Israel makes home for G-d by going into Gaza including the Shifa hospital - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

good good day so we're learning today chapter 36 on page 90 just to bring everyone up to date the Al from chapter 35 begins kind of a new theme within the theme of the ban and he reverts back to the mission statement on the cover page the title page of Tanya that every single ye every single ye has the potential of being a b and in chapter 35 says that's because action speaks loudest and he brought and he brought some mute yourself please so the uh the idea of of he brought the the Z says that the Yuka who was the son of he says that what is the oil what is the oil that gets the candle the to to be lit it is that's the language of the Z Good Deeds by the way it okay it doesn't say tor it says good deeds which in the Z refers to to that but the reason I point that out to you is because the once answered me in a in in a letter uh that um I should be have ality when it comes to Good Deeds he didn't say because sometimes there's something that's not necessarily A Mitzvah and it's not t study but it's a good thing so in that as well you should I should have zus I should you know have zus ality I'm saying that the language in the Z is in a similar way it says one second Good Deeds but the refer the way brings here in chapter 35 refers to mitz M I'll get to your question later I I want to cover some ground first if you don't mind so so this was the theme of chapter 36 to the point where the Al said a a startling uh statement and that is that even could be a and I just want to add one tidbit to to to explain that I was discussing it with some someone here over shabas is not he in chapter 35 his objective is not to speak about the difference between a sadic and a b that's not his objective his objective is to explain the difference between serving God with total ble humility nullification subservience or serving hasem as a independent being who has as an adjunct to to his or her being God that that's the difference and the difference expresses itself whether between Soul versus action soul is serving hem with right even if it's the nature of your soul to be a good boy to be holy it's very nice but it's still not one with God it has an independent issue to it and what's that Independence that I have the nature of liking God what when we talk about the the opposite issue which is serving God with t Mitzvah action we're talking about leaving behind any trace of Independence even an independence that's natural to your to your being and nevertheless doing what God wants and that and that we called so the analysis in chapter 35 in T is the difference between to Total selflessness versus an iota of selfishness be it n natural or imported but regardless it's it's not 100% subservient that's the different that's the the outcome of chapter 35 so now in 36 ask a question who says that you have to serve hem with your NE as well who says that we hear that always and and the AL taught that in chapter 35 so he's not asking on himself without asking the question he will start answering the question why must The Godly the animal Drive the ne the also be involved not and not also be involved but if you don't involve the then you really aren't serving God you're serving yourself now serving God like a good boy with through the ne kiss is not is not is not the ultimate so his question is why not why must I get down and dirty and guess what you know who ask this question every person who lives in GAA May men Park why I I must go out to timbuk too I must go out to the Kim and it's not about going out I I must go into the real world why can't I just be in my little bubble serving hasem I have my own Y in my own house and in my own Community not to speak H not the fight all right why must I involve the the the neis the the the hardcore that's the question point to do trans but but but you that's the question who says God says so whole point we say that's the whole point in in other words it know like this the ne also has its challenges I I that's what I told you you don't think a Jew living in Mayar doesn't have his challenges why must the Jew of Mayar go out to why must he go out to to places I mean in concept concept why why it why aren't the struggles that my has adequate to fulfill God's objective in creation that's what he answers in chapter 36 let's see inside let's look says page 90 it's known so he says I'll tell you it's it's known and it's not my own there is a teaching of R of the sages this teaching and these words are the key phrase to the answer and to kad's outreach and that is that the ultimate the ultimate the purpose of Bri of the creation of the world of this world not Angel worlds and spiritual worlds Cosmic realities but this world who it is sh very key word God had a a lust that's what it says Tava it uses the word Tava it doesn't use the word rone will a very enigmatic word to use about God and we'll talk about that later God had a spiritual lust he wanted to have for himself a home in the in the lowest world this is so the first thing is you have to know the source cuz people always ask and Challenge on this issue and and the story that supports that is that in 1963 or 64 Rabbi zman gutnik who was the father of yel gutnik the famous for anthropist from Australia was by the Reas I think was his first time travel wasn't easy from Australia to America he learned intels in Europe in Lithuania before the war and he was a good friend of Rabbi morai gifter RAB morai gifter was the rashash Sha one of the rashash Shas intels and later known to be um what some considered a um an an opponent of kabad and I've written the entire book on the relationship and it's not exactly that way but now is not the time to get into it it's it's a it's an entire book