Israel: Is war a self-perpetual endeavor or G-dly mission? Is truce authentic? Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

learning Alan midle of chapter 33 we are on page 100 after about seven lines down from the top we Del here is making a refined distinction between the the concealment the idea of concealment concealment and Revelation whether something is revealed or something's hidden versus some something that is revealed but it's either revealed partially fully Etc we call this in Hebrew H Pim H Pon means God's countenance his p is hidden versus contraction and expansiveness and what does that mean in in in our vernacular take for example the sun the sun shines how much how much sunlight is now in Misha's apartment in is's apartment in y's I see his walking and in my apartment you know what the answer is depending on how large or how small or how narrow or how how wide are our windows or our uh you know uh what do they have a top what they called the sunlight coming in skylights skylights thank you escape me I apologize so that's how much light you're going to get that's called simp contraction or expansiveness is it broad Mya is it narrow is it rectangular or rectangular you know what I'm saying all of these different things make a difference as far as how much sunlight you're going to have in your in your place is the same concept when the Abisha gives a when the ABA shines and he's always shining the fact is that we don't always see God's shine God's Ray God's ill um mination cuz if we did we would be better boys right so that so so that's the concept of Hester Hashem is concealed right now the situation actually just Ro is on one hand Hashem is Hester if not we we would wouldn't take us months we would win the war overnight and they would all run away give away and say we do chuo and you know we going to let you be and we we it's not happening so fast it's Hester but within the Hester itself how much Hester is it you understand how much Hester is it it's Hester it's it's it's concealed but how much so that's the concept the second concept of Revelation sorry not Revelation Tsum or isus is it a great contraction a minor contraction Etc now Del brings it here in this chapter regarding the Goof the example he gives is the you have the body of a person you have the soul of a person as far as Hester is concerned if God Is concealed he can be concealed just the same way from the B from the Soul than the body you don't see him you don't feel him there Hester however in regard toim how much is Hester and how much is not Hester that there's a difference in the soul in the there's more of the of God that's felt even in a Hester situation and in the body there is less and so take for example mhia is not here there's a war there's still death there's still famine there's still Jealousy on and on and on that's Hester but the but the other issue is so what do I do about it how do I live my life like we were just discussing you know Yi has his opinion I have my opinion has his opinion M his opinion that's Hester that's not that's and and we know the situation is is is is dark right now right like M says I don't want to talk now right we middle right now is not the time right let let just okay now what do you do with it you sit on your loins you sit on your loins you sit back and you I'm sure thata has an opinion and and and that's the simp P the fact that he doesn't want to share the opinion that's Hester okay but he definitely has an opinion and and and and and how much of that opinion will make a difference in whatever the situation is that's up to every individual so the AL now says this idea applies also to two things there is the intent and F focus of and there is we come from you did the it says in you did it that's called how much C did you have during I'm thinking about this I'm thinking about that I came I'm going where am I what's going on that that's that's already a matter of degree more or less so the AL in in this chapter what he's getting it to what is what his objective is that as far as the Tsum and Hester there's more realization of God's Illumination in the in the cavana process than in the action process let me explain La when you take the time to think about what is and that in the middle of the day you stopped working to D and you know the prayers were answer only for etc etc etc and with that Focus you go to D your whole is a different in other words the illumination of hashem's what we call emanation his Ray his energy Vis the act when there's kavana there it's more illuminated what if you just jump in and you put your GLE on and you start ding you did the Mitzvah you already you D with a minion but you know what you're lacking M you're lacking the kav and when you're lacking the kav the simum is greater so in other words well it's his before daving in in the grandiose way but even not even basic uh kavana who am I praying to who is God why is God where is God how is God who am I you know you know every has a beginning a middle of the end and you you spend a few seconds right so your Cav so the more time you spend as you say in his bonus or in thought or in meditation contemplation reflection there's more to your Mitzvah so that's what Al is saying so he uses various um examples to BR come to this point this is orally what the what we're going to learn now inside on page 100 it the the line begins a it's about eight lines down from from the top of although in regard to the first concept of concealment it's equal they're all in that the God's energy is invested in one garment which is a garment of trans of [Music] translucency so there's no comparison between the the infinite God in as expressed in God's will if in comparison when there's no concealment whatsoever so here's an important point he's saying that is the action what's a mitz do the the so from Thea perspective there's no Hester there's no concealment the M doesn't warrant what doesn't warrant whatever what whatever MIT just give the money to help a poor person I'm not asking you not to philosophize take out of your pocket a few cents a few dollars and give the so too those Mitzvah that are dependent on speech right for and the movement of the lips without it doesn't necessitate any right what did say we learned the movement of the lips is considered M say m Zuta a minor MSA there is a real m a real action and there is a miniature action action what is the action speech so he says in comparison to if you compare the illumination of the infinite Infinity of God the energy of hasem as it is in in in focus and intent of mitvah when but the what does a person have in