Tanya Kuntres Acharon 4f- Angels are they real? Do you have one? How do they feel? RC Dalfin

So we're learning. It's the last section of Tanya, the fifth section, essay 4. We're using the lessons in Tanya safer and we're on page the bottom of 338 just to bring you up to date. The alterba here is in the middle of explaining the importance of mitzvah practicing doing mitzvah and Torah study which he says touches the essence of God compared to a person's love and fear which as wonderful as it is to be inspired and we need to be inspired nevertheless it's still associated with self even the self of the soul of Disha and Hashem wants of aid to transcend that this is a discussion that's discussed at length in many many discourses from each of the because it's a very nuanced idea and on one hand it's very simple but on the other hand it's not because we have so much of our literature and uh study which speaks about the importance of inspiration and cava ava and love of god you know awe for hashem so the alterb in different sections in tanya has has dealt with this issue and right here he deals with it now more on a cabalistic way but nevertheless does add some important insights that we haven't learned yet in the first four sections So let's go now directly to the bottom the and and all of the foregoing that we discussed the virtue of mitzvah and study over the soul itself over the inspiration it's regarding a positive commandment seemingly this wouldn't apply to learning the details of why because means just hold yourself back. You're not doing anything positive. Especially when we talk about certain mitzvah which aren't frequent at all the laws of pickle and the like which pickle is a sacrifice is not allowed to be in in the times of the bdish not eaten by a certain time whether it's whatever The details are in par about the various carbon the various sacrifices. So those what what are th those mitzvah said do not allow the carban not to be eaten by this and this time. Sad says now. So then the question is why should these laws be studied extensively and and and and in fact even more than one studies the order of which can rouse one to love and awe of Hashem. There's yet another common characteristic that's equal by all mitzvah even mitzvah because for all inspiration of love of awe and love intellectual that the angels have the maximum issue that an angel who's holy has is a creation. It's already a creation. It's a formation. It's a definition. And this is the next page. Now if the intellectually generated law and love experienced by mortals can likewise not be compared to the study of the laws why does the alter here choose to speak of angels right why is he what's so special about angels so to explain I'm reading the note on 340 the top towards the top of the page the love and fear experienced by angels by souls is different from the a from the souls themselves. For souls are not actual created beings. Okay, this is a very deep concept. A soul is not a created being. It's it's it's godliness that's transformed into creature, but it's not a creation. In Hebrew, I want you to remember this this term. It's eluser. It's elusive. You hear that? Elus. It's godliness that becomes creation. It's not elusive. NRA that it's not God that creates a soul. God part of Hashem's essence of godliness forms itself into soul. So in other words, the shama soul is godliness. Next point, the love and fear experienced by souls is after all a mitzvah while that of the angels is not. Thus the angels love and fear better stresses their created aspect and thus and this enables us to understand that even with regard to souls the essential aspect love and fear is created create entity the laws by contrast are godliness. So basically is saying is is is saying look any type of law be it aay and even loay is godliness whereas whereas whereas the the the aira is a self expression be it be at the level of angels be at the level of souls but it's a self expression But the detailed laws are derivation from the superal wisdom of the creator, the emanator better said. Blessed be that invest itself in the physical. This investment is not compare compar comparable to the investment of superernal wisdom and wisdom in in all and love intellectual ones. Next page. The home over there over there. The garment. Remember, we're talking all spiritual the concept. The garment conceals the energy similar to the concealment of the material world in comparison to superernal wisdom which is invested in the world. But you don't see it. It's concealed. As it says, all have been made with the external of externalities of the vessels of which is completely concealed. Now remember we have three levels of nephesh and three out of five. We're talking about the three. So it's explained like this. Nephesh is action orientation. Ru is emotions mid character orientation and and sh is orientation. So delta is saying that all three have a concealment already whether it be action is you know is just behavior spirit which is ru which is emotions tells you more a little bit about the person and the situation but nevertheless it's still a conceal but then even the intellect which you would think that could it's limited it's how much you can perceive so therefore the ne are are are are are all limited. So he says that that this is the explanation why it it's not it's not like study even say which is godliness conversely what is law what is Jewish law what is law it's the it's clearly this is the wisd wisdom of Hashem. It's that's what God wants. The fact that you hear this the fact that goes through a garment, right? Meaning you have to put on sites, you need a begott, you need a garment and you need a certain begott, right? And all those details. The garment is just is just a a lavush for the aura for the energy. In other words, the energy that Hashem says is this mitzvah of sitsus is godliness. And I want you to have a connection to it. How do you do it? You got to find a garment and you got to tie situs and you got to make sure it's not torn and you got to make sure it's clean and you right. Those are all what we call a lavush. And and and he says he gives the example of this is what happens. It says in the kindness of the world highest world of God invests itself in the of Bria and it ultimately sustains the world anamto. That's what it says and it passes