you gave me S I'm thankful right that gratitude is is is the ignition the engine I'm sorry that fuels that fuels the action so that is at least some and that motivates the action continuing inside and says and itself love for God itself is not called real service of God without the lower level of at least one moment which is concealed in everyone's as we learn in chapter 41 we'll speak more about it there at length but briefly every AA every love for God that's expressed through all act all action has to have has to have its its foundation what's God is my boss if one if a person and this is very important if a person doesn't feel God is my boss that the entire love for God is not predicated on a solid foundation then then the love for God is a is is a whim is is an ism is a temporary very uh stick how many people do we know we've seen it on the media and we see it daily they get inspired and all of a sudden this organization and this Rabbi oh ah he they take him for the fundraisers and they make a big deal and is all over 1 2 3 four months 5 months 6 months a year no more he left Judaism he I don't want to mention Nam everyone knows the names that we've had over the last 10 years and and it will just continue it'll only get worse remember what it says as an aside in P ofs be careful of of politicians they're your friend today and they're your enemy tomorrow okay I don't want to go into it but but Trump's you know Trump had all these friends and all of a sudden he became their enemies and took him to court and got them into jail on and on and on a friend today gone tomorrow politician you can't trust and it says in PS so going back to our situation is saying here that when we talk about AA we must realize that Ava itself must be predicated on a baseline nothing genuine begins without K without C it's all a atick a a a a style um you know an ism let's continue a person learns TI not for the sake of God rather for an ulterior motive to honor himself I want to be a why do you want to be a cuz I want to gety I want to get shishi I want to be in the newspapers I want everyone to stand up when I come into sh I want everyone to say did you hear what this guy said this B that's all that's why you learn and look what the AL says and believe me if you bring this into certain yeshivas they will kick you out look what he says that ulterior motive for learning Thea it comes from the translucent Clipper it's not complete Clipper Masha it's not completely wrong cuz you're learning T but boy does it excuse the expression stink what do we say in the Torah famous hiic word I want you to remember this one it's short and sweeten to the Pointes the 10th sheep in in your in your flock iser the 10th one the Torah says you have to give Mees so would say Shep Shep shepel is the yish word for sheep she sheep little sheep Shep Shep little sheep Hal you're very holy right number mme but boy do you smell boy do you have a bad smell because you go around like a pompus with pompus pompus attitude I I Am Number 10 the Torah says I am Number [Music] so so here the same thing says if you learn to be a then it's I don't care what Yesa will say otherwise this is what it says in T and if it says it in t it has its source in K if you train a child or a B to learn T because you should become what they say in certain yeshivas that's now there's a concept which really doesn't mean do something ulterior for the purpose of doing it for the sake of God it means that the inner aspect of the exterior of the alterior is really holy in other words the objective the doesn't mean through sh it means the inside of sh is why because hem understands that first you give a child candies and then you give him you know pleasure and then you give him honor baah ba blah baah and then so there's a system so if you understand that from the very beginning that you're giving the rewards so that the child and grows properly that's a different story but if if if the if the message is just just um learn tighter so one day you'll be a go you'll be brings here let's continue I'm sorry it says it here in Tanya they they don't like what it says here sometimes but it says here that that to is in [Music] G that toy is wrapped up in a in an exile and by the way I don't mean they I mean us you could be a big with big p and AAL and a beard and the and and everything else and if you're doing your for an ulterior motive your is engs okay all be it temporarily but temporarily it's in a bad place you can always do the doctor is here it will bring Health to the world healing spiritual healing Chua brings spiritual healing when you the individual do CH your would also be returned from a place of a place of to a place of Holiness next page page top of the [Music] page a person always stud first right in other words why do say learn t for an ulterior motive when you're not supposed to the answer is cuz surely you'll do TR you wake up you say wait a minute I'm learning T to be a God I'm learning T to be a great I'm learning T to impress myor and all of that you wake up you'll say fool that type of terroris I got back to the text your Chua will be hopefully in this reincarnation and if not in the next one you know inserts here a few words which really you know give give us an opening but at the same time it hurts sometimes M you you you go back to Heaven a Jew goes back to heaven and his and his is Inus and he got to come back down again for that reason not for hardcore sins what did he do why does he have to come back again he didn't sin he didn't eat tra he didn't hang out with girls he's a holy guy he was a and what about the