Tanya Shaar HaYichud chptr 12-Torah Letters and Words: G-d's Essence - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're learning the last chapter in we could say we've we've learned uh 11 chapters we're on page PES in the the sa kadisha the holy safer P Bas let me bring you up to up to part what's going on over here the AL chapter 11 and 12 are really one continuation the Ala addresses here the idea that God Hashem used letters the holy the 22 holy letters of the olive Bay to create the world when we say the 10 utterances the 10 utterances are utterances of letters so in these two chapters he talks about the concept of o in chapter 11 he introduced the idea that that o comes from the word there is a verse in t comes morning comes morning shines the letters of the bring illumination to the world in other words that God uses to create creation is an illumination now when you talk about an illumination for creation on one hand once you talk about creation you're talking about something that is outside of outside of unity it's outside of un on the other hand Bashi come here please they need you outside I'm sorry I try not to make interruptions but there's no one here they're calling me call them I can't interrupt now you are interrupting so o letters give existence give give Independence to existence right when something is in thought and then it comes out in words in letters in speech the speech is already on one hand speech reveals we know now what you're thinking about because you're talking at least we can we partially know but it very same time there's separation that speech create creates versus the way the idea was and thought and this needs to be reconciled and this is what the AL is dealing with uhuh in chapter 11 and 12 of the here how do we reconcile the idea of I with God's Unity and remember we're learning after all the portals of unity of R hasem is united with every aspect of creation hence the question that the balat deals with in these two chapter is how can we reconcile o with unity o seem to be outside of the unity this is what deals with here so in chapter 11 taught us that since is the word o which again is translated as letters actually comes from the root word Assa Assa means shining and illumination the the aspect of shining and illumination is the only aspect that denotes separation and it denotes separation for the purpose of Illumination right if I were not to talk now and we were to look at each other now you would not understand what I'm saying now unless you're a mind reader which you're not I don't think you are right so o gives you the ability to understand at the same time it's not as authentic it's not as pure or in the in the verbage that I used before it's already separated when it's it's more it's more bound and United with neish with soul because everything comes from your neish it's the expression of neish is an instrument of the nees like Tau us already chapter three in chapter four The they are tools and instruments of the neish so is what we call the Garment that is that's United it's inside you don't know what I'm thinking about debor becomes the Garment that's already separated my said is literally separated where action you know you have no idea when an action is done what was said about it what was thought about it you just see the action so Deber is in between but we're not we're not compare we're not making a comparison now between Deber and we're just looking at and de thought and speech and the AL says so the the only aspect of separation is as far as the Illumination in other for the benefit of creation God created a system and a method where his presence should be realized through theim the and then we have and we have light if Hashem would have not uttered the words light would never be so what does that mean that means that God is really not separating from the O it's only the manifestation of the O that that that demonstrates separation but in truth Theos are an extension of M of thought and this is where we human beings are different than God because by us when we speak it's real separation from the way we think by AEM it's not it's it's a disguise but within the essence of is and within that is NE Soul this is some some of what he discussed earlier and now in chapter 12 he he he talks about it with more elaborations so let's let's learn inside chapter 12 P good B [Music] P it is only that the creatures are divided Li into its species generally and specifically through the change of the combination of letters Al B is of a reverse alive B you get B Alive B come here so we have one word when we when we change the order of the combination of the letters we get two different meanings that's called it is only through the change of the combinations number two and another system of change of the various systems of of letter exchanges and another idea of change as we read earlier so only in that aspect do you find what can be perceived as separation but the truth is every letter is a drawing down is an extension of energy and each specific [Music] faculty and then when you take many letters and you put them together to form a word right we have and then we have words the building blocks of of is what is so he says when you take the the words the the the letter and you exchange them in this way or that way depending on what system of of exchange of letters we're using besides the various faculties and energy that are extended based on the amount of letters in the word so the word a can make the word b so it's two making four will make six type of words right three letters time two is six addition in addition to this system it creates something that which is called it rises above all I'll explain