We are impacted by world occurrences and that's why we need Chasidus - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

now t m chapter 42 and we're on page s we're on page s and we're at towards the bottom towards the last part of the page where he brings the from and he sayses has no image at all and therefore if if if if if the M says that and that's why one should always be ready and and and and serving asem and make and knowing that Hashem is listening and hearing how much more so the essence of God as we said yesterday transcendental God which isn't boxed into an ear and an eye so that's where we're at so let's turn to S um it's four lines from the bottom okay and similar the word means similar similar to this knowledge to the knowledge of of what to the knowledge that knows everything that's happening in inside you and with you and all that not only isem know what's going on by us but in all worlds and all creatures in the upper and the lower because was everything all of creation all of the universe the Stars the moon the the the Sun the the celestial beings the malim the Angels the theas everything are mush receive their their influence their energy from for everything is from you we say this believe as part of I think the and also all that's created everything that's been cre that is created is never forgotten from you sometimes one might think you know Hashem remembers the big things that I do but the small things that he doesn't care about or the small little creatures or the small little issues in life that doesn't fathom him therefore he forgets about it so that's why the P says everything that's created as writes the bracket says that the r is like the the the RAM on the face of it is seen as what they call IR rationalist right if you walk into y University used to be this way you know the my monine is the rationalist I remember speaking once to to a professor a from Professor very bright and from and we were discussing rambam and he says the rambam's a rationalist actually two professors two phds both from but their views that say the is a because he starts his with the first four letters of which spells out and I didn't make that up but the son of the ram IE Ben Moshe right the son he brings this in his safer that my father alluded to the UT through the first opening words of his Magnum op the first four letters SP is spelling out but the AL at the moment in the brackets seems to imply I I'll I'll give it to you for now that the r was a rationalist and that's why he says theaba the the the wise men of the Caba they agree to the rambam's view of god let's continue on top of page 120 writes and what is that he continues thees by knowing himself morally speaking he knows all creatures that are are created are found from the the truth from from the truth of of of him now this is a very very loaded loaded loaded uh sentence and statement and B briefly what it means is that Hashem knows the world and we're talking about not through knowing something outside of himself but by knowing himself how how do we know we know about whatever we know from the outside brought into ourselves so the r writes Hashem is different and that's why he's Hashem that's why he's God because he his comes and you'll notice he uses the word kav why does he use the word kav kav means means anamorphically speaking because that itself is already a definition and God is beyond definitions when you say God knows the world through himself through his own knowing himself so you're already boxing God into gidea and God is Transcendental so that's why we use the word kav to make it clear that don't think for a moment that God is limited to Yuda God chooses to put himself into Y and as he chooses to put himself into youra into knowledge knowing himself all over the world was known to him through knowing himself this needs a lot more discussion spend a lot a lot of pages on this but that's briefly what it says so so what's the point why is bringing us this here how's this relevant he's giving us a lecture on philosophy Jewish philosophy here he wants to make it clear that when we say that there all of creation is not is not forgotten by you by Hashem you shouldn't think that the reason why Hashem remembers everyone is because he benefits from everyone in other words he's taking something from the outside I'm sorry he's being he's being impacted by something from the outside IE creation and therefore he remembers so so is there when when a patient comes and and and behaves a certain way and if it's boisterous and outrageous you're going to remember it for a long time and you're going to even sometimes repeat it on the on the in the she right because it makes such an impression we're all that way we're all that way every one of us right but that means that the idea and and the knowledge and and subsequent and and the subsequent memory is generated by the outside the stimulus is from the outside in so that's why Dr says right away that when I say when when Hashem says in the posk I don't forget anything and everything of anyone and everything in the world in the universe that I created it's not that he needs the outside he knows himself and because he knows himself he knows everything that's that's the connection why he brings this little uh this uh few lines about how God knows the world which is the philosophical issue as discussed in the let's continue inside says this mus it's to calm the ear to calm us down but in truth the mus the parable the example has no comparison whatsoever to the moral why not so now here's going to make a distinction between the and the n and he says because a person's soul even the rational Soul Theiss and The Godly soul I want to point out to you that this is one of the only times in t where you see allude