Strict personality has genuine ability to give greater charity - Igeres HaKodesh 13d- RC Dalfin

so good day we're learning KES we're on page 238 this is letter number 13 and to briefly recap what we've learned till now the Al wrote this letter approximately in 1792 and he sent it with a messenger a to the communities in Russia white Russia Ukraine wherever to get them his to get them to give more Saka now some argued that their tendency is not to give so much Saka because they are what we call left oriented gura oriented everything they do is limited measured and other people said they don't have and this letter the AL looks deep into a ye and he finds within every Jew even a a Jew who's gor oriented the ability to do to do kindness and benevolence and to give and in fact he says if you are left oriented G oriented you're disciplined of which I'm sure you are because you're a musician you need to practice the notes and know exactly the tunes that's part of discipline and gura that's only more of a reason to give and why because when gives when someone who is Right oriented who's oriented the giving isn't necessarily genuine 100% there's some iota of selfishness there there what is that selfishness it could the selfishness could include it's my nature to give in other words and if it weren't your nature to give you wouldn't give so the only reason you're doing it is because that's your nature so in other words the giving coming because of nature isn't 100% pure it's not 100% genuine it's based on a nature says but when you give based on G that means you give because this is what the wants you to do then it's totally genuine it's against your nature and you still give and says guess what everyone has both the an element of gura within and within and this is why he mentioned B the two classical houses of thought in the talmud the the school of shamai and the school of H now normally H throughout sh throughout the talmud is lenient in his rulings when he's when he and when when they when he and they disagree with shamai shamai comes from the word shamin which means to estimate to regulate to measure Shai's disciplined and strict shamai rules throughout the Shas in the most stringent way H in the most lenient way this is when they're disagreeing with each other however in six places only six throughout the talmud the vast talmud we find the reverse that Shai is Lent and Hill is stringent and the question is how is that possible if shamai stringencies is because of the right n of the left nature of shamai the gura the the the the soul in other words it stems from the soul it doesn't begin in the talmud it begins because shamai was given such a soul that's kavor oriented and vice versa for H so how can shamai leave vacate his Zone I mean if you you know if you if you accept if we accept and we understand that that's where it's coming from that everything we do AR is not just because we understand that or we feel that or we act that way it's coming from somewhere deeper called the theama the soul and the soul is what drives our understanding our feelings and our Behavior so if the soul is a stringent Soul how can how can it even be in one place mind you six places it's lenient so the AL answers that question here in this chapter and Al says that's because there's an element of kindness within discipline we call that and in at times the Within theur comes to comes out and that if why it comes out in those six places I don't know but but that's what happens and the same is true with Hill although Hill's Soul orientation is is there's an element of within so for example for example a child takes a knife holds a knife and can hurt thems El or others the parent takes away the knife from them that act of taking it away is it's gor but guess what it's gor with because the purpose is not to be mean and not give the child a knife the purpose is that that the knife shouldn't hurt anybody if we knew that the child won't hurt himself and others with a knife the parent wouldn't take away the knife for him because from here him or her because after what did they do they just took a knife so the child wants a knife be kind let him have a knife imagine the knife wasn't a knife was a fork it was a it was a spoon it was a book it was something else you wouldn't make a big deal about it so what is driving the gor of taking the knife away from the child theid orientation I really love the child therefore I don't want the child to hurt myself that's called and the AL says this is what we have happening in the rulings of Shai in hillo where they reverse role their roles and each one rules contrary to the way they R their nature says th that be right because what's coming out is the uh the as as is taught us the recessive gene remember we spoke about the dominant gene and the recessive gene it's the recessive gene that's coming out the dominant gene in them is either and the AL uses this as we continue the chapter Al uses this to explain to the person who says what do you want from me I I I I'm not I'm not I'm not that type I don't just give says then you have to tap into your within gor and let the within gor play do the job and then you'll give and you can give and your giving is more genuine and that's a great novelty a great KES of this chapter that the the that the the within of aor type of person of a disciplined judgmental strict stringent type of person is more genuine you ask someone in the street they say no someone who's mamin and houses open and is always giving they're more they're more pure they're more genuine says not necessarily so now let's turn to page 238 