Tanya Shaar HaYichud chptr 7 #4 Gematria is G-d's Infinity within the world - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're going to finish today chapter 7 it's been a long Trek but we're there we're on page payid towards the bottom of the page and the AL just finished explaining to us a fantastic idea and that idea is that is like simp should not be taken literally literal but rather it's not literal and that's a reference to the or and they're different words used iners for the same idea or and which in English means the infinite light the infinite energy is also uh expressed in as the the light the energy that has no G has no limitation I it's infinite what would be the energy that's that would be what we call sometimes the energy the light of so the AL says that we should know that the and that the is here in its full strength except that it's in Disguise mode it's in simum mode that was a discussion we had yesterday and now turn to page payid please and it go to it's about seven lines from the bottom the last word on the line is key because the source of the energy is the is the the spirit of the M of God's mouth that's a metaphor of course what does it mean that when Hashem says may there be light it's as though he spoke it came out of mouth to and this is the 10 utterances within the when we talk about hashem's Spirit coming his energy coming through his anamorphic speaking his mouth it's coming from him if it's coming from God almighty the infinite hasem it should be able to extend itself without limit ad for without any end and to create infinite worlds both quantity and quality wise and to Enlighten them forever and if that were the case there would never be it would never be possible to have the physical world as we have it now now so what is theing here H these these several lines not only is the Not only was it necessary forem to put AUM on his own oal of his infinite light but even on the speech May there be light and trees and fish and all that right he are you would think this is this is the what the AL is responding to you would think that's already a lower level meaning to say that's already a measured amount of godliness that God says I want fish and I want trees and I want all that so in the from God's perspective there would be already a measured M says this has been invested with infinity of God so from if there was no syum on this r p itself there would be light but it would be infinite light there would be trees there would be infinite amount of trees in other words the world as we know it now would not exist it would be a different type of world what type of world hard to imagine but in concept it would be a world of infinity you see there's one idea of saying there's no world the other second idea is the world is completely limited the in between is what he's discussing here that on one hand Hashem says the 10 utterance of let there be this let me God wants it right at the same time this utterance is is God's utterance it's not our utterance so the that he's that he's emphasizing here is that the ssum again it's it's it follows his trajectory in the entire chapter the ssum is is within the and it goes through everything that comes from the from the infinite light including the the spirit of his mouth so don't think that the spirit of his mouth would have created a world as we have it now it would not if not for the ssum that's how important ssum is and I emphasize that thees is that theum is in him he wanted the ssum if Hashem didn't want the ssum and and Hashem said let there be trees there'll be infinite trees in other words pre pre saying let there be trees and let there be fish what type of world would we have we would have a a world that's that's there wouldn't be a world there wouldn't be at all a concept of a world when you already speak about the spirit of coming of from the mouth over there you're already acknowledging there'll be something other than the godhead says yeah there will be something but it would be infinite so this is very important because we're talking here about three stages in this chapter the AL is is talking about three different stages the stage of only or inself Infinity God's light where no world can emerge from there the stage in which God's energy and light gives room for emergence but nevertheless the emergence would be a Godly type of expression which is infinity and the third is theum as we know it which gives room for that's look look before the brackets that's what he says from the if if not for the then he doesn't say is you see that there would be no creation at all there would be creation why because we're talking about the second level we're talking about already the riv we're skipping the parentheses both here and later turn over to page 168 and we're going to the fourth line after the parentheses however this is what I was saying now inside let's rather Ella rather Hashem was he contracted the light the and the energy that could have extended itself in infinitely from God's the spirit of his mouth and he invested it now here's going to be a discussion about where did this energy go we're talking now where did where did it go what happened to it so now takes us into a little interesting uh discussion it went into something called the combination of letters of the 10 utterances and the combination within combinations with exchange with exchange the letterss atash have you heard of the the system called bash Al is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet T is the last B is the second ba B Shin is the next to the last letter we have within our Torah writings the concept that we can exchange letters Al for t b for shin so it's Express is is Bash this is called is the system called exchange like we have Hill said yesterday in today's para about the we have the and also say also about the the exchange of an animal he said it should be holy so the idea of exchange now when we say about atbash and again it's not this Abracadabra abash I want to play a little game I need a cute ver that at a or aim or shabas table I'm going to give you a cute V it doesn't work that way the system of atbash means there's a relationship in toen you know toen means in content it between the Al and the T and when there's that token content relationship the Torah says we have a right to exchange the letters and what does the exchange show that the AL which is the first letter is really the same as the tough but alif is where it's at in its high plateau and tough is where the same idea expresses itself in a lower Plateau but it's the same idea so so for example a person we are who we are imagine we take we take Basha and we put him now in