Maamar Lo Tiye Mishakela 1952 #7- Obedience isn't enough, love is necessary - RC Dalfin

So good day. We're learning the myim shaka. We're going to learn uh the fifth chapter. But before that, let me just read the summary at the bottom of 131 to familiarize ourselves with what we learned yesterday. In resolution, it can be explained that our sages statement, quote, don't does it make a difference to the holy one, blessed be he, whether you and the rest of this is whether you slaughter from the neck or the nape that refers to man's divine service itself. That is the particular activities that con that constitute his divine service. In contrast, the outcome of man's divine service which is Moshe the refinement of the created beings that's significant to the essence of an for God desired a dwelling in the lower worlds that a world in need of refinement that the world needs to be refined hence the term lower be created and it be refined through man's divine service. When that refinement is is carried out, blessings that could only be brought about by Hashem's essence become manifest. Okay. In the text now, top of 132 chapter 5, the concept of service to serve God your God. This is similar to a servant serving a master. Mark, when you say serve, you shall serve God primarily. Service involves the activity known as a ya fear and obedience. The this is the service of a servant. A servant doesn't doesn't have kind of he's not a significant entity in his own right. More so he doesn't look at himself with any importance of of whatsoever. Right? That's what a servant, that's the feeling of a servant. And he's completely subservient to the master. Next page. And what does that mean? Although the servant wants to be loose and free. Don't tell me what to do. And this is a very important quote. It's Aramaic and it means a servant. Hefkar is from the word hefare. Hefka means one that wants to have no restraints. Nik that's what makes him happy. So in other words, a servant a a servant a slave is not someone that's changed his paradigm. HE'S CHANGED HIS PARADIGM. NO WAY. While he's serving his master, he truthfully wants to be free without restraints. Let's continue. He is constrained and he submits himself to the master like working for someone and you're not happy with your employer but you need the salary, you need the money. So you control yourself and you shut your mouth and you don't say what you think is right and wrong because at the end of the day he's paying you. So you do the job and you do it well BUT THE ENTIRE TIME YOU'RE CONTROLLING YOURSELF. THIS IS THE same attitude of this servant of a servant. Therefore the bottom line is he does the will of his master. It's a quote in Tanya chapter 41. the initial service, the primary one and the root one. He avoided the soil. It's obedience even though he is his paradigm is one that he didn't change himself and his will and his mind and his emotions and his character in Yiddish. He did not change himself and he is immersed in his desires. I want, I need, I will get. Nevertheless, next page he serves. He does his job. Doing what you need to do. And and BECAUSE REGARDING BOTTOM line doing put doing the mitzvah not doing we're not supposed to doing what you're supposed to. Look at this look at this language here. It's impossible to wait till you change your paradigm. Someone will say, "Listen, don't put on the TRILLIN UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT TRILLIN'S ABOUT." OR DON'T PUT ON THE trill until you feel that when YOU PUT THE TRILL ON, you're connected. If we wait for that, we're going to wait a long time, your your children, right? Until my child will understand the importance of A, B, and Z, the child can do what he wants. No way, Jose. It's imposs is that because there is a the commandment is mitzvah. >> I I understand, but that's not what he I don't see that right now in this text. That's another you that's another discussion, but that's not part of THIS DISCUSSION HERE. WE'RE TALKING PSYCHOLOGICALLY down you know toot as we say you're going to wait till the servant will understand the importance of this MASTER AND THEN I'LL START WORSHIPING YOU. THIS SERVANT WOULDN'T GET TO FIRST BASE. If you want someone to clean your house to help you clean for Shabas and you and and you're ready to pay them, you're going to say, "YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M NOT GOING TO HIRE YOU TILL YOU UNDERSTAND how important shabas is. HOW IMPORTANT CLEANING THE HOUSE for Shabas is." No way. JUST CLEAN MY HOUSE. Let's go back to the text. of rather even the way the servant is in his situation meaning in his paradigm of not not serving the master essentially he doesn't really want to do that regarding in in the in the moral one needs TO SERVE GOD WITH obedience that's the concept of I do understand I don't understand I do like it I don't like it God says do this and Don't do that. Kabala have the obedience to listen to the higher power. Would it taste better with salt and pepper if I understood? Oh, sure. Is