Tanya Shaar HaYichud chptr 8 - Real Emotions, use genuine words not fake slogans - Rabbi Dalfin

so good day we're learning the second section of T we pic chapter 8 on page P so the AL discussed in chapter seven which probably is the hardest chapter of we discussed the last half of the chapter the idea that Sims is like that when the God's contracted his infinite light from the universe it doesn't mean that he went away and he's looking from above and taking care of the situation from elsewhere rather he's here but in a disguise he's hidden we call that but not in its literal sense now I forget if it was b or is one of you asked me a question H one of you asked a question last week if we say that is which is the of the V and others by the way the V is not the first one to believe that the re his remarks on Tanya uh lists numerous earlier philosophers Jewish philosophers and Scholars and who believed also that is so I want to make it clear that the go Vila wasn't the first one but nevertheless when there was the rhetoric between and during the time of the V that issue was a a major issue in other words there was something more to disagree about and be divisive about so going back to what I was telling you is that even those that believe is it doesn't mean Hashem is not being M Hashem doesn't have Providence over every detail of the world I think B Gordon asked me this in a private in a in a private WhatsApp but it's an important question that was the question if you say according to those that holds that the infinite light of Hashem is not in the world is not here so if it's not here then it seems what would follow is that the the Providence is also not here that was the question it's a very good question and in discussing it this shabas with some other people the answer is no that's wrong when we when when when we say when they say that that it doesn't mean Hashem isn't doesn't care about the world and doesn't have Providence over the world he does the the the the issue is from where does he have the Providence from here or there so that she holds hash Hashem is Hashem does care about every little detail of the world but he cares about it looking from the outside in the she of and those that hold simp is no not only does he care about it from the outside in he cares about it from inside but he's in Disguise so that's a very very important thing to know and and and and the reason why this is so because if you say that hasem is not M hasem doesn't have Providence over every detail of the world you know that's a that's a flat out Denial in I'm not getting into now if the is on every single leaf when it turns over like the sheet of the Bento I'm talking about the general idea that there's over every single thing that happens in the world there is Divine Providence over everything that everything that happens to the world is Al that is true whether you hold the difference between the two is from where is this coming from from here or elsewhere but that everyone agrees this so that's one thing I wanted to clear up now in in with I was going to say in chapter 8 which we're about to begin he's going to go back to the rambam that he quoted earlier that that hashem's God's knowledge is different than our knowledge and our knowledge contributes to us before we know it while we know it and after we know it and by Hashem is not that way so since he mentioned that in the in chapter 7 he's going to continue explaining it and then he's going to say what is knowledge so all of Chapter eight or most of Chapter eight is about is about that is the of hem the wisdom the of Hashem is the greatest aspect of God and nevertheless and nevertheless Hashem is greater than that as well so in in a sense chapter 8 and nine are a conclusion of chapter 7 so let's now learn from the text's essence and his very core the and his knowledge that God knows everything that God knows everyone that's called it's all one it's all United the perfect Unity it's all actual one literally one look at the verbiage here first is number one number two the adjective is it's simple complete you know sincere Unity number three Bel CL and it is not a composite At All by us it's a composite we don't know we know and we contemplate reflect three different positions of the mind that's called a compound in Hebrew right d knowledge in from the human perspective man is a composite it's m it's not it's not uncompounded let's continue now the AL adds a Nuance not only is this true by Hashem that it's not a composite in regard to God's knowledge but so it's also true regarding regarding all of God's attributes and regarding all holy names of and nicknames that the prophets and the Sages coined different nicknames for God keep going for example right we say it in the daving and and God is gracious and God is merciful and God is kind benevolent and and all other similar terms that we attribute to God the god of Mercy the god of kindness right that's an emotion that's not an in God of intellect that's already intellect we're talking about the Midas and so to when we call he's wise as it says there's a and he's also so we attribute the name to God not only is do we have a nickname for Hashem with with but also God's Will and Hees God wants his fearful ones and he and and and he desires kindness so in other words here we find an the attribute of of R will attributed to God will is not it's not and it's not mid it's encompassing right let's continue he's just quoting verses to support that that we find will by God wants he desires that the wicked people do and he doesn't want their death anyone remember when we say that wake up nobody we say it what we said in karus right in karus no um we say may karus we say it in the IL in cap I