Tanya #24 How many people study Torah without Ulterior Motives - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're learning now uh Tanya we're gonna pay the k we're in middle of chapter five and we are on page 18. smack a bit of the page where after a period there's ice Miley you say though so uh you should the period is towards the end of a line and then it says Versace the word Versace so let me briefly recap what the out there I said until now in in chapter four in the previous chapter spoke about the virtue of tato mitzvahs I'm sorry the virtue of delevation the Guard what he calls the garments of the soul the voucher nephesh which in English means the tools and the instruments which the soul uses was the Shema uses within the context of title Mitzvahs is greater than the soul itself yes the garments of the soul and the Soul itself and that's what that was chapter four mentions in that chapter that when you when you use the garments of the Soul to learn tight and do mitzvahs you you grab God you have and he uses the Russian threesome so in chapter five the ultimate says what is this language used in desire to call the grabbing God it's understanding God and over here the alterable um explains in the beginning of chapter five well the taste was be a bad hate of Russian threes it's the opening line chapter five that the language that the exact CODIS uses isn't just um homily or a symbol but it it connotes a very specific idea that you actually grab him more than just understand him and why because when you learn Taylor when you learn Tata there's a yiko nifla there is a wondrous Union between the title you learn and the mind of the person to the extent that there is no such unity in the world of the gosh musical world that's what the altadapa said then we explained it at length in the last few yes and you know different people obviously are drawn to little different elements of Torah different things speak to different people so how is that how would that be connected to which or is that connected to what you're saying well as I know like let's say let's say like oh the shoresh of the person the shamas I don't know no no that's not no what you're talking about is one issue which is a true issue that people identify and are moved to learn certain parts more than others that has to do with traditional Sharma and other reasons but over here what we'll learn is that whatever part of Toyota you are learning any part of Toyota the relationship the quality of that study is a wondrous Union where the Mind grabs the idea and the idea grabs you so that's regardless whether you're learning the stories of the talmud or you're learning deep Kabbalah okay so it has nothing to do with what section and Taylor any in all sections and the outlet explained that the reason for this wondrous Union is because at the same time that you process the title the title which is infinite because the data comes from God and God is infinite and God is the only real Infinity there is no other real Infinity in the physical universe so so that at this time that when you understand the title and process it and have it within you at the very same time it has you it it it it it it it it it's mock if you so you have matis and the Lucas you have if you're invested in it through your mind and understand it comprehended at the very same time this part that you don't understand because God is infinite you can't understand the infinite God so therefore God has you as well whereas any other subject matter as we explained that I will one of the last Union and the other subject matter there is a there's a finite amount of knowledge to it and it's possible to master it from the beginning to the end but in Tita because Taylor or rice the desire says that means Entertainer it's infinite a story that that the Frida collabo would repeat when teaching these ideas is there was a famous concert of the Sabbath sadik who lived through the river Maharashtra and his name was family name was the name was fratkin I believe he wrote a safer called Titus cassette this is safer and it was a big town so the same accident yeah yes is that from the rabbi fratkin of San Diego no not that I know of I have no idea maybe I don't think so anyway so so uh the result they called them sometimes an absalm and lublina although he was from polotsky was an oven Pilots but he had to run away from paloska it's a whole other story I don't want to go into it now anyway so an absolvement when he would come to see that some oxidic wanted to hear from him it was a it was a guy there was a guy named Taylor and one time he said it said to him your ideas are covered they're great the only problem is the foundation the Assad is erroneous Israel why is that Mercedes says because it's against an open Mission a clear mishna and he was like shocked and this is a man who shot on his fingers you're talking about a going so he thinks you know he thinks for I don't so he asked someone said in which mastectomism is the mission I said I think that someone said it said he thinks he goes he refusedness you know whatever doesn't know so he says which mission and when he re and then he said whatever you're right and then he said see them this is the difference between me and the samoathetic that some oxidic is China I am a student of Toyota I'm an understander of theta that someone said it it was one