Israel: Have Mercy on Leftists' Jewish Soul - Redemption thru Rachmonus - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

good day to everyone we're learning Tanya pic lamid B we'll finish the chapter today we're on page um where six se six seven lines I think from the end of the chapter in middle of the line the line begins with the words h and we're at the word so let me bring you up to date here is focusing on the importance of to the point of you should love your fellow your neighbor your friend as yourself not just to have an external love not just to have a selfish love not just to have a love with a reason I like him because he does this and this or he is so smart or he is so great blah blah blah but we're talking about just as you love yourself without looking for reasons why you love yourself because it's yourself so to if you have to Lear love yourself the interpretation is at like yourself meaning just as you love yourself that's the same type of love you should have for someone else you understand that's the in the in in the way the AL is interpreting the verse if you learn when you learn and you learn about this Mitzvah in that's not the simple meaning of the text you have love your fellow your friend like like like like yourself meaning not the manner in which you like yourself but as you like yourself like someone else the in chapter 32 in t which stands for the heart the heart of T is that the quality it's not just a quantitative idea but the it's a qualitative idea in what Manner in what style should you love your friend just as you love yourself and you have no issues with loving yourself even though if you look in the mirror and you wake up in the morning many times you say boy am I uh you know and God has to put up with me you know what I'm saying but you don't we don't do that we don't do that so just why not because the AA to ourself is what we call AA it's an essential love M it's not a love that's an adun to who we are this is Who We Are by Nature a person loves thems so the AL says that's the same attitude you should have toward your friend this is the overall theme of the chapter now from there the AL wants to give us logical ways of coming to that position to coming to those feelings and also to address certain talmudic statements and other statements which seem to contradict that and that's what we did until today until now now the AL is going to answer a a a a practical problem now listen to this we learned yesterday and we had a good discussion about it how are you to have AB is to a to a sinner so the if you look at the gor take straight gar the says don't you should hate them for that and not only that tell their teacher that they are so it's not enough that you have the sin towards them you should get your teacher to have sin towards them so the AL says yes I'm aware of that gamorra and the AL says that that applies to the bad within them but there's another side another side of the Jew is the good side so said yesterday that you're supposed to have and a and love the of within one person which in a way is like a schizophrenic type of relationship I think I told you the story with this great par was his name of the m and he even live lived to see the previous re in his cradle he lived a long time so would say that he would cry from one eye if you saw tears coming out of one eye and in the other eye you saw Sim so they thought he was like a muger a schizophrenic are you happy or are you sad make up your mind the truth is when we get to the end of chapter 34 you'll see that it's actually from the the Z the holy Z says exactly that happiness comes one on one side of the heart and and and sadness is from the other side of the heart so a there support for it in the Z how how to do that practically we'll talk about it when we get there and what's the purpose of it but but as it applies to what we're learning here in t this idea of of of having love to the same person and hate to the same person but to two different parts of the person it's it's a it's it's a it's a big task but that's the task and as we discussed yesterday the truth is it's very important like the story I told you with the doctor in the cafeteria you know he he he likes his friends you know he has a relationship but so he seems but the truth is he doesn't have a relationship because it's all very academic it's very uh medical it's very um Technical and by the way this isn't just for a doctor in in in in in a hospital or in an office this is true for you and your Us in B medish you know we we like to convince ourselves he is my friend oh he oh I know him he's really my good friend well not only will you have disappointments many times when you think someone's really your friend the truth is he's not really your friend he's an acquaintance he's a nice guy you enjoy being in his company but you know what a friend is like I've said told you why do it say buy yourself purchase for yourself a friend what what's this language of so some some say the word K is associated with Ka like the pen in other words when when when you write out your feelings your feelings become your friend okay that's a nice interpretation another Insight is the p p off is telling you that if you have to buy yourself a friend even do that to have a friend and uh you know to excuse H the the the social worker Etc you know the fact is that people buy themselves Friends by paying professionals to talk to lay on the couch to to counsel and it's fine it's fine it's very important like salic said I told you this as well that there's certain things I he can't even share with his family only with students it's too close you think I should I think I should consider that as a marketing campaign for small fee you could have me as your I think so MAA what do you want to say yeah Robel forgive me for asking this now but I was thinking about this already from the sheer yesterday we spoke yesterday we've been speaking