don't remember but but in we say and he doesn't want hem doesn't want the death of the wicked wants the wicked to do trua what do you mean he wants he wants will how can you apply will to God but that's what we find we find that these terms are all applied contining another verse the pure eyes Mar from seeing evil so again God wants one's ey should be pure from seeing evil now says neither God's will neither God's wisdom neither neither God's His Kind benevolence and his mercy and all the other emotional attributes that we apply to God none of them they don't contribute any multiplicity and composite God forbid in God's Essence Right By Us by us by us when someone's kind to us or we display kindness it's outside of us and something is being added to us or we're adding to someone else so the of or the will it's all it's all different but by Hashem it's all one he middle of a thought I want to finish the thought's essence and his will and his his understanding and and God's attribute of kind judgment and mercy in his Beauty which incorporates both being charisma incor of both so Also regarding all the other holy attributes it's all One Singular Unity he remember I'm into this he he in he he again it it is the essence of and the r understood this says the balat by writing this idea that all these attributes and all and will and God's wisdom and all that it's all not a composite by God but it's all one says the this fact the mouth doesn't have the ability to say it the doesn't have the ability to hear it L and man's heart cannot recognize it Al in its um Excellence completely completely that ever points out that the ra doesn't say listen to this that ra doesn't say man cannot understand it at all I'm sorry to really understand with all its details that we can't understand but when we learn you can have a much better understanding of it like he's doing here in t but the RAM the ram you know is he says that even the language of the ram is kind of alluding to the fact fact that if you learn which the we know newc even though he lived before the Advent of the there you could have more of an understanding and taste of this idea but going back to the text going back to the text all of this points to the difference between the hashem's idea and the human beings idea hashem's mid and God's and our mid hashem's will and our and the difference basically is that by by the in The Human Condition it's all an Adent it's an add on to the person it's not the person here's an example I'm talking now I'm teaching you hear me depending on what we learning and what we're learning you can hear me in different you can hear me differently why because when I talk about one concept a certain part of myself invests itself in that concept cep in a certain way and you hear it that way when I'm talking when I'm let's say doing a fabrin you hear the speaker talk in a different way if you hear the same people person speaking at a eulogy a h you hear him totally different what's theot you're not hearing him you're hearing he as he invests himself in the situation why because by a human being and in in and in the world that we live in the world hasem created the condition is felt and heard cuz the condition man is is man is not the particular area in which he involves himself at the time those are all adjuncts to who he is now at and and and at times when you find someone or you you yourself are genuine in every in every area that's a very you know but even that it it's not the person cuz the person is already what we call mitu in a in the in an image in a form it's like hey when I'm playing golf I'm dressed one way when I'm speaking before an audience I'm dressed another way in other words Hashem is not that way even though we say me and all those things that's different ideas and but hasem doesn't become God we're talking about in Hashem is not hasem because of his mid because of his because of his r that doesn't make him whereas the human being is is is is in essence is Tak not the condition but nevertheless the the way the Hashem set up the world is that the human being is perceived a certain way by the condition that's what the AL is also getting to over here that this is a this is the difference between Hashem and the human and the world the universe and the human being let's continue and he says oh I said this because now he's going to say it inside the text for man imagines with in his in his mind all ideas that he desires to comprehend the way they are within him a person wants to apprehend the essence of will the essence of wisdom or understanding please turn to page or or the essence of the attribute of kindness and and all similar ideas what does the person do the person imagines all of them Bo as they are within him God is exalted and and and above and his name is Holy what does this mean these these holy words what does it mean you know the wordes means separated God is separated completely in a totally different category mys ands levels upon levels different higher from comparison to the category all the praise and and virtues that that creatures can comprehend and to imagine them in their mind Hashem is Way Beyond human description human Praise of God T very nice very important but don't tell me that there is an iota of similarity y Yi between human comprehension and human Praise of hasem to Hashem and he says one second so before we go on so the AL is saying that even the of of God right there even even that and even greater Russ willpower which encompasses all of the situation right there isn't one right what is Will can you say will is wisdom no will is me to no will is will it expresses itself in wisdom and and and mid and all that but even the will isn't a composite to God and all of