Practical Chasidus w Rabbi Chaim Dalfin - Maamar Choviv 1940 #1

the two in volume three of my modern middle cutting which is of the previous level and this mimer actually was uh said 1940 in New York and it's a mishina imperialvis uh beloved as man who was created in God's image and then the second Clause of the missionaries beloved are Yeadon not just man but Eden that are called children to of Hashem and the devil's question is twofold seemingly it's repetitious and secondly the order uh is also interesting that first we say a beloved is man and then we say beloved is Israel the Eid so there wants to look at those two things so to explain that he introduces the idea of the never shallow case and the Never shallis and as I said yesterday that generally in this the discussion is about the never Shirley kiss and the nephews The Godly soul and the animal Drive but seldom do you find language and memoriam and discussion about the human rational Soul which is called the Netflix and in this mimer is he talks about it and that's one of the reasons I chose the Slimer because um it's important to know that there is a third vital Drive in every human in every true in every Eid called the nephews and by the way if someone asks you a question so what what type of what type of Soul does a guy have does a non-jew have the answer is he has a a nephesh which is a nephew it's a human rational Drive and if his Makai fulfills the seventh grade laws was he has a for a certain format of um of a Divine soul but not the same as a Jew in other words even okay that's that's what fills the seventh laws is the rambam rules in in yada which is really the completion and Perfection of the Gentile on Earth is to fulfill those seven universal laws really and it's all shoots nevertheless you're not going to call him a Jew he's not a yeet so what's the difference talking about what's the difference spiritually and not indifference not in the sense of one's better than the other but what's the difference the difference is that the nephish holy kiss which we call nishama that of God doesn't have a guy has a nephesh so we make the difference between a nephesh and on the Shama and for since it's not the text we're not going to spend time on it but basically nephesh is more of a practical Drive oriented towards what needs to be done so it's the animating force of godliness that animates the person to serve Hashem that's what we call nephesh nishama is not just a practical Drive of of animating Force it's an entire um it's an entire wholesome perspective that includes an ideology and a philosophy and from that we have a an energy that makes you tick but the nashama is the ethos the ethos so the the the the the the the ethos of a gentile is nephesh the ethos of a of a of a Jew is nashama so but when it comes to the nephews that's um Universal for goyan and for Jews and Gentiles and like I said yesterday the power of Free Will of prilakashis is a very simple reason Maisha why the net for surely kiss one second the never show the kiss is is is godliness so it has an agenda it wants Hashem the nepheus is animal-like it wants animal-like condolences so how do you have Choice they're preordained they're precept they have already agendas they're not pure free choice requires complete Freedom that's pure see this says that that free choice is in the nephews within the Jew oh I'm sorry within the within man in the mind in the rationale in the intellect that's where it's really pure that's where the choice is is as a real Choice should I opt to go to the right or should I have to go to the left and that everyone has you hear that everyone has not just Jews but goyam as well because Hashem has given them as human beings sacral intellect rational rationale yes hilu uh the term nefish I don't recall in any other writings that I've been come come across in uh either in or any other kind of so my question is um it's twofold the first is I mean is this kind of a hiddish of the free the karaba was it introduced by earlier rabbis I don't recall it in in the Zohar and the kiss fairy or anything like that or in this in writings about shemtov and if so uh is it a particular kind of revelation of classical specifically to the times in the 20th century that's why I guess that's my the question the right question okay so it's not actually the show the Frida it's already brought down by the same accident if you can get a hold of that I don't I'm not I don't think it's online but there's a a little book it's not very large it's called where he has notes on Tanya and in those notes he brings nephews that's number one um number two I believe it's my memory serves me well in chapter 42 and Tanya you will see the language but it's like in between the lines it doesn't stand out because the discussion of the nephe Charlottesville Obama this is chapter one in chapter two and Tanya so it's like you know a Focus right but the nephe is it is mentioned by the words in chapter 42 um probably on the second side of 42 so you should look that up number three so and if so the outer lab already mentioned it number three number three is that I believe you if in all the Swarm you mentioned you didn't mention the the the uh the rambam spirits and I again I haven't looked in a long time but I think that the rambam uses such a