Shaar HaBitachon Lesson 34 with Rabbi Shais Taub

still in Chapter four and we're going through the seven areas of life and how betoken plays a role in each one of them so area one was about my person my body my health area two is par Nosa my livelihood making money area three was personal interpersonal relationships and then so and those were all worldly matters and then we had area for which was getting into the spiritual side of things it's things that we have to do for the sake of the world to come meaning mitzvos but the mitzvahs that are only that only affect ourselves and then last night we did the fifth area which was the mitzvahs that we do that affect others you know like sadaqa and teaching and helping people to do it to Shova alright so now we're on the the sixth area and that's what we've been about Hayek called matters of the world to come for the sake of the world to come I think that's how he called it purely spiritual stuff so let's take a look inside Avel Peter Suhail Akashi let's look at an explanation of the sixth category woohoo big Malayalam has available the reward in this world as well as the next world ashay yeehaw Adam Riley from Isetta alum which a person earns through his conduct in this world who had mula Snape on him and there are two forms of this reward moola alum has a beloved one is a reward that is only in this world the physical old mold by Elham hobble vat and then there is the reward that it is only in the spiritual world the Yeshe uranium Alma Suhad and sometimes a person merits both for a single deed he does one thing and it generates both a reward in this world as well as the next right I think we talk about that every morning in morning breakfast don't we when we talk about these are the things that we have benefit from it in this world but the main the main reward is in the world to come all right the lay pay - Londo beers a buyer hate if this matter was not explained to us clearly meaning the manner of reward in this world and the world to come right and it says empirica office says be careful with a light mitzvah i mitzvah Kalla like mitzvah himoto with a strict mitzvah why because you don't know Matan Skarin you don't know the reward for them it's like when delta hid their award chart and you have to go and enter in each itinerary and it's like a surprise surprise this is how many miles of this right that's for my dance deals friends that reference ok so it's like a hidden award chart we don't know exactly you know the the system ah however automobile ah amigo que lo al my ciccolo the creator rather the creator promised his nation a general reward for general observance meaning in general he said look do what do what I tell you to do it's gonna be good for you well a hillock a cool alpha of a dice by Elham but he didn't like specify rewards for specific things Kamisha Ossabaw a mission why would we think he would well because we have a precedent for that Kamisha awesome but anus shallow evaders bile um it does very clearly specify the punishments for the sins in this world the punishments in this world for the sins Kamisha padishah my sim shyam hi Yavin Scylla siddhattha pedegg henyk like for instance we know exactly which sins incur which death penalty those sins that are capital offenses according to theta which one's get stoning and which ones get burning in which one's gets decapitation and which ones get strangulation who malkos our volume and we know which ones get the forty lashes Oh Mesa and also death death as suppose he means a B they Shema him from the hands of heaven because he just enumerated the ones that are be the other that are court inflicted the kharece also the soul being cut off which is a little bit different than me simulation mine we had both of them by the way recently and Tanya hit us and get us a children vataj will make a fall or monetary punishments like having to pay double with actually our above a hamesha or having to pay four times as much or five times as much Vanessa shared by over Shana Ashe or like having to make remuneration for damage caused by an ox a pit a tooth or a fire those those are categories you have to have to learn the our ball business' ikan Vinay said Moomba odd them or like remuneration that a person has to make when he causes bodily damage to another the Shalaka Sodom a bush of or also the fine and when a person causes shame to another by grabbing him inappropriately l'homme de chambre or the the sin of defaming the Defamer and famous his wife actually heard a male is there anything like that so we know a lot of the specific penalties for specific sins Avel mula allah mahabhava inshallah parish mayhem animo umma bia bhava or come upon him but it's interesting the reward in the world to come or the punishment is not explicitly stated by the the prophet in his book and there there are many reasons for this in other words this is what we're asking when it comes to penalties for sins it's pretty clear what they are it's pretty explicitly enumerated what those punishments are which sins get which punishments how the punishments are administered