Sefiros: What, Who, When - Burning of wood parable - Igeres HaKodesh 15a- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so learning P chapter 15 The Letter 15th letter test page in middle of that the AL discusses these letters is there about s it's interesting he he he inserts or the children inserted here as part of the 32 letters this 15th letter it's all about the spherus it's all about the Spheres so in a sense it seemingly seems out of place but it's here and maybe we'll come up with an explanation as we conclude the chapter but on the other hand it's very valuable because it's an it's a a source for the whole concept of and when you learn when you learn any of any without learning about the and understanding about the you're missing the DNA ofus you can be a practicing and you can know General ideas but if you don't have the kishkas because the whole this is based on this concept of the T spher So this pic T Ines is a very important pic in understanding about the S why it's included here and why is included kind of smack in the middle it's you know it's it's letter 15 out of 32 I don't right now I didn't get a chance to look at this on shabas but uh so let's just begin learning and going to go as it said on the rather on the quicker side and the slower side because otherwise it bog us down to understand there's four things here mus is a parable Mita is a you know how do you say Mita in Hebrew there's a word Mita right is M it's a form of of expressing an idea is number three words of the sages of wise men you know is and their riddles velv and their riddles now these four four things are employed in t in our holy T thees you have Mish of so the word mus is mish Parables you have so there are different forms in which the expresses itself so the AL says in which matter regarding the in other words we're going to look at we're going to look at we're going to look at in regard to the topic of aminations so to to to to understand this when the says means it's not it's like who is known to those who study it's known in on Earth from the mouths of the superal Holy ones whose souls are inen eaten is referring to those that were in touch with these ideas and studied these ideas and used MIM so it's known in their name in their teachings my regarding a verse and this is probably the most frequent used verse in quote and from my flesh I see Godly I see God we see godliness says what is the meaning in this verse from my flesh I I perceive godl the p is is teaching that you need that the per the intent of the the the is that we can have a little understanding Holiness great from the from the soul that's invested in flesh of man right goes on what on you're rubbing your hands now on your hands not that way not just on rubbing your hands your physical hands and is what is felt and what can be understood from the hands from the flesh the because the makes the soul the hands go this way and that way and everything else whatever they're not going into levels and dgas and faculties so is a trigger for the and from that that's invested in the Goof in the body and if we so if we understand how the body works valvo and both of you are doctors who understand the the genetics more of the body and everything you understand that more and more and more ex this opens up the ability to see more of hem and this is an amazing thought because you would think H that the body the Goof is a Helm is a concealment for Hashem now here you see I want you to open your eyes to what the AL is say here that gave us the ability to see God in the Helen in the body and without it's very hard to see God in the hel and that's why P the body was scorn that and if the body had a t you said away body and what did they do they one second they tortured the body the body was the antithesis of God yes H is um the way that you're explaining it sounds very much in a way like uh Rabbi TS um explained once done to share the [Music] anthropomorphism that we see in the that people commonly and he explained it make the mistake of saying that the speaks in terms that we can understand so when it says hashem's hand we have a hand so this words says no we have a hand so we can understand that has what Hashem is not the not that the other way around our hand just gives us a small taste of the hand of Hashem which is a real hand ours is the metaphor his is the real one it's exactly the way sees it very good yes and by the way that concept is always qued the that says this is the wording of the shal I believe the to speaks about the the lower the physical the world and it alludes to to the upper that's a that's a ver from the shal from there it goes down but again you know if you didn't learn the shalad and most people didn't and they weren't trained that way they weren't interested that way they were interested only in and what's the you didn't think that way and came along the B and he started to introduce that teach that and then and all of that so then we we we had a a paradigm shift in the way we look at that hand as you said earlier let's continue says I'm not just G I'm not just it's known if you're in touch with the with the rebes and the and you're around the and you'll hear them speak and what if you're in bemes or or in Boston or in new New Mexico and you're not how you going to know about it say I'll give you a and this is another amazing thing that we find throughout t with the AL supports and backs I'm not saying everything but much of what he writes with a so he says I'll right we say we just said just as hem fills the World created and fill the world and so to the fills the body so says here is a which alludes to the same concept now he goes goes a step further for those that are interested in that studio and want want to know what the Z says he says there's a statement in Z based on AOS quote BW within the nostrils of of Adam the Breath of Life says the someone who blows he blows from his most inner core you hear this even a soul of the lowest of the four rules called it comes from the union of male and female z is an acronym from Z and we pronounce it in and those that study so if you ever hear Z this Z that it's a reference to This Acronym so says that even you're talking about kind of h a a lowlevel soul you know an ordinary guy in the street says you should know that even a NE he says it [Applause] comes and and and and there's the middles of the of the of the of the entity and there's the mo the mind of the entity and is saying basically without going into the Capa that it it it's associated with the higher that that's the point he's trying to make I want to lose the trend of thought the trend of thought is that what you see what you see on Earth the mus it's only a riddle H but in this riddle it eludes and expresses the greatest idea and the greatest idea can only be perceived through the riddle through the wise words through the mush and he says they are actually just the the the backside the the sentiment of the sentiment of of the of but the are also Godly within the vessels their their shines the infinite light of God that's hidden in wisdom okay is AEM or the light and his K and his vessels and those literally means H and his causes but causes are already a reference to the Kalin why because you have the energy and you have the result of the energy so the result of the energy is a Cause right so so that's why it says e the the the light the energ the or and referring to the where they in the world ofus in other words