Maamar Lo Tiye Mishakela 1952, #3- Your actions impact your future generations - RC Dalfin

We're learning the Maya. This is the third shar the third time we're learning it. And my addition of lessons in my bum. It's on page 114, top of the page. Basically today's class will be an explanation of what I summarized yesterday but it's going to be using thought concepts and so get ready for the ride and uh we'll go from there and we're at the point Misha that the Reba asked a question Here in chapter 3, a very very basic question. What does Hashem what why does Hashem want us to serve him? Why does God want us to serve him? So the traditional answer is because it makes him happy. It makes him feel good. This is what he wants. And the Reb asked the question that's not a logical answer. Why? Because for example a servant and a master a master wants something of a servant and the servant wants to do something of the ma for for the master. The master is lacking something and the servant fulfills it. How could you say that about God almighty? He's not missing anything. He's not lacking anything. That's the basic question of the mimemer. And this comes as a uh this question is because the the verse that the mimer began with is about the blessings given in par mishbotim which is next week's Torah portion about about uh blessings for children and health and parnos and sustenance and not only blessings but an abundance of blessings. And by the way, I I do have to make a correction because it bother me yesterday and um it was Israel's question and I learned wrong shot. I simply learned wrong shot the way I relearned it this morning. When we say something depends on merits that means you have to earn the merits. What I said yesterday isim that you have merits that you have because of your parents, your grandparents, your community. In other words, a gift given to you kind of wrong. When the GA says that it depends on the merit, we mean you making the merit. In other words, just as it says in the ten commandments, respect your mother and your father so that you'll have long life. That means if you respect them, you're going to get long life. If you don't respect them, you're not getting long life. Just take it at face value. I know, you know, you're probably saying, well, THERE ARE PEOPLE DON'T RESPECT THEIR PARENTS TO HAVE LONG LIFE. Let's we're not going there now. We're not answering all philosophical questions now. That's called the that's called a merit right that's called actual reward the reward for respecting your parents is you'll have long life so say take the same idea regarding merit so contrary to the way I taught yesterday means it's up to you to create a merit for yourself. The masa when we talk about it depends on your masle that is on the contrary not dependent on you. That's dependent on your source from where you come from your nishma. I just read to you quickly the note here that I thought was well written. Um one second the beginning of this chapter the term mausle I'm reading from the note here the term masle refers to the spiritual source of a person's soul from which beneficence flows m nosel to him there is a flow of energy which flows from the source of your soul to you, your soul in your body. As our sages say, the angel charged with pregnancy takes a drop of sperm before God and asks, "Will this child born from this drop be mighty or weak, wise or foolish, rich or poor? For fate determines a person's qualities and characteristics with the exception of this fear of his fear of heaven as our sages conclude the angel does not ask whether the child will be righteous or wicked. So what we see here clearly is bimasal and and if you if you understand this and you and you relate to this you understand when people say to you or you say to yourself that's my masle that's my luck that's my I don't like the word luck but in Hebrew masle in other words that's THE SOURCE OF MY SOUL WHAT TYPE OF CHILD YOU have is a quasi combination of and masa. As the alterba says the end of chapter 2, YOU CANNOT DETERMINE WHAT TYPE OF SOUL your child has. It won't help you. It will not help you. What you could do is you could anchor and harness and pad and direct the the soul. But the at the end of the day, every person's nishama is unique and has its own relationship. And this is such a gal is such a great gift that God gives a person any human being. By the way, this isn't only for for Jews. It's for gam too and non-Jews too. Everyone has an an independent connection to God Almighty. So for someone to say, well uh I grew up in a crummy environment. Uh my parents WERE THIS AND MY GRANDPARENTS WERE this and my community was this. My friend, you have an you have your unique relationship with yes environment makes a difference and this may but remember at the end of the day that you determine your own fate. So this is I'm sorry Maslosa. But Masa in other words is is is God gifted energy that's outside of your of your