One's Mitzva helps all Jews - Deeper meaning of Lshem yichud - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

on page we're on page the bottom of page nun we're middle of learning this idea that that a person in order to to to be Anem needs to have some form of Y and and that and although so so one one idea was that Y and avod two separate things and the AL says that that when you have at least in your thought you have some feeling some some understanding some acceptance intellectually of which leads to fear and all for God yes MAA forgive me I I I think yesterday I think we finished off still we're on page 112 no no completely you you must have fell asleep what's you were bottom of nun Z 100% the bot of nun nun is the opposite page to 112 uh uh okay never mind you you missed you missed the day you missed the day I came in late yesterday okay yeah yeah yeah so we're we're in we're actually like the last line on page nun Z anyway to to to continue the thought so a person must have the the basic to to be an and so the second approach that the AL says towards the bottom of is that since B I want you to see the since at this very moment he has fear for God at least as much fear as he fears a human being and the AL speaks about that and brings the K therefore that's credited to him as an adequate amount of fear and Al says this is called This is called you know we hear when we learn do you have sometimes it's called but are you afraid of the sin alter says this idea is the basic rudimentary amount of yida that is required of a Jew to be then so once he mentions this he explains that there are two levels of Y one's called Y and one's called and he says is the feeling of embarrassment I told you yesterday this is not guilt but rather you know you know you could be much better and when you're not better you're inside you feel embarrassed like it's like come on I I know the way should be we discussed that yesterday so now the last four words onun then we're going to go on to page 114 there is this type of and there is this type of referring to the two levels of next page 114 without any sort of of fear your soul does not soar on high with just the notion of love and Al brings the Marshall that he brought in 39 and 40 chapters 3940 just like a bird a bird cannot fly with One Wing it's like driving with one engine or with one one brake it's dangerous and in this case it doesn't you can't fly a fear and love they are the two Wings it says so therefore someone will say look this idea of fearing God and all that that's not my cup of tea but love AA you know that is my cup of tea so the AL says sorry chap with One Wing you don't you don't fly up your soul doesn't enter it can't fly it can't soar what do you mean can't fly the the ter mites that we learn and do down here below needs to soar on high to the right place to your Source in heaven which triggers the Heavenly response to give you blessing now if you if if your a can't fly can't sore on high you're not getting in so you're you're on your own and nothing you God wants to have mercy on you you'll have mercy but the ordinary ordinary procedure is for a person to have their let's continue after the brackets says guess what not only if you only have love you you won't SAR on high but even if you only have ye you have only fear sorry it's only one Wing there what can't fly s on high is like changing his tune in a way he says although it's called you get the credit for being a servant but you also need to have the love for it to sore so we have two different things here it's very interesting to be called a servant of G is adequate but for your Torah mitzah to sore on high and to get to the right place for that you need to have two wings Wings you also have to be a child a son a daughter you have to be a you have to be a son which is the idea of love the love between the natural between a parent and a child to arouse the natural instinctual love that you have in your heart that should be revealed thator that should be at least revealed in your mindar he employs the same language lar to remember remember in the beginning of chapter 41 it says you have to constantly remember here too he mentions the word l l to remember you should remind yourself of your love for in your thought will so here finishes this thought and that is that just like Y without AA is not adequate and the bird can't fly so too without AA yes yes yes what we say right and so the way that I I I was taught was that you know the the master asked the servant to bring me something to drink and he brings him something to drink he asks his son to bring him something to drink and he goes down to the wine cell to find the father's most favorite wine and then he brings it up what's the difference between the two is one is acting as an evid he's just doing what he was told to do and the son out of the love of his father knows what he really wants and then he goes the extra step right right and and and again that's true but but what Dr is saying that that if that's the only way your your ter mitz will not s on high you need to have y too there needs to be in other words this is the idea that the if it's not justu I don't want to go into it but the re rashab has a very important Continuum of of discourses of the Year 1906 where he he goes into this concept at Great elaboration like Pages upon Pages a son who's a servant a servant who's a son a loyal servant a simple servant maybe one day we should learn it it's a very interest interesting and and important Treatise that the rashab composed in in 1906 and he tackles these these ideas but but in t i mean the origin is here in Tanya but U elaborately it's there let's continue we're now about seven lines from the top beginning of the line this should be the purp person's intent when when he studies and he does to attach his soul his Godly soul and and his vivifying soul and its garments as we mentioned earlier throughout that each soul I the and has a set of faculties all should be directed with the kavana to to soar on high both through year and AA okay this is all personal now says guess what we have a responsibility as personal Servants of God to also Elevate the world and this is maybe also a source for the kabad motto of not just doing things insular for yourself but for everyone else and think about everyone else look at this piece of Tanya remember everything has to be backtracked to the to