Unless you exert yourself in whatever you do you aren't serving G-d - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

we're learning Tanya and we're at chapter 15. on page 40. so in chapter chapters 12 and 13. explained to us he explained to us the mahus mahus means the essence of abandoning I'm summarizing Excuse me I'm summarizing the chapters the theme of the chapters 12 and 13 is about who is the baby mahus the essence of the pain and and various expressions of that Essence as we discussed throughout 12 and 13. in chapter 14 the altareba explained how every person at any given time should and can be abandoned that was the message of chapter 14. and now in chapter 15 The balotanya will explain what is the what is the primary what is the primary activity used by the beginning to be abandoning that's what he's going to talk about in chapter 15. and the answer is succinctly struggled War fighting going against your nature all of those descriptions is the activity that needs to be used by the person to display baby like avoda and if there's something that's easy for a person even though they're doing it they're not abandoning they're a good person and they might even be a holy person but they're not in the pain in the mindset so let's learn that now inside chapter 15 page 40 panicked us over there you're from hello if you don't mind you yourself there's a verse in Malachi you will contemplate and see and focus being Sadiq literature the difference between someone who's righteous and someone who's Wicked as well as being evidently Kim someone who's a servant of God to someone who's not considered a servant questions the redundancy in the verse if you're Sadiq it would seem like you're a servant of God if you're a Russia you're not a servant to God so the the verse in in Malachi that uses four different terms Sadiq Russia one and two evidence terms three and four are redundant it's exactly seemingly the meaning of what is Russia is and the gamada questions that so what is the so we understand from the mother's question the balotanya is alluding to everything I'm saying now he doesn't write it clearly but this is what he's alluding to from the Commodus question you see that there's a real there is a difference between these four terms and that term four and three and four are not just a repeat of of terms one and two using different Hebrew words so the question is what's the difference says the balatonya the difference between someone who we call a servant of God to the term called Sadiq who the difference is present tense meaning he's in the middle of working he's in the middle of a job of his job this refers to the battle image with the evil inclination with Gabriel love to overpower it well the god showing and to chase it away May her ear Katana from the small City that means the body the Yates wants to dominate our body so the overdale he came the servant of God works hard to overpower those urges of the eight Sahara and to chase it away shall lawyer slavish doesn't invest itself ultimately in the limbs of the body she this what war that the that the uh that the over the Kim does the MS avoid the in truth it's avoid of omo Godly it's a very very uh great difficult service and toil it's a lot of work he loved him by Thomas it's not just you see Delta represents the word come it's constant work Hillel in other words oh I've I've done my job and I can rest and relax I don't know my friend the age of horror comes to you today with this and tomorrow with this and every day there's something else right so therefore Dalton says this is an Aveda tummy it's a constant job and look at it concludes the I know foreign so right here the altareb has answered part of the question that when it says in the Posse Abra focus and see Sadiq and Russia servant of God and non-servant servant of God is Not tantamount to Sadiq Sadiq is as we've been learned in chapter 10 of Tanya is someone who's eradicated as yet Sahara either partially or completely that's a Sadiq but here in the verse of Malachi it says but Sadiq is not unevitedly came we're going to learn in a moment he's an epic let's look at the next line we're about six lines down from the beginning of chapter 15. is called Avid Hashem a servant of God the shame hattaya figuratively speaking so Avi there's a difference between over de la Kim and evid Avid means I've completed my job I already served in the Army my ship I graduated and I'm from Chicago working you're in heaven you've done your job or if it means I'm still in the army who's in the Army debating the other side that Sadiq has graduated the urges are not there debating me the urges are there constantly that's why the person that the altarama begins with this chapter as I told you asked seemingly it's redundant because I even eloquim seems to be a Sadiq says the out there but no no no not according to the way we're learning Tanya here that that an uneven is PL is present tense that means he's a middle of a struggle that's not exotic so when it says look at the beginning of the Posse they see the difference between Sadiq La Russia been over there these are four terms and the term number three and term number four are not a redundancy of turn number one