a moment it draws down a superal power and a general energy which is incorp incorporative and equal it's equal to all the the the individualistic aspects of Theus and now when you put the letters together and you create the word you know what you have you have a New Concept that is greater than the everything else in simple English you have one you have letters you put letters together you get you get get an idea you put the you put the the the words together you get another idea so in other words it's not just that the letters have inspiration the letters themselves but when the letters are are combined and they create a word you get something that's greater than the letters themselves I the word the message of the word and we call this calls it in literally this means which goes above over over all the letters in other words you create something that's beyond the letters and imagine taking one word and putting it together with a second word and a third word you get a sentence a sentence is saying is not just a a bunch of letters being put together each one offering its value but it creates a greater message a the message of the sentence so the AL says this system of is very powerful the way Hashem uses letters the letters of the Torah the 22 letters is so powerful that not only does it in each individual letter of the Torah give energy but it creates something that's greater than the sum total that's the idea over here let's continue and this greater energy combines them from the word again another Hebrew word for com combining together is to draw down energy and vitality to this world which was created turn your page to page 178 through this world to all of its General parts and all of its specific parts and this is how Hashem communicates his Essence to the world using I then which become words then which become sentences and it impacts every detail and this is why MERS the importance of reading the not only when you called up for but for example by us we read whether it be from um zos to heal him other others more the Lish Lish groups they learn they don't read everything's T but the concept is focusing on learning spend their time those two nights saying believe me it's not a sin to learn that night and if you can you don't got the wherewith all to say ticken you know and you have a shear and you won't fall asleep go to it but the I'm just I'm just extrapolating for a moment where play such a vital role but that's not he's not talking about this in Tanya I'm just extrapolating but going back to what he's talking about Tanya is this idea that the the 22 letters of are the DNA of the world that that's what you'll hear in you know and it's the right you've heard that the what does that mean it's the DNA so you have to learn this piece of Tanya to understand that you don't get that from 48 ways of being happy or other such wonderful shur when you learn this these two chapters in Tanya you understand a little more believe me there's much more to understand and know if we'll ever understand it but a little bit you understand that the word o comes from USA shining Illumination in other words God has put into the letters of the the 22 holy letters of the olive Bas illumination so when I read a a piece of till him and I don't understand what I'm saying guess what I'm not learning to heal him now I am reading tahim and the letters of tahim are inspiration because God has put an energy into the of that that nothing else has there's nothing else that has that energy yes [Music] Misha I just wanted to add to what you're saying because it's something that's always fascinated me there's a rabbi silver he lives here in beish now he used to be think was with a and he always gave a Shear on the cabala of the letters maybe you're what he did and it always fascinated me and it's like it's such a powerful message that it's almost like how could not more Jews not know this such a proof of Hashem like just one quick example he gives if you go to a hardware store to buy a a hook you ask for what you ask for a right yeah the letter shape like yeah and what does it do in the language it hooks words it hooks the the letters the words together very good everything has that you know that's good that's good I like like that thank you for sharing that yeah that's exactly that's the exactly the similar idea to Al say let's go on to the next line 178 second line we're going to skip the par the U the remark of the side I'll give you an example take for example the utterance Let There Be firmament Etc say Not only was there one firmament that was created but seven we got lucky we hit the jackpot and created within the seven firmaments are all Heavenly hosts as the say there are seven different names to the firmament one's called what what do consist of millstones they stand and they grind to the righteous ones in other words how did theim get Mana they get it from a place called shim which is one of the seven firmaments and from there they get it what whatever that means it's very cabalistic but there is such a verse the verse meaning there is such a reference to the firmament besides the word is the word andal pick up and explain each of the seven the AL brings here only a few of the seven and there's a reason for it the Reb explained once at length but I'm not going to go into it because every that asked why does he start with number three there's two others before and and re has an explanation I believe it's in lessons in Tanya and um if you care to look it up but it's I'm not going to go into that right now anyway so the number two the next of the seven number four I believe the fourth word used for firmament in the in the tanak is z say within it I'm sorry are all