Prophets: Do they exist today? Today's generation is greater than ever before - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so good day we we're going to finish the day M the second chapter of sh we're on page 154 about seven eight lines uh from the bottom and the AL taught us until now that contrary to what uh the Heretics believe that Hashem put energy into the world and then left the world to run on its own and the world is coasting Al explained how that is not the case and he explained it rationally and logically not only as he did in chapter one quoting the first God's word is always standing in the heaven on and the Earth sustaining it which is a so therefore you have a a Torah a t b verse to support that idea but in chapter that's that's um that's as we say G it's written you know but in Chapter 2 the AL adds the idea that there's a logical explanation why the argument of the Heretics isn't true because they they their their comparison to a Craftsman making a vessel and leaving it in the vessel still exist is is erroneous this is um what he was what he explained to us yesterday in great detail and he added that it's even a greater The Act of Creation is a greater KES a greater novelty even than yamu which was miraculous no question about it that water which is normally flows and moves was gathered in one place and then it became like a a wall to the right and the left and the Eden passed by and when the je the Egyptians were chasing them went right behind them to to kill the Jews the the wall crashed the water went back to its its normal state of flow and it it it they all drown so today Del is going to explain that this energy that we're talking about is is contained in the 22 letters of the T in other words what's the filter iser that brings the from hashem's Essence to the world it's specifically and and the emphasis is not just 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet what makes the IUS of the alphabet of the olive base holy throughout this chapter mentions and he always says because it's only the T that makes the 22 letters holy okay let's look inside now it's uh 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 lines from the bottom in middle of the the line begins with the word m those are the first two words on the line and in the middle we have the words V uh I'm sorry it's even further up sorry 14 lines from the top so it's m in middle of page it's the two last words on the line that begins with the word Leo and this energy it it this refers to the letters of speech which letters of speech M my mothers of the 10 utterances when Hashem said at creation let there be light let there be this that's what we're referring to with these letters Hashem created the world and it's these letters that sustain the world every moment and this is the reference to what's written the and you Hashem enliven everything comes along the shal and theous and they say Al don't read the word only or don't read it as M that God in enlivens the world in other words what does enliven the world mean there's a world that exists hasem gives it highest energy don't read the verse which says as only rather read it as creates so isert it's like it would say it's as though the verse is saying this is from the shal you AEM not only en liven something that existed outside of you but rather it is you that creates it and makes it exist that's the interpretation of the shal and the and it's brought throughout left and right says what are they referring to what type of the word means to create we're talking about a creation EXO something from nothing yes it's a which is the word I'm using Throughout the chapter in this section of the chapter it's a novelty it wouldn't it didn't exist before how does exist now only because Hashem is M every single moment and says the the words and the are are indicative of the manner in which Hashem in creates the world the word they refer to the letters right Al is the first letter T is the last of the Hebrew Olive B letters V is like the is from till from the AL till the T and then you have the last that refers to the five different ways in which letters come from the mouth the Linex the guturu the different the mouth the tongue the the lips and all of that so there's five five parts of the of the body in which wording comes forth from so the hey is five referring to that he says those are those are the five [Music] um exits Mo means like the exits of the mouth which become is the source of Words letters words if we wouldn't have the Linex and and and and the teeth and the mouth and all of that and wording is difficult to express and that's why sometimes people are missing teeth that don't have teeth and people are having issue with the larance and the people with this or that you see that their their dictum is not clear why because there's something messed up wrong something that's not proper with one of the five gutturals of the mouth so it says the from the AL till the tough V Al till T hey is expressed those letters which means the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet of the alphabet are expressed through the through the words now the AL asks and it's these words of the that in in create the world hasem used these words as the build the building block for the universe and therefore ye those are words let there be a tree let there be a heaven let there be May whatever right so those letters are make it possible for them to be water hem would not say that they wouldn't be any water now we learned earlier in this chapter how do he get everything else that exists in the world from those 10 utterances so the Al said through a system called and the exchange of letters the gatri of letters in other words the interplay of all the letters of the Hebrew alphabet make it give existence not just life force existence to all of GMI and and how you come about that he gave us an example uh earlier the the tagline of the the of and the of interchangeable and so to the of and