Jews vs Angels & Souls: We win! Tanya Igeres HaKodesh 5b- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

okay good day we're learning now the T the fourth section getes we're on page which is opposite 214 and just a brief recap the alter begins this letter which is the fifth letter with a verse in Samuel which says Samuel 2 the prophets byas shame and David made a name literally means he made a name for himself and a name for God because what he did was he buried his enemies something to learn for today you know talk about not you know not giving them food and not all that I don't know I'm just telling you what it says in the prophets that although these were the the enemies that fought with the warrior David King David he went and they and they were killed in war he buried them and the verse says by y he made a name The Zo the holy uh book of Zo which is the mystical writings of Judaism kind of the Bible of mysticism of cabala those that are into cabala says that it's not that he just made a name for himself and for God doing the nice thing he created God's name wow and that's a heavy one he created God's name first of all what does it mean second of all how is it that you that a human being can create God's name this is what this um letter talks about and it brings the interpretation of the Z on that verse that says that you know you know the way you create God's name by giving charity to the poor that's what and that's what said the author of the Z the the Great Sage of the of the of the of the mission we celebrate his Festival his day of passing on the festival he says this nanic statement so the AL will conclude the chapter when we get there hopefully tomorrow explaining the connection between charity and creating God's name but meanwhile in order to understand that we have to talk about God's name Mark what is God's name yud k v k four letters the right the ud represents it's small it's a little y it's a tiny little it represents means wisdom means an idea right Mark has an idea AB has an idea I have an we all have ideas if we if we just leave it at ideas it remains an idea form so is the uh the flashh The Germ the seed then there is the the the first hey of the the the the the four letter name of God the first the holiest name the first hey represents beina beina means analysis to understand to develop to comprehend we take the idea and we and we develop it that's called beina then we have the V the V of the the third letter of God's name which V means six referring to the six emotions kindness G severity strictness r Mercy all those emotional issues are represented by the v in God's name and finally we have the last hey which represents Mal malus or debor speech to implement the mind and the heart into action mode and every one of us AB every one of us carries with us the K this is very important it's not that it's Tom Dick and Harry walking onto the baseball field or Tom Dick and Harry just walking in Fort Lauderdale walking your dog no no no no no you aren't if you're a Jew you're not just Tom Dick and Harry you are wearing and carrying and and hopefully living y the name of theem that's very powerful goes goes into many details in this chap in this chapter on on this synopsis of what I told you let's continue now on page to understand this better why did these sages make a statement the that this world specifically was created with the last hey you would think that this world has also a connection to the higher letters of UT K but the sages don't say that M they say with the Y God created the world to come which we call in Hebrew Hab or Paradise Gan Aiden The Garden of Eating that was created with the little Y and the physical world with all of its Schmutz and all of its physicality and materiality and indulgences and cravings and paying bills and running around and trying to make a dollar and trying to marry off your children and and have better health all of that created with the last hay what why that's what he wants to understand let's see what he says everyone knows you hear that everyone knows you know I know we all know you know who knows the ones who are the Masters the wise of the heart do I want to be the wise of the heart I should hope so yeah if you're not the W wise of the heart meaning if you're not internalizing the experience you ain't going to know remember what I told you the Rabbi says to the little boy sleeping get up tomorrow get up like a lion it says in the code of Jewish law get up early so R Kaplan can get you to come to the minion to help the minion get up early don't sleep in get up like a lion it says so the Rabbi says to the little boy you know how you can get up like a lion if you go to sleep like a lion if you go to sleep like a horse you ain't getting up like a lion what we invest in that is the result or as we say in the good old Yiddish and I'll translate in English phrase we make our own bed let's not kid ourselves we make our own bed at the end of the day so the AL says going back to the text here everyone knows who's the everyone those that are have the smarts of the heart meaning they they it's they didn't just study at Brown University at Harvard or wherever else all those universities that were having all these issues with the elite universities Harvard University Colombia Yale Cornell Cornell I read yesterday they're going to be losing I don't know billions of dollars because of the of of Jewish people and is boycotting them because what they're doing to Israel I I want to go on but I I just want to say that it's not enough to know you need to bring it into the heart you need to the heart needs to feel and what you understand and what you believe in so that's what he says let's continue the the many worlds and Chambers spiritual worlds and spiritual Chambers chambers that are Adam for you can't even count them there's so many spiritually as it says is there a number to the groups no way man there's so many groups so many Holy Angels so many mystical experiences I can't give you a number you can't do a a PE a Pew study the group the spiritual groups you're never going to have that answer let's continue and within every chamber itself and in every group thousands upon thousands and tens of thousands upon 10 thousand of angels that are in these mystical groups spiritual groups the five levels of the soul the levels of the Soul have