now about when a person giving giving to to a person only if they're the same level as us so to speak of our a I forgot the exact AEM is the good language good yeah okay okay then then we've spoke we've been speaking a lot about the issue of someone who falls in the category of yeah which we know that we know that today of course for for some time now we know that almost almost everybody falls into that category who's not on our level of a vus hasem so to speak yes but I want to ask a question and this was something I think was beginning to be raised yesterday but I think it's very it's a question I don't know if anybody else in the group has had this question but we know and this is especially Appo for right now time period we're going through right now we know that we see sometimes if we see it in the media we see it in our internal Jewish media people who are doing things that are extremely extremely damaging fellow Jews who are doing things that are extremely damaging to Amel I'll give two examples we know that we have people who are affiliated with I'm going to I'm not sure exactly to to but let's just say for for lack of a better term we have we have those that are affiliated with with theuri Carta who they they says himself when photographs meeting with leadership of of Iran uh the Palestinian Authority terrorists Etc we have that group then we have and I don't know if anybody else saw this in the media OB I don't know if you saw this but this came out last week that apparently there was some sort of very far-left leftwing individual who had a real beef with the Govern government here and so forth who actually gave somehow information to members of Hamas a Jew in in the thought that he that they would only do something very relatively minor and when he found out all that what had happened we've got news that before shabas that he had some point last week he he took his own life because he felt so bad about what he had done I don't know if anybody else saw this in the media so my question is my wife saw that I I don't know where Okay okay so my question rather Dophin and again I don't know if anybody else has asked this question it's simply we see that unfortunately we see sometimes there are some people who are Jews or they call themselves Jews they dress like Jews so to speak but and they do things that are extremely extremely damaging to Amel right my question is my question is basically does that fall into the anywhere in what Al is speaking about now AB or is it not or is it a different topic okay got your question the answer is absolutely yes you you you should hate the the evil the everything you said about that those people you should hate that but their good side they have a n you have to love their Nish so today we're going to learn another element that can help us I want you to now listen to the the last part and let's talk about it in a moment okay so I I'm answering but I'm also going to get back to your question okay seven lines from the bottom now says I understand he basically addresses mha's question I understand it's very difficult to do this to love and hate the same person therefore he says I have a suggestion for you you are to you in this case let's say you are to awaken to arouse Mercy in your heart on the Jewish Soul that's found by this because that Jewish soul is Eng G by that person is an exile where in the evil in other words when you go and support Kamas and do all this stuff that's evil you see clearly it's bad and but what's stuck in that Badness you're that person's the sh never will say cuz it's not true that he doesn't have a Nish like they say about non-religious people people as you know they're they're doesn't say they're they say says look what he says look at the the start difference they're eaten they having the sh but it's boy it's it's stuck in the Clippers and guess what the CPUs dominate in Rim Yeah in it doesn't mean only the someone didn't put on if this thing of of pairing up and supporting Hamas and all the Iran and all that if say this is wrong then you're a Russia in that instance you are a Russia but guess what you're the the of that person is stuck into the so what do we have to do look is by arousing Mercy you saying it it ANS the hatred and it arouses your love as it's known from the verse quote there's a verse y who redeems a a you know AI is yov is right the third is is is andov is the says redeems because sometimes from that perspective you see no justification in this I'm sorry I can't have to him he's evil this act sorry this act is evil says I know what what I hate to do you have to evoke within yourself Mercy which is Yakov to redeem the individual who from the perspective of a of wouldn't be redeemed so the only thing that can redeem him is it's a on his and I want to add to this that again along the lines of the balatan sh this chapter 32 which is fundamental to all of Tanya and to all of life let's a very simple thing let's make a with ourselves okay we're not supporting we're not supporting Iran andas and all that right but we support our own idiosyncrasies and if we are going to look at ourselves as because we didn't we spoke L last night which is a her it's Nota or we she earn taxes or or we're disgusting to our wife or to our kids whatever it is so if you don't have if if if you're not going to use Rus then we're we are gous we are finished we're evil we're bad oh no no no no one thinks that way no one thinks that we don't think about ourselves that way so if you don't think about yourself that way don't think about someone else that way in other words Misha why is it that you are able and I'm saying you but please I mean everyone every one of us why is it that we are able to have compassion for ourselves and out of idiosyncrasies which could be just as bad just as bad and maybe at times even worse but regardless and we can't do it on the T cik I guess I guess I just have to jump in just say I