Guam right there's certain things that will be the same between living in the in in America ER is and Guang but the application and manifestation is different in every setting the is the same the content is the same Mas is Mas so regardless of where he lives he's Masha but the application is different depending on each setting now that that's an example just I think I believe of of atbash atbash that the system of letters doesn't mean that when it that when it gets to tough it has no connection to Al wrong it's the Olive in concept it's the olive but it's the olive as experienced in tough alive being the first the clearest tough being the last and so too with bash and so too G gim and the whole system that's what we call andos okay before that he says we have something called is another system the combination of letters alive B B Alive of and B switch them around that's I believe combination that's another system that's based on the toen and I think that that's even higher meaning that in the cofin system the content is more similar and observable than in the and and finally we come to the third stage which is even lower and guess what that is that's what most people like Mo most and actually is the lowest type of of G of system that's called gatas gatria give me a good gatria right give me a good numerical equivalent why is that the lowest you hear y you know why the gatri is the lowest cuz gatria does not necessarily mean that there's a concept in toen there's a relationship in toen or I'll say differently that the content relationship is so minimal that all it has to that all it it that that the only way of recognizing the the content relationship is through the numerical equivalent in other words if I say B's name B has a numerical value of so and so and another thing has an a miracal value and then I say they have a relationship and I show the relationship so I say that the gatria is demonstrative of that relationship it is but guess what it's only through letters I'm sorry it's only through numerical equivalent so gatria is the third system of of the of this idea but the lowest of the three it's just interesting how how today you know we think is the highest in fact most people don't even know about go out go go to your local I don't care if it's and ask him about most people will know what you're talking about gatria oh yeah everyone heard about a gatria it just shows you what we say in Hebrew you've heard that expression the world is like a go like a dummy it's like gatri it's it's lowest form of of expressing the the idea it's a ter form when it when it's sanctioned by T as I discussed a few days ago okay let's go back into the text now see it says so the third thing is so is the from the Hebrew word an account a numerical equivalent and the number three four what's the numerical equivalent of the word and it says every exchange it denotes that the energy is descending and from Lev to level why is that why do we go from to to gatria because order in order to create creatures that the level of their quantity and their quality their qu their qu quality and their and their advantage is less from the quality from the letters themselves within the 10 utterances this refers to's attributes stop and the gatri system it denotes look what I what I told you that there's a miniature amount of energy there like little and more little and even more minut what's left over of the energy the bottom the ladder the the the the sentiment you know the the the like in the wine the you know the the the bottom of the the bottom of the barrel that is the level of of numbers how many how much you know energy is there that's in this word so we have the word let there be light Let There Be mountains let there be the sun right my very clear the energy from hasem the highest of hem let there be this it's clear we want right but it's too clear it's too clear because you would get a spiritual type of tree a spiritual type of fish so Hashem says you know what I'm going to now dress that invest that in a system where the energy the infinity will be diminished it's there is not L it's there but it it its manifestation and application is diminished through combination of letters and through exchange of letters and through gatria which is the lowest of the three so that will be the way it manifests itself in in the world and with this concept we we we understand a much broader idea of how it is when you go to a sadic you go to a holy person who's really a sadic you know we're not talking about you know people who are not and just pretend to be but someone who's really a sadic a very holy person a person who's devoted their life to Hashem and they work on themselves and the the I could just speak you know from the re that I witnessed and and saw and and learned from and continued to that the you need to pick up you need to pick up and be sensitive to the the cues right ar ar Shon comes to the re I've said this several times but I just I think brings the point home and he he comes to say goodbye he's going on a plane on Halal tonight back there he has a meeting tomorrow this is like wa 3 4 5:00 in the afternoon whatever it was the re says Mr Shon thank you for informing me but I was just told that the at the Israeli bonds dinner the guest speaker for marel couldn't make it and you as a Statesman this is before he became prime minister the general and everything that you were and you know you are um would be would be special for you and help to help to help the the the the the dinner raise funds so he says reab I I would love to do it but I I'm I'm going from here to JFK and tomorrow I have meetings all day so the the re says God should bless you and and do whatever whatever you whatever you think you should do he gos out with his guards his his men his assistants and he goes into the taxi and he says go back to Manhattan he says Mr Shon we supposed to go to JFK he says yeah I changed my I'm changing I'm going to speak there's no one there and and I'll make make arrangements that night the plane was hijacked that plane was hijacked and of course they were looking for Shon so here it is rebba told him what he told him this is what happened that night but he the rebba didn't say to them hey tonight your plane's going to be hijacked now you'll ask a a will tell the Reb knew that a non would tell you he didn't know it but he had a premonition so everyone can decide on their own depending of what they believe or don't believe that that but one thing's for sure that there was a hidden message here one way or other there was a hidden message and again if you want to be an agnostic you can argue what do you mean a hidden message the re was