language there and also the um the the the Maharaja you know the outlet and the Shalom the outer ever was called because he learned and he was well versed in the shalad of Isaac Horowitz station priest was buried in in tavaria right the holy and who lived in the the 1600s the shallow hakodesh they call him you know the the people say that for children you know that's what I'm talking about I I believe and again you have to find it I don't have a reference but he he might mention it but I I have seen it earlier but again the language of the early the earlier the language is more of a philosophical language let's say marao morale is very difficult at least for me and that's what others tell me as well it's very hard language it the the composition of the sentences the word structure and the I and and what he means you know it's very difficult I mean some say that about Tanya but um it's a difficult uh type style of of writing but if you could get through it then a person like let's say Rabbi hookner of Khan Berlin and you know was a master in morale you know there are people that are very poetry oriented and they and they and they flow with that language like Rabbi hutner was amazing he was he was um he would be a linguistic he was a an amazing linguistic of a hoodner um in his in his in his language neither is his daughter who lives in Jerusalem the head of BJJ Seminary very popular Seminary if you read her biography of her father that she you know doesn't mention her name but we know it's her and I spent a lot of time I wrote about it in my book it's it's flowery it's tremendous Hebrew I mean I I I I was blown away by by her uh beautiful uh writing and some of which I just didn't get because it's so poetic in the words and it's it's amazing so there is a style so I so I believe it's like nestled in between but you'll find it over there and again I think if Shimona broke him but but but whether that's what the out there ever means I'm not sure you see that's where that's where you have to really compare apples to apples and it's it's a study you can't just say because it says Netflix is there it's a source of never Secrets here which is what you asked me not necessarily the words what I'm saying to you hilu is the words might be there but it doesn't necessarily mean the exact idea as here but surely in samache um he brings the he brings clearly that it's a third nephesh it's a third Drive in man uh motion and and Yoni you got your follow is that clear or you have questions on that okay okay um so and and and again I can't I can't say enough how important it is to understand this because without free will without krita it's you know what are we doing what is mankind doing it's all about Choice the beauty Hashem think about it how Hashem gave us free will and you know this Independence on one hand you know Independence is is um is risky what do I mean it's risky too much Independence leads to riots but on the other hand democracy allows riots Independence as the rebel once said we celebrate a birthday although the child forgot all of the torahs the gemara says so what do you what are you laughing about what are you happy about a birthday you should be crying just like the baby cries I forgot all the data right the answer the Rev explained beautifully it represents because of Independence was celebrating independence every person when they're born they're independent they're no longer attached to the mother's umbilical cord and eat and sleep and do whatever the mother does finished you're on your own now my friends from when you're a little infant from day one so Independence is so unique and so special and we should never never underestimate the importance of Independence at the same time Independence comes along with challenges and and and issues that you can either take it to the right or the left good or bad black or white up or down right so the same thing with enough is Hashem puts in a Eid two drives that motivate you either to to Bahamas to animal-like condolences or to Ella kiss to Godliness so who is who is the who is the the person who is who who who who has this choice if I am already never shall a kiss and that is a promise I don't have the choice I'm pre-programmed so see this says is right in between balanced and if you go to the right then go to the left and I said yeah as I said yesterday the tendency of Seiko is to to go to the right meaning to to look towards things that are not animal-like right the the intellect the rationale is is more towards something that's more sophisticated and elevated and and healthy and all that but I won't come to Netflix Obama said says listen I want to be an animal but I don't I'm not an animal I'm walking on two feet not on four so let me take the rational part of myself and schlep it into my stick and give it a job rationalize and justify my Indulgence put grab the nephews into its web and it uses it to justify to justify to rationalize its Bahamas kite it's animalistic tendencies but by Nature the never is so what it does is and and it's over there with free will exists so this is this is a really an introduction to what we're learning we're learning here that Adam is one experience Israel is another experience is [Music] so the the rep is I want to make it clear the previous syllabus interpretation of