Tension: Its benefits, Are you a nervous person? Is that good? Igeres HaKodesh 26d- RC Dalfin

so we're learning we're middle of chapter 26 page I'm back to the regular the line begins with the acronyms and here the AL continues his his his point and his point is that when the Z KES in the section called says that t is associated with the tree of of of knowledge good and bad to say that's that refers to Pure Torah rather it and that's why he says if you look at the precise language of the it doesn't say it doesn't say that it just says about the item itself the items that are discussed in the T at some point involve into a situation where there's permissible and forbidden I.E clippos negative energy and now we're going to discuss that when that is and how that is so so again what the beginning here is kind of a parenthesis rhetorical question without the was going to ask on himself questions and reconcile them regarding the statement of the the they are at the level of malos of the world of of formation let me remind you yes H H I don't hear you what no not are you sure you're on the same page maybe not the oh yeah I'm sorry yes okay just wait okay my bad sorry it's all right so let me remind you that the four Amos the four worlds Aus is one Bria two y 3 and AIA four each one is God's energy is less in each world meaning to say each World dispenses less of God's Purity they're all godliness but they're gradations so Aus is the world of closeness hence the word from the word near something it is near the godhead and the world of ailos overall generally speaking in the world of Caba and the teachings of Caba ailos represents God's Pres presence in its pure State then comes the world of creation where creation is ex yes but it's creation of some for of some form so therefore the world of creation is one step lower than ailos as far as God's Consciousness being felt there and then comes the world of Y which means the world of formation it's a further degration I'm not going to go into all the details now but that's the way Caba sees the four worlds now we learned earlier that mishna tal it's all part of T and the AL says that the zo are never meant to say that they they are Clipper Clipper Moshe please be yourself that they're Clipper they're not kipa they're not kipa so his question is the writes that mishna is in Mal the well malus the is already less of godliness hence there's more room for kipa that's his rhetorical question and he answers the yes is already the the the retort to his own rhetorical question do you know what the means to say we're not talking about the actual malus of we're talking about a Garment of the of of Mal in other words itself has a commonality with Mal andus where the godhead shines through right but when you put a heavy coat on top of Mal the IE the spiritually of spiritually put such a heavy garment Veil uh cover that that leads to a situation where an item can become forbidden no good bad evil on and on and on that's his explanation whether we understand it or we don't but that's what he says let's go on in Caba it also takes the four aani sh and right we learned about this two pares ago in right there's the the sh and there's the each of them in K also says that has an association with one of the worlds spiritually so he says the is kind of the very low a sh means like a maid a maid a maid is not treated the best so his question is if you're telling me that is associated with and the only idea that brings real concealment is the Garment on why is it called a sh a sh is a ma so he says it's called if you compare the energy in Mal the to compare to the malus it's like a wife compared to a maid and I don't have to tell you the difference between a wife and a maid or a wife and a concubine I think you all understand that a wife is genuine a wife is real a wife is Meaningful a con is just a mode of pleasure and work so there's no no mean meaningfulness to it except just get the job done okay let's get the job done a wife is much more than just it's not even it's about an institution on the institution of sacredness so this is what the ALB is saying this is the AL is saying that that that is considered if you compare it to malus but in its own right it's still Clarity relatively speaking you know you have to compare basically what he's saying here in simple English Apples to Apples not apples to oranges let's continue and says I'll bring you proof from the writings of the the mikra Torah mik scripture the written laww is in the world of action asks the on this statement of the it is clear in the and the writings of the in many places Adam for him you can all over this is the mid the third mid of the mid the six mider which is the six mid ofus so the AL says wait a second how can you say that Torah mikra is an is the lowest of the four Worlds the explanation is that's the proof that the theme that that he's proving here that when we talk about a world that should be expressive of a higher energy more Purity and it implies in the Z otherwise says that's the the we're not talking about the world in its pristine State we're talking about the world as it is a la right we we are who we are when we dress up we appear otherwise I just driving here I heard some just turn on the radio for a second and someone's talking about the the clothing that zalinski comes into the White House which turns