it important to pursue that after obedience? Absolutely. Hashem, listen. Listen. God is our God. Hashem, right? all the soil first obedience and then comes I'll understand we will we our people mark our PEOPLE WHEN GOD GAVE us the Torah and right last week's Torah portion Israel God gives the Torah we said in this week's para by the way it says and by the way what verse is it 247 7. It's chapter I think chapter 24 verse 7 I think. Yeah. SO ACCEPTANCE OF the yoke is 247. NASA we will do. Then it says nishma we will understand. Why not? WHY DOESN'T IT SAY FIRST WE'LL UNDERSTAND? Listen means to understand. We will listen, we shall listen and then we shall do. No, FIRST OBEDIENCE. JUST DO it and then work on understanding it. Let's continue. Says that so it is in in the order of in the daily order. when he got up in the morning. It's a mistake. Here in the Hebrew edition of this on page 34, it says midi. It's a mistake. There's a missing between the me and the daled. There you have it. Not only the Rabbi Dolphin's books have mistakes, but uh the cahus professional editors have mistakes, too. So, I'm in I'm in good standing with uh these editors. Anyway, the first thing we do in the morning is we say mi I thank you God. When you lay in bed Mark and you open your eyes in the morning, the first thing you do is an I give thanks to you to you the king before you get out of bed for anything else you say by number two. Then you get rest. And so too when you start the evening praying the beginning is acknowledge obedience. Next page meaning before you get to the part of a prayer in which you are meditating in the verses of praise and before you meditate on the blessings before the then you do then you do these are all the various parts of prayer of ding in the morning. What do we say as a preface? I give thanks to Hashem. This is acknowledgment obedience. This refers to the activity in a manner of of accepting the yoke. We're going right into the next parag chapter num. However, since the verse of serve God your God, we're on page 137 refers also to prayer asam writes. It's a a positive commandment to pray. The Rambam writes that and he quotes this verse. You shall serve God your God. The raam according to the oral tradition we know this prayer is this service refers to prayer serve him with all your heart next page the sages say which type of activity is the activity that's known as service service of the heart that's prayer When you dabra, you're supposed to dab them with your heart your feelings. It's not a robotic mechanical activity and one day you feel elated and one feel you you feel crummy, right? THAT IT SHOULD BE PART OF your >> God wants the heart. That's what that's what was saying moving. So we understand. So we understand that in addition to what we said earlier that service is obedience and it also includes also the service of love of emotions. This is the concept of prayer. There is no activity like the activity of love of serving Hashem through prayer with love working yourself up to love God. You love God. So Deb explains now the concept is the service the the the the objective of prayer is to impact both your godly soul and your animalistic soul. Comes from the word which means joining together. It says is someone who puts together broken pottery. So the word there is used to. So when we say prayer, we mean joining together the two bro the two sides. The side of the throughing through prayer we join the given name with its source. I hear this the godly soul is very godly but guess what it came into a body so it has the restrictions of the body so through ding what is our job to rejoin it to its source that's one concept another concept regarding prayer is there's another idea happening when you when you pray. And that is to make a refinement in the animal tendencies and desires that one has and to elevate the sparks of your body and your portion in this world. And these two ideas, they're really one. It's a mistake here, too. Um these two ideas the the is extra. It's not the both require a notion of love. In order to reinstate the godly soul with its source, you need to service God in a manner of love. And in order to impact the you need to service him also with love. Why? And he explains if you were to serve God only with obedience and fear at all. You don't really change your very core your paradigm. Next page and you don't really make an impact on the animal drive and desires. As we see in actuality, there are such people. They have natural fear of God. And with a a a small amount of meditation, a little amount of meditation, they can arouse by themselves fear not to do. Most of us say to do good. Nevertheless, Even when their behavior in not doing good bad and doing good is is complete. Guess what? Their animal desire and yearnings remain the same. You know this reminds me of the dieting pill and shots that everyone's into ampic and everything else. You could lose 100 pounds, 70 pounds, a lot of weight. THE MOMENT YOU STOP TAKING THOSE