Lo Tiye Mishakela 1952 #10- Stay focused on yr mission & don't think abt yrself- RC Dalfin

Good day. We're learning this 5786 2026 and we are about to start chapter 9 which is on page 155. Let me read briefly the summary on page 154. The charge, quote, "There will not be a woman who loses her young or who is barren," focuses on developing the spiritual emotions of love and fear and ensuring that they thrive. to explain offspring are analog analogies analogies for love and fear for they are brought into being that is born through meditation. There are two types of barren women. One who is lacking a womb entirely and who though possessing a womb is is still incapable of conception. The spiritual counterpart to the first type is a person who lacks even the intellectual arousal that could lead to emotions. This deficiency results from his being a full vessel filled with his own concerns. The spiritual counterpart to the second type of baroness refers to a person who cannot tap the essent the essential energies necessary to actually produce spiritual love and fear. So again the second type is a baroness is a person who cannot tap the essential energies. The charge last paragraph there will not be a woman who loses her young brings out a further point right loia mishaka that's in English this is this means there won't be a woman who loses her young this brings out a further point even after our spiritual emotions of love and fear have been born one must nurture them with the necessary neessary care to enable them to thrive. So that's the last thing that we learned yesterday. Let's get right to the text. Page 155. There is another point which a person must take counsel within his soul. This is this is also this last phrase is quoted in Tanya in reference 70 gives you chapters 14:26 at all. Okay. So the Reb is saying now there's another piece of advice that I need to share with you in order to accomplish everything we've learned before. Let's see what he says. That is Um even when there when a person serves Hashem properly whether it be with the comprehension in his mind he understands properly and whether it be with the emotions of the heart he has the right emotions in in his heart for Hashem. Shahim is godless lib. They're very palpable and real and felt where you actually feel a love feeling for God or a fear feeling for God. The anam dev and they're not fantasies. Many times we convince ourselves we have love and fear for God and it's a fantasy and abama baloney but we're talking about someone who is real with themsel with himself and really assesses who they are and what they're really feeling rather this person has like I just said true love and and or for Hashem and and his feelings are also felt in his performance. Like I told you yesterday, when he puts on fillain, his heart is is pulsating with love for Hashem. When he when he helps someone in a soup kitchen, he's doing a a good deed. He he feels it in his bones. when he's in the presence of greatness of Jewish holy greatness he's in awe and so he feels it in the performance of what he's doing next page in addition to him doing the actual deed he puts on the trill he puts on the maz he serves someone the hot soup are mitzvah. He knows the objective, what we call the the intention of the mitzvah, the he also knows. Now, when's the last time you you knew what particular thing you're drawing down by doing a particular mitzvah? Well, there are some people who are studied and let's say they study Cabola and they know that the rights for this and this mitzvah you draw down this and this. So at least they kind of have the right pipelines. They know that A POSITIVE AND positive go together. A and a go together. Maybe that's what he's referring to. They know what is happening when they do a particular mitzvah. And he gives an example. When a person is immersed in the service called charity, he draws down in the in the in the um vector in the line of he draw he gives charity. So he's doing so he draws down that aspect of God that's called benevolence and through the service of withholding stopping preventing himself which is known as voodoo he brings judgment to Yakov meaning law and order to Jacob to the Jews he draws down an element and energy of Hashem in the style and manner of discipline. Number three. And when he studies, which is the middle line, the middle vector then he draws down what's called. So we have three. We have the side of the side of and the middle one which goes up higher actually to Hashem and that's through until he reaches a point that his service to Hashem is in a manner next page which is emulated by the preciseness of the verse. You are serve your God. Hashem. Here it says the name the tetrogrammaton which refers to he was he is and he will be an allinone and higher does his service accomplish that he draws down the energy which even transcends the progressive nature of the world. It's called so when we say you shall serve you shall serve the energy of