Israel: Why did G-d make the War? What's our purpose? Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

we're learning now T chapter 35 the bottom of page 86 a brief few words as an introduction the Al has a a pattern and a system to his to his ideology and the way it works is bashus chapters one through eight he talks about who man is his faculties his instruments thought speech and action those are that's from one through eight from and from 9 through 17 he talks about the different manifestations in the individual IE the and theik the and all of that then in 18 through 25 is where the AL talks about the the self-sacrifice that every ye has Vis I'm making it I'm making it very brief I'm just giving you the and then chapter 26 through 34 which we just concluded is where it's like a long uh parenthesis in a way because he goes away from man from who the person is and who the ye is and he talks about psychological issues of of of depression and and Melancholy and alacrity and of course all need to be eliminated and he teaches us how to eliminate it so that we have SIM in our life so th th those chapters deal with that so it's like in an in indirect to the to the idea and theme of Tanya which is that every ye is a potential bany every ye can strive to be their best now in 35 which we're beginning momentarily he returns to his his his his mission statement of T what is the mission statement what it says on the cover page he quotes the PK in the which is for the is near you in your heart in your in your in your mouth in your heart to act upon and he asked the question in without you know clearly saying it in the on the on the cover page but only later in chapter 17 he he he says the question openly which is how can you say that mitz is very near you when gash when the physical material world is near you is near us we feel at home there when it comes to is to spirituality to MIT it's like an adjunct to who we are so how does the say that it's and not only but that that that is the the mission statement of the which is a fundamental question for us Jews for every one of us so now in 35 he's about he goes back to that statement because at the end of the day it is the theme the mission statement of Tanya and he and he reanalyzes it and he adds a detail that he didn't say before which he will elaborate on in 35 36 37 38 39 and 40 so the next of uh five chapters is dedicated to this theme and what is the theme that action is where it's at's greatest pleasure and greatest L Revelation is when a Jew acts when he does Action M and therefore when the when when the verse says he doesn't the Hashem doesn't mean that he's looking for the average Jew to experience God in his heart or her heart with the full love and awe for Hashem you know why cuz that's not reality that will be when Mia will come right but today what does the P say said earlier in t when when is the when is the tomorrow that we receive reward for putting Onin this morning when mhia will come in other words the feelings that that that will be generated and we will Merit to feel will be when msia comes now it's a feeling here A Feeling there but it's not the authentic thing says the Al I know that and therefore that is not our objective if that were to be our objective we're missing the target says the says the word should be read together with word I want you to hear this put a comma there break like they go together as though there's a hyphen in between them what type of action that I want an action that has some association with the heart that's what I expect of you as we said in chapter 16 what does that refer to the practicality of of doing something that you know because it's right so in the example I gave you you know was you take out the garbage for your wife you don't feel any heart palpitations of love for your wife when you take out the garbage if you do you have to go to a shrink okay but but you know it's the right thing to do so Al says that's what I want you to feel towards God it's the right thing to do to put fing on the morning even if I came from sh this morning morning and I say I just daved I didn't even know a word I said I had no feeling but you know that you had to DAV so that's the that's enough to to to um create the say the action which was putting on so this is the this is what the balat says and this is expected from each and every one of us this hasem demands because today comes [Applause] tomorrow that's when you get the reward the feelings the Elations right and by the way with this idea it it it pacifies and it puts into into perspective that don't think by don't think you're going to become some kind of Holy Roller and big sadic by stopping to eat the cheeseburger it's a whole mistake that's not what we want of you the if stop e the cheeseburgers cuem says it's three finished you'll feel this you'll feel that you might feel nothing you might feel nothing you know it's misleading I I mean I didn't say it you know opening I don't want to say it open but all these 48 ways to to to to to to happiness and all that it's misleading and if I don't have 48 ways I have zero ways to happiness I shouldn't put on fill of course you should put on fill but I'm not happy my bank account hasn't improved my kids are not any better that type you're wrong in your thinking the whole thinking is wrong you don't do it because you're getting a a bone you're getting a reward this is not that's not yish kite you're doing it because you recognize God no one second and the same was in the same was with living in I want to go further no no no tangents here you live in because you believe it'ses not because you have a nicer house and be on a bus with all Jews that's not why you should that and if that's the reason why you chose that you're making a big mistake and and a lot of people leave the K is stands for itself