Tanya-Seeing G-d: Is it possible? Yes, by giving Charity. Igeres HaKodesh 9d- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so good day we're learning KES this is chapter 10 this is the fourth she and the M we'll finish today we're on page um I'm sorry we're in chapter nine and we're on page kuu chapter n the AL here explained to us the importance of giving sedu and supporting the sadim in Isel in particular a reference to his two friends teachers Associates men Andis um although later you know R kalis the AL had a very serious dispute that's much later than when this letter was written I was thinking about that too the other day here with the Al he was encouraging and and and and not just encouraging but really you giving it to in in Russia to support both of these sadik and their and their and one of them is ofis and he was the one who fought with the AL that the the the the style ofab is not for the populace and he was adamant and K and wrote letters against him and it became a very big a disagreement a debate uh LMA you know as it says in P kovas but nevertheless a disagreement and so you you know the average person will say and and Al is encouraging his people to give money first of all one thing has nothing to do with the other I heard from I heard from um my father-in-law's cousin that their father his name was rean shemtov the father of the shemtov who are him in America and the grandkids and all of that so he said that when when their father would help people anyone lit Fox other anyone with parosa if you can help them with parosa by talking to people to give them a job and their kids M the same way they they did it I know personally from from my family so but he said when it came to what is there he told the line there you know if if you if you want to be kabad that you want to know whatab this is the way it is he would tell you what it is and and you just couldn't say what it is and whatever I want I want to do there he wasn't you know helping you there he was sharing what what he received from his teachers so what I'm saying is the idea that the Al and ab kis had a dis agreement on the sh of kabad whether it's for the PO populace or not even if this letter was written during that time which it wasn't because this letter was written before before the disagreement I still could see it cuz the AL wasn't taking revenge and and this is very important you could disagree with someone but when it comes to their livelihood you don't cut them off and this is what have told me that he learned from his father when it comes to the livelihood of another Jew all politics and all disagreements goes aside the person needs a Pacer to have food on the table and another story without names someone came to my father-in-law and they had solicited him a very wealthy man a very wealthy for a big donation for the Yeshiva and he he came to my father-in-law they were classmates and friends from from from Russia and Samar and he said he could do it but he's very hes because several of the members of the board of the Yeshiva were opposing other members that he knows better and he likes and he supports and and and if he gives the Yeshiva a a blank check blank check whatever if he gives him a large donation to pay salaries part of the salaries are going to be to these several people who oppose the others and he doesn't want to do that so he asked my father-in-law for his opinion cuz he respected him my father-in-law said what we ate in the same bold that's a clean way of saying you know we we party together in inic terms imagine we're partying together means okay we we we you know we come from the Sameer we came we come from the same stuff and you're going to cut him off because Pol Al you disagree with them absolutely you should give the check and my father-in-law was also against those others inil in the in the philosophical issues so the the the the do the donor thought that his good friend my father-in-law who's on his side will give him the stamp of approval of not giving the large check and my father was it just the opposite and that and and that's genuine you see that when we talk about giving s imagine iser writing a check and giving a giving a check giving Sedaka to your enemy it's it's hard to do and even if they're not your enemy if you don't like you don't like them you don't respect them for the average person it's hard to do and what what what I learned from from my father-in-law and what I learned I I I wish I would I wish I would be on his on his level of of of of purity of of of seeing things the way it is for for what it is and this is the same thing I'm saying here kisar opposed the Al and it was it was it was a not vicious it was a strong opposition I mean you read those letters if you didn't read them and you get a chance to read them you'll see a real legitimate disagreement back and forth Al writing letters to writing letters back to him right and the and you would say there wasn't good blood between them that's what one might say and nevertheless I'm telling you that if this that Al could have written the same type of letter as as to support him even during that time because you don't come cut off his life Source You can disagree with him don't dve in his shoe don't go to his fabrin don't go to his Tish but you love them as a person and if they need mosa everything goes aside very important now this of course is in a case where it's not against Hashem other words the the disagreement from with the AL was a philosophical disagreement I mean you know what I'm saying it's not as though either of them were doing sins transgressions the the question was how much should you expose to the average Jew the average of and also what is your understanding of so the AL created a system called and his in his system it's not Caba and it could be that looked at the Al's system as more cabalistic as maybe you alluded to um iser several days ago go so this is all this is all part of a discussion which by the way certain academics for Mar Isel have written about it from ban and I some