Israel: Saving our soldiers through unconditional love - the time is now - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

yeah we're learning T we're on page 86 uh five lines from the top after Theon the said said that it's not enough to have SIM from belief in God which was discussed in in chapter 33 that when a person understands Hashem and understands Hashem deeply through meditation and and reflection how God is one and and and there only even though there's a world out there and all those thoughts and the ability to do that is only because he says we got how beautiful is our inheritance the Jewish people B Isel that we got an inheritance we got a yusha what yha did we getov and the us uh an inheritance which is the ability to have faith you see this is an important point which we didn't discuss earlier just briefly the faith of a ye the faith of a Jew is is totally different than the faith of a Christian and a Muslim and then all other faiths the faith of a Jew is unconditional and you see it now you really see it now you know take him mha son M son was in America we actually met U several months ago in Colorado he took me to the took me to to to Denver on my way home right he had he could he just he gets up he he says there's a war I'm coming back I like he finished the Army now again I don't know obligations not obligations the point is where the Jewish the is driven is driven from a higher source and power to do something that's not rational and now he's in the in the thick protecting of fighting as we just ding for him and the other soldiers I mean rationally this is not normal this makes no sense you could stay in America again again technically I don't know if he could stay if he was obligated to go but but he wasn't obligated M says he wasn't okay so so who's forcing you you know there's a war what are you doing the answer is that he feels for the for his brother and sisters it's it's his people it's not some it's his people thata thata is unconditional and that Amon I'm telling you is not found anywhere else even the kamakazi and and all those things there was some rational justification for doing what they did but but the that has is beyond rationale and you know why because it's not theirs it's AB that God gave so because we are born to the children of right we are their children we got an inheritance an inheritance you need to do nothing yeah there's one thing you need to do is not excuse the expression screw up so that your parents or grandparents don't put you in the inheritance because they feel you're an obstacle but but by the way as far as us Jews even if we mess up we still get the inheritance every Jew has the inheritance so the AL in chapter 33 says a phenomenal thing he he says that when you access your it will bring youim and how do you have the ability to access that level of Faith because we are children of the others and Theo nevertheless in chapter 34 Al says that's good and that's true if you live with that faith and and and you're in the mode in the faith mode what if you're not in the faith mode and guess what we aren't all day in the faith mode we're working we're we're eating we're sleeping we're we're we're doing other things and we're not consciously working and thinking about so how are you to be then right how are to be this morning when when when you know our our sons daughters grandchildren are are fight fighting a war and it's it's War this is on the ground this is not you know in faith mode in sh in in in as KES they're not in as KES this morning they're they're in in the western netive as he said or whatever you know this so this is what he tackles really in chapter 34 and the Al said what's the answer the answer is that Hashem put within his T within his T himself and if you know that Hashem is your host he's a guest in your house you're flying high God someone come you come home from sh and your wife says hill we have a guest you say really who's the guest Hashem Hashem is our guest where'd you pick him up what do you mean where I picked him up there's a safer here it's called T now when we learn at supper you and I will study some T while we're eating Hashem is right there so I don't I'm not in faith mode I'm eating food I'm I'm surfing the internet and somehow I'm s I'm learning a tah she looking up something for Torah related on the internet so my Kaye as the like to say the TR Kaye called the computer and the internet becomes a vehicle for hem so it's no longer it's no longer in the faith mode but it's now in the Practical mode of daily life and th those words the Alba says on on top of page uh 86 the fourth line he says I'm we the person merits to being a host right we have the right those are guests means guests a guest for God now here made a good point that's worth repeating in chapter 33 you remember the mush of the the king that comes to your house to your apartment and it's your house right the draa over there he used word d your apartment your home here he seems to say the similar idea but doesn't say d says he's a guest so asks why is the language here you're hosting God as you host a guest and over in 33 you're hosting God as God as though it's God's apartment Hashem is with you to the point where it becomes his apartment AA not's he's not just a guest in your house and he explained that the reason is because in 33 the the the the issue that brings the Sim is faith faith is constant by a Jew it's not always revealed but like I said before every Jew has this unconditional Faith deep down and that's why we don't discount any Jew just coming from sh you know and a Russian Jew comes in you know and I could see the way someone else who was sitting near him who was another kid whatever he picked himself off and he and he left he left because it it was not so comfortable convenient you know on the table and and and he he's he's a retired person older man and he could have an upstairs he went to the minion upstairs I I I understand that but at the same time you know he says to me when he he looks at me he says oh you're a laaber I said