Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #52

We are continuing chapter 31. and we're dealing with the question of when it is appropriate to intentionally invoke a negative emotional state in order to counter a different emotional state a different negative emotional state so does anyone remember that unique type of negative I say in quotes emotion that can be useful yeah frustration does anyone remember the exact word in well China kadish in the Holy tongue that the outdated uses does anyone remember my joke about the lion at the Seder Morrow very good last week I said why did the lion love the pesos because he got to have more Roar yeah but why did I tell them Aurora joke you're bitter so the word is mirus means bitterness and bitterness is negative it is negative but it's uh not a real negative thing it's actually a yeah atfos is negative negative atifus is just blah sad at first it means yeah atfos is yeah not clinically depressed but uh yeah it's sadness not productive counterproductive apathetic numb Ness is productive because it's a motivator and I give you the the metaphor of like the the Tough Gym coach who knows how to yell at you without making you feel like giving up okay and it's all internal we're not yelling at anyone else and no one's yelling at us this is internal stuff okay all right so we got up to the point where we had this extended metaphor about the princess remember the beautiful pristine pure princess yes who's the princess we are right very good yes well maybe you should listen to this metaphor you are the real you I'm talking about the real you your your deepest uh spiritual self this this beautiful little princess that comes from the palace her father's Palace the king Hashem and she had to go on on a mission she she left the palace and she went down Behind Enemy Lines and was invested in a body this is the story of embodiment and it's it's really a tragedy because she's so Noble and sweet and wonderful and she's living in such a difficult situation and we should have rahmanas oh who said that great line last week remember the end of last week that when you're feeling pity for your animal Soul that's sadness and if you feel pity for your Godly Soul that's healthy frustration yeah yeah so she said about it I have to play back the report it was good it was very good so we're talking about wonderful it's you pity for your animal Souls like oh poor me my life is not the way that I want it to be I want to be more comfortable I want to have less pain which is a valid complaint but it's not necessarily productive to steep yourself and pity about it but pity on The Godly soul is wow what a what a tragedy this this Noble pristine spiritual being is is trapped in this really um frustrating situation where she can't really do what she wants to do and she can't be heard and she's screaming I I just want to connect back to my father and the body and the animal Soul are pursuing their own agenda which they think will make them happy but it's not really very fulfilling stuff uh so we spoke about having that pity on The Godly soul and we said especially during times of prayer to really cry out to Hashem in that longing homesickness um so we got up to um yeah so we said especially during Philo before and then we got up to the zoo right does that seem okay and this is true for my symptoms is a common expression in hazal in in our sages it's like hamburger and fries that was terrible but juvenile they go together trova means well we translate as repentance but it really means reinstatement and myself means good deeds mitzvahs so we always pair those two together two of them isometating so he explains this is the deeper meaning of that word pair myself what does it mean it means that in order to return to shova to get back to your Source mice and Tatum you do good deeds that when the body does hashem's will so at that moment the little princess the soul gets to go home at that moment she's home during that moment so he says this is juvenile my symptoms The Good Deeds that you do in order to return that portion of Hashem back to its source and the source of all worlds this is this should be your agenda your entire life and you should do it with joy he said the joy of the Soul leaving the Abominable body and returning to her father's house as in her youth when you're learning Torah and you're serving Hashem um you should spend in your in your entire life all of your days in a state of chuva what does that mean you should spend all of your days your entire life should be devoted to this agenda of doing those actions namely to our study doing good deeds prayer that give the little princess her ticket home it's her ticket home it's her you're teleporting her back to the Palace at that moment she's connected back to her source see her whole problem is she was sent out of her home she was sent into a body and it's a very forward experience for her it's a very uh jarring experience for her but you you comfort her and you that just comfort her like there there it's all better but you're not really changing anything you're actually changing things for her every time you do a Mitzvah because at that moment when you're connected to Hashem your body is connected your animal cells connected because it's doing hashem's will so then she gets to go home at that moment and a person should devote his or her entire life to that goal and you should do it with joy because it's a it's a it's a cause for Joy what could be a greater cause for Joy than the reinstatement of this pure pristine entity the the princess returning home There's No Greater Joy than going out from Exile and from imprisonment