Israel: Pausing isn't conducive to Winning the War - Mashiach, Resurrection - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

we're on learning today it's the uh sth of klave 5784 we're on learning Tanya chapter 37 page 92 it's a long chapter so we'll do quite a bit of reading and there some explanation you know more or less uh it's just a little taste but um hopefully it will taste your it'll wet your appetite let's go chapter 37 the ultimate purpose of the days of the Messianic days and and also the days when there'll be the resurrection of the dead now right away notice Masha and a that the AL employs two two periods it's not one in the same period otherwise it's superflous what's the difference between y so it says it's it's brought down in the that's two separate periods the period of yhia the Messianic days is in the earlier stage an an earlier period than the resurrection of the Dead and and some argue that we are now in the in theia and whether we are or we aren't but definitely the day the Messianic days is an earlier stage according to the r and according to K for example the the time when you know there'll be uh there'll be uh Miracles but but you know things will be very different and feel different that's part ofia again I say clearly um there's a lot of dispute amongst the not just contemporary uh RAB rabbis but even rabbis and going back hundreds of years what exactly is y and when exactly does Yia begin I I think many rabbis today of all denominations of all Persuasions agree that we're in some form ofia you know even if it's not what we call as the as the Zionist movement believes even religious Zionism be believes that it's since the Six Day War 1948 The Six Day War Etc is the Reb and others disagreed with that but nevertheless the so so even if we don't kind of helically say it is that way the fact is that we have and the fact is that we need to protect and the fact is that the world is experiencing all kinds of things both positive and unfortunately negative that are demonstrative of AIA world so for example the internet where I could we could learn velv in Germany you guys know I'm here in New York and we're all learning together in the morning in the afternoon it it's it it's I couldn't do this 40 years ago so again is it you know is is it classically is that what the means I don't know and but but what I do know is that it's it's it's it wasn't the norm there's there's a change so again you can argue you know is it classically Hally not and and we have these arguments in in and not bad arguments good arguments and and discussions but one thing's for sure there is a period called Yia then says the second line on page 92 chapter 37 which we're learning now oh that's a different stage for bodies to rise from the earth that's miraculous that that that is that is imposs possible except for aness right no one in history has been able to document scientifically the the the the bodies rising from the dead I mean you could talk about you know reincarnation you can talk about out body you could talk about all kinds of things and cabala talks about these things but a person who passes on is in the earth until is a second stage a later stage than so that's why let's look at the text again it's not one of the same y it's two different periods what is the purpose of both what's the purpose you know the purp is that God should be revealed on Earth the purpose is not to be able to philosophize the purpose is not just to know more about God the purpose is to see and feel God in our daily life Beil not not Beil means like you like I see you and you see me and you look outside you see the Sun and you see right that's the way we should see Hashem says the AL since he be he talk spoke about this in chapter 36 he continues now in 37 and he says I have a I have a secret for you it tells you you know who you know who and when makes this a reality we now Eng goes look look at the next words to very powerful world to this depends on this revelation of both the Messianic days and and the resurrection of the Dead the the depends on our actions and our service again here employs two words in a moment I'll explain that but what is the AL saying here that msi's days and the Miracles of that we'll have when the be the resurrection of dead depends on us today so you can imagine we today helping another ye doing a Mitzvah doing a doing a favor being nice and everything else that is the key to unlock Messianic days and and the Miracle of this is a very very revolutionary thought and I'll tell you why because the normal way of of of thinking of a from Jew of a learned Jew of a t Jew of a of what they call a benra is the following the the following is like this we learn now and we DAV now and we do Mitzvah and they are stored in our Lockers in our cubbies in our backpacks and one day one day we will be all together one day when msia will come it'll be unpacked taken out and said here you you learned you learned you you you learned you did mitz and I want to show you what you accomplished on this day I want to see I want to show you exactly what was the result of your learning on this this spe specific day at this specific time that's the traditional way that a from Jew a Tyra Jew looks at every MIT and purpose and and and reward comes along chapter 37 and he says these three words and he says he says no no no it's not that you're causing you you're getting a reward later but your actions right now is the reward he's going to say he's going to say it in a line in in a line or two later right when you say the reward the reward for something you go to school you study you gain knowledge then you go to work using your knowledge and you make parosa so what's the result of your hard work the result is a reward but the actual study and the actual work is that itself an end to itself no and and and and many times we don't like our work and we don't like our studies if we had it our way we wouldn't study that or we wouldn't do that our parents wanted us to go to University take a certain certain courses and become a lawyer a doctor or a businessman or whatever else and really you're not interested in that how many of us know people like that plenty midlife crisis they wake up and they say I wasted my time in College University I'm not interested in this stuff right so in other words the work itself is not an end to itself it's a means to an end says here no when it comes to tit mitz and the purpose of of creation and the purpose of why we're here that itself is the end that is not just a means to an end that is this and what is that aod a look at the