choice. Nevertheless, so that's why when we say on a birthday, your masle on your birthday is dominant. Thank you very much. Okay. Now you have to access it. If you don't access the masle, the masle is is wasted, right? It's it it so but the muzzle's there. Busala means you have to create the muzzle. So maybe we could say like this. A merit has to be created. A mazle is given and you need to develop it. There's a very big difference. Do you need to create your own wealth or do you you inherit wealth and then let's see are you going to do it use it for good things or you going to you know waste it. There's a big difference. And why is and why am I you know emphasizing this last is because everything Hashem wants of man is is free will. If you strip free will for a moment he man is not man AND GOD IS NOT GOD. HASHEM SAYS I WANT man I created the world to have free will. So even even in masa even when you have masle you have the free will to either use your masle abuse your masle or just let it fade away. And I think if we if we follow this idea and we think about it I think that things in our lives that will become clearer. I want to go back now to our where we're at. So let's go now. Page 114, top of the page. We learned yesterday that when it comes to the lower levels called the progressive, it's called the progressive levels of God as they come into the world into spiritual worlds and in the physical world over there. Service serving God is very relevant. both in what we call the vessels of God, the containers metaphorically speaking and he explains what's the concept of Kimm you guys have heard the term and or the concept of this is the concealment of the energy giving place for the existence of an independent being. When God's energy is concealed, that concealment makes it possible for independence to emerge because the shine of godliness is now concealed. If it's concealed, Yesesh and Kipa can form Kikasha. further in the text when light shines God's light shines the right then we only have the source because we have a rule or is reflective of the source of light. So in other words is an extension of m. So if mah is present all there is is the illuminary. If light is just a reflection of the illuminary then when we have light we have somehow the illuminary there does not exist. It's an un unable to exist an independent existence because the illuminary is shining. I'll give an example in a moment but vessels the vessels that are the concealment of next page they give place for the existence of independence and to the point that through the progressive descent of the light as it becomes more and more concealed there's the actual creation of creatures So what we summed up here and we were taught that the that the concept of caim consists of zulas other excuse me zulas meaning other kaleim when you think of caim vessel you're thinking of another entity coming into existence. existence or at least the potential of coming into existence. And at the end from the initial from the initial um concealment it ends up that there comes about. So that's why when it comes to the vessels there what we do is relevant because the whole category the whole category of caim is about a being the ability for there to be a being. So that means that a being and what a being does is relevant. And hence when we don't serve Hashem we make a blemish in the kalin we damage the kalin because the kalin need the kalin need our to stay straight what's so this point is like this this point is that there is the pure energy and then there's the concealment of the energy and from the concealment of of the energy and it's in its very initial state which is just obscure ultimate leads to total concealment. The example that I'm thinking of is parents. They get married. They live a certain way. They have children. And years later, their children marry and have children. Follow the trajectory. Follow the path here. I'm telling you, I've had this discussion and argument with one of my best friends. I believe that you could follow and see a a a connection between the parents as they got married and the grandchildren or great-grandchildren as they are for good, for not so good, for whatever it is. Not everything is not everything is masle. Okay, a lot is mausle, but there's a lot that's not masle. I think I told you I knew someone in yeshiva. It was a few years older but it was you know we knew each other for the yeshiva. He came from a veryidic home very okay in Russia. And he for whatever reason at a certain point started to help a rabbi ach and he kind of was a little you know modern in his in his demeanor you know he ultimately married a girl that was I don't know if she was from from birth I I don't know but definitely definitely not where he was coming from very far and had a very modern part you know to her. And then I saw once the picture of his kids and they were dressed like they came out of uh Saks Fifth Avenue. That was their clothing. Then