mind I wish to attach myself to connect myself with through doing God's will I know this is God's will if this is God's will I'm doing it when you have when you and everything else connects you your your thought and your intellect to God Almighty a fascinating point don't think that you have this great and this great and because you have this great and great therefore therefore what therefore it's the the meditation and the thought and the focus that's causing the illumination of God to illuminate you says no no no he says itself it's not that way God wants you to have there are people think oh I I'm I'm going to use my intelligence to think and meditate say to reflect I'm writing about I finish pretty much writing about uh a group that a Orthodox group that was on college campuses from 1960 to 1981 it was called yav I don't know if either any of you heard of it yav so I did a lot of uh you know I read and I discussed it with people who were yav presidents this few weeks very very interesting but I must say it although they were the for the leaders were they liked and especially they had a relationship with with the reb all this is going to be in the book but the orientation was more the Lish way you know not not the Lish away from ponich and Lakewood okay but you know you know and the whole idea of modern Orthodoxy so what's the idea the idea is you can be a ye with a yamaka but you know in in intellectual lies philosophies and use your brain that was a they wanted to give and they gave Orthodox students kind of The Best of Both Worlds Princeton Harvard and Colombia withing with a minion it's right I'm saying when we read this piece of T here so the of right I'm going to be United now is with is you know you like thought and philosophy right is that coming because you happen to like that that's the type of head God gave you so that talks to you right that talks to you to talks is bottom line tell me something practical right we all different but we're all learning the same T but I'm saying so the question is is Theus that I I want to have with hasem Vis my cup my SE because I have a Personal Agenda which is to philosophize to intellectualize to to get into SE or is it because Hashem says that I want you I want a person every person not just is every person to use their cup as much as they can that's why through is important be barring that they should be through it wouldn't be important it would be y only a like any other tiis might repeat to you a story I might have told you once but it's not a story it's a veras had a brother hendle the the first cidic artist hle liberman righta is an artist these were two brothers but hendle was older hendle was born 1900 I think that mle was born 1907 mle was much moreish the handle was much more study I think he went to the the in Odessa he went to to Mosa went to the School of Art I mean he was a cultured person okay there's a lot more to say but about them but so the mother madana this is this is all my family my wife's family you know so she once said to her to Mel to theic one to the the that everyone talks about right she said it in she said menal wh why do you think you're so special I'm paraphrasing I'm paraphrasing is because you enjoy walking around with creased pants in other words your kite is that even though no it's no he would want to wear but he doesn't have a washine doesn't have an iron so he puts on whatever pants he has and he lays down in his pants you know creased pants so the creased pants it works with your personality cuz your personality is that type of drinking and singing anding and you know that's your T she said your T is to have in including through the display of creased pants clear your brother who probably he was critical of cuz he was you know studied and cultured handle you know what his Tye is his Tye is pressed pants his pants were exactly neat then she said and Mendel it's you a t and he has a TAA from the TAA perspective you're both the same hello is did you get it did from the from the Ty of perspective you're not any Holier mendal cuz you're a guy because yourish guy this was the criticism she was giving is is part of who you are and what you enjoy that's not avoid avoa means changing who you are you're not changing who you are this is what you like so you wear creased pants and you say you crease pants o not just say you know you're critical of your brother handu he's cultured he's studied and he's proper right with pressed pants neat that's his T so from a t perspective no different why do I remind myself and share this with you now because it's a the of as important as thought is and reflection as you already said meditation if it's your own trip at the end of the day it's not [Music] godly it's not godly and that's where people fall and we wonder why did this guy why was he from for 30 years 20 years and then he fries out or you know he takes a a trip that's the reason because his entire one second what because his entire AA his entire service was not the Aida going against himself breaking himself shattering himself going like M said a few weeks ago you know not just learning I make a for the war what I like learning learn what you don't like learning no and I'm talking to myself because I have the same problem I'll learn I'll read I'll think but within the zone that I'm comfortable yes is Sir is sir it's just what we said it was reminded me very much of a conversation I had with the rebi many many months ago about people Zod in the Mika you know what you see people do it was a guy out of I know who he was like singing the whole Yer V the in the and M singing the whole oh boy that's a new one that's a new one you know and I'm thinking to myself like is he serving or he just he's just having a good time s listening to his voice and and feeling like he's doing something Godly but I mean this is it's so beyond anything like right right he's doing it it's his it's his he's serving him right it's exactly so here says the same thing regarding let's go just I want to read a few more lines we'll stop look what he says he says like this um he says in it in itself there's no virtue of more specialty given versus doing the Act only because is also God's will wants you to have that when you do all the that's why because hasem wants you to have vacas as well so when you invest yourself inav it's much greater top of just doing the mitah below and this is compar comparable to the virtue of the light of the Soul over the body which is a vessel for the soul which is a vessel for the Cav okay well stop here and uh we'll do more tomorrow good day everyone only only byebye take care thank you