but when it comes to the spiritual consequences both the reward and the punishment we don't really have such clarity about it and the question becomes why isn't this like a glaring omission now of course no people people will say well hold on you know you can go read the narrations Kaufmann and I'll tell you specifically a lot about getting them and how it works and what the punishments are that's that's true it's not what Rubina bhai is talking about also you can learn see fricassee this and learn about what GaN Eden is like I mean go certain extent and to the extent that it's possible to give a trip report from GaN Eden that's another dance deals reference for you but that's not what everyone is talking about highest funk well how come it's not something that's talked about in in in himesh in Navi basically in Tanakh in the Bible why does them talk about it in the Bible right so says there's there there are a few reasons for this mayhem one of those reasons kazuto-san elfish melodia goof aina you do at slay know the form of the soul without the body is not really known to us Kolchak in my shed to Sonic Bay like it's tired meaning ha hoo and how much more so what would bring it delight or pain in that state now again you're gonna say to me but hold on a second we do know about different punishments of Gehenna which caused great pain to the soul and we do know a lot about GaN Eden and the pleasure that the souls have it's not what I was talking about saying basically why isn't this like a focus or even something that's spoken about in in in homage and in anak okay so the first reason is it's really abstract stuff like who could relate to this like the soul without a body I mean it's hard enough to relate to the soul in a body the soul is that manifests itself through the body this is a soul without a body stripped of the body so who could relate to what gives it pain and what gives it pleasure pain or should I say let me show how you maven onion has that however Hashem did explain these things to those who could understand it Kamisha uh male sure like it was said to Yeshua not Yeshua from fascias Talmud Yeshua but you sure from later on for the times of the beasts Invictus furnace at Elohim how him bein ho aimed him Oh Ayla I will allow you to walk among these who stand here who's standing Malakand angels Ana Shum is called the Mahalo a mover because a neshama risks and has reward neshama comes down to the world and there's a risk and what when you have risk you have reward so the neshama can go up to a higher level than where it came down from but Amala a Moloch is stationary because it doesn't have free will so there's no risk there's no reward a Moloch is on whatever level of these on Millea is that the aid Nashik should of a goof a this was not to be while his soul was still joined to his body it's not what it's talking about I'm Aramis LaMacchia Akram Ava's he was describing what's going to be after he passes away she talks of her nefesh Matsuda some lock him that the soul returns to the state that is angelic the inion she Pusa of a de cosas vaudeville astonish McGuffy his dacha has here well how am I said I even by Elham Haase in as much as the soul is divested from a body and becomes refined and has abandoned and using its body when it becomes purified and radiant and its deeds were good in this world in other words the soul that while it was while it was in a body it did good things and then when it leaves a body it has a certain pleasurable experience that is pleasurable for the salt okay can you relate to what's pleasurable for a soul our premise here is no no you can't okay who knows what who knows what the souls are into these days you know who could who could figure them out I don't know try to strike up a conversation with a soul I don't know what they're into you know all right anyway so that's one reason one reason is that what's the point to tell you all this stuff we're not gonna relate to it anyway now again I know you're gonna say to me but in the seafood room oh so you can read all about your Hanuman and the sea fixedness you could read all about getting Aden it's funny see if you're the most see you read all about Gehenna in the sea via this you learn all about your name okay and by the way in case people think this all this is not talking well again you mention it they mention just not the focus and see if it a monster oh they don't talk about your name of course it's Armageddon it's the question of question of emphasis well may have and another reason why the spiritual reward and Punishment is not clearly spoken about in theta should Malayalam hub overrun Shea because the reward and Punishment in the world to come mokuba aitsl amiga audits men have IAM it was so that that would be received by the common people from the prophets who moosegal eights luck a common it was understood by the wise people via nickle lazara be safer and they therefore did not mention these things in their scriptures Commission eat a lease care Harbor my parish a mitzvahs waha vase just as they did not mention much of the exposition of the