words our action our deeds and our service in other words both both ideas action deed and hard work and a is an end in itself that is the reward the fact that you don't see it now it's because we we have blinders on our eyes and that's why sikim or people whove refined themselves they could see the the the reward of their Mitzvah and people's good was now not later you know the Reb has said you've heard this over and over I'm sure in the last month and a half the rebba said in the summer of 1973 before the Yer War the rebba spoke a lot about Gathering children making Kim and having children say and learn and all of that Gathering them together after the war broke out the Yumer War the Reb said I didn't know what pushed me but why did I all of a sudden speak about this in the summer of 73 but he says now I see what Hashem wanted Hashem want he you know I'm paraphrasing a little bit but but that was he did say those words that he didn't know what pushed him to to to to encourage children to gather and have this kinim but now after the war broke out he realizes that's what was going on they just saw that a war is coming that that was Thea that's the way it was and the antidote was like Gathering Jewish kind to say to learn and everything else right so sometimes sadim are also not shown the entire picture at the time only later but but the sikim at certain times and there you you can't measure when what how you know who who see things I I told you this in the past you know when arol Shon walked by the rebi I think 70 or 71 and the rebi stopped him and said Mr shaon I just got noticed I was told a few hours before you came that the Israeli representative for the Israel Bond's dinner in Manhattan couldn't make it and I mean it was a you know a major New York dinner and a Hilton or whatever you know all the MERS were going to come and it was a fundraiser big big money and for Isel Israeli for bonds really bonds so um so the Reba said your Statesman he wasn't prime minister then you know you're General and um it would be nice if you could substitute for for the person who was supposed to speak and and so he says Reb I I would love to do it but from here from 770 now my driver is waiting outside my taxi and we're going to JFK and I'm going back cuz I have meetings tomorrow in there Ro so the re said to him listen Mr Shon do what you need to but if you could make that happen I think it would be a good thing he goes out you know he walks down those steps of 770 that many of you you know have been on and he goes to the to the driver and he tells him instead of going on Eastern Parkway towards JFK make a uturn or make a left turn on the Kingston Avenue Service Road and go towards the Brooklyn Bridge or Manhattan Bridge and go into Manhattan to the to the to the dinner to the hotel I'm going to speak and I'm going to call up and push off certain meetings and they'll come a day later and that night and we could document the night and the flight the plane was hijacked and clearly they said that who was the who was the one that they wanted arel Shon so people ask a question did the reaban know and if he knew why didn't tell him mron you better not get on the plane you're going to be hijacked so the answer it's based on Caba I heard this from from great Scholars as well teror Scholars I believe in the talks I believe talks about how theem hides things even from sadik that's part of the ab's plan and it's it's it's a it's a rash yov wants to B bless his children what does Rashi say say s he he he he hid he came he couldn't see he couldn't all of a sudden he loses the the spiritual vision sorry yakob not bless he wanted to tell them sorry wanted to tell them when Messiah is going to come he wants to Spill the Beans David says uhuh uhuh Yakov you can't do that sorry I'm not ready for that and all of a sudden he's go what happened over here the ab blocked him so you can explain the reban not telling Shon CU they blocked him you can say he didn't know I'm not going into that a will tell you of course he knew and he wasn't allowed to say everyone you know a real everyone will argue and come up but does say that so the here in Tanya in chapter 37 when he starts off talking about y mashia the ultimate y mashia he says it's dependent upon our and in as far as that's concerned there's no blockages our MIM our deed our action and our hard work ofu that itself is an end that itself is an accomplishment the the the the realization of what that does on the global level and even on a personal level that will be either when Messiah will come or if you if you marit to a messiah like experience Prem mesiah you'll see it then right like the Reb said that the Kus that he the the the call for children gathering in the summer of 73 he realized after the yipper war that that was that was that was what was pushing him as an antidote to to save the Jewish people and help the Jewish people succeed in their War Etc cuz it could have been a lot worse the the right we were caught by surprise in 7 in 7 iner War so in hindsight the said that that was what he thinks and sees as the the reason for calling for Gatherings okay and by the way Hali we would have today a or someone like him that would do the same thing that would say the same thing nothing nothing six and a have seven weeks that passed by I haven't heard I heard a call for saying ofu very nice I heard a call for fasting very nice giving Saka I'm saying it's like from all these rebas and all these at least my ears haven't heard a a a universal Global you know um offensive spiritual offensive Act to to to do something that's neb the situation we're in today where you know our leaders are in a way leaderless and I'm not going to go into it but they're leaderless you know and and and it's it's it's it's that's it's another reason we need mashiah it used to be whether it was a s of aen of or Baron Cutler I'm saying they were these were people who weren't afraid to speak their minds regardless of the criticism that they got and each of them got criticism every one of them got criticism this guy didn't like what this one said this what right what's new right but nevertheless they spoke their mind they had followers and they they went with it its way the lfish in their way Y in his way where is there a Ys today find me one a Ys finding one babaali whatever and anyway Hashem knows what he's doing so he'll have mercy and he'll bring mashia quickly but anyway I want to go back to what we're learning now I I don't I I don't mean to be to bring morbidity and negativity here to the table just just to realize to understand what the rebit did