Torah words & Mitzva performance needs inspiration however it's still important - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so good to everyone we're in middle of chapter well actually the beginning of chapter 40 pic me me is very very important at 40 one attains Bina which is more than understand wisdom it's expertise right a maven so we are at chapter 40 in Tanya and uh this is the last of the five chapters which um discusses the importance of kavana intent and focus when doing a Mitzvah the balat in his Treatise of T teaches us that that every ye has the potential to be perfect in thought speech and action perfect meaning not to speak what you're not supposed to not to think to avert divert your thinking for what you're not supposed to think about and of course to do only what you should do and not do what you shouldn't do and that area one has the C capability the to become a b he he began in 35 saying that what's most important is the deed he quotes the the however in chapter 37 middle of 37 through this chapter he's still on the trajectory of explaining that if you don't have AA and okay so in we use the words more than we use the words and if you don't have love for and offer hasem and when you do a Mitzvah the Mitzvah is done and you get credit for the Mitzvah which is the most important thing but it's lacking Wings to soar on high and in the mystical writings of Judaism it is explained how important it is for a Mitzvah to sore and high to the right place now I want for a moment before we learn in the text to explain this cuz if you think about it like why is this relevant to us we don't know what the world that you know cus and Bria and Y andos it's all words and we try to understand as much as we can but what does it have to do with our practical day-to-day living and if put it into T that means somehow it is relevant y to our day-to-day life so bit the answer is one of the answers one of the explanations is that if you're lacking inspiration eventually the deed will be at best dry old and stale and worse you'll stop doing the deed and this has been shown over and over it's not a rocket science it's a for every young man and woman and every child that if you're not inspired it doesn't go anywhere the AA and is the inspiration so it's crucial to have AA and for the ban for the potential individual to perfect himself or herself to the point of doing what Hashem wants in every way it's it's a a requirement to have a and that's why the Z says that when you're lacking it doesn't soar on high now whether it goes to this level or that level that you could say semantics and talks about it here because he gives you a full prescription he doesn't give you a Half Baked prescription he tells you if you develop your love and fear for God using your intellect it ascends to Bria the world of creation if you only do it through your hidden innate love called aamas it ascends to the world of Y and then you're now you you're you're sharing something with angels but only with angels and you're a soul and a soul can transcend more than an angel those points are kind of an aside point to the overall message so therefore I'm I'm saying this before we begin learning I want you not to get lost because there's a lot of kind of side notes here and what do you how do you reconcile this with this and what do you say about this and is it those are all side points to clarify the main point what is his main point that you need to have for the mitz to soar on high and this explains something that we all ask ourselves says in the if you do my you'll be blessed with rain and with God will pay it back so here I here I made a sacrifice I gave up the the the the the hamburgers and the TR and and and and and not keeping chabas and I became a boua and if I was already from I I became really serious about it and it's not a joke anymore right so so where's my payback and I'm struggling with parosa and and and and there's a war and there's death on and on so the answer that the AL you know would say if we if we extrapolate from these chapters in Tanya you know what the answer is the answer is sometimes youour to a certain point and not higher and for you to get this particular benefit or reward you need to have the Torah Mitzvah going to the right place and this is an important point because say you're healthy we're healthy and say we have a struggling with pinosa or say someone else is not struggling with pinosa but struggling with Children Health of children Judaism of children having children so what's a possible reason I'm I'm putting on film the morning I'm keeping shabas I'm going to AER I'm giving TOA the answer is it could it could quite well be that in a certain Mitzvah there you're lacking AA so it's going it's it's going up but it's not going up to the right chamber in the right place so for what you need now you need the you need a soul a to give the answer not an angel and your Mitzvah are only ascending to the level of angels that's why this is important it's important on its own but I'm saying even if you want to kind of say show it to me cash in the bank give it to me you know bottom line don't don't tell me about all these angels and levels and spus and and and and Chambers so what I'm saying is I'm giving it to you that way we do not know where this particular Mitzvah has to go to and we when it enters this particular level and chamber will bring the in physical world so the AL says the first thing you have to do is you have to make sure that your T Mitzvah does ascend to God what if it doesn't Ascend to God which we call the speros it just ascends to the worlds The Amos it's it's an Ascension but it's not the right Ascension necessarily for you and therefore as far as the bank is concerned the deposit was not made yet so you'll ask if so I have to be perfect and I don't know these are spiritual realities how do I know first of all when you learn when you learn and you learn it tells you doubt is placing these chapters he's actually placing where this job what this job accomplishes and what this job accomplishes so if iser your your your feelings to Hashem on this particular Mitzvah was generated because you meditated and you understood and you and you developed a feeling of Love or awe for Hashem in in that particular situation he tells you that your Mitzvah goes to Bria the world of Souls and the world of souls has its impact what if you only do the mitv in this particular Mitzvah you put on F them but you didn't meditate you didn't contemplate you don't have time you don't have patience you don't have the information but you do it and when you put them on you feel great right a soldier on the field when a kadik comes there or someone else comes there puts on fing with them and they feel elated they're going out to fight the enemy and they feel ah I did a Mitzvah I'm walking in to destroy the enemy with the Mitzvah that's not an intellectual um generated feeling