in lower worlds it's not that way in lower worlds it's not there's and his lights are that's throughout the the four worlds because the light doesn't isn't fathomed by where it shines right whether it's a sunny when the sun is out it shines on the garbage like it shines in a beautiful garden why cuz light is not measured by the receptacle by the recipient whereas the Kalin the recipient does measure the experience does create the experience the more refined you are the better you are if you got up on the right side in the morning then you feel good you take it in more you feel excuse the expression cocky you know and Moody and all that no so the Kim okay the Kim are in a sense antithetical to or in a sense but in notos in the world of aus because it's the world that's closest to the a to the infinite the Cale a subservient to the R so that's why he says where do you feel what this explains this is why the says and his are one it's anus because there the don't play a role of being desperate from the earth there the Cale are one with the or in man's [Music] Soul we within within the of every person there rests the here he goes to right and from the place of it breaks through shines through to man's rational and intelligence to be able to comprehend why does he sayas because we're talking about ins infinity or ins how can we man understand the or ins says you're right you can't understand it all a little bit in in the upper they all all the Fe shine in the person's that's incorporate of all okay now he brings this is seldom I think it's two or three places in the entire sa with Al actually quotes say re the mag of here is one of the places look to we must preface what I heard from my teacher you know when I read this I'm so humbled and I I I I share with with the world this humility you know who the maged was the mag was a giant of Giants and look how T dresses him it's not because he didn't have for because the you know the accolades is all like nonsense Mighty he was my teacher reminds me Sal used to say you know Sal you know what he would say I am a simple teacher that's all I am right Rabbi Sal you got two who ordained 2,000 students it was a genius of geniuses and everything else was br's grandson you know when when when when you hear that and you see he how he addresses the Magid you know you think about today you know everyone's in the paper and the with the with the photographs and the picture and asash and this great thing you go to a wedding day before they say his name and he makes the BR they read 10 lines about the person or you look at a person's Tombstone they write entire millas entire millas it it it it it wasn't that way you should know it wasn't that way look at the go go go go to Russia and Ukraine and look at look at the the of theim and greaton a few lines you know nothing's there anyway just saying when I when I come across this you know all kinds of titles no might it's my rebi my teacher just uh something yes yes is Sir I you know I joke about what going to happen when mhia comes in his white donkey and all the rers are coming in with their uh entourages of Cadillac Escalade the black Escalade which are five gam each and you know poor Messiah he's going to feel like I don't have anybody I think Messiah will be able to handle that too I'm not worried okay says I heard from my my rebi my teacher of blessed memory Al on the says and I am offer dust for a and Ashes made this comment about his own soul the amination of his soul that it shined into his body which came from the the superal light of kindness and this is's which isid the of an abundance of Love skip the parth next page 242 tremendous love so so much so and until he became an actual Chariot for Hashem for God and you might think that this level of kindness and superal love in the superal spos he may a it is an similar and in the same category of that had it's just much greater you know beyond without measurement why because because since the itself from hashem's perspective is a is infinite so it's Way Beyond says when it comes to the spal worlds and the and his causes are one as we said earlier in the world of conversely man's Soul that's invested in the physical material it has a limit so therefore there wouldn't be a comparison never you would think that the attributes again means they are similar and in the category ofid right that's what you think so therefore a said guys don't make that mistake therefore I am like dust and dashes and he explains just like ashes which is the essence of the of burnt wood the wood was initially comprised of the four elements of fire air water and and and and dust and the three elements of of fire water and and and air they leave the physical wood when it's be when it's burnt and they are extinguished in the Smoke which is created from from the combination of the three Vis the burning of the fire K is known so what's left and the fourth element that was initially in the wood which is the dust within the wood it descends below guess what an amazing thought I'm not a scientist I can't I don't know you guys are more scientific than I in your knowledge and education but the AL says here that when when the fire burns the wood the the offer velv the offer one of the elements AER is it's not included in the burning process it kind of separates itself and it becomes ashes whereas the first three a when it when the wood is caught on fire it's consumed in it and it's extinguished by it that's what he says so he says this remains existent and this is ashes so in other words saying is that ashes are the existence of the fourth element known as offer the very essence of the of of the wood and it's and it's and it's and its tangibility and its corporality and it's material in its form and width and thickness which was seen by the eye when you see a piece of wood a l whatever prior you should know that the primary aspect of this piece of wood that you Pro see the is not the within the wood but rather the offer it's not that there was no ele no aspect h of there was but it was coal it was subordinate it was inclusive in offer so and then when you light the fire you light this piece of wood on fire it loses its state of being AB you hear this it loses its state of being and what's left is the offer which turns into a and says all I am is offer now the question is why why is said that offer that dust isn't extinguished like the other three says the AL I'll tell you why because offer dust is the most Corporal the most grub the most material L with and conversely fire and and and and air and also water you have to understand why he says why does he say okay I don't know but not right now they're very to begin with there's very little of fire water and and and and and air within the eights its entire length and width and then thickness it was all from theer so when it's burnt it returns back to theer in the sense that it becomes ashes but and it remains after it's burnt up okay we'll stop here so basically I just want before we end what what Al almost is explaining is that when says he gives a very elaborate mus from from a fire a log being burnt but he's going to get to the point where you cannot compare the mid as it is from hashem's perspective and its Purity preo into a as it's in a and a was already a and a is you know the the most humble you know all that but it's still in a form I think that's what it's going to get out we'll see tomorrow have a great day nice seeing everyone Z bye bye