Israel: Making home for others like they want bc G-d wants it that way - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

we now on page me were actually the second word from the from the page so the AL yesterday explained to us three different thoughts meditations to use to come to the conclusion that all there is is a and we call this the unity of God with the universe with the world that the world has no significance outside of God independent of God second word on the page page M just as was alone himself prior to Creation the six days of creation so too In This Very place where God created a world the heavens and the world and the Earth and all their hosts it was only he alone that fills this place so just as that was at the beginning of creation when he created the world so to now he is the same hasem alone himself self believe sh CL without no impact no difference made to Hashem because he created the world the world did not cause any aoda of difference in Hashem he is and he says what's the logic he uses right now why is this because all creatures are totally uned in to hasem the their existence is non-existent similarly [Applause] to the letters of speech and the letters of thought that [Applause] are while they are in their Source this refers to the essence of the soul in its very essence which are its 10 faculties I'll explain a moment the 10 faculties do not have what we call letters words prior to the faculties re enclo thems investing themselves into the garments of thought speech and action I need you whoever is muted please mute yourself Comm like it says in earlier chapter 2021 didn't you realize I was sitting out here no yes I did realize your speaker can hear you yeah could you do me a favor and mute yourself okay so what's the AL if you recall and I hope you recall if not refresh your memory I know you can't word that in chapters 20 and 21 in Tanya used a mush of speech the words of speech when we speak they significance or insignificance when you look at their source when you when you say you ask yourself where do they come from so one one one speech one talk is in or a million talks is insignificant compared to the power of speech in the soul the power of speech the what you call in Hebrew the in the nees is ble V in is Adam for has no limits when I speak and speak and speak as good as the speech is it's limited to what I'm saying and the proof is you get tired before you speak during you speak during your talk and after you talk why is that because debor is limited now look at if you compare this limited debor to the to the power to the faculty of speech in the soul it's compared to Bal it's limitation compared to Limitless right now now the same as those are true for thought a thought is not speech so you could you would think you could think endlessly well the fact is you don't think endlessly yes your thought is constantly going even when you're sleeping says the thought is constantly going but nevertheless the thought is limited to the letters of the thought in other words you're thinking about a certain idea that idea has already letters has words but it's the words that the words are in thought so if you compare the so even even thought compared to the nees is UN is is is insignificant so what Al is saying here is that the the the B the Nullification of the universe of the world compared to's omnipresence and everything else about God is insignificant like the insignificance of De to to the neish and he and and he added one detail in this last few lines that I and de that that's that's we call that the tools the instruments how you express your who you are but who you are who you are is not someone says uh the way you speak is who you are no that's not that's not who you are that's the way you express who you are right your your SE and your mid are who you are the articulation of who you are can be in very various formats from thought speech to action and all three are significant but it's not who you are so this is the that he brings here and this is the mush that he brought in chapter 20 and 21 that the B of O of the Amos the B of all cre create all of creation compared to God's Infinity is like the B of the of to the that's one mus now let's continue now D brings a second mush and he prefaces the first few words now telling you why he brings a second mus for the same idea and that is he wants to bring you a g so I guess he likes mha's way of thinking everything he likes to have a so the says the mus you gave me before about the of to the is a spiritual idea it's right give me something concrete that's what we always hear which is good so let's see what the AL says I've already written about other mus elsewhere he refers to the second section of what does it say there Marshall gashi right is you see right away say Marshall gashi that's the novelty h of the second muscle over the first is that it's a physical muscle not a spiritual one what is it regarding the Nullification of the Ray and light of the sun when it's in its source which is is the ball of the of the Sun the the sun ball the fire ball the sun that's in heaven surely over there in its source The Source also has some form of light and expansion and its and its emanation illuminates over even more from the way it expands and extends itself semination in the universe right very simple you guys learned it remind yourself if you this is his argument it's it's 101 if you believe if you if we believe and it is this way that the sun shines I'm looking out the sun's coming that's a shiny day here in New York in Brooklyn if the sun can shine outside of its source surely it can shine in its source and it does but guess what it's overwhelmed by The Source right when you're a student and you understand well what your teacher teaches you you have what to say as well but guess what guess what you're overwhelmed