but the word on the street was is that you know he had he had questions but that's later when he was learning in in 1936 or 35 37 those years gnik was there as well and they were good friends and they remain good friends so in 1964 when when gutnik had Yas with the rebba he said to the rebba I have a question to ask in the name of Rabbi gifter and he saids RAB gifter is up up upset one of the things he's upset with why it's important to reach out to nonr people and you know bring them closer now mind you this was at a time when the kirov world was just getting his feet wet and not wet enough kabad of course preceded them from the Outreach that they did already in the 50s in the 56 Sinai War when the rebba called for a not only a an appro a defensive approach but an offensive approach going out to the soldiers and I actually spoke to one of the leaders he's already in ganen who was Aid and he was in the Army and he was one of the people who you know brought the fillan to the front and and did things with soldiers and that was because the re said it's not enough just to sit back till they come to you but go out to them like we have right now um not only many others going you know to the soldiers anyway but at that time was not popular at all so RAB gifter asked this question so gnik repeated it to the rebba that that agitated him what's this business you know the messah the tradition of from Jews right-wing Orthodox Jews was to sit and learn Med you know Yeshiva not to go and put fil on with Jews and not not to you know to start going to college campuses kabad went to college campuses at the time it was the the days of the the first American schim Rabbi Feller in Minnesota Rabbi cin in in in in California etc etc so the told Rabbi Rabbi gnik to tell RAB gter it's this med that the AL quotes in chapter 20 36 in and he said to him you shouldn't have Tinus me don't have tius am me it's this m soik told gter gter and he said why do you guys pick this Mish is this the only medish and and said basically for that you need to learn you need to understand this isn't just a little medish in other words the AL found himself a medish to to support his statement that where it's at is Deeds right good things the says it do you have an earlier Source the brings this of that the purpose of the world is to make a means the lowest of the low with the boot the the boot boots get in the boots get in the mud and go out and make that means it's not in B Park in Williamsburg and GA and and but it's out now they're fighting making a there that's right so the said you know if you if you understand what the balat is explaining in t Anda learned Tanya he learned Tanya and tells because there was a group ofab there ints and they learned Tanya had a son there and he would come from time to time and teach and if I bring so there was but nevertheless you know there's learning like we you know there's learning here we're all in our homes or in offices learning very nice and then there's implementing what you learn in the real world and that was and that was and and and but that's the answer the answer is because of the this med and this med is it's not just a little Med that Al had nothing to do but to scratch up but to find one Med this medish is demonstrative of the entire and that is and look at the words the words speak for themselves that's a very very powerful language God had a lust a spiritual lust that we make for him a da a home a base a place where you can feel comfortable like in your home you could take your shoes and socks off and just enjoy you come to Sho most people are wearing their shoes and socks I know in AR Ro some people don't whatever CU maybe the climate and but but but the point is you could you dress a certain way when you come to a house for hasem Hashem should feel comfortable in my house right that's a question we should ask daily our families ourselves is my house Aida for God does God really will God walk through the door and say hey I feel so comfortable here I love this place that's what hasem wants and not only working with the low of the low but in the low like I told you a few shot him before you want to host God not on your terms on God's terms you us as should host God on his terms we're in our domain and our Abode so this is the the key I would say phrase and concept of of of why kabad engages so much in in in the outside world it's based on this and as you see has nothing to do with kab as to do with a it's a it's not it's not it's PR it's a med now I did see a meme that said coming soon of Gaza City yes I've seen that I've seen that okay and and there was there was news that they made a minion in an old sh in in in Gaza City this sh wonderful thank you anyway now what's the concept of Tava because because you know since it's we we learned it just now yes Sor sorry I'm holding this off I have something to share this is something else this is not the question I was going to ask before so on chabas Friday night I was with a friend after the meal and he was making a seum and um he said you know during this time right now he said everybody has to step up to the plate do more choose what they're going to do fine very good so he went on and on and on to talk about I'll just cut to the Chace he said he decided that he's going to not go into work until after like midday he's going to spend the entire morning learning but he's he learns a fair amount already I mean but he's very but the point I'm bringing it up because when he said it I said to myself it just sounded so like just so staying within his comfort zone now I'm not I'm not not debating that it's good to learn obviously there's no question learning Li Torah helps it no question but it just did not seem to be it seemed to be so not what the AL is saying so not look and it it it it bothered me at the time