Miracles: Are they close to us? How to recognize them - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so today she is going to focus on what is the concept of Al and which we we we quote constantly there's the energy of God that pervades the world and there's a energy called sove which literally means it surrounds it encompasses and in this chapter in this year D is going to tell us what it is and what it is not and this is a the found foundation for this concept in all ofas let's get right to it on page 12 134 uh it's about eight about 10 lines in the bottom after the period uh that you see over there and so too this miniature amount of of of Radiance of God which has been restricted because of the tum that invest itself both in the upper and lower worlds to give them energy and vitality if you compare that this energy to the hidden and concealed light which is is infinite in its quality and that energy does not invest itself into the worlds in a revealed way to enen the worlds that energy surrounds the worlds here you see I want you to look it's five lines in the bottom in middle of the line V we call this energy that doesn't invest itself in a revealed way in the worlds it's called and says right away and these are the famous words don't think and the meaning is not that God is above and the energy is above in space God forbid the know God is not here says that the whole concept of space and time is not applicable to God Almighty it's a metaphor so to say where is God there's one part of God that's here and there's another part that's elsewhere that's frankly heresy because that gives Credence to the whole concept that God is a a um comprised of time and energy and God transcends time and energy so the question is what does it mean that God encompasses the world or look what he says what do we mean with the word in regard in regard to in regard to the aspect of revealed influence the type of influence that's revealed in the worlds that's felt by the worlds and has catered to the worlds is called investment we're next p this energy invests itself in the world they they take the energy that he got from God and they give it over to the world in a way that's catered to the world so the mid are impacted by that energy the Mind by that energy the the the the kidneys by that energy IE Al it's the force and energy of God the highest of God that's catered based to on the vessel that's receiving the energy came conversely an influence from God that's not revealed but rather concealed and the world cannot comprehend it you can't use the word enclosed invested investment means what does investment means I got it I relate to it right I understand it it's it's part of you this is not that way was so it hovers over you in the senses you don't have it but it's in you it's in the world it's not elsewhere hashem's energy means that it's here but the manner in which it's here is in a hovering way is not in a pervasive investment way it's like you hear about something right the example is very simple given a miracle where does a miracle happen in in ailos by the Angels the miracle happens here but can you we say we relate to the miracle no that's why it's called a miracle so the miracle The Nest is demonstrative of the nature the sun rising and everything else that's demonstrative of right so when the meterologist look at the the 10day weather forecast based on the guidelines and everything else that they have they say it's going to rain it's going to snow it's going to Sun have sun going to be this going to be temperature does it have to be that way no why because Hashem is not limited toik hasem is also same of but in nature in the investment world this would be the script so mha was talking about his health on that level of Health yes you talk to is a doctor and you talk about the issue okay then comes the long RAB do and he tells Misha maybe you're having a not a body experience of that your soul is in love with God and we laugh at it the truth is that would be a sa of it's not natural it's not normal could it be absolutely that's my point God's energy that's Al's point is is here don't push God off it's like someone came to the re an older Rab's father actually RAB from California head of California in 1960 he came earlier he came to the Reba and he said something about the previous Reba and he like cried and he said oh the previous rebba left us you know the rebba told him why are you sending him away and here is someone who's older than the rebba quite a bit and the rebba said says to him why you sending the previous rebba away in other words we don't he passed on yeah like the rebba told Josh Gordon's grand um father and and family when R and Gordon their grandfather passed on 1969 the wrote said oh he went to a second floor he's still here but not on the first floor he's on the second floor that's the same concept that we're learning here in Tanya sa of kman and that's the whole idea of death you know we don't like talking about it but the whole idea of death is the person is still here but on a different in a different way don't push him away don't say he's not here every that passed on in this war is here but they're not here in their body and it's very painful and you said Shiva and it's it's very traumatic and all everything else but that they don't exist they exist so the here says doesn't mean God is outside of the world has nothing to do with the world and once in a while he looks down he says what's going on totally wrong let's continue since the worlds are limited therefore they cannot handle an energy that is miraculous kind of that is out of body that is not the norm rather they can only handle a very glimmer of the energy that's very very restricted says you know how much you get we get we get a minute amount it's like a Isa right right the the brain the capacity brain has so much more than we use you know who uses all of their brain or forget about all of their brain who uses most of their brain there scientific studies