by your by your teacher if the teacher is really a teacher then your opinion not opinion your understanding of the idea is insignificant to the teacher cuz he taught you it and he knows it so much better now that doesn't mean to say there won't be a point later in your life where you can out through the teacher and every good teacher wishes their student student does that and if not they're they're not a good teacher right you always wish your child should outdo you it's the biggest blessing the biggest right so do with a good teacher but put that aside put that aside the fact is that when this the student is in the mind of the teacher or in this case in the presence of the teacher the student is sub subdued why cuz the overwhelming presence of the teachers right there right and this is a fact just think about it in your own life in various situations it's a fact says later earlier I'm sorry later in and he brings it over here which by the way is one of the proofs that the sh was was Poss I think written before how can you bring here from if it's the second section this is one of the proofs that was written before anyway so so he says here that the the the the the shine of the sun if it shines and illuminates outside of the sun surely it has the power to shine in its source cuz its source enhances it the only thing is that the source overwhelms it but not that doesn't not that it it it removes the The Shining ability from the the sun when it's in the sun you hear you hear the point is you're a philosopher you hear the point it's it's not that it's not there it's there but it's overwhelmed and and here is that he says that I think more so the intensity of the shine as the shine is and its source is more powerful the reason why we have nothing from it is a because is before creation before the and B because it's overwhelmed by its source anyway I don't want to go into that there's a lot of discussion about this tremendous amount but the point let's get to what he's getting over here in Tanya he brings a second muscle and why a second muscle is necessary because he wants a m gashi so he says just as the the shine of the Sun the ray of the sun when it's in the its source the the sun ball it's not felt so to the the Bria the creation as God created it when it's within the godhead when it's in the source it's a no that's the musle let's continue and you see here what he says now here he says this is is saying now there is still a difference between the B of the ray of the sun within the Sun to the B of the worlds within the within Hashem what's the difference over there it's its existence is its existence is nullified in its source and as though CL I'm not going to spend more time on this but this section here in Tanya has hours and hours and days of discussion that the would teach their students but for we're going to live you know go further you know so the question is why do you if you if if if if the second muscle is a good mush why do you need to have the first mush not going to go into it I'm going to let you if you're interested figure it out look into the why do you need to have let's bring it back home he says so too that for example it's regarding the Nullification of the universe of the and everything that fills it in its existence is butle to source which is the of God as it said as explained there at finish so this finishes the the the the meditation part you see the word har when you will meditate on this very long har Lots not just uh you know a a fleeing thought you'll spend much time in depth your heart will become happy and your soul will rejoice which means with joy and and and and happiness with all of heart and soul very much so with this belief that God and the world are one and there's no separation between god post creation to pre-creation says you know why this will make you so happy you'll start jumping and dancing and singing and and you're elated because he because this is very great this thought is the the secret to Joy you hear that the secret to Joy the deepest secret and that's why he calls it the truthful secret earlier is and I think those of us who are more inclined philosophically will can appreciate this line because when you come to the conclusion that everything is God there no there are no questions the only time there are questions is when there's an Iota or more of a breakdown it doesn't mean you're not doesn't mean you're not a good Jew but you know this thought here is what puts you face to face with the alter I meaning to say and face to face with yourself do you really believe cuz that's what he says here here the more you have resona in your heart there's no question and when if there is a question that means there is some place a little little tiny little hole somewhere in your mind which isn't yet on that page and it's fine well we yeah yes H goad I see your smiling have something you kind of began to speak speak about that uh for me this is a Um this can be a momentto moment kind of thing where uh I can have a moment where of that contemplation and then suddenly moments later I'm off in some kind of uh land of fear right right right and and that's right and and and that's why which you you want to be and are it's a constant work you know I I I I think I told you once but I heard it from Rabbi pikarski in North Tel Aviv there's a a therei so in [Music] 1972 for the Reb's birthday the Reb was was was became 70 years old was born in 1902 soid were you know very elated after the rein and it was you know like uh the first FA bringing on his birthday that started till you know the end of his life until then the Reb only set a set a mimer once uh 1952 for his 50th birthday 1962 for his 60th birthday but in all those years those 20 years on his birthday he didn't he didn't for break 1972 heing not only did he say and 73 74 75 into the 80s every birthday was of