Tanya Igeres haTeshuva 1a, Its fundamentals as taught by the Alter Rebbe - R' Chaim Dalfin

okay so we're learning the sh UA on page 189 it's the third section of Tanya although in the tanas that we have that we use it doesn't say an introduction in the in the uh in the back of Tanya it says that the printer omitted the the the brief introduction which says which says the name of this book T is called a collection of of sayings the third section that's called B with the name so we don't have that printed and why they didn't insert it because in the original the Alba wrote that the AL himself wrote that I don't know but uh this is a fact so what we know from this is thata is the third section of Tanya and why am I saying that because you could argue that each of the sections have nothing to do with each other the first section says that's called with the name the book of the intermediates the the book for the average person sa is all about you know the potential b as we learned at length in the first 53 chapters the second section is about faith in God Unity God reconciling Creation With God what does that have to do with the first section in other words it it say though it's it's a separate safer it's a separate book of 12 chapters and the same is with it get at Chua as we will learn it's all about chuva so what does it have to do with the first section so the first thing you have to know that the balat the author himself self says no wrong it's all one safer called and so far I've divided into three sections so this this is coming from the author so therefore we understand that there's a relationship between the three and the re once spoke about this and I'll make it very brief I think you you you have you have some of it in lessons in Tanya already but basically the re said the previous reab said actually the Reb explained it the previous Reb said that the four sections of T right and then the fourth section correspond to the um then there's um I'm sorry also it corresponds to the four letters of the K the I explained at length I'll make it just very brief one in other words when we speak about AB God's name the inevitable name of yut it's not just four letters put together it's a composite of an of one idea called God how God expresses himself through UD first k v and the last K okay yes sir and this is explained at L and I'm not going into that now either just giving you the the facts so so is also with the you know the the code of Jewish law it's not four separate sections it's one common thread of living a Jewish holy life as dictated by God Almighty expressed in four ways daily law koser law marriage law divorce law and monetary law basically comprising all of one's experiences so is there using that idea the same is with the safer of it's not that the first section is for the B and the second and third are for sadim or B TR but and have no connection wrong they all have a connection we have to find a connection we have to work on that so therefore the Al's opening words that are omitted here in the printed Tanya we have it as we have it today but we're in the original therefore our valid is an integral part to know that is the third section of so if one wants to have the full gamut of which is the safer that the this author the balatan wrote the third section is important for the understanding and follow through of number of number one and number two and just speaking out loud the first section is about okay if we had to sum up what is the first section of Tanya about mind over matter right the second section that we just finished is about faith in God right both those two without the element of Tashua are lacking are missing what are they missing practical Behavior shape up or ship out yeah in other words say you sir you want to now follow a a trajectory of self-improvement hey we know there were and there are and ab you're from California all these kinds of self-improvement um approaches from the 60s and 70s War airart and on and on I've met people like that I'm sure you've met people like that so why do we need why do we need go to a seminar read a book Dale Carnegie and Company and you'll be fine and so with regarding the second section which is up the alley of of iser philosophy philosophies you know and hopefully you'll come to some of the same conclusions and if not okay so but in other words why why why can't I read Aristotle and Plato and and other philosophers and then R going and and and RAM you know Jewish philosophers so Jewish philosophers lead you to T Mitzvah Aristotle and Plato not not don't necessarily lead you to mitz but why why must I have chuva and the answer is because with philosophy you either will get it right you'll get it wrong I just was listening to a little bit before this year to a podcast of two former uh from people fully from and kabad Niks and and I know you know both one of them I know one of them I know the family name and very bright and completely intellectually they they're not doing chuva they're not doing a Chua they're involved in and therefore they L certain teachers they had and they even shed a tear and they'll go to the o but when it comes to practical life putting Onan putting on the muza give surrendering which is chuva they won't do not yet they did it once but now they're in a mode of I know better and you know and ab Khan for example he didn't know nii he didn't know Newton he knew Al he knew R he knew all that and he was gifted in a genius there but there are other disciplines and philosophies that's where it geta comes in and Cha tells the philosopher of you want your philosophy to be in accordance with God you have to do chuva and what is chuva surrendering to God the way he describes in Torah even though you understand otherwise oh so that is how get that we're about to start learning compliments the second