Love & Unity are anthisises of Sin, Arguments & Discord - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

okay so um today we're going to learn more Tanya and hopefully finish chapter 24. chapter 24 and Tanya is the chapter in which the outer ever looks at what separates a ye the Jew from God and if you ask a Jew on the street they'll tell you very simple a sin an Avera a transgression in his wonderful style doesn't suffice with that simple answer which is true but the alternator goes into details and goes into the ideology of an Aveda the philosophy of an Aveda what is the philosophy of renaveda a transgression the word Aveda hilel comes from the word avor to cross over to trans to transfer what are you transferring from you're transferring the energy that's designated for kadusha for Holiness you're transferring it to a place called Clipper negativity so if you think that the word Avera means sin it doesn't mean sin it's wrong the word Hebrew word for sin is hate sins the word Avera means to transfer to go over lavier right across the yard then what are we doing when we do an Aveda we're taking the energy that hashan puts into kadusha and when we do something against against hashem's will we're transferring it to the wrong area to the area of clipper foolishness no goodness and all that that's what the word Alvera means also said in this chapter until now that this this point is is the commonality between all avails between all transgressions and the today's year will which we'll learn soon he will quote the mishnah that one should not weigh at the difference between what we call a heavy Mitzvah or heavy or a lightweight mixed vice versa a heavy Avera and a lightweight Avera in other words I won't do I won't go that far but others I will says the balatanya in this chapter that from the perspective of Hashem of God as soon as you're over alright you desecrate God's will it makes no difference whether it's light or or stringent or heavy it makes no difference you have broken the agreement and this is true for every Aveda says the balatonya this is the antithesis of God's Unity in chapter in the previous chapter in 23 the altered spoke about the unity with Hashem through Torah Mitzvahs so now in 24 he says I want you to know that there is a challenge to that and that's called the Avera why that is he doesn't really say the chapter but we know that's for the purpose of free will if we wouldn't have that then everyone would just feel proper and right the whole time and the quality of the service wouldn't be qualitatively strong it would be rather robotic and if it's robotic it's meaningless but that he doesn't say in the chapter so this is the the point of this chapter 24. and again what's the connection to the pain in the knee because remember this is a treatise the first 53 chapters of Tanya is A Treatise on everyone being a potential bainini so what is the connection to the pain in the the answer is that debating his job is to always be mindful of how do I create Unity that's that's the one whether you're on the beach whether you're home whether you're traveling whether you're with family whether you're in an argument whether you're in a session with a client you have to always be cognizant how and what am I going to do to create Unity between God and the situation and it's not an answer that's similar for every person every person has a different way of creating Unity but what is similar is and what you have to ask yourself is is in what I'm doing now creating unity and if not you can't you need to ask yourself how can I create Unity with Hashem you don't think what Hashem means that Hashem is now imagine walking into my office walking into my house and for that matter walking into my bedroom will Hashem say I'm proud to be here and and and this makes a person who's you know serious and interested think hey what am I doing how am I doing it so this is what the outer that was building up over in these chapters that the pain in the who is not exotic who hasn't eliminated his yet Sahara his evil inclination his nephew promised his natural desire for indulgences rather they are really working well at any moment that they're ready to talk about therapy some of you and therapy therapists you know God forbid someone who has depression you know you know the suicidal moment can be out of the blue just one moment you know it's I'm not saying it's always that way and again I'm not trained in that field but from what I know is that it can just come on you and I therapists [Music] one day one of the members said to us she wasn't going to be there next the next month uh she was going to Paris so everybody kind of chided her and oh a lot and it turned out that the whole room of therapists nobody picked up on it but her plan was to go commit suicide there and and she did probably right yeah yeah so you know the the the I'm using that as an example and it's you know I don't want to say a bad example but it's an example that's it's a very you know deep example and and as we say it's a a bit that appeal you know you need to take a pill but sometimes a pill is bitter you know so it's an example that's bitter but it makes the point I think that that what the altarap is saying here that the banging the seeks and needs to be on guard every moment no one can trust himself no one and we've seen this and we see it no one can can trust trust themselves does that mean to say that you should suspect everyone no there are people to suspect our situation to suspect but nevertheless you have to be on guard and if you see a deviance to the right or the left you have to yourself you say ask yourself what's going on now in within ourselves as well a person you know has to ask themselves is my avoida is my service to Hashem really creating the bond the unity here in chapter 24 palette addresses what is the antithesis to the yehud to the bond to the unit unity and that is the Avera so therefore we have to understand that alavera isn't just hate uh hitting a Yom Kippur God forbid but you know doing something that's just something somewhere being rude big deal you know and vice versa some people make a big deal of just the menchler the human type of mitzvahs and the grandiose ones they say yeah leave that for the holy rollers for the holy people it's not my department that's also wrong yeah it's easier to write the check