Practical Chasidus w Rabbi Chaim Dalfin - Maamar B'Sha Shehikdimu 1949 #4

we are on page 318 in the mind of the show it's the second uh chapter painting base so just to recap let's let's read quickly the kids are the the synopsis of the first chapter right before let's read it in ishmael we brought the ghazal that we we received crowns the malachim crowned us with um crowns because we prefaced nasa we will do before we we will understand and rabbi asked two questions on that or really one question they're subdivided into two and he started to explain yavi dogma kabbalah the first section of shmas before the second section is because we uh we preface accepting hashem accepting the yoke of hashem first and only afterwards do we talk about the mitzvahs we also learned earlier that nishma in quotes understand hainu what we really mean here is sima slave being attentive making our hearts be attentive la mitzvahs to the mitzvos vidiq precisely okay let's continue which page where are we three eighteen okay where are you the beginning of chapter two [Music] this is the idea of being making the heart be attentive to every mitzvah be proteus in detail that's specifically how will that happen what will make a person be careful to the details of the mid-swiss not just to do them and be yet you know i've done it but rather to focus and get into it and as he said be my heart there and beautify the mitzvah that comes only when you first have the mindset which we call hakadomus when you have the mindset of prefacing nasa before lanisma then you'll be you'll succeed in being massive live to behold prato pratt of the mitzvah nasa itself is accepting the yoke you accept upon yourself the yoke of hashem la says to do whatever hashem decrees amen you do me believe his hakuis without searching and questioning and debating for reasons at all hashem says do i do. once you have the general acceptance of the yoke of hashem in the in the mindset called nasa the performance of the nishma on your part of understanding what hashem wants it's totally different i should the ms as we in truth as we understand from the idea here the kabbalah's earliest base madrid in accepting the yoke of hashem we actually have two levels one is the idea of we will do this which is the level of accepting the yoke to do and to fulfill whatever is the will of hashem in every detail chazelle in your nose this is the idea of nasa venism in other words the first level is that whatever we will hear and underst we will do we won't question will do on them however yes from the couple of soil that ever says there's a deeper aspect of accepting the yoke of hashem the who and this second level you're either saying is more bipremius is deeper within the person what is this the who the mindset that we call that even before he knows what the details and uh are he doesn't even know the details nicole mcclain regretted but since he has such great ex acceptance of the yoke of the kabbalah soil moisturizer he dedicates himself with him to fulfill it whatever the command will be later on so let me explain we have two things the first aspect of kabbalah soil is i i hear i hear what hashem wants and i understand that nevertheless i do it because hashem said so in other words i kind of disregard it's not relevant but but it's not relevant but but paul the boy you you you heard you heard and understood what he wants what you're doing is oil the second aspect of kabbalah soil is that even before you heard you already accept that's another a deeper level of kabbalah in other words let's let's talk it out in the first level of kabbalah sale how do you know that the that the reason why you're doing it is because of kabbalah soil or it's because you understand what hashem says maybe you you really don't know i understood what hashem wants and therefore and and now i commit myself to doing it but in the second level that's why it causes anemia so it's deeper it's more premiums the mindset is i don't have to know what what what the details are i'm committed to you hashem kabbalah and later on if when i when i learn and understand okay great it's gravy on top of the you know it's the gravy but the reason i'm doing it is because couple of sales so that's why the rabbit says that the second level of carbohydrate is deeper it's premium and it continues oh and and this second level is what we mean this mindset is what we call nishma the first couple of surya is not called kabbalah the sec the first level is i already had nishma but nevertheless i focus on the nas even even if i don't preface nasa before nishma and i didn't i have nishma and i say i'm committed to you hashem so even although i understand i'm not doing it because i understand i i'm doing it because of you okay it's very great but it's still not the idea of ishmael that's what he says let's continue just go back two lines the mindset of abdomen it is it consists of even before knowing what the details are the coma from the greater kabbalah but nevertheless because you have such great couple of soil moisturize milo will be later afterwards i'm committed to you hashem so i trust you whatever you're telling me i'm going to do i have no i have no qualms with it and he says madrid is nightlist this is a very great material he comes it's a proper level you know in other words to to do something because of kabbalah and not because i understand it that's also a fine commitment but nevertheless it's not the mindset of abdominis the sensation and feeling of the first level couple