section of and the first section which is self-improvement is it clear you understand yeah no questions because it's very important to get the trajectory questions on the next part on which part wait wait I know is Sir you asked me the same thing a year ago and I'm so happy that you still have the question and that you're still learning at the shear that shows that you're on the right path cuz we don't know everything and guess what maybe I won't have the answer for you or maybe the answer won't be satisfactory but that's get us saua you don't throw it all out you know you know that's the that's what makes a the difference between the difference between a from and someone who's not yet from is this this point just because I don't understand or I don't relate or I don't feel I I Surrender that's the bottom line do I surrender to God Almighty although I don't get it and it's not it's not it's not easy especially for someone who's philosophically minded intellectually oriented you know these are for that type of person these questions and these issues are very very bothersome and it doesn't let you rest but we learn from yeden who lived life in the past and we read their works or we heard we hear them speak and we hear them teach and we see that they also didn't have all answers beginning withu I don't know do the voice he admitted I don't know the r right we don't have all the answers so anyway going back to the point this is I I just wanted to give an introduction to the importance of a Chua as it applies to section one and section two of Tanya let's begin now page8 p is brought in a at the end of track there are three divisions categories of atonement and with each one the CH in and Chua is necessary with each of the three and let's learn continue from the BR number one say if someone desecrated a positive Comm a positive commandment V and the person did cha the person regretted not fulfilling the positive Commandment that God instructed says the BR one is not budged and moved from the air in other words that TR is not adequate until he return he he until he's pardoned we'll explain later that's number one the second category of what if someone desecrated a pro a pro a prohibited commandment Lo do not do this and this and the person did it the and the person regret it and the Chua says the the BR CH chuva keeps you hanging the and in that scenario yipper atones when it comes yipper and you and you and you participate and you Kipper through fasting and everything else the day itself atones for your desecration of a will continue later in the chapter with the third section of the BR but immediately here says p in the in the parenthesis the meaning of the previous stated although regarding the Fulfillment of it is greater because it pushes aside a proh Prohibition for example T says right in the you shall wear titas what of the titas is made of wool and linen together which isness it's a Prohibition you know what the is I say the MIT of wearing TI pushes aside the mitz of sh and you wear those sissors what do we see from here seemingly that which is more powerful I say I say I say cuz the proof is when it comes to a scenario where you have both coming together the the sages teach us what did we learn just before in the tractate Yuma one second one second please give me a minute what have you learned at the end of traed Yuma which it it says there that for not doing a positive commandment I'm sorry I learned it wrong I I I I read it wrong before I said chuva is not adequate wrong Chua is enough and therefore you're atoned but when it comes to desecrating Al the the says Tru Chu keeps you hanging kind of and until yipper you don't have forgiveness what does that imply which is which is stronger Which is higher which is greater a or or or a say Al so that's why for Al you need your own keeper and for not doing a say all you need is trva so it seems to be a contradiction this is what the AL is is responding to in this parenthesis let me just finish it first and then I'll take your point the question is answers the AL to his rhetorical question the reason why because through the Fulfillment of an a you draw down light energy and she influence to the upper worlds from the elmination of the infinite light of God it says in the 248 positive Commandments they are allude to the 248 limbs of the king referring to God the King and not only do you draw down energy to the spiritual worlds but you draw down also energy when you do a say upon your your own Godly Soul as it says right when we make a for we say God has made us holy he Sanctified us so in other words we is become holy we become through through his mitz so what's the AL answering to his rhetorical question that regarding regarding fulfillment I say is greater than lo I say because I say draws down light whereas say you don't draw down any light you don't draw down a light a say means you positive proactive Los means you're abstaining so you know what a Los does it cleans up the room says it's analogous to Preparing a room for a king what's the first thing you have to do clean it up get rid of the Schmutz once you get rid of the you have to bring in Furniture Lo say is cleaning up the room do not do this and if you do it you have to clean up the room with chuva and Y Kipper but that's in other words for what we will call Tik so we have two things I want you to hear this and think about it and Tik as far asum as far as fulfillment of fulfillment I say is greater than Los say because by a say you draw down a light and lo say you don't draw down a light as far as tick is concerned guess what LO is greater than I say because Lo say means I messed up and when we mess up we leave a mark there's DNA there's Blood on the glove from that famous OJ Simpson uh Fiasco right there is a Remnant leftover M Myers I got your attention I see uh the the