it's interesting what could be a Greater Joy than going out from Exile and imprisonment commercial Ben Malik now we have another Marshall we have another metaphor so till now our metaphor was the princess going back to her father's house now's the the metaphor of the prince there was a prince he was in prison he was doing hard labor specifically he was grinding a Mill and he was sitting all wretched on top of a trash Heap not sure if those go together pushing the mill and sitting on top of the trash Heap but he wasn't like a very wretched situation like it's like uh like a chain gang type like like a Cool Hand Luke type of situation probably for you so I don't even know what he said he was in prison yeah okay we don't have to go into it but those who get it get it okay and you could comment in the YouTube comments okay okay but he goes free Cool Hand Luke died in the chain guy he didn't got he did not go free but here he goes free yeah well you guys have got let out of prison yeah that's right El base Aviv and he gets to go home to his father's house who's his father the Father the king so there's no Greater Joy than a a prince who was in prison and gets to go free it's a great joy now imagine every time you do a mitzvah you are freeing this Noble prince who doesn't belong in such a disgusting place it's so incongruous for him to be there this portion of Hashem called your soul doesn't it doesn't make sense that it belongs in a body being steered by by the the whims of an animal soul foreign plight when you really think about it and this is such good news that we have an ability to instantaneously free the soul from that a very humiliating situation and the way that we do it is by by doing mixes now he addresses an issue he says you may accuse me of overly of painting an overly optimistic picture of what our Mitzvahs are able to achieve uh and you may say to me well that's all well and good but did I really change I mean I did the Mitzvah so temporarily I reinstated the connection of the soul back to its home its source but the reality is the body is still the body and the soul is going to have to come back to the body at least you know for the duration of its lifespan it's 120 years down here so he addresses that the Aftershock and although the body remains wretched and disgusting foreign body is called the the height of the serpent the hide the the skin of the snake um yeah it's like it's like a container and it's a gross container it's like yucky the body is just this nasty container that's what desire calls it um because the essence and uh being of the animal Soul has not been transformed to good to be subsumed within Holiness now we spoke about rare uh rare isolated almost unheard of occurrences where somebody's animal Soul becomes like a second Godly Soul remember where we described that you can tell goddamn the levusion oh that the lavushim the behaviors that's relatively easy to convert because you just do a good thing but I'm talking about the actual animal Soul meaning the person's drive and his proclivities and his desires his agenda to actually transform that from selfishness to complete altruism that Sadiq and not only not only matadik a more more precisely only the tadiq of a toy flight only the side of the table otherwise known as the toddy gum work very good which was in chapter just guess no a little later 13's too far Nine's close ten ten okay so the prizes you get nachas for they're proud of yourself there's no trick no no and I wouldn't want you to use a trick but knowing where things are in Tanya should be like if I would ask you can you give me directions to JFK did you memorize it you didn't memorize it you just know where it is so if you stop and you think oh yeah okay there you turn on the turnpike and then because it's just something that you're familiar with so no don't memorize it just just keep learning Tanya and it'll become and I told you guys last week you don't have to know exactly to the chapter but you should know whereabouts you could find things okay so it's very very rare that the animal Soul would become holy it happens for outside the Gummer it's just not a normal thing okay um so what we're saying is even though we have this power to bring the princess or the prince home it doesn't change the fact that the prison itself meaning the body remains remains what it is yeah it is what it is Macomb Mall came nevertheless now here's an interesting and a very powerful concept which is in my opinion probably the most important I hate to say this because a judgment call but in my opinion the most important takeaway from the chapter and it continues being important later on McCormick nevertheless you should cherish your soul literally means you should you should find it precious in your eyes cherish your soul is and to rejoice in its Joy greater than in The Wretched body don't allow the sadness over your body to disrupt your joy over your soul follow that in other words he doesn't deny the fact that this bringing the princess home to the Palace doesn't really affect the body but he says you have to choose what to be more attentive to and what to care about more so I would use the word identification I think that would be the word I would use identification when you're looking at the situation a couple of things are happening it's a complex situation the soul is returning to its source and is is extremely relieved and comforted the body is sort of just remaining a dumb body um and as soon as the Mitzvah is over it's going to want what it always wants um but you have to decide with whom you identify more and therefore which aspect of this story is more relevant to