Thanksgiving, Belief in G-d & living w Truth - Igeres HaKodesh 11d- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're learning AES we'll finish chapter 11 which is as I said the entire week uh a very known igus in the world of kabad which deals with the idea of overcoming challenges they're non-stop they don't stop just yesterday I was sitting here on my couch and thinking about different things and a friend of mine from mer Isel T Aviv calls me and he shares the news that another friend of ours um was diagnosed with um with with an illness and I know this friend from childhood and like you know he has he doesn't have an impure bone in him you know he's like born and raised in holiness and uh and he didn't drink he didn't smoke he didn't do you know it's like as straight as you could get but this is life my friends this is life we this is the abish you know I'm thinking about this the whole time what does the abish want what does he want so when you learn a little cabola a little or you see it brought in and you learn it in the different about the G I find that to be very therapeutic and it really helps with because according to the teachings of of Caba and the that every Nish has been here and every Nish is back to rectify something to be maslim to complete so when that job is over you've done what you need to and you don't need to stay here anymore now the thing is we don't know when that job is over but whenever Hashem says it's over it's over that's one thought the other thought is as the AL says in chapter 26 in the first section of Tanya and again over here we're going to learn it today in the that what's perceived as no good comes from a higher place and Al will teach us today that if we have auna in this and it's not easy to have auna in this you know auna you don't buy at Sears a robach or for those that don't know you don't buy it in a molet you don't buy it in a grocery store you have to work on them you have to really work on thatuna you have to think about it you have to understand it and then you have to live with it and this is a life sa life of the story that I told you when we were learning chapter 26 of a certain great love in Europe I forget now the name maybe one of you will remember he was he was also in the in the in the log business you know it used to be that you sent down Lumber down the river in Russia and Poland and in Europe and that was a big business because ultimately built houses and different things if if there was a sh a means like a hurricane orential rains torrential rains like you had in there the night of the of theur of the kesan good right what happens is it in yish we say the word farat it it um it overwhelms it's not the right translation but it overwhelms the the normal path of the of the logs going down the river to get to its place and you lose it so thisa was giving a shear and they came the students came to me he said Rabbi we have something to share with you he says you know you just taught us the gar just as you're supposed to make a when something good happens so when something that's perceived bad ra happens you also make a and we do this when someone loses a relative we say bless the true judge the true king and all that so and and and they say the students say to him you know we don't understand the gar exactly this way that way and he says what do you mean you don't understand and he says faith and then he and he DARS and he expounds and explains and it's like he's shocked at the the students don't get it they're not relating to it and then one of them says to him and rebi do you know that uh you're logs that were going down last night there was a torrential Lane and um you lost them all when he heard that he fainted and collapsed and gamar rashash Shiva when it becomes personal why why are you collapsing why are you fainting you should say and you should be dancing for Sim no AB you understand when it becomes personal it's like where is the amuna you know they say they say overal the known of the last generation who sat for nine years in you know jail and in various camps Siberia and all that before he came to his son finally in 1963 or 64 in England in London or why he came his daughter he had two children he had others that didn't survive in Europe in Russia yeah had two two a boy and a girl that survived his daughter was I think basheva his son bem he's alive lives in cron Heights he's an 87 88 year old man barl is a son anyway this daughter had a a car accident and she died and rendal walked behind the casket you know this is when he already came and he's saying to himself like out loud and others who are walking around they heard him he says this chapter where is the another where am I in other words he he lost his daughter a mother of young children seven children eight children whatever you know and it's all good and fine and this is a Jew who sat nine years who could have been killed and put away so many times and yet what does he feel when he's in a free country in London when he loses his own daughter how personal it is he can't get any more personal he says to himself where am I withina in other words I learned I lived with those years in Russia under communism and everything else and here when it hits home so personal I'm sad and you have to be sad you have to mourn but he's looking introspectively you understand so when we talk about amuna in this per and pram especially here this isn't it's not it's not it's not just words it's not just words it's an and if anything in general especially emphasized this don't I have a have have a you have a an expression the pic you know the pic means the belly button you have a moon till your puic once it hits your puic everything goes out the door it doesn't mean you stop putting on fill it doesn't mean take off