PILLS, THOSE SHOTS, A DAY, TWO, THREE LATER, you're back to fing. You're a GLUTTON AGAIN. YOUR TA IS RIGHT THERE. I've been taking this for three years. What happened? I don't mean I'm saying person says I've been taking it for a long time. Nothing changed. NOTHING. AN IOTA CHANGED INSIDE YOU. It was all just behavior. Behavior in the way of obedience. You see, when we say behavior modification, the hope is that the behavior will make A CHANGE, WILL MODIFY THE way you are. That's the hope. But when it comes to that pill and it's been proven and I have neighbors this way, it's it's it's on on the ground that says here such an important rule that when serving God with obedience, which is the number one thing, you must know that it doesn't change who you are. It just controls you. In order to change who you are, you have to change your paradigm. In order to change your paradigm, you need to serve Hashem with love. You have to come to a point where you love him. AND BECAUSE YOU LOVE HIM, THEN ANYTHING THAT'S ANTITHETICAL TO HIM IS AGAINST YOUR LOVE FOR HIM. OKAY. I don't want to use >> that's >> that's thinking like >> that's right. But in other words, if you love someone, whether it be a spouse or or a child or a friend or if you really love them, you don't want to hurt them. Not because it's THE WRONG THING TO do because I'm not a mench. I'M GOING AGAINST MYSELF IF YOU REALLY LOVE THEM. AND AND and and unfortunately, many people don't really love. >> They say they love, but they don't really love. But if YOU REALLY HAVE ABA If you learn Tanya well on these chapters, you'll see this in the you see this point. If you really have a then anything that's antithetical to that love kills you, hurts you and you're going against yourself BECAUSE YOU LOVE THAT PERSON OR THAT THING. So with Hashem is the same way. And this is not an easy avoid. This is the hardest avoid. In other words, it's much easier to have yearend cup of soil whether you're born in a, you know, in in a refined family or you were raised in a refined way. VERY NICE. BUT THAT'S all obedience. Do what's right and don't do what's wrong. VERY NICE. THAT doesn't yet tell you that your paradigm has changed. Let's continue. So he says there are those that have the right Um yeah, this quotes in chapter 13 in Tanya where says your neph your animal drive and desires become stronger as time goes along because you've used it so much. So it's now you know that old car versus NEW CAR YOU'VE TRAINED THE WHEELS. It's become accustomed to eating and sleeping. It's not that IT'S IT'S GETTING STRONGER AS TIME goes along because it becomes more of who you are because you're so immersed in it for so many years. Paul's next page. And since if the activity is only fear and obedience, you don't change. So the first issue you also won't accomplish TO REJOIN THE GODLY soul with its source. Because how do you rejoin the godly soul with its source? THROUGH DOING GOD'S WILL. AND GOD'S WILL is that the soul should refine the body and the animal drive. That's why your soul came below itself doesn't need any correction. Next page 142. And the reason why you descend below your soul came down is to refine the body. As long as you didn't do that, you didn't fulfill God's will. Therefore, you did not cause a rejoining of an of the godly soul with its source. only specifically through the service known as the loving God. That's where you you really make a dent in the nephem of the where you explain to it and to yourself loving anything outside of God is antithetical to God. How do you that itself causes the joining of the with its source? So this this this um let me read this. Let me read the summary here. Divine page 143 divine service involves not only fear and kabala soil but also love which is achieved through the service of prayer. The Hebrew term for prayer fila relates to the term toefl which has the meaning of joining together. Prayer joins the godly soul to its roots its root and source and refineses a person's animal soul. Both of these effects are produced through the service of love. In contrast, the service of fear and couple of does not radically change a person's inner character traits. He remains who he is. He just controls his conduct. To bring about an inner change, love is necessary. Similarly, fear does not bring about a connection between the godly soul and its root and source. For the establishment of such a connection depends on the fulfillment of God's will. And God's will is that the soul will refine the body and the animal soul. Something that is not accomplished through fear. Tomorrow I have to travel so I'm not going to teach tomorrow. We will rec continue Monday chapter 7. We're doing nice. We're really progressing nicely and um we will continue. Everyone have a great Shabasma and uh >> thank you. Love you all. And back to the cold. >> BACK TO THE COLD. THE THE SWIMMING POOL. LIKE A SWIMMING GAME. IT'S LIKE A BATH. GOODBYE, BATH. YOU GOT TO GO BACK TO THE COLD. SHALOM. 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