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Practical Chasidus w R' Chaim Dalfin - V'Im Ruach HaMoishel 1924 #11 - Elevating the Sparks
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This discourse. printed in Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn's book of Maamarim, 1924, discusses the idea of Authority, Criticism and Rebuke in spiritual terms. He teaches healthy criteria for giving criticism. This refines character. Rabbi Dalfin teaches the discourse from the text in a user-friendly manner.
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okay good morning we're on page 4 on
page 350 but we have to make here but of
a sham of a good day well page 350 and
less guys got a pipe down because
everything's being recorded then you
know my god it goes up live so I want
everything to be smooth please yeah so
we learned yesterday the idea that when
they ate Sahara bothers a person the
person needs to must fail the base
method slept the 8th Sahara into the
study hall and that evidence said so
what are you doing the study hall and
the study on the base message you
learned tighter and tighter will will
help alleviate the pressure of the 8th
Sahara what type of Toyota so this comes
in continuation to what we learned
earlier that there is three levels of
title the first level being the level of
Vidya voevoda effort and work the second
level being in Russia inheritance and
the third level being a gift so he says
the first idea is that when you when you
apply Torah learning with effort it
involves also a shillelagh Schmo it
involves also an ulterior motive while
you're learning and the neighbor says
that's acceptable because the hosel say
potential aylesh mobilis ma you begin
doing it for an ulterior motive so
that's called shall English MA not for
the sake of Torah and that ulterior
motive will eventually turn into a was
small just for the purpose and sake of
Torah so in other words in other words
it's acceptable on this level of Torah
it's acceptable to do the study of Torah
even for ulterior motive whether it be
because your wife wants you out of the
house whether it be because you want to
have so a bit of coordination Smita
whether it because you want to come to
shul and and and show your friend you
know how to learn better than them or
you want your kids to be impressed or
you want to get a job because of the
Torah knowledge that you have all of
that shallowly Schmo it's not for the
pure sake of learning tato as it brings
here what does it mean for the pure sake
of living Titus is Lashay matura to draw
down the a the are you ain't soft or
you're learning because you want
godliness to be in Torah that's the
reason you want to learn no other reason
but you're not there says that ever that
the first method of learning Torah when
you slept the Yeats of hurry into the
base medic is a very acceptable way
because that's the way we begin our
journey towards honesty sometimes and
many times at most times it's very
difficult to be honest right away and I
Shem understands that and the Torah
understands it and they say you begin
slowly right you begin slowly
it's like someone makes a calculation
listen I'm gonna marry a Jew why because
I want to have Jewish kids and grandkids
is that the reason you should marry a
Jew of course not but that's otherwise I
would marry a non Jew but I but they
won't but I believe that the kids won't
be Jewish if the woof wife if the girl's
not Jewish if I'm gonna marry a Jewish
girl will have a convert how logically
etc I said I'll tear your motive that's
not what small nevertheless what does
tourists say it's perfectly acceptable
okay so the first idea of Teta to weigh
down the eight Sahara is shillelagh
Schmo
and and and and let me just for a second
tell you that it's it's easy to make
this calculation if you take a few
moments and think what is the benefit of
me leaving my house and the Internet and
the television and the bed and go and go
into a base mattress well right what's
the benefit you can find benefit your
wife will be happy you're out of the
house your kids will be happy they'll
see the father isn't wasting time you
know so much time you could find
justification rationalizations that make
sense why she going to shul
so what we're learning now is practical
the first level of Torah okay then he
said via Seamus at the towards the
bottom of three forty nine four lines
for the bottom these are the second
level of Torah is Jerusha inheritance
and here he begins talking about a
concept that what are we inheriting in
other words we're learning the title now
right you learn so far north before
Hills the shop is now with learning
cities what are we inheriting so the
episodes of the last line of 349 the in
Yanagi Arusha who say Europe s elite
sources the Sheva next page 350
Mikoyan declares enough the Bushido we
inherit something called the sparks of
the seven kings of the world of void
that fell through the shattering of the
sparks kaviraja Kaylin right now what
does that mean it sounds very very
esoteric indeed that is esoteric but we
will demystify the esoteric esotericism
here and what this means is that
everything in the world is a byproduct
of a godly spark everything if there
wasn't godly sparks in the tires on your
car I don't care whether you have good
year or Michelin or the best type of
tires
those tires would be north it would they