guess that's a question ultimately like like what are we talking about in other words yeah am I you know let's just talk about myself am I perfect no do I have idiosyncrasies you know that that are that need to be worked on of course but I as brought up the example specifically because we're talking about people let's say who are going and doing something that is so right and you're right right has it own category what say three times a day in the who were who were against can't hear I can't who I don't hear who who's who's talking oh oh Isa you're talking I just didn't hear yeah go ahead yeah that was written by specifically to address yiden who are harming us as a nation okay okay and that's true and and and and you know what m is bringing up is the absolutely but you don't lose your je status just right no no I'm just I'm just I'm just making the differentiation that it could be I'm just wondering are there different levels of and sometimes a person does something which is just so damaging so wicked to others I'm just I'm raing yes yes and and and by the way the rebba in the 1940s he wrote a whole cont and maybe we should learn this maybe maybe after we finish the we should study this he wrote an entire essay on addressing this point how do you reconcile the fact that there the mishna says certain gon won't have Haba how the rebba the rebba in the 40s probably with the previous Reba's encouragement because then Jews were throwing off the yamakas and the sh and you know after the Holocaust and and there was a lot of commotion and then there was certain classic Reas who were you know blaming you know blaming the assimilation so the rebba you know went to the source material and he addressed this issue so just you should know and if if you care to look at it I think it's even in English online it's um his essay on on the mishna in sanedrin which says these and these people won't have a so I am acknowledging mha that there's different levels of transgression sins but it does not take reduce at all the fact that there's aama that's Inus over here here and the AL says you need to have mercy on the that's that means you have to have mercy and that person who has a a and his n isn't Gus you know so what should be the mercy that his the should wake up and he should stop with and he should stop so so so this is you could say the difference between the the certain attitudes in the community where one attitude is attitude is we will ban them we will destroy them we will ostracize them and the other attitude is no no we're not going to do that we're going to work on revealing their soul so that they wake up from their dream and their ridiculous positions and and there the different communities have different St Styles like I said to you yesterday not everyone will accept what the alter says here and I can understand why they wouldn't but if you want to know what the balatan says this is what he says so am I am I one second is it is is it clearer now at least yeah yeah you know H H how how you implement that and how you deal with it that only you could the side you know but I can just I'm just sharing with you what what the AL says yes yes iser yeah I think just interesting no no forgive me I just I do think it's interesting because I think ultimately you know obviously if there's a very extreme case you know then then to see what is what what is dict I mean like for example God forbid bid in the case of let's say this person who was in the news last week he took his own life I mean you're talking about someone who's doing something which is probably I'm I don't know this for sure but I'm assuming that if let's say let's say we found let's say someone found out that this person was giving information to Kamas critical information to make it easier for them to kill Jews so that already would probably fall in the category of okay and and again there's H yeah but I'm just saying you know the capu the capu and the Holocaust there there are this is what were dealing with and deal with and Al is not AER of Al is talking about the spiritual realities in the world and how we you know yes yes sir go ahead yeah I was gonna say maybe maybe it won't but the way I look at is it's not so it's it's not so difficult the ram tells us that when a when a man refuses to give his wife a divorce the court can send people to schmeck him up and beat him up why because his n really wants to but his beh his goshas is getting in the way of it so I look at these people these mistaken people in the same way maybe they need a good a good poch but ultimately they're yiden but they need to be you know a little roughed up a little bit so they understand let their Nish the real Nish the real desire of the shine right and if you remember we learned R's letters to the where he touches upon that I'm glad you really brought that out now reminded myself he uses that argument iser that you quoted from the rambam you know to to refute some of their positions you know so but but you know m is m is making the emphatic point which it's if if they go and spill the beans and it causes death you know so yeah so again Hally if they're a REV they'll be consequences many of our greatest enemies are our own Brothers it's been that way in history yeah unfortunately let F our own brothers let's go further I want to just finish the chapter the brackets has an issue of course with a statement that makes the ultimate of hatred is hatred and seemingly he refers to hating you know the Sinners says the AL this statement of King was only the Heretics I mean this is this is from the Mna that those me they won't have a part in the world to come but s 200 years later he even finds a way how to justify the on some level but but and and and Truth be said and you all know and we all know how it's true otherwise so many would be me course and I and I I want to just not spit it I just want to you if your own son or daughter becomes a leftist and