of soil is the following i'm committed to the details of your desire hashem with shamaya to hear every will of yours although kindly so the the result of the first cup of the sale is that i i want to do the details the details impact the person and the details cause the person to want to do them so it's the the specific hashem that generates the kabbalah soil conversely look further machine came hakabola cell dr nishba the second couple of cell the mindset of prefacing and a humility in a bit of subservience we have now a new word to a new new words brought in the mimer to the balharatsu to the master to the owner of the will in other words here we're not focusing on the russian we're focusing on the baalharot si this type of bittle it's much deeper let's let's just take a simple example when you when someone asks you to do something if you do it because what he asks is something you relate to or something that you know you like or something there's a certain commitment but the commitment is because of the content of what he asked you to do the content generates the commitment what if that content doesn't excite you you don't do it with the same highest anything you don't do it with the same energy so so that commitment is a commitment that is conditioned there's a deeper commitment irrelevant of whether it excites me or not i do it with the same exact excitement why because i like you i'm doing it for you so sweeping the floor climbing uh a mountain learning davine or going to business if you want me to do any of those things it's all the same because it's all about you you you you famous song like this it's all you it's all you upwards is you downwards as you to the right is you to the left of you before we forget i am most shared good morning welcome do me a favor uh send everyone page 319 now and 320 because we're going down to 319 very shortly thank you moshe anyway so what is the phrase used in hasidis and it's brought right here the commitment being to you like you know the words he's the bala bias he is the owner he's the master the commitment is to the masters of the owner himself that comes only when you have the mindset called nasser nishma if you don't have that mindset your commitment is he says in the workshop he says it's right he says before he says there's madregus nylis and there's madriga it's madrigal it's not small change believe me to do everything hashem wants to pay attention to the details of the mitzvos thank you motion is it it's it's not it's not an easy job but nevertheless nevertheless it's not complete kabbalah complete kabbalah is not doing it because the mitzvah generates and conditions you to do it but rather hashem who is the commander of the commandment i.e the commander-in-chief it's about him so if it's about him whether it excites me or not i do it with the same highest and that's why the hardest avoider is [Music] this was the most difficult thing there's a ashley i think i might have told you this once but it's worth repeating in long beach california knows him his name is rabbi moshe engel you know he's already us probably a 70 to 75 year old man he was from the i think he came out in 1969 1970 rabbit cunha brought him way back is from the original so he he has a lot of kabul soil you know he and and and his job originally was teaching i think first graders okay and he loved teaching the children all of base and then later got into working with college campuses so someone told told me that they saw he learned in montreal in the chabad yeshiva in montreal years ago in the 60s and they happened to see the book in which the masjid would mark the students if they came on time 7 30 a.m and i could tell you from being in yeshiva that most guys didn't come 7 30. and and and join us in those as well 7 40 7 35 7 45 sometimes 8 o'clock some guys never showed and but you know the the base of metals was packed but there was only like you know 10 guys that really came exactly whatever that's was you know you're getting up in the morning some are going to the mick for summer running whatever the case so this guy told me that he saw the the book of the masjid montreal and next the rabbi engel's name there was a check every single day that he wasn't that you sheep and i think was there four to six years every day that he was there he had a check next to 7 30. he was that's kabul so that's the hardest thing because it's not it's not 7 31 it's 7 30. they tell the story that ebba in 1944 the rapper's father i believe yitzhak schneiderson passed away in 1944 and the rebbe you know would say kaddish of course so he came uh to he asked the gabba i think it was rabbi and gordon what time does the minion start or something so he said 9 30 9 35 the leader turned them is it 9 30 or 9 now i i i don't i don't want to make it sound like that but never you know by the fabregas he sometimes came in a few minutes late but overall the preciseness and and and a minute is a minute and a second is a second that's a very tough avoider and in chabad those individuals who mastered kabbalah soyul had the greatest respect more than the greatest and and the proof is from a third not story but the third episode there was a known chabad mashipia his name was redness uh he came from the old country he learned in in in the baby and he would playing sometimes when he came to crown heights and he also have her brain of course in paris he had he was the master and the manager of the yeshiva in brunwater called in in in in in france a suburb of paris anyway