the of are interchangeable so that's an example of one example of the of the idea of the exchange of letters now ask a question question is it's a rhetorical question you're telling me hasem has words goof that's the the rhetorical question it stops after the word goof and although Hashem has no image of a body it's all a metaphor so what do you mean Hashem has words here comes the retort to the rhetorical [Music] question says it's not a question on me it's a question it's a question of anything on the TOA and the TOA answers it clearly and openly and M means the verses are full which which the verse writes what is it God said and God spoke God spoke and God said deeper what do you mean God spoke God has a mouth so was saying what do you asking on me ask on the to and the answer is it's not a question on because it's a metaphor so too it's a metaphor here now this manner in which Hashem gave his energy to create the world he is Gus it's the through the Revelation that's it's it's Hashem being revealed to in the world to create the world the through the 22 letters the from of above of the spiritual nature and who did he give him to to everyone but particular the prophets and the invests in their in their int brain in their logic and their rationale their mind and their comprehension when they said prophecy in other words when a nvi n said prophecy that we having tanak the St prophecy it was an expression of the 22 letters that AEM and words that hasem brought to the world that's exactly what took place a navi wasn't making up his own ideas he was a mouthpiece for the 22 letters of the olive base and not only and and the union between the the energy of Hashem and the Nai was his that's look at the word means it enclothed itself it invested itself not only did it it do the words of the the 22 letters invest itself in their mind but also in their thought and also in their speech in other words the N were fully braced from their mind to their mouth to their action IE giving over the prophecy to the Jewish people with what with the 22 letters of the T which is the building block the DNA of creation so a navi represented a a um what's the word I'm looking for an unadulterated 22 letters of t the the navi basically was the physical embodiment of the 22 letters of the T that he communicated to the Jewish people and says it says in there's a verse that supports it the spirit of God spoke Within Me and's word is on my tongue writes there is a prophet and is saying God's word that he speaks is coming out through my tongue what does that mean exactly the balat says here that the 22 letters which is the embodiment of Hashem used to create the world um right is on my tongue so therefore or if it's on my tongue the navi the navi is is representative of this [Music] reality means similar what do you mean similar it's not exactly identical it's not exactly but it's similar in other words we're making our comparison between a navi a prophet and the way the 22 letters of Hashem which is the DNA of the universe is in the universe creates the universe before we're talking about how it creates the prophet and that the prophet is an embodiment of the 22 letters of Hashem right now we're talking about the same idea so it's similar and you'll see why he uses the word similar as we end the chapter let's continue okay he similarly it is as well when it comes to the investment of hashem's letters hashem's words of the 22 letters in in creatures in Creations as it says in with the word of God the heavens were made and with the uh the wind the the ru the air the wind of of of peeve of his mouth the breath that comes out from his mouth col of all hosts I in the world is created so what do we see that Hashem used the word the o to create Heaven and Earth so therefore Heaven and the Heaven and Earth as created by the words are similar to hasem creating and giving the navi the prophecy that he that he used that's the similarity now says in other words why is it only similar it should be exactly identical so he explains the difference however she when it comes the creation it goes through the prog Progressive descent from level to level through many gradations until it gets to what we we call the physical world in other words like this hasem utters the words or let there be light look into the light is created in this dark world that existed right those they call it a dark hole right the black hole the black hole becomes illuminated with light how CU Hashem says ye he let there be light now for the light to actually come to the world and the sun to come out and the moon to come out and for light to be it C it didn't come from in one time because if it came in one time and in one way right away it would overwhelm the world it's like overwhelming a person right go and tell a person doesn't know about tomorrow morning I want you to to do all the Mitzvah you know and and and be from and shave your head and and put your beard on on you know 99.9 won't even look at you you you know once in a while you have but so the point is you're overwhelming you're overwhelming the person so how did hasem create the world how is it that the O the words that he used which are the O were used as the building DNA blocks of the world it's overwhelming so this gives the answer says over here it came through what we call hisus it's like a chain there's the upper Loop the second Loop the third Loop and as you get lower the loop has its head in the higher one right and then it goes lower and lower and lower and lower so what what comes out at the end has the kernel of the of the energ but it's not overwhelming and that's how a world was actually created so you could if you use the musle before that I gave of the person becoming from where you work with the person and you educate them and you teach them and then they they they gravitate and they're interested and you share and they grow in in their yish kite so but it took it took right I'm not saying you shouldn't you know um a