through which is also called an investment if not so you have to have the garment go through the various stages. It's like if you don't put on the right garment, you know, and there's an inner layer, an outer layer, and the they're details. Those are all like the this world or that world and this world. And when you put it on properly, i.e. you have all the ex all the revelations concealed, invested in this garment, then the garment benefits you. But imagine putting on clothing with with with with holes and uh other other issues. Then you're not protected. You're not protected. You're not protected from scorpions. You're not protected from the heat. You're not protected from the cold. Right? You have to make sure the garment is completely sealed and completely put on properly. So the same thing is sobb says that this is all when it comes to you know it comes to self but when you learn the even the say you have the there as well you have the there kindness that hashem gives on without our activity of dvening and learning ing and eating and all that and making a make celebrating the Y theos that is given on Y is concealed. When you learn the about the YT that's not gashm. So he's saying that in a sense there's a virtue to learning the allas because it's not limited to the gishim. If it's not limited to the gish. So the gash is the material cannot obstruct the flow. That's the point. This is the will of God. Whether he it be lenient or stringent of 344. It's only that it descends into just as water that descends from a high place to below the physical item itself that a particular addresses. In fact, it's utterly obscure. We learned the if there's an exchange of a of an ax for a donkey regarding we mentioned before the the meat of the animal that wasn't eaten on time which then is rendered pigle pigle or if it it was eaten on time but kosher and therefore it's kosher. to the actual cow or dunkey or flesh do in fact completely conceal the radiance of the supreme way. You're looking at an animal. What what am I seeing an animal? I see I look at an animal. In contrast, it was stated above that when holding a physical eric, one is grasping the godly essence. Now is asking on something that he said himself. He said before in this essay that when you hold the you're holding God. Remember I told you that the Marash I think said that when you eat matzah the night of Pes for the mitzvah of matzah you're eating God godliness. So how does that how does that reconcile what we say now? the law itself with the reasoning that's brought in in in the Gur which brought in the the in in in you know in in the in the explaining the the reasoning for mitzvah comes to which is godliness this is the same idea Therefore, it it it satiates the thirst of all of these of the angels. The angels are thirsty for God, right? What do we say in the morning? The angels want something. They want God. They're thirsty. So, says this quenches their thirst. [Music] It's it's greater than these levels. The reason for this transcendence is that the of top of 346 of the state of is the source of life. The of to say and their offspring and they're coming into being exo with their offspring onto the ultimate stage. I'll explain in a moment. But that's associated with over there the wisdom expressed itself in the what's called the faces the imagery of all reasoning of mitzvah is dependent upon this mitzvah are associated with the five powers of severity. You know we have five we have 10 fingers five are for and five are for that's what he's talking about now the mitz says so the mitz say what you're not allowed to do is associated with the guras the five with of the left which is for the and the mitz are all associated with the five powers of the when they descend into the creatures. It's in the level of but not in the degree of I'm going fast because this is very capitalistic. Although the is greater than the actual source says not a question. Okay. It says that the the truth is that the malim the angels and even the sham even souls are just mere merely a a drop a tip that's drawn down from this level of and that's where it later is trans so it's transmitted like to the woman who has the nine the gustation period of nine months and then there's an offspring the even if you want to say was created from the vessels of the feminine they become soul the essence express itself in the six directions of that's the idea idea of the six orders of the Mishna and the Gomorrah. The laws of [Music] the remember is this essay. These essays are a reconciliation of contradictory ideas in and in um so the continues on that path over here the fact and and this that is written in we just said that it's through Torah study all of law including and mitzvah's observance. So he says we find over there in that it's accomplished this this garment for of the is accomplished through. So how how does that how do you reconcile that with what we just learned earlier? Says this can be understood. Yes. He says that's through a such that comes through Torah study on earth not by the angels. the itself which was given to it's it's the level of soul who refineses the level of spirit the refineses the level of even if you want to It also has a connection with every angel who is a a messenger from above. What do we call a malik God? In other words, he's an angel of God. Conversely, if he's not an angel of hem, if he's not if he's a but he's not doing of hem, then we call him by the name of of what of what he is, whoever. And then he proclaims. Now listen to this. You understand? When the malim say holy holy holy the word the word is kadesh means separation in other words they don't got the essence we're separate of god they're calling out and yearning we want the essence why because they're only so say when they say holy holy holy that's the English translation but in the Hebrew kadesh also means separate separate separate. So together with their lording Hashem visa v holy holy holy they're also saying but we are not godliness. We're lacking something because we we we are only a a derivative. We're only a byproduct. Now, now we're saying that in Davening because even that is inspirational for us to know that we have a connection to these malim to the and therefore just as they call out to Hashem, we should call out to Hashem. That's why we say those this before. But but when you