commandments and the duties Malaysia some who al Haq Bala because they relied on the tradition the table of 1 and explains here that the prophets would try to explain these things as best they could to people the spiritual things but they're very subtle ideas and different people would understand a different level of it and this was sort of left to you know one on one I mean it doesn't I don't mean literally one on one but it's more like look there are the official things you know things that are for everybody to study and to know and to learn and then there are additional conversations that the prophets would have to you based on tradition and to whatever extent they could explain these things to people they would but it's not from the core teachings that's that's the point that a bit of a high is saying and the maniacal evolved this actually says something interesting about this he says it wasn't spoken about because it was intuitive like everybody knew even if they couldn't articulate it or explain it but they know that they're you know their spiritual reward and spiritual punishment and so it wasn't it didn't need to be a focus it didn't need to be something that you speak about past lakum says a little differently that it was spoken about but only as an oral tradition and that's why you don't find it in Tanakh it was only oral and that's why you would find it more in later generations as more and more of today Shambhala fab became recorded right all the Kabbalah that was written down I mean that was at some point that was oral tradition so all the spiritual stuff feels so how do you know this how do they know how do they know what the souls experience is how do they know what Gehenna was like how do they know what Gunn Natan is like because this was an oral tradition I mean this goes back to the to the date of Missy 9 but wasn't written down what was written down what was written down is you know the halacha how to how to behave like a Jew but by the way even that was at first right because even before Mishnah that wasn't written down but obviously Mishnah was written down and then go Moto's written down and then much much later the difference if Remo sir and C fairy cabal on and then and its efficiency this came and and wrote down these spiritual ideas but it was always spoken off it was just you know it was a discussion it was a conversation it wasn't you know on the pages someone wrote here we're not supposed to perform its was based and reward in the world to come right out to you cover sham share so that I've Amin asked a couple profs yeah that's right you're not supposed to do for the sake of the world to come but that means they shouldn't be your motivation it shouldn't be your motivation but you should do it altruistic Allah you should do it with Schmoe let me take shillelagh Schmo bullish mob but you know how that I've explained that whatever says me toy the toy the inner content of every shillelagh Schmo isla Schmo so every Jew deep down he wants to do it because you just want to be connected to Hashem so me th shillelagh Schmo if you look into the shillelagh shrine to the ulterior motive that a Jew has for anything he does if you pull up part all the the extraneous layers and you get to the core Taisha Lelouch more the inner core of it bullish mah you'll come to the the altruistic motivation that was just for the sake of Hashem okay who mayhem and another reason why there wasn't so much explicit explanation of what the spiritual reward and Punishment is like Omaha you may not see hello somila Tov ah ah the people were in a state of ignorance and deficiency of understanding oh that's harsh the Indian chain and no nelem the master cause of the trade off which is not hidden in the scriptural account what does that mean it means the Toyota made it pretty clear to us all the times that the Jews tested and complained against Hashem and citator clearly states that they weren't given a heart to understand or years to here until the fortieth year so yeah and that's the maniacal of Elvis explains like that so the people were not they were not able to relate to these things that's how he explains it at least the no hug a beta imuy a min ago of half a millennia cotton so hashem treated them like a child like a father treats a child a little child sureit's iliaster de Binaca sila art when the father wants to discipline the child gently and slowly Kamisha Kossoff keen arias releve Aveo because the jews were like a child and I loved him well of she ate salami this been able now to say a hawk my social alibi hem l ha my lace Hurley a socially uv9 Hannah but a sahi when a father wants to teach his young son wisdom which ultimately will enable him to ascend to the higher levels but which he cannot presently understand you know how you Mathias a say la anymore like if the father will appease the child and speak to him and say the following value G is ha Musa Valley mode by Portia Tyler behin Allah Miley's holidays endure the strain of discipline and instruction so that through them you may ascend to esteemed levels and no probably not rather