the mishnah doesn't contradict the other mafarshim who say other than goes unmanned the Gentile the human being and Israel goes on a Jew the freedom represents it both goes on the jewel Adam and there is an official Israel so his interpretation this mimer is and it's not his original I believe it comes from previous in their discourses is that we're both referring to the misters referring to not a gentile but to a Jew even the first one and says but it's the it's the rational aspect of the Jew hence it's called Adam Israel and then the rebel went further in the mimer to explain that there are four shame four names for usage of names one is called Shema let me just get the names down everyone gets it essential name Torah means um I use the word uh um a character named name of a description a descriptive name then there is a name that's associated with activity with what Paul and finally there is Shane Makino your nickname and the rabbit yesterday explained uh these ideas here in the mimer and he gave us example of Evan there is Evan a rock a stone that's shame my answer ever now what do we know about the oven so then comes a description to the event a large stone or small stone for example right then there is um and that is for example the segula certain Stones Moshe we learned yesterday have a remedy for the quote agnehane uh gracious Stones they bring Cain or Avenue you know these Stones if you if you if you have them and carry them whatever they bring that's a segula remedy so and then there is and that's the third idea of a name and the fourth idea is which we call the nickname which she says is also known as shameham a barreled name or in English a figure of speech a figurative name so for example um he gave it says in Tanakh lay for Evan the Heart of Stone in others my heart is like a rock and the rebel said that's the idea of Tim to my life when you have a jaded heart you learn and you Daven and you do mistress and you still don't feel it you're clogged stopped you have late for heaven now this does a does a heart have a does a stone have a heart of course not that's what he calls shame akinui it's a figure of speech so this is what we learned yesterday and then he concluded in the last line of the the pre the paragraph yesterday that that um each of these four Sheamus there are for each of the four domains inanimate vegetation living and speaking she got four times four in other words there are there's the way there's an animal has a name the the active the description of the animal the activity of the animal and the figure of speech associated with the animal and and you find this in Tanakh you find various verses specially a mislee and and a cohes over there you'll see a lot of this usage where where the the navi Yahoo or yes you know will will describe a certain situation by or through a figure of speech so again you know this example of Leiva Evan is a simple example that you could think of you know hard as my heart my heart is like a rock you know and and similar so those are all the four names let's continue now in the next chapter page 1 273 painted base now introduces something that desire says that there are four names that the human species is called with here they are Adam ish gether and anush uh the all four mean man Adam is above all Adam denotes the highest aspect of man the energy and energy the fourth one Le Mata makulam is below is the lowest of the four and with this we'll understand the the Angels when they were my Catholic when they criticized why God created man omro they said quote what is man that he is remembered why are you bringing him to the table man man is a weak League man is a balavera why are you why are you bring why do you want to create man so what's the language there more energy it doesn't say and it's it's it's it's called man is called by the name Anish why lahoira is to denote al-haqatan the shift the small and humiliating in personality in other words if all men were like Hillel that malachim wouldn't have what to say look at this person but someone who's called it anush and we have a species out there called anush so that's what they said what is this English worth being remembered Yoni and this is not worth being remembered or bottom is issues even gatherings but not English let's continue [Music] weak characters weak personality is weak Ness there's a verse that says it means like the heart is crooked because of everything for any shoe and he is a man so it doesn't say to other than who the issue the Gabriel which issue why because that individual's heart is what that individual's heart is clogged jaded weak crooked the page [Music] the meaning of the word in that context means weak honestly he's a weak a weakling we used to say the Yeshiva is a weakling you know top of 274. gum deceive of an oddentes shortly by the way this is not feeling you know this is we say this in the Thriller of uh of uh of uh Rosh Hashanah right in in the uh the Chronos I think right that's the one so so did I ask now rhetorical question although it says also what is man what is Man worth that he should be remembered the word tifkadeno comes the word which means also also means to remember so seemingly the question of the malachim in kind of belittling man or we're asking what what you know why are you bringing man to the