yaka that's not what it means but in your heart of hearts where are you you understand and this is a a it's a difficult a but it can be done and that's when we learn a a chapter like this we need to have the the background and understand that this is the objective to build us in a positive way to give us more to build our ability to overcome the the most difficult situation see we should never be have that experience but the fact is that's life that's life you know one person could lift to 75 and the other person to 100 another person to 40 go understand why who knows but whatever it is take it in the in the best way so now let's go to the text to can finish it today we're on page uh I'm sorry top of page the third line V Let's Learn inside a person should believe who a person lives with the situation at hand whatever that may be in all of his needs all of his things they truly come from the in detail of details he brought the G before velv he brought the gar before um there is it better that God created man or is it better that God should not created man because of all the issues that man brings to the table of course it's but the opinion what does it mean explained that you might think that the reason why God created man is because of man's pursuit of gash and to that the gar is saying God will not create you if the end all is gmas and not and and we're not talking about indulgences and tiis just basics of course Hashem knows that you need to have food to eat and a bed to sleep but if that becomes I'm use I'm going to use the word y the lifestyle talking about Thanksgiving you know stop I made a little I made a little clip about the rebba spoke about Thanksgiving without saying those English words in 1986 and the didn't say you're not allowed to celebrate Thanksgiving he didn't say that he didn't say you should celebrate it either he he learned the Lon from what it's about to give thanks what are we giving thanks for to eat more turkey that's what you're giving thanks for you're giving thanks for freedom for freedom and to buy freedom is not easy to have freedom whether it was in our country with the Indians are finally the pilgrims we have the freedom or whether it's the freedom that in Russia that we that we didn't have and then we we got some you know and now in there is RO look at this country speaks the other day from seven countries all around Freedom let us live what do we want all we want is just to live in there just and serve Hashem and do good things and you guys will be also in a good shape if you just stop with your harassing and killing and all that a little freedom and look how much we have to pay for this Freedom so the AL says that the truth is that the reason why Hashem created a person is because is the objective spirituality godliness is the objective and for that reason it is Pleasant that man was created because man will H will will bring this spirituality in the into a situation where it's secular so when you walk around with a yam whether it be in the hospital whether it be wherever you are that itself that everyone spoke about the the that go on the am the the Jewish Marine Corp kind of you know and they don't find anyone to put on fill and they don't find anyone to sell a Jewish book or to put a and the B the two guys they say they wrote to the Reb this is back in the 50s like why do we waste our time we could have either sat in 770 alarn or gone out to the Catskills and meet other from Jews and T and and meanwhile you send us to Missouri to Wyoming to wherever till timb to and we're walking around and the re said a story at the time someone was looking out the window and she reminded herself she was a Jew and it was that day that she was going to convert with the priest because no one so she can have a burial and when she saw the two B it stopped her cuz she reminded herself she's a Jew no so the the says that this is the idea that's what he says let's go back to the text that a person must know that they in in detail and not just in detail in detail within details they don't come from rather it isem who prepares the way of man everything is prepared by Hashem for us we don't know that and we have free will is quoting a there is no word that comes beside except for if hasem says it everything's from God everything that happens to a person is good and absolute good not just good it's the ultimate of good however we don't understand what else is new we don't understand how can October 7th be good don't understand says it's with this that we've just been discussing this this itself will Propel that in in truth you hear that the what we receive as no good if we stick with the and we apply the Amun the look what he says here everything will become good in a revealed way that's what it says and this is kind of you know it's like is it an Abracadabra what if I have the strong amuna over a sudden what is perceived bad will become good yes H um two questions back up where we said I got that Shalom no no but you have to read the next two words all of that's what I'm getting Shalom I don't understand what that you know where that comes from particular phrase oh no that all details in a man's life are not coming from the Nega negative side it's a continuation it's a a continuation of what he said in the last five six lines so when you if you go back and refresh yourself you'll see the you'll see the connection the the second question was uh that so here in the of T translates the word konu as or made firm and there's a long note on it um I I thought it that word meant like um uh forming or uh uh created something of that nature can you can you can you explain the translation well well you know it doesn't mean it doesn't mean literally what you said it means he's erected but the context of which fits with with