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Text-Based Tanya—Week #67
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We begin Ch. 39 in which we continue our discussion about the different levels of kavanah (intent.) What is the difference between instinctive and intellectual emotions? For more classes from Rabbi Shais Taub visit https://www.soulwords.org/ 👉 Share & Connect: Follow on Instagram: instagram.com/rabbi_shais_taub Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rabbi_shais_taub Subscribe to WhatsApp: https://wa.me/15164953021/?text=Subscribe 👉 Support our work at: https://www.soulwords.org/donate/ --OR-- PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/soulwordspayments CashApp: https://cash.app/$soulwords Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/soulwords
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all right weekly text-based Tanya we are
on chapter 30
39 very good very very good
okay just a little review a little
review I only want I'm not going to go
back to the first chapter of Tanya I
want to just go back to chapter 35.
just back to 35.
in chapter 35
we addressed the issue
that debate me the person's following
the guidance of the altarebit
experiences a crisis
I'm saying back in chapter 35 where he
basically says he or she says
what's the point of this program called
Tanya where I know that the best I'll
ever achieve is behavioral Perfection
and I'll never be rid of my internal
conflict
and basically we answer power this
person what
so
what are the answers
oh the power of action the power of
action yeah
so we say the the person well maybe you
want you need to understand better the
power of action I'll use those words
okay uh and we said explicitly that even
if someone were at sadik meaning they
did have internal Perfection the only
way that they can actually make a real
difference and achieve the purpose for
which
the world was created and for which
their soul was sent here is really only
through action not through their amazing
insides their amazing intellect and
emotions and we basically focused on
that theme for three chapters 35 36 and
37.
as we came to chapter 38
we
sort of addressed
you know classic Jewish argument always
has to
present a point and a Counterpoint
though on the other hand on the other
hand
um and it's not contradiction it's
basically it's in order to address all
the nuances of a complex subject so last
you oversimplify things and think that
because we said that action is so
important and action is what transforms
the World and Action is what makes
the physical world a dwelling place for
Hashem unless you oversimplify that and
you think well oh then all I need to do
is focus on action so chapter 38 comes
in and says hey
there's more to it than just action
there's also
intent Havana very good
okay and as I explained to you last week
the reason that intent or kavana is
important is not is not important for a
different reason than why action is
important it's re it's important for the
same reason
remember we spoke about maybe it wasn't
last week maybe it was two weeks ago the
whole concept of making the dwelling
place for Hashem but it's not well lit
through our actions we can transform the
physical world into a long place for
Hashem but the degree to which that
Dwelling Place will actually shine so to
speak when mashir comes that's uh to be
determined
and will be commensurate to the degree
of kavana with which we do our Mitzvah
so yes the critical factor is the doing
without the doing then nothing gets
transformed but there is a a spectrum of
intensity to which this will actually
um
be
will reveal its godliness and that that
intensity
is on a Continuum that is based on how
much cavana we put into our Mitzvahs
remember we spoke about that a couple
weeks ago okay
and in chapter 38 which we finished we
focused mostly on the idea of different
levels of kavana actually two different
levels of cavano remember this
uh we spoke about
really four levels but two of them are
two levels of Mitzvah acts and then two
levels are levels of Mitzvah intent
so let's just review that what we spoke
about last week we had the four levels
of correspond to inanimate vegetative
animal and human so the bottom two
levels correspond to two levels of
Mitzvah acts the lowest level the
inanimate those are Mitzvahs that are
done through pure action
then the higher level vegetative that's
like Mitzvahs that are done through
speech
or thought thank you
and then you have the top two levels
which are two levels of intent so the
lower levels the one that corresponds to
animals and that is the intent that
comes from our natural inborn love and
awe of God which is hardwired into the
neshama we've learned about that at
length back in chapters 18-25
then the higher level which corresponds
to Human
is when the intent meaning the love and
the awe of God specifically is a product
of
meditation we thought ourselves into
love and awe of Hashem okay
so that's where we're up to right now as
we're about to start pediglomet test
Chapter 39.
