Purpose of Chasidus study: Change your nature - Igeres HaKodesh 10b- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

we're on page Ines chapter or letter 10 in middle of the chapter at the beginning of a new paragraph the balat here as with most of his letters in this section of which is the fourth section of Tanya talks about the importance of giving Seda and particularly giving Seda to people [Music] these aren't just you know practical letters these this is part of in other words if it's put into T it's part ofus andus isn't just do a b and c and d kabus is kabad why are we doing it how are we doing it when are we doing it are we doing it properly in other words the philosophical aspects of Seda are explained in these chapters and shabas I took out there's a full volume today probably three 400 pages of the AL Reb's letters IG the introduction is about 70 80 pages from Rabbi bar Lan the main librarian at 770 at the library it's fantastic I mean I know him personally he's a genius he knows he put together the new version of the AL that's his work I mean he's he's a very gifted person and he he's been writing you know the history of kabad in various ways and at times he gifts Us by writing an introduction well to these letters to this volume he writes an introduction and it's really phenomenal so over there the shabas I I looked a little bit and saw what he has to say about AES and what I found out or maybe reminded myself of is that these letters as we have them in Tanya here are sometimes not the full letter at times the the section of the letter that has do and therefore do this and this and this and this is not included here why because this is a book of this isn't a book a manual like let's say missus is known as a book of mus but besides that it's very much oriented to Nik in other words be clean and therefore do this to be clean now of course it gives you kazal about being clean but it's orientation is more practical of the bov in general and especially of its whole idea is to understand what I call Divinity in Hebrew elus from the word Ela to understand God to understand that's what the study of cism and mind you you know you've been around and you're involved with other kasic groups and there's a breakdown in this today there's a big breakdown and therefore just one second just one second therefore it's become very popular now with from other groups and they remain other come and listen to what they call especially so let's say Rabbi who's he he says clearly I am not a I'm not acting like a Reb I don't want to be a Reb I'm a who sharing sharing what I learned so today they call those type of people Mas so shabas we had someone from bemes down up down the road from where you guys live his name is Rabbi uh airlander I don't know if you heard the name whose father I understand is also like a popular mashia but older so this fellow was here a SAT a wealthy brought him to to his son's and wedding and and and and meanwhile our our Sho benefit from him giving a sheer and then towards the end of after shabas I drove over to a another Sho where he was for bringing I couldn't get in that's how packed it was and who and everyone there was and white socks and he what is he saying what is he talking about Al I'm telling you what I hear Al all the concepts that we've been learning in all these years this is very popular today especially n you know in America you have pockets here Pockets there of these what they call hasem there you know the mostly you know yerite that married a year or two or so and the more serious ones what meaning they're they they you know Chun and cougle don't do it for them anymore they want meaning they want to understand what's going on in in in the universe what's going on with a this is this this is this this isn't just clapping and dancing and and crying and and that's all a result ofas but without the study the philosophy the understanding of these ideas you have the um the trappings the outer trappings so I I'm not I don't want anyone to walk away thinking oh RAB doin is pooing my sto RAB do is poing my G RAB do is pooing my beard I'm not they're all holy on its own but there has to be an inside okay so when you put on a shal or you put on a beard and you put on a GLE what are you doing you know what for why what was wrong with what was missing beforehand and you have to ask yourself this question and you have to seek answers and you have to have discussions and you have to study and learn so I'm saying all this the AL here these letters that we're learning the the kind of the bottom line that what what he want what he what he wants from each letter from the that he's writing to is not included in Tanya it's not what part MO is including in Tanya the Phil philosophical part now naturally in between you'll get a line here a word here and I try to elaborate that and you know make it clear so that we walk away with something practical we CU we're all in the Practical world and we're all older and all that but I don't want to I don't want to mislead you and that that you know that these letters are just how much you give 10% 20% 30% it's not about that you don't you don't return to Tanya for that to Tanya you or turn to why should I give 20 20% how can I give 20% and that we're going to learn today or tomorrow this week in the sh this exact answer to this question where says for example you're not allow to give more than 20% and we see sometimes people do yes sir so it's not just a question and answer that's needed but it's the philosophy what is giving more than an obligation mean as far as you're concerned and as far as God's concerned and as far as the universe is concerned that's Tanya that's what the alter that's what the alter brings to