Torah study requires preparation, depth & actual mouth recitation of the words - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

M towards the end of chapter 49 on page a so yesterday towards the end of this year the AL mentioned something that he mentioned in the last few chapters and that is the relationship between a Jew's love for God and Hashem in a manner that we call kissing nikin now as a general rule everything in the T this the ra writes in the in his guide for the perplex everything in the in the t is a metaphor there's no physical God and there's no physical kiss but there the concept of a of of of a God there is I mean there is a physical go Hashem is AEM but I'm saying the idea of a kiss what God is kissing someone what's going on over here God's hugging someone God has a right hand a left hand so the early Jewish philosophers that and others and the k Etc if you read any of their writings you see that they basically say it's all a metaphor the right represents the left represents G discipline and judgment so too with this idea of nikin but as I Was preparing the shear you know I I'm not sure if you'll find anywhere else in any kasic writings and amusa writings surely I don't think surely not saying surely oh I don't think not uh an explanation of what kissing is in a in a way that's that that means something to us more than just a physical kiss but that's the AL speaks about here right now we're going to learn about that that when it talks about loving Hashem so let's then go to the next part there is the hug there's the kiss there's the intimacy there different type expressions of love so what's this idea of love so the AL now says look inside it's about 10 lines to the top after the period ah how do we accomplish what says the cleaving the the the of spirit to Spirit the spirit of man to the spirit of God so now therefore we say and now he goes the third to the to the second portion of and may these words be your heart and he explains so he says therefore the we say in the daving after the first Blessing about the angels and the Second Blessing about how God loves us and the third idea of the unity of God through shma then we come to the fourth idea which is the idea of and it says there it says in let me explain the primary spiritual counterpart of the physical kiss is the unity between the of man the the intelligent the intelligent components of man to theab of God now what does that mean mha what does that mean says this means delving deep to understanding Torah we have three things we have understanding T we have speaking out the words of T and we have finally that what Torah accomplishes which will be towards the end of this chapter but now we're talking about the first idea when we when a person kisses another person I told you yesterday the physical it the the I'm sorry the the is the outward manifestation is the kip the kiss from the from from lips to lips but what is what is being emitted the ru the oxygen what's inside what you feel so says here the idea of the ru is right that's what he says about the kiss the connection between the spirit and the spirit the spirit of the Jewish person's soul having love giving a kiss to God loving God I love you God means delving deeply into the Torah of God not just reading words what we're learning here in Tanya this is an example of T right you guys say many of you you read you learn theu you try understanding I'm not sure how much it is T I know by me it's not always t means taking time going slow thinking questioning yourself and do I really understand it that's e you know in the in the world of Yesa in in in the Lish world ofing you have what they call S and S beus have you ever heard that s BOS me means the order the time that's designated for becoming a Bucky an expert in more tamuda tractates and over there it's notun it's notun it's it's you have to understand what you're reading in the gamar gamar Rashi even rash right but then there e where Yesa like brisk or some others they can spend an entire from September from El to niss that's one s one man learning six pages now a lot of Yas and Ras are very critical of that and I can understand but you have to understand the flip side they go so deeply into it and every page is checked out from from every commentator and you know and and it takes a lot a lot of time and that's the the novelty of a good Shear a good Shear given by rashash and Yesa is not just covering ground for that you could take an art scroll and if you're a little Holier you don't use the art scroll so you learn it yourself yes H it's a siga for a long life yeah yes you're right but but it all jokes aside what the says here it's very important he says this is tah not just not just reading Torah the reading the Torah look what he says next and the mouth saying Torah it expresses the the the oxygen the energy the wind and it brings it out in a revealed form that's speaking words of Torah but that's not so there is just again let's let's go back to the mush there's the kiss a kiss a person giv another person a kiss it feels good but but that's the there is the inner aspect of the kiss that if if if done from the right place and the right time in the right way it's much deeper than just the external superficial feel of lips to lips you know and when you understand this you know Manis Freedman has his book you know um doesn't anyone blush anymore I remember when it came out you know and I just I remember one thing he talks about you know not touching men and women not touching right what what's the big deal to give a a touch a handshake so one of the things he says is that if the touch by you is superficial you're right there's no big deal but the whole idea of the way the Torah sees a touch it's it's it's it's revealing something much deeper it's revealing a feeling oh if it's revealing a feeling then that feeling is only between a father and a daughter a husband and wife you know or for that matter you know uh two good friends you know in in in a nonsexual way in a Kosher Way in a in a Jewish way but the point is it's the is not expressing the so in the Nim in the moral re reading words of T which is important is just the P just the lips to lips nothing more you want more you got to delve into it just like if you want that