Hing so it was a new milestone in his own you know I'm telling you he didn't say these things but this is the way we understand it okay that's particularly meaningful because I turned 70 this year only good bench anyway am so afteri was a student then and he was one of the good students in the Bim you know KH always had like his boys you know he had his his certain that hung out with him you know and and they were like being groomed and you know and he took a liking to them they took a liking to him you know we called y we used to call it y's boys okay this is 770 uh chatter I'm giving you an insight into 770 chatter you won't hear it from all the guys that come to fabin with you they'll never tell you this so so um after the fabrin these guys picari included they went to zel Griffin who today the head of New Orleans they went to his house for for R and some of these guys went to his house zelig already I think was a married he just married so again you know he's fresh and he these were all his friends but he married before him so it was like you know the guy getting together you know what I'm saying but now he happens to have a wife in the next bedroom okay and and and RAB was the faer and the faan was a faan and they took a lot of mas and it was it was was very animated and the were very and and he told me that took his knuckle you see this knuckle of mine he took his knuckle he he had said a lot of so he was definitely an animated and he went we have to learn till this physical bone here resonates with the unity of God of AEM and he was banking on himself I'm I'm this is a story to to you Hill to all of us the greatest thinker you know I who am I but one of the greatest if not the greatest thinker of godliness and these things is saying I still doesn't it still doesn't resonate because the physical bone has to has to get it so you're a good company Hill as long as you know that and you work towards you know further but you're right that's that's the world we're in the world we're in is one that sleps you down and it questions you so when Kamas you does what they did you get you know what's going on here this is right so but the more the more it's not that the more your unit of the abish that doesn't bother you what happened how can it not anyone that says that is is is is is wrong to put it mildly okay that's not the point but not that it questions the legitimacy of God my faith in God is Not shattered an aota you know I heard one one mrai person say if I have to give myself now to walk in and give myself as a hostage that they shouldn't use hostages and and and um you know to compromise on the safety of Israel I'm ready to do it you know and and I was thinking about it and and I could see in the man he meant it he meant it he's ready to walk in and give himself away that means basically death I mean godi not but you know and but even if it means death he says I'm ready to do it that's Mish that's Mish of RAB AKA during the Roman times that we cry about and and and and Tish here is a man who says I'm ready to do it for the safety of that's a level of am that's a real level of auna so there's what to work at okay let's continue because we can get off on a Sidetrack let's go V now this is a great Mish this is what we call the closeness of God Mish God is close to a person who has this amuna God resonates with such a person that this person comes to a place where he res he realizes says and this is one of the the 12 verses that the rebba suggested that all children and by the way it's not just children so though adults too but specifically suggested for children they memorize by heart it starts from the words and this is all of man this is the purpose of man and the purpose of why he was created and why all worlds were created the upper ones the lower worlds and that is is what's the purpose here is the answer it's to make for God Lo for him Capital H da a house Zoo this house we here on Earth as we'll explain later in chapter 36 at length this brings the S the expresses itself in making a home for hem so Hill someone who who wants to be felt in their bone but they want to remain on a rooftop in New in in in New Mexico or wherever else in the Himalayas sorry chap that's not what we're talking about that's not that means you're very holy when you're on the when you're on the Mountaintop you're very holy holy when you're separated from people you're very holy when you're separated from your wife but when you're not in all these situations you're a big animal you're a big you're a big that's not that's not is in this go world when you make a Dwelling Place man forem and in this goshal world where there are bombs and enemies and problems and over here you make a corner they call it vle means corner you make a corner where a Jew comes in and he feels the warmth of yish kite of kite and he feels good and like they're doing to today with you see the soldiers dancing together and it's such beautiful things where you you it's palpable it's you're making making you're making in the enemy you're making so when they say they're waiting for the kabas to open up an Aza it's no joke that's it it's a what not a joke that's a that's what God wants ultimately that every place in the world should God should be felt in in in the right way if it did it needs a sh a sh it doesn't need one so it needs you the individual to be there let's go um the the a few more says since I just shared with you that our job our our purpose on Earth is to make a a home forem therefore gives a How great is the joy theim of a simpl and even someone who's the mo from among the lowest of human beings when he comes close to a king of of Flesh and Blood the king says to manasha I'm moving into your apartment would you let in Masha becomes and ala's wife they become Mas they become host comes the word so they say God come here I want to host