Tanya Kuntres Acharon 7b- Blockages: Remove them with asking G-d to have Mercy on you- RC Dalfin

So good day. We're learning essay number seven. We're using lessons on Tanya on page 377. We learned yesterday the there's three meanings to the word as and that's because he started he the beginning of the uh the essay starts with the and charity is like a mighty river. So he takes apart this verse in conjun in connection to charity and he says that as has three meanings um vigor u toughness resilience and uh old and he brought he said that the yud of isma and it has three uh parts to it and by the way I spoke to someone very knowledgeable and he didn't have an answer because these are sections that many most people don't learn and don't analyze cuz it's so difficult and he doesn't I guess know cababala thoroughly. So I I'm going to try to put a call into a cabalist not a capitalist someone who knows kabola to see if he can make heads and tail of this issue but um be that as may as it may we're learning this idea here. So, let's continue learning the bottom of page 377. The letters that spell the Hebrew word as indicate the future tense. At a deeper level, this term not top of 1378 at a deeper level. This term thus hints at future revelation. In the time to come, Mashia will come. There will be a revelation of the spiritual degree called asa. I am destined to reveal myself. That which is presently concealed will be revealed in the time of Mashiach. As it says, behold my servant will prosper. In other words, in the future at the time when Mashiah will come, the servant will pro prosper means that the infinite and divine unity will be revealed within the innermost point of one's heart. And how will that happen? by calling forth quote the mighty river who this is the idea of the shining the radiance of the supern wisdom that will illuminate the heart causing a person to be completely utterly nullified to hashem from the depths of his after what's been cleared and removed that was obscuring the gilly the revelation what's called the physical lust and so on right that's why we have mila the cut is the mil and then the pria is the pulling back of the skin why because the idea of the pria is the covering up of of of the miler because that's the idea of the ty that cover up on the gilly on on on the on the on the yeah the gilly shouldn't take take place. Let's look at the note of 379. When the metaphorical or that is literally the foreskin will then be excuse me will then be removed as the verse says and you shall excise the of your heart and likewise the Lord your hashem your God will circumcise your heart. Nothing will hide the innermost core of the heart. It will then be possible for the heart to experience excuse me the utter self-nullification of the nama to hashem that derives from the revelation of the essential soul level reflects all three above mentioned connotations of the the resolute vigor of the soul's essence its unwavering toughness and the antiquity of this bequest to the Jewish people from the patriarchs of old. So in other words, we have a blockage. The blockage is the foreskin and the foreskin in the spiritual sense doesn't allow the flow from from the to come into being onto the heart. And that's really what happens to all of us when we learn and we study and we understand but we don't feel we're not motivated whether it be with love to God or or from of moved what happened there's a blockage the blockage comes from the tasb says that the t mashiach those tas gashmi will be removed that's one of The results of Msiah is that whether you like it or not, you're not going to have a ty for gashmas. Not that there won't be gashmas. There'll be gashmas. But the ty won't be there for it. The lust, the the the the desire, right? That won't be there for it. Says the thank you very much, but we're living now. Not in time. Not yet. Hashem very soon. At present this during this exile you hear says I have advice for you have an yes that we're not that the title for gosh is just going to be removed trying to understand trying to relate to what what what you just shared and I'm the only thing I can come pump come to is how like today it seems I'm only make a general statement that the title for a votaro is not present right is that is is there any connection like for example like why is it that why is it that there isn't essentially a time we we see that that doesn't have a tie really for Zar anymore for a long time. Well, my Yeah, that's because that's because two things. One thing is we have in a sense proven intellectually that is a bunch of nonsense. In other words, through through the generations from the Rambam whatever all the the have provided for a platform to to to intellectually come to the conclusion I'm making a generalization to answer your question to to that avoar is nonsense intellectually that a a stone ain't going to answer you okay? It's not a living thing. Number two, that's that I that's what I I believe is one one of the reasons simply on a cultural level, a practical level, and a real level that that's on the ground. The second thing is that that since there's been such a plethora of godly revelation and miracles and and as we look at our own history and as you know Iser said in the beginning before we started this year the Nissim to focus on the Nissim so automatically it it it weakens the the idea that uh you know idolatry idolatry is is antithetical to to God. So when you feel more God you feel less idolatry. And thirdly, it's brought in this as well that Hashem removed the tyra for a dese removed co uh death death um sentence that existed for a few years or at least seemed like it existed and now you know you get ill but you know basically it's it's not that level in other words there are there are periods I really believe this that in our in our life in our history not just for the Jewish people for the for the world at large where Hashem it give gives certain things and there's times when he takes it away and when