the magnitude of what the Reit did and what the weight that he carried on his shoulders and the braak kite we say in yish the the the broadness the the the um taking the risk and and going out and and and and and calling for certain you know activities that's what we need today more and more of that we're doing this great and there and people are together as we've discussed and you know especially it's all galic but we need we need some like Global you know message of of spiritually to to get everyone together you know in a way that um is shattering anyway anyway so said here why does he say seemingly that's Superfluous it's the word of it's the same it's repetitious our Deeds it all Mia's coming and everything else and is dependent on our deeds and our service it sounds the same so the Reb's father picks up on this and the Reb's father says that later Ines there was a letter with the speaks about the difference between and what does he say over there that is doing what you need to do but you don't exert yourself beyond the norm that's exertion be beyond the norm that's going beyond the letter of the law aoid is an entire different realm so the AL says that our oh so the's father says which is the norm your actions will bring to a normal expected experience called the Messianic days yosia but a the second word referring to service going be beyond the norm beyond the letter of the law that will lead to something unexpected IE what he said earlier resurrection of the dead so just like you have two stages Yia which is expected and then and then which is the unexpected it's super natural resurrection of the dead so right away says you want to tap into both so our regular Deeds that we do today that is the um that is what's the word I'm looking for that is the the the issue that will cause and bring Messianic days and say and doing it beyond your letter of the law exerting yourself in a way that's through service and hard work and Beyond what you can regularly do you do regularly that will bring to to your the resurrection of the Dead which is unexpected so that's also a very important Thea people ask what relationship what what CER do I have with it's it's a it's a miracle says no of course it's a miracle says but if you exert yourself then you will call see because the word the word t here is a very it's one word a little little word but it means dependent totally are dependent on two things that we do today that means that through our a which is going beyond the letter of the law and exerting yourself that is the Catalyst that is the Catalyst for that's what it says in t here a very important point that means that every ye has a has a connection has an association and if they have y a connection Association that means they have an obligation to do this because it will lead to Yia let's continue this activity these activities of our work and our it it h it goes on Co the entire time of of ghosts you can't say hey I did my exertion and now I should feel Mia I should feel Resurrection no no no no it's the entire time of goas and why is that explains why to do these two things bring about Messianic days and resurrection of the dead because the thing that causes the reward to the Mitzvah is the Mitzvah itself when mhia will come we will see that our putting on of this morning that itself is the the issue that Taps into Hashem not that putting on fill this morning gets us a reward and the reward is something other than putting Onin Fillin itself is the reward but now we don't see it and then we will see it continuing yes that's meaningful to me because I just got my grandson's to fill in he's going to put them on for the first day tomorrow oh beautiful beautiful a lot of and good health because when you do [Music] the a person draws down the revelation of the infinite God from above to below to invest itself in the physical cor World it invests itself in something that initially was under the domain of the negative forces and which had received its Vitality from the but now being that it's neut neutral for example H see he he talks about filling the the the the the the part they were not prepared from Heaven only those that are Kosher kosher animals kosher hias and everything else what's Al's Point here it was an animal in a barn somewhere in Iowa nebras and and having it a hay day eating hay and roaming around you take it you sh it's AER animal you make take the hide the parchment the cow from the cow and and you make and you make of it right so what have you done you've transformed Kip into kadus this is so this is a mush of what a mush of a I'm sorry of a of a of an animal gives another example of the which is not or it's forbidden right that's an example of what of the vegetative World grow something that grows and finally money which is which is inanimate you take money that is not stolen and and and similar to to all of this let's continue on page 97 when you you you Do's will the energy within these items they ascend and they are sub they are submerged and Incorporated by in the Infinity of God which is God's will that's invest because in when you make a Mitzvah out of it there's no concealment of God's countenance to to hide God so we'll stop over here the point being is saying that uh that um that the per the purpose is to take the and transform the k the and the and the domain man right has the responsibility of transforming them and when you do that you live out you you you ex you experience what will be felt to everyone when Mia comes which is the revelation of God so now we take something neutral and by transforming it you're taking coins and you give it TOA so the physical coin the copper and whatever else has an elevation I do want to say that the she dedicated to the the the young soldier from Bish that passed away now but was murdered bamin I think was his name what was his his father's name I think his name mayor and um I think and I'm sure it was a very hard weekend for all of you there for all of us but especially for all of you there and says he knew he he knew the he knows the family's close to them so it's a it's uh what you went father you know it's uh we need maybe help that we should continue but only through it's hard but there's no other solution you know for State sh and all that and but um you got to hold on you know strong and it it will happen andem that there should be less caronus you know it's it's every day today they they announced I don't know there n another four soldiers in the last two days shabas and Sunday nine soldiers fell it's sh and and now they're talking about a pause I I don't want to get into it