Tanya #34 Study of Secular Subjects: The right & wrong way - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

I'm Paige youth gimbal and it's the last part of the page and it's really a very important issue I mentioned it last week briefly here the alternative deals with learning secular subjects seculars and studies oh sorry College University High School and this in the Yeshiva World is is a big issue now and there's differentiate this there's the you know the right and the left and the Centrist and the haradim and the lit Fox and the swardim and over the years we see different different groups have adapted to to this in different ways today we're going to learn the alternator so let's get involved we're on page youth Gimbal and it's one two three four five six seven lines with the bottom the last three words on the page on page with gimbal foreign because of the sensor they wrote them it should be non-jews one who involves himself in these studies for the academic studies of non-jew secular studies because generally speaking this would fall into the category of Battalion Idol chatter what have you learn before about aisle chatter about Warren battalion that it's not foreign it's not forbidden talk it's wasted talk it's like you're wasting your time so what happens is temporarily the the energy of 12 Battalion goes into the realm of negativity and you have to bring it back and there's cleansing and the different punishments as we discussed so Delta remember says the first thing with learning learning um just for the sake of studying when you're supposed to be studying Toyota Islam that's number one because it's simply considered the transgression with B what's what's wrong with learning secular studies Pickle Time you you should be learning Titans that during that time commercial vehicles Talent potatoes as it says in the laws of talmatite okay so that's Universal but the eyes you say the two muscle there's an additional degree of spiritual and Purity and contamination when studying secular subjects studying Central subject I'll Tomas over and above Jordan Battalion Idol chatter what's the difference Idol shattered does in the clothe itself and doesn't contaminate only the emotions that come from the spirit of Holiness within the necessarily kiss I'm gonna explain the moment with what is with what is it contaminated the Thomas Clippers with the tumor of the Clippers which are the source of idol chatter next page page 24 26 Zoo bamis when the nepheum is the definition Obama's gravitates towards this type of silliness and Folly could the land as we said earlier in chapter one however the intellect because of a person's soul when the prison studies secular subjects does not become content it doesn't sorry when a person speaks Idol chatter is pure Idol chatter means chit-chatting a China you know it makes valueless right so you don't use your brain you're heated up you're passionate you're emotional it's the Middle East so the middles are the middays are impacted but not the Seiko that's what he says since Idol chatter are silly you know ignorant shigam has that even those foolish and the ignorant that can also can also speaks you don't have to be a rocket scientist my shaking conversely Messiah the study of secular subjects he enclosed and contaminates the Chabad within the soul the kingdom is Godly soul but too much Clippers with a negative Clippers that are found in this summer in the vessels from the back side of God as known to those that study cambola so what do we have okay let me explain very very very sharp works that when you you just waste your time it's no question about it it you need to reconnect that energy but you didn't contaminate your mind but when you're Isaac when you're involved um your brain starts thinking differently that means of your faculties have been tainted what's the difference there's two differences one is number one which set of faculties are greater within one Soul they're more refined they're more able so number one in the scenario of Varan Battalion they remain pure and you're only impacting the lower faculties the medals the emotions whereas when you study secular subject you also tainting The Higher One the second difference is that when you study it's not only the what part of your Soul's faculties were impacted but the place and what's been created over here is that over here you've you've touched the mind you've made a dent in the mind in a negative way and here you have it by me those you haven't this is brought in the Swarm Hillel I don't know if you have it in slum him and others from you learn but there's a little bit of balance called Tim halev and Tim the congestion the clogging the the of the heart where your heart is can't doesn't feel Feels Like a Rock you don't cry you don't laugh you know what I'm saying it's like you don't feel you understand and if you understand there should be an emotion and you're like emotionless that's called Tim tum halif then we have Tim tombayak is a lot worse not that you don't feel of course you don't feel but the problem is worse your mind has become so stuffed and it doesn't mean by the way that all of a sudden I can't understand that's also a result that when a person contaminates and taints their intellectual faculties then when they come come to learn a piece of Gamora and whatever else if I stay in this they bang their heads I don't get it you know why because you've you've stuffed up you're hooked me being a Das with with secular subjects which are a bit later and and and and and worse what's worse what's worse we're not talking about by the way heresy we're not talking about a little reading and studying philosophies that are heretical against God Etc no let's say tuna the astronomy rufua health different disciplines of of of of of of of secular nature when you exert your mind you involve your mind in that study at that time your mind becomes a Kaylee for that secular subject and what that happens when that happens the Tuma the tumor in the sense of your mind is now jaded in other words you start thinking differently and this is a very very subtle point but a true point I voice I always say this is the difference between Torah thinking and Western thinking Western thinking puts the emphasis is um existence is reality and what made existence is ancillary right so in other words I have the car the car is reality where the car came from why is the car here it was a heap of metal before all of that it takes a secondary place but what's real is the car am I thinking things that way what's title thinking especially the car is not real but there's a car no the car is a heap of metal what is a heap of metal how did metal come about which element what's its purpose that is the reality and because that's the reality It ultimately goes back to God make the Heap of metal and God make the the elements and all of that the minerals because all it comes from God we have a car so if that's the diff if that's the that's the way I think you need then I say it can be a car the car is made to help another person because it's God's car and God wants me to help a person if I see it as my car then it's mine and I am self-centered Etc so this difference so that's why going back to Tim to my mother means that the Moa has become jaded to the sensitivity of God and that's what the altered is alluding to over here and this is a very very important and that's the reason why except for certain situations which we're going to talk about now secular subjects is not just when you have big container but your your mind is still pure no problem you know you stop doing Bittle tell it and you involve your mind but when you've tainted