he takes it away then uh it no longer is as is an issue. So that would be but that's as far as one second hill there's plenty of tas left first and foremost money honor pleasures you know th though those tas are real so when you ask what mashia will come they will they won't be there well the raam writes that what's madanim that the material material matter of of life all the all the items of gashmas will exist but they'll be so plentiful that there won't be a ti when do you have a ta you know basics economics 101 right you don't have the item it becomes more expensive when you have plenty of the item it's not expensive everyone has it so when mashia will come they'll be a deal of elikus godliness will be revealed so there'll be such godliness that everything else becomes secondary unimportant yes hil uh well for few things a comment to a question there's a very explicit kazal in the gumar in several places that the the khazal got together and they had the kos to vat the eahara for for uh of that that's the way I understand that that um that it wasn't like uh we outgrew it or or uh uh mankind evolved in some way kazal had the co-op to move it in in in terms of what it existed as a co-op but that that leads me to a question I think it was in yesterday where the where the rebi talks about how the how the Yates evolves and could present itself sometimes as a uh you know as a as a um uh physical uh lust but sometimes it can be some of the more subtler lust you talked about and and uh even even a lust appeared as a certain uh to appear as to appear a certain way to people. So thear talks in Shuka about how the Yates is constantly evolving. So what I'd like to understand what question that comes up in my mind from from this uh from the idea that the fora is um does that mean that the capacity to evolve in a voter was was was altered was changed where uh like like the avenue of being able to grow in that direction was changed because we see that as you say there's still quite it could be still still active. Um, get me the citation if you can in the Gora and I'll shabas I I I need to look at the gammora and look at the before I can talk about it. I I can't talk about it intelligently. Yes. Yes sir. Just briefly because we're we're going far appeal from the text. But the Gomorrah also says that the hazal tried to debuckle the yates for immorality and they had to reverse it because the chickens weren't laying eggs. Yeah. So I I don't know about this concept of evolving yates. But there is certainly the concept that the atahara can take on different different aspects for different people and it can even look you know with a long white beard and a hat and a long black coat. Theahara can make somebody think that an aa is a mitzvah. That reminds that. Right. Right. That reminds me of the saying of the mitta. I brought it in one of my books. He says, "What do you think Asaf was? Someone with a a sash, a hunter, with a rifle. He was aided with a striml and a gle. Okay, we have sort of we have sort of the opposite that around here because they just republished some of the writings of the Harbia Kaloo who was who and there's some great pictures of him Rabbi Shapiro's uh grandfather I think or great-grandfather there pictures of him with a b you know bandero and a rifle over his head and so you know I I I was looking uh my they someone interviewed my son-in-law who's in the miluim now, you know, and he came back for a few a day or I don't know to to to Tel Aviv to his family. So they they they uh some program I forget I can send it to you interviews him and I it just hit me he looks like such a he is I'm saying you know a a short haircut with a full beard you know wearing the uniform with the gun he just it's like and I'm saying to him and he's talking about this idea because they ask him you're a rabbi you're a kabad rabbi you teliv what are you doing? What are you doing over there? What? And he said he decided he decided that for for Amy Israel and for Kabad and for the Reb and for everyone else, this will make a big keshm. And it is. It is. I wouldn't do it. I couldn't do it, but I wouldn't do it if I could, but he did it, you know, and and um it's it's very humbling for me. It's very humbling, you know. someone goes into the army and and comes out, you know, not looking the way they went in when they went in from a yeshiva or a kil or or a marriage and you know, whatever. But when you when you see someone who went in and with with the saying, okay, then you know, he's married, he has children, but he's a father, he's a 40 a 40 year old man. You know what I'm saying? But it it's it's it's just you were talking about this idea of um the Yates the Yates comes to everyone. In other words, the garbs you wear, the garbage you wear doesn't prevent the Yates from being there. Okay? As we all know. Anyway, we got to get back to the text or bring another time. Let's go. So the says what is the solution to access to this um fire in the in in the in the to feel it in the heart and to not have the blockage says that's a very strong you know language. It doesn't say just once says which means this is like advice of advisers. In other words, listen, listen carefully that there be some illumination of the light of God from the level of as that we discussed which will be similar to what will be in the future. means not similar but somewhat like okay means are somewhat like it's not Msiah's time so to feel to have it the way it will be during Msiah's time it ain't happening till Mashiach comes but somewhat like he says It you feel it by arousing upon the spark of your soul the idea of mercy abundant mercy from above. The alterb is calling upon rahim. You need to evoke mercy, abundant mercy. Hashem, have pity and mercy on my soul that I learn and I I dive in and I I know and I feel nothing, you know, and and that idea to take it to the highest of high. And he says in truth is as long as a man doesn't merit top of next page 380 to the radiance to reveal the light of