so when he was fabric there could have been other hasidim that were 10 to 20 years older than him and they wouldn't say a word when they they gave the floor to him because and and some of them you know in in knowledge they knew more than him but in kabbalah sale no one beat him he was a soldier a soldier that stood at the front of serving hashem and his rigidity was such that they couldn't match his rigidity nor in a way in a way that they want to match it in other words you have to be a certain style a certain makeup to have the the rigidity of cabela's soil every moment it's a very hard avoider so there was a hostage in paris from california's grandfather and he was and he was he was he lit he was born in 1890 1884 85 he lived a hundred years he lived so he was 20 years older than amnesty abner was born in 1904 or so and he would sit next to him sometimes that if i bring him and he wouldn't and he wouldn't say anything unless this and that asked him to say something because kabbalah said so what we're learning here has a practical identification the virtue of kabbalah soil precisely so that here explains the moshe that there's two levels one level is a commitment that's generated by the mitzvah the mitzvah stimulates the commitment to do it and the rebel says that's a fine it's a fine it's fine but mostly it's not the highest it's not the greatest why because the stimulus is conditioned on the mitzvah whereas the higher level of kabbalah soil he calls it the madriga niles the ultimate is the acceptance of him god so if you accept him and i don't mean just accept him i mean live with that acceptance you know that that acceptance is the reality then then regardless of what he wants it's not relevant to you the details i i don't do it because of the details you know how you ask so what's it about what are the terms i'm not interested in the terms i'm not understanding what's it about i'm only interested in you hashem so if i have that relationship i know that whatever you want is the right thing sometimes my mind doesn't get it and my heart doesn't get it so what see the test isn't the test is in the in the result the test isn't the result how do you react when there's something that doesn't go the way you understand the way you feel that's the question so it's very easy you know talk is cheap it's easy to talk but when you face the situation then one sees is my commitment to the mitzvah or my commitment is to him and there have been people over the generations who their commitment was to the mitzvah and then slowly but surely it subsided because oh the mitzvah goes only so far there's certain conditions and terms and all those things that play into the atmosphere and environment of a mitzvah what if those what if that environment doesn't exist anymore look okay let's look now right here comes corona two months were isolated are we governing with the same kavanah and the same commitment in our homes or wherever we're dominating in isolation or near isolation right are we diving with the same commitment kavanagh and excitement as we do when we're in sure just ask yourself that simple question and if your answer is yes then the place and locale makes no difference so you only mentioned to me yesterday and i understand very well what he's saying because i'm also human that you know neither davening on a porch it's just not the same as daviding a shoe that's true that's true because the porch and the shoe is what's turning us on or off but if we work towards starving towards you what's the difference if you dive in a bunker in a shoe or on your porch you know the difference is whether you have light air and other conditions and and so it's what we call a chassidis gilri whether there's revelation inspiration but moshe meyer's revelation inspiration is not essence essence is attachment to god whether you're in a bunker your porch or a show makes a difference or a desert it makes no difference because i'm diverting to you i'm not diving into the midst of standing from an estuary and this and this like i say it's a very hard elevator it takes a lot out of us to come to a place that i do the mitzvah not because of the mitzvah but because of the commander who commands the mitzvah so it's it's so easy to say i accept god of course what's the question i believe in hashem ask any from person of course i believe in hashem but when you ask this question you're not going to get the same answer just ask them if they die with the same kavanagh on their porch as they do in show and they say no then you ask why not are you diving because of the mitzvah of the true environment or are you diving to him and if you're diving into him now that he his will is vis-a-vis government and law and that that we don't at home or on our porch i doubt him with the same highest there's a rabbi in chronically milski so he once told me he's a rabbi vashul in bassrivka on on on crown street in between nostril and new york avenue in crown heights it's an old it's an old show and bought it and it's the girls school called base rifka and the auditorium there or what i'm sorry the the the level of the show where they have you know the gatherings and um rallies and talks could hold probably 500 to a thousand people it's very large but this you know in the good days in crown heights most people went to 770 to dominate the rebels minion so he told me what did he have 20 people in sure you know local some local people so he told me and he would give up russia right every shabbos the rabbi gives