Ponovitz student who saw clear prophecy of the Rebbe - Igeres HaKodesh 22b- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're learning GES the fourth section of Tanya sacred letters we're on page 268 the AL in this in this letter warns us teaches us scolds us not to ask him for advice in material matters and he brings proof from kazal from T from various places that that Avenue is reserved for n a Nai but for that's not their cup of tea I didn't mention yesterday but said about this letter they said like what was the point of the letter if still continued to ask their rebers for AIS and gas so what did the balat accomplish with this letter so say he accomplished to to to teach us what a Nai is all about and I want to add to that that he he re he really he subconsciously was saying that he is a or a re is a because if go to a re to ask for obviously they consider him to be a Novi that's but you know that's not what it says here but but the point being that this letter was very much um what he what he felt was was the right Torah attitude I mentioned yesterday I don't know if you had a chance to hear it iser but there is another part of this letter that precedes that they that the children the alter's sons who suggest who putes together with the first three parts of T when it printed when it printed not originally but later on after his passing in 1813 I believe over there it says that the alus starts by saying I just don't have the time to see you all in and you're asking me questions about material matter kind of you're wasting my time that's not what I'm here for and uh I I can't do it anymore and and I told you yesterday that he even writes there that if you'll continue doing this I will leave the country and to that he the rest of the letter that we have printed here is the rest of that letter and what we understand for that is that the AL teaches us Moshe that a sadik it's not just a good Rabbi not not not just a good speaker a good advisor a nice guy a reab is like I I wrote in one of my captions for my YouTube videos of the sheer he's a soul geologist so you go to him for in you go to him for soul matters not Material matters go to a doctor for health go to a lawyer for legal matters go to mark for sports uh Sports uh issues if you get hurt like me uh in the past you know and consulted with Mark my dear friend who gave me good great advice and thank God I'm pretty much back to this to myself and and to go to hillo to be a th for therapy what what are he coming to the alter for therapy questions or you know come on prayer is different if you want the ABA you want the the rebi to pray for to God on your behalf that you know God I need I need parosa you need s a better livelihood pray to God that God bestow it upon me and you feel that the the Reb's prayers are more authentic and more pure no problem but that's prayer that's prayer that's not seeking advice should I live in for Lord or should I live in tamper should I be in this business or in that business should I buy this stock or that stock that's not what you come to a Reby for that's what he says in here so far and and what he started to teach us yesterday continue today is that he says to his people I feel although you're all good people and you're all holy people and you're on the right page and you want to do things for What's called the sh sh for the sake of heaven but you're also utiliz in the physical material for that in a way that that becomes primary to you you hear that and I emphasize that because the whole concept of the bism versus prism was not to Scorn the material body and the material world but to in inculcate it in the service of God and the verse that is always quoted it is when you will see the your your enemy's donkey on the road and it's straggling help it help it with its load that's a verse in the Torah and the interpretation of the B I believe is or or one of the Reb if you see your you hear H the word which literally means donkey but you can reverse the letters instead of me which spells out Homer material physical Caporal if you see your body as a scornful thing as a hateful thing as a way to drag you down and to make you sin and make you coarse and Corporal and ugly and disgusting and vulgar you have the wrong attitude rather somehow make it be your assistant make the physical flesh and the bodily needs serve God they should be incorporated in the service of God and don't look at it as a scor a scornful thing and this was a teaching that the bmov taught and this was in a sense his fun mental view of life versus preus so if your daughter will ask you what didis come to accomplish what was before kism and what was after it's this issue that we're discussing now so you'll mark down after this year this class you'll put it down somewhere so when your daughter will ask you that question one day or your grandchildren God willing you'll have the answer for them on this and this this day we learned with Rabbi dolphin this and this is the answer and it's a and and and I'm saying that seriously it's a very very fundamental nuda point and and and explains the whole idea of kabad houses and everything else that you see out there it's it's based on this idea that that the B because the body wants to indulge we want to eat a lot we want to sleep a lot we want to have relations a lot all of those bodily needs so you could one attitude is just to say it's disgusting it's not Jewish it's not holy it's not God and be absent absent and and and and you know and live like a monk and separate yourself from the world and live in a corner and don't look you know the other attitude is no we'll be in the world but we won't let the world change us we will change the world so theab goes to timbu without a community like B or even Fort Lauderdale or Brooklyn around them I'm here no Mikvah no minion no Yeshiva no Kosher food how you How do you what how you going to survive will make it happen and it was proven over and over and over today it's not as observable because you know you can go on almost any supermarket in the United States you can get kosher products even if they don't have a kosher section right right Tams manev Tams probably is a staple in in in most supermarkets across the United States in Wyoming in North Dakota whatever in New Mexico even if there isn't a vibrant Jewish Community because the kosher industry has infiltrated the food market in a very very palpable real way but it used to be when the when the Reba in the late 50s and 60s came out with his call to to leave the the the Hub and to go out and he spoke clearly you won't have your orange juice you w have your kosher milk so what there are Jews that need help assimilation is rampant a fire is burning who's going to talk to them about marrying a Jew who's going to talk to them about being Jewish that's