and we are I would say about 10 lines from the top it's the last two words on the line Al returns to the verse that he began this chapter with with the chapter is aavid says to Hashem how abundant is your goodness it's so great it's so abundant that you hit it you hit it to those that fear you and M will come they'll experience it then there's another part of the verse that the alludes to with the with the words he doesn't bring it he doesn't the second part in the T itself but he alludes to it with the words which is whoever Shields themselves whoever shields thems in you in you God will have the Revelation NE it'll be open and obvious so let's see how he explains the verse now and this is the meaning to which said how abundant is he goodness Etc this means that the attribute of goodness and benevolence which normally is concealed by someone whose Soul whose root whose Soul's root is in in the left and we call those people the ones that fear you cuz they are y or fear discipline judgment stringency strict like analogous to the attribute of as we explained earlier [Music] so although it is good goodness that is hidden a nevertheless it is very great it isn't just good it's an abundance of good it's analogous to the attribute of what's calleda greatness and it's actually like benevolence from which level which comes from the right and both the and and are revealed without limitation measurement measurement and dis and and regulated in other words it's it's Adam for ble this is the meaning in the verse that we began this chapter with how abundant is your goodness so says King David to hasem clar this means how abundant is your goodness god without limitation at all and this abundance of good is experienced in what you've hidden for those that fear you and this is the second part of the verse you have impacted those you have given you have impacted those that Shield himself in you now interesting look Nuance that we didn't have before who are the people that are called they shield in you those that have trust which comes from the right and their benevolence and their goodness and in this case their kindness and their benevolence is also in a manner of Revelation the ne and extends itself expands itself to all to all you to all people and it doesn't remain concealed when you have the when you have trust in God Almighty but real not you know you know the story the lady is there on the uh kidre and an appeal is made and um she makes a pledge and then she starts to herself says I didn't really mean it I'm not going to give $10,000 I just you know I was inspired but I don't even then she goes home and she walks over a rickety bridge and the bridge starts shaking and it's about to fall in and she's going to fall in and die just God God God I really meant it I'm giving the $10,000 that type of Bin is not what we're talking about that's called Bluff that's called fear you're you're you're you you're fearful of your your own hide that's all about self it's all GA yes now by the way is it better to give that way than not to give practically speaking it is because we say say from doing something not for this for a genuine sake it lead you to do it for the genuine sake but nevertheless regardless as far as we're concerned in this in this Con conversation in this discussion here in Tanya we're talking about true trust not a trust that's predicated on self not a trust that's predicated on you know I know what the end result is you don't know what the end result is you see if you know what the end result is then it's not then you know you have the information it's called intellect you know that I don't know let's say Trump's becoming president and therefore uh he's going to open up the oil reserves you make a decision based on that to buy a stock or not a stock is that called not 100% at the end of the day you don't know how the Market's going to go and if there's going to be a God forbid or war and and the market will oil Market will crash you know so you know there is definitely an element of there I'm just using a simp silly example but pure means true trust when you don't know and you say I put my trust in you and hasem says the AL that this revelation of when when a Jew relies on hasem and puts himself herself in the hands of Hashem and says to God you are my shield and you will help me and I rely on you and you know what's best for me that attitude leads to the abundance of God's kindness being revealed to you let's continue so the verse should have said how abundant is your goodness in those that have fear for you when it says the is a conjunction right to the before year means to those that have it should have said be the abundance of good is within in those that fear you not to those that fear you says [Music] the this is [Music] because this is because whatever is concealed within Every Soul it's not invested in the body in the mind in heart hovers over the person the soul aspect you hear this y the the sole aspects are always are they hover they're there and they accomplish things within a person but it's not pus it's not inside in where it's it's like you you know you can touch it and feel it and all that let's continue and from there it illuminates from the soul it illuminates the mind the and the heart to those times when you need them to inspire you to arouse this level that should arouse and awaken your heart your mind and heart so that you actually act upon it so if you do that so the AL answer this this was a parenthesis a paretic remark why does it say with instead of B and Al says that proves my point cuz b means it's in you it's not within you