they all come from the firmament called number five the fifth term right you hear the word The Institute literally it it refers to one of the firmaments one of the B it is the treasure home of snow and the treasure home of of hail these are the three the balat sites over here and it continues overall all the firmaments are created and exist within the general Words letters within the saying the utterance called in other words when it says in the May there be let there be firmament it doesn't say it doesn't say that says it's all included in the general word is called ra continuing and all the details within all of the seven firmaments as we have just listed three of them from the all the the particular details snow hail B mdash all of those they're all included in they were detailed and created when you combine the letters this would be a fantastic study take the word and somehow by combining the letters don't ask me how cuz I don't know I haven't studied that I don't know if it exists in the text but somehow says cuz he knew when you combine the letters switching them around and trading with other letters based on the system of I you will get the seven different things including um and how I don't know but that's what he says let's continue you'll get them from these letters or their exchanges with depending on what the specific result is IE snow hail bash it all begins with those letters when they are reversed in a certain order or exchanged with other letters based on the system of exchanges acceptable in the Torah because every change and combination is a composite and a weaving a very interesting word us a weaving of the faculties and the energy in an exch in a in a changed reversed way in a changed way listen to this he gives us one tidbit into understand every letter that pref is prefaced before another letter in that particular com combination it dominates another words when you have the word a the alif is the first before the Bas that means the AL if dominates over the base when you have B come the Bas is the first and the alive is second the base dominates now certain letters are associated with certain letters are associated with G for example so if the letter that comes first is is that means is dominant you you talk about do doctor here you know the the dominant gene right the dominant gene says here the dominant gene and letters is the first of the letters the second and third are subordinate to the first letters and therefore if it's a letter of is The Guiding Light Within you have don't take take away the the the the the knife from the child because you love your child you don't want them to hurt them themselves is that or is that that's but it's the the manifestation is I the SP that we just finished continuing inside and the letter that is first is the primary in this particular creation that comes from this particular word and the rest of the letters of this word are subordinate are ancillary to it and are absorbed with in the dominant letter and he going to give a mush in a moment an example to understand and this enables a new creature to be created this is regarding sh when we're changing the letters through the combination from a to to the same to the same also so to this this is a truism when it comes to the other system of letters called when you exchange like we learned in the beginning of so the of is exchanged with the of that that's another system and there's a third system that he didn't I don't if you mentioned it but we know about and and shin and D that's another system so when you exchange the letters you get new creatures New Creation much Less in quality this is another when you when you have let's say the system of A and B you're not minimizing the letters the letters stay in their place when you're doing exchange of you're removing the O and you're putting in another o that denotes that the energy here is less that's why he's saying here the various systems M the various systems of interchangeable o and exchange of O result in either the creature being created through those letters being kak or being not soak both are from God both are needed but this explains also why sometimes is there a feeling of weakness in what's created because the system used was one that by definition is a weaker manifestation of the energy whereas when you use a system where the letters stay just a matter of reversing them and combining them but it's the same letters right a is the same letters just the question whether the alive is first and the Bas second or the B first and the alive first but when you take the word and you exchange from theive to a you have removed the olive inserted in its place and above meaning you have diminished the energy and that's why we learned in the beginning of the opening the introdu two introductory lines to sh that's the difference between what we call the of God as seen from the perspective of is a higher type of because we see clearly when we go into tier two where we exchange the for instead of and it's an acceptable system of exchange it's still God but it's it's it's lower Unity meaning the it the one does not recognize openly there one has to scratch their head and learn in the morning with Rabbi doin to and Sh to say this too is God when it comes to hey whether it's October 7th or or or the Holocaust or the the Spanish Inquisition Etc that was observable godliness cuz the shouted out is the guy didn't put on didn't go to sh the says I was standing with people who were not religious and in Warsaw 1939 and the Bama were flying and the buildings were flattening flattened and I was there 5 six years ago so and I walked those streets and I saw with my own eyes everything was rebuilt but I was told