I looked at their hairstyle and their hairstyle had what Mosa Brunar doesn't have because God has blessed him with no hair here the way I see him on the screen. Sorry Misha, BUT YOUR BEARD MAKES UP FOR IT. YOUR BEAUTIFUL BIG BEARD MAKES UP FOR IT. ANYWAY, they had this frontal hair, what we call a chup. What's the English word for a chup? Anyone know? I don't remember now. You know, nicely done over here. Hair hairstyle over here. And I'm saying to myself, you know, like to myself, like, you're such a he's such a jerk. Like, I know where you come from. You know where you come from. You know when it comes to understanding THE DEEPEST IDEAS OF THIS, YOU WOULD MAKE WITH YOUR HAND AND YOU WOULD SAY YES AND YOU WOULD SAY NO AND YOU WOULD ARGUE AND YOU WOULD POSITION, RIGHT? And here you are. Who did you marry? Fine. How are you raising your kids? And that the trajectory went down down down until he ended up divorcing moving finally remarrying and he passed on early. And it it's painful cuz you know I knew this person and I'm I'm just saying that when when there is cumin we're learning about the caim here. When there is concealment, you should know that maybe to you the concealment is only an iota. But remember from that concealment comes creations bria. So remember what you're doing. And that's the way I would kind of take a a takeaway. Mo always likes a takeaway. A takeaway from the mimemer would be so far this when we say that serving God Almighty makes a difference boy does it make a difference but this is only so far in the kalin now that Aba goes to say he's going to say now that even in the or the illuminary which seemingly over there it has no relevance to to creation and to to separation and to independence even there it's relevant BECAUSE IT'S ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A kayali so we have three things here is we have essence pure or callus we're there is not relevant then we have or which is kind of in between and we're going to learn now that over there is also relevant And then then we have Kaye where it's really relevant. Now back to the text page 115 um last line on 115 towards the end. Now 116 service of God is relevant there. Although when you when there's a lack of it blemishes only the vessels and not the light but by blemishing the vessel. The R is lodged from the vessel. WHEN YOU MESS UP THE VESSEL, THE VESSEL KICKS OUT THE R. SO THE R is impacted. And the removal of the R from the Kali is relevant to the Kali. Next page because the purpose of the light is to illuminate the vessels. The or the energy the illuminary is not interested in remaining illuminary. The luminary wants to do something and accomplish i.e. TO TURN THE CHILDREN on to Hashem and the grandchildren and the great grandchildren. And if that's not available because THE KAYE SAYS, "GET OUT of here. You're acting like a fool." You have a breakdown. And this a big issue, a big issue that I struggle with daily. How can I impact my grandchildren and great-grandchildren? Will I succeed in leaving something for them that's meaningful that they will say, "Oh, my grandfather, my great-grandfather, and you know, and and the same as with our teachers." And you think about your teachers. I think about certain teachers who to me they're like they're talking to me now and teaching me because they were such good teachers. Not just teachers in information, teachers in in education. I think of Rabashia like you know the lessons besides theidas that he taught us and the deep concepts but the lessons that I that I that I learned from him in his house and walking with him on on Eastern Parkway from the Shia to 770 which was one block. It took a half an hour and you know and those things you relive them as you grow older and more mature and you reflect back. The point being that the Kaye the Kaye wants the R. But if the R if the Kaye is now in trouble it kicks the R out and then we have a breakdown. When the is removed from the kali then the doesn't fulfill its purpose. That's why in this scenario service Hashem is relevant also in the illuminary in the without with the lack of there there is the removal of the from the therefore the purpose and intent of the luminary has not been fulfilled. Now that the goes even a step further is stops with the he says don't think that this is relevant only to the or the energy that's within that ultimately invests itself in the kali but even to the or that's above the ki the source the source so you have you could say you have the grandparents you have the parents and you have the source of the parents. So the source of the parents like in a way they're not here, right? But Hashem, my father's still alive. I'm saying but if you go back you could you could see things. It's not even a question. You could see you can see continuation both in in good ways and in some unrefined ways or ways that need to tick on. Yes, Misha. Sir Valin may maybe you've touched on this already but how do we