One is born, not becomes, a Tzaddik - Set time to remove lust from your heart - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

today's class Europe she is dedicated to my my wife's Grand grandmother uh her name was basier and my grandmother her name was Bella and both their yard sign is on the same day we didn't know this of course and didn't realize it when we got married in the summer when Tanya Paige Huff which is the middle of chapter 14. and let's just recap brief briefly the out there the balotanya the author explains the inner makings making of this individual who he calls the banani the average person the average Jew who isn't a Sadiq who isn't a saint isn't someone who has eradicated completely their urge for things that are unhealthy for one spiritually and physically and materially but rather the urge still exists however they've trained themselves to control their urges and thought speech in action and until now the author discussed various different types of banana name there is a full-time banana there's only a davening pain in the there is a banyani Who has the taifa in the heart but it hasn't entered the mind there's a pain in heat which the type that has already entered the mind and and and and he discussed ways of helping the banana knee to overcome the urge whether it's God who stands to his right and helps him or whether he has the wherewithal to have his mind control the heart mind over matter and various different types of details surrounding these type of people now in this chapter in chapter 14 which is Yad the hand kind of the hand of the Tanya it also reminds us of the youth the yard maimonides magnum opus book the uh mishna Torah is called Yad hakazaka the mighty hand which is a quote from Of course the Torah God's Mighty hand in in slowing the the Egyptians when we were leaving when we left Egypt right and the word Yad is 14. you dial it 14. because in maimonides mishna Torah there are 14 books right so the idea of Yad is like I'm giving you my hand I'm giving you a full set of svorim of holy books which gives you the ability to rise over every situation so too in the Tanya when we say yada chapter 14 it's this chapter which gives us a hand to deal with the issue of banyani and how does he do that so he begins immediately by saying the first line on page 20 I'm 38 the he name he meet us called Adam the attribute of the banana knee is the attribute of every man and it is this that man should pursue is banging me for every person could be a pain in the Holy super closeout every time so I told you yesterday that the word meet us the first word the second word of the chapter 14. on page 38 is an unusual word to use what is the balatonya have to say meet us if the word Midas wasn't there it would be self-understood and number two the word if he does want to if he if he does feel he needs to choose a word to express attribute it's not Midas it's it's it's that Midas literally literally comes from the word Meda to measure right amida is a measurement what do you mean the media of the banana knee the measurement of the vanity so the rep explained once that the altareba doesn't use the conventional conventional word which would have been madregas madrega right that's a word that we use throughout Ghazal and other writings the madrag of a person what Madre are you at that's the expression right the only what Madre are you at so it should have said here the level of the benign what or today they'll say levels levels Next Level right Next Level so the Hebrew word is madrega like madriguez means the steps you know going up on a ladder the Madre got right anyway it doesn't say madregas you know why because madriguez would imply a level that is beyond the average person and that is not within every person's capability so that's why today omitted the word sorry didn't he substituted for the word madrega where the word Mida Mida means measurement there is an idea that's called the uh avram could you mute yourself please means the measurement that's applicable to every person every person has a measurement six feet you're five feet in other words measurement is more closely associated to the average person versus represents in English you say a level you have to be on a level and what if I'm not on a level I'm a simple fellow so that means it doesn't apply to me so the outlet doesn't use the word madrega he uses the word Mida measurement every person has a measurement is saying that every person in their own way through their own measurement can be a pain in me and that's a very important lesson for us as we continue learning the Tanya that don't think that because obeying these someone who refines themselves in thought speech and action and I haven't done so I can't be a begonee without that ever saying wrong you can maybe you're not a full day being a knee not a half day pain in the knee not a dominant pain in thee but you can be abating even for just one moment or one minute if there's a there's an urge that you want to do and you control and you get that out of your system to as far as the practicality of that urge not that the urge is still not inside but you control your thought something comes to mind you want to think about that's not good whether it's you know gossip or other unhealthy thoughts and you push it away for that few seconds you are obeying me yes I don't know if this is it just deferred to me when you were just speaking about this this yeah um is it also another possibility that that the River or the rep is that we're learning now that you know it's all the revenues it's all the Rev is Terror but but the alpha Rebel was specifically didn't want people if people got it in their head that they were at Sonic The Giver aspect would be off the chart like when someone could consider themselves with the nice hats and the best man and all of a sudden all the power and all this would get to their head and and it's trying to to to basically temper our Giver aspirations so instead of saying oh we can be like this the betony is is it's basically being Avenged we all should be a match we all should be a good person we should not do the right things but it shouldn't go to our head so for that if we're supposed to be a pain in it it's not gonna be going to our head I I hear you um I think that that's a result of what we're just what he's discussing but but you know to be a mensch and to not have Guyver pierbus is adequate you don't need Tanya if you're if you're if you're a real truth-seeking God-fearing person and you learn and you take picture of it's the heart you won't have Guyver so I would say that you don't need Tanya the altareb is talking about something much deeper you need which of course will lead to a a a deflation of ego but he's talking about looking at the inner trappings of the mind and the Heart which is much you know not it's much deeper as far as studying the consciousness of of the