Recharge your Creativity & Faith - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're we're in Tanya chapter 18. youth has hi on page of David the third line from the top which is after the brackets and the colon until here the alternative explained to us that every year has been inherited on the shama Kadesh as he calls it a Holy Soul and this is a very important to the coda because when you look at yourself and you look at others and you just see what's going on sometimes it's very hard to say that I at this time have a Holy Soul doing things that are not so holy and the same applies for others so if that's the case how can we say that so to explain that it began to share with us the concept of and that within the nephesh within the soul is a place where God rests now this will be explained more in chapter 35 and Tanya later in ahaka in a footnote kind of but briefly he touches upon it over here and this is what we're going to learn today in this year is all about so I'm going to give you now a general introduction and then we'll study inside what's the difference between so we know right there's 10 applications of the Soul what's the difference this is a general difference the general difference is that Bina Bina is we translated as understanding or comprehension Pina is when the person with their mind seeks to understand and understands in that position of the Mind the the individual is is is very much felt and in control when we say the individual the person is in control and very much felt in the process of understanding something it comes along with the yes of the person the existence of the person the mitziot of the person otherwise you won't understand you with your faculties go about to understand something so Bina is the way I the individual has captures the concept that's BINA conversely is not the way you way I the person captures the concept is the way the concept captures me what is brings various ideas and one of the ideas it says is the position with the the brain the intellect the mind it's like a flash the lightning Flash a lightning flash hits and leaves so how is this in the mind when a person is has a struggles with the concept doesn't understand the concept and all of a sudden and the person is in thought let's say Maisha wants to draw a certain a certain piece a certain idea and you struggle you know how should I do it what colors should I use what hand movements right and even before that if the concept's not clear you struggle with the concept what happens all of a sudden after just being in thought boom something hits you I got it that idea of I got it is the initial flash what we call them so it's not you have to immediately when you learn how about considers understand that hook was not the conventional meaning of the word a wise man an intelligent man a smart man that's all true in halach terms in talmudic terms and and maybe in other Hasidic not maybe in other Hasidic swarm as well but in Tanya the three components of the Mind in a very very articulate way you know most fascinating way which is complete a novelty to anything that we had before this analysis and Tanya of binadas which you began in chapter three if you recall and now again in chapter 18 and and again finally chapter 35 those are kind the three chapters that he he dissects he explains what is in comparison to Bina is a hiddish and it doesn't again it doesn't reject any of the other interpretations the classical interpretations of what binadas is but this system of khabad is a very different system and I like I always say and I've said many times here in sheer that this is why quite a few people either don't care for it or don't understand it how many people do you know are interested in in the analyzing the difference between in their life you you know in Chabad too it's like you know it's a given every book or a girl will learn this in Yeshiva girls school a certain point and they go into life who's thinking about well that ever thinks about it in Tanya that Tanya is eternal and this is chapter 18. here is one of the places where he dissects it so it's important for us to discuss it and what are we saying is not the way you understand the idea it's the way the the idea understands you what do you mean the way the idea understands just the way the idea grasps you so is there a you in the mode of khakma there is a you but it's not a mitziot of you it's not a yes of you it's just um a faculty a faculty that has that allows a certain kayak of Hashem to dwell there so for example it's the feeling that if we're talking about the art idea it's the feeling that the yes you're thinking about I was just thinking about how much what do I want to do what do I want to say what do I want to draw on all that but when you you suspend yourself let's use the word you suspend yourself you say idea imbue me idea it it shine on me that idea of shining on you is where you're suspended that's the suspension of the Mind you hear that Bina is the opposite not the suspension of the Mind the the usage of the mind and the usage of the mind and it to the point where you are very much relevant and the proof is you need to understand it and both of you and both are necessary so would you say Sarah wait wait wait wait wait wait wait just hold off hold up please so today's fear is about Hawk I'm not about Venus I'm not getting into that you got to give me a second mission so gotta finish the thought so this is the a general a general difference between so that's why the the intuitive flash we call this sometimes in English translation is the intuitive Flash so when we say intuition you see the one of the problems we have is that the English language or for that matter any language that translates Toyota and especially see this it's it's it's bereft it it doesn't do the it doesn't do the job and unfortunately that's all we have you know so the more one understands the idea in its origin Source its original text and scripture I.E in Hebrew and in the language it has the background of an understanding what the words are supposed to mean based on what they receive from their teacher and their