that's an emotional generated feeling where is that Ascend to the world of angels no so that's good that you have an angel walking with you an angel protects you fine so that's why it's it's good for that so these are the these are the um the details of the overall issue why it's important to know what happens but the bottom line is out of after everything said and done T mitv require inspiration I I let's continue now inside chapter 40 the last chapter brought this that if you learn to St without learning it for the sake of hem that his to and and the simultaneously not learning it not for be to become a rabbi and an orator and a preacher and to make money off it which is considered but you're just learning or just learning so this type of learning does does not Ascend even in the 10 SP of the world of formation of and the world of action why is because the Spheres the spheros the 10 SPH they are by definition godliness and Hashem invests himself and binds himself the in the infinite God in actuality in in the T and when you do something without love fear and love or and love it cannot Ascend and to stand hasem before God that's the rule that's the rule you want it to be before which means you want you want your entire mitz to get to the SPH to Godliness you want it to have The Godly energy it requires a otherwise ra but I'm learning your learning ascends to the chambers and rooms which is considered the extru worlds The Superficial worlds there you have the Angels now Angels aren't any small change but compared to Godliness MOA to spos it's not comparable okay it's not so when you learn St again when you learn a piece of Torah not and not not where does that toyra sent to that toyra sends to the the chamber of the angels as the as the prom the pry student of the AR writes in when you study to without the intent that it's God's to but just you enjoy learning and you study a particular piece of so then you create angels in which world and he says and when you do without then you create Angels not in the world of of formation but in lower world [Music] called and all Angels okay just briefly there is a disagreement amongst the the rambam and the ramban and other philosophers and and and and and commentators of those of at that time and even earlier does an angel have a body the ran with he argues that Angels don't just have a soul they have a body as well but their body is so refined that we can't see their body we call this also vs means material the material the body vs means the form the particular form it takes quotes here the of the all Angels they are right they do have material and substance and form we call it in English substance and form why is he saying this he's saying this to answer the question that was bothering him from the statement of the of of of the for it implies that even when you learn and you do there is an Aliah and we said earlier there is no Aliyah so the AL says it's not a contradiction the Aliyah that I was talking about that he was talking about and what it says in the is about to stand before God to have God you know words do your Tor mitvah Ascend to God he says what it says in the Aral he's talking about to ascend to the level of angels which is not God and within Angels there's two form there's two there's two degrees the body of angels and the soul of angels but neither is godliness that's the reconciliation of what the AL says here he doesn't explain his very brief is an answer is the retort to the to the to to the um to the rhetorical question that the AL asks on himself from the continuing now all this is was when you study however however when you study here you in actuality I want to be a great you hear that that's called you don't study because you want to be a you stud because it's God's whether you will become a you makes no difference if you have an agenda I don't mean you if we have an agenda that we study to become a that's called okay that's it it's no difference than saying I want to know a certain field manasha so I can make business from it so here you don't make business but you get covered they put you in the papers and they stand up when you come at je and they give youi it's the same thing it's the same so what about that what what about what what about if you study Torah because it's a commandment it's a mitah doing it because it's aah okay that that that's more refined and more pure but even that's not the ultimate because that's doing it because it's a Mitzvah the ultimate is to do it because God said so nothing else even God said so that's why I'm doing it a command so I follow the command and Commander yeah right right but you can you can emphasize I'm doing it because I'm commanded so as soon as you say I'm commanded there is a reason there's some kind of reason there's even a greater level ofma which is to study it because God sets whether it's a reason whether he commanded us or didn't command us it's not relevant it's not relevant it's a good point you're Mak inha and there's a lot of discussion and the Rebus talks about it but for for our sake um it it he's not making that difference here so let's let's say that that's the reason okay I just wanted to you know give you a full plate an entire answer so I'm letting you know that that it's not the ultimate the ultimate is not even doing it because you command it as soon as you say you command it there is a uh there is a there is a reason there is something still sh I don't want to go into now let's go on what about if you're doing it for OB said yeah any any type of reason that has a string attached to it is a string attached to it don't do it because of do it because God said so whether it's it's it's because God commanded like Masha said or like you said you go to love God those are all reasons there is a level that goes beyond reason right your father and mother is your father and mother not because they gave you a pair of pants and not because they gave you an education because they're your father and mother finished nothing else you came from them that's it the fact that that you know there's K and there's this and that they're all reasons and important reasons and it's definitely better than the The Superficial reasons I want to be a great Rabbi I want to be a great scholar and that's something by the way since I mentioned it that's something that we're lacking today we need to correct the respect for parents that whole idea is they're your parents that's it don't give me any they raised me but this way and they just did this way all of that's reasons and it's and I'm not I'm not delegitimizing you know problems parents raising kids and kids feeling it later I I understand but never forget one that could that you came for your parents you wouldn't be on earth now some people say I'd rather not be on earth that's you know that's another discussion but but obviously Hashem says I want you to be on earth I want you to be born to these parents so therefore