VaYechi: Real slogan for truth, friendship & respect - Igeres HaKodesh 15d- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so good day to everyone we're learning page 15 15 we're in middle of uh this chapter in which the AL discusses the various aspects to the mid to the faculties and yesterday the last thing he discussed was the importance of when you're being Masia to that the the feeling and the sense of of love and commitment is felt in the has in the teaching that's the concept that creates a bonding which we call so let's go now page smack himid the page after the period it's about 12 13 lines on the top the source of these attributes the external the inner ones meaning refers to which is considered the of the pus in other words in cab as you know you can write you could look at the spher horizontally horizontally and vertically and if you look at it that way ver down we get um right so so too you get the is so gor is the pemus the the sense of strictness and Justice and limitation as a result comes about a thanks a thanks an acknowledgement which is and that that's why he calls over here he refers to the two sets of the three one is called pus and the other is called where do both of them come from you're like in a dark room it looks like you're in a cave what's going on there it comes from the now you see a little better very bright the Sun behind you okay it's all right whatever it's from the within every person's his soul based on a person's their intelligence so will be his mid his attributes his emotions says you don't have to take me for my for saying this believe me look in actuality a minor a young child that is his his intelligence is very very small so too all of his emotions and attributes and character it concerns itself around small and minute things you know baby things childish things why because the brain is not developed yet says the even Elders he quotes the verse based on a person's intelligence the will will man be praised and explains based on a person's abundance of wisdom so will be the abundance of their love and their kindness so in other words this isn't just for miners that you know miners because they're their SE their mind their intelligence is not uh developed and still immature relatively speaking therefore they they desire little petty things says the same is true for adults if an adult's mind is is undeveloped and still immature they'll want the trivial silly things and so this is true regarding all other attributes mid of the inner and the outer the source is in now says when we talk about the three fact the three compartments of the primary one to focus on in regard to this discussion here is the main thing is Das that's within the the the person's soul which comes from as we see in actuality based on people's different opinions which is so do they have is there different character mid right so what we see that the Das the opinion it's not so much the the leads to the Das but the focus concentration and ie the opinion the bottom line that's up in you walk away with this and this opinion that create forms what type of mid you're going to have says this is all just but a parable a mush all of this is only within the lower intellectual soul that comes from the translucent but in truth truth of Truth in the superal soul IE The Godly Soul which is an actual part of which a part of hem all theid both the inner and the outer belong to God alone because because of the person's the soul the's love for God and its abundance of desire to therefore it wants kind next top of page 246 therefore the conclusion is I want to cleave and attach myself to Hashem and nothing else because that's the perspective of the ne The Godly Soul not the human rational Soul which we discussed earlier as the sages say alos on the verse the sages in instruct us to cleave to God how do you cleave to God say cleave to his attributes to his character look at the way hasem acts with his mid and EM emulate that and so regarding hashem's aspect of of Justice where punishes though the wicked ones punishes them with the various punishments mentioned so to to overpower a p a person should overpower their evil inclination and simultaneously to sanctify oneself with what is permissible to the person but unnecessary for existence to restrain and hold yourself back which is which is the notion of and to make a fence around the because you fear God you tremble and fear for God if you don't make offense around the an enactment you don't making a rabbi enactment around the biblical uh prohibition you you fear that you will come to sin God forbid this is to feris to beautiful Go in all kinds of beautiful ways and to cleave to God's praise with your entire [Music] soul by by investing your mind and your thought through meditation through his bonness G that's number one in thought also when it comes to speaking you should be speaking and so to stand with Victory with endurance against anything that wants to prevent the service of God and for one and anything that desires to prevent one from attaching himself to God and and and and and to go contrary to this obstacle mean because you realize that the the honor of the presence of God fills the entire world through the the fight the fights for God that for example King David fought on behalf of of God of publicizing God what hasem wants this is the so to to to kneel to Bow and to thank God who enlivens and in in and and creates as call everything therefore everything is nullified in in in its existence to God and everything before God is as not it is considered as not and it is like nothing eff and zero Mish although we do not understand how everything is not before God even though because it exists in front of our eyes nevertheless this is we acknowledged we acknowledg with true acknowledgment that so is the truth of Truth this also includes this acknowledgement includes the thanks to hem for all the good was gave us was kind with us you hear the words and don't be a denier of good God gave is giving us all good so don't deny it and this also includes to give thanks to with all of his Praises his attributes action thanking for creating the upper and the lower worlds they are praised and they are beautiful and they are suitable appropriate for God so the word which is comes is associated with the word h beautiful Splendor now he goes to the next he calls the theid of theid of thead why because thead is the foundation of the world because is the embodiment of his being bound to life living and to Cle to with cleaving and desire and pleasure and then we come to the mid of the 10th of the spheros which is kingship sovereignty malus which also means all of we accept upon ourselves H's Kingdom in the service similar to the service of any Ser of all servants