teacher to their teacher etc etc because the outer Rabbit Remember when he taught this Tanya in 1890s in the 1890s he taught his students a mahalagan approach and he took and he taught them what I mean with these words you see so we're going back 200 plus years of of a certain uh interpretation of these words that the balatoni himself taught and then and and wrote down okay now Maisha what's your question then hello let's say the 1790s yeah I'm sorry 1790s thank you for the correction yes Maisha yeah I want to say that going back to the city of the initial thought deep allowing a certain aspect of Hashem to sort of permeate you or come into your shine on you with that creativity in other words so many times in the creative process when I'm working when I want to work on something if I charge into the studio and I sit here I was like okay I'm going to solve this issue now I'm gonna you know and I'm gonna see it oftentimes in order for real creativity to occur I have to um I have to come in without those without sort of that pre-pre-organized agenda right in other words many times I I I I'll try to address a particular piece and it does not go you know the way that I think it's gonna go the whole process I have to those I'm trying to say is that I have to many many times experience this all the time I experienced it this morning of working on something I have to move slower and I have to allow I mean I just I I guess now I'm having trouble articulating no no I I I understand I I think you make yourself clear and this this this idea of what I'm glad you mentioned the word the creative process because that's also very important words is the creative process but we need to remember it's the creative process there's two aspects there's the creative at process as it relates to the mind and then there is the total suspension of the mind and and the creative process is kind of still attached to where it's coming from and downtown is going to allude to that too and now these are two two experiences of so if you recall the first time the altered bespoke about being comprised of two words the potential for what is right it's it's it's an idea you don't yet know the full picture but there's potential in the idea for the full picture Ma that was in chapter three there we're talking about the asshma is already has an association I'm going to use the word association in Hebrew the word is Eric it has an error it has an association tabina but it's not BINA here in chapter 18 about what you know what we're about to learn now we're talking about a much deeper level has no association to be no but it's still it's okay so we have three aspects we have as a place that's completely suspended from any idea as as as as the individual controls the idea and it's in that position where God can rest because God rests only in a place of Bittle in other words my chef I had to say it this way your best art or anyone who's a Creator a create the creative world is where the total self is removed that doesn't mean you don't go into your studio and you don't have your it means kind of you allow your hands to draw what what the I the idea moves you the idea is drawing for you except that it can't draw so you have to do it with your with your hand but it's not your it's you understand and by the way and that's why there's so many less people I think than being the people and and the fact that we know that you know how many people are um what's called come up with ideas that become patent and then you know world famous I mean to say whether it's art whether it's writing whether it's in creating Delight bulb or or the car because yesterday I I came across I was talking to someone about someone who's a like a science uh you know molecules and his name is samuelsky it was a student of Robert salavechik and uh you know with all kinds of awards and and I was I listened to just I never heard about him and and someone told me that he met uh he had a connection with the review concert interested me anyway so I put on a YouTube and they were talking about his creation now again I don't know how he went how he Crea how he came to that there was a picture of him you know like thinking and looking and thinking and he had two ideas that he heard about and he and he and he and he somehow created a Nuance that took off that's a science and um molecular science right molecular science so what I'm saying is that when a person is able and and again this is this is not easy and and not only forget it but not easy if you don't have this you can't create it could someone create to be an artist could you be you could be an artist but a real expert real special artist is a gift from God the creation process whatever it is in our writing psychology whatever the creative Pro in whatever creative field you're in the Creator is is unique you know my friends and I we always talk about you know our teachers and and Rapunzel and Rebels and our generation a lot of good minds and a lot of people lots of but very few Rabbi salvation was a Creator he had a creative mind he took a piece of Gamora and he saw something very different into the Gomorrah you know of your Khan Insidious was a create a creative mind those are you very unique there are many others who are valdekarashship is teachers and professors and they can explain things very well but doesn't mean they have the creative process what is the creative process so there's one aspect of the creative process which means that the intuitive flash as it relates to Bina to then developing the flesh developing the idea excuse me but that's even a higher form of where even the creative flash is already what we call Seer means an image what do you mean it's here it has already some agenda it has a definition and a condition and that is it's a creative flash for a piece of art or a piece of writing so in other words the the subject matter the subject matter impacts the creative flash there's something even higher where the creative flash is is bereft of any form whatsoever in other words in other words it's it's let's put it this way the real creative flash could be used in art