individual and who is the individual and how is the individual and that's Tanya so yes if if you live the way that the rebel suggests we live in the Tanya you'll have less kaiva and you won't be as a horny and and therefore it's it's correct that that the the balotanya through his in a sense um you know impacted the the Torah world to deflate the ego and and that was a big Revolution and for that matter that was one of the reasons that they opposed khasidis because initially the hasidim of of the of the market some of the some of the some groups of the hasidim ridiculed the the intellect and they for example would go into a grocery store and ask do you have a pound of nails to sell and and they and and the store owner would say do you not see that this is a grocery store this isn't a hardware store and they did that to make fun of themselves and of the general intellect in other realm in other words intellectually everything has its place and everything has to make sense and that was the way the Miss what they were called at the time that was not them ran their life in a very you know autocratic um systematic intellectual way and some of them wanted to break that and they and they wanted to show that the belshamps teaches that the soul the shama is the Ikea and not the mohach and not the mind so the way they did it they did it in a very very um hutzpah way where they kind of you know laugh that intellect which caused the Great Schism and a great fight between the the baltania and others came along and said to this hasidim you're not going about it the right way ridiculing and making fun of others to make up make your point is not the way to go about it in other words the overall objective is correct but the way you're going about it is outrageous and I've I've said this before this happened in the year 1770. and 1770 in the Hebrew is can be also read as you can also reverse the letters as tough lame instead of takao talk also is a Yiddish word which means it isn't this isn't an objective so the hasidim would say the out there see them and the other most others because see the tough cook lament is neat can't talk the hasidim of 1770 it's not the objective the approach is wrong so why do I say this because then taught how and what I eat is through his Target and automatically the the emphasis on my on the mind being the superior Superior and being and being the essence of an individual about that emphasis wrong the essence is the soul and the mind is a is a very important instrument did was and and that's why this woman that's why the misnagdim opposed specifically doubted that but more than others and at the same time when they came to understand after you test Kiss Live and and subsequent years a lot of the literature felt closest to Chabad and not the Carlene stolen and not the gear and not why because the lit um approach to Taylor meshes very well with the khabar approach which is using the brain so the lit Fox used the brain for the Gamora Chabad uses the brain in addition for the demoral for cities for God right so they felt an affinity but initially initially unless initially they they they they they didn't know what khabar is they didn't know what the altarap is Tanya is all about it was a Kiddush it was a novelty and you know that it was a novelty because even the other Hasidic groups many of them opposed the out the river forget about them it's not them they're considered what did they say what's this idea of studying intricacies of God level spheroes worlds come on you know people aren't able to handle these things and it's very capitalistic and we don't study Kabbalah said that you take a look at my safer and you'll see it's not Kabbalah it it uses some capitalistic words and ideas but it's not kabolo but my point being so the outdated also looked to deflate ego but not using these wild methods that that some early hasidim used but I'm saying this to you in and elaborating because it's not just oh we learned Tanya we know how to be a better Mensch that you don't need Tanya to be at a better mens you gotta you got to really under you have to really learn the text and study the text that he's and you are doing that that he's dealing with something very different for to be a better mentor and pick the others you don't need Tanya Tanya is made to understand what a mensch is not just oh you give someone a ride and you visit someone in the hospital you help them carry their thing you don't take the karma all those things are tell you don't pick the others now tarap is looking much deeper what's going on where is the hard at why is the heart there what is going on at the metaphysical level okay let's continue now page cuff second line look at the line I prom you have it right and the and the Ghazal say regarding your world meaning God's world you will see an experience while you're alive I've run to experience God's world meaning to say a a sophisticated level of pure godliness this is very special and this is relegated only for sadiki look without the represents further and here I want you to remember hevra is the source for a very important difference between the balutanas shita and everyone else's does not believe that every soul can be exotic the average given soul is not exotic soul and and and the average soul is potential being you ask anyone on the street or anyone in the shoe or anyone in the basement matters they'll say any anyone could be exotic about Tanya has a different opinion because the worlds Sadiq is that the Rebus potential pain in me but the Sabbath of the alter Reba is someone totally different where he has this such a burning love for God which is similar to Ola Maba and now look what he says the third line here is here are his Paramount words the ink color of them not every person merits to have this experience of experiencing Godzilla ain't people's car this is like receiving reward for doing Mitzvahs it's a gift as it says for your activity of the Kahuna priesthood of serving God as a coin I will give you the Kahuna I'm sorry I believe this is maternal for serving God you get to go on the meaning the priesthood was given specifically to kohana not to the VM and not the Israeli so to yoini Dr Rebel says that this level of Sadiq is not given to everyone the word is very important universe and most people don't have that schools what we learn to Tanya is you don't need that schools because you should strive to be abandoning worry about being let young Sarah mention more than a mansion refining your urges and all that Etc now he goes back to a question that he asked in chapter one said deacon God you created what was the balutania's question on page one of Tanya well Karma the Gomorrah says that before a soul uh for a baby is born it's announced in heaven 40 days before you will be this you will be that you you'll do this you'll do that and there's one thing the the gemara says that it's it is not announced