Tanya #38 Am I able & should be a Tzaddik today? Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

we're learning pedicures and Tanya on page 28 to Briefly summarize what we learned till now uh the first chapter we learned about the nephew bomb is the second chapter about the Netflix Shirley case the third chapter about the faculties of Seiko and midos of the never Shirley kiss the fourth chapter about the revolution the garments of the next year the kids fourth and fifth the sixth and seventh chapter about the faculties and garments of the Neptune bombings and the Clipper snigger and the shower's Clippers at the mayors and last chapter chapter nine thou could ever spoke about the Locale the location of the nefertitis Obama's Waging War over the body Etc that's what we learned about in last chapter now in chapter U of Delta that actually returns to what he's taught when he began in chapter one you remember he spoke about the five different categories the good murder right it was incomplete that Russia was complete of the Russians incomplete that someone's in the middle and all of this but now is going to open up so in chapter this is the chapter where he deals with the two kinds of Sadiq okay so it's good to have a summary in your mind of what the what the chapter is about so chapter youth is about excuse me the two types of Sadiq okay but for example chapter 11 the next chapter your dollar is about the two types of it I'll show you and chapters 12 13 14 15 and 16 are all about the main theme of the Tanya the bananine that's why it's four five five chapters not just one chapter so it's a that's and it's not the two levels of Sadiq gets one chapter the two levels of Russia got the next chapter one chapter and banking gets five chapters so it tells you right away that this is the Mainstay of Tanya so let's go let's learn inside pay the cute [Music] page 28. Hindi what you think you pay the cute um right not the beginning the beginning of chapter 28 of a pedicure okay page okay do you mind muting yourself hello please when a person has their necessarily kiss dominate be the Superstar and his wages War so much it's it's really in a big fight it's Joe Frazier against uh whoever else um the two big boxers they're really boxing in the ring uh yeah I don't want to mention his name okay regardless women until it knocks him out and how does it knock him out it chases away it's magarish woman fire and it it burns hurray the evil Shabbat that's within the person in the left ventricle as we learned the last chapter question as the Torah says will come guess what this will be the reality you said you shall get rid of eliminate The Evil Within you but there's an issue here there's some form of what we call RA and we have to we'll talk about that in a moment that hasn't been transformed completely to good this type of persona Gummer an incomplete Sadiq another term for this type of person is that there's still some bad within him now the altered is bothered by the question that it should bother each and every one of us why two terms you're calling me to try to change a Gummer right my he's incomplete or call him he's a topic that has a little Vestige left of ra why does why two names of the same individual says remember I taught you that whenever you see that word the high note you mean something is bothering him that he responds to so that's what's bothering the alternator right here is why the two turns the high knew I'll explain to you why the second term he still has a bit of bad because what is left vented in his left ventricle and the Chicago Butler type it's subjugated to godai because of its minuteness we're located therefore need my life I'm going to explain soon let me just finish the text therefore it appears that this person according a verse he chased it away and it it's gone completely but it's not true why the government because if it would have gone completely all of the bad who never go to a mamas so it would be transformed complete good and guess what that he would be a topic to timeline he'll be outside the Gummer he would be a complete Sadiq and the Gomorrah says remember we have a good bird the gemara says there are five categories incomplete I didn't establish that you didn't establish that think about established it means the gamara understands that there's two distinct individuals so the question is what's with this outside the Gummer it's pretty simple he's great in everything and we're not talking now just remember I should have said this earlier we're not talking about the classical term unit definition of the five categories is whether they have a big bank account and whether they have a good spirituality it's how the government is Kashmir is Russia Gummer has has uh neither and Russia a the government has kashmirs but not rochnis and Panini is in between has a little of both we're not talking about that that's a talmudic definition a true one but we're talking about the inner inside of the Soul what's going on with the person that's what the outer them established in the first chapter of Tanya he proved this point and that's kind of the thesis and the and the basis of tanyas that when when the gamara talks about these classifications it's much more than just a position of status but rather it's talking about what is going on with the individual who am I what is going on inside says here in chapter 10 he says means that there's a little vestige of RA still left now you have to ask yourself a question how could you call him exotic if he has some rock we learned and we know that as soon as anyone has any law he's already a Russian so how do you say it's an oxymoron it's a contradiction so the Arts and epics understands this and this is what he's saying over here he doesn't have ra like you and I you know real you know issues everyone has their issues there's something left over that's not yet perfect that's not 100 percent in a very refined way let me give you