Shechina, Divine Energy can be accessed and released from its captivity - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so good day we're learning the last of the on chapter 52 p b is Ben n b reversed is b n Ben a son and some say in cab it says b is Ban shame ban one of one of the ways of writing theut through the and and is and also through uh the mil equals 52 so that's just an aside the pic here seeks to explain the idea of and that which we which we talk about theas and the Kim why do we make a big deal about the because the is the animating Force that dwells in the world if you recall two ago I explained to you based on what it says there are four aspects of hashem's Revelation in the world Al is Galia where Hashem positions himself in a way that the world it's the world of Revelation meaning it's pre- Revelation but it's open to Revelation so we call that Al is Gia then there is mat where Hashem descends more from the AL Galia to m is Aramaic for the Mal the queen just like a queen receives from the melik the king for the purpose of giving it sharing it with others that's a lower more of a of a descent into the world and then there is the third level called the lower mother which is Bina we spoke a little bit about that and finally there is and the focus is really in this pain so we always use the word you'll hear in the community why don't we say yes MAA just quick question you just said the third stage is you said so would be because I know we have two stages above that we have the we have the so which how does fit in you don't mind me asking uh no I don't mind you asking at all he doesn't say it clearly here so you know I'm just saying what I think is the intuitive the intuitive Flash the creativity the point of creativity that could be Al Galia and it could be M and it could be matona in in other words depending again like we've discussed so many times on what's the context of the discussion in the particular mimer or section of Tanya where this is discussed that would be the answer in other words both Al Galia which is level a highest B matrona second level and compared to the third level is is a compared to beina it it's right so for example alad Galia means the the potential for Revelation not Revelation yet the potential for Revelation so that's analogous to a creative idea which is the potential for the development of the idea which is beina right okay but yeah so so you you could what sounds like to me more um common would be that would be in your question which a good question would be more analogous in this scenario to Al okay but but if you what about D no so no D so Das would have more of a relationship to to the fourth level why cuz animates Das takes what the point of creativity and the point of analysis and development and then you focus and concentrate on it leading to a result which is the midles so the is the application of the first three gradations of God's willingness and potential and interest in a world and to imp implement it but continuing now said that everything has to go through malus I didn't really speak about I want to speak about this for a minute a few minutes malus is the 10th SPH of each right there's with a me at the end me is malus what is this malus so we translate it as kingship and royalty regality malus but something more kind of practical for our daily lives malus is that that area in which it connects the upper and the lower the higher and the lower it connects the kind of God godliness that you know is in not interested in being on Earth and it sleps it down into Earth and yet it schleps Earth up to God it's it's the intermediary in a way malus so D teaches here that kabad kabad he says for example is mikra is Torah Torah meaning the five five mikra is is is right and then you have tal you have Mission and I want to correct myself something I said yesterday I said the reverse of what theat is I said that talm because it has the reasoning is more and mishna is Bria because it's has it's just aak and I relearned it yesterday and it's just the opposite that was wrong but the AL is saying is mish is and tal is Bri why because the alud has re reasoning so Bria the world of creation is where there's the sense of a world although it's more formed right although it's more formed it's a formation of what the law is which is Mna we think talmud is greater than mishna it's wrong mishna is greater than talmud you know why cuz mishna doesn't need the talmud the rabbis the the sages in the mishna it's not that they didn't one second they knew the reasoning but they chose to just give you the bottom line this and this is the that's it not because they didn't know the reason they they wanted to give it to you concisely so it's a higher level than tal talid means without an explanation I don't buy it I don't accept it yes MAA I see you're very animated to say something go ahead no so but but we know we have the order if if Miss is higher right so why isn't that Bria which is next which is right below I I understand that's what I'm answering I I I know that's the question this your question is my question is the alter Reb's question the answer is because it's not a the mission is the in other words it's closer to it it communicates concisely do it this way that's it giving a reason I the tal is not greater it's lower in other words if I don't give you a reason you don't accept it that means I'm already um giving in to the argument I'm giving in to the darkness I'm giving in to the question mishna doesn't give in so when it comes to Y the world of formation it's already more formed this is the form this is the form it's like I told you yesterday right the idea you have in your mind what you want to draw then you make an outline the outline to me would be Bria it's only an outline then comes y y is already the sketch not just the sketch and and and pretty much you know ready for the next stage which is finishing off the piece of art so the mishna is the finitive in its approach Rabbi so and so says this no more there nothing to argue about yes no so I don't I don't see I don't I don't understand how we can go with that approach because mishna is which we know obviously also comes from sin and the mishna when we just read a straight the straight mishna we don't always know exactly we don't always understand what the din we understand the din in a raw form but practically we don't we need we need the gar to teach us to go through what is the raw but when you you go through the