you you could I could do an anti-tanya right now the anti-tanya would be yeah sure here's the anti-tanya and every time you do a Mitzvah your soul goes back to its source but who cares because at the end of the day we all know we're just bodies and your body's not changing and it still wants all the Comforts of this world and oh big deal you did a Mitzvah but that didn't change the fact that you still are crass and selfish and and and all you want is physical comfort so who cares yeah that would be like the anti-tanya but here's what the real Tanya says the real Tanya says yeah I know that your body is going to remain a body and its desires meaning the animal Soul are going to remain animalistic I know but I want you to identify more with The Godly soul you know when you read a book how do you know who's who's the protagonist and who's the antagonist it's a famous discussion is the one who gets more words who's in more scenes not necessarily it's a very strong character 's trying to do well hopefully they're both uh just they both reveal the theme so the protagonist is the one trying to achieve the goal and the antagonist is one trying to thwart the goal okay so how do you know what the goal is what resonates with you and that is the answer ultimately it's totally subjective it's what resonates with you so the fact that you say oh I really need this guy to achieve his goal and I hope this guy doesn't achieve his goal why it's very subjective so I don't agree I think it's who the author identifies with yeah but that itself is subjective that's yeah it's the message coming from well we are our own authors you might you might you hear it but there's definitely a protagonist there that's clear and an antagonist that's clear the author's point yeah but you see here's the thing the author clearly wants you to identify the right protagonist yes okay it's not arbitrary but the things that make us identify with a particular character as the protagonist are arbitrary well I I don't I wouldn't call them arbitrary but they're they're highly subjective uh uh I wonder if an AI would be able to identify in in some like post-modern literature I wonder if an AI would be able to identify the the uh protagonist and the antagonist ultimately it comes down to who you identify with now obviously a good author knows how to manipulate that okay but those things themselves are not objective criteria it's not like saying well if the goal is World Peace then that's automatically the protagonist of the book not necessarily I mean it should be objectively you would think it would be but subjectively that's not how how we work it's really identification that's the word I was using for identification so in this story who do you identify with there are two important characters here um and we mentioned in chapter 29 that by default we all identify with the body in the animal soul because we yeah we do we do vacillate well if you if you learn Tanya hopefully you've isolate more um because it becomes more uh relevant to you that there is a soul and that not only there is a soul you are a soul but what I'm saying is in chapter 29 when he was talking about smashing the ego and he said well smash the ego smash yourself because you and your ego are interchangeable what was he talking about saying practically speaking fall intents and purposes we identify with the the body the ego the animal drive and therefore if you want to attack that you attack yourself that's what he was saying in chapter 29. now over here he's flipping it he's literally flipping it and he's saying yeah but what I want you to do is identify with your Godly soul now you just told me in chapter 29 that the default is I identify with my animal assault and he's saying here yeah I know that's the default I want you to consciously try to identify with your with your Godly Soul wow how well first of all just by thinking about it Divine Consciousness making the choice thinking about it the metaphor is supposed to help the metaphor is supposed to help um it's about developing an emotional attachment I mean did you ever move cities and you have to change which sports team you care about okay no I never did that no you're a Yankee venue where you live on Consciousness So Divine Consciousness here means consciousness of your own Divine yeah what just to be conscious of your own Divinity and to make that your identity not just to say I have a soul but to convince yourself I am a soul okay back to that um the metaphor yeah we more length about the prince and there was one line about the prince yeah I'm just curious about that why did the Bible you know why even mentioned the prince what did that add okay it's a very good question you're taking Tanya very seriously like what did it add you're right because you if it didn't add something why did the balotella add it why did he say it um I would assume it was to incorporate the aspect of the metaphor of hard labor and I would assume that at least in a metaphor it doesn't conventionally work to describe the princess as being subjected to hard labor so he does he does both genders but he gives a lot more space to the princess um the I and I think the princess is the primary metaphor um the soul itself is is feminine nashama is a famine the feminine word um and uh it has feminine quality sometimes the soul is called the boss coin here it's called the basmelech but often the soul is called the bass coin the daughter of the coin the Kohinoor the priest yeah uh yeah the soul is is feminine so that's probably why the princess gets more ink as far as a metaphor but uh elevated when you do a Mitzvah yeah right then the Soul obviously