them off right away looks like a you know you know he just came from a bar or or uh this uh Democrat John fedman or Petman whatever his name is you know he comes into the with with shorts they talking about this you know so someone commented that you know that this this talk show host was was lorded by by Trump at marago uh several years ago and with in front of 300 people that he says you dressed like he pointed them out I as a reporter as a journalist as a talk show host you're you're really dress sharp you know so the guy was saying you see how it's the overall picture that you look at a person and there's truth to that you know people people judge a book by its cover I know that cuz I write books I know how important the cover is but the truth is that's it's external that's how you judge a book read what's inside read the no if if the cover looks sharp wow that's a book that's worth picking up right that's is well the AL says the same thing here in just using his words 250 years ago says 200 years ago is saying that Mal the shares a a a similarity with malus I it says this it says that Al says that's all because of the Garment how you dress up Ville okay when when when you're in the hospital and they see you with your white you know your white thing oh doctor the doctor's here right away there's a certain right imagine they see you in the street and you're dressed like like a and all that they don't know who you are they thought you you're an Amish they thought you know what I'm saying it's not a reason to to make changes in a person's you know authenticity and their but things that that are permissible that if you know it's going to lull more people into a good situation a healthy situation a tit situation especially and if you feel that way if you feel that if you really feel that way fine I'll give you an example okay here's a beard my beard is unkempt I never put a comb in my beard in my life 64 years I never touched this beard and I never put a comb to this beard it's maybe hard to imagine but I'm telling you the truth okay now what if I rolled up my beard maybe people would say oh Rabbi dolphin you're more presentable okay could be could be but I don't have never felt I need to do that and I don't want to do that because for some reason I feel uncomfortable doing that other people who are just as and just feel otherwise so they do that so no one can legislate you know you have to do it this way you have to do it that way you know if someone wants to follow a certain Talk of the about rolling up your beard where he made once a certain comment to a which implied like you're trying to be modern by rolling up your beard if you want to take that literally and you want to follow it God bless you but so so my point is the Lush the Lush of a person is very important my wife always says you know you have to look presentable you don't look presentable then people you know judge you in a negative way and there's truth to that so the AL says the same thing the of makes look like it has some negativity that's his answer okay here I just want to show you how here is this deep cab this is mish this is all Caba here right and if you can bring it out in a way that that has a you know sensibility to it through a an example then I'm not scared to approach it I learn it I teach it you know you don't got to you know is go back to is you know he's waiting for me to teach the the last section of Tanya you know how's this Rabbi going to teach us all this cabal at the end you know what they say is Sir get your stick out we put the three letters this two shall pass and we will learn it one way or the other so when you learnis and even when you learn cab you know don't be afraid of it just just start slowly getting in tasting it you know like getting comfortable really I'm serious you know once you get comfortable you start swimming there you love it you know it's so great you know so this is part of that process let's continue says so too you find explicitly in what's called mikra scripture M they're [Music] all mikra scripture encloses itself vest itself till the world of action and it tells us how to act only is okay you know by the way you would think it's just the opposite tal is disputations arguments right between raashi CU Bri is the world of clarification how do you get clarification you got to argue it out you got to debate it you got to challenge it um Mish Mish is notal right in mishna the it's more the rulings of rabud and mayor right so miss already is mikra scripture Torah is a why TI tells you put the on this way put the M on this way there's no debates here there's no difference of opinions you know the T the mishna takes the T upon which the gamor takes the mishna and opens it up so that's why mishna is mishna is Bria and sorry tal is Bria Mish is and mikra is invest itself in what we call the translucent Husk in order to refine The Spar that fell there because of the sin of and also the 248 Sparks that fell there through the shattering of the vessels as then that's when you also have is called why because the Sparks came all the way down from the highest level called that se all the way down and now they're in the schutz they're in the chaos and the purpose of which is to elevate it that is the secret the esoteric secret of the's Exile the Exile h means that the Sparks from on high from matus are all the way