and or you know and and is on a a poster a poster boy a poster girl uh as you drive into or whatever right and there have been such from from homes from kic homes on and on and on no what are you going to do they they should die you're going to curse your kid he should die what if the bells no no but I don't RAB do the example you just gave is not the same why why people who are going why it's not it's not it depends really why because Tim we're talking about people who I I think Mo in most cases children who you are I lack the better term otd off the death we're talking about children who I'm talking about no leftist not just o m not just otd we're talking about they have a sinate to FR kite and and and and they become a champion of a cause no why is that not not the same so again no it listen I guess it depends ultimately how do you define what what the wter is finishing here you know to call a person and courses to that there has to be some sort of ultimate I think a little bit of a definition there right okay but there's a line right right right maybe it's maybe it's no but but but do do do you hear e whether my examples are good or not but my my point is that when it's our own skin you know we justify it we justify it yeah we justify it what what do I mean we justify it no no one's going to think of of of you know thinking of his own parent or or friend or or child that they should burn because of what they did I at least I don't think that way it could be against my principles against Torah principles and we don't in in kabad there was never I'm Shouldn't Say Never the re the rebab the Reb the last Reb our re taught us not to look at others that way listen I told you in my own family my wife's family there were people who professors in in in Moscow and in Russia during Stalin's times and they were informers and the same person I met at my father On's table hugging him talking to him you know okay she'll say he got out he came to Boston he did trua who knows he wasn't religious you know just saying that it's uh it's it's it's so so the bad and theic issue is the isue but the wants us to remember remember the last point and the point is very important because mha it's exact I think he's like identifying exactly what you're saying he is from the perspective of I I cannot justify this I can't I I can't love him he's he's he's he's who's who's doing all the stuff I can't says understand with with you won't be able to get it done the feeling of so evoke will do two things it'll it'll lessen it'll soften the blow of Sinner of hatred you won't have a raging hatred and at the same time it'll augment the love that you have for the person's n so to the through these two mechanisms the lessening of the hate and the augmentation of the love will will will get you to overcome and to reach out and to educate Etc and and I I want to say you know I really haven't had much you know discussion with the tah caronic but I think I would be able to I'm not saying going be able to convince them but I I would be able to dialogue at a table and and and you know You' be surprised you'd be surprised much dialogue much dialogue you know I don't know I don't know anyway that's that's argumentative either I would or I wouldn't but it's not it's not real yes yes yes is it a a set of sa marus breakoff group is it where does it come from the TARTA well obious says yes I say yes and no in other words narta started by rabbi no even before that I believe together then later and they lived in May sharim and they took the of the title B anti-zionism to a whole new level he he didn't take it to that level no he didn't take it to that level but they they were living here and they uh and I I wrote in my book on Sak laich I I show different things that the SAT would not approve of of what they did so they took it to a whole different level so that's why you could say that in sh they agree with the SAT the that the you know the state is is a contradiction to the GI which we learned in you know which is erroneous as R pointed out there totally uh taking a medish and making out of a med which it's which is not it's it's not the tradition is but thear took that and and he went with it and uh they took it to another level to the point where you know they do what M said they they they support the Iran and all those things you know it's um there is a flood but there's a way to deal with the flood the way to deal with the flood is the famous mimer I would like you to learn it chabas look at it talks about anxiety from paros okay so what's the answer the answer is it's the M it's the Waters of the flood and who causes the flood gave us now a challenge is doing well in their challenge we've risen to the occasion this people are together people are is helping in so many different ways so this and this is the best thing it's the best Ru it's the best Ru and even if if if one say well how is going to last first of all don't play God don't play God it's it's here now enjoy the moment enjoy the moment and the moment is this relatively Aus you know on on on on a on a good level better than before with hashem's help the country will wake up and everyone will see and they see the real colors of these these people today you guys have the the the prime minister of Britain of coming you know yesterday was Bush it was uh whatever his name Biden I'm a little fished yeah it means nothing and it means everything because it's whatever happens and the world sees that you know the major countries are standing with us and it it it'll happen so should be that was the that gave his son before he passed away 1920 he said that your a as a as a as a leader should be that 1920 before Stalin started his edict in 1922 already the hard times are coming and he said and focus on this we'll see everyone next Monday have a great shom by bye bye thank you you're welcome you're welcome only good things love you all Shalom stay warm stay dry yeah what