when you analyze the feel itself says here that compared to the learning it's there's something lacking in the that's what he says is separate from him top of 351 so also regarding The investment of Talmud in the spirit of their messengers of the meaning vessels of the external vessels are the intermediate ones are inishnal are drawn from what's called The esoteric idea of the father that's received means the concealed wisdom of the long faces of is invested there. What do we understand for all of the above that the the infinite light of hem? This is the name of Hashem. It rests in the spirit in the of when a person studies and he draws this infinite infinity of God into this world and it's nullified to Hashem. You hear this? That's a canelis for this is man. The entire purpose of man's creation is to make the world become nullified in God's light. And this is accomplished through tada study. So, so, so, okay, I'm going to stop here, but I just want to just, you know, because it's so cabalistic, the today's shir that we learned was basically to reconcile contradictions inim and but the the the the theme that he began with and what we need to remember is the virtue of mitzah performance and tyra study over inspiration of of love and awe. Love and all at the end of the day is only a a stepping stone to a mitzvah. Okay? So for someone to say I'm not going to put on tin or I'm not going to do a mitzvah until I understand it completely is you're missing the point. you're you're missing the boat because the mitzvah observance connects you and so too study some will say why should I have t why should I study t not inspired I'd rather read a novel I'd rather go for a safari I'd rather thank you very much it's it's it's very nice but remember that the inspiration is your perception how you perceive what you're experiencing ing when you when you study the Tyra it's it's Hashem's holy safe it's Hashem that's the point so even the malim with all of their holiness are limited in their experience other words their inspiration of holy holy holy it sounds very holy but it's only a limitation it's only a it's only uh their own perception so you have the own perception of you have own perception of souls. Says therefore um all of these contradictions of this level and that level the bottom line is that the the uh performance the mitzvah performance and study even low cessay not just as but low ceess connects you. Now you notice that in this right now he's not making a difference between Torah study and mitzvah performance that he already explained in chapter 23 in Tanya in other chapters in Tanya there's a virtue to Torah study over mitzvah performance the virtue to mitzvah performance over Torah study but here he's not he's not going into that so it's not a contradiction that's not the discussion yes yes yeah maybe maybe a longer discussion but question since we're saying here that the nama is elus oh shra nra right that that um but angels are gashmates. So we we've learned that everything in creation is made up of the uh four elements. So I wonder and I it occurs to me that you know uh I I at least know one category of angels what they're made up of. They're fiery angels. But I but I wonder if we know what what is the goshmas that angels are made up of outside of the you know fire. the talks about it. By the way, I'm not sure when we say it's fire, it doesn't mean that when you look at a fire, you have an angel there. Don't walk away thinking that angel angel the Rambam is explains and that within the realm of of of the spirit of the of the physical world you have the spirituality of the physical and you have the physicality of the spiritual angels identify with that level. In other words, what you'll see a fire, you'll say, "There's an angel there. That's an angel. That's ridiculous." No, there's a concept called a spiritual a spiritual body. A spiritual body, not like a This is physical body. An angel can also invest himself in a physical body like bram saving right the light and and all in that whole situation or bringing the or here we have is a doctor that we say that an angel goes along with a doctor that's healing. So what does that mean? He he he has he he has someone standing there in the corner, his nurse or that's an angel. It could be it could be that the angel decides to enclo himself or herself whatever in a physical nurse. It's the concept that through the that the doctor is bringing and hoping to bring to the person that's invested in that whether it be the prescription of a medicine or an operation or don't do this you know whatever that there's a spiritual entity that enters and takes over kind of imbuss or imbuss the the gashmik cream that you put on your wound that it should have the the energy of of godliness of of of angel and and and and that maybe without that the cream wouldn't work and and we don't know that that you know but our our tradition teaches us that when a doctor heals he's going and if a doctor doesn't go that way he's on his own sometimes he'll hit the mark sometimes he won't you'll say but it's always that way the difference is that when you when you follow and you have the amuna and you really believe that you're only a vessel and you ask Hashem kind of almost every time you work on a patient that the brah should be come through you that's how you how you how you uh receive the the angelic energy at the time. So when you say Hillel that you know you know about fire but you what else is there I'm questioning in other words what you think is is is fire angels are made of that's the question. Uh, so what's the it's not it's it's not it's it's it's I I I know what you're I I know what you're referring to cuz it's brought it's not it's not you heard what he said outside it's something outside of the four elements. Yes. It's the four elements are a re each element has a mida right so fire ascends and and and and and water flows down and earth is heavy. It doesn't mean that the the mahim are made of these physical matters. It's that they they represent um within that class of the angels. Yeah. Anyway, let me let let me what I want to do is I want to maybe read something more, you know, and if I have more to say, I'll let you know. Anyway, have a great day. Everyone see everyone tomorrow. Okay, Zazun. Byebye. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Shalom. Byebye.