and therefore when a war like this comes which is and but it's from hasem you don't lose yourself and it's again easy for me to talk sitting over here but in in the in in in in ideology in thought this is the EMS the EMS is that you made a choice because it'ses has nothing to do with whether there's a Medina there's no Medina that that also answers that you know the all that has nothing to do with with the semantics if I'm if I'm living in that Soul CU I want to have kadha you're going to argue it's is K it isn't K it is those are all semantics and then let the rabbis argue it out and and it's and it's important to know that too but but but that's not what does it so here talks about the same idea as far as we're concerned and he says if you look at yourself and you say what kind of Jew am I I'm 70 years old I'm 65 years old I'm 55 years old and I and and and I D and I learn I do MIT I give I have and yet I I don't have a feeling I always go back to what mha told me when I came to a lot of people here are stale you know they're doing the they're doing the the mechanics but there's it's not alive it's not alive so the answer is like I told them then I repeat it now the bottom line is the the it's it's important to have and vitality and that you that you get through learning and more so bringing and being together and talking and and moving and you know like I say you want to stay young hang around young people go to a with young people ass sure young people will keep you always young because they'll KET with you and they look at you as the Zade and the Elder you have the white beard and they're just you know boys and girls 18 20 22 25 30 or young young like you know one or two kids and you're this you know you're already a senior you know what I'm saying you stay young the point is then the is that the that the that talks about is is where it's at and that's what he's going to talk about in this chapter but first he has he asks two questions let's go inside page 86 the bottom for additional clarification Tav regarding the word from the verse so the first question is this this is the end of the first question first question is could you please clarify better for us what exactly is seemingly to act to just put the muuza on and be like a a a cold fish doesn't doesn't it doesn't seem right how you're telling me God wants me just to do an action without animation that's the first question question number here comes question number two and therefore it says V and also that's already a question implying a question and also to understand a little a little bit because we can't this is the million dollar question why did God create and because you'll never figure it out completely but a little bit you can figure out why did he create a now look at the words over here why does he have to put in the word Bri we know he could say what's the purpose of the if at the end of the day a doesn't transform their mid and it's only about their M and their thought speech and action but in heart they're a Raging Bull with the same tyus and Indulgence and Cravings but they hold themselves back in thought speech and action but as far as the heart theas are concerned theas are still raging so why did God create such a why did God make that so one second but the AL adds the word Bri you know why because we learned earlier in Tanya and we had much discussion about and man we had a discussion that the AL in T is and it's theab you're born a sadic you don't become a sadic the sadic of the T Yi is not something that you buy at ww worths or Macy's and it's not something that's that's given to you because a Hungarian Holocaust Survivor who makees who who became wealthy and his city was wiped out so he takes a little a a little gum here in bar par in Williamsburg and buys him a house and gives him a cane with a white uh white top over the silver top and and and he and he and he pays his salary and he says open shop and the name of the Sho is so and so that was decimated in the Holocaust that's not that's not Tanya that's not kabad it never was and it never will be and that answers by the way the question that everyone asks the passed on was the St appoint yourself another re what's your problem you can't be like anyone else andells did it and everyone does it and the bage doesn't do it except PR of course and the answer is that this system you either born or you're not and when you'll find me someone who's born a we'll then put him to be the next I'll let you guys look for him cuz I haven't found him yet lot of I found a lot of good people a lot of smart people people a refined people but re quality that we had that that us haven't found yet and to go and put a sticker broom and say shoot at ain't laich and I'm not and I'm not putting down other systems other systems work in a different way they put up a broom and they they say kids children this is the new Rabbi the new sadic and it works and that's disrespectful right but the system is's word here created to begin with AIC like soul and then he created a ban like soul and what is this theme that every one of us can be a that's why is he adds the word cuz if if if if his position the bat's position is that your soul comes from a certain place and and based on what your soul is that's what will be later and to be a sadic you have to come from that that Arena that place called souls and since most of them are not that way we come from a place called B which means potential B is so you still wanted to say something I wanted to suggest that the answer an answer to the question was that the struggle is the purpose itself the struggle of the ban okay okay so that is a good answer until chapter 35 the rebba tackles that point of yours and he adds a cavat that makes chapter a new insight into the ban and and and I'll tell you already since you said that the rebba refutes