an example hits the Rock malicious punished for hitting the Rock if Hillel if you would hit the rock you think you would have been punished I'm telling you you wouldn't have been punished you would have been put on a plateau and they would have said this guy Hill is so great that he was able to have a relationship with a rock because God told him and and the common folk at the time didn't and Hillel did and you would be lauded but not my show Maisha is my sharabeno and if you're my sharabeno you're the leader you're the Top Gun and if you goof up in the slightest way you're getting punished because by you it's a real debt but the average person is considered a Mitzvah and the story I told you that naftali abruptions and enough and one was left early the rabbit is coming back from tashler and he sees a student running running towards him she says where are you running is rapping I'm running to pick up your availas that he threw into the river why because for him though for navaras those weren't transgressions those were Mitzvahs they were diamonds but for the rabbi they were our Vegas let's use those two examples I gave you to understand what the outer lab is saying here is not the rad we average people have no it means some sensation of imperfection on the level of its of exotic that's what's still missing so outside the global a complete subject means that even that vestige he doesn't have which really means if you think about it it's so it's unreal for us perfection since when can a human being perfect so it's very hard to understand the steam cloud and a lot of people struggle with this idea not just but you know Jews and I would say that those areas of Judaism over the years that you know deviated from traditional you know Judaism this is one of the issues that they had is how could you say that someone has is perfect a human being can be perfect so how do you say it is and because they didn't believe in this whole notion of Santa gomor therefore one second therefore they concluded my shirt that we too who are imperfect if if the rabbis or the talmud are imperfect and they could make rulings are living in Idaho today can make a ruling I'm also imperfect that that way of thinking was an underlying the underlying idea behind the movements conservative move informed movements actually over the years that made changes in halacha it's because it begins with a tap because they don't accept that there's such an existence of an individual or sages that are perfect yes Maisha [Music] seems like being like even most there's there's different you know there's different groups even within we'll call for lack of a better term like the Torah world also don't who also feel the same way in other words for example in the lit Bishop world I think for the most part there's the concept of even though you have the Russia Yeshiva you have what you would call like the elite but at the same time there seems to be very very much a General attitude that anybody can learn and anybody can progress to very very great it's very very great great Heights of learning in other words I've been in circles where this with the ultra rep is um you know this uh philosophy that they don't necessarily agree with it in other words to say anybody can become anybody can become the top pressure shaper so by the way I just want to add that it's it so just as a sub I don't know if this is how connected this is it's interesting that in in the world of certainly the world of Chabad in the world you see that the one hand away that said this the concept the idea of the Sadiq according to the Elder rabbit at the same time you see generally this observation has been that even those who progress to very high levels of scholarship there's an emphasis on being very humble about it saying within Chabad just saying this which is not the case necessarily in the lit visual world right so I I I hear you but but your your point needs to there's one that could that I that I think you're mixing up at least I heard it that way maybe you're not we're not talking here Bowie about practicality practical can I be a Russia to know all those shots or not we're not talking about that talking about inside the soul the nephesh we're talking about can a person say that he's emotional he's like yes not not knowledge I hear that that and I'm saying that from my conversation over over time my perception is that in that let's say world yes and no in other words I don't it's not okay and and you're right that is their perception it's very much uh frowned by the Hasidic World forget it for sure but it has cynical the whole balcanto forget about the whole percent of movement is the whole idea of humility yes I mean in the swarm of Islam number a bit like yes it's a general hasidism right so what what what why don't we walk or or abnormal why don't we walk away with the whole and and this is what upset the the snapped in 200 years ago is that hasidim left and and part of it was right the part of it was wrong in other words right they made somersaults the whole idea was to be Movado delete Factory in other words through their entire learning they they believe they can be a Maisha Rabino or a cube you know what I'm saying and that was exactly their agenda now not only you know most Hasidic groups disagreed with their approach but not the ideology with the ideology hasidism does believe that they have it wrong what do we have it wrong to convince yourself that you could be amazed it's a joke because you're not because we're you know and and the proof is like I've told you and you know it I don't mean to say it in the derogatory way and I hope it does not hurt that way but the Russia goes in here to a store and his wife is then he's buying a new frock for pesach and he looks in the mirror is it this is it that is it and the wife says like it's good and it says I still have to check and he's still checking and she says like enough already kind of and he turns