Love requires grounded in reality - Gold vs. Silver, investment - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're learning now Tanya chapter 50 we're on page 140 in middle of the page but before I give you the exact place I just want to recap to refresh our memories in life there are different feelings that we have that bring different results B the AL understands the psychology and the psych of a person and he understands that in order to serve God properly and make this world a holy place which is the reason why we're here we're not here to go golfing not here to go clubbing we're not here to do all of that is just fun and you know we're here to make this world holy holy now if you could do that by golfing and clubbing God bless you but the objective is making the world a home for God and we learned that in chapter 36 that's why we're all here so the question is how do you do it so in throughout Tanya he he gives us different scenarios and different tools and instruments how to implement this home which we call he in Hebrew in the terminology of the medish that the bat brings and in kabad circles especially if you go into aabad Yesa with boys who are learning you'll hear those words thrown around left and right means a room a home a room means in the lower in the in the lowest meaning in this world there's nothing lower than this world right cuz here we just see the physical the material God godliness is obscured here we have to find God we have to explore God so without that exploration the world conceals God so we call this world a concealment of God so we have to make AA a home where God says I can rest there and I want to rest there and I like to rest there so that's our objective so the Al from chap 43 through 49 suggested to develop a love for God because without feeling a love for God Things become stale just like in a relationship whether it's being a spouse of relationship parents and children and all types of relationships if there isn't a a love feeling or of or feeling there isn't an emotional feeling of sorts in the relation relationship it dries up very quickly and usually it ends and that's what the the world calls you know I don't I'm out of love I don't feel love anymore well the same is true with Hashem to put on fing the morning it requires some feeling to to to to to go visit someone a nursing home when it's 90° outside you have to get in your car you have to slep you have to take public transportation and because it's it's a a Mitzvah to visit someone who's in a nursing home it requires a feeling what was the feeling that he discussed until now the feeling was that God made the world so where is your decency we wouldn't be here so if God made the world then reciprocate and show love for God by doing what he wants number one number two God is our father is your father I don't care what what arguments we have with our parents especially us guys with our fathers our father was this and our father was that you know bad bashing Our Father your father made you your father and your mother so never forget that God is our father a vuu Our Father our King therefore love him he deserves to be loved now both of those loves that we discussed my soul thirsts you at Night My Soul wants you at night the symbolism meaning God made the world I want God or God is my father and I want God we want God as we are here we don't want to give ourselves away and lose ourselves completely we want to remain who we are and this person who remains should have a feeling for God in this chapter in chapter 50 introduces a different type of love and this love is to ultimately reach a place where you're not here you you should want to kind of flip out flip out and become one with God and forget about your work your family just be with God it develop a feeling where that's all you want now he's going to teach us later that the ultimate feeling of that is is as as well is to have that feeling as you are are are on Earth but before we get to that the concept is called Ru yearning along longing do we have do we the AL says find a way where you feel such a yearning and longing and love for God that you don't want to be you don't want to have to do with the material world this type of Love cannot come when you meditate upon how God is close to the world because if when you meditate how God creates the world is in in the world and wants the world all of that gives place for you to exist and to be not not to be here we're talking about a feeling of not to be so what type of meditation leads to that so says the meditation is the Everything Is Not In other words the reflection the his Bon the meditation that He suggests here is how God is distant from the world world how the world is insignificant to God so that means if the world is insignificant I'm also insignificant and and and because God is so much greater than the world then God is awesome so what what does that awesome feeling create a sense of I want to become I want to leave my state of I and and and yes and being that's a phenomenal type of a new type of love right so in other words Ville normally the love the love the love that we talk about for having for hasem is Hashem is here Hashem is in my life and therefore be a mench reciprocate that gives room for the existence of man for the yes of man here in P we're talking about not the existence of man and the yesh of man but rather the non-existence of man the ion the nothingness