not know but there are steamed levels there my Lissa Hammoud ice and I'm gonna go play with my trucks so that won't work like higher sable as that the child is not gonna endure it Felicia may a love and he's not gonna obey me she ain't may even a son you know why cuz he doesn't understand that it's not attractive to him Vic I share your day who loves a martial art of lemme odd however if the father promises him things that bring him immediately immediate pleasure me Michael Umi stem Albus no mere Kavis Nevada Melissa such as food and drink and attractive clothing in a nice wagon in the like bada obama she sire a semi odd and threatens him with immediate discomfort made of like hunger over a time nakedness whom alkis and hitting vanilla ham anything like that we a shoved I tell my received a howl of Menelaus hammer gotcha is for her a deus igloo yosemite ice while assuring him and convincing him with tangible arguments in clear and truthful evidence so if that's the approach he takes Yankel all of lys bilious Amasa willis a starkly it'll make it much easier for the child to bear the discipline to tolerate it in to accept the burden so that's the that's the approach don't give him any lofty inspiring speeches just speak on a really simple level you do it I'll give you a candy if you don't do it you get a patch it's not telling you how to parent by though it's just a muscle this is just emotional okay at any rate nikasha yogi LeMay Ibaka mock rules the Yak Zach see clay when he be cut and he becomes mature and his mind is strong Jovana in unum Ahuva knell of the Masada if you have an a love then he'll understand the training the purpose of the training but Timothy eat morena of Haleiwa sasha how your rots Allah but he listened in Univ and then the stuff that he was all excited about in the beginning of his education he won't be excited about anymore waha izella Kamla I love and this approach is kindness to the child the pain of various products the same thing with Hashem yeaaah Lima the Hasidim big Mulva Enosh me Miriam he held out to his people promises of immediate rewards and threats of immediate harm nation auda cuz he nuclear-armed cashier you sook know la vida that once they would be trained for serving him t go male MC Clure song big Malayalam ha Brava on che then they're ignorant of reward and punishment in the next world would be taken care of like if I tell you before I trained you you're never gonna get it but if I trained you first then you can finally understand the real point of why we're doing this you have new above a they love and they get used to serving him we snuggle ba all above and they will comply with his service to draw near him the hey name of a coma she besought him hag Shama Sebelius buttock and the same thing can be applied to all the passages in Scripture that ascribed corporeal attributes to the Creator may be exalted all the anthropomorphisms anthropomorphisms obviously you know that's one of the you'd get more equitable thirteen principles of faith not to ascribe any bodily likeness to a sham but it's for people that's what they relate to okay so dreams to sum up what remain of Baha'i saying here the last reason why the spiritual rewards miracle punishment are not explicitly in Tanakh is because it's like a child with a child don't speak them on a lofty level about lofty pursuits just speak to them on a very very simple level candy pleasure Potch pain okay and so that's the way it used to be that's the way it was in the ancient world that's what people related to and we just kept Judaism really really simple and then if people wanted to know any deeper stuff we said before then the prophets will explain to you a little bit the deeper reasons but the point was that eventually the Jewish people collectively became mature enough and once they were trained in serving a Shem so then we said oh by the way you weren't really doing it for the candy or for the pot it wasn't the carrot or for the stick it was really for these spiritual reasons but you only tell them that after they're already trained and brought off you know to the to the level to be able to handle these things okay at any rate at any rate there's a lot to be said about this there is there's quite a bit to be said about this and again I just want to maybe make one point very clear is that this is not an instruction how to educate your children or to educate anyone or even an instruction how anyone should be it's an explanation for why things were the way they were okay you understand the distinction I mean if a guy is not giving parenting tips here nor is he even saying this is what you should do when you're motivating an adult or for sure not an adult but only you know but this is not telling you to do this this is not telling you that this is how it should be done it's saying a historical fact this is how it was done that there was a certain period in time that this is how Hashem spoke to the people and then later on deeper reasons became revealed okay does that make sense all right fine we will continue amir session tomorrow night be well everybody