than to schlep the the chairs in the shoe the jewel needs a check but the shoe also needs chairs to sit on because if you have a check with money to buy chairs and you bought the chairs and no one's willing to slap the chairs and why do I mention shares because this Shabbos up here I was in Boca Raton for Shabbos by my daughter and usually I go to the big show called BRS uh Boca Raton Synagogue Rabbi Ephraim Goldberg is the rabbi it's a very famous uh worldwide or Nationwide modern Orthodox I don't think today it's modern Orthodox anymore but um and it's large and you know has anyway it he controls that whole area so my son-in-law told me that there's a minion a few minutes closer in a house and you know the the the BRS considers it a breakaway it was a covet minion and they continued it and they took they rent a house they converted the inside into a large area so I you know I'm always inquisitive I'm always interested so I said you know what I'm going to go there and I have to say tell him anyways it was the Shabbos of vodka so I finished the hotel him and then whatever else I was doing it they start so when I came in uh I got into a side door which was supposed to be closed but to my luck but Hashem in 95 degrees it was openside it was beautifully cold and almost there so it's a pleasure sitting and saying Dylan and then the the Manila gosh me he introduces he's not the guy by his Nile he takes key sets up and he cleans up and he makes sure and it happens to be that his father who just passed on in Williamsburg wasn't above it sure and my daughter who's a recreational therapist for for in a nursing home in the uh in the in the Williamsburg nursing home she took care of her of his father of her of his father so we we smoothed we had a lot that was about and then I saw him go into action and I said what time do you diving we start 9 40. I never heard of shoes starting 20 to 10. it's 9 30 a quarter to No 9 40 is how it is so um and when do you finish a normal Shabbos we finish 11 o'clock today we'll finish probably 11 10 because it's double Parsha and Shabbos with work so we have birches and lo and behold oh then he said look at the curtain and the curtain says make davening great again the Paris it's not make happening great again I said that's pretty interesting he says yes you know why there's no talking in the show and he shows we have a room there with a double glass door that closes you go in there and take a look at that room I go in there and there's an open cabinet with 30 different bottles of the best kind of scotch that you want and bourbon he says this is not the smoking room this is the schmoozing and drinking room so if you want a schmooze you go there you want to drink you go there but here we double and guess what I was there for that minion there was no talking there was I mean you know and and one or two young guys came in with their kids and they sat down right next to me they were trying to talk someone behind shh quiet they got up and they went somewhere else I saw it so it's very interesting to happen an hour and 20 minutes all of everything and then is the kiddish so here it's like quiet and you're talking about a hundred people in the room and there's outside women 10 15 women and it's it goes like clockwork nodes Russia no long sinking you know it's like one No Frills minion so if you want to get all the human which that's what I wanted to do because you know I wanted to dive in quietly and uh later I got it right and after the minion the place becomes a chicken Market but what are they doing they they take away all the Champs and they set up the tables and they bring the food and you got shown and kiss and kissed and Google and nuggets and and scotch and one guy is in charge of pouring 30 cups of scotch I mentioned the chairs I mentioned the chairs because here is a shoe and there's some very wealthy people I think the person who's behind this they say is a billionaire a front guy he he he hit the gavel at the stock market I think he has a company as public very wealthy man I don't know who he is so so but all the money in the world cannot get someone to set up the show for the Kiddush so they all and probably he if he's there too she left the tables put the tablecloths on and make the kid a shampoo so I'm just saying that that this idea of the banana knee being on guard of creating yehud Hashem is in every aspect from one's carefulness of not transgressing to one's involvement in the Mitzvah the idea is to create in other words no one's telling you to to drink you know I don't don't drink go home you have to create the yield you have to create the ego somehow let's learn the side now so we're on page 60 and we are at the words um it's six lines from the bottom seven lines it's the way last two words on the line this is a rhetorical question of the bellatania foreign that if something involves risk of life if your life is at risk it pushes aside all other transgressions you let it do anavera to save your life so what is the rhetorical question what does that imply Maisha that implies that not all are veros are a desecration of God's name of the will of God and the proof is that there's a time when you're allowed to desecrate for the sake of saving a life saving your own life that's the rhetorical question even and then we also have another rule desecrate love or be over that's great go over the boundary from from not from not doing the sin to doing the sinharok but do not allow yourself to be killed except for the three mistress Etc the three mitzvahs but in every every barring those three missiles every other situation you're not allowed to allow yourself to be killed and not do the Aveda but you rather have to do the Aveda not to be killed so the antonyms question is so what do we see from these two concepts we see that there's a time when you can do an Avera so if that's the case not every Avera is a breach of God's will that's his question so again he's bringing more but he's looking at it from the philosophical from the philosophical perspective is insane that an Aveda that each of Vera regardless of what their favorite is is a breach of God's will why wouldn't that apply Hillel to a situation when the Torah tells you to preach God's will in other words seemingly it's an oxymoron you can't have it both ways are you preaching God's will or not preaching God's will