and term number two because term number one is at Sadiq which we would call event past tense he is already accomplished the fight he won the he won the he won the the round he won he got rid of a surge he's in heaven and then in Tanya what we're talking about is a pain in the he ain't he didn't win yet and guess what he never will win as far as the urge is concerned he will be on his deathbed and still have an urge and like the story with the cut skirt he's laying on his deathbed and thinking what are they gonna say about me about the cusker after I die you know you might say well he's Exotics how could that be but let's let's not go there right now the point being the Yates are harder the nephew bomb is is there to the very end and even when you're on your deathbed and it's about over if you think about God and everything else what are you thinking about what are they gonna say in my eulogy what are they good what's going to say about my Tombstone what's gonna be my legacy on and on right because you and therefore you have to be an even Hashem till the last day on Earth the last breathing moment and that's why Dr Pepper says before the large period this is the beginning so what we know right now in this from this section of Tanya's that abandon thee is an activist an activist who's a middle of waging the war he cannot sit on his loins and relax and play golf and and and say oh it's time now to take a breather there's no breather when it comes to avoid this Hashem because whatever you're doing on the golf course when you're playing golf how are you playing golf and where are you playing golf and with whom are you playing golf in other words even in relaxation let's put it this way even in relaxation there's always challenges and there's always issues and let's say family and let's say you know in good times and shoot together this guy wants this Aliyah this guy wants to sit here this guy doesn't want you to bloated he knows I told you in surely sit next to someone he gets upset when I blow my nose he says it's disgusting and he runs out okay first time the first time in my life I've ever had a person say it's disgusting out of thousands of people there's never any rest your issue you're with your tallest you're against the wall you're not bothering anyone and someone says don't blow your nose here okay you're right but these These are the realities these are realities so it's been in the basically you're walking and sleeping and talking benly day and night potential being we call that an Ovid Elohim or if it with a Verve aleph vased Island present tense and that's not a static now let's go to the and down to that it gives an example of the evidence look what he says [Music] take the name why someone who's wise yeah I need please put on your mute someone who's a king it's not it's not that he just became we just became a Melech he already attained the state of wise and Malik and King so Ka so too there this individual who we call out Sadiq foreign he already served and he completed the comedy avoided his battle with ra he he he he completed it to the point where he chased it away and it left the Libre and with an assadic his heart is hallowed Within Me right so that's the difference between term one and term one static and term three over delokia Bane in the years come Kim stay madrego is now Dr Rambo says I'll explain to you the difference between turn two Russia and term four layavodley since within a painting there are two levels privately came and now is there's a type of painting that we call lawyer okay so now this is a new nuance you have your typical painting which we call the servant of God he's actively in service he's enlisted and then you have a type of abandoned me that we call liability he's abandoned me but he's not serving let's see the Bible became Ana Russia now you would think you would think Heaven that abandoned me who's actively abandoned me he should be I'm sorry abandon me that's not waging the war and giving in to his yesterday is a Russia well the verse here in Malachi says no there's one type of vanity that we call I'm sorry there's one type of individual that would call a Russia and that's a real Russia and then we have another individual who's not a Russia he's actually abandoning me but what type of beginner knee is he he's a lawyer for they've been in the and what does that mean let's look for the killer over me yam of schumachala says he's never desecrated even the most lenient sin remember when he's disgusted it means his state of mind right now is he'll never commit a sin even the most lenient type of sin the easiest type of sin he won't do it so how can you call them a Russia you can't one second and also regarding the gum crime called Mitchells the color mixers and also regarding his positive attitude of fulfilling men so she actually kind he does any everything within his ability to to fulfill any Mitzvah the talmatite connected coulomb and he learns Tita which corresponds to all Mitzvahs but let me guess up like rabba right he won't he doesn't seize his lips from study so if that's the case don't remember this question rhetorical questions himself is so why is he called Allah he's doing everything right he's not