Tanya #32 Replugging and Extracting good from bad, happiness from sadness - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're on page 24 we're beginning now the eighth chapter of Tanya I did look into some of the things we discussed during the sin about painting Zion I didn't find yet your vote that you know the difference between the the tip is there and the PSR Services because there's a macabo but I'll still continue looking and there's there's a lot to say about it but I think that we should continue learning and there'll be a chance when maybe we'll get back to it more in depth and uh I wish I believe you missed that sheer it was a very very important share the last year or two so you might want to uh when you have a chance to listen to it so but now what I'm paying the tests so here the alternative is going to add explanation to the the issues that we were talking about what are we talking about here in Tanya we're talking about issues that are relevant daily but didn't write a book a Manifesto just to promulgate his theories he wrote a safer which is called also safer shell 80s a book of advice advice for human beings for people for Eden who need advice in serving Hashem in every and always so here the altareba talks about very very basic human conditions food other types of basic necessities how are we to look at them and how are we to deal with them that's what he's talking really about empathic these three chapters which you ask Yeshiva and Chabad I'll tell you oh these are the chapters that he talks about clippersnega and shallots Clippers at Mayes you say that to to someone who is um wasn't educated in the Chabad Yeshiva they'll look at you like you're you're off your rocker you know for a lit faculty saying you know I don't learn kabola and for someone who didn't learn in Yeshiva they'll say you're talking French to me so if you want the message to get across to everybody you have to explain these things in ways that are relatable to people of all kinds and that's the style that we're using in our shootings over here the Alpharetta talks about the basic needs of humanity from food to rest to pleasure Etc you know is pleasure a good thing is it acceptable thing you know when you when you learn classical music the whole the whole idea of pleasure is scorned it's a negative right pleasure from the Muslim perspective is antithetical to Taylor the balsamta says just the opposite the bosemite says on the possible so you see your donkeys your enemies donkey and why is it called an enemy so the spiritual meaning is because it's not there to enhance your Judaism and your godliness but it's there to indulge and to be a bigger Behavior bigger animal a bigger you know person who Hoards just materialism for themselves it's self self gratification Etc so that's why the balsamto says when you see your claimer when you look at your makeup your body makeup your sleep makeup your pleasure makeup essay now has an enemy this is not what God wants it's against God it's a cathetical to Tata says the volcantha you have it all wrong what do you mean you have it all wrong the approach is wrong what should you do rather than crushing it and beating it and throwing it throwing it away also if positive Emily help it elevated embrace it and that's the basic okay look the difference between Hasidic philosophy and non-cosidic philosophy what I just told you outside of and this was revolutionary as everyone knows at the time today who cares if no one cares but there was a time when people really cared about these things you know and when they and and when they learned races and they learned and they learned to be so solantis for him and everything else they took it very seriously very seriously the belshanto says there's a time and place for that too but on a daily and practical basis you shouldn't look at the score on the body of scornful disgusting and bad it's here to get me into trouble you know it's here to get me into trouble no Hashem gave us a body Hashem gave us pleasure they gave us food it's here to enhance us I enhance our service of God follows along this theme of the belshanto without telling you that you know that's what I'm doing but he he does it in his typical style which is Chabad he he breaks it apart he tears it apart he he he looks from all angles using the Seiko the mind that's what we're learning here so what does he say in paid anxiety in chapter seven which is finished he says basically the energy that a person uses if it's not for the sake of God if it's not for enhancing a Godly experience the the energy temporarily enters a domain of negativity and it needs reparation it needs Ascension it needs an Aliyah it needs a tickle why don't we understand that the energy itself is not bad the energy was misused so what we have to do is reconnect the energy to the right place this is what I discussed in chapter six and seven and the difference being what did we call them kabbalahas one category of three contaminated Clippers which cannot have any Ascension because it's the SM and it's very Core Essence bad or Click by sneakers what we call the translucent Clipper it's there's light there but it's covered up so it's it's like practically it's like someone or something that you you see a person or you see yourself or you see a situation where we're we're going far further away from the truth and further away from goodness does that mean to say that they're bad they're not bad they're just mixed up and that's and that's how that everybody people like that in the 60s saved the whole generation right the big Ghost theme you know diaspora Yeshiva and then you know places okay right hey these are wonderful people these are great Jews just a matter of a little polish you know polishing up the situation and that's what happened but if you squash the person and you say there bad it's not true the behavior might be not proper but in essence they're good why because without the represents you're the highest is neutral so neutrality is when neutrality is misused it enters the domain of Scholars Clippers and then we need to reconnect it to the right place conversely so let's say forbidden food