Tanya Shaar HaYichud chptr 7 #3- Sovev & Memale kol Almin, they are here, find them - RC Dalfin

so we're learning chapter 7 we're in the bottom of page 166 yesterday we learned a very interesting point I'll repeat it that Hashem God Almighty is present in the world in all of his glory referring to his infinity and it's only because he makes a disguise on himself which we call in Hebrew AUM a restriction a a partial blockage kind of that we don't see his full Infinity but his Infinity is here and we call this the balat calls this not in literal sense because normally when you talk about when you say there is a tum a restrict a blockage you mean it's a full blockage that's what you think it mean meaning that the infinite part of God is not here the infinite part of God is elsewhere where in the superal Holy beings Celestial beings create creatures or Creations or places that can handle his Infinity we can't we can't handle God's Infinity cuz we're finite we're Caporal and and there was such an OP there is such an opinion and the balatan the author argues they made a mistake they made an error in their estimate in their estimation of of of of God being in in the world with in his most infinite way and the balat at the end of this year gave an explanation which I didn't get to say yesterday and I'll say it now he makes a point and he says that God's presence presence in in the universe is not like the Soul's presence within the body and he says that the soul feels the pain of the body when the body is hit cold hot whatever happens to what we call mro with an hour mro the happenings of to the body impacts the soul now the question is why is that if the soul is spiritual the body is physical why there's a bang on my finger or my foot also hurt my soul and the answer he gave is because the soul is invested in the body the Hebrew word that we use normally is his slap it's clothed in English would be invested it's not standing on the outside it gets involved in the body and guess what the body has control over the soul and the Soul seeks to be more spiritual and the body seeks to be more physical and material and as the Alba taught us in the first section of Tanya chapter 9 we have a battle between the soul and the body over the two Souls over there he speaks about the two Souls over the body which it calls the the small City but here we're talking about Body and Soul not two Souls versus here we're talking about Body and Soul so Dr Reb says here that the way Hashem invests himself in the world is not analogous to the way the soul invests itself in the body the soul the way invests in the body is a full investment and therefore what happens to the body impacts the soul even though we say right that the soul is pristine and pure and holy and that's its Essence but we're not talking about right now its Essence we're talking about its manifestation the daily operation of the soul the daily operation of the Soul follows the dictates of the body so if the body does something that's ugly and disgusting and and harmful it impacts the soul the fact that the Kel of the soul the essence of the Soul can do Chua and is always pure that's true but that's a different equation we not we're not we're talking about the soul as the soul is relevant to the body not the soul the way the soul is relevant to God you see in every in every analysis there's two aspects this is important for you guys to understand there is the way the the the issue relates to to to the the the poel the actuality the um the actualization of the issue and then there is the way it relates to the higher not to the actualization but to the more philosophical and ethereal and the same is true within the sh there is an aspect of the that's relating to the Ethereal to the unknown to the higher to the loftier and as far as that's concerned you can jump up and down backwards and forwards sprinkle as much water as you want a Jew is a Jew is a Jew I don't care if he's baptized in a church out of a church in the Vatican don't make a difference it's never going to change the soul of a Jew Jew you hear that never but we know if someone goes through a baptism for example they need what's called in Jewish in Hal terms a rinic conversion not a Biblical conversion they need a conversion why because they have a lot of spiritual defilement on them being baptized and they shouldn't be given an Aliyah they shouldn't be called to the Torah until they go through the spiritual um cleansing Torah cleansing Vis the re a conversion so that they're fit to go to the Torah it's not just you get up there mark you read the Torah it doesn't work that way the Torah the Torah is God's written word who am I to go to the Torah between you and I when I lay down to sleep shabas afternoon sometimes or more than sometimes I don't like going close to the Torah at M time I slept the position of sleeping compared to the position of being awake is a little you know less holy you know so Torah I want to you know I love you but right now I slept over 72 minutes and I didn't go to a Mikvah so if I had a choice if I don't have a choice to give me an alah and they call me up but if I had a choice per this a personal thought this is not written anywhere I'm just sharing because I enjoy sharing and I think it's important to hear it in other words there's no such a thing you go to the Torah and you're elevated the TR the truth is there that is true that is true the Torah elevates everyone but what's what should be my feeling my feeling should be is I'm inadequate at this moment until I correct myself I purify myself I better myself it doesn't mean I'm bad it doesn't mean I'm bad one second doesn't mean I'm bad but it means that right now my state of being is sleep not Torah right so I I just want to finish the point here is one second so the AL says that when Hashem invests himself in the world it's not like it's not analogous to the way the soul invests itself in the body in which the body has an impact on the soul God's investing in the world is he's here but he's not impacted and and and that explains the idea why the AL argues here and positions that simp is the on the infinite light is not literal if we say listen to this if we say like the gro the V argues and others that the simum is that is literal in the sense that the infinite light of God is not in the world it's elsewhere right so then then then you couldn't say you you wouldn't say that the investment is a full investment it's Accord according to the the and that that opinion if God invests himself with Infinity in the world God would be impacted and Al says no the essence of God is never impacted that's why I use the example it's like you know someone can say I'm baptized here today and tomorrow but the the Nish remains pure in its in its pristine State the essence of the soul the same was with God everything that happens in the world doesn't make a dent in the Infinity of God not a dent and that's what we read every morning you know we read it every day ATO you