table on Rosh Hashanah that I should give him another good year and what's the word over there used but we just learned that Adam is the star so so that's the rhetorical question and he answers foreign [Music] and disgrace disgrace and humiliation that ever says yes good good remark good point nevertheless you can't compare the name of Anish to the name other you're right he says there's no perfection in humanity and the malachim were basically saying you need to Hashem we're more perfect than than any type of human being so therefore why create the human being why give him another year enough already put an end to this says that ever although this truth to that that a human being is still a human being nevertheless you can't compare the endos aspect of man to the other Master that's what he says look inside the other why that's the name Adam is a a virtuous a Milo an advantage when you call someone he is another that's a compliment that means he is a sophisticate he is a refined person he is an accomplished person he's an organ foreign oh yeah we're in Ryan's season you're the man okay in Hebrew in Hebrew the they say you the man attack ever like you to me right right you're right you're right I know I know but that's modern Hebrew but you're right you know it's interesting I'm sure the Linguistics not just throw the the taka why why wouldn't they say Adam why do they choose Giver I'm just interesting to know if there's any uh reasoning for that but anyway they probably didn't the only they didn't learn the Czar because this is all based on the zoars they didn't learn the soar and they surely didn't learn to feed the karapas mimer although some of those early uh zionists who were very much in the Hebrew language uh learn thing Yeshiva back in inflation or or you know in in in in Europe okay and and the name annoys it is a name associated with uh humiliation disgrace so there ever again so he he ha he doesn't he he had this rhetorical question and he agrees that there is support in our writing that even Adam is not it's not an angel so from the Angel's perspective even other wasn't good enough for them nevertheless for our context and discussion there's a difference between Adam and Emmaus and hence we we we we have uh the right and and and it's important to to delineate between the four names and what they represent that's the flow of the Mind okay um but he's still bothered he's still bothered by this rhetorical remark so he goes back to it and the and the verse that's written and what is man that he should be remembered why should he be remembered what are you after all only a piece of flesh and blood that returns to the Earth is this is as tasteless in the in the in the the opening line of the toys which begins with the word aleph Tyson says there Ben Adam the other who shame my Milo who shame Israel whether you say Adam whether you the whether the Posse says or whether the project says with all of these terms associated with Adam is Hussein Israel that is the special name given to Aid other and as it says in another verse you eaten are what you are Adam at them only you're called Adam and all other human beings are not identified as other um so one second there is Adam foreign [Music] the first man to be shame included in the in the term Bene Adam the children above them is included all of the human species and if you break it up more specifically the four names that we mentioned earlier that man is identified by he had a yes there are two categories he goes back to what he learned what we said in the earlier paragraph the essential name and the descriptive name that's one category and the other Academy the name of based on the activity and the name and the nickname the figure of speech name is apply to our four names over here Adam is Adam is the two names [Music] they are more essential names so I take that back he divides he divides the two the four into two categories I thought it was four no so he puts other and ish in what in shame in this name that represents Essence and then he puts the last two of gever and Enos and prey on him they have the scripted descriptions of man let's see what he says [Music] the name Adam is the essential name that denotes rationale intellect sejo the shemish what about the name so in other words when you say the name Adam you know to referring to someone who's very strong in intellectual it's the virtue of Seiko right the same is Hussein El amidos the name is denotes someone who beautifies and exemplifies and Masters Middle's character so it's a shame her exam it's the essential name given to identify a master of medus about medus a real bounded we call him an ish so we put other and ish me those on one side okay and then we say and now he goes to and he's going to explain this foreign [Music] those are of the advantage and virtue that the species called madabir has the human species the speaking species isn't just a species that is appreciated for the intellect the human species is also appreciated for healthy Meadows which is so there's a subset there's Seiko amidas Adam and ish and that's the virtue the Milo of of madabir someone who so the the ultimate Madame um is someone who's healthy in seho and very healthy in medus both that's the ultimate madabir [Music] this is the advantage that the character