in AIA in in in in the next page 288 we quoted in chapter 25 in letter 25 that the that the the controls the it's bad for him why is it bad for him so here you know why it's bad for him because the UL him the purpose of the descent from the Sparks fromus into AIA is for us to refine it and extract it and guess what and and and and mess up the neab you neab and Yar think you have dominion over Adam Adam beam where you where you make man sin and you entice man to sin all that it's bad for you you fool why because at the end we're going to extract those Sparks and we going to extract those Sparks you're going to be left with n nothing F let's continue now he goes back to the quote that we began this chapter at the time of the tree of good and bed shelter [Music] it dominates during the time when is in Exile which causes affluence to go to the extr ex external matter the ex strenuous forces which the mixed multitud nurtures from there and from its you know tamis means it's kind of the tsis is like the how do you say it no I don't hear so the the summation the summation okay from the summation of the Clippers and and mixed multitude nurturing from the get energy from this remember we learned what are they they're they're they're nurturing from the from the amarim from the ignoramuses so what's the primary job of the primary role of study of in that process it's to refine the Sparks so why do we find ourselves in situations where we're surrounded with ignoramuses and negativity and bad it's to get the extract Sparks from there not to run away to May make where you are godliness okay wherever that is it's known therefore the primary mode of study today it is through um analysis and dissertation P the laws of is what's forbidden and permissible impure and pure to refine what's permissible and pure May from what's forbidden impure how do you accomplish that through analysis and dissertation in using your wisdom understanding and knowledge as Torah comes through through wisdom and its wisdom specifically is that causes the refinement this means that the high level of the superal level of from the world of that invest itself in the lowest sphere of of called so which is the esoteric secret of the oral the oral Torah not going to explain that which is invested in skip the parentheses there begins real knowledge I'll explain a moment skip the brackets so basically saying he's saying like this that when the says that it's doesn't mean the pure Torah it means the way the Torah has a it's invested itself in in in in in the world that we're in where there's and that's why you hear this because we this is this is by the way an answer to why the Yeshiva World put such an emphasis on gamor it's a question that many people had at the turn of the century especially in America you know like hey you know we got to earn a living what's this business going to learn about a cow Goring five times three times two times a a like are you for real you know and and this was uh I shouldn't say only America it was it was in Europe too you know uh he needed to bring pannosa home it was so hard it was so it was so little right the AL says here an important teaching that the whole idea of pull and touches is the is the only way to extract the spark in other words like this when you go through a process of study of gamorra where you analyze everything and you challenge everything what what happens it it gives you uh an openness to really refine something and and come to the kernel come to the essence whereas if you just learn right okay you know the bottom line you know what to do and right and you but that doesn't make the change in the person the change comes through the give and take I'll use RAB Sal's uh language to to to explain this also salic speaks a lot about tension and and it seems like you know he says that the whole approach of brisk to Toral study is tension in other words is it black or white wrong the is it black or white he says it's not real learning it's gray in the terminology the Yeshiva World maybe you'll hear this from your kids or your grandkids or other people who have gone to they say it's called it's is yish for two it's two in other words it's not uh onedimensional it's two dimensional so you could look at the same thing and you see it two different ways now that's friction that's tension and and and salvic um teaches and he believes that that that is how Hashem created man and especially a ye to be in a mode of tension otherwise you're in a in a mode of icity you're you're you know you're basically it's not real in his view it's not real Tranquility but rather it is um you don't know who you are and what he's saying is that if you allow yourself to to live life with attention it's very it's a very different way of understanding what's going on it brings out the best of you in a way D is saying the same thing at least I that's the way it's I hear it now is saying the same thing that and P the real Clarity comes forth from the gamorra approach of back and forth and arguments and dissertation whereas in Hal for example example you don't have that I think that's what he's saying here and that's why he says it's not that that part of TOA is is uh got a bit bad got wrong he on the contrary that is the way to get to the to the clearest understanding of Torah and the clearest position we will continue tomorrow more take care