because everything is nothing compared to God and that is why because we're talking about that type of love the alus calls it the love of gold and this is very interesting cuz the gar says PA the G says that Z gold is more is more valuable more important however what is more practical silver you know why because silver the says is over that's from The Book of Genesis by a buying Kon right it says give me coins that are over l that I can do business with I can handle with gold you can't handle with you know why it's too expensive it's more important it's gold but just look at the market an ounce of gold compared to Silver so the gamor says ultimately there's a discussion what was more what's more appreciated gold or silver silver why because silver is workable usable businesslike handling gold who who's handling with gold yeah very wealthy people handle with gold but gold so so what's the idea when you talk about the the the loves that that were mentioned till now and this love of chapter 50 we are now talking about the virtue of chapter 50 of the The Sensation that God is so much more is distant from us and God is awesome and therefore I want this awesome God and I'm willing to vacate my place for this awesome God right and therefore I have a passion what do we learn here it's like the levite the Ley versus the Coen right what's the Ley the Ley what was the service of the levite of the levim in the Holy Temple the B mikdash to sing to God they would open up the doors okay just imagine you guys have you know you've been to the the cotel to the the and and imagine the big there's big doors and they would open the doors and they would sing and they would stand on the steps it's all written about in the mission and the gamarra and they they would praise hasem with song Passion fire the Cen Coen the priest who took the animal and and and brought the animal as a sacrifice the the service of the cohain was very beautiful very but it was quiet in other words it had reverence to it that's why when we talk about ker we say kimar you know there's a song people sing how the Coen came out and how he appeared and it's a very beautiful powerful prayer that we say on yum Kipper the power of the Coen is very powerful but it's silent in compar in comparison to levite so that's why the this love of chapter 50 is called the Golden love the love of gold zahov and it's also associated with the Levites with the levim who are are and passion and fire as they as they seek to to to to to be with this awesome God but again how do they seek to be with awesome God to be absorbed in him now I want you to for a moment to look at an interesting thing in that is it's about eight nine lines from the top of 140 and the alus says that this love is like um require it's like it's like a a fire a candle that hold that is able to exist because of the the wick or the wood or in the wood in the twigs and this is called the T this is because what what's P what's overpowering in this love is the the element of Fire Within The Godly soul and then he says and he brings a from this sense of fire that The Godly Soul has one comes to having a thirst for God and he quotes King David inav in Psalm 63 I have a question to ask you the rebbi asked this question it's not my question but it's important to if we're talking about The Godly Soul The Godly soul is on fire for God that's why it's called Godly Soul so what so if you're talking about that the Godly Soul has this firely love why do why does it need a thirst it has it that's what the Godly soul is that if he told me we're talking about the animal Drive the neab I can understand it's its orientation is animal likee desires and materialism and pleasures and indulgences you talking about The Godly Soul it's in love with God Godly Soul so think for a moment what is fire fire means there's no moisture there all moisture is dried up moisture is associated with water fire is the opposite of moisture and here we're talking about a firely love that The Godly Soul has it's lacking moisture now that's very very nice but there's one issue the issue is that this fire that by nature is is missing moisture that itself is an impediment to it because if you're just stuck to fire your expression is just fiery no what about someone who doesn't relate to fire someone who too much passion is overwhelming for them won't be able to relate to it that's why says that King David when he was in he was he was exile to the Judean mountains and like I said yesterday how beautiful is AI when you took us to to uh too was that in the Judean mountains or not no Shan M what Samaran mountains okay anyway so so where where is Judea mountains which where is Yehuda like what's there Juda is like Jerusalem and south of Jerusalem okay Shon is north of Jerusalem okay thank you so D is exiled to the to the South to the Judean mountains it's very beautiful but it's not jerus so says Psalm 63 and what does he sayem thirsty for you why am I thirsty cuz I'm not in Jerusalem I'm in pretty mountains Judean mountains but it's not Jerusalem and what's the end of the verse My Flesh rivels up for you in a Land of thirst right I want to see you God I want to see you in Holiness meaning in Jerusalem that's the meaning of that verse the AL quotes part of that verse over here in regard to the ne to The Godly soul and and and and the purpose is that it's not enough to have fiery fiery love that's lacking moisture the purpose