I'm not the booking that but alter is the same thing here the the the the highest in the world is just the amount that's needed to keep the world going but you should know there's so much more could believe the primary aspect of energy without any restrictions repeats himself that it's it's it's sa and it's it's impossible for it to reveal itself from the perspective of The Limited in creation now he gives a look at the God is all over the infinite Infinity of Godin light of God over God says neveress this God that's all over doesn't invest itself a little bit into the the inanimate a little bit into the vegetation and all of God of the infinite God is encompassing even though it's in it it's in it yet not felt by it why because the M saand of this or is one that doesn't pervade which is a very interesting thing it's like you have a treasure box right your backyard no no no no I have to go to China to find it I have to go here I have to go there it's right there it's with you you have to explore it so it's not it's not revealed since the influence from this energy is a way of concealment and all influence coming in a manner of concealment is considered hovering over encompassing for the the concealed world the revealed world says hey let me give you another mush that's even closer to your mind so for you to be able to understand here we have two artists in this year who who draws an image of something that he sees or that he saw or sees right you guys grew up I think I'm from in LA in Chicago you flashback you have a memory you saw something beautiful something in your youth or you see it today in or wherever you are Al the entire thing and it's inside and it's inside of the insides you have a picture in your mind in Mind's Eye you have an image of it because you saw it either it was seen by you all of it are part of it sorry says that image is considered it's not considered pus it's encompassing on your mind yet that image from your youth it encompasses your mind and your thought it's imagination an image from the past that kind of is that is in you but yet not cognizant not real in the sense of I can't it it it's like I remember it it's like aam tski Dr tski who spoke about him doing um what's it called hypnosis on cancer patients he writes this in his book and he said he was able to bring them back to their childhood and they would start talking and feeling their The Greenery playing soccer or baseball in Milwaukee Wisconsin blah blah blah blah blah you know and and for that little while they physically felt better this is what he writes that's a Mak it's a maket that makes an impact you see but are you going to tell me as soon as the person comes out of the uh hypnotic state that the person is fully aware Alert in touch with that feeling generally not why did it why does it take tski hyp hypnotism to bring that out because it's Mak but if it but but if it wouldn't be within the person you can hypnotize with today to tomorrow you ain't seeing a a a a a a a monk a a um a pin an elephant going through the hole of a pin cuz that you never saw that's a fantasy but something that you did see and you put it aside you know oh Henry's after 20 years or I just reunited with a guy I didn't see in 40 years in sh about two three weeks ago I would have not recognized me he happened to recognize me but once I started to think oh yeah this and that and this and that right so it's a save it's a save experience within you not a sa of experience outside of you within you that's what he getting at let's continue but it says about his thoughts are not like our thoughts next page top of 136 thoughts in his that knows all creatures Compass surrounds every person from head to toe it says from his perspective when hasem says I I know this I know him I know her I know this that idea is pemus you see it's a very important line because it answers the philosophical question the contradiction between Free Will and free choice and God's knowledge from our perspective the fact that God knows means nothing cuz I don't know cuz we don't know so we have true Free Will from hashem's perspective his knowledge his y is impactful and he knows you through and through that's what he says here and this he gives a the the ball of the earth God's knowledge encompasses the entire thickness of the earth whatever in the world everything in actuality is God's knowledge gives is the Vitality you see by us what is the we know something we filter it we we understand it and we feel it and then hopefully right by Hashem the fact that he knows itself just the idea makes an impact right right in other words by us the idea having a knowledge of something doesn't make yet a difference in the result you need to go through different steps for that knowledge to be implemented by Hashem the implementation comes as soon as he knows it why because he's past present the future he's omnipotent everything else so the idea itself the knowledge itself makes the difference let me just continue and therefore hasem with his knowledge creates ex he says yeah but it wouldn't be the way we have it today now is a very Minature amount of energy for that to be the the vegetation that's why there needs to be these he repeats his point many contractions many mighty contractions that contracts that enclosed itself in the earth to but that doesn't take away the fact that God in his own mind in his own world his idea is united with his Essence for he is the knowledge he the knower he's what's being know and by knowing himself and morally speaking God knows all creatures and that's what I said a moment ago and it's not compared to a person's knowledge which the knowledge comes from the outside into the person but rather by God this is who is everything comes from God's truth we earlier in this cannot be comprehended properly by the human mind we'll skip the remark since this knowledge is infinite it's not called that it invests itself it's in the earth which is limited rather it's it encompasses again he repeats