around he says this is on the same potato and a practice in the same for telling us to be custom-made instead of saying like wait instead of saying I just enjoy a nice frock call it as it is that same note I hit okay but you have you have but what about this to them that go and get you know Custom Custom dish packages the same thing the same thing and I've said that to you anyways asked this question over the years the same criticism the same criticism I'm not from those that will will say that the same and maybe even worse okay so we have to again you know you know we're older now when we got when we when we were younger and this was all new to us and all that we thought that way now with grandkids you know most of us and all that you got you got to get away from that well he's not living it and she's doing it this way that's not what establishes this is what I don't Tanya the swearing the this Farm is what established you know a a a true a truism of a tighter shita so so what I'm saying is and again what you said Maisha is right right in the sense that that's their thinking but the balsamtov came and he said no we have another way of thinking and that's the difference between the the litvac shita and and the shita and both are valid and everyone's decide what they want what the outsole you're right when you say that without the red was saying here in a way they don't accept you're right no so they don't accept it but so what so what if that this isn't a fight over here every when you learn a piece of Toyota a yid that's uh looking for the MS has to ask himself is this talking to me last night I interviewed someone a very very bright person a woman have to be in the Chabad Community I want to say her name people know she is I know an older in the 70s and we were talking and she said to me since 1966 or seven of those years she went she was in Montreal she went to University and at Hillel house came to talk at Hill House he was a Halo director with a pig in a cave and she went she was a bit shock of graduate in Montreal she said it was the first and she came from a Chabad house and she's come back I mean real Chabad but nevertheless in the house you know she was a girl studying a bizkakov it wasn't like people were pushing you know it was not it wasn't like today that Chabad you know the kids are learning hasidis and doing the myth saying and there's competition sitting and see kids and the swan conventions there was nothing like that nothing you okay even in my days I mean I'm mostly for the 60s but I'm saying when I was getting older the 70s it wasn't like that so she grew up in that period even before and and she said she went and all of a sudden she heard someone standing there talking about God and about finding your connection and and she never heard such words and she said she was mesmerized and she walked home from the Hill House their house which was an hour an hour and a half in a in a cold Frosty Montreal Canadian night but it didn't snow he said she could see that you know it was gorgeous and as Alma said at the end of the lecture I want you to walk out of here and ask yourself a question who am I what am I doing with my life where do I want to go and she told me last night she walked all the way an hour and a half her house thinking about this that's now of course it's tighter but you know and only later that she didn't know she didn't know it later she's found out that's the sickness Solomon didn't say I'm teaching Sinners tonight he didn't say that he gave a talk never see this the point is that the not here you know there was not the delete fax thing this way don't see them think this one this way everyone's the size of the outer every here lays on a course for every year not just for the babbages and not just and I I think we could say that today many many lit facts learn Italian says and it's become you know for everyone are you gonna say that they just they're thinking that way some aren't some aren't so those that you've spoken to you see there's another issue we're getting off tangent where you have to learn there's another issue is that they a lot of people learn the Tanya and learn but they filter it through there lit this eyes foreign and when you do that it's a different Tanya and it's a definition it's a different one so you know it's very hard for a a someone who was raised from raised in the Yeshiva World and to unravel the way he or she was taught from childhood on and be able to create a paradigm shift in your thinking and open yourself up to another approach to the same things hey look what you want to say I was when you were talking about the difference between um I was thinking about the phrase you know the the literature leaders are called the fidolin yeah many Hasidic leaders and I was thinking about the phrase through the filter of uh authorization this week where he's talking about the word the name Adam only a Jew is called an Adam because uh it it brings the aleph the alupa shalola mental the dumb and the dumb then circulates the uh the spark of godliness so to speak and I was wondering if there's uh if you could talk about kind of any parallels or any differences between the the Valentine's idea of the Sade and the phrase Adam gado okay you know what um let me do that when we have a fabric okay to discuss which I think would be interesting for many other people in in in Ramadan um I do have to go now because I have to go but tomorrow we can take not tomorrow Thursday um we'll continue on Thursday all the best we're not meeting tomorrow and Wednesday Thursday yes but we're going to meet Chris called this yes yes later uh on roast Club there no no no they did because it's early by us you guys don't buy us it's by your state it's earlier the the next is earlier so it's not a problem for me okay and um and then and then we're gonna be on break no no no next Monday next Monday next Monday we're going to learn to next Monday yes since we heard