this is it okay let's go back to the text please so when you learn tell look at those words look at those words they don't Ascend at all Cloud to heaven when you learn for for because you're you're making Torah into some kind of business or or or Prestige that Torah learning sits sits below and it doesn't Ascend even just to the chambers of Holy Angels they remain Below in this physical worldus which is the Chamber of the Clippers we're skipping the the the the parenthesis here it's not a parentheses a side remark he says it says in the Holy the no no sorry I think what value what advantage is there to man in all of his or her activity of which they exert themself it's under the sun famous song what advantages to working so hard if it remains Under the Sun it don't go anywhere and turn the page please to 108 even working within Torah exerting yourself manha when you're learning to understand well what you're learning if you do it for your own self aggrandisement and preciousness and dearness you want to get mileage out of it it don't go anywhere where say lucky is the one who comes to heaven after their life and they bring AAL they bring a a with them it doesn't mean you got to carry a Garra into tal so when you get buried make sure they put a a gar into your grave no it's notop what it means some learned and after 120 he comes he comes to heaven and he his learning is with him look at the Al's interpretation of this his learning did not remain L on Earth and he left to heaven but when he goes into heaven it goes along with him why cuz it already it already ascended to Heaven it's waiting for him you understand shal his learning during his lifetime didn't remain Below on Earth but rather it ascended so when he comes he's greeted by his own learning so imagine after our lives will come into heaven and and and and what will face us P chapter 40 in Tanya and they'll say ah you didn't understand it so well when RAB doin taught it let me give you an better explanation let me try to explain it again you didn't understand this piece of gar this piece of R this but why that's because it ascended when does it Ascend H when you learn this is a rhetorical question the and although we say the same Z says and his will are one stop that's where the rhetorical question ends what's the question what are you telling me doesn't Ascend I'm learning and God in his want what do you want from me I'm learning it's like what with when Nasha was was was was was asking me I'm doing the mitzah what do you want and say the this is hisort we know that pervades all worlds equally nevertheless all worlds are not equal in their virtue and the difference is from our perspective the receivers but in two ways one Kim that the superal worlds and and and realities receive greater from the ones below that's number one period and number two not only is it a quantitative difference but it's a qualitative difference that the the maim that the second difference is shim the the Heavenly hosts and everything else they receive without garments and many covers as there are below in this physical world is the is the lowest world the Bas p in two ways number one on earth quantitatively speaking the amount of godliness present on Earth has been contracted so much could say to the other to the to to the the other end meaning there's so little of godliness that's revealed here and therefore the physical world is corporal the material now as far as the quality is concerned the the little light that we do have that we do get is vested is disguised in garments and in in in in in in curtains that's all spiritual not not physical IAL until this little light is invested in what we call the translucent to enliven give to give life to all permissible matter and this generally includes as well the living Soul that's that speaks that animates man but nevertheless it comes from the Clipper when a jewar says words of learns words of and Dav appr praise but there's no even though he's saying holy words and at that time the ciper does not conceal what's going on you can't compare the's impact when someone is learning compared to when the person speaking idle chatter or the living Soul within all other ker animals even though God is all over nevertheless God has he's the concealment of all concealments and God is called as we say kale the god that hides so this little energy that's been extended into the world is also concealed many garments and veils Mighty ones until it does conceal itself in the translucent conversely over there you there the words of Torah and the words of of and the and and and and the acts of Mitzvah are an embodiment of God so in other words Del is saying like this his question was that everything is united with God and Del's answer is you're right everything's United for God but as far as we're concerned on Earth number one we get a little amount of the observable kadus because of the tum the contractions of God's Infinity number two even that that we get is veiled in the world right in the in in worldly matters because the world is a world of materialism corporeality neverthe conversely the letters themselves the words themselves Are Holy so this is an answer to his question how is it that there's a difference between that there's a difference between the the the uh learning title and or learning Tora when you learn Tor and your intent is not not your intent is not to make business out of it pleasure honor anything else so then the wordss are in a realm of Holiness they're not yet so remember I told you we have three levels we have LMA we have St or plane and we have shalma we have learning for the sake of God we have the learning not for the sake of God that's the other end the Other Extreme and then we have St the here says that is is is is the wor is the worst as far as it doesn't Ascend anywhere it's a problem nevertheless nevertheless nevertheless the words of T and have one thing going for them themselves that it's words of and that's why he said earlier I think he'll repeat it soon again you can make up you could make make it up because the next time you sit and learn you will learn LMA and guess what it does it it retroactively elevates the Torah that you learn it sleps it out from the domain of negativity of Clipper and it brings it to the right place it's very very small okay we'll stop here and tomorrow we will continue from here M so that's I I please listen some of you came in late please listen to the introduction that I gave to before we started learning the text Cu I explained the connection of the previous chapters what we learned today and also why is Al spending all this time here on the side notes these sidebars reconciling this piece of Zoro with thisal how is this relevant to the B I explained that in the beginning of the chapter have a happy Kan everyone tomorrow what in Bur Park next week yes I will M look forward to seeing you okay uh we'll talk we'll talk after Z bye gotta go