of them are authentic you know shabas and very very clear minds and if you care to I think um Professor Emanuel etus he wrote uh I think from Baran or or or he or Jerusalem he wrote a book called zman uh he wrote a it was you know a academic work and he talks a lot about it in there I read it years ago so I'm just giving you a reference okay back to the text Page KU and he says now we're at the period about 12 lines from the from the top Al Al therefore my beloved ones my brothers pay attention make your hearts pay attention to these words have that are said very briefly you you see it took us three three sh to to open up uh about 15 lines so says I pay attention like focus and study and understand what I what I'm saying here because it's very brief compared to what the message and and everything else and please God face face to face or rather mouth to mouth whatever I will speak to them at length remember he's writing to would come once a year once every two years to see the AL travel was difficult money wasn't you know around so but he says I will speak individually to when they come to see me to support and and but meanwhile I'm sending it out in a letter okay and my brief message again is how the main the primary service of God you hear this during these times is saying he wrote this right let's say 250 years ago he says the main service to serve hasem during these times but he says from the times the heels of mhia so that started earlier than the than than the AL time from that period he now this is a very famous line of theat that you could ask anyone May and anyone here there any should know this we're reading right now that the the main from this in the of is and he says and he brings the support to will not Jews will not be redeemed only through now will will will reconcile another statement of kazal which implies otherwise [Music] that the study of T is equivalent to to be doing acts of benevolent kindness this was said showing the importance of Torah study as the ultimate during their times the times of the sages the kazal at that time the study of was primary that was the primary service by them but but hello but now right what's during now the time now when does this time begin from from the the footsteps the heels of msia right which is several thousand years or a thousand years for sure the a the primary a ised not Torah study God forbid not that you don't have to study Torah but the is that's what the bat writes right here and you should memorize it and because it's very very relevant and it doesn't mean to that's not what it means but but the way takes it for sure is is that more important than sitting in is to go out and put on with talk about and and and have him give now of course those that learn the Ron the theim are here in America every Monday and Thursday raising money for the yeshivas so everyone needs Seda but the question is what's the objective what's the a today that's going to bring mhia so the AL says right and if I if I may say so the the lital world says T study let's continue got to continue and therefore during that period there were great sages why because they sat and learn because the the the primary service was learning t you learn you learn you learn you learn you become a Tana you become an you you become an opinion Sayer M came conversely that the of fell it's a symbolic the of David Fell until the feet and the heels which is till the level of action today action orientation is is talks louder and it is not the approach to cleave and attach with truth to transform Darkness to light delay one's own and the world's rather through action and and when we talk about action we specifically mean as is known the the activity of which is known to those people who you know intellectualize and philosophize and have knowledge that the concept of within godliness draws down the she the effluence and the energy of below below to someone who doesn't have anything on his own St and whoever sacrifices his inclination it's hard to give it's my money you got to slaughter your to give away says whoever will Slaughter his inclination and he opens his hand and his heart by and gives the so what what the person accomplishes that he subjugates the negative side the negative force and energy and he transform forms it he transforms continue continue whoever is not muted please mute yourself he he he he transforms it the darkness to light andem who rests upon us in a in a manner of action during this time the he of Mia and we Merit to see eye to eye I'm calling the can you see how do I how how can one see God can you see God says here it's a quote from a as a quote from a verse but it's a the idea Yi I want to see God someone says I want to see God you want to see God give TOA what is giving TOA to the poor after seeing God cuz that's what God is God is helping another Jew one second one second so he quotes the PK and we will Merit M will come and this will this will be the reality we will Merit to see God eye to eye by the returning of Zion to is and and building of the ETC yes what do you want to say so this um you just the re just mentioned reminds me of a story yes the first time I was in the first time I was was in uman like 20 years ago maybe more than that so it was around the time when Louis Shiner or today he's called laser Shiner I knew him as Louis yeah so when I when I when I went to um there was no food it was the first year when there was no food in uman and and and they didn't have this whole business where you went you had 20 different places to choose from so the year that I was there um Shiner came um that year I think it was after rashash or a little bit before rash he came and um he saw so many he saw a lot of people going and he was not a breast liver he didn't know anything about Bressler but um he he had a a driver that took him to all different kinds of firm all across Ukraine and Poland all over the place he was going all over the place and at the time they uh he was on the way back from the airport and his son was very sick that was