being very practical we need a guest speaker to fill in for the one that cancelled okay you you know if you want to say that too you can we got free will deny it but it's it just happens to be a very interesting coincidence right that's what we're talking about here in Tanya you know when you learn a piece of Tanya like this and this is a very very loaded chapter and we just touched the the the the the edge of the chapter there's so much here you can spend a year on this chapter but but you need to walk away with something and today's you know the we're finishing the chap chapter you walk away with that the idea that the how Hashem put his Infinity into the world is not and we say through theum through the disguise it's not to exclude us from the infinity you see that's a mistake people think no it's to include us but to include us through a system called and gatus yeah why cuz we're here it would be overwhelming it's it's just too much I can't handle it so Hashem says I'm going to find a way to communicate to you infinity and in this case through sadik through people who live T and for that matter I always say that a Jew a ye who's a who's learning T is really he's really living Tyra he's a ye that can bless you can be around the block or like a friend of mine's mother who was a Survivor went through a ushitz and so and she had a number on her hand I knew this lady so another friend of mine said she can give you a br just going through aitz she is a holy person I don't need to know about anything else does she go to sh does she not go to Shool does she cover her hair does she not cover her hair it's not for that itself the hell that she went through and that she comes out still as a Believer and does cover her hair and does send her children to Yeshiva she's like a reer so again you know so so the count if that's the case why am I going to a rebba why am I going to a g why am I going Tob ysf well the answer is because you feel that that they are uh outwardly uh demonstrative of this kadus but the truth is it could be someone on your block who gives gives a br to you as a what we call a is and and the BR a simple person and the braa takes off why because they're living with infinity you say how they living with infinity well you go through someone to go through let's say October 7th and all the stories that's Affinity to be able to come out and be a believer after such an event I mean come on and you still believe in God that God is great and beautiful and just you can give a br you can so the AL is saying this in his you know T Style Style you know through this these ideas let's continue I want to finish the chapter let's go now to skip the parenthesis here and we're now we're all the way now on top of page next page top of the page every every energy and every level can create Creatures based on that particular level Al it would also be Adam Limitless in in in in quantity and quality to enliven [Music] forever because what is this particular energy it's part of hashem's Co that extends itself it is it is separated in a sense from God's spirit the spirit of his mouth so what are you getting you're not getting our spirit you're getting spirit and if that's the case there's no stopping there's not there's no holding back however you how but since applied the therefore it it it mends the application of that energy so that the world should be able to be created from the letters themselves so the this also point to the important idea of identifying with the words of T you know when you're called up Foria whether you understand or don't understand the tradition is we look into the sa when we called up to an Aliyah why because it's those it's those letters of the Holy T that guide the person guide you on that chabas and guide you in the during the week why because the containers they're vessels they're vessels for the infinite energy so the more you explore the the more Infinity will come into your life and this is also an important issue you know we we we talk about we need more BR this area and that area in health in in very important areas absolutely so connect with the by connecting with the letters of t then you're opening up those letters you're you're you're demasking the the O the letters and the energy the infinite energy that's vested in them hidden within them starts emerging where you actually become a vessel for that Infinity so in this chapter the AL speaks about the idea that oh and that's the that's the connection to in this chapter the AL says that the Mal which is the lower level of unity is imbued in with the the higher energy but in it its format and application is what we call so therefore what we walk away with is that even which is not is The Credo that one line hereo Israel compared to seems to be small change says the the within the B of Shame which is kind of the emergence of of world the emergence of limitation because God's name is glorified all over has the virtue that the infinity reaches the physical world in other words just having the the the is not the ultimate it's the way the way impacts we want this Infinity of to permeate the physical world and that's the that's the same idea that you know if you if you sit somewhere in your corner and you learn a Davin and you're by yourself very nice what do we have from that how we be at this year today if we weren't made aware that there's a God and there's ter and there's so much someone needs to tell us someone needs to go out someone needs to share and you know some some disagree they say sit in your corner learn Tyra and Tyra will will illuminate everyone okay I hope they're right I hope they're right cuz we need Tyra learning too so to say not pick up your gun and get involved to save the Jewish people in AR Isel you know on the other hand to go and say that learning ter is not important and there should shouldn't be part of our people that are learning full-time you need a combination and that's why in your holy country we have such great disagreements right right and left and but now we're now at least now we're more a little more a little more I I hope and pray that when the world be over and the enemy will be destroyed that we we we we won't allow our own enemy to get in the way cuz that's the worst remember what said I think it's your destroyers and your Breakers they come out of you of us Hamas is only able to was only you know to do the mishas and the enemy and and and bring all these problems because we are fighting so we have to eliminate our own fights just give in and compromise live with and then the enemy falls apart okay we learn chapter eight on the coming Thursday have a great chabas and we'll see you next week