wouldn't even exist it wouldn't be that
you would have a tire and I would
get a flat or something else the tire
wouldn't be the same is true for every
aspect in this world unless there is
what we call an it sucks ello kyani the
word is knit suits a spark a godly spark
or the plural niche sites ace or need
subsidies sparks
what are these sparks what are the spark
plugs we have spark plugs in what's
going on so we we demo we demystify it
we use Kabbalistic language to
understand the reality so we demystify
the sparks sparks are a spark you know
what as part is a spark comes from
somewhere it comes from something and
it's real is a spark real or imaginary
it's real so when when when the energy
of a Shem was overbearing and the place
that contained the energy could not
contain the energy anymore what happened
the energy split correct the receptacle
that the energy was in and it shattered
all over it's like pieces of glass that
shatter and fall all over and if the
glass of the kitchen breaks you have
glass in the dining room glass in the
kitchen glass here glass there glass
everywhere right
those are cool sparks chips right but
the Tesla the other day so so - so -
when godliness with declare Hashem the
owner Hashem these are different names
used in Cibola Irish mmm the light of a
sham the clerical sham the niches L oaky
those it's all synonymous in this vein
its dissing animus when it went when it
when it comes into the world and the
world is not a vessel for this holy
energy it shatters and it goes all over
and guess where it ends
it ends up everywhere on earth in every
item that's created on earth it has a
godly spark now it's our job to reunite
and reconnect the godly spark with
Hashem with God where it came from
remember it was one hosts of godly
energy and now this godly energy split
and sparked into pieces kind of and what
we have to do is bring them together
that's called a Vedas hobby ruin the
activity of refinement refining the
sparks meaning take the Apple make
Abraha say the brother slowly and
carefully think about what you're saying
and eat the apple with the intent of
bringing together the spark in the apple
with the godly energy Visa vu it you're
eating this and becoming an abode to a
healthy satiated person who can continue
functioning through the day because of
it because you have eaten the Apple that
is the notion of beetle halitosis
B Road means refinement of eat suitors
of the sparks so that ever says here
that Jerusha Jerusha means that we
inherit these sparks from the seven
kings who had a war right you know what
we're talking about and these kings and
and and and they and they kind of
resulted in a breakup and a breakup in
the sense that we need to reunite it to
its source so he says that that the that
good morning ladies so he says that the
straightish of the kings that that
government in Eretz edwin before there
was a jewish king
this high energy of godliness that
wasn't able at the time to fit in into
the Jewish experience and it came
through the seven non-jewish kings and
by the way this is a general concept why
is it that we had we go through the why
are we governed and dominated by by by
non-jewish kingdoms by non-jewish
governments so the holy czar says that
the way of the world is that in trillium
glaive employ the wicked dominate but
now that that's shams purpose hashem
purpose is that we transformed the
wicked to be good
so too we take these sparks that have
fallen all over and our job is to
elevate the sparks all over so and then
they continue to the Mimer this is why
we have success that come from
Sam Agassi from physical wool drilling
comes from physical cloth parchment and
the four species of the lulav and the
super come from vegetation so what do we
what's the reason why because the reason
is that the energy was in the gaseous
the physical material matter of the
universe requires and needs us to put
the two together to extract the spark of
godliness in the item and reunite it
with Hashem
so in Kabbalah they use the word Shira
Sakhalin right there is the orange self
the infinite light of God and then it
was too powerful and it shattered that
it caused what's called the breaking of
the vessels so that sounds very mystical
and is mystical but when you demystify
it it's a very practical thing and
nothing to get scared of and it's very
real
so this the rebus says is the second
experience when you slept the Yeats a
hurry to the base Madras right must sail
the base Madras there's the second idea
of learning Torah where Tyler is a Euro
sir
it's an inheritance in other words we
have it in ourselves to be able to
extract the sparks wherever we are and
that's what I was telling lazy yesterday
was out the car flew whatever wherever
you are whatever you're doing over there
yeah you think you're on vacation and
you are in a vacation but at the same
time you're elevating sparks you have
the opportunity elevate sparks so when
you stand up you say about Tyra given
sparks when you're on the ship and and
and and you're sharing something
positive and do something positive
you're elevate the sparks yes yes so he
turn back to 349 please look for five
lines at the bottom I guess you didn't
hasn't yet gazelle in how you get
Victoria shall Z oh man
that's the reference to pinky all those
key alien ooh Scylla why not shut up
chat of a below tour of the idea black
your guy team accessory in other words