to their masters with with tremble of and fear what is the source to all of these mid that we discussed on this page they're they come from means the creative Force that that that comes up with the creative idea of God wisdom and his greatness and his who sustains and enens all worlds that's then we come to next page he it's the meditation the reflection on this of of creativity we we we meditate we contemplate upon this in length bre with your your comprehension to understand that if a plus b equal C then you know you can you can deduce further that's called the process of of to understand one thing based on this other thing and when you have this comprehension and meditation it gives an offspring to children to Total to results you develop the the emotion of love and awe and fear this benef and all the other M that are born with in The Godly Soul H through the process of meditation and through through intellectualization and meditation beem upon the greatness of God I'll say how much can I meditate is says th God is there's no amount that can say I got God you you're so wrong you're so wrong Hashem is a he's beyond the whole realm of hakir although he inserts himself within hakir but Hashem in his very essence is beyond the ability to say I found God if you if a person that found God they found nothing you know what I'm saying because Hashem is beyond being found if he wants he allows some of himself to be explored and understood which he does but that's what is saying that he calls the you know that when you ask look I meditated I reflected I realized how awesome God is and every detail we discussed yesterday of science and medicine right and especially the body you know as we get older and and and and we have this uh this bothers us and this right and and and if you stop and think you say hashem's I mean look it's a it's it's like a little just three weeks and thank God I'm pretty feels like I'm like 80% you know cured from from this uh from this um torn ligament in in my muscle in the hamstring I don't know how I and you know I went one time to therapy and I'm not going back it's a waste of time and I know iser is going to get me after the shear is going to knock me over the head and and and and and criticize me but I don't care you know he tells me to sit down I can do the same squatting over here in my house I don't have to spend an hour wasting time going to to a therapist okay the anyway sorry if anyone's here a therapist please forgive me but my point is the Goof the Goof is amazing it's so amazing I I don't I don't understand it I'm not a doctor I but I don't know you know you know you know and and and and just saying so when we talk about being and to his greatness there is no uh understanding or no uh comprehension the word means searching it's true in other words you know here these fires where ran we were talking before the she you know the devastating fires you know in Los Angeles do do we have understand what's going on here I mean it's like what happened you know oh well G Gavin new this a Democrat he's responsible for water not being in the fire hydrants and pal Pacific Palisades thank you very much that's why there's a fire right that's why Hashem brought this devastating fire you got to be kidding we don't understand there needs to be water and the fire hydrants and and and and and liberal the California liberal ism is is is over the top we we know all that but but nevertheless when you look at the bigger picture and it's so it it doesn't take a a science rock rocket scientist to figure it out it's it's like it's basic you know you see that the the whole thing with October 7th every it's clear now you know we can either you know use it in a positive way which inel I think so much has come out in a good and B Chu and then Chu and he CED this in so many ways you know and and we don't ask for this to happen again these type of things but nevertheless this is what happened so let's continue I want to finish and then there is the greatness [Music] of B P line which is through the meditation of the neish The Godly Soul causing upon the soul the the fear the which is the lower level of which is okay so now we're tackling the 10th which is kingship royalty malos malus has various variations of its content and one is the the fear in other words rules and regulations you go through a red light you're getting a ticket okay if not today tomorrow you break the law you're going to be caught okay so malus kingship says the AL is the acceptance of the Mel of God Almighty after the strong meditation and the awesome and realizing hashem's awesomeness how leads one to a an acceptance he calls this but there's also a higher level of in other words why why are you scared you're scared because of the patch right now we know from Yeshiva in our youth and our child right that that that doesn't last long it doesn't last long because when you get older the patch doesn't scare you anymore is right it doesn't scare you says so there's a higher level of God greatness of from this comes what we call superal means embarrassment I always quote Rabbi TW Dr tski and he grew up and he was you know he was doing Mischief as a boy in a walk and what did his father say to him as pasta those word right remember as past it's not befitting for you from where you come from and who you are now a lot of people don't like to hear this they criticize it because that's very external it's like a guilt trip it could be that way it could be used that way but it could also be very very pure a person must know who they are and what they come from it's very very important because if you don't have that you don't have have a base and I'm doing now oral history you know the whole time but now I'm finishing doing a 96y old whose mind works God bless him right and and and and and I see so much how there's a a pride where he comes from who he comes from that that you know I I don't take it as you know ego and GAA and and and no this makes the man in a healthy way so says here there is a lower like you know uh you're going to be punished if you if you break the law you know and that's that's a rudimentary basic level of of or fear listen to God Hashem says you know you know but there's a higher year and that's what he calls that there's a level that there's something that's called an abundance of love there's a lower level of coming as well so when you go to the external mid which is benevolence if you want to know why sometimes people who are so uh you know and and they don't get it because they're missing Das do you can't buy in a candy store and guess why you can't you guess what you can't buy it in a Yesa when you're ordained you either got it or you don't got it it's what we say the fifth of right a rabis tested on four parts ezar