Mental Health based on Chabad Chasidus and Tanya - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, 7-22-24 #3 Cincinnati

why don't to people if you have any questions comments no I never heard it before I love these Russian get get my CD 39 [Music] 39 that that uh yes that uh Rhythm that it's repeated a lot and uh and so I can see the correlation you're drawing it's very interesting I got to say it's extremely interesting yeah well it happens to be that cidic Tunes have a lot of eye to the eyes uh I can't explain to you each and every one I can't I would be a liar to say that but but but if you pay attention if you pay attention to a nigan it's called a AIC Melody is called a nigan if you pay ATT to pay attention it's very helpful and uh in my book your better self I have have a section called n n to teach you the methodology used in kabad Melody interesting and this by the way is of the the the type of nim that are of happy Lively nature right there's also meditative songs maybe the next next song which we'll sing a little later will be more on the meditative side so it's slower not sad but meditative and and thoughtful yes Aaron you want to say something yeah I had a quick question what do you think about frequencies instead of Rhythm now since you've D drawn so many beautiful conclusions of Rhythm across the languages and religions have you ever looked into frequencies by any [Music] chance um I like ask answer the question with a question please tell me what you mean by frequencies I know what the word means yeah and I think I know what you mean but you know rather than us making an assumption why don't you tell me what you mean so a frequency for example like when something is in tune or Out Of Tune like you take a note like c a c okay like a c is steady okay you can either take it sharp or you can take it flat or you take it proper those are all different frequencies the the InTune one is at a certain frequency when it's Out Of Tune you either go flat or sharp and they resonate at different frequencies have you ever drawn any like any uh correlations of frequencies like uh notes like Bes okay so there is a uh if that's what you mean there is for example a what what we call in in music a movement and I would say that the part of music that is movements would lend itself more to the idea that you're discussing the frequencies interesting and movements are kind of shorter and sharper and this is an example of a movement a Negan that's a movement it's not a full cdic Melody [Music] la [Music] this is known as Reb Hill's movement there was a student in the kabad Yesa in Russia his name was Hill he came from a city called poep hence they called him hill poer and those that he passed on at a very young age he was a a very big servant of God and he would not allow his body to benefit from the pleasures of food and other such Comforts and he would pray with great devotion and he used this tune this Mo movement as the motivator in his yearning and longing for God so this is this is a a a a short movement frequency type of a uh experience interesting when we were one second please when we were students we were introduced to this at marown the Yesa and thead Ral College of America in marown New Jersey and it was very very very helpful you know especially when we prayed we used it for prayer yes please I apologize that I'm not familiar with the writings of even though I have a son named from my my husband's side Alexander way back when but I'm really curious about this firm that teach a person how to be a mened by the previous Reby who was released I guess gas but that's if I'm saying it correctly what what are those form called they are there English translations of them yeah um you can go as he says going on kab.org under the previous rebb and look up his writings some of which are there but there it there's a a book maybe the carp has it here in the library called Challenge and there's a the the there's two volumes one out of uh England one out of AR Ro the a one has a red cover the other one has an a green cover in the green cover one there's a in English a translation of of a discourse based on a verse in the in the prophets Nas alas when the story with the is they Alisha passed by need a place to stay yeah in there in that book so that would be one example of just one discourse you he um I wrote a book called the mystifying the mimer a mimer means aidic discourse and in that book I chose in that book I chose discourses of the rebi not his father-in-law the previous rebi that are user friendly relevant to such issues that we're discussing so that's my book demystifying The M so again it's not based on the previous Reb's discourses but what I did is I found in the Reb's writings similar ideas then there is the talks of the previous re called L and there there is a translation in English of now much of that are stories and history so um it's not it's not a discourse what I was referring to before or the discourses so there are some translations in English of some of those discourses but not enough there are probably about 10 I imagine and that's a good beginning um I remind myself now there's a book called The RAB karp I think knows all all all the you know kabad English books um and online there are people teaching the I have my YouTube channel I have a lot a lot of Clips I I teach every morning a quarter to 8 a quarter after 8 and I I taught a lot of those discourses what is