in in therapy in hasidus and everything else take for example rubber salivation I mentioned or a salivagic although primarily he was a talmud man a Rumba man if you put a mimer in front of them or you put a piece of Tanya which he did he was a genius in that it's not only because it can understand the 10 things better because he he he his his view his approach was creation and when and creation is is on its own on its own uh uh a mini you had we say in Hebrew a specific category so all this is going to be explained now in the next word so I want you to follow and and we'll go slow slower foreign discussing here where God rests with the soul of a Jew emanates from whom it's the source of Havana and the source of Bina referring to comprehension the he and it and it's right it's above and greater than Bina why because Bina is the comprehension of the idea and understanding it well so in that position the idea captures you and there's a you that's involved and in controls so it's less pure it's been adulterated already when we talk about it's above it's greater than a comprehension now you see here he adds the words it is a source for BINA so you see here that the alternative is tackling what I said both points that I made before and one end hakma is above being a comprehension but simultaneously this hochman that we're talking about here in Tanya chapter 18 for at this moment it's a Swords For What will come later yes hello is that analogous to the idea of the or panimi and the oremaki um I would say yes and no it depends which are Mark is but I think the way you're thinking about it the answer is yes okay let's go further miss both you know imminent and Transcendence in a certain way that's right right right right so again here once in chapter three and now again in chapter 18 Dr Deborah breaks up the word and he says it's comprised of two words the potential for what is why is it called Avi Maha what is it what do you mean because I don't understand it yes it's an intuitive flash it's it's an idea what what is it I don't know because it's not musag um it's not comprehended yet and it's not grasped it's not conquered in comprehension yet it's pre-comprehension and specifically because of this feature of the slab himself the infinite light of God invest itself in the less there's no thought that can grasp myself Hashem Hashem Hashem does not invested himself in in Bina because beenas are made the position of man the position of yesh the position of of mits Youth and it that means if if you would say God invested so from Bina if that was the the Abode tribina it would mean that yesh has a say over God God forbid to say that tanaksimora God is TR like like he looks used the word before transcendental so if God's transcendental he must find a place within the soul within a faculty of the Soul which is equal to Transcendence in this scenario is Transcendental compared to BINA let's continue statement therefore call Israel every Jewish even those that the talmud kind of says are not intellectually as strong because their emotions and immersive are very powerful the Amir or the ignoramuses that don't have don't know they believe in God full faith because faith my share is Transcendence it transcends logic and he quotes the Posse epes for the full beliefs who hold over everything and the the one who's smart Jovan comprehends here not as a a downgrade hey you're a fool you don't have capacity you need to understand no drama says the verse says a Fool Believes you know why because that's the position of is in a way foolish compared to Bina but specifically in that foolishness that's what God wants to be everything and everyone from the the angels to the celestial beings to the human world are all like big fools can you see it as it says another verse I am ignorant and I don't know behem is animals I am with you when he told me I am I'm always with you interprets the outer rabbit claim her shall Behavior make like a uh a comma there by the very fact that I am bar I'm ignorant is the fact that I am like ignorant and like an animal I need Thomas that makes me be always with you because I am totally subservient to you so again we don't use the word ignorant here or women or every all the everything else behem is in a negative sense we're using it as in the ultimate using employing it as in a positive sense the the the Simplicity of the ignorant the Simplicity of the animal Etc that makes me a vessel for God to rest on me and therefore and Muna the point that let's let's make it simple and Muna is now I write my I mentioned this to my wife she said what do you mean understanding wisdom and moon is Faith we're not talking about wisdom in the classical sense of wisdom we're talking about the position of suspension of mind that's where emuna shines you understand so let's say who has more Muna Maisha Masha who has more the rabbi and the kailu young or the guy working for a living who has more faith usually it's the one working not the rabbi and the quail yoga mom because the rabbit come on have to prove that God exists and how does he exists and how in in my life you know what I'm saying but the person working seeing Divine Providence every day and seeing that Hashem is in control it becomes yes we use the word object means it becomes it resonates that's the word it resonates with you that hate God's in charge it's like it's still clear it's crystal clear right hello you have an appointment here and there and you're running to the bus and all that and you come late and you think you missed it and all of a sudden because of that you get a better appointment practice that that the simple folk and I don't mean you to be simple I'm just saying that we when we when we when we we we when we suspend our and we allow ourselves to be the simple self the sincere let me use that the sincere yourself that's the expression of a Muna says that this exists by every Jew okay next let's go back into the text even someone who's most lenient in their observance of Taylor mistress and sinners foreign majority of the time they will give their life for God when it's Do or Die for safely mean you