your mind and you start thinking in a secular way in an antithetical way like you know you guys have you know that you throw the a lot of the you know leaders think and you know an anti anti-title way let me just continue LM Kane there is an exception when secular subjects are allowed the topics are allowed to be studied two exceptions you make of them like a with like an X just like an ax is used to cut wood so too the secular subjects are there to help you bring the partners you use the secular subjects the secular study to help you make Parnassus in a profitable way to serve a shed in that manner it's acceptable because in that manner it's not made to contaminate your mind but rather it's made for penosa I I would say this this for me is like Toro College Torah College was made you know there's different divisions today but for like the Homegrown from people to have panosa an accountant a therapist I should be able to feed a family and then have you the basic needs it says there's one other way she a daily established by him yodaya you know oh boy that takes a lot that the person's on a level that he knows how to use secular subjects for the service of God or his tighter the zero time is were doctors and and and and everything else the sayaton and all those that are like them so us could be him that were involved in astronomy and Medicine etc etc why because they were yodeja they didn't need to study that for panosu the story is clever that the rambam had a brother who's wealthy in the brambam's brother supported the rambam so the rambam study of astronomy and kruna and rafu and the different things that he studied was not for partners so why was he allowed to because he knew how these things are a vessel for God he studied medicine as a vessel for God as a way to bring God into the world through reform and so Dr remember saying if a person is and trust me it's not easy to say your day I know because most people study medicine not for that purpose I'm sorry they studied they studied medicine because they need the partnership and so that's maybe included in the first idea that's a to hold the bad discussion over here that regardless of whether you no not regardless even if you don't make a paranosa out of it there's a way of being permitted to learn this because this is a further tool for godliness right so here what I'm trying to emphasize is it's not just they're sick people and I need to hit he he healed the sick people that's not that's not what he's that's that's a different that's not what we're saying is that the medicine itself if God made medicine that means that means there is godliness there now go explore it that's a big Kiddush teaches that that's what the alternator is saying it's a very big Kiddush in other words to go and say you could study astronomy psychology right so whatever it is to help someone okay that would maybe fall into the first category but to go and say to study those things not not you're not going to be a doctor you're not going to be a lawyer you're not going to be an astronomer archaeologist astronomer Etc and why do you study those you Hashem says there is these things and if there's of God in these things you should study it for because you'll see God through it that takes your day out that's that's why the ultimate and only like that and that's why not every time they can Harry including most rabbis and teachers and all that are on this level they're not on a level where they they they know that the Essential Study is of it is godliness they know that it's a tool for godliness because healing is a true for godliness fine so that's that's not included in the that's not what we're talking about in the last part the beat as is made out that ever says to summarize whether you're studying to make pagnoso whether you're studying because you you find God in this topic itself though that that that's the time it's acceptable I know someone who in the 60s is his mother wanted them him and his brothers to go to college and he wanted to learn English I think it was and uh he they had a relationship with the red but they went into the rabbit and the rabbit said that if you're going to school your mother wants you to go to school okay you know it's your mother you have to keep it up and although the rabbit did argue it out with parents there's other stories that have been mamish had long discussions with parents who pushed their kids to go to college and they were Yeshiva bacharim and they were you know good heads and and they never had long discussions trying to persuade them I don't know if I can say most but many listened at the end but this guy this guy this person this person's mother wanted so they never said but just study the subjects that are not Bittle Terror so in other words I would think that the prerequisites are bitter Taylor and that's a hard thing that's why if you go to any University you can't get anywhere without the prerequisites the prerequisites say many times this heresy and some of the subjects and even if there isn't it's Bittle Torah in other words but if you just study for the sake of the degree right why do you need a degree you have the MSW they'll hire you you make partners and you also help yeah of course you help people so that was the emperor's advice to him that listen to your mother but find a a program and that does that and I remind myself my I think the rep is said the same thing to my uncle my uncle decide is going to school to college and then naturally you know saw that he's a law he's a lost case he's not going to listen you know he was coming from a different place so the devil didn't fight with him and then but he told me that I've been suggested take these courses not these courses no things like that so all of this four I think would fall into the category here uh uh that we're discussing here in Tanya about 10 15 years ago I gave a lecture on truest once in Crown Heights on this subject you know because the rapper generally was against going to college the question is would the Reba agree to going to Toro College and I said that you know if if you're not going to be matama your your Chabad you're not gonna you know and you're gonna focus on the partners the subjects that deal with the partners itself accounting and whatever else I would think that and you need it for panosa it's fine just like the ramble they rep himself the rapper was not like rabbit salvation Salvation went to University of Berlin to get a PhD and he got a PhD didn't go to get a PhD that ever went to get partnership and he needed a degree uh engineering degree so he needed to take a few courses at the University of Berlin to qualify for the um the Institute which I forget its name in Berlin that was offering the degree and then when he moved to Paris and he went to the sorbon it was the same thing people mistake that he went there to study philosophy and things like that and and was interested in that no it's wrong he what he wasn't he was interested in getting the certificate and that's what he got and that's what he was an engineer to bring home Panasonic for his wife himself and his family do you know what what interests the represent specifically in engineering I think civil engineering we speak about it he never spoke about it but I they say that during the war in the 40s he was working at the Brooklyn Navy yard and it was classified and he he developed a um a light that couldn't be seen for the submarines that was his invention you know that's that's what I heard other people have told me they saw him in the yeah everyone will share one tomorrow if you see anybody or talk to anybody remind them to come earlier have a great day Shalom bye