to the table yes is Sir you want to say something yes yes sir question yes is perhaps I'm not understanding or or I need clarification what according to is the purpose of learning granted it's an essential part of but what is its purpose is it t just like every other part of Torah we have an obligation to learn we have an obligation to learn we have an obligation to learn or is it to to um enhance our teila or is it to change our practice what is the purpose okay I got it of learning good question and the your question was asked to the and and the answer that the previous Reb gives which I think is the one that we could relate to more is the purpose is to change the nature of your character not to change your character cuz good mid are good mid bad mid are bad mid and for that go learn miss you don't need BTO for that sorry go learn P but to take a Mida that's good but it's natural to you and to upgrade that that is an Ava and that's the Ava of of of of of the study ofas the purpose the purpose of the study ofas now that's the answer to your question and nutshell what's the style that kabad that kabad uses to that is to understand Divinity in other words if you want to move beyond your nature right I've I think grew up I think you said in Los Angeles or everyone grew up in a certain culture certain Community a certain way now you want to go beyond that and you don't want to think Los Angeles anymore and you don't want to think America anymore you want to think Bas on mdash or the re terminology MERS you want to think mashiach right what someone asked me yesterday like what what's the Reb about msia I mean it's yeah I said thank you very much that's a lip service that we say but to think this way daily every moment and to and to live this way that's no doesn't come from just saying an so the per the the the way to get to change your nature it's the very hard thing is by becoming some thing that you weren't raised as which is elus divine we're not raised the vine good parents good rabbis good communities but we're all like to eat and to sleep and to have money and and just the basic Right comes along the B and says all of that has to be from that perspective what does that mean you know that means that means that within all the pleasures and Necessities even necessities of life you have to feel God not you not feel I I need this and I need that and I need this and my kids need that and my Rabbi needs that and Israel needs that no you need God and if you feel God then things will go according to God now that's a departure from the norm that is changing the nature of a c of a Mida to be Transcendent and the result is a major one the result is if I'm not in the mood of doing something or I wasn't raised this way who cares are you a servant of God or you're a servant of nature that is the difference at the end of the day between a Godly person or in the terminology of the is we just read you guys remember theas what does what does she say ises the Isis says this fellow that's coming by here to stop off on his way and taking a drink and getting some food and ask and staying overnight in my little place where I have a little table and a little lamp right right all that ises how did she know she he's an ish kades how did she know he's a holy person and what does it mean that he's a is kades does it mean just that he's a good guy a from man an honest man no is is she sensed in him that this is something special this individual that I'm hosting isn't just another man another good man another proper man this is a holy man but it makes him holy what makes him KES that he doesn't live his life based on his nature he lives his life based on elus God which transcends nature and the language over there in one of the Pim is such I forget the words now Z so there's a famous ta I think I told you once years ago she knew that one of the she knew that he was a holy person because usually when a per a good person you you're going to find someone who going to say to find the person that everyone says only positive about them it's impossible right well that's that's what she that's that's what she saw about this fellow she said if no one has a bad word to say about him ises this man is a real holy person and that what not Shute yourself please and that itself is within what I'm saying as as long as we go with the N Natural Way iser Nature has ups and downs there's no perfection in nature when you reach the plateau of elus of godliness by studying godliness studying which is godliness Divinity then you have the ability to become like God okay enough for the prologue here and now we will go to page chapter 10 quotes the that there's two kinds of one is called the of the world the other one's called and abundance of and basically until now he's taught us and he asked the question it should say it says the P that's quoted is for your kindness never ends but y doesn't say to what do go simple grammar Hebrew grammar is doesn't refer to it refers to us we kind of don't end what does that mean the verse that that the of never seizes the end it'll always be here for us so should say Samu which means doesn't end doesn't seize why that's what the that was his question in the beginning he's going to answer it all the way at the end but and but he begins explaining this idea of since we're talking about and again he wrote this letter to his in Russia encouraging them to give Seda and to give openly and broadly and give a lot because again there was a diminishing of that so he wants to explain to them he explains to them what the whole idea of is so now we're at a point where he's explain that regular is a limited is a Li mited experience what does that mean Hashem as hasem reacts in Aid way is called it's a