comes it's it's it it doesn't come back to the body or is it still in the body still in the body okay but at that moment when the body is doing hashem's will the body is actually helping it's helping the soul so instead of this the instead of the body being an interruption between right it becomes a catalyst it doesn't seem completely it's in sync yeah like we learned about in chapter 23 remember chapter 23 we learned about the Chariot when you do the Mitzvah that moment so then you become like a chariot to the Divine will that different than the soul returning we discussed the soul well it's the same thing I mean it's just two different aspects of one thing there's the effect on the body which is um at that moment the body becomes a catalyst or a vehicle and then there's the effect on the and the body doesn't really feel anything I mean that's kind of what makes it a body it's kind of just dumb but the soul is consciousness and it is incredibly relieved when that happens now we also spoke with the fact that after it's done it doesn't really change the body the body can go right back to its default and its old agenda it's old MO even though it was just serving as a as a vehicle to do a Mitzvah it happens to the soul is basically unchanging and it's its agenda um it is yeah I don't it's it's it's single-minded the the soul just wants connection to Hashem that's it that's all it wants and sometimes it gets it which is this wonderful um cause for joy that we're describing and sometimes it doesn't get it which is a cause for profound frustration which is also what we're speaking about uh basically what we've been describing is um so then the body does body does change because the the person is not is agitated because the body and the Soul are not in sync when the body and swallowing yeah the question is question is who's actually getting frustrated here and and I would I would say that probably to understand this properly we're talking about the nefta circus which we don't speak about often but it's the intermediary between the The Godly soul and the animal soul and it's uh it's an intelligent Soul which is not necessarily um drawn to holiness doesn't need to do Mitzvahs per se but it appreciates abstraction so it's open to the idea of of spirituality yeah intellectual soul but that that's yeah like Seiko yeah and that's basically the interface that we're using to communicate and to sort of do shuttle diplomacy between the the animal saw and The Godly Soul so that's what's getting frustrated because we're explaining when we're learning Tanya the never syphilis is understanding what should be a cause for frustration and what should be a cause for joy the default is we assumed that cause the cause for frustration is when the body and its and its Drive meaning the animal Soul cannot meet their their needs that's the default understanding well what's frustrating when my body and my animal cell can't meet their needs now we're introducing a new concept which is well hold on maybe you could identify with The Godly soul and what's frustrating is that The Godly soul is is confined to this to this situation here where it's it's it has to basically beg in order to be reinstated to any type of comfortable situation is suppressed why what word are you saying suppressed yeah okay suppressed yeah by the animal the animals God are so suppressed by the animal so yes that's accurate so at where does that fit into this because then what happens is the that's the frustration Godly souls in prison that's the metaphor we're using that's the so the the question we're asking ourselves is identity check are you the prison or are you the prisoner so the default is we identify more with the body meaning the prison he's asking you to identify more with the soul meaning the prisoner and that the cause for joy in your life should be those moments of Liberation when the prisoner gets to go home meaning when the princess goes back to her father's Palace when you do a Mitzvah that should be your cause for joy and the cause for frustration should be when she's not able to do that so maybe I could I could put it another way he's not really telling us how to have more frust more joy and less frustration in life he's telling us what the proper things to be frustrated about are and what the proper things to be joyous about are in other words before I open Tanya I got frustrated when they forgot to put the ketchup in my order of fries because they always forgotten you tell them you're right please extra ketchup you have to write extra so they even put one packet and that's very frustrating when they don't do that right that's a animal Soul frustration and and um Association I'm just trying to say things that are Universal I thought that everyone could relate to so those are those are the default frustrations he's flipping and saying no that shouldn't be what frustrates you what should frustrate you is this little princess every morning gets up and she's like can we please go home can we please go to the palace and you're like yeah after I check my email no let can we learn something can we go diving please I'm begging let's go home that should be the frustration you get frustrated that we get frustrated by our animal Souls desires that's something yeah yeah definitely definitely I what's the difference between the nephesh and the Machine difference between an efficient and ashama I mean nishama is a specific level we use we use a lot of these terms very generally in Kabbalah these terms are used very accurately and they're actually used even more accurately not only we speak about nefert and the shama but we speak about sub-levels