the same idea of the B of 200 years ago it's the exact same idea just different people different a different um lay of the land you know but but the concept is the same one and I'm saying all this because the AL here in in this section we're about to begin learning today addresses this issue and he says although that's true but if you give Credence to the material over the spiritual you're missing the bolt yes you should use the material but don't get fished don't get mixed up and guess what guys it happens all too often that we're genuine when we approach the gmas but as we start using the material hey this tastes good this feels good this sounds good and the next thing you know it you are caught in the spider web of materialism to the point where when you don't have it you go nuts you can't live oh I don't have running water I don't have a bathroom how did they live hundreds of years ago human beings were living in in the deserts and they lived somehow had did our great grandparents grandparents and Friends survivors in the Holocaust time my my mother a blessed memory would share with me how they lived in one little room in in Poland pre-war surely during the war no one had luxuries and you were so much happier people were so much more together families were together my food is your food my pain is your pain all of this is a derivative of making spirituality which we call in is supersede at it's it's over physicality materialism gsh and that's what he's going to talk about now and he's going to talk about the issue that we've discussed already once or twice in Tanya you know do you really believe that everything that happens to you and to the world is from God and that it's all good he's going to tackle that issue now so let's go to page 268 um this is about 10 12 lines is again chapter 22 the the the big paragraph begins with four or five lines later there's a period from God's perspective the concept of a face the face of God P the continents who this is the the will and the desire that God our Father in Heaven he he gives effluence to his kids his children all the best and and he gives them the the life of Soul their soul life the Goof and their bodily life be with great love and will Desir he really gives it with great love all through the living Torah which is God's will which he gives us it says we say this in prayer in In with the The Shining the illumination of your face of God's continence you give us a living Torah to do God's Will and therefore it says with the light with the shine of the face of the king the living King but his will so God Hashem gives to the Jewish people an opportunity to connect to Pim to the face conversely conversely to those that worship idols non-jewish people worship idols he gives them life as well because everything comes from God but not willingly and desirably that's why Idols are called in the Torah other gods El because they nourish they get is their sustenance and vitality from What's called the level the of the back the back side the is the back side of a person the cus H they too get energy from God because without God you can't exist but in what way it's like when you have to pay your employee that you don't like you you don't hand it to him face to face like I'm looking at you and you're looking at me you turn around your at your back and you throw it here here here doggy here's your check here's your bone go that's also giving but it's giving through the backside in other words I don't care for you I don't like you I need you cuz I can't slep the bo boxes myself but really I don't like you I don't even want to look at you when I have to pay you so the check is in the mail the check is in at the doorstep you know but if you like someone you're eager to go to them and say here here's your payment thank you so much for what you did I really appreciate it in other words more than the actual payment is the way you pay and for our good doctor over here more than the actual um healing is the attitude of the doctor to the patient the smile I'm here for you I really want to help you talk to me you know of course I'm going to give you a diagnosis and give you a um uh a course of of of treatment and medicine and all that but what's even more important is the attitude so the AL says the attitude that hasem has towards Jews is a Pim attitude a countenance attitude the attitude hasem has to those that those those non-jews that worship idols not all non-jews but those that are idolators is I don't like you guys you guys are antithetical to what God to what I'm I'm about so but I do have to give you I do choose to give you life because I want you to be in the world for whatever reason free will or whatever so I give you so too as this true in the cosmic realm of things spir of spiritual energy it is this way also by Man by by a man the the the the expression of face to face that is p and if he doesn't receive it with love and willingly it's like you turn your back on God here here God take my backside and I don't have to use the vernacular everyone can figure it out themselves okay right so the question is the question is okay it's very easy to say this I should accept everything from God is is has a bad cold accepted with love accept it with Will God's will it's the right thing right my hand's hurting me it's hard why why you making my hand hurt I just had this hamstring thing got out of it had cellul got out of it boom now my hand hurts me it's like why so the question is how do you accept what happens to you in your life with love with acceptance and acceptance mha facial acceptance not begrudgingly I have no choice I have to accept otherwise they lock me up in the penitentiary you know what I'm saying no I want you God I love you God I love you with everything that you do for me including giving me the pain how do you accept that let's see what he says it's the advice given by hasem in the explanation of the Sages famous quote that sometimes we have a hard time listening to and accepting to check out your actions I'm going to tell you a story afterwards but now I going to read inside check yourself out and you will find those thing that need cleansing of punishment nature of pain nature and you'll see the great love to God which is sorry and your selflove I take that back your self-love covers up the right path for example a great and mighty king who washes his he washes so he washes the feces theuts of his child his only child because he really loves him I I must tell you this reminds me of my my father my wife's father he was a Russian came to Australia when he came to our house I remember when my children were growing up in Marin County in the 80s he had such enjoying such enjoyment changing the diapers of my little kids you know I didn't want to have anything to do with it and he Mish and he