God. I'm sorry when you serve Hashem in the proper way as Hashem you you touch and that BECOMES ELOHEM YOUR GOD. The energy that you touch through your which is and even higher than becomes your your power and your vitality. It's not as though hey I'm touching and it remains wherever it remains and I remain a um a servant. I remain a uh regular guy uninspired. No, if you do it properly, the highest form of God's being and essence BECOMES it becomes who you are. IT IT PERVADES YOUR BEING. Look what he says. your powers and your vitality. Says that even when you're at this level, you have to be careful. You shouldn't have satisfaction from your service. You know who I am. I'm a man who davins and learns and and connects with God and brings it down into my daily life. Wow, I have such satisfaction for that. Says that the Pik is telling you, you are not to have satisfaction even from an experience that you're at. Next page because if you do have satisfaction guess what happens Mark what happens is you remain standing and being at one place and you don't climb the ladder in Yiddish means he stops means stands but it means he stops gate and doesn't go further. In addition to the fact that having satisfaction from your efforts and your work can cause that the love and fear that you had and were even revealed will not be everlasting. think which is the spiritual malady Shazelle Wyans called Mishaka analogous to a woman who has a baby but loses her child so to here you have inspiration but it got lost it dissipated and went away and THAT'S BECAUSE OF THE SATISFACTION THAT YOU had says the In addition to what what what might happen later from having satisfaction in your service of God that will dissipate. In addition to that, even at the time when you're serving God with love and fear, if it's done with satisfaction, your service will be limited, measured and limited. based on the measurement of the satisfaction that you have from doing it. In other words, Hill if you do something that's based on your satisfaction, THE RESULT WILL BE ALMOST ONLY HOW MUCH SATISFACTION YOU HAVE AT THAT TIME. and another moment YOU WON'T HAVE SATISFACTION SO YOU WON'T DO IT or you'll have less satisfaction so it won't be as inspiring. So the verse says there should not be there will not be a situation of now the Reb focuses on the word in your land. It's missing a dollar. Another mistake before the yud which is be a dollar. The the precise language used in the of the word is is ethmology is which associated with to yearn to desire. It shouldn't be felt by the person any satisfaction of his own desire and will. Next page. In other words, LIKE THIS HERE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT satisfaction within the mitzvah, within the good deed that one should avoid having that because if it's if your good deed and your mitzvah is based on your satisfaction, it's limiting and it won't last. Surely the Reb says having outside satisfactions of all kinds of wills and wants and desires that pleasure you is definitely not acceptable as we said earlier then you are quote a full vessel that cannot cannot hold any any more liquid in this case any more refinement in that situation you don't have a womb a receptacle at all. This is the first malady that we mentioned before. Next paragraph page 160. So the verse continues. Hashem says when you will avoid this satisfaction this situation I will fulfill your days. This is the advice in order this advice is given in order to impact your soul not to have satisfaction from doing God's will. What does this mean? explains when a person takes the time to meditate and contemplate Hashem has gives me a certain set amount of days that I'll be on earth quoting a verse in God creates days for you to reveal God we are not adding one less day and one extra day. You hear that? WHEN A PERSON PASSES ON, IT'S EXACTLY the day and time Hashem says, "I want you back." Every day every hour and every minute, a person needs to serve God to fulfill their mission on earth. Is there everyone has a mission and every moment what will have to think about ONE THING TO FULFILL THE mission to do the mission next page says the a person is should be so occupied with this to the point that he doesn't have any time to think about about levels where am I act what's going on with my soul. My friend, YOU HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DAYS ON EARTH. GOD HAS A MISSION FOR YOU. That's all you should be thinking about. Not do I have six points, brownie points, 55. WHERE IS MY SOUL GOING? GO GOING. That is superolous. And if you do that, YOU'RE TAKING AWAY FROM WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING, WHICH IS YOUR MISSION. Let's continue. This is a great teaching coming up. This would be similar to the teaching of this rabbi named he says quote I don't know in what path I will be led will I be led to paradise or purgatory gehenn or ganed or gehenn and everyone asked the question this rabbi he was such a holy guy