things that are not Kosher and they're very quorescence for a Jew not for a non-jew and for a Jew it's bad there's no Saving Grace in traif for a Jew we call this told us in chapter seven the word usur and mutter means user means tied connected kashur and the word for means it's it's in essence permissible says but that's the very difference between inherently bound to negativity there is no Saving Grace for them only destruction and then there is permissible batter that takes makes a left turn and ends up in the in the wrong place but in essence the energy is kosher is is free this is what so this is this is the re this is what he said in the last chapter let's begin now chapter has always page 24 of the oils as soon as there's something additional in Forbidden Foods in addition to what we said earlier in chapter seven if it's so that's why we call them forbidden asurim uses and that is because even one who's eaten a forbidden food he didn't know it's not kosher guess what and he ate it Le shame it happens my friends foreign you don't know something's not Kosher and you eat it because you're thinking it's a good uh it's a good you know healthy drink for a healthy food and then you find out there's some gluten in the production or this or that not gluten I'm sorry gelatin or so strife you didn't know about it and not only did you know about enough room you ate it with shame shamaya you waited for the sake of God to serve God that represents to serve god with the power and strength that comes about from this good drink or food and Not only was your intent to do silver gumpo out of us okay you actually became stronger and you were and you didn't it gave you kayak recorder and you learned this spot well and you doesn't you prayed because with the power of that food it made you it gave you more strength to sit and based measures at your home and learn adapt and all that says the altered sorry chap in um the energy that comes from this food the energy we we refer to the word highest the energy the Vitality that's within Shabbat within this food does not Aid does not only it doesn't ascend doesn't invest itself in the words of Taylor until as it is when you learn from the kayak of something that is kosher is permissible why not is bound to the negative for the three contaminated Clippers so if this is the case here's a question how is it that how is it why is it sorry why is it when I eat something kosher but I eat it not for the sake of Hashem what about the devil say we can elevate it back to to its proper place but when I eat something today and I didn't know about it it says here in Tanya you could have the best intentions the same shamayan that energy will not contribute an iota to the governing and learning that that that you do that you do later which you think you know it's because I did a good job this morning John is listen although I I I ate something and then you find out well it's not Kosher but the point I was very hungry I was very shracked I was very weak and it gives me clear and then I learned the nadavin from that food I didn't know straight says it doesn't I it doesn't it's it doesn't Ascend and it doesn't invest itself in the words of Titan Thriller that I doubted so first of all what does that mean if I was weak this morning and I ate something today from advertently didn't the Tafe give me the then the trees give me the ability to be to be not shocked to be not weak and to be strong and deep I mean let's be real what does out that ever mean so basically I'm just pointing out that there's some things that need clarification here what it means is that the spiritual energy of your title learning at that time has no association with the Tracey weight yeah the physical body the physical body when putting in any kind of food will give your physical body kayak but then you have to ask yourself my learning environment is not physical not the saying of the words with your mouth we're talking about the spiritual kayak that's associated with learning and Dominic that has no safe no association with Rafe it's impossible it's an oxymoron traif Issa and davening and learning is a contradiction it but you say but the guy made a mistake and and so the answer the explanation is we're not talking about the physical energy that you get from the food we're talking about the spiritual accomplishment of learning and davening that it does that doesn't happen so it's like you didn't dive in today it's like you didn't happen what do you mean I doubt he said words and maybe you darned him with a minion but in heaven the way God tells us about his plan you're diving this morning and it's not your fault not our fault because we didn't know it's not Kosher but the bottom line is this energy is it's impossible because this energy is oriented towards negativity so now the question is the other way so why is it when I eat something that's kosher but I eat it for taiva for an Indulgence right I'm eating because I like a good steak not because I'm shocked I come to supper I'm weak and I need to eat something to survive to learn a dab of my rev later no for that you don't need to pick steak you can eat something simple you eat it because you have a schmuck in a big steak so it's your own pleasure so the question is says the outlet but earlier in chapter seven guess what that you could have sent that could have sent that energy does contribute when you replug it you reconnect it to God to the energy of Titans that you do from that food that you ate the question is how is it how's that possible what is abracadabra explain it that this is this is the novelty of without the represent here in chapter eight I caught this powerful God Almighty did us a great great favor that since the the energy of neutrality is neutral even if it has a temporary Hiatus into negativity you can reconnect it and that's and that's a Kiddush in other words is not why is Sir why something that's forbidden can't be reconnected nothing should be able to be reconnected once it goes into another domain it's gone goodbye you know it's only gone goodbye when it when it when it's inherently forbidden but if inherently it's it's permissible