right bothered me but look look look let's it okay now I'm I'm an outsider to the story to you know right we're all Outsiders right so we we could look at it a little more objectively if if for him this is contrary to his nature and contrary to what he's doing then he is sacrificing if it's just a continuation of his natural habitat that he's not sacrificing he's doing a very nice thing but yes he's not living out the of chapter 35 and that's something that we could all he could work on and we could work on and I would look at myself and I ask myself am I going beyond the N my nature I don't know so you know when when you say mha it didn't sit right with you I I understand you what you're saying is that it seems to you that this is his natural habitat and therefore it's just a continuation so two things one is a person should never be discouraged from learning to which he didn't do of course and and and and B and be you know it's a wakeup call for you who heard who who who he Shar to ask yourself are whatever are whatever you're doing for for for the the for the war to you know for everything else are is it more than your nature and and that's the that's between you and um but yes yes that is along the lines of what he's saying here in Tanya you know whether there's a war or no war it's not about it's not about a war every day you know there's there's the routine and then there is what am I going to do to break the routine and and really do something that's uncomfortable okay what was your other point you wanted to say in the beginning k now before I go further I wanted to know going back to what you said that the rebit said to you the rebit said he encouraged you yeah to be the the's language was have aity in all good matters so what is your question question is did the rabbit was that common the rabbit for the rabbit to use that type of language to say that to people common no I wouldn't say common you know um I would say more common would be you know zus in all aspects of Torah mitz here he said you know this was a personal personal instruction that that he he wrote to me so um I have not heard you know I haven't heard from many others or anybody for that matter that they they got such a instruction um they got other instructions you know my my father-in-law for example when he asked the rebba in 1958 or 59 after he arrived from Australia and he Hadas and he asked the rebba what is my kind of purpose in life what's my so the re said to him and I'm paraphrasing I don't know exact we don't know exact words but something similar is that whatever others don't want to do you should do you know so you know that's that's the uniqueness of a sadic and and Aid who will relates to the sadic that you know there there are in there's the individual mission that every gets and then there's the CL there's Mission CL you know and another another example another friend of mine when he wrote to the rebba three SEC three separate times about issues in his life including once when he had a life-threatening accident the Reba said check your tius normally the Reb would say check your and your and to him he said check your ti it seems to it seems to me that if it happened once it's also sadic every word is exact but happened three times that means he's like the way I see it he's opening like a little window into his soul and saying you're in the sh has some special association with tias and make sure to check your tias so so in that way um you know there's no question that those words that he wrote to me were were unique and uh and special you know for everyone but particularly for me because he he you know that was the instruction he gave me in other words if someone else would write he might not get that same instruction I don't know it's not in other words the instruction was based on on a on a um on an event I I told you the event that my wife had a life-threatening accident and I described to the rebba how that took place that drunk driver was driving 90 mes an hour being chased by the police on the 101 freeway in Northern California in Marin County right and she was pregnant and he went right into her so I described that graphically to the rebbi and I asked him what's the what's the lesson from that from you know like what's the message here so the Reb in the in the PS of the letter first he sent the letter to me that my wife have she was pregnant seven months with my son that she'd be have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy delivery and then the in the PS he wrote The Lesson from this episode and that to me was like a direct resp responds to my letter I asked him what's the lesson so then he answers this is the lesson and he and he derived the lesson the is of Z he didn't tell he didn't say because you told me these details of how fast I remember clearly writing that in my letter that the guy was speeding cuz the cop told me that I repeated what the cop told me how the cop was amazed the policeman was amazed that she survived the man was going at 90 Mi being chased by the police and he's drunk and the proof is the car was total sure so so so I I assume that the rebel took from the details that I wrote him about the speed issue a lesson to be Speedy in in in all matters of goodness but he doesn't say that I'm I I'm putting the two together I just want to be clear for the record you know to to you understand it makes sense so whether whether someone else who would have a similar accident would get the same instruction and response I don't know because that's already a thing that's a soul thing you see this is where we have to expand our Consciousness and our the way we look at a sadic it's not it's not like stationary oh you're having a baby here's the blessing 10 babies 10 same blessings it doesn't work that way even though the language in the letter of the