there's many different sub categories here in Tanya except in cases where it is pertinent to distinguish between the levels we're using the terms very very generally yeah so like right now there's not a there's there's not really a practical difference I I sometimes explain that the difference between Kabbalah consider this is like uh calculus and engineering so like an engineer needs to know calculus but only in as much as he needs to make sure that the bridge stands so a lot of these technical terms we use like an engineer uses mathematics like it it's good enough that the bridge is gonna it it's practical this is about practical application so if if that and don't get me wrong There Are Places and consists that will explain to you very very precisely what's the difference between that fish and the ruach and the shama but yeah right now we're using the terms very generally which is good enough for the context yeah yeah The Rook is the bottom level the navigation is the lowest level yeah yeah and then yeah and then there's even higher levels yeah does that mean that when the soul is working really really hard like at level say about static yeah they would go to gedida I don't know because I don't even want to think about it because no honestly because because I just want to stay focused what he's explaining here he's not getting into levels he's not getting into levels um I like working really hard well something works hard but in a totally different way than we were because it's not there's no resistance okay fine let's but let's let's stay focused here okay I want to continue here um so he says you should value your soul more than your body you should take joy in the joy of the soul and don't allow the sadness of the body to interfere with that okay I'm continuing this is literally Exodus like it says and the nation ran they ran very interesting little pirush on a possuk from the precious Bashar Hotel this is very strange why did they run if at that moment they would have told parai we're leaving forever see they only told them we're leaving temporarily but even if they would have told them we're leaving forever and don't you dare chase us at that moment I mean later on Pottery was crazy and he chased them but at that moment what do they have to they they could have sauntered out of there why were they running at that moment Pare was devastated was devastated so why were they running element but because the selfishness that was in the hearts of the Jewish people themselves was still in its full force in the left ventricle remember like we learned early early chapters chapter one even we learned about that because the spiritual filth did not depart from them until the giving of the Torah sign I in other words when they were fleeing Egypt it was not that they were fleeing from a pursuer but they were fleeing later the yes later Pharaoh did pursue but at the moment they left Egypt and they were running they were not fleeing from a pursuer they were fleeing so that they themselves wouldn't get drawn back in because they still had a part of themselves that was still attracted to that evil so he's describing this now on a micro level for each individual at the very moment of your you'd see a Smith when you do a Mitzvah and you bring that princess back to our home there's still very much a viable part of you that is active and conscious that says hey wouldn't it be nice to go back to the garbage you're like oh my gosh we're finally free and you're talking about garbage but he says compartmentalize compartmentalize Identify with the joy and the relief that The Godly soul is having when you do the Mitzvah and be annoyed be frustrated with the silliness of the animal Soul it just doesn't get it their entire agenda was to get out of there get The Godly soul out of there get it away from the from the evil and from the impurity of Egypt and to go cleave to Hashem who could receive like it says Hashem Hashem is my my strength and my fortress on the day of my pain Miss Gabby Minutemen he's my Fortress leave a gamer he is my again my Fortress therefore in the future meaning when mashiach comes and when Hashem eradicates all evil from the world you know what it says it says they will not have to take uh refuge in a fortress Hashem will go before them until all evil is eradicated where there is some degree of needing to take refuge from it lest it foreign will be with greater intensity from the depth of your heart and also the joy of the soul will be with greater light and joy Kasha yahshua Libre Das UTV when you say to yourself to comfort yourself from your from your pain and you say the above mentioned uh monologue hey Ms Kulu yes it's true remember we had that little uh monologue so having the monologue again yes it's true what's true what's true is I do have a body and it does have a ridiculous agenda and it is constantly disrupting me but I didn't make myself I didn't come up with this concept I did not come up with the idea that the princess should be a prisoner Hashem came up with that and why did Hashem do this this is a very important question because otherwise it's just self-pity with no resolution and it just saps us of our will to go on this is not supposed to do this this is supposed to motivate us it's supposed to be motivating so why did ashant do this what a crazy idea to take this beautiful little princess and put her in such a disgusting scary situation so why did Hashem do this who fills all worlds and yet transcends all worlds and before whom all is not and Hashem took himself and he invested himself in the trivia and in the fetid drop you know the piercing office is where do you come from