although it has everything in it it creates it nevertheless it's not there so this is a very elaborate explanation that the AL shares regarding theide aide of I'd like to hear from you how if you understand what we just learned overall the difference between saiv and male and maybe you have a certain mush that you would like to share with us so anyone please don't don't be shame B in other words did do you I did you learn in this chapter something new or better you understand better now what male is and sa is that's my question I do I always had a problem with it because it's just the concept is is just um that's hard for me to to understand but I think I understand it better now because it is not it is there but it's not felt by us and um and it doesn't it doesn't pervade it doesn't it doesn't have any because we did we wouldn't be exist to too powerful I think right right and I and and the mush that I gave earlier about the difference between nature and miracle I think for me that was always a a good musle to to put it in perspective from when I began learning you know because a miracle when a miracle happens it happens to us it impacts us if it's not here how do we how we impact it so that means it is here but yet it doesn't happen daily and I don't relate to it I don't it's a miracle so that would be that's gives this not my mus gives this mus that's a mus for yes you want to say something I just think maybe just a little bit more I I personally do not have I don't have a grasp on it yet the difference between and and um okay let me let me wait wait wait I'm I'm going to ask you and and challenge your brain not challenge but do you understand the difference between nature and a miracle so I would assume that when you say nature you're talking about what we what we um just you know we we we we wake up in the morning and the Sun is risen we go and water the plants and and you know the plants you know grow Etc as opposed to Miracle right mace which something is is obviously goes against the rules the rules of nature okay and now when a miracle happen whatever that Miracle is okay think about in your own life whatever that is did it make a change somehow on you well I mean the miracle that just jumps to my mind yeah I think I might have shared this already with some people in the group but like when our son was fighting in Gaza he heard a whistling noise he was standing outside of his armored personnel carrier heard a whistling noise he was standing with somebody and all of a sudden 3 m away from him fell a mortar and it didn't go off it went right into the mud and that was it in other words if if it would have gone off which was supposed to go off they're standing close enough that they wouldn't be here so to me so in other words it it didn't go off okay its nature would have been to go off okay would have exploded okay but it didn't okay so it's a miracle okay and and the Miracle made an impact that they are alive that's the point it's not the Miracle made a change from Death to life but in what Manner C can you say that can you say they prepared themselves and knew that this missile this whatever is not going to go off absolutely not so from the natural perspective it should have gone off and God forbid they should have died or been injured and that didn't happen so so the miracle the energy hashem's k v the miracle experience makes an impact on you but it's not you can't prepare for it it's not catered to it's out of the ordinary that's if so means it encompasses what does it mean it encompasses the the natural phenomenon it it's it's not what you expect it's what it's unexpected but it's here that's the point of yes but but isn't but isn't that mosha asks a very good question because ites a good point there there's such a thing as a n n and then there's go okay that's that's two separate things yeah go therefore I know I okay but in my L Fisher brain where I grew up in I'm I'm hearing this analogy between what the rebba is saying and what the concept of this because there's two different kind the sun shines in the morning that's a ace it's not it's a ace that we see every single day but doesn't make the same impact on but it's an but it is an ace can make it not Sunny stop we don't call that a we call that tea and what you're saying is that te itself nature itself lighting the vinegar on shabas afternoon yeah okay soem wants the so we see that as a a but he says no the that makes the oil burn makes the vinegar burn it's a of the oil Burns okay but but it's all Hashem but there is the way hasem dresses it up IE nature he right that that's why I mean science and Torah you know the fossils and the trees and now with global warming we're going to all burn up if hasem if you could find me a source and ter that will all burn up okay fine but I don't we don't have one what what' you say climate change climate change thank you climate CH global warming no anyway so no global warming is out oh it's out okay climate change there are too many problems with it so now it's just climate CH oh oh oh oh oh I okay yeah thank you you see you're more with it than I am anyway then the the point is no y but I'm answering your point so by the way it's not L it's it's t this is a discussion in t in many writings the nuda is of course nature is from Hashem so of course the sum coming up like you say is is a miracle but Hashem says I'm programming that energy through a natural means it's me it's God but through a natural means what mha is saying the example he gave is that it's hasem through an non natural means through a a miracle it's obvious so of course everything is God but one we call and one we call one we call the energy of and one is listen you have a nice shabas weekend to think about this and those serious students will take per and read the lessons in T and there but this this is the source for have a great chabas only good things only good nature and good Miracles and others we live 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