Sadiq the Russia like Homer whether you'll be righteous a matter in matters of God relationship with Hashem or not Sadiq whether you'll be righteous or Russia you'll be Wicked lay Karma it's not pronounced why because everyone has free will so then the altarapus question is how could EF have said but and you created Sadiq and by the way some people think well why not it's talking about the general category no if you look in the Sook him over there it's talking about to the individual not just the general category of Eve is saying you've made me a Sadiq how can you say you've made me a Sadiq no you didn't create me as a topic I can make myself into a Savage possibly by working myself but I wasn't created that way so doubt that ever answers the question now but therefore Eve made the statement and correctly so that you've created Sadiq and as explained in the result yes amongst the Jewish Souls at different types of levels I see them there's one level called who overpowered their inclination to do bad then there is Murray Taylor masters of the Toyota and the VM Pro and then there's fourth the fourth level is Naveen Prophets am so what do we see from this we see that according to the alternator it makes sense yes you created but that's not talking about the average person because the balutania's belief is that God creates the Sadiq of a soul and gives it to select individuals that's true but the average person was having Oklahoma that refers to the average person you understand so the average person has is is is is potential Bailey and doesn't have the soul of itsadiq so if someone says to you um he will but you're at Sadiq so if he means it in a figure of speech that's fine if he means that literally according to the balatonya unless you have the soul of exotic the person doesn't know what they're talking about and most of us don't have the solo exotic we're not sadikin we're potential pain in them that's the balotanya in these three four five lines this is his cheetah it doesn't mean the other sheeters are wrong this is so here is the saying in Yiddish that's worth knowing at Sadiq is for the word born not with a base but it was a verb two verbs foreign if you you have such a soul at a certain point in in with the right conditions Etc your static soul will come to the to the to the foreign and and and it'll be revealed by the way this means also that even if you have exotic soul but for some reason it wasn't revealed you won't be exotic 120 years of your life there has to be the right conditions for it to come about so that's how the altarebe answers that question now he goes let's continue to the next statement in the first page of Tanya this is another question that we had is that the gemara says to hit Sadiq we tell the soul debate before the the soul goes into a an infant to a baby and for the person is born be righteous this is wondrous this is a difficult once we say to the soul take a note that you'll be righteous Allah why do you have to give him another oath you shouldn't be Wicked it's redundant and the answer is based on what I just said out that episode since not every person married to be exotic and a person doesn't have true will regarding this he says so much doesn't have so much control we'll see later what he means to have true pleasure in God so please and that the opposite Abram that a person should have a this great Thai Noob pleasure for God the Amis not everyone marries to that and if simultaneously to have Mo to despise evil most Mama Ms with truth but and since most people don't have them they must be in Shameless so therefore because I'll say take a second oath one at least don't be Wicked I know you're not at Sonic to eat Sadiq most people are not Sadiq but the second part of the oath for after he Russia that's something that is that is possible for you so please do that it's this second oath don't be Wicked that one does have free will and permission was given to every person she believes to control his or her doing good vain toy validator first potato the high no Palm potatoes connected coulomb a person if he wants to learn every moment Torah he can he has the free will Alpha became nevertheless [Music] although I've told you that not everyone married to have the soul of a Sadiq a person should set times menopause to find advice for your soul to despise bed and he quotes like the advice given to by our rabbis Isha Hamas Malaya thinking about women and lusting for women says you're lusting for a a full cup of feces now of course the women the women some women you know go crazy with this the good mother calls women feces but they don't know they fail to understand or want to understand that the gamot is talking to the man the commander is not talking to the woman the Kumar is saying you man who lust women your lusting feces why are you lusting feces because the the if a woman to you is part of your lust it's a piece of feces but if you have you know want a woman for the sake of marriage and and and and and and and having children that's desirable and very much supported by Toyota says here if a person has a desire for such things they unfortunately they're at that level so then you have to really you have to really use some idea which which means it's it's it's it's it's disgusting and it's just like food the Kabbalah says about food of indulgence it's all food comes from the waste the feces of the Angels imagine you're eating a delicious steak and what you're eating is feces or the big buildings with the you know and the great grander and and all of the tivus indulgences for material matter it's a bunch of feces so that's all said to the indulgent to the Lester to the person who has the lust it's not it wasn't made to say that a woman is feces of course not one was created by God a woman is even more holy than a man but that's the woman as a woman not the woman as the woman the sexuality the sexual object yeah if it's a sexuality you it's feces because your feces your whole mind is feces so that's what the khazal are saying and the alterable uses this foreign you have to set times to think about this because if the baby is struggling in this area and they just want to indulge in this area that take some time to realize what you're doing and what you're indulging and who you are like I told you the story the other day I don't know about Grant The Zeta says I don't know about pretty girls but I know you and I know you you lust for pretty girls you understand it's a whole it's it's all about the in this case the man the the person who is seeking it's not about the woman it's not about the food food is is neutral and women are neutral depends how you apply let's go further he says okay hi governor hi governor and so with other matters well stop here and tomorrow continue what the other matters are and we'll finish him with Hashem the chapter okay have a great day everyone so I just don't take care bye bye bye