to the book to the the the original philosophy book she the book of ofus so if if kabad over you the last 100 years has or 80 years has been reaching out where can we're in kind of is a source for that maybe it's right here however a person should never exclude himself from the community okay you're part of a community you live in a community you should live in a community and you should be part of the therefore the individual should have in mind to unite and cleave to God the source of his soul and the source of All Souls and just for a moment we here on let's say are you know five six right we're individuals but if you look at our source in our source in our mocker we're one when you're born you come into the world you come as an individual but when you come in your mucker there is a there is a part of the source that's your Source individual custom tailored to you but then there is the the mucker of all muckers the Jewish people that's what I told you in the beginning of the year that even the person who is Lefty and all that is triggered by the war because in source and mocker we're all one people so the AL say an amazing thing that we when we have he said before you have to have kav of when you do a Mitzvah says not just that but thatav is also helpful and necessary to unite all of is so what you're doing is you're uniting everyone so that's why I say maybe this is a source for the whole idea of Outreach it's not enough to say I'm just thinking about myself in my little corner or my little Sho no a ye has a responsibility to bind themselves to all Jews wherever possible in every situation and yes it is your concern living in B me and Bor Park and everyone wherever they are to think about the Jew in timbuk too and we saw this by theb of course you know if he wasn't able to go himself or he didn't go himself he sent theim he sent people he sent businessmen the stories are you know right my father-in-law was was on a on a business trip he stopped off in Greece he gave them Kaneka candles he he you know what I'm saying that idea the idea is that you're not just a private citizen this is a in the kabad ethos based on this chapter of of chapter 41 of this section that since we are all one Jewish people moam is we have an obligation to all others and we need to know that when we have guess what we're helping the soldiers on the field and it's not just a a fantasy it's a reality because we are mocker We Are All One in Shish and so so that's why those that are sitting and learning yes right is it their job now to go and by them learning by them learning if that's their obligation now they are just helping the soldiers it's like they're on the front too through their way so it's a two-way streak the soldiers help them and they help the soldiers problem is when it becomes you're using that as an excuse that's what we have the disagreement of you know should Yeshiva B be enlisted or not and I don't want to talk about that I'm not I'm not knowledgeable in that you know I'm not opinion maker but I'm just saying the idea spiritually is is a very important idea let's continue we're on page 114 smack in middle of the page this idea that the spirit the the Spirit come of the mouth is called we have a word the divine presence why is it because it rests and it dwells and vests itself within all of the worlds to to to vivify them and to sustain them the he he remember I always emphasize the he he here again we have another he he he he and this it it that brings the the influence of power of speech that comes from your words of the persons a person's action and this Unity CA through our learning and our it's drawing down God through below through learning has invested in the and look what he says so we the the Jew the I should have a mind to draw down God godliness God Hashem on the source of your own soul and then he adds the words so so so when we say it's not for me doing theah now that's that's say means that you through your mitvah now should draw down the all of is for everyone through your act so therefore and and and and Al says he was referring I think to chapter 42 that over there there will explain the the meaning of this and this is the meaning when we say for the for the name of unity of God in his divine presence what do it it could have said I'm doing the Mitzvah to unite hasem with with with myah my learning it doesn't it doesn't just say that it says the three words at the end the name of all of Israel says the AL that that's that that's that's the reason why it says call is because when you do a mitvah and when you learn the sh you're uniting hem not only for yourself personally but for all of all of Israel all of Israel all Jews skipping the the and although for this to this is true the person's heart truly wants to bring this but you must have a pure intent not a selfish motive in other wordsa like this you know why I'm doing this Mitzvah because I want the soldiers to be safe it's very very nice but it's not pure that's selfish pure means for the sake of the Mitzvah Hashem will take your Mitzvah and he will do what he needs to do with the mitzvah so we throw around this idea give Saka for the soldiers do this listen it's better than not giving s but here we're really taking it apart we're saying should not be for any motive just for one one motive God's to create Unity with God God should be in the world that's it if we create this Unity that the abish is in the world of course the abish will help the soldiers and of course it'll help us if you bring a light into your home it illuminates the home do you have to tell the light he light when you come into my home I want you to light up this room and that room that room don't tell the light anything it'll do its job it knows what it needs to do if you start telling the light what to do you're detracting from the you're interfering in the and it causes a blockage and that's what happens at times we wonder why didn't the BR take effect whether it's a from from a from whatever a why the answer is it could be that you caused a blockage because of your selfishness I'm not selfish selfishness has many layers and if you and if you if you interfere with the on any level telling the in the sense go here and don't go here that's a blockage all of this is alluded to it's very very here with the AL says look you need to create a an abundant love to God alone it's without any without any calculations