kiss to be really penetrating deep and impactful it has to come from the depth and trust me there are times when it does and times when it doesn't and that depends on the preparation to the kiss and that's why just as like it says in the law in the teachings of of T all that from the from the different the and other one should prepare themsel for their intimacy by learning together by saying a story together by singing a n by giving teda these are all mentioned in the sa not all but quite a bit when I was a I went through it all all went through it all I I you know I and these are things that I remember from coming up on my 40th anniversary mem this next week so so so I remember how much I I put into this area knowing that one day this won't be only Theory it'll be practicality it'll be real life so you want to see what this holy swm say and this is what they say and when you go into a a bedroom situation with that preparation it's a very different experience so so too in the Nim if you want to feel a love for hasem real love it needs preparation and in this case it's you know to have that feeling they say about rabor I heard this from from Ben of rinsky of alom from was a Survivor he was from vill I believe or near V somewhere and he and he and he and he survived because sent him to the and they escaped and that's how he got out he got to Canada so I interviewed him once so he told me that he remembers where the famous Russa of you knowk and his own Yesa but he went also communist communist Comm that's where I went yes he remembers he told me this is in 1939 when he went over to his shaer to his bookshelf where he had his goras and the the ma the rashba and everything was very large then and he said with tears in his eyes he said goodbye Raja I have to go away now he was escaping goodbye raber with by now of course he was learning of sure on the way and where he came he was learning but that feeling that the Raja and and all the are not just elsewhere there by you at your house at your table that that is e that doesn't come from just reading T that comes from falling in love with t how do you fall in love with t only through that's what says here is requires you want a little kiss you can get a little kiss just read t let's continue we know it says for everything has the word of God sustains man now goes to the flip side as much as e is important right delving deeply into it if you don't say out the words you haven't fulfill the Mitzvah right especially when people change from you know try changing from the Western way of thinking in English you don't read the book out loud you read it like this now when it comes to Terah learning that's not enough you have to say the words in Hebrew in English you have to say the words that's called doesn't mean you have to scream them out but so that's says here that you don't fulfill your obligation with thinking and analyzing alone of until you exud them with your lips why why is that important here's the question the is answering if you're telling me MOA that the kiss coming from the depth is thear that's what he says he used the words iar the primary idea is where it's coming from the analysis the depth so who cares if you say it out with your lips don't I know it says questioning why is we important so now he answers because the B accomplishes that you bring down the E the depth of the kiss into the real world you can have the Torah but if it doesn't translate itself into the bum saying it out with your lips it's not in this world you know where it is in your mind in your heart oh you know a tremendous amount very nice what do we have a what do we have from it right what do we have from it we want to hear it we once we hear it we can analyze it we can talk about it let's continue the purpose of saying it out with your mouth is to draw it down below until it reaches the animal the living soul the vivifying soul which rest the blood of also creating the from the inanimate the vegetative and the living and the purpose of that is to elevate all the four domains to hasem with the entire world to elevate it to God to have them Incorporated in God's Unity right in God's Unity which will illuminate the Earth illuminates the Earth and all those that dwell in a revealed way God's glory is revealed and All Flesh will see that's the purpose of the progression the orderly progression of spiritual rules that the presence of God will fill this Earth specifically not angels and not Souls as we discussed early the revealed way and ultimately you know what that leads to to the transformation from Darkness to light and bitterness to to sweetness as we learned earlier in t so the AL says that yes is to transform to which means to transform to change and to change and then we have also is which means to hold back to subjugate to control right there's one thing when that Delicious Pie comes out to hold yourself back if you're dieting or whatever the case or you don't want to eat the TAA right hold yourself back a higher level is that you can eat it but you eat it for the sake of Hashem not for the sake of it taste that's much harder and that would be that would be his to transform your TAA for for the cake for the Ty of God Vis the cake yes and there a time for that oh there is a time for that but I still suggest that those that need to watch their weight uh don't indulge in in in in in pies okay let's continue says this is the ultimate purpose why man why hasem created man to serve him you see the word to draw down the infinite light of God bless be below on Earth however in order to do that should first you have to elevate yourself man means the feminine Waters refer referring to the female and male relationship that when there is the female um emission of her feminine Waters can then the sperm of man um make that make it pregnant Etc so we call that in Caba feminine Waters and the sperm of man is referred to as in Aramaic means Z male so the AL says if we want and we do we're we are charged to draw Hashem down into this world below we have to begin the process with going towards God and elevating ourselves by giving away by having the dedicating our soul and our most important things of in life a reference to you know everything but it's particularly money as we said earlier so what has