the there is a Remnant we excuse the expression screw it up when you mess up there's there's blood left on a glove no one wants to be around that you got to clean it up they see with October 7th now the kadisha goes around cleaning up the blood that's spilled and to put it into the Cav has to be cleaned up so as far as L is concerned a mess was made and a mess is made it needs tick but in no and and I say put on filling you didn't put on filling you didn't leave a stand you know what you did you just didn't draw down the energy that you could have drawn down through putting on fill in but you didn't leave a stain a pagam in Hebrew you didn't leave a pagami sir the P the pagam issue is through Los the drawing down of energy is an a issue that's what Al is saying here that it's not a contradiction because when Kaz say I say that when you have a contradiction between a like wearing TI while it's shockness there you're talking about drawing down energy so the energy stronger it outweighs the the the prohibition but when it comes to doing chuva for a stain for aam there there the K say the end of sofa what do they say they say there you have to work twice as hard to to clean up the mess and think of it just practically let's be practical it's so much harder to clean up a mess than to draw down positive energy right you know someone who's not religious you pull them into aab house you pull him to a Shool you say put your filling on here come make a br sit by a table why not I don't know what a brook is I don't know what fill is you tell me to do it fine years later you learn about it in other words it's much easier to relate to a say but it's so so much more difficult to stop a bad habit that's a lot more difficult whatever it is whether it be eating a cheeseburger or being a excuse me a jerk and not a men and treating another person properly which is also a right that's much harder to change so that's what Al says it's not a contradiction the Miss is talking about the stain part The Tick part right the Mish is giving you three categories of sins that need T the m is not talking about the positive aspect of doing Mitzvah whereas when talk about mitz say they're talking about the positive aspect yes before I go further now Isa what do you want to say I never I never thought about this but how do we how do we done between I think the simple answer I say simple is when you intentionally have that in mind when you but I know but I know that shottis is an iser and I intentionally put it on my cus my w cus I put linen linen uh my wool garment I put linen SAS I I I think the answer is I I never I never right distinguish right it it's it's a good point you're making it's something that I want to think about it um thank you for raising the question but I have this this feeling this that the answer is that mitvah means I'm going to do a Mitzvah knowing quite well that it's a by it's not that I want to do this way I have to do it this way I I'll give you give you a PR wait wait wait wait wait wait is did you hear you jumped did you hear what I said no I did hear I did hear come sukus time when people put their suas on the sidewalks in the streets without permission or well that that's that ex I don't know that example you're you're assuming that that it's an a putting a Suk on a sidewalk you have to have permission okay so that so that go so that goes into a thing called right that's that's a that's a whole that's a Pandora's Box that there's a lot of discussion about that okay you know it's not that simple the way you're saying it it could be the end will be that you're right but it it's a big discussion I looked into this years ago this this topic of of of um uh one as if if my memory serves me well means that the government the the malus says it must be this way what if you do something that isn't a viol of the way it must be but it's it's you do it but it's it's like not the way they they would want it but it's not against what they would want the example I go on your property and put up a su my property is different than public property my property cannot okay and and and by the way is and even that is not simple my neighbor built out right here I'm point to the backyard an extension blocking the sun now exactly exactly and and you know there were I went to samon and they said you have a a you could take him to a b before you know to go to court I mean this is a serious violation then someone else said well the the speaks about just the blocking of the window not the blocking of part of the wall and and you know the sun is not an argument the window might be hea all all of that you know my point is the the point I'm saying is that when you say you know he builds it on your property yeah initially that's that's definitely wrong and and against I agree but but but the public property but why why are we talking about this you wanted to give this as an example I was just I never I never considered how we distinguish between right right okay I I will [Music] toal is Rule There are rules and you find out just yeah AB you're following our discussion is discussion yeah I understand it yeah okay so so so uh I want to discuss this with some big cuz it is a good point but I think that there's the the Mitzvah very is almost like intentional that's and and and and the is it's not coming from the intentional point it's because you're okay let let let me let me let me let me get back b anyway let's go back to the piece of T here but regarding the aspect of CH although one is [Music] pardoned oh one second what is the AL saying now with the words this is what he's he's he's addressing if you're telling me that MIT emphasizes the the Fulfillment and the the emphasizes the ti so why must why does the mishna say you have to do chuva for for um for a say in other words seemingly chuva is a is a is is is