encourse him and they will allow themselves to suffer torture difficult torture as long as they will not deny the existence of God so you say bow down to the Cross or else I'm ready to die the bomb flies I'm ready to die I will not deny Hashem and out and out the Bible says this is such geological words even though these people are buried ignorant a poor is an ignorant and more so I mean they don't know anything about the greatness of God the awesomeness of God you're talking to a war nevertheless they will say I'm ready to give myself a God and the previous in the bombs were falling in Warsaw he saw people to the right of him and the left to him they said they weren't from where does it come from but then the Shama because even these even people know a little bit and Messiah is biting them Cloud they don't meditate and reflect and contemplate on God's greatness so when they have Monsieur Snapfish it's not because of their knowledge which is bringing this cloud and meditation Ella believe shum does rather it's without any meditation and contemplation now look at these words only as though whoever she is like they had all the joys they have no other choice to deny God now now you right without argumentation why don't you in other words make a choice make a make it fake is it worth it for me to get self-sacrifice if I won't bow to the cross and I hide and I become a Murano therefore I'll be able to continue and one day I'll reveal that I'm a Jew they don't make that choice either that happened that happened but that's the serious numbers no choice that the feeling is I'm a Jew and that's it and that's because what what shines by them is the Oneness of God and it enlivens them not only their of intellect so this is in the end of the chapter that the again he began the chapter by by explaining that the the idea of the pain in me the banging is someone who who's looking he was not over the Hashem says here in this chapter that don't think that you have to generate a love for God and if not you're not able to be a servant but the album was a terrorists the concealed hidden innate love that every Jew has is is adequate and and needs to be revealed so once he speaks about that love and being revealed he tells us we're within the nephesh there is that ability and where is it happening in and fish and Muna and God is is triggered through that fish and every Jew has that Soul therefore every Jew as long as he wakes up not remember if you don't wake up this isn't happening you could maybe wake up in 50 years took him 70 years and he woke up right again remember this is khabar this is not the you know uh segula School world this is not the Google World this you gotta work but the the the the first type of work that he spoke about in chapter 16 and Tanya was about generating the love 16-17 generating a love through uh sleep like the recess the cold love the cold intellect in chapter 18 episode says listen for those of you who say it's just too much I I don't have the meditative Pro ability to generate any type of even intellectual love says okay I hear you why don't you reveal who you really are you you are you right find out what it means to be a Jew and reveal what you are so you don't have to create anything and this is the truth anyone that has done truth and that's true for that's what we're looking to go back what's the word truva mean the English translation you know is wrong repentance it's a wrong translation we use it but it's wrong return return to shoe hey return to God but even better said Avi return to yourself return to your true self and who is your true self Hashem that's what chapter 18 is about chapter 18 is the chapter in Tanya which teaches us that every deed has a nation and it's an inheritance you don't like it too bad you're part of those people you're converted properly to Judaism you belong to the leadership folk you have on the Shama yes Sheila so so are we saying in this chapter that the Abba Mississippi concealed love within each person is a refer reflection of the original idea of qua that sort of penetrated into the deep deepest place within them um and becomes revealed in these extraordinary moments when a person's faith is on the line that's correct but we don't we don't have to wait it becomes revealed it's the proof of the pudding Hillel but in other words we have it every day it's not as though in other words when I in other words it's good that you said that I want to just clarify that's very important what hill has said what the out that ever wants is that when you go to Shoon the morning it is kadish it's a regular morning here's Tuesday Monday morning and you put on thru later it's at that time you should have this the so I'm unfortunately you know when Proof come which comes to shove when you're faced with a challenge and God for a bit of Calamity you know then you say who am I what's going on just wake up right and you start thinking and most a person who's a little serious start doing right but that's we shouldn't be waiting for that we have to discover that every morning and every day and every chakras and every minute and every therapy session that that's what the outfit ever wants he wants your Consciousness that's why he says he little it's Miss pachette because to just say that it's you know the way you positioned it which is correct is not what he wants because then you you're stripping the avoid of the bathing the weight of the pain in me is a daily Avada is a a minute by minute avoider so yes it's it's those times that challenges that bring it out but we shouldn't be waiting for that we should be working to to understand to have them so let's let's just for another moment take a guys from his dabbing his learning he's doing giving sadakis helping people and everything else but his he feels in his operator's stale and it's not exciting hey wake up and realize what you have on the shama I mean I haven't shama wow I'm I'm electrified I'm I can do anything because the soul can do anything nothing to stop me so David what should we name it Ah that's good good marketing have a have a great day see everyone tomorrow take care