within the human that that he has over the middle is the character of animals right we know animals have all kinds of needles that we know like we learned like at least right like we learned from the katul and the normal right you can and there's so much you pay attention to animals and you know like we discussed in several serum before you know the there's the rahmanas and the and the cruelty I mean there's what to learn from from animals and that's why there are people who study animals and that's why people some people have animals in their home or their fish in their home whatever there's it's not just uh you know the whole idea of the creation of animals this is a this is part and parcel of hashems teaching us what it means to be to be a better person and we learn from animals so are there midos character traits that we that animals have yes but they're not the same as the media is to come that the human has because the meters that humanizes out should be should be if if you if you must if you really have proper medus it's Al piejo if you have needles that are wild it's not it's like you have animal like me those you're displaying you're displaying it and that's both by the way in the Good Sense where you just always give or you can never say no right right so that's all dick it's not always because sometimes you're hurting someone by always giving and not saying no that you don't use any discipline so the needles that you're displaying is untamed and it's not healthy because you're not using Seiko to direct the meters whereas the animal methods are first and foremost governed by the Heart by the Animal by the passion and from there like I said earlier they try to find justification for their passions so they use some element of intellect that they employ to justify uh the behavior right but it begins with behavior it begins with them either so that's what the rep is saying here yes that's their Essence right the the ego is and the uh and the new Raven axori is cruel so the identification you know the identification of a nature in Torah languages what's the identification of the orev is is is that's how it's you know it's like you're saying oh this person who is he an answer Mr axis walking in the street or Mr the boxer duck is walking in the street right but but we by a human being it's you look at the whole person you look at the person his Seiko and his meters by the animal that's who they are they're identified by who they are which by the way is what the ramban says the reason why this kosher animals not Kosher animals and the ramban says because when you eat something it's not kosher you're identifying with the meet the raw the bad meat of that animal the one that's not that's neutral that has no sensitivity as you know much as much sensitivity yes motion Myers yes yeah now to say related to what you said does that mean that that relates to the balance we have to have between crested and gevora right like uh yeah yeah interesting yeah absolutely absolutely um you know the the you know the good old the good old the good old most of the good old idea of spoiling a child spoiling spoiling you know we see how unhealthy and what is everyone is up in arms of Shaving you hold back the Rock from your kids you're punishing it okay who are you hitting we're not talking about that we're talking about the idea discipline discipline is a necessary tool for the health and growth of the child if you're always giving and it's it's very unhealthy Yoni ready yeah yeah so so basically I mean I mean we haven't finished this timer but the Netflix the Netflix syphilis is basically a way to to uh it's basically behavior modification it's a form of behavior modification I mean refining the behavior through yourself that's right yeah but behave you know we can ask Halo this is more his field but um you know behavior modification I think puts the M yeah okay I mean if behavior modification I I I'm a big fan have always been of um what's it called the Mind Over Matter uh um no what's it called the Paradigm Shift uh what's the other thing Hilo not the behavior modification the oh my gosh Aaron Aaron uh Aaron his his philosophy Aaron Pat Ray thank you I mean I I I I'm a fan of cognitive uh behavioral therapy um so because behavior modification again I'm not a book in this I think has more the emphasis on the behavior when we talk about the more the emphasis is is more on the cycle guide in the middle but but again you know uh the idea is the same idea I think we're talking the same thing I have another few lines together with this he named me this evening to me those of of an animal are natural and the devil says they have some intellect as well [Music] but however in addition to the fact that they're saying of animals is associated to their Midas and their nature so it's not genuine it's not pure it's already it already has a um it's tainted already right it like I said before you have the passion you have the Indulgence now let me justify it that justification is not pure it's coming with a with an underlying message and and emphasis on the Indulgence means wait a minute I'm going to now really think if this is the right thing and guess what I might conclude I'm not going to indulge the animal doesn't have that the animal is it's the word instinctual is in addition