g a convert you're obligated to tell that there's 613 Mitzvah and seven mitzvas that are B and if he doesn't he or she doesn't like it don't convert if you don't like these laws this club is this is the club the rules of this club you don't like this club go to another club find yourself another country club but this club these are the rules right but when it comes to implementation you here it's gradual and if it's if not gradual n usually it it busts it it it shatters people accept upon themselves all kinds of things and then it falls away and by the way this isn't only with balicha and with G it's with the from birth it's from yesim it's with K it's with everyone overwhelming inspiration usually doesn't last there's a lot of conversation about this iser in the all for that inspiration is is great right but when inspiration is overwhelming and you try to embrace it at the end it doesn't last you know whether it be a person wearing you know a stral or a beaser or a full beard and then years later theal goes the beard goes and this goes and that goes you know and and and we see it today left and right unfortunately and the problem is the rudimentary problem that they never wasn't internalization to the point that it becomes you because if some when you're inspired and ultimately becomes you just like you don't change right and you want to live and you haven't changed your Core Essence of breathing air your andite and whatever that is doesn't change either it's it's what the lady says when you have that inspiration you have to channel it into a CLE exactly what's the CLE the Torah mitz exactly that's exactly what I'm saying and with I'm adding that with it needs to be in a gradual way so we call that in terms so says the difference between the inspiration the the the energy of Hashem creating the world and the energy of hem kind of creating the N is that when it comes to the world it took a gradual Descent of until it came to the physical world creating of material world M convers the comprehension of the prophets when you look at you're looking atus you know that means you're looking at AI you're looking at a piece ofos now I didn't taste AAS I don't think you tasted AAS but we learned about AAS and Aus means it's close it comes to the word AEL near it's close to God so when you talk to a Nai and a na'vi talks to you and when the navi spoke to the Jewish people Aus was talking to them and they saw with the physical eyes the embodiment ofus in thei that's invested in the world of Bri meaning to say that there there is no there is no um the full the full energy is invested in this man so when you heard from a na'vi when a navi spoke to the Jewish people it it it got the full dose that's the difference the world the Bria doesn't get the full dose the full dose is too overwhelming so it's disguised and packaged when it comes to a Nai no disguise no package here you have it now this is such a power power ful thought a deep thought needs a lot of hining because let's extrapolate just for a moment we'll conclude this year that the same is true with a Reb especially our Reb right you know people have a some people have this you know uh uncomfort when you say the is like the B what are you out of your mind or the Reb like the alter rebba what are you what you smoke last night Al like the AL what are you you learned this another that's what he's saying he's saying about the N do you let's go back you know get let's get the uh the yellow journalism away for a moment you believei come on Samuel the prophet sure M all the different prophets right no put go back 3,000 years and make Bel fantasize that you're standing withi you think he would look any different than theab or another great sadic no he wouldn't you think he had horns what he was a human being who spoke well our spoke for 42 years in public many of which I heard with my own mouth and I saw with my own face no and he gave over the words of Hashem and we saw his behavior and we saw that he was a a honest person of of integral truth and we saw that he was a sadic and we heard and we saw so how is he different than a na'vi the answer is because he's not written up in the book of Samuel thank you my point is that if we say that we you know there is no concept of n today and there is no concept of this spirituality of today including and including the then you might as well close all the and just do what you want Hashem says in every generation I give youu and I give you prophets and I give you ability to be as great and as holy as yeen were then and guess what we're more holy today because after a holocaust and after a Counter Culture Revolution and everyone came it's coming back everyone many are coming back and have come back built families a grandparents and great-grandparents Etc that's even greater than there ever was there was never a time in Judaism from the beginning of history that you had such a phenomenon so therefore for I'm just making this last part applicable to our lives that it isn't just oh learning about the so you're going to ask M why is this relevant to us why is this piece of T relevant to us today and the answer is it's relevant because there aren't technical Nim because the time of nim is closed and and past but there spir there's this concept of nim inik you know so you know you know will will say literally that is AI okay no problem you want to believe that and you you have you have support no problem but even if you don't accept that you know the concept of navi for sure is true right the concept of a navi is true there is the you know he is a navi we don't the time of NV are closed so to say that he or he is a navi is seems to be far fetched you know within the Jewish tradition Torah supported but the idea the idea the concept applies today like it applied then that's what the AL is saying here going to say good shabas shabas it's a great chabas and Monday we will learn begin chapter three of have a great CH byebye take care you're welcome byebye