of course in other words the soul the root of the soul the is our counterpart in heaven that doesn't come into the body what's in the body is that part of the Soul that's limited that's already been uh meshed with the body with the mind with the heart with action so therefore it doesn't say in other words that every person should know that they have a source and this is a very important point in life we have to know where we come from we come from we come from the Patriarchs and the matriarchs and we come from I'm saying we come from a cloud we are not here alone no Jew can feel along alone I'm sorry because no Jew is really alone unfortunately some sometimes we feel alone but the truth is that the always said God gave us is an inheritance in other words you're not alone you belong to the Jewish people the fact that you might live in too and there aren't Jews there so what so what that's only an external thing but who are your people the Jewish people and the AL says this in the context of the Nish that the as well the soul as well the it's not it's not in us it's only hovers it's Mak so the language in the verse implies that that God gave it to those that fear you it's still yours but it's not within you in a and this this idea we'll finish the rest tomorrow but I just want to say that here we are in only a few days away from the special day of which calls the C and there's nothing to be embarrassed about because the greatest lit Fox brisker moer of vilna they recognized that this is an important day it happened that in the year 1901 when the reab the fifth re of shom be wasn't in laage forut so he he wrote a letter because the were very very upset that their re is not there to celebrate UT kli with them but he for for health reasons he had to be out of the country and in this letter he writes that is the it's the the light the energy the Vitality of our souls and he calls the bris bris time was in Poland you know still is right the the small group of in in brisk didn't get this letter till several months later I think close to purm time right because is now k k Tavis other three two three months whatever they they got they they be became aware of this letter and when they saw this letter they said wow we didn't celebrate you with knowing that so they asked high brisker can they make a day when they're going to celebrate you another and rim told them absolutely and he didn't say just to to pacify them was a was a a and and a serious person if he said you could you could celebrate you should celebrate your you y again it's meaningful and regarding of of Vila who wasn't a he was a ler he said about you Bas after the was released and saved and made a a festival following year as we do every year till from from then so he made a a a statement by by us the fox it's becoming less and less because HCA crept in and removed many many from people from religiosity and Orthodoxy andite including LX L and by and by them by the there's added more and more another y y now I want to make it clear it's not that you know um the isams of the time didn't impact it did but nevertheless what was the attitude of laich was you got a problem add more light and that's what we see today look here the this gentleman this this this R theak was killed Cold Blood was murdered was kidnapped and killed what's kab doing adding more more adding more you never allow the enemy to take hold by by by by scaring you and what do you do you double your me you double your attitude of to and good and and more programs and double the amount of programs and we learned it from the stories that I'm telling you and the re our Reb lived this way after he had his heart attack in 1977 and it was a massive heart attack this was I was there the and we all had to go out of the Sho that was in middle of at Aus but that was considered a mild heart attack to the second heart attack that he had in the middle of the night or towards the end of night 345 in the morning I forget and it could have taken his life right there then and he survived 1977 what did he do the next 14 years approximately he added so much so many houses so many so many and it doesn't stop I'm I'm I'm scheduled to be this coming weekend with to bring in a Rasin New York in Long Island and then m shabas in North Forest Hills in Queens youngim I know they're parents and grandparents and look at this they go into a neighborhood you know until until now RAB I don't know if you remember RAB JJ he's son Shalom his oldest son may OFA he was the ra a rabbi in Forest Hills of an orthodox sh for years 40 50 years and now there's in in North Forest Hills you understand you got to find a neighborhood where another nephew of his I think Parks himself open shop I'm here to help Jews only adding adding not ever retracting and and going down and this is the same thing that EBA said that ER should take Damascus I remember the Reba's words in 1974 I remember him saying it why I don't know all the you know political or or strategical answers but I know one thing that EBA was a good man and he wasn't into grabbing property and he felt that the safest things for to at the time was to go to Damascus they didn't listen they did not listen so now uh 74 50 years later it's 2024 right 50 years later we didn't get to Damascus yet but we got that part of the Golan and again the point is you know do more don't don't suffice with just making up what you did but when there's a problem and an issue double your efforts we'll see every on tomorrow have a great day take care bye re re when when are we doing the FBR Thursday morning Thursday morning take care shom byebye