that's that's what we're learning in a
hill in this moment is three different
aspects to Torah so when it says in
pinky over Shana Arusha law it's
referring to that aspect of theta that's
yogya that comes through effort okay now
let's go back to play 350 and continue
from where we left off so so it will
track this is one two three four five
six lines from the top and middle of the
line the fraud what a fraud you they
have a disability him he says
specifically when it comes to this
activity of refinement but are the
goalies when it
the four exiles that week went through
the Seaboard mouth closed when the
nation's enslaved us and governed us
deceive it says Kiki Arbor Lucas I show
my impede our siesta like the four sides
of the world of the heaven Paylocity
esta I spread you apart so so he brings
the verse that supports the idea that I
college bar who Hashem that almighty the
disseminated us all over the purpose
being to elevate the sparks now here's a
rhetorical comment question gondolas our
biggest aha although the Fazal same
senses suck in page 87 quote Stoker who
suckled is Berkeley a new source appears
a little bit amazed Hashem did a
righteousness a sadhaka
a good act that he dispersed us trapeze
run he dispersed us levain her almost
amongst all the nations why did he what
what's the laser you know the trap
there's just computers Rashi what's the
conductor you remember what's the
conductor what's the tremendous
advantage tonight it's a nice shot what
you're saying that's not I don't believe
that's Rashi is the shot because the
person says again your thrusters and I
structure but the track that the mother
believes like this that because this
vertical did a doctor to Angie's Royal
you're attaching you did it stuck you
for the guy
so that possible is Brotherhood in this
row so that's the literal meaning what
was the tadaka so the de mother says
that that when the grave will hurt us
and try to annihilate us they won't be
able to because the bear will always
and he decided against the advice of all
to all of his people and 17 kept himself
originally was supposed to be himself
and maybe for his family to enjoy but he
was so lovely them as people for the
whole world for all his kingdom
to enjoy to divisor said are you not so
you crazy
no but if everybody you said look I
don't hear from you I'm the king the
hospital was that one day a year it was
both just for the case the rest of you
was open for the whole world and that
one day is it approached he's a rich
there's one or if anybody disgraces the
Kings part because he's faced a fortune
on it they say you stole right at the
entrance of the Disney World and this
beep stone would crush the head of
anybody who's been Bacchus in the Kings
Park the big day comes that they're
going in that the king is gonna come to
see his art if there are 364 days that
the guns Medina is been using the part
let me day as if he is coming the
advisors are hysterical they're going to
nuts because they see if his graffiti in
the park and and will cry an hour and
the King comes in and he keeps Jesus
repeating and he says who everything is
for Feeny we have a rule and ain't
nobody fingers for fees gonna be off
when his hands began destroying his head
with this big rock and he sent out all
types of investigators to find a
so he finds at the end that the
destruction of the park was gonna baby
his beautiful heart for his own very own
disgust well now we stop when he is
presented some now I destroyed the my
one and only son on the other hand I
pointed Sangeeta my love means my
diary's what am I gonna do
he goes back to his advisers they say
listen if you're not behind it differ on
that left nobody will ever listen that
he examines you have to destroy him the
king was a very small baby and one
advisory Perkins of what's the solution
he says the solution is you take this
new drop you bring the big boo-boos you
break it into a thousand pieces and
everything is gonna put a wooden pebble
from that rock on your son's head he
says and that was what happened cloudy
stroke we receive a positive information
I know my labor look how he's saying
what every year he puts another rock on
her head no class firstly he gave me a
breather thank you and second it was a
beautiful and second of all it's a
beautiful art really thank you so anyway
so that that's the penis rash in the
Gemara
the penis rash she is that the professor
that called is Burke who did the
kindness God did for us that he
dispersed us amongst all the gamers so
that there will always be a Jew left
thermal evidence Emma but but but Sidis
the adds
another approach another deal emphasis
that the the seduction is that wherever
you are you have an opportunity to
elevate the world so that's why could
this vertical put you there again that's
not Rashi the commentary that's a
commentary Priscilla's that de bridge
that did it's a dunker with us by
dispersing goes to South Africa to China
to here to there everywhere so that over
there you can elevate the sparks and if
you can elevate the sparks you need to
elevate the sparks
eivol because there nevertheless how do
you who go low so piece of the bow is
the question he said back down you know
when you see the words the Hagana you
know it's a rhetorical question so
what's that what's the question was he
said before that this this idea of being
dispersed is is from myself our