you can impact it and slap it back to its right place and you'll ask what's the logic the answer is there is no logic that's what God Said is mutter that's the meaning of mutter since it since inherently it's not tied to negativity it's tied to neutrality it's tied to Clippers Hashem says I give anything that comes and is neutral the ability to always be reconnected now if you want to speak metaphysically what's the logic of that simple God Hashem wants us to always have a chance to reconnect so no one should say I'm a goner I'm a I'm a loser it's forget it no it's wrong the The Forbidden issues those are gone you're not dumb because you're neutral I'm going to learn soon about that and in many situations you missed you abused misuse something that is neutral so now bring it back to its source that's a wonderful comfort for uh for for a Jew this is what we just learned in between the lungs now let's continue now downtown Tampa says this prohibition that I spoke about that is Lord that is you know forever negative yeah there's a lot there's a lot here in these words but I'm just going to be brief and allow you to explore yourself in the different commentaries and Tanya but basically about that ever says that this isn't only true for biblical Torah prohibitions but even rabbinic prohibitions and he gives a reason you're against it why because I'll say more that the words of the of the rabbis what they enact and establish are more stringent than the words of Tata and the reason is Maisha why is that why is that simple the words of the rappers is this kindness this happened that this and this day and happened another week later again they said you know if this is happening we have to put a a offense around the situation the Toyota is not some kind of practical life not kind of the words of Titus God gave us the data whether we understand it happened didn't happen like you all know what Ian was once you know very seldom and things like that but the words of hakamim it's like what did we see of ram in the street what happened in the community and the rabbis got together and said hey we don't want Jews to come to violate Shabbos by by carrying a Shabba so we're gonna say don't blow the shade for the Shabbos and don't take a Liu Vanessa against Shabbos that's a rabbinic ethnic because they saw that it happened and the good mother says what happened they were ignorant they didn't know only a rabbis a few select people know how to blow chauffeur and who the details they went running Rabbi how do we blow Schaefer and blow Schaefer for us how do Adventure but shop is not a carry that would almost four cubits outside so they said you know what we won't be able to change people we'll just put a fence around the situation when Shabbos comes no Schaefer that's a result of what you what happened in the community says the words of the rabbis are even stricter because it comes from ground up it comes from the trenches it comes from those boots it comes from the situation on the ground oh that's real so if the rabbis if the rabbis made an enactment that's real and it's so real that it's hamuri and it's so important is because unfortunately over the centuries there was a breakdown in this oh the rabbi said this and I say this that whole you know from the reform movement to the conservative and creeping into the Orthodox world we have the situation oh this rap I said this that Rabbi said this and this is so perfect and on and on and on and now we'll just components are in relevant imaginary idea and and so we could you know eliminate to the dental have the Reconstructionist with humanism all that came as a breakdown say just the opposite rabbis worms are the most real because they soar it on the ground now now the argument that the argue is okay we'll agree to that but today it's not happening so why do we have to keep the words of the rabbis today so for that we have the rule that we don't change from tradition right in other words if the reason why we don't blow straight for the shop is because of something that really happened and and it's not happening anymore for whatever because now we have so many shows and so many rabbis and so many books and everything and everyone knows that you don't blow shade for that shop you're not supposed to carry and Shabbos everyone not everyone but people in in that are interested in those things so why should we keep the law let's reenact we should go straight for our Shabbos and what's the answer missaida a Masada and it's not just a Masada like some cheap answer you know have nothing to answer I say tradition tradition like Fiddler on the Roof if your tradition is Fiddler on the Roof we got a problem this tradition that's without the devil writes here hamuri safer I mean he's putting this down his original idea the words of the rabbisation you have to be more careful because this brings about this is yiddishkite Judaism is not smart a smart person who decides one day to create this and this one will create that that's not a messiah and the whole idea of the transmission of of of theta via Sinai mahars and everything else is the Messiah so once you strip the different you it's a breakdown in the Mercedes and if it's a breakdown that we say that we have nothing of course you know the Spiderman no problem different communities you know had different cultures and different dresses dressing and different behaviors that's fine but each one had the Messiah and the maceda in the community was steadfast especially in the North African communities like Yemen Syria 2 000 years syrians don't allow any comforts now you know in the Ashkenazi world that's outrageous but not in their world that's that's what they decided and I bet you had to do because they had bad experiences I can tell you that too from doing three convert being involved in three conversions I I without God's help I I hope I never will will do again a conversion I had such bad experiences where they turned against me and they became not Jewish so hind dolphin you know is not equipped to to get be involved in a conversion with those state tuition really be Jewish and if they become and become from an orthodox