to this is what we call an acquired knowledge material through natural phenomena it attains some intellectual commercial he goes back to the verse we learned in the previous minor you're the show you right you're the show the ax knows its Master the hammur evos be Olive and the in the donkey that's in the in the uh what's the word the uh you know where it eats the table no not stable it's um they put their head into the water like the horses right yeah it knows its Master provides for it uh a place to put its head and eat and right so what kind look at the words motion say the awesome the knowledge and the recognition that an animal has it's only because of natural phenomenon that it it relates to reactivity why because they themselves as only are Guided by Nature conversely the meters of the human species who are peaceful it has the virtue of being abise the human species who's sickly that's sickly and that's why when we when we who are in the in madabir don't act with sickly or animal-like and that's what and and that's what the the prophet is is criticizing the Eden even an animal who doesn't have the virtue that you human being has better is better than you the way you're acting against Hashem that's the criticism in the human species it's impossible to have Seiko without a result I.E medos shall be Seiko such me those that are Guided by say who really the yes and it works backwards too and it's impossible to have meetings so in other words a result comes from a healthy cycle and they go together by the way this doesn't mean to say that some people are stronger and say who and some people are stronger than me does that's that's another that's another aspect and that's that's true but every ish and human being was gifted by Hashem the power of which should which which will lead when used properly to meet us okay we'll stop here and and tomorrow will continue because he's going to now tie it back to the names of the Ishq ever and enosh hope you all enjoyed and remember have a great day yeah what [Music] I always say the best therapy is that's the best message and see this I can tell you I mean but you know I I I I I I I I'm I'm at this 40 years or more and it's it's it's it's hard it's hard to to sell this message that you know people are going to therapists and and then and they should because they need to you know but at the same time there's so much that hasidis can give a person if you just you know you learn it you understand it and then you work with it and and you talk it out um you know uh I told you 10 years ago when you had we had the call of the show for Fiasco if you remember with that uh Warner Earhart the S type of program that they just put into different words called Chauffeur um and uh there were the barber chairs and Chabad that were that were and and leaders and rabbis I must be him that were um suggesting to students to to take a look at this and and uh it would brought a big commotion to the community and they had a big asifa and my mashbird of your Khan spoke and Rabbi from California spoke uh and and the message was that you know if you learn hasidus properly you could deal with all issues including the anger you have against your parents you know you know the one of the main things of this these sessions was to talk out your anger you have against your parents that was a very big a very big issue and they would sit Shabbos morning they davened early and sit around in a circle on the floor and speak bad about their parents speak things that that they feel their parents hurt them and it was very very but it was in a group so they're abundant and not about him literally you know rabbit David Cole he only knows who I'm talking about then Flats were from a double cone is a big classic rule that's forbidden and he's a lit Fox not a closet why because to go wash your your your laundry in public is is not right it's it's not holistically right if you speak privately 101 101 to a therapist that's a different story it's private you know and and but but if you learn hasidus I'm telling you if it's done in the right setting and with the right person you can you could tap into the same things you can but you know um the the world is not uh yet not yet has not yet opened itself up and maybe you know we're doing a bad job in marketing hasidus you know you know where you know I mean I've run towardski God bless him you know he tried you know for years his best and he did a lot of tremendous good but there's so much more to really um Market you know I use the word market because today everything is marketing you know and uh if you if you could Market more and hasidis and and not compromise I'm not talking about compromising I'm talking about you know strategically bringing the ideas of hasidis to the person who has like Hilo shared with me you know an overeating addiction a smoking addictions and and to do that you know it's tremendous and and and and as a double result not only are you helping them therapeutically you're helping Aid be more of a Jew and you're helping an angel be born of a mensch so so you get two two things for one you know you get the therapy part and you get the and you get the the uh religious part the the spiritual part whatever you want to call it anyway we will continue zygous and everyone have a great day foreign