committing sins and he's learning hello because he doesn't fight Hashem kiss he has the light of God shining within the mind to control the heart canal doesn't get in the way type of page to disturb him from historical learning about the Dosa in service of God veins in my cloud he doesn't have to wage war and look at the example he gives keep going for example this fellow is a massmut he loves to learn bitivoy that's his nature there's a person who has a nature to go jogging every morning enjoys exercise and it's natural and this person instead of jogging he learns let us learns learns and he gets schmuck from learning and he has it in his genes is because he's what we call um the overpowering of the bitter goal there's the within a person there's the gold the gallbladder that's gold the right and there's the left so happiness comes from one side and bitterness and frustration and also mother Slater usually is translated in the community as depression but doesn't always mean depression it means that the person is happy or sitting by himself in a corner learning davening reading a book and all that and overall he's you know he's not smiling much and he's not you know you look at him always he has the sour face on himself but yes the people have made the general distinction between uh lit fact jewelry and Hasidic jury but trust me it's not about it's it's within the person yes hello I just um since the the volatania made this distinction uh on uh about um about uh about a time that he's an open Hashem Hashem uh oh wait wait wait hello who is an advert I want to see if you understand who's inevitt already um served he's already uh waged this conflict okay so no no say the words okay so so he um uh what we're saying it seems to me what he's saying is that this becomes his nature that it becomes his temperament uh so it's no longer a struggle we might say in our in our our terms right right so so we use the term Russia that um uh that here we're talking about not not somebody who's that necessarily that that's his nature maybe is this is Casitas we don't give up on him that he's become a Russia but in his nature but he's because he's defined as a Russia because he's doing something rough at a particular time so it just uh seems like an interesting distinction so uh that uh that we're not talking about him that that he's gone over and that's become his nature his temperament we don't give up on him in that sense I he I hear your point I I I I hear your point and it's correct but I I I I'm hearing also I think you might be missing of an important point that drab is making it's important to clarify right now this list this last issue of Faith fighting against your nature or is it natural to you he's not talking about it in the Sadiq he's talking about it in the beginning right not so evidence he will ever the Hashem is Sadiq we're not worried about the Sonic what your your point about it Sadiq is also true and can be discussed but that's not what it is let me put it in bed and eat her so this is a guy who uh who may who may not act on his impulses uh to to the power moment right right um and he may not have he may not have he ate to her for a particular right uh but um but it's it's no it's no essential struggle for him exactly uh yeah and look and look so that that's why the examples are very very important look at the next example I just want to uh the third line on page Nation he has no desire for women he's cold he can put him on a beach with with women that are dressed very not sneeze and he walks right by it's hard to imagine it don't fathom him he don't care he's cold so name regarding all other things put him in front of delicious steaks and everything else he naturally doesn't have that feeling of of desire and temptation this individual doesn't it doesn't require much meditation and how great God is to give rise from his meditation from coming from his mind Shalom said he doesn't need the meditation to get him to to go on the straight path not to commit a a negative commandment and so too I was Hashem to love God believe me to cleave to God the King on Mr connected cooler he doesn't need that Ella thy life for this individual who's cold it's enough die Loy the Ava Musa Terrace the blatant hidden love that's a shepherd live close you saw that all Jews have and for him it's adequate to access it's Nick because and we're all called that and and therefore we were called lovers of God's name this type of individual is called Lai Avada remember in PR in practice like Hilo said in in thought speech and action he doesn't act on his urges but will you credit him that he's a a type of abandoning remember talking about abandoning is he a type of abandonment uh Yoni please put your thing on you only put yeah is he a type of abandoning that that that that's fighting no he's not fighting meaning struggling and overcoming no and that's why the person in Malachi says so he's not in Russia the when it's the the term number two Russia that's a Russia that's someone who commits a sin term is abandon me he doesn't commit a sin so why is it called because he doesn't exert effort it's natural for him so so it seems seems to me a useful distinction here is we can Define for