called them nappies they call them in Australia they're not called diapers they call them nappies he said should I change the nappies I I remember like now like I said father to myself I said are you out of your mind you have pleasure changing my kids now happes that's what the Alaba says here look inside a king who enjoys dealing with the filth with the feces with the schutz of his son cuz he loves him so much you love the child you love the child feces too do understand what's going on here you can't separate there's the child the clean little baby and then there's the Schmutz when the when the child makes in its diapers if you don't love the child's Diapers at that age when the child has diapers you don't love the child and I and I saw this I'm telling you I saw this this isn't so when I learned this piece over here I I had a living example and I'm not I'm not there I'm not there but I had what to look up I have what to look up to to get there so the AL tells us that when the say check out your what you your Deeds what you did right what you did wrong and therefore you're getting the punishment for doing things that are wrong you violated and all that you have to not just check it out you have to accept it and love it and understand that this is the therapy and the method for reconciliation and more so transformation and everything else and when you'll do that you'll have the face of God he brings the verse will wash the feces theuts of the daughters of Zion of the Jews Etc we're going on to the top of the next page with the spirit of judgment judgment and when you show this attitude of acceptance and love of God he says him upon him like the a face is reflected on water right when you when when there's water you put your show your face it reflects back to you when we realize how much God loves us including when he gives us the punishment for right that will reflect to open up our heart to love him in the heart of every person who understands H's precious love to all of us below which it's very precious and good more than all the worlds he brings different verses because benevolence kindness is is the expression of Love which suain which gives the life to all worlds right from the god sustains us with life God gives us life it's Aid it's a kindness gives us good and and and the continence is illuminated in a revealed way this love that was initially covered concealed invested in the Garment it was dis disguised in words of scolding but that causes that the severity the gur are are sweetened by knowing the source of it right again is there prescribes a pill and you take the pill it burns it's disgusting but the end is that that pill helps the person right why because the source of the pill is coming from the if if the doctor and Medicine feels this is so it takes the form of being bitter but when you look at its source it's really good so that sweetens the pill it doesn't physically sweeten the pill that the pill tastes bitter in your mouth but the purpose of the pill is positive that's the concept of how do you tweten negativity judgment by looking at sh The Source ultimately that will an the Judgment the harsh the harsh approach forever now earlier earlier we so all of this is predicated on the so I'll conclude today's class with the the story that I heard on on on a clip the other day last week which is phenomenal briefly maybe you saw it but um a student in the laka pich which is right in Israel um he was a student from SP you know background and and and the Yeshiva is all ashas bottom line is they in the 80s there was a rough going between between kabad and and and the lit Fox of NE and they would say not nice things okay about kab about the re whatever and he was raised to look at everyone good he was a spartic boy but but he didn't say anything he didn't want to say anything cuz he was outnumbered he one out of a thousand anyway a few years later he decided to come to America he goes to the airport they say they're not letting him in because when they asked him at the Customs or whatever you know they the checkpoint and they before you go in where you going what are you doing he didn't know any English you only knew Hebrew he said I'm just going to America they said where are you going in America I don't know who you going to I don't know they said you ain't going and they had him in a room they interrogated him and they said we're putting you on a bus you can go back home Shalom bye a little while later someone comes in and says we decided to let you go oh one second he no he got on the plane he was let him he was on the plane and then they called him off and they asked him these questions and he couldn't answer them and they said you're not going and then they came back and they said now you could go while he was sitting on the plane he asked himself he said to himself why you is it that why does God make me what has happen and he said he quoted this thing he says I was taught to check my ACT when something seemingly bad happens to me it's because of my sins my issues so he started to think what did I do in my life that was wrong it was a straight shooter and he realized you know what I did wrong I kept my mouth shut when these other boys were degrading and humiliating and saying disgusting things about and the Reb and I kept my mouth shut says when you keep silent you're supposed to speak up you're guilty that means you you agree with them and he says this is why I'm being punished and I'm and I'm not being allowed to go cuz one of the places he was going to go was to see the re he heard about the and he made a resolution then that he's going to change his way as soon as he had this thought and he made the resolution they came into the room they told him you can get back on the plane and he went to the rebba they told he met laab at the airport at JFK I think he got to the rebba the rebba was giving out so he wanted to see the rebba it was the Thursday whatever it was he couldn't see him then they said Sunday morning he gives out dollars for Seda everyone come pass by you could see him then comes Sunday and he goes back to the Reba and the rebba says to him in Hebrew I pardon you I par you I pardon you with a big smile on his face and he said you have nothing to worry about come here's a doll come back next week again the person's name is vanunu he lives in and he says I became a very wealthy man and I'm looking at him speaking and he has a big picture of the reab behind him aari learned to panovich and it comes up to the Reb and the rebba read his mind what he was thinking about on the plane you understand it all began with this so when I read these words when teaching you these words it reminded me of this story everyone have a great day we'll see everyone tomorrow take care great story good thank thank you thank you byebye