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Shaar HaBitachon Lesson 34 with Rabbi Shais Taub
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Text-based class on the classic Shaar HaBitachon (Gate of Trust) from Rabenu Bachaye's Chovos HaLevavos.
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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