professorship my imp a das the esslyn he
brings the verse so then he says but
wait a minute it seems like for the
Gemara that it's not that way that it's
it that the reason we will display that
the disparate the disbursement and what
is this so that we wouldn't be again be
killed completely annihilated meaning
that if Hashem had a choice he wouldn't
do that in other words it's like an
afterthought so his answer is I will be
closed that ago so Pisa
nevertheless even though there is a a
positive twist to why we were dispersed
all over at the end of the day its goal
of soup easily and I think that this is
you know it's it's ghost and
dispersement and just a second Hilo I
think it's a great insight you know as
much as you as much as we see the
relevance and the importance of of being
here and there and everywhere right and
we can and we learn I'm a learning how
we have an opportunity to elevate the
situation disbursement
is disbursement the bezel scattered a
scattered brain is a scattered brain
when you're scattered you're scattered
I'm sorry you're telling me that being
scattered has referred to as well I
agree and a very important one but at
the end of the day you're scattered so
this is the neighbors kind of insight
that that what is that being scattered
there must be something greater why a
sham allows us to be scattered you can't
say the reason why I shall let us be
scattered is just for survival
okay this is what's the point it's not
just for survival
it's for thrival there's no such an
English word not just to survive but
just to thrive
helo go ahead and then I'll continue
continue good like to come in combining
elements of both words so that it's deaf
get interesting that that that's the
very idea of the cozaar that humming
things to bring a decree on Clara that's
right exactly they should write because
it's because we are mahfouz oh that's
right
so he says oh come on members say this
ow Thank You Hillary for the vote so
it's set as our say just say quote -
Shane TF Sharla olam below new clothes
Cathy f share loyal and blissful cuz
I'll say just as it's impossible for the
world not to have winds winds are
necessary so to the world cannot exist
without Jews now again there is the
literal way of understanding that
resolve that Jews are necessary to be in
the universe yeah you know I told you
I'm going to do some film filming a
shared manner we can have for two weeks
in in Poland so the city called a trust
a trust is where there was a Labov ogu
shiva pre-war from 1935 to 1939 so yes
that I was speaking to a guy
who works at the Museum was gonna help
me so he tells me I don't think in a
trust there are any Jews left I'm
convinced I can't argue thing because I
don't have the facts but I'm sure there
is a Jew living somewhere no question
about it so what's the point here look
look at the way they're have interprets
this fossil it's very beautiful the
mashiach LOL humble ruthless the fact
that the world cannot exist without wins
ha qivana the the intent of that cause
Ali's Dalai Lama Lucien Helen the word
Olam which means world is associated
with another hebrew word which is Helen
what is Helen mean concealment so the
Rufus Patos had bola wins paid O'Shea
its meaning is limitation in other words
the size of the world which is like the
winds of the world east-west north-south
cetera up and down all of that limits
limits the world
so the causal are saying in other words
just as the world requires for it to be
a world
it requires limitations if we if we come
into a world without hug Boland it's
chaos and children though like chaos and
we shouldn't like chaos it's wild it's a
wild jungle so what does a sham do it
puts the jungle out there somewhere and
he says everywhere else it's civilized
because they are ruthless they hug
Bullis so now goes the assimilative so
just as I'll say just as the world
requires these ruthless continue now
inside Heaney the silk shames the
Fla hello Billy a bowler just as a
concealment cannot be without a
limitation the limitation is is created
because there is I'm sorry the
concealment is created because there is
limitation
in the copy after below your soil the
world cannot exist without eaten without
Jews these hello my vegan Masai hell
them because they Eden they remove the
concealment
so that's why there is Helen in the
world
hola Millicent Helen oh love is
associated with the word concealment how
do you remove the concealment says the
COS all the world needs to have the Eden
to remove the COS illness behind us a
daily Bodom through the study of theta
DS throw who Russia famous when they eat
when hidden study tighter they removed
the concealment and why eaten so he says
because the word you sir L youths in
race I love ramen is an acronym that
Senator Davis quote yes
shishun D boy patience will tell you
their 600,000 letters in theta that's
the the acronym of youth sin race Aleph
vomit so in other words ye D are the 600
embodiment of the 600,000 letters of the
Torah but they are not Plato and through
the light of theta me Edith mosque
shocked asylum we illuminate the
darkness of the world and my friends
this is what it means wherever you go
don't think we we illuminate the world
through our great genius and mind and
it's through learning that when you
learn later wherever you come you
illuminate and make that area that's
been dark bright for who inya Nevada
subdued in him and this is what he gets