are God pre-creation and you're and you're the same God post creation what are we reading here in other words normally the the a person changes pre present and post three three different stages three different positions three three different mindsets here we say and there's a conjunction of and you are the same even though the world was created you were you didn't change the world made no impact on you how could that be how could that be says the B you know why it could be because of the concept of simum simum is a self-imposed disguise that God himself makes on himself and logically an oxymoron either you if you're God then you're here then you're not disguised and says the ALB you're right I'm from where I'm coming from from where God's coming from I'm not in the disguise you guys see me in a disguise you creatures but I know that I'm just as much in the disguise as I am in my revealed State like a father who at times shows his love to his child in a revealed way in a Time the father has to hold back for the benefit of the child has has the father changed the the kernel of his love towards his child when he holds back no the manifestation has changed the application has changed but the love is still there iser you wanted to say something I think there were tangential points more appropriate too if I bringing I don't want to take away from the share so time okay thank you let's go let's go now down to the bottom of 166 it's the the last line the second [Music] word this idea of Hashem not being impacted by the occurrences and happenings of the world whether it be a storm an earthquake a hurricane or October 7th God is Not impacted at all P how is that says Dr let me give you an when a person reflects Upon A Certain to of a certain idea of of wisdom of you know certain idea with his mind or he thinks about the the the business that one has to do today Mark right right you have a day planned it's early in the morning you have a day planned you you know you're setting you you're thinking about what you have to do in your then the person's brain and their thought they Encompass the issue that you're thinking about and and and intellectually intellectualizing about that is means BHA formed from the word picture our our I don't knowa seems to be on good so the artist is here A A an artist is called a right what is in your brain when you're thinking about what you have to do today oh thinking about now hearing this T here is the actual physical card that you need to bring to the mechanic in your brain of course not it's the image the picture of a car the picture of a mechanic the picture of an idea that is in your brain that is in your thought but not the physical let's continue Mish the actuality the Mish the M the tangibility the physical Corporal car the physical material car is not in your brain conversely by God Almy it is written regarding God my thought is not like your thought Etc God's thought and God's knowledge God knowing all creatures it encompasses Every Creature that's the acronym from poish in actuality in tang with with in a tangible way and why is that how is that possible that by God it is that way different than by the human being sh he he he uses twice the word he he you've heard me use explain these he Hees throughout well here uses again he he it looks like he really loves these he he means this this like this is it you got it this you know like a emphasis he he because it is God the Creator who creates the physical car from something to nothing now here the logic here a Why by us when we think about the car it's only the image and idea of the car that's in our brain but not the actual car so you'll say well that's a ridiculous question it isn't a ridicul I'm asking why so forget forget about a car what about an idea what about an idea right you want to figure out something so here you're talking about SE SE is spiritual compared to a physical car so can we say that the idea the SE is physically lodged in my brain oh it's the image of the SE the the logic means I understand the idea that image but not it's not I'm thinking about 2 + 2al 4 and the and and then there's sometimes it goes this way and how does a you know trigonometry and and everything you learn in school right and then the backwards and forwards and numbers it's all ideas are those actual ideas lodged in the brain and their m in their Tang tangibility no it's a concept why because the concept exists before your brain puts it into its brain you don't create the concept the concept is created by God and you you and I now explore the concept so being that we didn't create the concept the concept doesn't exist in us it's an adun to us but by God Almighty the Creator Hashem created hates the idea so the idea comes from him so the idea is in him that's what he says right here very very deep profound idea that needs a lot of thought but that's what he says so therefore one second why is he saying what does this have to do with the energy of God that's known as the encompassing energy sa of K doesn't mean as some make the mistake God hovers around the world he's in other words the energy of God here here it is a miracle right there's nature which is from from from the pervading energy of God and there's a miracle coming from the sa from God's peripheral energy when you use in the word in English the word peripheral periphery what is the word periphery mean outside of hovering over in encompassing all of those English words imply outside says you know kind of the English language is um is bere of being able to F to to really communicate what we mean by ofman and what do we mean it's here it's not outside somewhere go find it in the beautiful Forest of bemes no no you you don't have to go there you can find it right right on in your house Hashem is here but wait a minute where is he well when you'll have the miraculous experience and you'll sensitize yourself to it it's right next to you and sometimes it's a parent sometimes it's not but it's here that's what he's saying here because God is the creator he's able to turn it on and turn it off so when he wants you to feel the miracle you're going to feel the miracle when he wants you to work diligently to come to that DET feeling that'll take place and when he doesn't want you to feel it you ain't going to see it so the fact that we breathe every morning and we get up we say m what bigger Miracle is it everyone knows especially as we get older the body aches to the right the body aches to the left and I have to watch what I eat and I have to take my blood pressure and I have to take my pills and I have to go to doctors right what you know older people that you know I spend most of my time at doctors or I have a whole so many pills that I put in in the Box Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday right I'm not I'm not laughing at it because that's that that medicine has come to this point that it's literally extended the life our life not even a question so it's a big br right it's a big