here was a Sho here was this here was that and I did exploration and research and try to identify right it's not observable it's hidden still got it's AEM Warsaw of 1920s is the same it's same the piece of land as it is today even though there's modern buildings on it but this is the place so there is the the relationship to the place as it is from the perspective what we call observable godliness super and then there is what's the difference so here in the last chapter of gives us an Insight the difference is whether the the animation is coming from this system of the of the letters or the another system of the letters and because Hashem uses in various places different systems that's the result that you get but it's all God it's all AEM so that so that's why for one to conclude well if it's not it's only God created the universe the universe is running on its own so we say no is really is really a so it's all God but it's God in a form that's that's that's manifested not as observable IE Ved continue he gives the at night we have light where does it come from from the Moon where do the light of the moon come from the from the Sun reflection of the sun all that so the light that the moon gives is really coming from the Sun but the application is through the moon but the moon doesn't have any light of its own not going into another scientific and you know aspects yes it has it doesn't have that's a whole discussion and the re talks about it for those that are interested in that aspect of science with Torah I suggest read the Reb's letters on it and other scientist Torah oriented signs but over here just let's keep it simple is saying that it's the same ores but there is the way the ores the light of the sun is during the day it's shining it's bright and then there is the way is reflected through the moon I at night metaphorically speaking the letters within the the utterances they are the overall and they all are the energy and the and the of God's attributes to create worlds from something for nothing to sustain them as long as God wants and this is also you know by the way the response as I said all along to global warming if God wants the world to be it ain't going to burn up and don't worry is it hotter maybe it's a little hotter maybe not we can argue but that there be a world it's not burning up you could you know bring all the arguments the Reb says for example one of the arguments with the fossils and the tree the tree the rings of the tree who says Hashem didn't create a tree during the six days of creation with rings that show is 50 million years old can you prove otherwise you can't you can just say what I have here shows as 50 million year old it should in in if you were to use nature in the natural scientific process of figuring out the amount of years it comes to 50 million years old hasem created it one day cuz that's what he wanted ask me why I don't know why he wanted he wanted we should have a Torah class on Torah and Science and he wanted people who who became non-believers in God because of this in creation and and Torah because of science to become Bali Chua where they work out the issues and they understand and they now relate to Torah whatever it's not my issue to figure out why God wanted it that way that's only one argument there's there many other that you have in the books let's continue top of I want to finish from the overall illumination great illumination God illuminates he gives forth its Offspring and in in a similar way and it's and it Wings it results this is the result of the he repeats they are all an exchange of letters and with them he created specific individual creatures within all of the world and so God did more he sh that illuminated he lowered the light to one amination a second amination and a third amination in Hebrew from the light of the letters and then he went even a further gradation and he brings it down to the physical world the progression M until he creates the inanimate like stones we offer and and and duster and he gives them a name this is a stone an Evan and this is offer this is dust they are exchange of exchange of letters Etc Exchange as I finish the second section of the of the great one so we finish now it's kind of a finish and when they say like it's a finish but he doesn't like go back to chapter one and to kind of summarize the answer to his questions he did it in in throughout you know the chapters but in in the formal sense of a summation he doesn't do so one can one can uh be fooled be fooled and think that he didn't answer and address the questions and issues that he dressed in chapter one which is wrong he did in these 12 chapters but in a formal manner of uh summation that he doesn't do for whatever reason question yes quick please just regarding the letter the the the essence of the letters as you're mentioning the the Shish and so on would um the process was kind of in Reverse when Adam rishan named the animals he would he understood the essence but they had an innate the names had an innate Essence right that was attached to them that's right and and and Adam because he was Adam he was the father figure of all of humanity and he he knew what energy was driving this particular animal and he called it by that name so in other words I'm glad you mush you're bringing this up and Al Adam knew what we just learned in t you know what I'm saying he he he was there he was there and hence he he was able to call it a Kev and an AR and whatever else because he knew all of that tomorrow there's no she but Wednesday there'll be a she see everyone going to start get us CH the third section of Tanya BL on uh Wednesday have a great day everyone Z thank you you're welcome so it byebye