back to that he began at the bottom of
the last page
this is what we call the activity of
refinement that when you learn you're
refining the world the desert been
locked in through the study of theta we
gather as it suits as the sparks
channel flow between us a kala that fell
into the universe into the world who the
shattering of the vessels like we
explained earlier the concept is brought
in the Kabbalah see the sock a limb Oh
Messina
and we remove as a helluva hester the
concealment so he puts it all together
at the end that this is the second level
of theta the second level of theta is
the Arusha level what did we inherit we
inherited taurah what is the purpose of
this data to illuminate the world to
remove the darkness and that is the
process of refinement so what we walk
away with at this point then the minor
is that we have two levels of Torah two
experiences one is with effort right
like you quoted before he loves aina you
do SH Allah this is not an inheritance
this you have to work at over here it
lends itself for your own interpretation
and your own su expects ulterior motive
and we said shillelagh small ballers
from up then there's another level of
theta which over there it's not my own
my own stick biomes motor alternate
interior motive over there it's the
purity of tour it's the initial are you
do sure you get the thing the way it is
you know no you do sir and inheritance
whatever your parent leaves over for you
that's what you get then you start
working with what you got but when you
get the user we're not talking about
what you do with the you do sir when you
inherit the you do sir it is the exact
way your parent left it for you
so in other words over there there is no
place for I don't like this inheritance
hey father
though I don't like sorry son I'm gonna
decide how much I want to leave over for
you or what I want to leave over and you
have no say in the matter because it's
mine that's what I you do says so what
what is that as far as what we're
learning that means the idea that the
data that you learn is given to you from
a Shem and it's put into the world and
now your job is to find it and explore
it and
and and and refine the world but you say
well I don't like it to be this way that
what's not up to you that's another
aspect of Torah so these are
complementary aspects of Torah but
they're in a way divergent divergent in
what they demand of the person one
demands creativity and independence one
demands acceptance and obedience so it's
two different notions and I think it's
important to understand it's not a
contradiction there is an aspect of
Torah what we call in the world of Torah
leaders to be mahadesh to create a
novelty of HEDIS and then there is the
idea of Kabbalah cetera the receiving of
the Torah where what you're doing is
you're not looking to be maja days
you're looking to receive and clarify
and understand but the emphasis is not
on the fiddles and I would say that that
these are the two aspects of the two
types of Torah learning that he
describes her in the mindler one being
the yugioh type and one being the Arusha
type mostly you want to ask something
the other one is you need an effort
effort meaning that that Shem Hashem
gives you the room and wants you to
explore and to and to create to be
Mohave SH that's that's another part of
Torah and I think they each one taps in
to another part of your being you
understand in general you know you find
some people who are creative then you
have other people they don't come up
with the idea they develop the idea
they're strong in analysis so you have
people who are very comfortable doing
computer you know computer work and
analysis sit at desk in it and then
they're people that can't do that but
they can sit back on their couch and
they could just go like this and come up
with a great idea and boom and they go
with it that's you know the entrepreneur
the creative one
that's one type of mind another type of
mind is more the you know you could
count them me you know the difference
between a bird soars on high flies here
and there but it's here today gone
tomorrow
a tree is rooted in the earth it's
pretty boring but it doesn't go anywhere
it's there you can count on it tomorrow
because it has its roots so you know you
can you could think of it Hillel you
know the type a Type B you know and say
cutting psychological terms you know and
each one has its virtue and what we're
learning is here that when we learn to
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maybe know here is Ferdie this concept
in Kabbalah and sit is that that the
seventh mouth is a dream represents
negativity clipper and and when the
energy of a Shem shatters because the
world is not a receptacle it creates the
negativity and it gives them reign and
government it gives the a dream and the
idea is to transform that that that's
what he's referring to here it's the
iris
the iris self is is is is is is
shattered in squats what happens with
its creators called shreya sake Lin so
in the result of that is that there is
this very high energy Casilla says laser
that the I believe that the ads Edlund
that Edgar I'm really in in so rash is a
very high shoulders of godliness but
when it comes into the world it so it's
a very good part it's a very good shot I
here I never you know to the interesting
insight okay very good
we're can inside is all that's left