opportunity what I'm saying is that that's do we look at that as a miracle do we look at modern medicine as a miracle we say no um iser went to a good school iser know sweat and and worked hard and was up nights and he got his degree became a doctor and now he's he's helping people no you think it just goes it just just happens like that at the same time why does the doctor have the ability to cure because says I God give permission and help the doctor cure and heal if I take that away for a moment all of his degrees and all of his hard work is buckus and maybe actually God forbid you know what when they sue you you know what I'm saying who knows what do they call that a malpractice you know a new thing malpractice the doctor's trying to his best most doctors are trying to cure period we have something called Mal practice and you need malpractice insurance on and on and on that's the world we live in so so the save of K is an energy of hem that lends itself to the miraculous and the miraculous could be in breathing every day but you have to feel it you have to say I'm here you remember I told you the story of theast it was and then he went there to with with so he's like anyway he was a and I heard this from one of the grandchildren of the slba who lives here in bar Parks he told me he would take care of him because he was already older and he lived in may he lived by himself there and for some reason he was like his his his guard his night night guard to make sure he's all right so he sees one morning he washes NE gets up and he says I'm here and he says he comes running in what happened reelle what happened I'm here I woke up I'm here who says you have to be here in the morning you sleep at night and you never wake up I'm here I realize I'm here and I'm thankful to Hashem that s of K it's natural to get up every morning it's te who says what about people that don't wake up in the morning so the so the ALB is saying here that this idea of sa it's real it's here but it's hasem putting that disguise on on it and therefore you have to explore it and find it now continue now he talks about the pervading energy this refers to the energy that's invested in the essence of the creature which is very contracted and restricted within with great restriction based on the capacity of the creature how much the creature can handle because the creature is limited and has a certain end both in quantity and in quality now you see says here he defines the words which means Quant quality quantity and quality the is an interpretation an explanation of quantity and quality when we talk about Torah quality and quantity we're not talking about how many eggs do you have in the eggs that you bought in the morning to make yourself eggs and your family eggs that's not the way it works we're talking about the Mila the the advantage and benefit that this issue has so there's one analysis that this issue brings um brings a a a an importance of an issue to the table to the experience so that's what we mean Accord in this context in this context over here in Tanya says that the the the the the and is the quantity and the quality is the is is is determined by how important the issue is less important it would be more what we would call quantitative more important it would be more qualitative so in other words you can have very little and it's still but if that very little is very important it has you have a lot of essence you have a lot of quantity you have a lot of quality excuse me it's very qualitative yes H just two comments one is in this week's par show we learn theim of AR so we so means to assessment also just that what arim meaning assessment to assess the value yeah yeah how you know kind of the work and and there's also just a connection that um one of the distinctions in h is that um ottle yeah so uh it's sort of intrinsic it's sort of aaric definition of something intrinsic they can't be nullified right and what's the logic there what's the logic of that meaning meaning the idea that it has intrinsic value a as a as a separate item right so in other words the whole idea of is there more or less let's say a drop of milk falls into a pot of of of of meat so the question is how you know the qu the quantity how it's a quantity issue right but when we talk about a something that's important it's not measured by the quantity it's measured by the quality so even if it's even if it's it's a minute amount it's not bottled and in and in in it's not un nullified and in certain cases it Still Remains forbidden if it's a forbidden you know situation or a Dr is forbidden on P Mark it's not as though I have to have a whole loaf of bread to violate the prohibition of not having bread leavened on PES no no no no even a kernel a Crum right why because leavened Bread on PES is it's it it's important in the negative that you shouldn't have it so since it's been CL classified in its own uh entity and own importance it defies the quality the quantity case of more or less other words the quality overshadows the quantity let's continue someone is someone is not on mute do be fa mute yourself now okay and says for example and all you scientists don't get excited and upset about what you're going to hear now he says for example how big how large is the earth ball the the Earth 167 times the Earth not only is the the the not only is the globe this way but the light yes also has a limitation how much can the sun shine because it can't be in infinite because it'll burn the creature who's limited and so not only the Sun and the Earth but all creatures are limited how long would it take to go from Earth to the heaven the distance of 500 years Etc the gor speaks about it the point being here I don't want to go into the science and how do we reconcile it the rebba who had knowledge in both by the way has a comment look it up in the lessons in Tanya about this scientific issue reconciling the the world being 40 50 million years old and all of that if if you're curious look it up there I don't want to go into it right now the point Al is making is that the Earth and and everything else is limited it might be this amount that amount but it's still a limitation there's a number given to it let's conclude his idea the energy of that's invested in the world is very much there's a great it's a greatly restricted there's great Great and Mighty for the energy of hasem must first go through a process of contractions many contractions Mighty contractions until there is the creation from its power and its light the actual creatures as we know them to be limited because the source of the energy is the spirit of God's mouth invest in the 10 God's mouth the utterance of mouth could have extended itself and could have created amount of world their quantity and quality and to Enlighten them forever for eternity and if that was the case it would never have created the physical world okay we'll get back to more tomorrow everyone have a great day we'll see everyone tomorrow M bye bye good stuff