your position cuz that's the way we learned Tanya for years that's the way everyone learned Tanya the way you just said it the problem is for that the Nish itself gets nothing what you're saying is that it's worth doing this because action represents the struggle the question is on the the creation of that Soul what does that Soul get the soul still has the same bad MOS that's why stb question in 35 is another layer of a deeper layer of of of of why doesn't the soul get reward for that no that's for my but but if if if you listen if you have a a soul right and the Soul says hey I don't want to come into this lousy place called the world I don't need all these wars and temptations and all the crer what do you want from me I'm I'm I'm doing fine up there we say no no no go down to earth go down to a body because you will benefit from being there and that's the question how does the you the soul benefit if if if if the soul the in inner inner makings of the Soul still struggles seemingly on Earth with the same Cravings it hasn't benefit anything I'm sorry but it seems like the answer is simple I'm missing something the there's no struggle in Shay the soul has no struggle it can only become elevated and come closer to once it comes down into this world and faces the challenges that's the whole thing okay right yeah right but so but that's the question you're right the question is how do we see that in the soul I if you tell me if you told me there was coming down to this world there's a change in the soul that it now it came down into the world and it and The Temptations of the body impacted it and by going through life it it eliminated it and it it from where it it is has made a change I agree with you so in other words your answer is correct the question is how do you see that if if the soul still has the same tyus that's the for the ban in the soul still has the same tyus so what did it gain so you're saying that the struggle itself even though it doesn't it it doesn't make a change in the soul is worth it who says who says that that's what the AL addresses in chapter 35 that is the discussion so not that you're you're wrong you're right in in your conclusion the question is you know explain it h h it's not it seems like it the so it still has this not seem it still has the same tiis that's what it's going to answer let's now we'll have to finish a chapter and then discuss it again let's go further so now he says at the bottom of the page 86 and look at the word here the question is asking is what's the purpose why God created the category of souls called Bim and their descent to the physical world and then he has a caveat and the explain that the point here is the investment in neab if you if you don't if you don't if you're not looking for the investment in neis the soul has done this goes back to our discussion now if you're not looking for the investment in the ne then the Soul is doing great it struggles it it it it accomplishes you should put the fillan on even though you you still have inside you still don't have nice meidos but you did it but since po since God wants of the soul to invest itself look at the first letter on page m in the in other words it was the to come along for the ride and it from its perspective should feel God oh says the AL let's continue inside if that's the case that comes from a negative side look at words since we're not able to send away all all all days and to budget to Move It from its place to what so that from the the heart which hasn't which hasn't been altered in Iota and it has all this cravings and Tyas and from the heart it ascends to the mind and then gets the mind to say I want this and why not because the very Core Essence of the of the it is in its potency okay it's in its potency the 95 year- old old man who asks me do do I know a girl for him he's croaking away and no's dead and he wants a girl nothing has changed the ne is dear till your deathbed as the famous ker said I'm laying on my deathbed hours before I die and what am I thinking about what are they going to say about the kutar after he closes his eyes and stops breathing in is dead that's what I'm thinking about as I'm croaking I'm G this already hours before my death because the yes the is till the end okay so he says so so if so so you'll tell me okay but at least thought speech and action I'm behaving I have my Cravings in my heart my but I don't act upon them but so that's the's question big deal but in itself the the the that comes into the world if there's no change in Iota why you send me here why send me here you're sending me here because of what what what the is said before so that they I should have a and through the challenge I get a high and I get but I myself I'm going back seemingly the same old gizer with the same Cravings so what kind what kind of change is there look at the last words they in this section here why did The Souls of the Bim come into the to the world the next words are so power powerful for not for a waste balat doesn't play around with words every word is accounted for it reminds me what the said in what he spoke about he said it seems like everything we've done all these 41 40 41 years is a waste m is not here in other words when you look at the pinnnacle the the what do we want to accomplish and you look back and you say have I accomplished it and if the answer is no it seems like it's all of a waste they're nice sidebars but the eer the primary objective seems to be that's why does you know why it's all waste because I'm still fighting all the days 50 607 the 8090 with the I can't overcome him here ends the bat's second question says the says don't worry I have an answer we're gonna say we're GNA be this is the Comfort to double Comfort them in other words I'm going to give you such answer as we go through the chapter that you're