HE WAS SUCH A SAGE SAT SADIK he has a a doubt that he's not going to paradise it's ridiculous for him to THINK FOR A MOMENT THAT HE'S GOING INTO PURGATORY. So the Reb says amongst the explanations to this question there is the following because he was so occupied to fulfill his mission he didn't have the time to pay attention to his levels. This means next page page 162. He was so immersed and so occupied. He was basically very occupied, pressured and immersed. fulfilling his mission every day every hour in every minute to the point he doesn't know what's going on with his intellect and his character surely he had no idea what's going on with the hidden levels of his soul What an explanation. The Reb says that you know why made that statement because he was occupied and immersed in doing the mission. So he he truly had no idea where he's at. You can only have an IDEA WHERE YOU'RE AT IF YOU STOP AND THINK WHERE AM I AT? BUT IF YOU NEVER TOOK THE TIME TO THINK that way, you don't know. And of course, when did he make that statement before his passing? Because then the Torah obligates you to make an account of your life. SO HE DID. HE SAYS, "WHERE AM I? WHERE AM I GOING? Am I going to Gehenn or to Ghana?" THAT WAS THE FIRST FREE moment that Torah sanctions and obligates one to make a but every other time making a making an account is a waste of time. A WASTE OF TIME BECAUSE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO be working and doing and not thinking about where am I at. That's the explanation here in the mind. This will this explains needless to say when you're immersed in this mission in the in the way that the Reb mentioned it's not possible for you to have satisfaction self-satisfaction from doing Hashem's will because by knowing that every moment you're there to fulfill God's mission And if a minute passes that you don't serve Hashem because you're thinking about your own soul, where am I at? Not only could you have gone up and elevated your own service, you could, you know, the word, you could be diligent and you didn't do so. So, not only have you missed that moment of opportunity of growing in serving God and you took the time to think about yourself, but more so at this moment that you're not doing your mission. These are outrageous yet so true words. YOU'RE REBELLING AGAINST GOD, THE King of Kings. Cuz that moment you're not fulfilling your mission. It's a IT'S A REBELLION AGAINST GOD THE KING. The king says, "MANASHA, DO YOUR JOB. WORK, SERVE GOD. Don't think about yourself. And as soon as YOU THINK ABOUT YOURSELF, THAT'S A REBELLION. BUT I'M THINKING ABOUT GOOD THINGS. Where am I at? It's the wrong timing. What do they say? Everything is in timing. HE GOT THE WRONG TIMING. So this is this. And when the Reb was saying these words, I think he was very emotional. Um so so when you are involved in this activity of fulfilling your mission not only won't you have satisfaction self-satisfaction which means earthliness the contrary that when he's asked What's going on with your earthliness? Meaning your your love, your fear, your he screams out. Next page 154. This is the way I was told that said it because he was very mali. But he said it in Yiddish. WHO CARES ABOUT THE WILL? WHO CARES ABOUT THE PLEASURE? WHO CARES ABOUT THE LOVE? WHO CARES ABOUT THE FEAR? ALL TO God at this moment. Thinking about IT IS A CRIME, IS A REBELLION. Not talking here about his own wishes, his own ty spiritual and she says, on page 164. And the Reb says as he was explaining, how can one think about levels where he's at? He has to stand at the at the border. You hear that? This shouldn't pass even one moment in a manner that he's rebelling against the kingship. God forbid because due to the lacking of the NOT FULFILLING THE MISSION THIS moment you're on the border. IF YOU TURN YOUR HEAD FOR A MOMENT, you could cause defeat. But all I want to do is to SEE IF MY MY FRIEND IS ALL RIGHT. That is not your mission. IF YOUR YOUR MISSION IS TO STAND with with your GUN OR WHATEVER AND GUARD THE BORDER, LOOK THIS WAY. Anything else is a rebellion. So all the excuses you have and good ones are not justified at that moment. And that's what he says here that if we take time TO THINK ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON WITH MY soul during the time of the mission, it's a rebellion. I just want to say comes Thursday nightish or every night when you make an account that's a time when you do think about how did my day go. But in in the scenario of that we're talking about we're talking about he made a of his whole life. It wasn't the day. It was like, you know, he his time was coming. He knew he was passing on or whatever he was told. So now he has to say, "So what did I do with my life?" Cuz he still could do chuva. A PERSON CAN DO CHUVA AS LONG AS HE CAN breathe and he's alive to the LAST MOMENT. IF A PERSON WAS a was a sinner AND WAS NO GOOD AND was and all of a sudden UH 30 SECONDS BEFORE HIS HE DIES, HE SAYS, "HASHEM, I'm doing