rebba to thez to the bzv to the to the bris seem the same but we're not the same so everyone gets maybe the same technical language but it's to you it's to the individual again and some will not that don't believe this will argue it's baloney it's a it's a standard form letter with theab signature so he sent it to me and he sent it to you what's the difference doesn't work that way doesn't work that way but anyway that's a discussion for something else let's not get loose anyway I just want to talk for a few minutes about this concept of n so what does it mean to have a spiritual Ty AA we could we could maybe use the English word an infatuation right someone gets infatuated with something particularly in areas of tyers women and all that men cuz I had a situation in Marine County I think I told you a very fine person came crying to me that his wife left him for another man or was or or was is living at home but she has another man and he he asks her why he's she's infatuated with him it's not just men to women it can be women to men uses this word what's an infatuation it doesn't make sense there's no reason for it I I'm drawn to it why I can't explain why I'm drawn to it I'm infatuated the uses this word has an infatuation has a and you know what that is put on a pair ofin here on in in the world get up in the morning early take the hide of a of an animal right poor this I mean like come on what is going on over here this is going to make you happy God yes this is going to make me happy why there is no why there is no why it's an infatuation it's a says the says I want you guys on Earth to do make the not the Angels not the Souls not the Heaven and the Earth and all the celestial beings and all the great Revelations it's all it's all of s a a Fascination God doesn't want Fascinations Fascinations are good as a sidekick you know but what hasem wants is the MIT the deed the that's what makes him happy so the med another Med says what's the difference right the has to slaughter the animal the chicken by the the neck or is the neck God cares where you Slaughter the animal the front to the back if he wants Slaughter Slaughter it anyway if if that makes him happy says the med the reason why hasem chose slaughtering from the and not from the is to refine creatures somehow the act of on the neck makes us more refined and that's what he wants so also brings this med I just quoted to you and and speaks a lot about it and the reab has a discourse that he said in 1952 where he brought this and at that time at there was some old of the shab still there and the Reb was a young man of 53 years old right or uh yeah 52 50 what it was a young man and and they weren't acclimated to him his whole style was different than the previous re and the re rashab you know he's wearing a hat down with a tie you know his beard was rolled up for a while I don't know if it was rolled up still in that time you know it he didn't look what they considered to be a Reb with a a SP you know you know the whole scene I don't have to tell you so but you know they had their cuz the young B 770 the guys the boys as we call them they were the rebba soldiers and they were telling their parents and grandparents some of these people this this is The Real McCoy this guy who this man who looks modern compared to what you know and from Europe and even though he was from Europe too this is the real sadic so at this mimer there was one or two of these people there from ER actually and he said a mimer and with that mimer he bought them he so he sold he sold they got sold on the Reba in that mimer because he was very emotional and he spoke Concepts and ideas that they they they they saw that this is the real so one of the things that he discussed in that famous M which was the the beginning of the he spoke about this med that I cited you that I quoted you and and and he explained that the the punchline the message of the med is do it my way God saying don't do it your way that's that's what I want you want to slaughter from the back it's easier whatever right no no put yourself aside and Slaughter the way I want you to slaughter from the front but why God it's easier for me to do the from the back the answer is your mine your subservient or your you're you're you you're still a yesh you still have an existence you still have an opinion and you want to do it your way and that's what it's about and when these heard this from the rebba you know this was the whole idea because the rebba spoke in that MOS about loving God and fearing God and having will for God having pleasure but at the end of the day it's all my um it's my D it's like what mosha said earlier you know it fits into my comfort zone yes I'm going to do something but all what I'm used to what I'm comfortable you don't say that but that's what you're doing so the me says no no you have to do it the way the abish wants the way God wants let and and the purpose is to refined creatures not it doesn't mean through refined creatures that by Shing through the neck and not the through the the the neck of the front and not the back you become a better person because somehow it it it evokes better mid in you that's not the point it's because you're subservient to Hashem so they should that's the idea that's what we're learning here in wants so that's why the language of the medish is not the r that God had a will the the the language is Tav it is an infatuation it makes no sense and that's exactly what he wants that's the way explains this medish and it's a an e in the entire Learning System of of of the abat and kabad for Generations is this concept and you know you'll hear this from any knowledgeable kabad b or girl you know who went through the system uh this will be the the the statement what does God want God wants a de we continue tomorrow good day take care