going to jump for joy and you're going to see that it's all worth it it's twice as great that you'll be happy classical Al goes back to 101 God Rest in your and guess what the heart God ultimately does not rest in the heart he rests in your ti so as much as you think this is the the 180 degree paradigm shift in thinking that balatan proposes here you're coming in your question saying like this since there isn't an iota of change in the heart so what's why is it worth it what's the purpose says the the objective is not the heart the objective is action and guess what when you immerse yourself you do have you do you have the abish and that is the change so so so is that's the answer this is the answer is going to explain it now the chapter the answer is that we in our question stage we thought that the answer is God is looking for the heart and if the heart still has the impulses and the urges throughout and we we return to Hashem with those urges so nothing has been accomplished as doubt wrong to begin with you you you're wrong God is Not Looking For The Heart he's looking for action and the Heart should give the action some animation but the bottom line is action so therefore putting on F with a Jew one time and you have no idea and it you know and and the argument is big deal the answer is that's not whether he's going to go to Yesa and and and get married and have a family and have that's all gravy that is not the E the E is the connection to the ab and the connection comes from every mitvah and connection comes from every time you learn T that's a that's that's that's the E so therefore and that you didn't have in heaven before you came down cuz you couldn't do a Mitzvah you couldn't put on one time and so this here also explains the whole idea of of of it's it's like a famous ver that e once said that each month has an acronym that's the the the month of is at the end of regarding the mitzah food exchanging animals it and its exchange should be holy so the says that the letters over there and the explained I was at I remember was fascinating he explained that when you go to a ye and and and you talk to about and the person you know laughs at you was not interested and all that and you walk away saying I wasted my time I put all this energy into it and the person's laughing at me the person you don't know that so the said the acronym of the Yi that you create is by going and trying to make an exchange not whether the last two words of the verse out there is that they actually become holy whether they actually become holy has not your it's God's you leave that up to the whether they're going to become a whether they're going to change their behavior so for you to say that I spent all this time and I tried making a Str change and I tried making a mench of him and I tried making a mention of myself and yet it didn't happen and therefore it's a worthless act and I wasted my time is contradictory to the y y God Hashem create you want to create God in yourself and just do what you have to let hem be Hashem I'm saying this because the same thing is he in the the fact that the the didn't budge in its mid and it has the same urges and cravings at 20 years old at at 80 as it has a 20 no no no no but did you those 60 years of the famous ver that we all know the guy is crying over there right after you know the and the the man comes from Earth and goes back to Earth he puts his head his Palace over and he cries he cries he's going to die one day so the guy gives him a jab he says what are you crying about he tells him you see what it says here so he says you don't understand this is a reason to be happy to say because in between coming from the earth and going to the Earth at the end of life you have all life to to to do what you have to do that's a reason to celebrate there's no Kish in that the same thing over here the fact that it didn't that there's no movement in the ne in the ne in the in as far as mid is concerned what's new you didn't tell me a but he's learning and he's learning in a and he's married his kids and he left all the mishas it's a very nice thing guess what the acted self is where it's at not about the result of the act and it's a hard one to swallow you know this is very hard to swallow for each and every one of us in our own lives in our own family lives it's like we always want to see a result give me a result so what Al is teaching us is don't look for the result do what needs to be done yes sometimes I sense that there's a term I sense that this the term is used more amongst than it is let's say amongst you know but that term an I believe an I believe I the term goes back to kazal I don't know if it's Mish or I mean it's not a creation but um yeah I can hear it that you know maybe it's used more inic circles and non-ic circles but it's not they didn't didn't originate um you know I don't know if you're thinking of the word an an are you thinking at all about the word an no yeah right but but but go ahead but I'm saying for example yeah right and like an I forgot the beginning I oh I know what you mean no but that's a term of I know what you mean that means those people that are o are overly concerned about Hashem do it in a certain way but it's it's not the word it's not an does anyone remember the wording that m is referring to yeah yeah B you're not referring to B I'm specifically speaking of the term and you saw that in look it up look it up I will I'll it and bring and bring it to the table have a great day stay safe mashia now see everyone tomorrow I yes I want to say one thing about the about the that I do have a saer about thein family in laich mainly in Montreal and it's called know oh yeah yeah yeah I I have the saf for too yeah yeah so so I I think M you're right in in your yes very good hillo good R over Z take care everybody Shalom bye good day