that's associated with the world meaning also from the word Helen concealment why because it has to go through channels we do we we we cause hem to give us but it's limited it's limited it's limited to how what we do now on page is going to explain the higher level of which is the objective and what he's going to teach us in this second section of this letter is that we are able to a need to emulate this higher level which seems to be Way Beyond us and Al will give us a recipe for implementing it in our life and then the is transcendent or in terminology of the of the AL here then it's it's not just worldly kindness it becomes an abundance of kindness let's look P third line new paragraph because since were given by investing the themselves in contraction only anation most mitzvas have a certain limited amount how long should be good 12 good tell you square right if you have a pair of filling and the sh isn't exactly square and that's why we always check to make sure nothing's chipped it's puzzle it's invalid why mha why the pares of kosher mha Brun wrote them they're beautiful they're coming from all over the world to buy his pares but the the bottim the bottim the Bas has a little chip on the corner it's not Square anymore it makes it invalid that's the so what do we see that mitzvas as beautiful as they are if it isn't exactly according to the sh the the way it's that kazal say it should be it's invalid that's on the next example hey it just came through suus you need a certain she of has to be seven how big the must be needs to be like 80 right what is it the the amount of water so too regarding during the time of the they had a specific specific kind of animal for each particular sacrifice and it was allowed to be eaten and for certain am these these goats one year these Rams two years so we see it's not just a freefor all hey I want to bring this nice fat cow to the Bas of mikdash wait a second is it is it kosher you know and how long can you eat it for well it's it's so it's it's a big cow you're going to have meat for the six six weeks sorry chap you got two days to finish the meat who's going to eat it oh it's going to be Bas maybe I shouldn't bring it maybe I should bring just a small little cow so what do we see that Mitzvah as wonderful as they are they have they have limitation they have a measurement let's continue and so with your s and of giving money although it's from the three pillars one of the three that the world stands upon says the world is built with now you would think M you would think that if the world is based on right let me do as much as I want look further a says the AL even though even so there is a limit how much you should give even if your wife won't isn't nagging you and says give as much as you want 20% you want to really beautify the mitvah 20% not 21 20 10% for the average person everyone's obligated to give my says all of this all these examples is called a associated with the world with it's the all day that invest itself in the higher and lower world through our arousal below which is how it's by us doing kindness and benevolence that people do with each other and given that the world is limited it takes 500 years to go from the uh from the Earth to the he to the to the heaven to the sky from Heaven to Heaven only 6,000 years is the world that we know it as it is because of all these limitations there's been given a limit and a a measurement to the MIT like all the other Mitzvah is saying here that although you would think when it comes Splurge give as much as you can and go beyond means that the is based on and in there is there's limitation and measurements and therefore 10% is the average 20% is and so a certain amount has to be for the she of a Talis and AET and everything else so is saying that the whole scenario the whole scenario of of Mitzvah the way Mitzvah the way the Mitzvah we do and have in this world is a limited one that's point tomorrow we're going to learn tomorrow we're going to learn that there is an exception to this rule by S where you're allow to give more than 20% and I'm going to leave you in suspense till tomorrow when we'll find out what that exception is and continue wonderful s yes go ahead yes go ahead go ahead go ahead what what about so you mean to say is it is it is it U no so that it's a good question I didn't think of it you know is part of or is it good question let me think about that because it's the higher level of because being that there's no one else to take care of but you see you could say that that's also in other words since there's no one else to take care of the person who just passed away therefore you are obligated to do that so again it's It's associated with a with a situation A a worldly situation in other words something happened in the physical world and there's no one to take care of this body therefore says you have an obligation so we could say that's also under the guise of of Yesa you wanted to say something it's okay thank you it's okay why go ahead go I have time go ahead no no I I I didn't have I didn't have anything I was just oh okay anyone any yeah AB you want to say something no h is is it clear my answer to your question what you asked before yes yes it is I want you to think about it forward to sing the balloons by MOS the balloons they coming the is coming it's going to be Beyond balloons it's going to be mashia get ready Mia is gonna appear at the love you all take care yes what one one reason Lear to to change myself that was a l but remember you want to change yourself and you want to become a Godly Man Godly not just a good bidos and a you know a godly man you want to go beyond nature zun love you all Take Care thank you thank bye bye bye Basha good to see you