done in this last section is he's explained the importance of the the inner intent of the kiss coming from the depth inside to go through the lips and and in in Torah learning it's not enough to have but it has to be expressed why because then you get the essence in the real world if the essence is is is only in a world of angels and a world of thought in a world of analysis it's very very nice but it has nothing to do with reality the foot soldiers fighting in Gaza and Lebanon those are the those are lato right you could sit in the in in in the in the what do they call that in the strategy room you know in the street strategic room whatever the the cabinet and and have the best heads right but you need the player you need and in the football we just have Super Bowl I one second right you have great coaches a defensive coach if the players on the field yeah they're taking orders but they have to make it happen and sometimes they don't listen to the coach because they're on the field and it's in that moment that they detect they have to go to the right or to the left and all of that now yes usually they follow the the the the the the U smarts of the coaches who've studied the other team and know their team and know the the the different situations but at the end of the day it's the players on the field and so too in in in war and the and same team same things with in our own relationship that if we if we have the analysis and we have the but it does not express itself in in actual learning and saying out the words as you learn then it's still lacking and and since the purpose is to bring God into this world if the purpose was to bring God into the world of Souls and the worlds of angels that you accomplish by learning be un but the purpose is to have this world from where they're coming from from where the world's coming from Be Inspired so you need to impact the world the way the world is in its low State and that is as you know the the the Reb's call from when he became Reb and continues today that we go out we don't and I heard this from the rebba thousands of times speaking to everyone but even to his own like it's very nice that you're sitting in cron Heights atan and you're basking in the glory of of andad and and and it's it's beautiful and it's very important but at the end of the day going into the field and teaching a word of T to a ye that doesn't know and helping them is more important than sitting here that the Reb said hundreds of times and the re would say in the early years the further you go the more you accomplish in that vein so you're telling me there's no is there's no orange juice kosher orange juice you know and I don't have my Comforts good that's where you're making the real where you create something from nothing and that's why it's not about how many people and how many buildings and how much money just one Dre at a time if that person is inspired to all of the uh Quant quantity issues fall aside it's about quality that was the reb all along because it's the sheet of the balat right right so someone now does that mean to say that we living whether it's here in Brooklyn or you guys in which are you know technically uh um from communities we can't do this of course we can cuz guess what you have neighbors in your building and on your street that are lonely that need help so it's the quality of the issue Hill you wanted to say something yeah I just wanted to share something that that uh was kind of a mistake and I I read in the way I read it at first but it also kind of works and I wonder if you might it I first read it this last sentence [Music] yes I know I made I know that's not the right reading but it does uh but first of all it's interesting to me that the rushi Tavis is the same and second of all it does seem that that it's kind of uh the kind of action he's talking about here is the m sish well it it it the thought is a is a good one but it's not in the words in other why because right after the acronym he has he has the word so why would you repeat it you know what it means is and and also the word before is a a again I don't recall if it's a direct quote from Caba but you find that the elevation of of and and it's not us it's used in the in the in the um issue of what I told you the feminine Waters the feminine Waters need to elevate thems to the Mal's sperm for that to be a union a reproductive Union so andish as you say is demonstrative of that but the actual me but the actual me again you might find somewhere that me is an acronym forish what what I what I have found is me usually the acronym for is me two I don't I don't recall me being an acronym for okay any other questions any other comments anything Reby yes re yes the the analogy that you said I'm just going to expound upon the analogy that the football analogy yeah is a quarterback the quarterback gets the plays from the offense from the coordinator offensive coordinator or from the coach yeah but if you have a good quarterback like Tom Brady or the one you know romes you have a good he can call it's called an orderable because he sees on the field what the coach doesn't see because the defense can change the play and when he calls an audible generally speaking it means a good a positive a major positive play for the offense because he sees something that even the coach doesn't see uhuh okay well first of all thank you for informing me with the name audible I didn't know that that's the reference so I I I i' no really I've learned something new today in addition to everything else but the concept you're right that's that's the concept so the player on the field and this time way the the the the quarterback um is the foot soldier you know is the is the lamato lamato and that's why they get paid so much right don't don't uh some of these players get much more than the coaches am I right yeah why see if it's the coach and the offensive defensive coach they should be making more we say no the the quarterback the the tiand the running back whatever all those are making more why cuz they're doing it have a great day a great shabas and uh we'll see everyone we're starting chapter 50 we're we are we're in the Red Zone Yi we're in the Red Zone have a great a great shabas a great day everyone Shalom bye byebye take care take care