explain then especially now in the last you know 40 years baluva right who I mean you know it's not their fault not their fault the the family things didn't get you know the last you know 50 years and all of a sudden like now you said like I mean I turn around and look in in a kotes just as an example one example myself so many people are are ballet chuba I mean it's it's it's it's unbelievable >> so and and okay so so what's the issue that's a good thing >> yeah it's a good thing so I'm I'm just saying that >> but What what about midos mid >> right mid I'm not we're talk BALUVA FROM FROM BIRTH from not from all these things are religious rituals and things like that we're talking I'm talking about character has nothing to do with if you have a beard or you don't have a beard you are from you're not from CHARACTER REFINEMENT OF CHARACTER, MENITE, DECENCY, KINDNESS, STUBBORNNESS, MIDAS. That's number one. Number two is after the holocaust had simply merc simple mercy mercy on Ami Israel. He had mercy on us and he said again the story seems to me I'm going to give you a big gift because you went through such turus and I'm going to open up the floodgates of Chuva. I I I don't believe there was ever a time in in in history in history that there were so many non-religious people who came back to be religious. Find me a source that you could prove that time it was that way. ALL IT SAYS DURING TIME IS THAT there was a galica time right it was like a full moon but it doesn't doesn't speak about like you know people who were not religious and who were very far returned. So, Hashem has blessed us post Holocaust with this gift, especially later, the six day war, the the whole movement, on and on and on. But this is not this is different than what we're discussing here. I believe this issue here is a true Isism. Regardless if you're living now or 150 years ago, every generation and every group and every person I is is either Hashem or note serving God or not serving God. And the question is why? The question the question is is service relevant. That's what we're discussing here. Let me continue please. I want to finish if I can. No, I'm not going to rush this because uh there's too much to explain. I'm going to stop here and tomorrow we'll finish the chapter. So, we we're stopping at the point where the Reb says that a is also relevant in the source. You you understand there is the kalin There's the or within the kaim and then there's the shish the mocker of the and the and the reb is saying that the impact of a either positive or negative is on the kim surely on the or the kaim as well and even on the source because as soon as you say the source of something you're identifying it with the something and if it impacts the something, it impacts the source of something. And that too is a a fantastic idea. You know, the way we the way we think about things and our uh what's the word? Paradigm. Our paradigm sets the tone for the next generation and the next generation. the so that and and that's why I go back to what I just told you Misha that the paradigm the paradigm is is is in is in the way you think about life the way you think about yourself the way you think about you know it's all part of a the the the application of taking that and putting on film every day and putting on a maz and eating kushid and learning raam and learning Those were applications that you know either come or don't come. But we're talking about what's the source. In other words, I if if you don't have the right paradigm that it's important to learn to serve Hashem, then what do you expect? And and then when some our kids or grandkids or great grandkids come and they say, "But you weren't this way." I mean, I've heard that from many bal baluva. You you you you you didn't keep kosher when you were young. You had girlfriends. You you partied. Why can't I? Just because I have a beard? Just because I went to yeshiva or girl school? And what's the answer? The answer is number one. I made I think the answer is so I made a mistake. I don't want you to repeat the mistake. I don't want you to repeat the mistake. And when you when you can admit to yourself that's that's I think going to go a lot further, you know. And at the end of the day, everyone has that independence. Remember what I said earlier. Hashem doesn't take away that from any any child, any person, but conversation. So what I'm saying is that the source, the source and and all of our parents and all of our grandparents. I mean, I I see it because I, you know, I study history and I, you know, and I wrote about my my my father and their family and I went way back. I see and I see so many cousins and I SEE CERTAIN TRAITS THAT ARE UNIVERSAL in our family and I'm sure YOU GUYS PROBABLY I would see it in your families. So that doesn't mean it can't be corrected. In fact, they need to be corrected if they're not refined things. Okay. However, we'll continue tomorrow. Have a great day. Zach sort of.