you come from affected drop Angel it is only so that this descent can become a greater ascent to elevate with her the vitalizing soul the animal soul and all the clip and all of her clothing meaning her behaviors we're talking about her thoughts and speech and her action so basically what we're saying is in order for the clippersnaga the neutral Clipper of the animal soul and the body and Its Behavior is known as garments see chapter four to be elevated the garlic sauce to come down as that agent to elevate them so it's only Through The Godly Soul working within the confines of a body that her Mitzvahs Elevate the body he slapped by myself through the um Godly Soul being or rather through the animal soul being invested or it's through the animal Souls thought speech and action being invested in the thoughts of each and action of tairo commissions and as we explain a little bit later how this is actually the entire point of the world see here he's explaining why it's the point of your life why this justifies this crazy situation that you're in later on chapter 35 36 37 he's going to explain why this justifies the creation of the universe that not only does this explain your purpose this explains the purpose of the cosmos it's all for the sake of this elevation elevation of the physical of the of the mundane of the non-holy the Shabbos would disengage from it actually no no then there's a stress there's all these things yeah but the six days are more of our actually being involved in the physical world to elevate them and Shabbos the elevation happens automatically so Hashem took a piece of his light which is Shem took a piece of his light which is our in the shop and invested it in a body so that we could so we could Elevate the body okay so then you're asking the next question well why did the Trump create the body so that's your question is exactly what he's alluding to in the brackets when he says oh and by the way if you want to get even deeper and say well why do you need that he says we're going to talk about that later later on chapters 35 36 37 he explains he explains why the purpose of all creation was for this elevation of the physical in other words there's two stages here of the argument one is um just on a micro level to take comfort in the fact yeah it's it's it's seemingly inexplicable why this princess has to be down here in prison ah but the explanation is she's supposed to elevate the prison she's supposed to turn that person into a little uh yeah yeah but but then you could ask another question which is well why is that valuable he says okay for that we'll talk about that later on we'll talk about that later on why that's actually hashem's entire purpose in creating the world but for now we're just explaining in the context of why this justifies the peculiar situation that the soul is in on an individual level what we would go quote we would grow close to Hashem that's like an ultimate good thing yeah and interestingly he's interestingly he's not saying interestingly here he's not saying that it provides closeness with Hashem interestingly here he's not saying and it provides an Alia for the for the nephrol accuse he is saying that it refi it refines the nephjabamus and the and the body um it's it's a it's a I mean they're all true it refines the body right because when you use the body as the vehicle to do God's will as a conduit right so that refines the body so the purpose of the soul to come down was not for itself she's not coming down here for herself she's coming down for the effect that she'll have on her body and her animal soul and her physical environment with which she will interact so could you say that the purpose is in this scenario for the um Godly soul to elevate the prison and refine the prison yeah so that it becomes God's palace right she leaves the palace and goes to the prison to make the prison a second home for our shop yes yes and that's her purpose and even though it's very frustrating we can take comfort that that is a mission it's a mission that she's on she's not just being tortured or punished she's on a mission she went on a mission yeah yeah yeah is the language he's going to use in those later chapters where he explains it on the macro about why this is the purpose of the universe now on this Mission when she does the mitzvos and elevates the physical yeah the physical doesn't feel it the physical doesn't feel it because yeah the the the soul has Consciousness or is consciousness the physical does not have Consciousness so the the irony is though that in in heaven the spiritual entities are extremely aware of God but they're in a subjective relationship with him they can only behold godliness ironically by being plunged into a physical body where the physical body has no consciousness of its own it can actually surrender to a point of being an extension of God it acts as the vehicle to do God's will so it has an objective relationship as a as opposed to a subjective relationship and that's the that's the advantage of the physical which will speak about more and why Hashem specifically desires a home in that in that type of reality in a physical world well the the okay I don't want to get derailed into a side conversation but um the the the soul in heaven experiences profound pleasure in Hashem because that's what all that's all it is it's just Consciousness and awareness and understanding down here in a body there's very little Consciousness awareness and understanding all that gets muted but down here you could actually surrender to and become an extension of godliness so it's like do you want to see godliness or do you want to be godliness