yeah he says I'm also laaber what you know and and I can see how comfortably felt sitting next to me I'm not it's not I'm not saying it's about me I'm just saying why because I don't give him the eyes and you know I don't make any issues I'm comfortable I'm not comfortable sit on top of my head take my place I don't care the other man for whatever reason he's older I'm not going to go and you know make assumptions and accusations it's wrong but I'm just saying that something is not 100% but why am I saying this all I'm saying I want to bring out in the is that if that if you if every Jew is a ye he was born in Kei he told me this morning I said your grandfather was a was a was says he was a a communist he wouldn't give his son a bris and my father didn't give me a bris that's two generations he's probably a man in the 60s you know and he luckily became a and he was in he put on he D with us so every every has the the the P like you've heard many times which is the so since the is constant so the AL 33 you employs the word draa you make a home for hem a d is permanent but in chapter 34 here what is the AL talking about our faculties our thought speech and action our the faculties there if you do not invest in what He suggests here which ultimately is learning T at least twice a day you know and like K say you you're not you're not hosting God so in 33 you're always hosting Hashem either in a revealed way or a hidden way either you know about it or you don't know about it but it's constant because the level of of that we get from the the Patriarchs the Patriarchs is constant so there employs the word draa which draa represents permanence whereas in chapter 34 we're talking about the faculties my mind my heart there there are changes tomorrow imagine tomorrow MOA gets the news that the war is over and and gavel and everyone else is is back you you'll see the faculties will be totally in a different level cuz cuz that's the way faculty work we're more excited or less excited we're more stimulated or less stimulated you understand that's the whole idea of the faculties so faculties are not constant faculties are a derivative of a situation on the ground in every situation so therefore the AL doesn't use the word a he used the word it's a hotel it's a motel he's a guest here he comes and he goes he comes and he goes whereas the symbolism of daa in chapter 33 is permanence Hill you want to say something no okay let's continue so now we're five lines from the top after the colon right before the colon brought the that you we learn at least right you bring you learn once in the morning once in the evening based on the time allot allotment that you have and he used the word means broad wide that God makes it you know possible but everyone has their own schedule so that's why he says now here and if he merits that God will make it broader and wider and more and give him more time the pure hands will add strength and good thought and and guess what and and he'll actually be able to learn more hour so the explanation in this this line and a half of Tanya here means like this in other words there is the minimal requirements of learning once in the morning once in the evening and if Hashem in his goodness gives you the ability that you know you don't have to go to work so many hours your Investments are very successful okay and you go with that attitude you go with the attitude is that I want to learn more so therefore as and as soon as you decide you want to learn more so it's like he brings the kazal um what's the lotion here the lotion is and a good thought God combines as though you've done it you haven't done it yet but just the resolution the resolution the to want to do it is very helpful and then he [Music] says so then the entire rest of the day that you do go to work but because you made a resolution that if God will make it possible you will learn more you'll be I'm sorry s sorry sorry the the starts a third thought Noam although it says vam and also but it's a third idea of how do you make yourself a vessel for God so again the first step is learning the second step is if God gives you the ability you say if God will give me the ability to learn all day or you say I'll do it so even though you don't have that ability yet but the resolution itself is considered as though you have it and the third point is even when you you you don't have it yet and you go to business you never less become a a dwelling for Hashem how and he says it's through by giving charity by giving a person gives from the hard toil work that he earned the money and he gives it away which is analogous to God's attributes just like say just as God is compassionate you should be compassionate so just like as has passion on on his creation on his creatures so two you should have by giving helping another another person that's why it says is Express through the right arm because the the right arm represents giving Which is the act of kindness now this kind of rhetorical qu question the Al Al asks on himself wait a minute how much am I giving I'm only giving 20% which is you understand we all give 20% but the fact the point is what's the Al's question H the the issue is how can you tell me through the act of giving S I become a a a host for God if I'm only giving 20% what about the other 80% says the AL this is his retort begins his retort and we have we know the rule the law is that by giving 20% it elevates the other 80% the other four hands out of five how do we know that when you give 20% it elevates the other 80% the derived this fromon you brought an animal and that animal was brought as a sacrifice on the Altar and it ascended completely to God in fire you took one and what happens together with that you brought a tenth ofus of flour mixed with oil and there four what happens is that when when you do the act of bring a carbon all the all of the four elements are elevated because there was the smoke of the fire which is fire and then there was the the The Cloud of um there fire and then there's the dust the um coming from the