Adam for no no no end to their levels in all in every World in every Chamber from the amongst the many chambers Shabbat which are within the four spiritual rules called the world of amination the world of creation you the world of formation he doesn't say the world of you'll see what all of these multi multiplicity more and more without an end literally they all come from the 22 Hebrew letters of the alphabet Al giml those 22 letters are the building blocks for all the spiritual energies and angels and Chambers and groups you're all big shots huh you know you all come from the 22 letters if not for the 22 letters of the Torah you wouldn't exist let's continue and these 22 divide thems into many different combinations with also without a number it says in the book of creation listen to this you take seven stones Bon seven bricks seven it builds um 5,000 and 40 houses in other words this doesn't mean literally means there's so many different ways of taking those letters and combining them and you can get like Al the first two letters right in Hebrew spells he put them together spells that of Father reverse put the BET before the olive you know which word you get you get the word ba come in Hebrew you ask your daughter who just came back from Jerusalem there's the famous word b b so next time you call her start the conversation with her mosha and she'll say Dad hey where did you learn that from say from Rabbi dolphin's class boa means come here the boa is is a longer version of the word ba B bet alive right so here you have two letters that make already two different words and the two different words have four letters Al ofth is five bet out of right out of two letters so two letters make four words four four letters which are two words and so you multiply and multiply you get all of these words let's continue so he says says the book of creation from here and Beyond meaning more than this amount that he quoted you you the mouth cannot enumerate the amount of words that will come from it and although when we talk about the angels and the superal worlds there are so many beyond beyond Counting it's true he says that we can't give you a number but they're all based on the combination and the exchange of there's another way of of expounding on words in Hebrew it's called atash you take the first letter which is Al you take the last letter of the Hebrew alphab which is T that's and then you have bash the second letter is baz and the and the second to the last letter Shin so it's bash so that's another system of working out words there's the normal system of then there's another system called don't go in order but go one and 22 two the first letter and the 22nd letter the second letter and the 21st letter the third letter which is gimble and the 20th letter which is R so it's called Bash that's another system let's continue but gener speaking all of these angels and all of these superal the beings and everything else they have knowledge in who their creator is because then they are at a level where they relate to the higher level of wisdom which we discussed earlier and therefore they recognize their creator but conversely we on Earth the physical world the lowly world with the energy that's here which is too small Rel well to be able to tolerate received the higher level of energy from the letters and then and their images and then inner aspect it'll be overwhelming we on Earth the physical world cannot tolerate is not a receptacle for the higher energy because it will be overwhelming we need a garment we need a coverup we don't walk around naked you need to cover up okay we're not in par G pre sin where they were naked in this world you'll get arrested for walking around naked for for doing that right same to same also and spiritually the world is not a vessel for the energy that's un uncovered it needs to be a covered on the energy and he says again conversely by these so by Souls and angels in the spiritual Realms there they're able to handle excuse the expression nudity I mean it sounds crazy right but nudity the spiritual sense uncovered all light all good there's no temptation pre sin Adam and Eve didn't have clothing you know why cuz they weren't tempted they were pure okay so the angels and souls the celestial beings they're like Adam and Eve PR sin we are not we're post sin post when we have if if there wasn't cover up here people were naked and there was this type of Lifestyle there would be sin as it is there plent sin but there will be lots more sin it'll be a world of sin so Hashem says hey hey hey hey I want a world of normaly I know there's Temptations there's challenges ups and downs but at least try how do you try by covering up by covering up a little more a little less and by the way this an ongoing issue in the communities okay and and especially with women and girls and mothers take it for me for someone who had thank God five six girls it was always you know an issue of this issue of of covering up and how much to cover up how to be modest and and and everything else okay especially out in Florida or in Vegas or in California where it's sun and sin that's what I told you guys sun and sin wherever there's lots of sun there's lots of sin Florida California Vegas Sun and sin I'm right now in Ohio in Cincinnati there ain't no sun here and I don't see much sin there's no my life I mean I mean I'm in a college town I compare I'm right next to the University of Cincinnati I've been to UCLA in La my Kad house over there in Westwood and I've been to Colombia I've been to other places Florida you know here I I wouldn't think I'm going it's during the week at least I don't know what goes on on the weekend there might be parties and I hear there are some heavy Rock parties or rock metal parties here but it's so quiet here I I was thought now I came here during the summer was quiet I'm here now I'm leaving you know for a few days right it's it's just as quiet I don't I just I barely see a few students in the morning going out coming back right it's Cincinnati it's the Midwest it's boring Proctor and Gamble come out to Florida you got the for laida de you got the beach Miami Beach you got South Beach La Venice Beach Malibu Vegas I don't have to tell you about you all know right so when the sun is out there's sin Hashem says I know that so you got to cover up you got you have to understand