a sermon he would give it russia and he told me he spoke very loud and in his mind he had a thousand people in front of him that's the way and as i said to brotherhood like like the reality is you have 20 people he says if i took for a moment into consideration i have 20 versus a thousand or 500 i would be out of i wouldn't be here i would lose my i would lose my kayak i would lose my energy i wouldn't be excited and and i know myself so to me i have to make believe i have to imagine or in the words of our mind i have to have the kabbalah soil that hashem wants me to stand on the pope and now and to give a servant and russia whether it's one person ten people or a thousand people on the other hand i once spoke to one of my mashpir and he said to me he confided he says if i don't have a crowd to speak to it's hard for me to to speak if i bring he told me that he what that wasn't him and and he's a very hasidic jew and you know but this is this so i'm showing you it could be very hasidic very tongue music and you could be a big marker but but your character and your psyche has not yet become glued with him that's that's what hasidis is pointing to that's what we're pointing to doing this mimer are you glued to him or are you blue to yourself so that's it that's it it did it and it's you know you know it's hard to kind of face this reality but the only way to to grow is to face the reality that we're at now and say i need to work more on myself i need to commit more to akkad okay that's it that's a practical result of this yes motion yes yeah this is in line with what you're saying i know it's a little off topic but isn't this directly tied to our level of ammuna as well that you know if we drop something a nice object and it breaks and we get upset you know and and but if we really have a moon and hashem we that should also not be altered right we should be composed and not get angry or not absolutely absolutely but he true here we're talking about the aspect of cabola soil but yes if you have true cabola soil your munna is 100 yeah let's continue bottom of 318. yes i understand the what i i understand the definition and i understand what we're trying to do here what i don't understand is the how is the how through is blinding us is that is that how we attain yes yes first let's see if he says so but the answer is yes you're right it's not but it's not through you know uh saying or or or eating bagels or reading segulas on on such days in khabar it don't work okay in our system and i'm not saying is no good he is no good and reading school is from here and there and you know and and sniffing the snuff he could do all these things but in the bavitch in khabad it's just as you said it takes his bonus so you're 100 right and and practically practically we all know to make a change this cup of hours this thick head has to be turned on and if it's turned on then that heart starts pumping with that with blood and starts feeling but it comes through his abundance you know i i live here in borough park i've been diving you know here you know you see the kassidin they shake themselves up and they scream and and that's their style you know and and and and believe me they're very fine people really really really special people but it's a different avoider does far them read zohar like we read like we read to him they read zoar that's their avoider i mean i i was um about 20 years ago maybe more i took a group of three uh three people one from new jersey one from california and one from somewhere else and we went to see the baba sally's nephew his name was mahluf lassri he was a makuba makubu and he lived in de mona so we went up to zfas i took him to tsvas to be mispalo and we met him and i made by the way a video of it that you can actually see how ambakul does kabbalah with us it's very interesting i don't think there's such a video out there this is a real makubu you see him take out a book and telling me to put my hand on the book and then he starts reading it's the names of god it was a big black book with pages and after he he starts telling me talking to me in arabic and had a translator in hebrew and you'll show me and and different things so it's interesting just to see the the workings of a mukubo you know just i don't know i found it interesting you know you always hear them and here i was right in front of a real makeover and he did it so we had it videoed hashem and i produced that video anyway so is that on you that on youtube somewhere no no no no maybe i should put it i have to i don't know right now just on video on a dvd so so um and then we left it was interesting he told people things he said to one of the guys from the jersey said you've you've had um kidney problems and uh don't worry you'll be all right he didn't write anything i didn't say anything and indeed he had kidney issues i i i saw this in my own eyes i'm not i'm not joking then oh the only thing you want the only thing that you were supposed to do is write the names of whoever you want him to dive in for so i wrote down my whole fam all my children so he took the paper and he went like this on the paper and then he picks up the head and starts running so i say what is he saying so he says he's saying he's asking do you have a daughter that um is not feeling well so i said no when i left america you know oh thank god well my children were well he says don't worry it's a temporary thing it's gonna pass you have nothing to worry about and i got i'm totally like what i go when we