chuva. I really mean it. I PROMISE YOU IF YOU GIVE ME WHETHER YOU GIVE ME MORE LIFE OR NOT, I want I'm yours. I'm going to change my way." AND THEN HE DIES. He's died with chuva. And you know what the gummor says in Kadushian? HOW DOES THAT GO? THE GUMAR SAYS HE'S A COMPLETE SADIC EVEN THOUGH ALL HIS LIFE HE LIVED LIKE A TERRIBLE person but if he do chuva if it's really chuva not if it's fake chuva if it's really chuva I want to finish the chapter when a person fulfills the commandment there shouldn't be a woman that can't that loses her child or is barren in your land. A person does whatever he can that he should have true love and all for Hashem that they have a continuation of existence and as we learned in this chapter without without self-satis satisfaction then we Hashem adds to him AND GOD PROMISES HIM from above of that there won't be in other words if you do remember there's two taich low you you shouldn't do and there won't be if we do this activity we this is how we behave then hashem SAYS I WILL DO MY PART AND I PROMISE you that you won't have these things in your in your situation you won't have a situation of vak in your land. Any thoughts anybody? This is uh this mimer and this chapter is in Kabad one of in in the Reb's the modus oparande of the Reb's approach and vision to tra and Yiddish kite in our generation. What we just learned until the Rebba including all and this idea was this is called self-satisfaction to think about your own life and the Reb teaches here it's a it's on one hand it's a very very lofty experience but if you think about it it is so true everything you have a mission to do. Thinking about am I there? Am I not there? Where am I going? All of that is a disturbance from uh from the mission. I wanted to say I um I heard once from Rabbi Schustman in Los in Los Angeles. He was talking about fundraising and he said >> please please mute yourself. Manasha please mute yourself. So he he he he says he said people say when it comes to raising money, "Oh, I have to help my wife. I GOT TO DO CARPOOL. I GOT TO DO THIS. I got to do that. I HAVE TO MAKE A PHONE CALL." And they find all the excuses not to get out and knock on doors. He says, "You're missing the point. If your job again, if if THAT'S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, IT'S NOT JUST FUNDRAISING, you know, it's putting on film with Jews too or teaching ta or helping Jews. In other words, we we we we justify we justify our not doing the mission with holy excuses. And it's really bologoney. It's really, in other words, no one no one's asking of you to, of course, you have to be a mench and you have to be helpful in the house. Not talking about that you should be an arrogant person, you know, to not help your wife and children and family. Not talk. We're talking about, you know, you have to know your mission. And this a this is by the way this a mistake people make good people holy people where they they they they they go off to the LEFT WITH GOOD THINGS THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU WERE g that's not what you were charged for. I I remember when I once spoke to Rabbi Khadik of the Reb secretary. This was when we were students in LA, older students, and I had a complaint against the Russa something. I forget what it was right now. And he called and he and I asked for a a meeting cuz I was going to inform the the one who sent us under the Reba to LA as students that our Russa is uh is really not being fair to us. and he stopped me in my tracks and he and he pulled out the little hay yom and he said there's a teaching here that if you are on the front and you go away from your position because you think there's a breach elsewhere you haven't done right and on the contrary you're temporary helping of the situation there allows the enemy to come in from where you supposed you were standing and protecting the the country in other words he said to me you see only you see you see this you only see you have tunnel vision yes sees the whole situation that's what he told me got to stay focused on the mission and this is very difficult because you know again we're not talking about you know our own is our own things our own our own stupidities and and and and the ridiculous things. We're talking about holy excuses. There's still an excuse. And this is why this chapter and this mimer is such a very important one to to relearn and to rethink and why it's become uh the the the sysma they say in Hebrew. The the marketing line of of the Reb's kabad for our generation is here. The same as Mashiach. THE REB DIDN'T LOSE TRACK at the end of the day. What's our goal to bring Mashiach? That that's it. We have to bring Mashiach. But we're learning and mitzvah and this IT'S ALL NICE AND GOOD. YOU GOT TO BRING MSIAH. THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE. IF YOU haven't done so, then don't lose focus. Stay focused to the mission. Have a great day everyone. We'll see you everyone tomorrow. Goodesh. Goodesh.