that if you don't cover up it ain't you're going to you're going to mess up that's good line you don't cover up you mess up let's continue okay so he says k we're now going on to page 216 the way God gives his his effluence to the physical world it comes from the um the material and the actual body of the letters of the of of the 22 letters their external am externality these are the five types of air that are emitted it's says in with this with that I'm sorry he right he there's five terms of heav of air so so upon these five uh emission emissions of air the world stands as it says the this is the the emission of of of the mouth of God the mouth of God that's emitted through the hashem's mouth metaphorically speaking emits five types of which invests itself in the physical world all of its host to en and in it are the the image of the words of and His holy and his wisdom his will and wisdom that that which are united with hem in the ultimate so basically he's saying the virtue of of that although the physical world needs a cover up needs a hel nevertheless in this world specifically is where hashem's Essence is expressed this is what the it's a little capitalistic here within cabal itself it's more cabalistic uh that within the external vessels of the Mal which are alluded to in the name of God they've become they' descended and become and that the last dwells in let's continue we're now 216 the new paragraph take for example by man on Earth for example means someone who's very wise who can philosophize and intellectual intellectualize on great sophisticated ideas and guess what he does he contracts his intellect to one letter this guy is a genius you can understand to study anything and what he does at this point is he contracts all of his genius into one letter thinking about one letter from his speech this type of contraction is very intense and very Mighty and very great to his wondrous wisdom this is the end H of the mus now goes the N the moral more there was a great a great contraction a mighty one when God created the world during the six days of creation with the spirit of his mouth all host cre he this is the fifth letter of hashem's Holy Name which we call a weak letter the he is called the weak letter God created them he B is be he created with a he [Music] you know there are 10 utterances let there be light and let there be mountains and let there be this and let there be that what's the first of the 10 in the beginning God created so the SES say that is number one of the 10 but it doesn't say ye Let There Be creation doesn't have to say it's a fact a state a statement God created the world so says that the rabbis the sages say that the word that he created is comprised of two words how did God create the world with the letter of his name the last he of the K what's the last K Mal kingship royalty or in this context deeper speech he spoke and create world was created we need to act to do something to create to make to form to change God was able is able to do it did it with his speech but yet it's not it's not the which is the three other higher letters it's specifically with the he which is Mal in other words in this hay where God is kind of sealed compared to the the first God is covered up nevertheless this cover up creates so similar that's the moral in the in the parable it's like the genius who has all of this information and all this knowledge and can philosophize about anything and he takes all of that he he puts it into his he contracts it into one letter that he's thinking about right Hashem said did the same thing Hashem took his y his K and his V and he contracted it all into the last k m and that's the way the world was able to be created otherwise the world would never be able to to emerge because it would be too overwhelming and that's why you have a professor in college who could be a genius and if he's on his genius level while he's teaching no one understands he's talking to the wall Goodbye Charlie a waste of time I don't care if you're professor Einstein or Professor schin or Professor this professor that if you don't break if you don't come down to the level of students it's meaningless for their students but you're a genius thank you very much I told you I knew this professor I don't want to mention his name in Berkeley Jewish guy you know but he came into a fundrais to a dinner that I made for kabad he looked like he came off the boat his pants were up you know his his pants should have been down to his shoes were halfway you know he look like yeah I mean you know he was like absent minded and I said to him it was Richard I said Richard people are tress come on you know I was That's the Way It Is Rabbi you know he's still philosophizing on a theoretical mathematics at at Berkeley you know a Brooklyn a Brooklyn guy who went out to California got a job and know fell into the counterculture of the 60s and uh but he was absent minded an absent minded professor and by the way you had some rabbis like that too over the centuries they say about some that even one from K B I'm not going to go into it I know who it is but they say sometimes he would wear two different color socks or sometimes he'd get on the IR or the the BM whatever the train to go to the Yesa from the neighborhood he lived in and he passed his his station he didn't even realize till till the B station he ended up in the in the you know you know y hoopville we say here in Brooklyn you know what yville means means hit down uh hit down Kentucky somewhere with the hillybillies a genius yes hello don't hear you and let's continue to tomorrow go ahead yeah what I knew somebody who was a shamish for rman at nusw and he said that they used to have to Shadow him because he would be involved in a soia and he'd start walking and he could end up anywhere that's right that's right that's right yeah yeah but I I think R Mountain was much more grounded you know but when he was in a but you know but sometimes you meet so is saying just to conclude and we'll continue tomorrow do he's saying that you know you is like the genius okay for the Angels is great for the so Celestial beings and the souls it's great but for us on Earth and to create this physical world you need to contract that you need to bring it down we'll see you all tomorrow have a great day bye bye thank you thank you thank you you're welome byebye