with Taylor where it was like infinite I'm finite I'm using the words of pedicate I'm finite and I know a lot of data and I could be a bucket of shots but the fact that I could make such a mistake and miss a clear mishnah which pulls the rug out of the foundation of my whole thought what is that prove that the Tate is not one with me why because the title is infinite and I I haven't come to that level yet and basically he never will because he was not ever it was a great cusset and a great time so here we're talking about the the Infinity of theta and this Bleak full of Tata encompasses you when you learn Tata so this is wonderful that when I learned what whatever you learn about you whatever you learn Abram and you always whatever we learn and we understand it we have to know the very same time this this part of title we don't understand and and that and that's the union that we're in when we learn China because that Taylor surrounds us as well so this doubt that episode to answer the question that he begins in chapter five lettaceous being Russian Teresa that's why Elio and loving the Zeta Cutters doesn't say right Les makshava masik Bay Anderson right that would have been the normal language no thought congrat can understand you it doesn't say that so the after that was asked white visa and what's the answer because trees are grabbing implies God grabs you how does Hashem grab you from the outside like a hug makif so we understand God through the Toyota that's tachypneemius but the idea that God understands us and has us when we're learning data that's in a way of motif that's why the language is used as fisa that's the answer to the question and now let's go to the text on page 18 the Zeiss now the outlet is going to say that there's an actual virtue to learning of Toledo the mitzvah on over all other Mitzvahs okay okay just as an introduction there's two aspects that tell you to have wrong there is the learning of taina it's called limo and then there is the mitzvah of learning data that's two separate things in other words if you if you look at the the num the Mitzvah numbers right as enumerated and by the rambam and others excuse me one of the mistresses excuse me to learn Taylor oh that's a Mitzvah just like it's a mix with the put on filling and to build the sukkah whatever to write into fast onion Kipper there's a mix of a cold learning data and then there is something else that's not a Mitzvah it's a it's a separate idea study Taylor not not the studying of Tita that's what he's going to talk about now let's look what he says let's grab some water please Missouri Smiley is saying did they live in the floor this is the wondrous beyond anything in virtue the greatest virtue laying cats Adam finitum that there is in the mixer of no intake of Hassan comprehending it wasis something this Mitzvah has over all other or action-oriented mitzvahs Vas and even those mixers that are dependent on speech even the Mitzvah of learning data with your mouth right that says in Shema the debartabum you shall speak in them in the words of theta so as great as all these Mistress of mice and Deborah are the virtue of Liberty explains why foreign when it comes to all mistress within with that are that are expressed through speech and action s God encompasses he surrounds the soul um encompasses he dresses up the soul he enclosed the soul um and the light of God surrounds the person from head to toe right when you do a mitzvah moisture will you do a mitzvah what's happening what's what is the relationship between you and Hashem when you do a mitzvah the answer is it's not that you understand it's not paninis it's makif the whole idea of doing something means I do it or I speak it I don't understand it and even if I understand that the emphasis is not understanding the answer says put the true enough so as far as the the relationship with Hashem when you do any mitzvah it's what we call Market it surrounds you it's not internalized it's external external is a bad word in this case but that's the word that I have meaning it's not superficial external in the sense that it doesn't permeate you that's not what we're looking for when we do a mitzvah well we're looking at him and so that's what we say Unison the diabetically right first would save illuminate our eyes with your Torah when you learn Tata your eyes are illuminated because it goes inside you wow I see the world differently my perception has changed when you're doing Mitzvah it doesn't it it doesn't change your view it just causes you to have the vehicles feeling warmth love so that's why the language is a venu make our hearts be attached cleaved connected to you so in the same sense Dr ever says here that when you do a Mitzvah of Deborah at myself as great as they are it's only makif the person conversely next words it converts when it comes to knowledge of theta not the Mitzvah of learning but the understanding of Tito 's Hashem in addition to the the mind being invested in clothes in the in the wisdom of God simultaneously the wisdom of God is hereby within the man foreign so Dr Evans says here that there's a major difference between the Mitzvah of learning Tyra which is analogous to the midst of putting on filling because the emphasis there is study the emphasis is not there understand it's to do whether you do it with we depart the bomb with your mouth so you