for a moment but philosophically that's his quest that's why it's only a rhetorical question because Elementary level it's not a question there is an exception to the rule because you want to live in the Torah says you should live with Mitzvahs not die for them but we're talking philosophically how do you Justified the breach the ivory Russian Hashem Israel you follow answers says I'll answer this rhetorical question of my of mine with another Tom Eunice quote avram what does it say Olive desecrate one Shabbos today so that is so that you should guard you will keep many shabbosis there is a law that if there is a situation where you need to desecrate Shabbos and by doing so you won't desecrate any other Shabbos in the future the law says you're allowed to so the altariba says it's not because the the lengthy of transgressions or their stringency in other words look look at this little Hillel Shabbos ahas foreign so in other words it's not that you're allowed to desecrate Shabbos because of something outside of Shabbos now Shabbos itself permits you to desecrate it so in other words it is the will of God you understand that this is point what the altarap is saying when Hashem tells you to save your life and not allow yourself to be killed right even though you're desecrating on the outside you're preaching the will of God the answer is you're not preaching the will of God that's the will of God at that time in other words just like one Shabbos desecrating one Shabbos for many chapters it's not that you're not keeping Shabbos you are keeping Shabbos but in this situation it's through desecrating this one Shabbos what you want to say is Sir abbreviation instead of Raza and I I you mean Antonio just in general in total literature literature it's typically Raza and I'm I'm wondering if there's any any meaning to the fact that here it uses the the relationships very good very good for that for that I'll have to consult the Rebus father I believe schneerson he is the the his interpretation analysis of of Torah Kabbalah is online of that so the answer is I don't know but to believe that when I get back and I have some foreign I'll try to see but it's it's a good deal but it's not it's not a deal that other ever the revenant's father they're the following his father's steps would make such the Yuki so it's a good deal uh but I I don't know so I hope I can come back with you with an answer but going back to the nakoda now we're going on skipping the brackets I just want to make the flow clear and let's go to page [Music] after you do yes I was I was trying to Fathom what the the practice was saying it was it seemed like a fascinating point so could we read it okay okay okay fine fine if you'd like to we'll do that Tata doubt that ever brings a proof to his argument what is his argument Hillary you have to know what his position is his position is that the leniency and the stringency of avaros that does some astringent some are more lenient is not demonstrative of an out of enough of an affair and not being an Avera and Avera is always an Avera that's his theme here in Tanya and the fact that because that's because the affair itself in that situation is not an Avera not because an affair is not important sometimes that's his position and he brings proof to that take up Shabbos say just tell us that Shabbos is astringent and equal to idolatry is like worship man Idol that's a gazelle regarding what shritas okay there is a concept in he says if someone is a mummer you know a mummer means someone who is with intentionally seeks to do the Avera he says I don't care about you God and I'm doing this he seeks to to to to um enrage God he knows what he's doing there is what we call Hillel a more modernity of them there's a rebel a Mumma someone who who's rebellious woman means rebellious after him for in pleasure and Indulgence it's not that he wants to get God man he just says I want to be an indulgent animal that's it I love you God but you got to let me to indulge a woman means someone is rebellious to anger to anger God that's a whole different degree so regarding whether the shrika someone is is is it's a kosher Streeter if you're a moment is no good in other words if there's an area in your life in which you're a murmur lahakes you're a rebellious with anger towards God even if you're shifting with all the technicalities you're not allowed to eat from that shrita okay that's our local so you're there in the laws of culture what is the outcome saying if someone desecrates Shabbos with that feeling it invalidates he's invalid his strength is later is invalid because it's like a Dollar Tree so therefore my shaking look conversely it hasn't finished yet to note this does not apply to someone who is a mummer for sexual for inappropriate sexual relations whatever gilia Reyes hierophically and again you know we have to we would have to study why it is that way it doesn't apply to someone who says to God I'm going to show you that I don't care about you and I'm going to live and have relations with whoever I want so the altareba is saying that and look at the next line wait let me nevertheless because right if your life is in danger you can you could you could there's a great Shabbos but what if it involves giliano is inappropriate relations of arrayas of shamefulness that have forbidden you're not allowed to do it so what do we see we see that there's only one instance that's the point that there's that there's a situation Hillel where is so therefore so therefore this is just a proof this is the proof that the differences between stringent available doesn't change the essential Credo that and Affair is not available that's always trying to bring over here right and so why and he ends the brackets Alexander psychosofi it's a it's a decree it's it's got It's it's Xavier it's the decree of the verse God says that's the way it is okay I don't there's a lot more that you could you know get into in this brackets but that's why I wanted to really go over it but you asked me so let's go what time is it I don't know what time is it it's 3 17. 317. okay well yes so we we will continue tomorrow and with Hashem so hopefully finish the moment chapter anyway have a great day having outside his own stay cool and we'll be in touch yeah what yeah believe me we had a whole Fiasco with the air conditioner we took care of it Hashem