our own lives those things that we have issues you know those things that we have issues with and those things that we don't uh I don't have to particularly this is something I don't particularly have to work on but this is my issue this is where I have to wage the war right and there's another a very important idea that comes from what we just learned you know as great as debate in the years we've got 12 13 14 and 15 drama throws like a bomb at us like you know you would think after 12 13 and 14 you know the pain and he was governing the pain he was diving all day and you know like wow wow wow wow then at the 15 he basically says hey all of those type of pain in him if it's natural for them they're not the ultimate abandon me because you're not actively pushing yourself it's phenomenal go tell this to someone who loves to learn sits in a coil sits in the Yeshiva right and love and loves what he's doing comes the balotangian chapter 15 and says hey friend at Sonic you're surely not even if you think you're abandoning me you're abandoning me but you're because you you know you're doing the right thing but there's no life there this is life life is work not life is sitting on your loins and just enjoying what you're doing and I know that we say listen if if if if only we we did that you know we would be good that's a good answer guys you know for for but when when we're sitting here and learning deep Tanya and really you know that's not an answer it's a cop-out it's a cop-out it's a chander yes of course if a guy is on telling a guy is working in Manhattan and here and there and he doesn't have time to learn a yiddishavert and he learns that you're finally a Jewish word and he hops around he's the greatest but you're gonna say that aquarium the man who does that is great he stinks excuse me expression he stinks it's nothing but he's learning he's diving three times a day big deal what war did he wage what was difficult for him to overcome that he overcame and guess what maybe having obviously slow and caring about another Jew which is not easy you know what do they say it's easy to write a check but go you yourself and change someone's Tire or give them a ride and schlep their packages it's so much harder for someone who has money to write a check and to do that all right to check no problems don't bother me don't bother me oh you understand yes what do you want to say you want to do things first my grandmother Elizabeth she used to always say the cheapest way to pay for something is with money it's the cheapest way other things are much more expensive right that's the one number two this brings this uh this this nakuda yeah and I learned a long time ago about how the the people that never did Ameris like yishai and and I think it was like four or five people have never made any others but they weren't considered to be the most amazing people they're not they're not Moshe rabenu they're not operino great people but they weren't in he was an ordinary guy like he was in the real world he knew how to talk to the people he didn't stag all day he was fighting he so I'm saying this brings me back Ravi I I I I I I know I I know what but I put on your your mute I I know what you're saying I know where you're coming from again it's true what you're saying but it needs to be in a context this is the issue that we have not every things have to be in a context so you know to go and and you know tell the average person the fact that you enjoy learning you know you have to be careful you have to know how to say it you have to understand really the person yeah and and I would take from this piece of Tanya the positive meaning emphasize the importance of of the struggle struggle whatever you do whether it's in the other words let's say you love learning the rabbit told of Nissan of that the escafia the the for the bahram is that when 220 in 770 and the Obama yeshiva's 220 is the break the first session break so the representative Nissan they shouldn't close their gamuras at 220 but continue learning to 225 to 222. or like us would go over 8 15 8 16 8 17. in other words don't be such a yaket 220 the Bell Rings you have to jump to lunch let's see another minute another two minutes that's Breaking the Habit so that that nakuta is something that we could work on and and that's then and and you don't want to you want you're hungry you're not interested in learning but you want to go rest you want to go schmooze but you take that extra minute to a three just to break the Habit that's what he's talking about here and that's the difference between the beginning it was called Hashem and the beginning whose loyal voting so to say that the baby that's is small change however we shouldn't commit avarice how violent we should be meticulous in in makshava Deborah maiser but when but we as you know people who are searching and trying and growing and learning and have families and everything else that's not adequate it's not adequate you have to always push yourself as sharpest before Martin Taylor never spoke about Gathering Together Jews and the Shabbos so if you're able to by the kids and uh we will learn him it's Hashem Monday okay thank you thank you thank you Shabbos bye bye shalom