do it with your hands but to do so therefore it shares commonality was Mitzvah which is Marcus whereas the study of China there's the additional feature which Dr rabbit says here it's this mileage it's Way Beyond the Mitzvah you actually take inside your mind God not only is Hashem surrounding you and hovering over you and inspiring you you have him that's the Myla that's the virtue of Judea Adam and since we established that when we know tater we have the idea of Taylor the Taylor is invested in the soul of man in man's mind um and it's surrounded within the brain within the mind because it's taking in the trailer through learning um Titus called the bread and the sustenance of the Soul what's this language explains the use of the word abroad [Music] just as the physical bread sustains the physical body when you cons when you take you eat the food and it becomes part of you um and the bread that you eat is changed from bread it becomes young to sin your flesh and blood and then you will live and exist right that's the end of the muscle come here comes the name shall tomorrow we're now on top of page youth Cosby ideas and the person's mind comprehensive Charlene they hated that you study it well with the focus of your mind action it fast is basically until it's grasped by your mind um and it's United with your mind becomes one with your mind then NASA muslin becomes the food for your soul and it becomes and it becomes the life that's within the soul and the Life coming from the light source of life which is Asap butter who the infinite God which is included invested in his wisdom Victorious that's now within your your mind so in other words you hear this when you learn Taylor and you understand that well it's like eating bread khala let him and the lechem is consumed digested and no longer is it with him is it let him in your stomach when the lesson is eaten and digested and processed is it let him know it becomes your flesh and blood says that when you learn Tata and you understand it not learning and you don't understand that you're just doing the mitzvah but the comprehension of theta it becomes one with you it's no longer a piece of bread in you it turns into your flesh and blood Taylor turns into the Flesh and Blood of the human being because the person understands it that's what he says here this is and that's why the verse says look at the words fourth line last word and irritated because may I is in my intestines what do you mean exactly just like bread turns into part of your flesh and blood and part of your intestines so too spiritually speaking when you learn and understand Taylor becomes part of you I am portal 44 chapter 3 quote versus there's also in Paradise which is spiritual right they're so so garments spiritual garments so it says there is the garments of the soul and then hey in hermit's voice those come from the Mitzvahs when we do mitzvahs we create spiritual garments for our soul in that Nation and when we learn title we give the soul in that Natan Muslim here Muslim it's the food with the Shamus to the souls who hath learned Taylor in this world the title of the Shema with type for learning title for the sake of Taylor so when you learn Taylor for the sake of Tita without ulterior motives you're rewarded in the world to come and I'm sorry incarnate in Paradise that that the soul has food the soul needs food just like a human being needs food the soul needs food for it to thrive in its Realm what's the food of the Soul downtown says here in the name of Kabbalah it's through the title study that we do not through the mistress the mitzvahs give thee Soul a nice coat to protect it from the cold winds the spiritual cold winds and the hot and and and other types of garments that are useful to the soul but it's all makif it all encompasses it's hovers over you it's not in you what is in you as as something you perceive tell you to study it mentions this to tell us and teach us that we should know not only is this difference between Tyra and mitzvah's relevant here but guess what it's relevant to the soul as the soul is in Ghanaian in Paradise our soul which will go into Paradise it needs to have both clothing to be warm or clothing to be cool whatever the case has write spiritually and it needs food to survive the clothing comes from our mitzvahs and the food comes from our tight allergic now the out today mentioned that in aches higham it says the title that you learned potatoes what's the implication that if you don't learn Tita with an ulterian mode of my then you don't create food for the soul and done eating now to learn for the sake of Taylor without for the sake of getting your smika or for out for the sake of using your tailor you know I wanna I wanna be a cipher so I have to learn Hillcroft that's not the Shema it's a good thing but that's not the shmoop the schmuck means whether I'll be a safer or I'll be a China man or I'll be this I'll be that I learned data including the laws of suffrus foreign they might tell you they do but they don't there's always an interior motive oh I'm learning because my father-in-law who's wealthy says if I sit and learn and kylo half of my life for all my life or whatever for 10 years he'll buy me a house and two cars and and it'll take care of my my bills so of course I'm going to be at Lakewood and I learned all day at all night it's a great deal