wiping away the stain the the the the mark the the pagam the blemish and and we just finished explaining that when it comes to Mitzvah say it's not about a blemish it's about you didn't draw down the light you could have drawn down so why do you have to do Chua that's what the AL addresses now although the says for Say by doing you won't get a punishment for not doing what you were supposed to do says here the idea of CH is you know what CH helps when it comes to MIT say for the Rebellion here's a third the rebellion and as far as the Rebellion Rebellion against God God says put fill on and you say no I'm not putting on fill you have rebelled forget about whether you left a stain or Mark or you didn't or whether you drew down the light you you're you're now right you have audacity you are a moate a rebellion rebellious for that you need to do chuva says the AL now so though you do Chua for the Rebellion guess what it don't change the facts on on on the ground what are the facts on the ground the energy that you were supposed to draw down through putting on is missing and lacking as the sages say there are certain sins that you cannot correct the sages teach this refers to this refers to someone who desecrates the nightly krishma the morning chrish but not by not saying it you can't make it up I did jua I feel terrible that I didn't say krishma at night the bottom the bottom line is you didn't say krishma you didn't draw down that energy and say it's amongst the sins that cannot be corrected there's no tickle by the way if you remember in chapter in section one of Tanya chapter 7 spoke about a way where you can get Chua for that too through chuaa but you know Chu Mi Chua from great abundant love but he's not he's not talking about that now what do you want to say AB I see you clicked yes what about if a person has a opportunity to learn Torah they don't they don't do it it it you're asking me if it's in the category of what that apply wouldn't bring down a light you wouldn't it [Music] wouldn't I I I don't I I don't want to answer without I think it does but I I want to check that I think I heard something but I have to the point is like this that every MIT say when not done the light is lacking is comparing it to what say about certain Mitzvah that if you don't do them you can't make up you can't make can't make them out up so he's saying what's the logic why can't you make it up because you missed today krishma so do chuva very nice you'll do chuva so you other words the fact that you didn't say today and you rebelled against God and you do chuva the trua will help for the Rebellion but the light wasn't drawn down now you're asking asking if that applies to every moment learning Torah it could be it could be but is that supposed to make us feel better or worse AB cuz say brought it earlier in Tanya there are three three Mitzvah that we can't get away from not desecrating them daily and one is learning every moment so if the Kaz say that God God it means god is saying and God understands and he finds a way to to Pardon Us in other words right what is it B Torah but that thatal itself M that kazal itself is telling us I understand you people you're not you're not going to be learning every moment I'm not going to give you a free a free ride you know you but but at the same time um I I I'm understanding in the sense that uh that's the way it is okay we'll stop here if you don't do say in the morning right so that's that's that's another question and Nuance this is that that the question is whether you don't doar all or you don't do it BisMan I have to audience today yeah yeah yeah I I I'm not going to jump to answer that cuz plenty of people not just in bemes but right here in good old B Park in flatb and Toronto uh who miss you know now shabas 8:30 is man is his man so some people sleep in but I'll tell you something it's it's it's a it's a serious issue that I was trained and I was raised to be cognizant of you know and to it to take it very seriously and and and the few times that I missed I I I felt very bad you know in other words it I could have been up all night and I was planning on getting up and I or there were times I remember I went I ran and I I have a minute or two what do I do I didn't say BR so I say right first thing the point listen okay you know the point is we got to take it seriously go ahead I hear so the question I was going to ask Rel is forgetting about the specific of in terms of if you miss a t if you miss something that we should do are we held accountable in Shay oh you didn't do this you didn't do that you didn't do this you know we're held accountable it's on the it's on the scale it's on the scale there's no question about it but but but but but remember what it says in P in chapter 7 the first section of Tanya through CH MI through this intense truva that even that's pardoned the only thing that mentions there that is like impossible is the you know illicit relationships where there's a drop of semen going into another body you know and creating and even even that there are stories of of of a way of Chua which aren't Pleasant which I don't want to go into right now but but outside of those things as long as it's you and you you can deal with it there there's a way to to draw down the light but with but again since he's not talking about it here he doesn't he doesn't mention it so the answer would be M to your point if someone missed krishma and K say what they say let him intensify his own krishma let him get other people to get up on time to say krishma and when you show and you work hard then you show that you're Chua really is is is deep and meaningful and then it's a Chua Mi with from great abundant love and uh you you have atonement at that time as well okay good learning we'll learn tomorrow Z doesn't everyone have a great day shalom byebye