with what you said earlier but there's there is a literal translation M which means like erect what's the word that they use in the English time in the lessons Firm made firm okay yeah corrected got it okay okay good not only will it become good in my bedroom in my in my you know where it's no one sees B it'll become good in a revealed way this that he believes that the apparent right look at the word nma what appears to [Applause] be right out in the open it seems to be bad not a good situation one uses the to realize that its entire Vitality it's Tire of high is from the superal good which is as we discussed early in the chapter the geometric flash which is incomprehensible this is the level we call G Aiden but the Aiden the level of Aiden which is the light we discussed that yesterday which is even greater than the world to come because the world to come is a definition you do this you get this you don't do this you don't get this how much did you do that's good you get this upon right that's it's a prop it's a portion it's a limitation Aiden is is higher than that Aidan doesn't have that limitation that's what it says so the AL says that when a person uses their amuna and and that amuna is so strong that in the face of what seems to be negative and bad and all that and he lives with the amuna the amuna will convert will transform better said will transform the situation in a revealed way that's what it says here with this he will be incorporated and elevated truthfully what will be incorporate and elevated the he always said say right Al if you look through this chapter he never acknowledges that it's real R it's apparent Rah it's imaginary Rah I that's what it says otherwise why does he say the word Muma or nma so what appears to be ra will be incorporated and elevated in the higher hidden good now when we we learned this like yesterday iser I think asked so in in this world when there is a loss whatever that loss is or when something happens that is is it bad or good so is saying this is why you need to to learn this and think about it and inculcated your life that the MS the MS of the the truth of the truth is it's it's all good it appears to be bad the Press will say it's bad the popular vote will say it's bad but if T says and Hashem says this is the way it is it's all good now how do you know how do you know if it's because is all good there's no bad comes from heaven so it's a test a challenge a gilgal you understand so whatever whatever explanation works for you use but in other words no one can tell you unless the person's a sadic they see you in the shama they see what's going on inside but who could tell you that this happened because of this this happened that's why this whole idea Manas Freedom spoke about it the other day but it's it's it's common you know those that say oh I know why this happened this happened because of a b and c it's not you know what are you sad you know what you know is that you have to live with amuna and regardless of what took place overcome and go on yeah that you know but you know this October 7th happened why because there was a Nova Festival which is against you know you know that a Jew should keep that you know cuz the T say so but when you put the two together and therefore since they didn't it it it angered God to the point where he brought it you don't know now a prophet in the tanak when Hashem inspires a a prophet and tells them that I'm telling you that this is and this is the reason so you're going on God's shoulders but who is in that position to say that we know why this happened we don't know so rather than going on this trajectory of like you know put putting the blame game don't put don't use the blame game the only blame game is on yourself and even there have mercy on yourself even there self-deprecation as the right is not is but it's about myself oh since when are you not a product of God so when you you you s self-deprecation when you put yourself down and you hurt yourself and all that ostensibly you're hurting God cuz he made you and he wants you says the that's also but if anything but but if anything you want you want to point fingers point fingers at yourself that's all point fingers itself rather than anything else and again you know in our communities um many times it's easier to just point the finger now if you learn Chapter 30 if you remind yourself he talks about those people sitting on the corners and facing the Tas the Indulgence right Al he says he says and you're this big shot you're in in the Yesa Hall in the K big deal they have to go out to work to 47th Street and to Manhattan and to Broadway and to here and there and T Aviv what do you want you're sing in a Kyo big deal you're Shun from the world of course you don't see what you're not supposed to see I want to see you go out there and still put fil on I don't want to see you go out there and wear your titas and then you could talk so all of this is an extension of the the idea that the Amun is what we need to live with and always focus on yourself in the sense of if if there's criticism and if there's issues but even that Al here doesn't even take that approach his approach is live with the you notice that he over here he doesn't say so much he says he's emphasizing the em in other words be a be a be a Jew of Truth don't fool yourself and this is very important because especially in learning and ining and this was a key foundational approach inad was to be EMS we will continue on Monday everyone have a great shabas and uh if you do add your turkey make a eat it don't need the gravy and the strawberry and the jelly and the stuffings eat it LMA I'd like to see people eating turkey eating turkey LMA that's my campaign this year eat your turkey but eat l have a good Shas take care bye bye by