is that title of Shema big zero a big zero is it a good thing it's a good good it's not titled so don't think the title of the Shema is easy it's not so the question now is since title ishma is such a special thing and difficult why does the eights high and say that when you learn Tita and specifically title Ishmael you create food for the soul in Dunedin implying that if you don't learn Chinese why you don't and most of us don't so that's what the alternator but now comes to address I'm sorry stop that fresh Shield is still part of the question it's about that but answers he retorts his question means one thing my objective is to be connected to God are based on understanding every person based on their capacity of mind after that was saying hey fellas you know that if you decide to learn tata for the sake of the Kasha and after Hashem you can host every one of us can learn title of Shema this this line here is a is a very very revolutionary thought it speaks about in his safer I want sir WL Khan I speak to uh lit vegetation not the one from panovich but a nephew of his or maybe his son and they were discussing this and there's a whole uh and letter the rabbi on this because this is a very very um in a way outrageous just one second I want you to understand what how outrageous this is basically what we're saying here is that most people in the best of yeshivas don't learn title of Shema so you could imagine you're going to front of it you're going to me or you're going to slavotkin heaven and you say hey rosh hashiva with all your students and all your all your greatness you guys are not learning titles you have an agenda it's a good agenda if you have an agenda and that's um here in one line he quote States crying but look what he says read the words means that you have a mind I want to be connected to God through understanding Taylor that's the Shmoe and guess what that's within the capacity of every and any Jew whether he learns in Slovakia or he learns in in Chappelle's or he learns in Morristown or he learns that is in his home you don't need to be in a culo to learn title of shmoop I'll tell you a secret in fact it might be easier to learn Taylor when you're not in all of these institutions then when you are because the way the build of these institutions create and create is that there's a you know oh I'm gonna you're gonna get a good you're gonna get it you're gonna become a girdle you're gonna be a good Rabbi you're going to get a good position you know there's always the strings attached Les schwa means no strings attached I want one thing I want to be connected to God and God says through learning tight I'm connected to him that's all I have in mind whether I'm gonna get something out of it or not makes no difference and guess what this is a hard thing could you imagine could you imagine I mean today especially we're so goal oriented and we talk about the virtue of being goal oriented and here what the alternate is sharing is without any strings attached God says learn Taylor I love Hashem I want to be one with Hashem therefore I learned Taylor regardless whether I'm going to get any mileage out of it makes no difference and that's what the ultimate was saying not to Dr Nevis says this is within the capacity of every single year you don't need to be a town McLaughlin for this you have to make a resolve you want to learn title the Kasha natural Hashem to connect your soul to God Maisha yes you wanted to say something no that's okay I saw the answer to my questions okay thank you you're welcome so I will stop here tomorrow machine will finish the payday yes Jameson please that mean that I'm chosen to be come connected with that chef foreign [Music] yes but not that the reason for learning Theta is so I should be chosen no that's not right shocked the learning of theta reveals that we're chosen because God gave us the Toyota not to go in okay so that's the difference that God shows us to give us detainer here we're talking about the Edison once you're given the data what should be your attitude towards learning Toyota that's the question so yes we were chosen if someone says like this I'm learning China because God chose me as and I'm special that's not with Shema whether I was chosen or I wasn't chosen the factors I was chosen we were chosen and God gave us the Theta not the non-jews not the Gentiles so ejaculate in that case why didn't why no luck yeah um why because because the whole idea of true listen I heard your question this is the answer I think the reason is because the whole idea of FILA of davening is is em is is the idea of his cautious connection to God independent of dracus Thrill is about Vehicles live so the idea of haremi Kabul alive mysterious is a prerequisite for davening here we're not talking about Daphne English we're talking about learning ah and you know and we don't say it there are some people that do some people do say that some people before they learn they say that but ichabad doesn't and they say where is what oh oh oh uh it's not it's not set I don't think it's set in a formal way where you find it you'll find it in a safer but um I've heard it I've I've heard it that I'm not sure if it's written you know she no listen before a Mitzvah a lot of people say lakasha Okay gotta go have a call coming inside doesn't have a great day Shalom see everyone tomorrow bye bye