clearly to a third soul in chapter one and Tanya we spoke about how many Souls Two the ne I mean not chapter two chapter one chapter two here he talks about something so the uh over the over the years in and Scholars and and I'm talking about you know real people who understood they they point out that this is alludes to the third ra the third Soul the rational Soul which is the inter intermediary Soul between the says for a person's soul even the rational one and The Godly one it's impacted by the occurrences to the body V into the pain of the body okay a toic like his health was compromised when he had a stroke that's the way it works everything everything and everyone is impacted by the the occurrences that happen in life M let me first finish the statement and I'll go back I I don't want to lose this train of f please and you know why why is it that a is impacted by the tar the pain of the Goof because his soul is in is invested m in the third soul in the animal soul in the vivifying soul called the rational soul you can argue iser is not exactly invested in the Goof it's in the brain which of course is in the Goof but it still hangs on and has a connection to the spiritual The Godly Soul mha surely spiritual but the neis neis gets gets as you say in English down and dirty really down and dirty and guess what so this this part it impacts the and the eliss so that's in the muscle right so in other words in the musle as much as we say that the soul of a person is the eer of the person nevertheless the soul is impacted by outside stimuli I.E the the Goof the body conversely God Almighty a is not impacted God forbid by the occurrences in the world which she knew of and all of its differences and not other words there's the there's what we call occurrences in the world and then there's the world itself right now there's a war that's An Occurrence in the world if there was no war now we still are in the world so Hashem is not impacted by the inur occurrences God is no more or less God because of the war and andem as the war finishes and it'll be peace again the world still is here and the world has ups and downs and everything that also doesn't make a difference a change in God in other words God is Not is Transcendental that's his point all do not cause any difference in God okay so here stops this point and I'm going to let let mha make his point but just to clarify doesn't want us to walk away to think that that that the mush and the N are exactly identical he says no way Jose in the mush there is an impact on the on the by the through the investing itself in the body that's it there's there's an impact that that's why anyone you know this piece of Tanya in a way disputes the whole idea you know we learned in last week's part what does he mean yov the asked the question they didn't him they didn't how is yob if his kids are alive he's alive go me he died right in in other words you know and that's why the four that that went into heaven it's an exception you know the we we talk about it as an exception to the rule whatever that means you know we don't really understand that well but but is not impacted on so those people say I'm going to show God I'm going to eat a ham sandwich on your Kipper go ahead do it God does if he cares and he cares cuz you're a even if you if you eat it in your bedroom under your bed it's the same thing you think you're really you really you you're really giving him a onew punch by doing it on your Kipper you're a fool because if it's forbidden it's forbidden wherever you are you understand we we process everything to the outside inside so we s o o you know that goes back to what we discussed yesterday you know that that attitude of you know neb the neb attit is coming from the outside in if it's wrong it's wrong you know what's the difference what's a difference it's wrong M what do you want to say I guess I have I have a few questions um first question I have is I'm not it's not clear to me what is the muscle here I'm sorry I'm just not I don't know somehow I'm I'm missing it that's the first question the uh what what what's the muscle okay that's my first question my second question is about the L that the AL uses when we talked about when he say about I I I see he mentioning here the but I don't understand what is that is that somehow referring to it's seems like it's neam seems like sort of a more CL type term like like like over encompassing type term okay and I I just I'm trying a little bit hard time hard time understand but the other thing I wanted to ask is even going back from that is you you mentioned this is the first is did you did I hear you correctly did you mention this is the first time that that in the AL talks about the neish the rational soul in in such an explicit way I believe so yes okay because I think my so I think ultimately my biggest question and I know this is something we may have spoken about in the she before but you know I'm so used to the ne ofam and I'm so used to the ne in other words how they inter plan work so to speak affect each other I I I I I've always had a very hard time wrapping my head around understanding what is the role of the okay I think that's probably okay okay so let me try to answer the questions the first thing is turn back to page s the previous page and look you want to know what the mus is I'll show you what the mus is um it's seven eight lines from the bottom he says I'll it's an acronym so right there you know he's going to tell you a you following want to make sure you have the place for example a man who knows and feels within himself he knows and feels what's happening to one of his 248 limbs if he it's cold or warm he has temperature is cold even the temperature is feet if his leg if his foot if his toenail was burnt whatever