tell that he learned that was slowly you got to come back for that and it's considered a gilgal a reincarnation it ain't fun to come back again who wants to come back again it's enough one time let's go on no one would be pushed aside for hasem Hashem will accept everyone whether it's in this lifetime or another future lifetime you always have a chance this the third category if you learn to not for the sake of to but also not for the sake of not you just learn so then it's not you don't have to do as soon as you relearn the same thing for the sake of everything that you learned connects and joins joins and connects this learning that you're learning and it flies upward you know why to still fly soore upward to God in the right place cu the hasn't gotten a hold of it why is that because you learned St this a very important point when you learn the Clipper got a hold of you and you need to do chuva when you learn you're in the right bpark what if in between St says if you learn St the Clipper hasn't gotten a hold of you yet but it's still not yet holy so what do you have to do you have to relearn it Forma and then it elevates the St it elevates everything that was not learned for the sake of T and this is a gal salus this is gal um peacefulness and and calmness that the AL gives here at the end of chapter 39 because so many times we learned tell know we just learn right we just learn I think our learning is in a way you know we're learning for the sake of learning at least you guys right so but but if if it's not if it's just stom learning if it's stom learning learning so you need to relearn it with the purpose of learning it for the sake of God not the sake s the sake of the self and then it elevates everything in the past that was not learned that way also and how is it that you're able to do that because the Clipper hasn't grasp grabbed it and taken it into its domain that's why say a person should always learn so this T in is very interesting this is not the conventional T the the meaning and definition the way he's defining it here in this section of chapter 39 T he's he's tiing not real hardcore but St learning it St and he's saying that how can you elevate learning Torah St by by by learning it again the same as regard the idea of you DAV and you don't have kavas you say to yourself someone says did you DAV today you said I didn't DAV I had no idea what I'm saying I said the words says okay as long as your ding was not was not for a bad reason where self aggrandisement and and and ulterior motive and all that tomorrow morning D for the right and Elevate yesterday's daving tomorrow we're not going to have a she I'm going to go down a little bit to to the grandchildren so we will learn withm Monday morning see you bright and early from the Sun in Florida hopefully and I wish everyone a great Kana the first night the light of the Mana is very powerful they bring light K into the house it BR light into the world it'll light up the situation that just that'll be only a positive light no one will be hurt the enemy will raise their white flags or whatever and they'll say we give up because we're Shing you like you know so you might you might you know maybe they'll wake up and and smell the coffee and say we give up and let's let's behave like mention so they have mercy on us every single soldier every single year that passes on is a is an entire world it's not just he fell in the he fell in in battle falling in battle is a very nice way of saying it but it's it it it's it's a it's a knife in the heart you know and it's it's serious business should have on us and he loves us and therefore should make a miracle happen the miracle of Kaneka that's what Happ we had a miracle we need a miracle that Hashem should leave this mode of te right they're fighting fighting here fighting there killing here killing here you know surrounding this way going this way it's te there's a lot of miracles in Te but then there's the supernatural all of a sudden Six Day War we give up Six Day War six days for surrounded from all sides by enemies right what happened a clear miracle that AB spoke about this this is not our great Army yeah you have great Army and Technology it's a miracle six days it can happen now enough already we've been fighting already two months I think it's 60 days already two months no so now it's kanah so hasem should bring the O of the we learned in the that was been hidden froman's time to to the world that it the Messiah light the Messiah light that that uh it should just end in in a peaceful way and uh you know everything should be good zazon take care we'll see you everyone Monday not tomorrow Monday byebye yes yes one more ver one one more ver I remind myself a good ver why is the drle we we we turn it from the top and the gragger we turn from the bottom the gragger the the little piece that turns it is under the grager the drle the piece that we turn is above the drle so I was learning with a yesterday time hug him he brings a nice V because the miracle of kanah came from God cuz we you know where we were immersed in eating the wrong things and and Hess and you know we weren't uh really not good boys okay spiritually and Hashem said I love you guys I'm making a miracle I'm shining the light upon you so it begins with a top God initiated the miracle of Kaneka for us porm it came from us there was a fast right Mar made a fast three days and in other words the initi Gathering children together say versus so it was the From Below to above there the the the handle is under the groger HH I I liked it so I shared with you take care byebye take care