this is why as he said in the last chapter 7even because Hashem knows everything be by knowing himself he knows everything I I know Hill Hill knows me because we have met we have spoken we have brained in other words we have done things that are kind of outside of who we are that created creates knowledge of each other a client a a a patient whatever you guys do in your professional Fields right the knowledge you have from your clients and your patients and the people you meet is be it's it's outside of self it's the way this outside is impacting self but it's outside of self with Hashem it's not that way with that's from the that's not from That's from the ra what does that mean that hasem who who who he is Hashem knows everything because he is so that's why the ra says hey we can't fathom that the human mind can't fathom that cuz the human mind doesn't work that way way and the human being hasn't been created that way but the says that's the way hasem is so now once the Al has finished this n this point about the way and the difference between God's knowledge and our knowledge now he starts speaking from this section of of P to the end about what is the the greatest aspect of knowledge is and even that is not is not God but now he now he spends the rest of the chapter on this let's see what he says inside for the first um level by creation by creatures the first virtuous issue he this is knowledge wisdom es you know where it's called raes in the T on the P you know the tum says with wisdom it created the world that's the first in Genesis inas so they doubt without saying that alludes to that again he says called races according to God creates the world with why is the best is the top so God's creating the world he's using his best tools right let's continue comes along in in his classical style explains that in truth he is the first and the source of all energy that finds itself in creatures because from there's comes about understanding and knowledge and what follows from that all the attributes within the human intellectual Soul love kindness and mercy all similar things all come from which comes from says let me give you a very concrete example look at the good example A Child by Das that isn't fully the brain isn't fully developed and mature doesn't have Das therefore who a child can constantly be angry yesterday I was somewhere in a home there was a child and he didn't have the salami that he wanted cuz someone ate it up and he threw a fit it's only a piece of salami sometimes it's not just children yeah and and and the mother said we have chicken no I want salami right who who Beast me is constantly anger angry I want this Rabbi and you guys out voted me he's not the rabbi I hate you guys you guys are all Wicked the C the childish attitude there's lacking maturity in dasi Mas aori cruel I'm going to get him back I'm going to get mean real mean aner okay and also the love of a child a little chocolate a little honor a little Fame is my name going to be on the plaque you know I someone in SCH told me he had probably the largest uh um furniture store in in burrow Park and he started way you know early and and he had four trucks going out to M and Lakewood and flatfish and all over and he did very very well so he told me that the he D in more you know 16th Avenue RAB wol of so may be well he's almost 100 years old or maybe ready 100 maybe a friend of schom and and that you know from Those Years anyway not really zman there scha but anyway so quietly he he donated all the bookshelves you go into the sh today it's huge and the and and there's thousands of thousands of M is like a library and he donated the bookshelves I mean that was thousands of dollars I'm sure and so and he had a mind you know for his parents his father so I said so is there a plaque he said what plaque my father knows what I did for his to show he doesn't need a plaque listen I'm I'm not po poing that sometimes it's good to have the plaque so others learn from that I I don't want to but I'm just saying you know those that seek the honor like the C like like says his love is for childish things let's continue and he [Applause] says he loves things that really one shouldn't have love for why is all this the case by this child cuz the child is missing D missing maturity to to to appreciate and have love for things that are really important and worthwhile of loving you hear that because the love is dependent on how much Das you have how develop your your your your mind is in a mature in a mature sense and then from theid within the soul there comes so what happens you have a certain love in your heart and that love in your heart creates thoughts words of thought the soul then thinks about the item show ever that you love or the words of thought thinks about how will I carry out this that I want to do or this that I want to do and in every thought within the world emphasizes means invested in it there is a certain attribute in other words when I'm thinking about the kindness I want to do you've invested your kindness in the Mida in the Mida we hear y your heart and some people who could you know maybe on the colder side we hear their heart their thought in their mid the maid is demonstrative of how their Within the I the letters of of thought how how they are by the person and this is the of this from the letters of the comes about the words I love you if there's no there is meaningless n false if there is thought given to to to this person or to this thing and you say I love you or I love it and it's backed by understanding and thoughtfulness and a mind process then what's heard in those words is real love but if it's just because it's the right thing to do which today you know I see I see people