when i go outside whilst you know i go outside i call my wife from there and my daughter kaya bushka at the time came down with chicken pox between it after i left you chickenpox states for a little while and leaves and there was four children my son and my three daughters and he and somehow go on like this he he starts talking about this this daughter so it was very interesting anyway at this point that's not the point i want to make after we finish with him we went this fast i was in swas i realized oh i forgot my hat where did i forget my hat by maklou velocity in demona oh my gosh and it was so hot outside we gotta drive back down to damona well you got to do what you got to do to my hat when we came it was already night i came there to get my hat i saw him sitting by a table or a bench outside because it was very hot inside and there was a fluorescent type of light over the table and it was reading so the avoider of the fardhim is and i'm not saying he didn't understand this earlier and he didn't learn desire i'm not saying that but there is a serious avoider of reading zoya just as we have a series avoider of what of the healing and that's a great thing but that's not what we're talking about hey that's not going to make the usually to make a deep interchange it needs seiko and inhabad we use what you said before his abundance let's continue down the bottom please so he says the last line of 318 second word fellas [Music] 319 now then the level the the the mindset of we will do i'm sorry we will understand is more wondrous is more is greater than let's see what he says as we see in actuality [Applause] you can't compare the doing the mice which is the cabola you can't compare the two levels you can't compare if the my my behavior if it's just generated by the yoke by the the russian the detail the will of god or if my commitment and my practice is because of my commitment to the master of the will the balharat sir because he explains that when i accept when i do the kabbalah because i'm committed to the master of the balarotsum ohs then my action is more precise i'm more interested moshe in the details the details become relevant and without the details it doesn't work for me right okay because one second but he doesn't say the other side the other side is if you do it only because of the detail not because you committed to him then the performance of the mitzvah excuse me is not as precise uh i did it does the does the the strap on that villain have to be below the youth on top of the youth on the mabarta i mean all these details of shogunate who cares who cares right i'm putting on film be happy i'm putting on drilling and i like putting on film and i want to put on two but every little detail that's the difference and think about it when you're really attached to someone you and you really love someone you like someone and you respect someone you want to do everything for that someone and everything means in every detail because you know the details he likes the details or she likes the details if you just do it but you don't emphasize the details it's an action it's a nice thing but it's it's a commitment that's not complete that's what we're saying a complete commitment a complete comes only when you've you come to the place in yourself that you're committed to him the bala says using the above analogy will also understand when it comes to doing mitzvos mitzvahs on the fourth line you can't compare at all the fulfillment of the mitzvah and the beautification of the mitzvah [Music] because the way it is when you just accept the will the commercial who in comparison to the way it is because in that you accept the master of the will so this discussion here this discussion here will end over here today so this discussion is a very important one because you know what they say all the differences in the details and the overall general commitment you don't see a difference it's in the details that you see the commitment and that's what that's what we learned today that the and the the the concern for the details is if you're if you're really in touch with the one who subscribes the prescribes the details called for this shabbos to be shabbos because we all came together with one heart one man one heart altogether so that ever called for this shabbos to be a unity shabbos the shabbos before chavouris so unite yourself with yourself unite your family with your family with you with you and your wife and your kids and all that and unite unite the community and just the whole idea of bringing people together and and truly having obvious israel especially a time like this is not a time to to bring up and issues of divisiveness and machois leave that for another time hopefully never but uh just like the sukho naduk says that the month above is a time to have uh is not a time to have a judgment court case with a non-jew because the model of is not you know the issue of of is you know not a great one at least outwardly the premier's is the greatest as questions explains and you should do it rather in the month of other which is the month of um putin so the ideas that are you know stressful and difficult sometimes you have to just put them aside push them off we'll get back to it there's nothing like like sleeping on something you know i think i told you that had a brother of zalman aaron they called him razzo so i read once i don't i can't find it i'd love to find it but i read once in his name that he suggested that when you're angry about something you