and and and and um the fourth part L my mind now anyway I foret anyway but then there's the fifth part Das where do you pick up Das in a lunch bag where does that lunch bag come from it comes from calming down and thinking and you know D and that's what says here gives a person the connection that the soul becomes connected and bound to this idea it comprehends some concept of God's greatness causing some kind of result and emotion to be to be derived to be born if you just remove your your your your Das your focus and concentration for just a moment from this idea guess what the Mida dissipates from act from being realized to being in a state of concealment now this is very important in other words why is it that sometimes we we have the Das H and and and nevertheless the mid is not apparent the AL says here you know why because for a moment your Das was removed you lost Focus simple English you lost focus and when you lose focus the result dissipates that's the answer and and I'll never forget when I was in Yesa 17 18 year old boy and and an older B said you know you should think some before you you D and and and and oh my M said f no more than five minutes and he repeated this so I went to one of the old the B I said why why can't I do 10 minutes so you know the bck said to me this intelligent guy he said if you can think 2 three minutes without any distraction while you're thinking boy are you ahead of the game right let's try to think for two three minutes on a some concept without any distraction even good distractions right so that's says when you're in the mode of Das and if you remove your Das process for a moment and then that moment the feeling dissipates now this is important therefore the union between male and female is called and AD knew he had because he B he binded himself bound himself with it wasn't just two people shacking up even a husband and wife they're not shacking up but you know this is the way of the world no Adam focused on he understood the importance of a wife he understood the importance of procreation and that created the bond this is the lower level of extends itself in theid invest itself to enen to sustain them there's a higher level of it's a higher level very deep it hovers over the mind bringing the depth of mind to comprehend ition by expounding upon it length and width which is the level of which is called the expansion of the river now I hope I'll have a chance to I'll find the to look into the question discussion about and and then maybe and then Monday um or Tuesday whenever it is we'll talk about it everyone have a great shabas for that what I'll be moted for that you'll be moted for that any questions this is this is the chapter about the mid so listen yes M yes how do why does why does use the L of because I see in the English it's translated as the expansion of the elucidation well no no a river a river MAA a River comes from right where does it come from the the well and it expands and from the river goes to the ocean so it's all this it's a I sure the broadening the expansion of the river physically just like in the real world when you have a the well right the the wells are underground and then when they come up and they go into the river it expands so that's why is is the expansion of right you have an idea an idea is very very limited it's galic wow I got it now let's take up let's talk about in your work I mean you know in art right you have that the that know look the side you want to you want to share with everyone a certain but guess what if you don't put the paint the brush to the paint and then with the colors it's not it's a great idea but you you haven't uh expanded it Pina is the expansion program so the the well the well is is is is analogous to and the river is analogous to beina good yeah yeah thank you okay have a great chabas it's a good chabas it's shabas yov and yov continues living yov continues living yov the says however we understand that and what does Rashi say and the same is true with all of our loved ones if we live what they stood for in a positive way they continue living I looking at Hill his his daughter is is a a violinist a play she she's traveling around right her and his father he was he told us his father was now but right okay but his father was was was gifted that way so he passed away I don't know if Hill has that or any of siblings has that talent but here is a a a daughter a granddaughter so you know you could see the in this in understand soov isn't just a a b you know a nice line in the Torah is a realization of reality when you focus on it and we have to share that with our children and grandchildren a future Generations that what we're experiencing today is is is a uation and and it only gets better not worse the closer we are to Messiah it's going up those that say it's going down are wrong it might not be the same form not it might not it isn't the same form as it was you know back in in Ukraine and in Russia and in and in South Africa you know 150 200 years ago but the the trajectory is higher the greater so many yeden all over you know just now here in Queens I don't know if you you saw this on the news a Solomon sh school which is under the conservative movement just officially after like 50 60 70 years announced it's be becoming Orthodox why who is the student embodiment the bukharans and queens all right yeah yeah so so so you know Sal here Sal and they changed the name of course because Sal is known as conservative no I'm just saying I'm just saying that you know it's it it's it's an upgrade it's an upgrade what's happening you know and that's the and I think it's important to to share this message there'll be a wherever you are you know to share this message and to really have people understand that we're living at very special times with with all the challenges believe me our ancestors in Poland and Hungary in Russia in in in in North Africa didn't have what to eat typhus was was all over there was no medicine you know my wife's mother my wife's grandmother passed away I think in 4042 because she didn't have blood pressure medicine and her daughter my my mother-in-law God bless her is you know is uh 95 and her sister's 97 the mother passes at 42 very simple there wasn't blood pressure medicine right so we advancement in medicine Advance all of these things we take it for granted let's remind ourselves what we had just you know a 100 years ago so it's everyone should have but life life not life like a a PO a poor a boore a boor more eating and more sleeping and more you know uh Pleasures but God bless you all have a great chabas we'll see everyone on Monday good chabas bye bye Wednesday B RKA my granddaughter's wedding am granddaughter's wedding B Rifka Wednesday night take care bye bye bye