ashes and all that so you had H rer so in other words byon say of say that bringing a Carin although you only brought one animal right but you elevated all the four domains of of the animal the living the living the vegetative and the inan one add now a fourth point and that is listen he says you you ate and you drank so when you learn t with the with with the with the you got from the food you ate you elevate everything you ate and everything you drank so your body benefits from the four parts that were not involved in the act but automatically they receive an elevation in other words like this when we learn and when we D everything we ate and everything we drank and everything we used gets an elevation automatically it's sublimated through the act of so yes I'm only doing but the fact is I wouldn't be able to D if I didn't have this more if I don't have I can't do on a sa like we have now we're prous is we're it's on the left side you need like we say in right did you need Cheerios this morning are you strong oh I have where' you get the from I ate I worked out so you're working out even if it's not before DAV it's last night or the whole idea is the purpose of the working out is to give you K to learn more so what happens says is that through giving 20% s of s it's not as though it's limited to the 20% that 20% elevates the other 80% because the other 80% made it possible for you to give the 20% and that this concept Al this isn't his own fantasy he bring he bases it on the gor K cuz kazal say a similar law argument a similar way of thinking regarding a carbon that when you brought one carbon it elevated the whole thing not only not only the animal was elevated but the flower was elevated the the the smoke was elevated and the fire was elevated but I didn't do anything directly to to make the answer is you brought here I'm the Jew here come to you who here's an animal and that's all I do I I give it to you so I didn't do anything says wrong did you did everything because if not for that animal you wouldn't have smoke he wouldn't the smoke wouldn't make you wouldn't have smoke the fire would not make the smoke and it wouldn't burn up the animal so by you bringing the animal you elevated everything that comes from the process of bringing a carbon so too with Seda when we give Sedaka it's not just we're giving a quarter a nickel a dime a dollar whatever we're giving ourselves that's the we're giving ourselves in totality to Hashem and when we give ourselves in totality to Hashem then all of us is elevated so this goes back to the alus point and it concludes right here is the conclusion really of 34 the next paragraph which we'll learn tomorrow mem is a conclusion for all the nine chapters I'm leave that for tomorrow but this point concludes this this and what is thead that the way to have is through making yourself host for and and and since we know say the only thing that hasem has left today being that the the the the the Mish is not standing and the mikd is not standing yet meem soon but not yet so Hashem says no no no no I didn't go to sleep on you guys I just transferred my Essence into something else into into Ty specifically so therefore learn twice a day at least make a resolution to learn even more if you can give all of these things are ways of making yourself and what and and what comes out from this thinking and how it brings to sim is and and and and and I say that this is aad way of thinking this is T you're not second tier if you're working your first tier just because there's Kim and yeshivas and God blessed them and we need that but someone who's now on the front is just a much first tier and probably even more but so a person who works ah the attitude you know is ah he couldn't make it in Yesa or k or be a rebi in Yesa so he did the second best he went to University or he went to school he went to turo college he got a job and he gives s Dua but it's really second tier you learn chapter 34 and it wipes out that argument completely your first tier your first tier like anyone else they're making a through learning and the and we need that as well I'm not I'm not you know sh poing that but don't tell me that I who I'm working and working hard to bring pinosa to my family to give sedu to to help build the community and all of that we're any less in God's eyes we're second tier this chapter wipes that out if you if you identify with what he says I mean the AL brought you know strong Ras from kazal so in other words don't minimize the fact that someone said H oh he can only learn in the morning you know in the morning before D and but he has to run to work all day you know and at night he falls asleep sleep after my he's tired he can't you know come come maybe you know that's that's not really you know I'm the big Yesa man you know I'm the Big B they used to the L used to call them Dr says sorry chat if that's the predicament you're in and you do it because you know you're hosting Hashem and and you are then you're you're the same and and this was a a very much an attitude that the by the way shared with Claus Ro over the last you know 50 60 years and it took a lot to to to to get it to get it you know accomplished and many many organizations who weren't oriented this way accepted the whole boua movement and the whole going to work movement you know the BBA simp Torah 10 15 years ago he announced that you guys can't sit in all day a half a day and then you go out and work you guys remember that right so there there's been an adaptation of the Tanya's philosophy now of course we need rabim and we need rabbis and we need rebies and no question about it we need that too and if someone sh to do that they should do that but not because only they're fulfilling God's Mission making themselves a a a guest for the for the gur for gura but someone who's working is not no not a rule so you see when when when you learn a piece of Tanya you learn it well there there are practical important lessons that we walk away with we'll continue tomorrow stay safe good to see everyone Shalom byebye take care