shouldn't talk for minutes now he didn't say why i imagine 60 an hour is like the norm you know an hour that one extra minute is breaking the norm so when you're in anger and you know zip up your mouth and don't talk not just for an hour but even the extra minute meaning it it will it will it will subdue the anger in a way that's beyond the norm because the norm you have a reason to get angry so get angry get upset get frustrated get you know sugar if you do it for one extra minute there is that extra additional kayak have a great shabbos we'll see everyone sunday mr shem yes yes yes i got my hand yes what good good good so from this so it's a question i've had but i think that that the the rebel himself is bringing out the question in the mimer it's so interesting because i feel like his mom is like talking to us today but i i feel like when he's talking about if we're doing it for ourselves or we're doing it for al sam there's some there seems to be an and of course one of the few you know sects or groups that doesn't where they do it for themselves and not for ourselves but it seems that that a lot of people fall on the fact that they're part of a froome community and for a part of you know um the the neighborhood the the the shul and it's like wow it's great we could be part of this group and we could be accepted and we'll get you know welfare checks and the rebbe will give us checks we'll get apartments and and you know we'll do everything together we'll have like this wonderful herd kind of mentality and we get all the benefits from it like yeah i'll put on a black cat i'll i'll put on a shrimal and i'll become part and i fooled everybody or whatever just because i joined the club meaning like yes of course i love hashem i want to be part of hashem i want to be part of the jewish nation but on the other hand i want to be part of the group meaning i want to be part of the group because i i can reap benefits for my children for shidduchim so i feel like this minor and stuff is really bringing this out okay excellent excellent appoint um and i would say and i've said it before but it's worth repeating that you can't dismiss completely the virtue of belonging to a community and belonging to a group there's something torah sanctioned and torah driven and torah desired we have a rule in the artificial menace don't separate yourself from the community now you're talking about living off the community that's another story and that's that's not for that's not what this mimer is about i you know that's you know that doesn't come that's different discussion and we've discussed that too we're talking about is your commitment because of the community or is your commitment because of him and that's what we're learning in the mind and that's why it's so important to learn considers that's all that's what you say i get you know i i wish 5000 people will be learning together with us so we could it's not my words it's the mind it's siddhis khabad gives the tools of dealing and thinking about these issues that's all every learning is good muslim validity but it's a different orientation here we're talking about really thinking you know and getting and and and not becoming despondent and depressed sorry i'm living in other words i'm not going to conclude yoni like you were intimating that oh because i'm leaving not i'm i'm doing it because i'm in a community therefore i'm no good i'm not going to conclude that what i am going to say is you still can do better the mimer is talking about doing better the chabad mindset and paradigm is always better not to stuff and and and and degrade and and you know that's muslim of course we have my mother that talk about that and that you know but it's hasidish it's because you're so special like i've run towards abram turoski says right that he grew up and his father would tell him when he did something inappropriate as passionate it's not it's not befitting that's the attitude of hasidis in other words that you did something wrong okay but you know who you are you know where you come from so now you can say well and and today this is an issue especially with the youth i have it you know my own teenagers and daughters and you know in discussions do i do it because someone else tells me to do it should i care because someone else says you should do it this way you know what the answer is and the torah not meaning it's a whole section in the gemaran bro in in in right a whole section of minigame there's something to be said you have to behave and dress a certain way when you're in a certain community it's not outrageous respect this is the community i i told you you know people that don't like living a certain community they move to another community so what do we see only we see that community plays a very important role in religion in general and and in our religion in particular it's it's imperative have a great have a great olympia i mean there's a quote from 50 office why why can't i learn torah in new mexico of course you have to learn tournament mexico but it's much more difficult you're on your own when you go to a mocking torah it's easier so that's a value and that's an intrinsic value an important one nevertheless as a student of theater especially a student of trader um that's permeated with hasidis then you you understand that you're not doing it because of the community you're doing it because of hashem that's the answer that's the way i reckon silence gotta go zeitgeist have a good day everyone good shabbos take care