the whole thing his son was very sick so he went to uh to and he was on a list on a list for I think it was a kidney he need a kidney transplant or bone either kidney or bone bone marrow I'm not sure and um he was on the way to Kev and the driver said to him he said to him you know I didn't take you to's C the guy's a he says he was talking because you don't you didn't hear about re because I don't know what you're talking about he said there's this one big Rabbi that you didn't go took you to the bov I took you to to to re he took him all over the place but he didn't take him there he says okay let's stop on the way from the airport so he stops on the way for the airport and um he gets to the C and he sees like every place where he went was empty was I think it was in the winter so there weren't a lot of people in all the for B there weren't so many in B there wasn't so many or even any and you get St he sees like hundreds of people and all different kinds you know ashkanazi so he asked the guys was around time he in the and he asked the people what's going on like I never heard of this why do people come here the guy says then this is nothing he says you should come rash time he like 50,000 30,000 whatever it was a crazy amount of people he's like you serious he goes yeah so he said what do people do about food he goes yeah it's a problem people have to bring food from their you know from Israel from America so he says he went to D and um he he made a said that he made a sh he made like a sh like a promise he said that if if something happens with his son if they find a donor he's going to take care of rash of food for for forever he said whatever I canem gives me and on the way back to KV he got a call from North from Duke University that they found the donor for his son son was saved the son was spared and every year he puts out they say somewhere between three to5 million just on food not including all the equipment that he bought there all the ovens he spent so much money just on ovens and refrigerators it's it's it's crazy it's like you know like any huge thing like You' never believe you can't if You' never seen it I've worked in the kitchen I could not believe the so true what the re is talking about that really it's it's the it's the closest thing that we can get to a you're you're thank first of all thank you for for telling us the story sharing the story is very beautiful um you're you're enticing because this past El the one who's in charge of the kabad sh over there who's a friend of mine he was nuding me to be the rabbi there for rash he says I'll take care of you uh free trip and I'll put you up uh I just said whatever I couldn't do it go be what yeah yeah so maybe next year maybe one year you're you're you're definitely enticing me uh um I I hear it's uh but but special but listen that's exactly it's a great story to support what the AL is saying here but we have to we have to again repeat that God forbid to to poo a diminish T study but the that's the bottom line now by the way if if if K guy or L guy or pich guy or air guy takes away three four hours of his time learning and staging to teach someone who doesn't know much that's that's fine right there's three types of St St someone has a flat tire 90° outside on on Route One get out of your car and help him change his tire if you know how to do that I'm going to shitz and it's going to delay and the S is of course giving money and then there when you when you when you take away from your time and your interest and your self-development and you help another ye grow which is spiritual so that's all included in this is the of of of I just want to say since we have a few minutes left that the uh we're in which on one hand there's no yump throughout the month and there is no yump and there's no day that a fast day or something you know like tamos right or of and normally it rains a lot during this month Theus is about the the different rains and during Mar and we need rain hasem should bless us with rain both here's also been a big drought in America in the east coast I mean it's like 80 degrees I feel outside now you know um stands raining a little bit anyway so it's brought down I forget we're now that I think mashia will come I think there is such a medish theb spoke about it once in other words specifically at a time and place where there is no holiday and there is no Revelation and things to seem to be ordinary things things seem to be mundane and neutral that's when Messiah comes cuz Messiah is about the inspiration coming from the world we live in from us up in other words on a y on a shabas is and I were talking now you know chabas is coming and sh this morning they're talking about shabas shabas is shabas the halik is shabas shabas is Hal it's holy is a fast day is in its way but when you have nothing it's a regular weekday that's the trick the trick is that the regular weekday should be so inspired to BEP speak mashia to be speak G so I know that Yi was campaigning yesterday in uh um somewhere I forget where giving out candies for Trump's Victory so if that's part of the mssiah experience I if you feel that way call whatever but the point is that to get another boy another girl another child to make a br on a candy even though the doctor here won't agree with that cuz candy is bad for you I became the candy man oh you're the candy man oh so that that definitely is mashia that I could tell you y whether Trump is part of mashia I don't know but that you got children to say brus that is mashia that's all and hasem should help Tak that we should have a great shabas and it should be good for yeden and hopefully mhia will come that in a way that we can see and hear him very soon have a great shabas everyone on Monday every everybody's invited everybody's invited this week to Big Trump Kish big Trump Kish at carach okay ch ch and cou CH and cou or not two two kinds of coules and and Trump Herring if you ever had Trump hering trump hering I got to come to get Trump hering okay Z by take care take care bye bye