raw form that's what refines it and that's see that that's to me it makes perfect sense mishna then gamar and gar being it's it's a lower level but it's it's yeah the mishna maybe you could say is more definitive in a raw sense but in a very Down to Earth Sense and a refined sense that's the gamar that's the the the distillation of of the Mish so to me it would make sense briish okay um I you havein Al's Tanya in English by you do you have do you have his ex do you have any safer that explains this chapter here here now in in the studio I'm saying now or later whatever I I'm saying yeah yeah yeah the answer is yes M Miller's look you look up over there and maybe maybe he'll clarify more I I I I I want to go on and okay I I hear your point and as I said initially it seems that you're correct but you aren't correct um and the fact that the talud clarifies the Mish is is because of a shortcoming it's not because that it's because we don't understand so we need clarification okay I hear yeah I hear that okay look yeah but look at that let's go on so the I was saying about malus and malus are interchangeable names Inus when usually when in in when we talk about the we're talking about the level of malus what's the level of malus the level of Mal is to to impact the next World in other words to bring a result and to bring what's higher into the lower and that's what the AL is is is is is speaking about now so I want you to turn to page 146 and we are at um four lines from the bottom the third word the line starts with the word again one 146 1 2 3 4 fourth line we at the third in this manner the descended and invested itself he's been talking here about something called what does mean like the Chamber of study is the Chamber of the holy of holies a reference to what to the holy of holies in the Holy Temple and the bdash and the harabas right but Caba takes this idea and says that there is a spiritual concept of in every world and and what he's going to add in that moment is not only in every world but in every level look further in all every world out of these three worlds is divided into many many Myriad levels which are also called specific worlds and next page skip the parentheses shall call now this so this is what happens this is the scenario okay look you have kabad kabad is the is is the Torah of each world so in the world of of of ofos it's um it's mikra in the world of Bri I said the the talm the world of mish and then it comes into the world of AIA where is this energy comp contained in what we call the the holy of holies of each world the holy of holies right just like in the in the temple in the B mikdash the K was the place where you had what the and the Tyra in the Ark in the Ares in other words this was the containment of of the the spiritual energy that fuels the the world of that particular world now for for each of these energies to move on and give of of its energy to the next one there needs to be a link there needs to be a connector the connector is called malus soad of each World invests itself in the malus which is the lowest sphere of that world and the Mal of that world relates to the next World and that's how the progression of energy goes from level to level if you ever wondered about the mechanical system of how hashem's or inself travels from Infinity from or inself all the way into this world this is what he's speaking about in this chapter right here so so he he uses this word right what does that mean the the the Chamber of holy of hly in the world of action it sounds so aloof so cabalistic so mystical and it is but it could be defined that's what does it breaks it down is not scared to take these flut and totin calistic ideas and say let's grab it by its and and let's let's take it apart and how do you understand it you understand it by understanding your life the world and everything else so in this case the AL is doing just that in like I was telling is before the she in a very brief way like what I'm telling you now it's like not clearly in the Tanya I heard this from my teacher and he heard it from his teachers and it goes back to the AL for some reason he chose here to be very very brief in explaining the these ideas maybe because this is still part of this is my own thought it it's because this is still part of the uh 53 chapters which is called why is it important for to know about the of like come on we're dealing with a and we're dealing with jealousy and we're dealing with Med you know to meditate on a little before we D so we say the words with more kavana I have to be worried about how the infinite light progresses and where it goes and how you know what I'm saying DBA says yes it's somehow relevant to you B but he doesn't spend much time on it maybe because you know um too much will be too overwhelming it's not a book of Caba here but that that is I believe the what part of what he's saying right here now he says this energy now look at his language here so we have number one the energy at the bottom of 146 use the word that number one the the has to invest itself in the lowest level Mal now he says on page I second line it it has to descend your number two meses enclothe itself that's another additional to Progressive um way of how it finally gets to us that's what he said it has to go through through these through steps to finally getting to the bottom line I I want to give the mush which we've said a little bit in the past but just go over it because it's important so the mush is like this the ra and the tal the the rabbi the teacher in the tal and the student in usually when we talk about the scenario of a raav and a tment we're talking about that there's no comparison between the knowledge of the teacher and the knowledge of the student there there's no comparison so if the ra has to teach these type of students the first thing he has to do is to create within himself the understanding and willingness that there is a world called student and before the rabbi the teacher the professor creates that and if they don't create it they cannot teach well a student impossible possible they can show off their greatness like I told you yesterday like you know talk to the wall you know and I'm sure we've all had in school such teachers but a good teacher who's interested in teaching students number one has to in his own world say I'm now going to make a way Within Myself forget about a a student that the that the world of student exists he gives place for the emergence of a student