be working really hard that's another discussion about the preciousness of the struggle and the value of overcoming the resistance these are all true aspects however let's just reel it back here the one that he focuses on here is the effect that the soul has on the physical world the body surrenders that's right well the the soul doesn't have to surrender it's already surrendered it has no will apart from God's will the body has a will of its own it needs to give that up isn't it by the sole identity by us identifying with our soul so the body automatically takes second place and follows the soul belief if we follow through on it yes yes yes we have to follow through in that moment of inspiration in that moment that you'd see us which Ryan we have to do it we have to we have to have the awareness in the moment of your tia Smith term when we do the mitzvah we have to have the awareness okay and we're also a physical body that can yeah yeah yeah yeah to yeah we should ideally be conscious of what yeah exactly that the body is still a body I mean he makes that amply clear in this chapter but it's an amazing thing that even temporarily the body can act as the agent to do the bidding of this princess when you do a Mitzvah the body is making it possible the soul can't do a Mitzvah without a body because Mitzvahs are physical actions so at the moment you're doing a Mitzvah not only is the body not getting in the Soul's way the body is actually assisting an indispensable fashion the soul could this be classified as yet um it's more accurate to say it's interesting earlier I was saying we're not we don't have to be so accurate with our terms but here it's an it's a more helpful distinction to say like use yeah yeah okay let's let's finish up the chapter here okay let's see if we can finish today uh because there's a little bit more of a Twist coming up okay nothing okay um the imkane A5 is if so this is going to be my entire agenda for my entire life what is my agenda for my entire life see there you go you have different levels I'm going to take my life and my spirit and my soul and to cause it to be absorbed within hashem's life like it says to you Hashem I lift up my soul what does it mean to you Hashem I lift up my soul yeah it is a Psalm but what's it talking about when it says to you I shall I lift up my soul that myself I should identify with the song the soul should take priority I'm putting it above my body when I do a Mitzvah very simple to you I shall I lift up my soul means when I do a mitzvah the the princess goes home the princess goes home so you are my lift up my soul means the princess goes home spells it out to take my thought and my speech and attach them to hashem's thought and Hashem speech how do we know Hashem start in speech are we prophets very good okay so by aligning my thought and speech with Hashem starting speech which means by thinking and speaking words of Torah we're lifting up the soul we're getting that princess back home the hey no you want to know more specifically learning hashem's will as outlined in maisa also physical action but my submits was to align those with hashem's mitzvahs interesting Toyota is called office what is mean it Returns the soul restores the soul what does it mean Toyota restores the soul pierish limkade of Ashoka to its source and root Torah Returns the soul returns it to where to its source and root meaning your soul comes down into a body to do Mitzvahs and then the Mitzvahs return the soul to its pre-embodied connection with a ship and that's why the next thing it says the Mitzvahs of Hashem are upright and glad in the heart because what's a greater cause for Joy than mashiva snafish returning the soul to its source they figure that last princess being close to her father so when the Lost Princess gets to go home to the Palace for the duration of the mitzvah that there's no Greater Joy There's No Greater Joy than that I hold on a second it's not a pure joy there's another thing going on this stupid body the second I'm done with this Mitzvah is it going to come yapping and he's going to come and tell yeah but let's do this and listen I know I know it's coming but you know what that just adds to the texture of this whole scenario so that should keep me motivated because I know that I didn't solve the problem once and for all this is not a this is this is not like one and done oh we figured out the fix I know this is going to continue to be a struggle but I know the solution and I know who the protagonist is I know who I am identifying with um and by the way the animal cell is not even the antagonist right so but the antagonist sometimes in a conflict in a dramatic conflict isn't actually another character it's a situation so the dysfunctional situation is when the body and the animal Soul are running our lives and that's the real antagonist but it's when there's a favorable resolution to the conflict what happens is that we we see the animal cell isn't really an antagonist if it's in control of Our Lives that's that's dysfunctional but when it's serving as a catalyst or a vehicle a chariot for The Godly soul to achieve her goals then everybody wins everybody wins yeah what's the default State the default State look at a baby animal selfishness I'm hungry well I'm gonna scream until everyone comes and does whatever I need to comfort me so the default and that's why we're not morally accountable to about until Barabas Mitzvah because the The Godly soul is not fully not even partially integrated to the extent that we're capable of consistently making moral choices until the mind is developed enough at 12 years for a girl in 13 years for a boy