Israel: Time for Meditation and Reflection on G-d's love to us - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

when you see at certain times that your soul needs to be illuminated I'm sorry refined me refined and to be illuminated with the gladness and happiness of the heart it is then when you should delve your mind your and then he adds and you should bring an image form an image in your intellect in your understanding what should the image consist of the true Oneness of God so the AL now is proposing a meditation that initially seems to be far from our reality and that is about God's unity in the next six seven lines he's going to talk about a theme that he really emphasizes in this I know some of you learned it or are learning it the second section of Tanya the portals of faith and unity which is about how do you reconcile existence with God how is it that there's no change in Hashem Vis creation such ideas this is the theme of the second section of Tanya says the AL here in chapter 33 of the first section of T which is dealing with the B that if you want to have you are to meditate and to reflect upon these ideas of God's Unity so I'm going to I'm going to talk out orally the explanation and then we'll learn it inside today or tomorrow and that is like this until now the focus of the Al's approach to sim when when you need it and we always need it is is dealing with gmas in other words either you how to get rid of your ego how to how to humble yourself those are thoughts in Chapter 30 29 and 30 in other words it involves very much the the the the human mind the physical part of the human being as long as one's meditation and reflection is on the human the humanity within us it's impossible to have SIM true Sim cannot come when you're still associated with material it's there's a rule in the in the early philosophers Jewish philosophers not Plato and Aristotle but in the Jewish philosophers that and ol Haba don't go together you know like I told you I met someone in in bemish where you are and he had a beautiful home and he came from Brooklyn I said you know like you know why'd you come here he says if I can have the best of both worlds why not and it's true on one hand it's true but in the other hand it's not true it's not at all true if you have GM and you're into GM you don't have and if you're really into gsh takes such is insignificant to you it doesn't mean that you should live like a poper and a schle that's not the point but what is your focal point you know what what is what excites you what turns you on it's either it doesn't go together so a person who's a able to see in their the within it is a lucky person so each time velv is doing a surgery and he feels and understands and sees that this is for the and if you can live that way then your is but if not then it's a job it's a good job but it's a job it's like some someone asked once uh someone who I know who who was on he was a rabbi and then he went into business and he was teaching a she in the community and someone said him someone was very bright a lawyer he said to him like uh I see that when you teach the shear you're so animated so he says of course he says that's what I'm about not the real estate that I pursue now to make parosa that's a job that doesn't give me Gish that doesn't give me but when I learn a piece of G with a t or I or for someone else who goes and puts on fing with a ye or goes to visit someone in a nursing home or whatever you get electrified you get electrified from it that's your whole life I most of the hours you're involved with with other things that's because we're this world and we're we're occupied we need P we have family we have tuition on and on and on my wife needs a coat you know they need money for it but that's not that's not my that's not my so they them forget about going back they already positioned and they saw this and they said don't go together they don't you know make up your mind what do the what did the prophets tell Alish over there we read it how long will you be on the two sides of the fence make up your make up your mind if you're for the idol bow go go to B and if you're to God go to God but don't be uh you know back and forth and that's the way but we are most of the times up and down back and forth forth because of the so why do I say this because the all the all the thoughts until this chapter basically the Baseline is that we're gashi and within gshi we're going to bring but we're but we're gshi but we're gash me so when if that's the case if that's the case if that's the case if that's the case we cannot we cannot have true s can have true s because the gshi sleps a person down the gshi sleps a person down one second