is to have The Thirst The Thirst is I want to include moisture as well I'm not I'm not satisfied with your day mountains the prettiness the the you know the ability to meditate in the mountains and on God I want to be in jerus I want to be in Jerusalem and that fits in very much with the theme of this chapter the love that that a Jew says yeah everything's nice I have a family and I have a Min but I don't have mashiach so if I don't have mhia it's not just a piece of a puzzle is missing the main puzzle is missing and the person is constantly thirsty for that and you know when you're thirsty it it it's not like you know you're thirsty if you're in the mode of thirst you're thirsty the entire time and that's what says and the AL implores it here it it uses it over here in regard to The Godly soul to tell us The Godly Soul although by Nature The Godly Soul has a love for Hashem there's an element of thirst that The Godly Soul has which has not been quenched yet until he it accomplishes being absorbed in the Oneness of God then the AL says there is the Love Sick part and you'll notice when he speaks about love sick y only you you you you you would spoke about that yesterday he doesn't bring any verse by by the by by the the element of thirst he brings a verse from by the last the last um the last aspect of uh of um clish he also brings a a verse but when he talks about love sick he doesn't bring a verse you know why cuz that's natural you don't need a verse to understand when someone is in the mode of love sick so that's why it's interesting when it comes to The Thirst he brings the from from from from chapter 63 to suppor his point when it comes to the last aspect of expiring your soul expiring in God known as clish he brings a verse but it comes to he doesn't bring a verse now let's continue continue so again everyone look inside now we're on page and V it's about 12 lines from the top the third word on the page the line starts with the words from this aspect of fire a fiery love develops um this is the source of the Levites here on Earth the Levites on Earth were representatives of this fiery love now in the brackets the AL answers a question who's higher kohanim or Le who gets the first alah motion to the Torah a not a Ley so how does that coincide with the fact that implies here that the love of the Levites is higher the love the which is is is higher than of so in the bracket say the world the world will have an elevation you know going to be theim then those that are says on the verse today's will be born to why because really the element of the Le is greater thanan but now now before Messiah the world can't handle too much fire cuz it destroys we need a tamed love we need a tamed controlled fire who has that the Kohan so that's why preia number one will come it'll be just the opposite this analogous to the difference between B and B in the gar right the B Hill are are always disagreeing in most places except for six places B Hill the house of H is more lenient in its rulings and we rule therefore like B Hill in in in six place other it's not that way you know what it says mhia will come will be will be ruling mostly like B sh why because the world will be a vessel for the the more stringent view now you m you bring a stringent view I can't handle it and you give up and it goes nowhere when mhia will come we will be higher we will be more refined so the natural progression will be for us to appreciate the KRA the stringency to the hence the ruling will be like B sh let's continue after the brackets the work the job of the what was it to exalt to raise their voice in song The and praise with instruments and song with Melody and Sweetness in a way that's called yearning and returning I'll explain a moment this is a very intense and Powerful Love is Like a flame that comes from the vessel used to refine gold okay a there's a 1 verse4 and then it says which means these group of angels they have this love for God so they run Ru they run they yearn for God and then they Retreat and it says like coming out of bzik what's a buzzik a buzzik when you when you when you take gold and you want to refine gold gold the you have a vessel that vessel is called buzzik and what comes out of it Sparks trust and these Sparks they jump up and they come down they jump up and they come down the AL uses this idea that we see that there is this idea of an intense yearning an intense desire for Hashem but immediately they return you Retreat because if you don't retreat it's not the ultimate purpose purum is coming everyone knows the story where RAB was sitting with his T he himself gets intoxicated at the meal gets intoxicated and he takes him up to his level and he it's too overwhelming to the point where he his soul leaves him got up and he means he slaughtered him but it means he didn't Slaughter him means he elevated him to a place where it's like slaughtering he couldn't handle it anymore the next and why did he do it because he wanted him to experience the Bliss of God exstasy of God the next year they he invited his studenta again and he wanted to do the same thing and ABA said no can't do it I am not on your level level Rabbi you when you drink so much and go up into this level you don't flip out and you don't die because you're Raba you're great you're my teacher for you it's more natural but I'm Z this is all the Reb explained what I'm sharing with you is the explanation of the rebba Reb