they'll keep Shabbos and not because they have a sour day they go revert back I guess other rabbis are bigger they they could accomplish it God willing so everyone has their Mercedes but an astronauts in the astronauts world that's not our Messiah the fact that people revert back they're still Jewish I always I told you I had a friend in Yeshiva it's a convert we found that lady was a convert and right and then time to get married he was having a difficulty so he started to drink and he went back and he had I'm telling you the highest standard of a conversion is he Jewish absolutely does he think he's Jewish absolutely not probably but he is that's that's the balance I'm just I'm just saying that Messiah is not something to be taken light it's it's a very very not not just a very important it is in a way the most important thing greater than biblical law says here and we'll conclude with this today Dr says here that even rabbinic for think math even items that are only forbidden rabbinically not biblically right one should know they still fall into the category of furthermore student forbidden matter so in other words everything that we that we we learned earlier that I explained earlier applies to rabbinic law the same as rabbinic biblical or and even more and and that's a very very important fact again that every every person in his service to Hashem must know and not to say well that's only other abundant pets it's only a minute it's not it's not being a Kipper eating Club in some pesos you know like the big three you know when we used to do you know Outreach I fought the keynote and all that the big three Shabbos kashus and Mikvah right and everything else you know will come you know that's a good hook right that's a hook and it works but the truth is there's there's a lot you know there's a whole say that it doesn't end Heaven what do you guys say any thoughts I have to hear from you so make sure you understand the Tanya you know I'm learning and teaching and I hope things are clear if not you should ask me what's today if you have any questions that we learned yeah go ahead what main question this year uh the mixed Foods you do the tour you learn it doesn't go up they become clear they become captives to the ETC if what if if what if you use right right go to the other side yeah so that's pretty scary yeah well but where you giving power to the other side they get the co-op yeah Hashem wants the other side to challenge us yes he wants there to be Arabs otherwise there wouldn't be any Arabs he wants to be Arabs free will look here they want to hear they they want to not let this guy even though maybe he did say something out of line but everyone knows that so many other people are thinking they don't want to let him on a plane to come to America they don't want to see him and now I see Jonathan Pollard also said the same thing my point is that this is this is a daily a daily thing so yeah yeah they don't understand where it's like right but I'm saying to you I've run that that's why there's this kayak to the Clipper the yes although otherwise everyone won't be religious and everyone be from and everyone with peace you know everyone would be religious in their way and serving God and we would have what we have in Mr chairman will come we're not there yet we're working on it but but yes it's it's it's it's it's uh I I hear what you're saying you know it's a scary thought that's what you helping the enemy you know I'll tell you I'll tell you that's right you're helping the enemy well said it was a big husband his name was a Yitzhak Mass gurevich garowitz I think there's a spear and your son joshiva he's like a great grand a great grandson or so well anyway it was a a big over the shower and we didn't eat much to sleep much and he died and he learned and he did for the rabbit he went around raising funds anyway he's known as icha damasmith he was a mastermind he was before he became before he before he started to learn seriously is to learn gamara they say like 24 hours raise up and then he found the light of cinderacy started to learn I said this 24 hours they called them a mask with each of them each of them in the Chabad in the annals of Chabad he's like a pat you know a prototype of you know what we can become well we can become it wasn't that Sonic he was a a regular man who refined himself anyway so one pesach then he was very from there's even pictures he had big payers he he was you know more from than the average libach in those times in in you know 1900 you know and he only ate for example burnt matzus there wasn't a concern of an iota of from me he didn't he didn't eat by people most people he was a very fruit guy okay so so um one pesach somehow he he ate some I think sugar and later he found out that there was a colonel of comets that fell in there you know she boiled the sugar before pesach and all that but somehow I don't know so he went to the free declare because you know I'm I'm like a dead man I I this is so that I've been set in this is the way I heard of my father and Ella Landa from but they Brock said it over here in Borough Park he heard it from them Yankovic you know she said this is the way the free the Cannabis repeated Abyss before you bite to really think it over well before you put anything in your mouth you have to think is that what Hashem wants of me at this point and where is it coming from and this is the rabbit telling this most fruit person in the world each each of vitamin empty peace and Yiddish it's really a well-sounding before you bite you have to really think it over what are you putting into your mouth why are you putting into your mouth I mean you know this is uh So when you say you give food to the Clipper yeah have it I have another sheer so we'll talk tomorrow uh no not tomorrow the next she'll be Thursday I've run I've run I'm not giving a share on Wednesday because I might be up very late so we'll do the next year Mr sham Thursday okay side doesn't everyone have a great day take care I pray look important faith can pour them to everybody before I forget it's boring but not the whole great day to get all the brothers thank you so bye bye