you know throwing out these words words and I don't want to you know and and and it's like to me meaningless to me a a a a private endearing uh words or act behavior is so much more than just hey love hey honey like you have to say it cuz everyone's saying it like come on wait yeah oh if I don't say it today they say oh I'm a bad guy I'm cold you've never said I love you like you know when's the last time last time you hug your kid yeah you definitely should hug your kid but when you hug your kid it should be meaningful I remember sh up in La Yi I remember one Friday night this was in the 93 94 when I was there lived there and they were sing or maybe after they were singing right's not into that and I remember he gave a bang on the this was Friday night when they were dancing and he said stop and everyone's looking why and he said to them if you guys mean it I'll let you sing it if you don't mean it you stop right now smart Rabbi he himself didn't care for it but don't be fakers don't tell me you have to sing because they do it in they do it inat they do it here or there that's narish kite if you really feel that way and you really feel that way no problem to at this time we're allowing you to express your real feelings it's this way true with just the the I the household you know clinical love and and and other you know emotional issues they need to be geared by a by a paradigm and it doesn't mean you have to be cold you could be the warmest person I saw such was such a deep intellectual the deepest of the deep or you know people who were very big Scholars they knew so much tier right but they when they expressed it you can hear their entire M and and in the process so of course the hug the kiss the the the the the closeness those were all the manifestation from the that's what the AL is saying over here let me just conclude so he says and this is their such words that are are permeated with with with the heart and theid and the it leads to action that then you actually give the and kindness you do kindness just like a king He commands his servants to give when a person does something himself without a command the power of his soul and his energy that's enclosed in this action it's it's there but if you compare it but if you compare it to the in other words now he's saying that the the the ACT compared to the mid is no comparison you you do the act it leads you to give but if you look at the same cause that leads you to to give because of the thought on that level it's it's it's it's pure it's fresher it's more animated the ACT already is the bottom line here is the check here's the why you giving it to them because either you care for them or because you believe in the cause you know what I'm saying so that really is where we find more of the essence more of the essence let's continue if you compare the soul the body to the soul you compare the letters of speech to the letters of thought next page you compare the letters of thought to the actual attribute the emotion is invested it in it if you compare the essence of to the wisdom which all of this overall in general way refers to the intellect that animates and all this that we said is by a person's soul the soul of every creature of all worlds upper and lower so the last words of this chapter is the point that he's making over here all of this stems from what from you know what they say as a saying better to be with a quiet than a loud fool you know hang around with people who are because maybe they don't talk a lot but when they say something there's such wisdom there now again it's a balance to go say one second H to go say that there shouldn't be an is also not good yes H what do you want to say I just want to ask a question it doesn't have to be for now yeah um and uh I'm just curious I've heard different people speculate on uh what access the rambam had to cabala whether he had whether he or not he had been exposed to the Z and I wonder if there's a tradition in kabad about that yeah for sure the tradition kabad is that he whether he was exposed to The Zo that's a very that I don't know if there's a tradition ofab but that the tradition of kabad is that the the son he writes he writes that the first four letter spells out k k so the son of the ram says my father alludes to that and that's you know it's a you know what I'm saying so kabad believes as long not only kabad but I would say your question should be a little more broad believe that the ra had access to Caba and let's not forget that during his period And even earlier there were private M so whether they had knowledge of the Zoya that's another question and I'm not prepared to answer that that's to be looked at and studied um but I would say as an overall uh knowledge of General cabalistic ideas um I would say yes so now if you're thinking if you're thinking H well isn't the the Zar the first um formal book of Caba it could be but what about sa so sa yeah yeah but here there are I know I'm aware of earlier earli ones so so right so so so we we we we could quite easily uh posit that that the rambam was aware of all that and look at his Mo I mean again so MO moim is philosophy Jewish philosophy and some of those other for you could you know say for you could look at as philosophy but it's so it's so it's so there's so many similar ideas found in Caba you know but not in the cabalistic language there is the cabalistic lingo that you don't have but the ideas seem to seem to be there so um yes believe that they they they there is a similarity that they had that the r did have knowledge that that's the what I would say for now will start tomorrow the next pic have a great day good Che take care great day thank you very much you're welcome my pleasure byebye