gave one year fascinating talk it's printed it should be learned the the means small I'm little I'm small compared to you I can't handle this ecstasy and Bliss so I can't go where you where you go now why do I say that because the the rotui experience of longing from God is like hey I want to leave everything I want to go to a Mountaintop I just want to forget about everything I don't want to know about wars I just want to take care of sheep and just you know bask in the ray of God very very nice what about having children what about raising your children what about making the world nah so the pcess these angels have had this desire but then they quickly realize they have to come back down to earth and return so to man is to have that feeling employs this concept here that just as the uh Angels had this but they realized they need to retreat so to you L with your fiery love which is the love of gold but the love of gold has the Sparks coming from its refinement process and the sparks fly up and they fly down you need to fly back down you don't fly back down it's not it's not the what God wants of you that's whys we're going to stop over here and tomorrow continue mem but what we have from all this is the very very important idea that on one hand a Jew a yeid should have a desire to vacate and be with God and not because the person is lazy to work no I I I say it all always over because it just so real for me when I was coming back with my father as a young teenager from from in the mid 70s the fa it was 23 in the morning the Reb would faing till 23 in the morning was over 8 9:00 9:30 right whatever anding and teach and say sing it was my father would get up 6: in the morning to D and then we went off to work he worked very hard so you know it was very difficult for him to stay up to 2: 3 in the morning but once in a while he did it so this was one one time that he did it and he took us back cuz we you know we lived in in burrow Park and in the 70s as you all know from Newark and Maplewood and uh Los Angeles and Chicago uh you didn't go outside in most of those places in the middle of the night cuz you wouldn't come back usually either you were knifed or you were shot you know and we had our um same issues in Brooklyn it was it was rough very rough so you know what not taking a train even a car service a taxi so our parents my mother blessed memory she used to sometimes come to pick us up cuz my father said I can't I got to sleep a few hours to to get up in the morning you know I'm not a I'm not a I'm not a goof off I I I I work for a living I got to bring home for your kids food for your kids so but this time after PES PES when PES finished he came and he took us and I remember driving home and we would stop off at Corn's Bakery it's a famous bakery here and to get a loaf of bread you know two in the morning a hot loaf of bread you haven't eaten bread for eight days it was like galic it was great right and I remember him saying in the car I just came out of paradise I came out of Gan aen sitting at the Fab and listening to the Reba being with all the Jews and singing songs he says was is like ganaden for me and in ganaden you don't want anything except God you don't want a wife you don't want kids you don't want money you don't want fame you don't want anything you just want to be with God you're in paradise and I it I'll never forget it I I was a young boy but it left such an impression on me here's my father who's not a rabbi and is not in the Yeshiva but is not in Co he's a a businessman working very hard very hard you know and he's and he's doing us a great favor by coming to by stay picking us up in middle of the night right and and and participating in the faan and what does he say he wants he doesn't want to work he doesn't want the money he wants to just be in ghen that's us that's the idea ofu the yearning the in I just want to be with God I you know I don't need anything else just being there is great I don't need explanations why and how and who just being there and the truth is that the the this feeling has a very important role in our life but at the same time to remain there is wrong to remain there and not come back down to get up in the morning and go to work and make a living and deal with all the nonsense that the world has and the back and forth and the argumentation and he ripped me off and she did this and I did this and everything else that's where it's at and there be a Jew and they love God and they're put on Fillin and and and bring another Jew to to to Hashem and another non-jew to to God in their way that's the eer even though this is Paradise because guess what God is greater than Paradise Paradise is also a box it's called the box of pleasure the box of spiritual pleasure the ultimate is to take a hide of an animal and to tan it and to refine it and to write holy words of of the Torah on it and then to put it on your hand with the filling and on your head then you've you you you've worked you've taken the Schmutz you've taken the difficulty and you've refined it and you've made it holy and godly that's the ultimate so that's the sh that's what we're learning an that although the levim sang to God with love and ecstasy and fire but if and that's the yearning the longing it has to come back down to this world okay we will learn more tomorrow have a great day everyone good seeing everyone have a Take Care thank you thank you you're welcome byebye