that's number one that's Bria number two is he needs to then communicate subtly and carefully the building blocks of the knowledge so that the student can ultimately understand it right that's why it's very important when when you teach and some of you are teachers everyone's a teacher but you know to understand that at the time of teaching it's not the place of the student to try to understand what the teacher is saying just listen listen you know how sometimes you no no you didn't listen listen after you listen and you absorb and you think about it and you still have a question then you ask but the second position is the world of Y which is okay there's the emergence of the student of the world of student but now the student needs to listen to the information that the teacher is teaching and then there's the finally the third stage which is the Das kind of the focus and concentration of what my teacher said and that could be years later you know we have a PK in the Torah we talk about after 40 years one comes to know his teachers realizes what his teacher had in mind why 40 years 40 is maturity right maturity so it takes 40 Years of maturity to say aha now I got it what my f my teacher taught me 40 years ago now I understand like they say the famous the famous Ved would say what's the difference between now and when Messiah will come when mhia will come will say aha that's what it meant now we're learning about the we have no idea what we're talking about right it's like what right when will come we'll see this and we'll say aha oh on Thursday on Thursday um this the day RAB do taught what do this section of Tanya and and and trying to explain it this way and that way we ask questions that and we still you know like what are we talking about aha now I got it so that aha would be analogous to the third level that's what the AL is saying where the student fully grasps I I shouldn't say fully H has a better grasp of what this genius teacher has done and in in contracting his knowledge and and is able to take it to the next step let's continue from this level of that is a vested itself in every level of the Chamber of holy of holies generally speaking specifically speaking that's where it extends itself to All Creatures All Creatures to the souls to Angels because all have been created through the 10 utterances with within the creation of the world sh this the world of hem the word of hem word of hem it's called so at the end here chapter 52 has another Nuance we talk about with the word of God the world's created says is the level of that's why I said in the beginning of the is the animating bottomline force of God so won in the world so is when we say what do we mean the isn't so of course we say God is inless Hashem Hashem is inless cuz we're inless what do we mean that God is in gos we mean the animating force that that that's making this world exist and making us exist isn't GS we don't see it we don't feel it and we think we're creating ourselves we get up in the morning take it for granted we can walk around right so that that level of isn't goess if and and and by the way when you don't live that way and you do realize and you give thanks every moment for being alive and in every detail of your life in your personal life you've liberated your Exile the problem is that we don't have it clut as far as the world is concerned you know that cuz then Messiah will come but individually a ye who lives with these realities is liberating the now does that mean to say that he doesn't have to cry TI and sit you know and and do Chua and everything else and and break a plate under the W by the K of course because we don't only think about ourselves the famous story right the the hoad says to his son open the window and he says smell smell outside he says okay he says do you smell that Messiah is here the son says sorry uh father I don't he says okay so the the explanation of that story is that in his room the sadic there was a smell of mashiah he's a bigadic he wanted to know if outside where he's not he's inside if the street smells from mashiach and his son said it didn't that's why we're in G you understand so the two are realities but uh this chapter ends you know this idea and uh we're now next week hopefully we'll make a see be a big a big a bigus to um have learned and I've been using this Tanya that the rebbi gave me on his um birthday 1982 reab gave it gave out Tanya then and I mared being in New York and I got this Tanya so I decided I want to use it for the sheer you know it's nice to have books on a bookshelf you got to use them uh Rabbi shov uh from Philadelphia and someone who's very involved in communal work on behalf of kabad told me that when he went to invite Rab salvic in 1980 to come to the Reb's 30th Anniversary faat so you know you're going to see rabi salic you know if you don't bring a piece of Torah with you uh it ain't going to look good and then the question is what am I going to say to RAB Sal he's this is a genius of Torah he knows like everything what am I going to say RAB sh is a very me to and he had a question of rambam I forget what it is and and one that he stumped many rabbis with and he decid he's going to try it on RAB Sal so he says to R RAB Sal may ask you question in the Ramba he says of course you know this this is brisk rambam this is their uh bread and butter so he told me that he took out from his bookshelf RAB Sal took out his rambam that he used and he said that itself to see that rambam was worth his whole trip it was used and torn from all sides he says he never he's never seen such a ramb a saer Ramba being used away because the salv used it in and out and then he asked him this question and he said I don't know he stumped salvation too but what I'm saying is I'm saying is so you know when you have a safer and it's like your book you know it feels good to be able to use it and to to flip the pages and tear the pages it's it's good it's it's it shows that you you went through it you know have a great shabas shabas I'm going up to I was invited to shabbaton to lead a shabbaton in Westchester County in ter town uh for the rebies the staff of the laab Yesa here in Ocean Parkway the ones who I spoke to you know to the children and I guess the children like me so much they told them to bring me for shabas so we're going to go for shabas and try to inspire them there and try to be inspired okay great thank you take care love you all byebye take care bye good chabas good chabas