is happening to his body his brain feels that's the muscle you want to know what the mush is that is the muscle okay so what's the Nim Hashem is like the the brain and the brain feels everything that's happening in the world by All Creatures do you follow that or not yeah okay yeah so that's the muscle so d right away says it's a good mush but it's not perfect and it gives us the difference between God and us and he says the fact that the fact that we have these feelings is because they're coming from the outside in you you not it's not who we are it's we are responding to a stimuli some temperature and the cold and and hurts me here and all of that is and Al and so too with with emotions how do you react to people who upset you how do you relate to your spouse it's all from the outside coming inside the that's why he says and go and God's knowledge God's idea is not from outside in but within himself he knows himself so that's how he makes that's Al says is the difference between the mus and N so really it's just a sidebar you understand it's like a parenthesis ALB doesn't want you to walk away thinking that our experience is exactly that God's experience basically the difference between God and Humanity that that that that's what he says here now regarding the um just briefly again when you say a person has free will where is that free will you can't say the Free Will is in the neiss the ne is Godly that's not free will it's predetermined to God the ne is animalistic it's predetermined to animalism to to indulgences TOA so where's Free Will so this explains that the Free Will isn't something that we call the rational and you are right I was thinking that way too when he says you are right in in saying that he means the soul of man the soul of of the person it's a it's it is a a AEM now within the Shem of the soul of man you have three components El and baham throughout T you're very correct and not just Tanya but in life we talk and we hear all about ELO and baham so you're again right there you're two you're two attitud but the the third thing just you're two out of three you're wrong and that is not wrong just that there are three components and again I I I I say there has to be a third because if not where's Free Will so this explains Free Will is in the RA in the mind in the rational mind with the rational mind has look like this look M has on one hand it relates to the world I to the beh right it can understand why you should eat and why you should sleep and all that at the same time it says but too much eating too much sleeping and too much indulging is no good and we as Jews should be more Godly so it's it's intermediary the is called the intermediary Soul between The Godly and the animal and that's that's why kind of its upper part is towards godliness its lower part is toward animalism Indulgence so it's the perfect place for free will so here Dr Le yeah go ahead yeah no I just want I just wanted I wanted to ask or add or so first of motion is batting 75 we should old that number two um number two um basically the that differentiates us from animals is kind of what the re is saying what the difference between the animal and human being because the human being has has where the animal doesn't right really differentiates us from the animals as well now that's that's a great point you made and it's explained to that where does the express itself in the but y that's an expression of an energy in other words there is a battery there's an energy that is the seat that leads to the debor and that is the so so so thank you for that's a good point you make so the point being here in Tanya is that is saying that even the I mean even the and and even more so deliss you would think that they are removed from the impact that the body has on the person because their orientation is towards godliness towards the higher so why should issues of and occurrences of the world impact them in other words just use an example is you know Einstein arist people who are like what do they have to do with the war now they're sitting at Colombia they're sitting at D wherever they're sitting you know philosophizing teaching universities and the same for people in Kyo and Yeshiva what do they have to do with our kids yeah we pray for them and but they're not on the field with their gun and they're not in danger of being hurt and everything else so you would think that they're not impacted says that because man is a wholesome picture of three elois and baham and baham is very much in touch with the body right you don't eat you're so hungry you come home you're starving you don't sleep you're finished right so the bahami really impacts the Goof says Al guess what not only does it impact the Goof it impacts your thinking your SE and your godliness too and then and that's why give you an example why was there such a similation in Poland in the 1920s I know from my own family and 30s before the war because of poverty one of the reasons poverty grandparents with beards down to their stomach you know and everything else and the kids kids you know parents that way very from and the kids they don't want this anymore in other words the gmas of the baham has an impact on the Rus and it's a constant issue so the AL says that's why as much as you say the brain the SE is in control and the god this in control he's just telling you hey guy you should know that it's not like by God where there is no shin and there's and there's no difference to God between what's H what he makes happen allows to happen impacting him at all whereas by us it it does make a difference that's what he's saying over here we're going to stop here and we'll continue tomorrow m have a great day both Yi and MOA thank you for asking and cl having this be clarified s bye thank you