your first name Elana Elana I taught a lot of these discourses that I'm talking about to my uh students I have a Col online in Israel and a few students in Germany it's anyone that wants and we went through many of these discourses because they lend itself these are students like yourself some of which have never learned you know and and um they're online on my YouTube channel I think I created playlists and you could look through that if you don't find it I can drive you know so you can listen to some of that but again if you want it in a book form there are some some yeah there's also the they translated the previous RAB SCH Weinberg out in English uh um translated from my the yish of of the previous Reb there are some there so there there's there's there's a lot of material there there's enough material that keep us busy for a while but I do want to um talk about a little bit this book on front of me Tanya mental health I just wrote this within the last few years I remember sitting in Miami at my my son-in-law's father's home was already passed on he was a very special Jew very special Jew he actually grew up I think in Minnesota in Minnesota and then he uh moved around to different cities for his work in transportation and I started to uh he invited me to spend a week or 10 days with him my wife wasn't there his wife wasn't there so we were just to back Bachelor and he loved cooking and he was a great Gourmet cook and he made me this extensive breakfasts and then we would take a walk along the ocean um and and and we went to Davin together it was very a lot of close bonding to our children marry each other my daughter who's the rabbitson yeah is her husband is his son the rabbi Ellie and Sarah nich Ellie and Sarah theim in t Aviv for all English speakers not just Tel Aviv but the greater area I must say they are probably the most successful kabad house in Israel as far as they have hundreds and hundreds of people at their events literally shabas they have shabas they have two shoes they have one sh they use during the week and and the other one on shabas and they can have two 300 people every shabas wow and like 150 for prayer for daving and then another 100 for the meal and it's it's so warm and and you know they have a a mixture of singles and young marrieds and uh and then and tourists who and it's really if you go to Tel Aviv look them up you'll you you'll really enjoy it anyway so I started to write that this book over there but I didn't continue for many year for several years but in the last two years I finished it what I did is the Tanya Elana if you you've heard of the word Tanya you've heard of the book Tanya the Tanya was written by this Rabbi this Rabbi is the founder of the kabad movement known as ofad okay he's our forefather meaning the one who started the kabat philosophy and andman um has the book Tanya which is the basic Credo and the philosophy the there's four sections five sections technically and the first one is is uh is called which deals with a lot of psychological issues primarily from chapters 26 through 34 what I did is I took per chapter one psychological issue and I discuss it based on his philosophy his thinking so let's take here chapter one i i i g I gave each chapter a name ego is natural so I'll talk about what ego is that it's natural and how to deal with it at the end I have a lesson per usually one to two lessons per chapter followed by an exercise usually three different spend five for example spend five minutes daily thinking about what drives you number two realize that there is a purpose of having urges there's a purpose for urges number three identify which particular negative trait drives you in order for in order to be healed you need to know the problem yeah so you won't see this type of wording necessarily in the Tanya when you read the Tanya what is your name sh sha you've learned Tanya sure right yes so if you open a Tanya a student won't necessar but I've adapted it to to to a psychological and mental health issue so I have for example anxiety chapter 14 chapter 16 behavior modification chapter 20 Paradigm Shift overcoming challenges ADHD and add chapter 40 eliminating depression chapter 41 antidote fonus chapter 34 28 hypocrite schizophrenia so I'm not you know I'm not giving you you know classical Solutions of psychology and Psychiatry okay I'm not a psychologist and I'm not a psychiatrist I'm a teacher ofus who has not a familiarity with psychology so so this book I put together and I think if you know the rabbi you know somehow you know he could maybe make a a a class or something or someone and it would be uh you know you could read together and discuss it you know would be a very very good thing for many many people in the Greater Community Orthodox reform conserve makes no difference it's it's for people you know you don't have to be orthodox or kabad to read the book and to to understand it and to gain from it so I just wanted to you know you know tell you what this is and and how important it is and I'll tell you something um when this book came out and people all kinds of people from professionals to the late person they they grabbed it you know because Tanya mental health everyone studies you know so many people study Tanya from a religious perspective from a Jewish perspective but until now no one looked at it you know kind of from a mental health perspective but that's what I'm opening up in this uh in this in this book