you number two now there's three points here make a note in your tanas or your notes number two not only do you open your house for Hashem to be your guest but V you make God feel like you live here that's Point number three basa in your house what's the point Hashem can take us to him and say hey you're doing a good job and I like you come I want you to come to me come visit me right that's not the ultimate that's not the ultimate making a dwelling place for God because if God takes you up to him that means where you are in your house it ain't great when he takes you to him AB over there it's galic okay great but that's not B that's not your house says the AL here that the king gives the mus of the king who not only is he a guest and not only is his that the way you give him the way you treat your guest is as though he lives there but it's also he lives Bas in your house on your terms and guess what your terms coincide with his terms you know we bring guests into our house but usually they come into the house based on our terms I know for myself and you know for yourself if you don't have the nicest Furniture so be so be it right what the guest is going to tell you hey I'm not coming to eat by you I'm not coming to stay with you unless you give me fancy furniture you'll tell them have a nice day find yourself another place here was saying something else that Hashem says make for me a home a home in which I'm going to be comfortable in your home but the way I want to be comfortable Hashem oh oh that's a heavy trip that's like getting to iser you you want to you want to accommodate your guest you ask your guest it's like sometimes you know our wives ask what are you allergic to what should I make should I put salt pepper you have high blood pressure I'm not going to cook it this way right trying to accommodate the guest that's what it says here in Tanya yes yes is Sir it's a unmute yourself it's it's a real challenge for we had we to have some homeless people living with us at various times and and we had one woman who was homeless we put her up in our apartment in the basement it's back in New Jersey and um we we had to come up for shabas and she wanted to sink by the shabas table and we told her you know it's uh in a mixed company we we we don't uh have women singing she got very very upset she actually started cry it's a challenge it's a challenge on your terms we were trying to make it On's terms but uh it it was uh not not easy not right right now now just for clarity purposes and for the record it Bar's terms means if it's a violation of it's not like like you were wrong I mean how to say it how to position it how to couch it that's another story but but you know if indeed it is a violation which Kisha is and she's the only one singing you know um whatever so you understand what I'm saying On's terms terms at the same time if you're going to say well says it's forbidden for you to sing there four I'm going to shut you down in front of everyone and embarrass you you're an idiot excuse me you know what I'm saying saying you're wrong no if you ahead of ahead like you did ahead of time you ask her you know if you don't mind you know uh in in a gentle way and then if she does it you don't lose your cool and you don't you don't embarrass her you just go on because embarrassing someone is worse than anything else you know and then whatever and then maybe you and your sons sing louder to drain out her her call Isa which some use as a hether I'm just saying not going but you're right it it is a big challenge but that's what but again remember what we learn what we learned in chapter 32 we want Hashem to treat us a certain way we have to treat people the same way we want hasem to be an not only a guest in our house and not only to feel like he lives there but it should be in your house in your damus you want him to be able to come into your house in other words you want him to say this house the way it is turns me on this is great this right treat other people that way too let me just finish the few lines the so this was the mus so now the moral needless to say Adam him so much more the closeness and the home that we create for it says look at this look at this beautiful verse who who is it whose heart is like sweet look hasem says who of you is it that your that your heart is sweet Lo is a lie that can come close to me so says God in other words Hashem wants to have the AR the sweetness not just Misha you put him in a house you dump him in the basement and you give him his blankets or her blankets in the sheets and everything but uh that listen to take in what is said a homeless person and do that it's today a big big let's not let's not put that aside okay I don't want I don't want anyone Hal Hal we we we all do that okay but but but but don't stop there don't stop there and there's no end to such a mitvah so the says says about someone who makes a for Hashem on hashem's terms it's sweet this is real sweetness and therefore this person can be like a lie this this person can come close to me this person is identifying with me just a fish you know many times we do things for others for our spouse you know it's like madis Freedman would always say yeah it's her birthday you buy her flowers and she says thank you very much but uh I'm not particular fond of flowers are you are you you know being nice based on your terms or are you basing your relationship on the other person's terms knowing even their idiosyncrasies as as as iser mentioned before that issue other issues and that's a challenge and that's but that's the de says that when you resonates in the physical being of a person and in the psyche of a person then this issue happens happens then the is in it is not just the way you see it but the way sees it and you make that possible we'll see everyone tomorrow have a great day Z take care byebye