that you want to do one thing God I want to make a pleasantry for you you says I want to have I want to have pleasantry so I'm making it through the through continuing and you shouldn't have the thought I want to quench my thirsty Soul that's thirsty Ella rather what should you have like a son who as as is said earlier who is M who attempts to do what his father wants he goes after his father he loves him more than his own self and his own soul we said earlier in chapter 10 I believe understands the psychology of a human and he says this is a very lofty thought and we're not really there says I know at least nevertheless even if you're not there yet train yourself practice the kav practice makes perfect yes so we're seeing right now and we see this all the time but we're seeing especially right front left and Center people wanted to do mitzvah for the sake of protection of am Israel soldiers C so you're saying that really it should really be be phrased a little differently we're doing the mitzvah for the sake of the Mitzvah yes the byproduct of that hopefully hopefully one of the byproducts of that will be yes yes yes yes but but but very good you said it very well but the fact is that many people don't think this way and and even in even it's not Mo just want to it's not just to say it this way you the way you expressed it is to say it's not it's it's it's not just about what you say it's about the what you feel inside and understands that this is a a big task it's not easy it it it's not easy you know and so so says that's why he says here accustom yourself train yourself and and and and that would incorporate even in speech the way you said it and then the way you think about it train yourself that the Mitzvah is genuine on its own it it doesn't need any helpers and directors you know it train yourself look what he says are you with us a are you with following okay good if not please speak up yes I am yes I am good good if you're not please speak up so I want you to follow every person should train thems with this purpose and intent even though believe in your heart of hearts it's not 100% truth of all truth let's let's let's face it we do a Mitzvah we have a little p okay I want my kids to do well I want my my my my kids to be protected I want my to find him I want to be blessed right understands that understands the shortcomings of of the average person but and therefore he says nevertheless that he should you're not at a point where you should want to do this just with your entire heart just for the sake of doing it you see this a little bit a little bit Dr says you should know that your heart a little bit it really means it and it's so true it's it's so true in human nature and human psychology it's you know when you learn you learn you Lear I've told you over and over s didn't come to you know to deal with muser type of things you behave well be clean you know it didn't come to also like be a be smart but yet when you learn this you become smart and you stop thinking like childish the famous story of the the of who came to theed anded said to him um ptits when he was six years old you know he he he told him be before you eat put your hand on your forehead and he said to him don't be childish he was a child he didn't say don't be a child he was 6 years old don't be childish change your mindset and when and before you eat go like this and think for a moment who am I eating before and that even a six-year-old can be be trained to do and ultimately understand that that's the whole idea of kav of before you eat Etc why am I saying this DB says here a little bit in your heart is EMS so to say that I entirely am at this level for the average person it's not that way but but to say that it's completely baloney it's also not that way and you know why it's a little bit truthful because we have a natural instinctual love that's within every Jewish heart whatever is to do God's Will and this Unity of that we spoke about before that's the true will of every single Jew other words this Inus this Unity that happens in Inus is is created because of the arousal of our Godly Soul below incorporating ourselves uniting ourselves with the infinite God through as we said before this is a true Unity we'll stop over here and we'll continue with Monday so what we walk away with in this year is the importance of the importance of understanding that shame this is the bottom line whether you're theab custom you say at one time or others that say sh before either each Mitzvah sh didn't change so though I'm sure they say before it's not a different about this particular and we say before once a day that goes for the whole day but the sh same so what's the sh what is so we learned in today she is to to not just unite god with through our ter our Mitzvah that we're doing now for ourselves but for cl that's why it says you weren't here but like what do you have to say in the name of all of is I'm doing a Mitzvah now I'm putting on that's what we learned in today's she because since source and mo all Jews are one my Mitzvah of putting oning isn't just a personal Mitzvah it's for and and you should know that this thought will bring people closer to Mitzvah when a person realizes that what they do doesn't just impact themselves but it impacts a lot of people will get excited about it yes M brother dolphin what you just said is very appr propo CU as we're talking I just got a what's up I have a friend who's flying to a so right now yes he just wrote me right now he's in the lounge in the airport in Istanbul he's the only Jew around and he wants to put on filling right now and he's he's a little bit nervous so I wrote him put it on don't be afraid but I'm going to write him now some more yeah wrote me just now yeah I I I I am I'm I shocked but I thought they said that you know now you shouldn't really go through isul but okay listen they he'll be protected and and from it says that the enemy will run away and that's why the rebi after The Six Day War put sent the kadik out to the front to put on fillan the enemy should see the the they see you know it doesn't mean he has to go in you know in middle of I've been to this tul airport I know you're surrounded by Muslims from all sides will help benim tell him that we're doing for him anyway have a great chabas and uh easy fast and so we'll Rejoice together on Monday zun have a great day bye-bye take care take care take care o