the of God in the of the in the in a manner of asan within the heart causing the person to be nullified. to God from the depth of his heart to the point where a person has expiration of the soul. So that take it it takes mercy calling upon mercy. Hashem should have mercy on your soul that you should feel it. What that then not then it's truly a a pitiful and merciful a great mercy on the spark within your soul. The spark comes from the state of superernal wisdom and when it cannot illuminate from its level into the inner recesses of the heart over there is the abode of this revelation. Guess what? The nits is in golos. It's in a tunnel in Gaza and it can't get out. So by evoking superal mercy, it leaves exile and captivity and then it does shine within the innermost heart. This abundant love is known next page 381 and this is a very important verse to know and to understand. It says in Jacob for Jacob who redeemed a so here's the question. is Jacob is to right to how can to ferris release a either you got it the love in your heart or you don't this isn't like choosing you know either you feel it or you don't what do you mean Jacob redeems so explains precisely this is the meaning there are times when attraction and love doesn't motivate you. You just don't get you don't feel it. You're not attracted. You don't have the love. But in in in what in that situation where there should be a love, an attraction, a feeling, it's there, but it's it's captur captured. It's in go. So it takes Jacob, which is that's what he's is teaching us here, to release a in other words, is this logical? Not really. Right? Please have mercy on me. Why should I have mercy on you? If you don't feel it, obviously you either haven't worked hard enough or whatever. You have a blockage. When we say we're saying that even if you have a blockage, you hear psychologists and social workers, even if you have a blockage through through evoking mercy from God on the highest and deepest level, it will remove the ara, the foreskin, and you will feel. Try it. It works. But you really have to evoke the mercy. It it it doesn't come, like I've said many times, from even eating pizza and ice cream. It it doesn't work that way. I just read um I just browsed an article someone wrote, you know, God like, you know, what are you doing? Where are you? I believe in you but you know co October 7th now you know this situation it's like so if you are are a complainer a chronic complainer you're not going to get anywhere but if you you you do what Isser did before we began to share and to focus on the positive and the miracles and to really ask God to have mercy. This is not, you know, mercy, you know, it's in a way I'm uncomfortable with mercy cuz it it makes me vulnerable. In other words, I'm stuck. I can't get out. So, my my natural tendency is to like say, I don't I don't want I don't want to be in a in a position of mercy because why can't I do it myself? What am I a schleer? What am you know? And the answer is it's not you. It's the state of being that the world is in ghost. There's a hell in Mashiach is not here. And Hashem wants us to evoke the mercy. That's part of the In other words, this is the way to look at mercy. It's not a a number two tier. It's number one. Mercy is on parish with and just as when is needed and is needed we we are very happy to approach it so to with mercy approach it not with oh you're a neb you understand I'm a I'm a and therefore have mercy on me like Rabbi Yeshua Gordon Josh Gordon in blessed memory would would told me when I discussed with him once my my situation with my congregants and then the fundraising and then whatever. So he said tell them if they want to have gila fish on shabas at the kdish they got to pay for it otherwise there's no kilt fish you're getting a kul and a little little and that's it. What why am I saying that? because he he he said to me, you don't you shouldn't be looking at your you know your need to raise funds for the and for etc as I have to do this but really I don't want to do it. He says no you have a mitzvah to do it to get another Jew to give sodaka. You have a mitzvah and be proud of it. In other words, don't say I need to filter fish. Maybe you can help me. No, you say you want the filter fish, right? Well, if the if the bill is not paid for the jar of the filter fish to have it in the refrigerator, there's no filter fish. Finished. It's your choice now. You either you either buy it, pay for it. Just the attitude. The attitude. The attitude isn't I'm a sucker, I'm broken, you know, I'm shattered. No, you go with so when we talk about I'm saying this when we talk about evoking mercy from on our that we don't have the feeling and he should take away the blockage and let us feel we're not we're not we're doing what Hashem wants. Hashem wants us and needs us to evoke the rahim because rahim is very very powerful. I don't want to go into a whole discussion here in in is is in a way more is more powerful than itself and itself. Okay, we'll talk about this next week. But uh it's shabas. It's a week left or so to gibble tamos the yard site. So um start thinking about it, talking about it and fabanging about it and hashem hopefully by Monday we come back to the year there'll be an end to this war and the enemy will be destroyed and we'll have only shala and all those that were injured will have taken from yad mish and we'll be able to sit in peace and not have to run to bomb shelters. I I my heart you know I I I feel so guilty. It really, it's like here we are and life is just going on. My daughter-in-law sent out a great joke. She said uh because we we've been there have been a lot of sirens that we have not had of late. So she said it out goes like reads like this. The chish may be experiencing fewer silent sirens because Iran is seriously considering Trump's warning that the US would intervene if American soil is targeted. Very good. Heard that. Have a great chabas. Take care. All the best. Take care. Good chabas. Good chabas.