yeah
okay
so let's
jump in
um
this is why
what is why
what we're talking about last week
that
the level of intent
that corresponds to animal
is a love that comes from
it's instinctive it's instinctive so
this is why I mean that concept from
last chapter
some that some of the angels are called
Animals
like it says in the vision of The
Chariot and the face of a lion was on
the right in the face of the ox was on
the left in fact there are
um animals who are not animals there are
angels who are called Animals we call
them the Hayes
they're holy animals yeah they're angels
and they're called Animals
you ever heard of the highest akadish
we say it in davening
in Birches when we're yeah
they say college
I love that response why are we talking
about angels let's talk about souls we
don't need to hear about angels
let Angels get their own Tanya this is
our book okay
it's a great I love the attitude but let
me let me explain to you he's explaining
to you the level of kavana which comes
from your native
inborn instinctive love and all of a
chef so he says by the way
there are angels who love Hashem
instinctively
just what they do like the birds know
how to fly south for the winter you know
well like the beaver knows how to build
the dam you know they just know how to
didn't go to college for that they just
do it right
so the Angels instinctively serve Hashem
and they're called Animals
they're called Animals
the Fisher they are not they don't have
free choice
they're all and love of Hashem is
instinctive for them
you want to know more about that read
right Muhammad of partials that's from
the zaihar
Volo
therefore this is what you wanted to
know the level of tadiq is higher than
the angels
why keep Mother Nature
the level now we're going to talk a lot
about levels different levels different
worlds
you know about the four worlds there are
many more than four worlds but just
generally four systems of reality which
are parallel to each other the highest
one is called Silas is the world of
emanation it is a world that is hardly a
world that can barely qualify as a world
a world in incredish is
which is from the etymological root the
sharedish which is halem which is
concealment a world is a concealment it
is a system which hides Creator behind
creation so the first world is at silos
the world of emanation it could hardly
even be called a world it's so uh
so thin flimsy
emanation emanation but don't don't even
write the word emanation because it's
not a normal word that anyone has used
in conversation this year
I'm just trans I'm just TR I'm
translating atcillos means emanation
but don't write that down because that
doesn't mean anything because you don't
even know what an emanation is who tell
me what's an emanation it's a thing I
don't know what's an emanation
it emanates yeah that's right lamination
it comes out of something yeah okay
don't worry about it it's just it's just
the name of it
it's just the name of it what
what
actually it's not yishmai no
no Bria is
ilos can it's not even it's not even a
yish
the highest world
is so
um bottled it is so nullified
that it barely qualifies as a world
what's a world okay let's talk about
this what's going on there what's going
well what's going on in every world was
God every God what's going on with God
the question as to what degree do you
perceive it and at Silas you perceive it
so well that I'll put it this way
there's an expression that inazilos
everything is the opposite as as it is
in the other three worlds
it's interesting because
yeah the other there's that Silas and
then there's the other three worlds
in the in Bria yitzira Asia and I'll
translate those for you but it doesn't
mean anything but yeah means creation
utsira means formation Asia means making
you can write it down if you want it
doesn't mean anything
in the other three Worlds the lower
three worlds
we say that
and the Locos is
that the concept of world is taken for
granted that is axiomatic
and the concept of godliness is abstract
whereas in at Silas it's the exact
opposite that velt is
the concept of a world is a
philosophical idea up there and the
concept of God is empirical reality
okay so when you're talking about at
Silas you're talking about a world where
the idea of creation is theoretical and
Creator is practical
who lives there
um there are special and entities in
azulus called natsalim
emanations that hang out in the world of
emanation what we're going to find out
we're going to find out let's just hold
on and find out
what do you mean is
these levels I mean we've spoken about
them before and Tanya
we've spoken about the worlds before
we spoke about our Tillerson chapter two
back in chapter two we spoke about at
Silas
why
has everything to do with us
say they're stouseless there's a system
it's a process yeah world upon world
upon world
yeah yeah that's true
okay
so what's the discussion going on what's
the what are you trying to
why
okay well you could ask me about it they
could ask me that
what do you want to know
what
as the battle three worlds intertwined
with each other what does intertwined
mean
you received the question but you didn't
get them yeah
okay we're passing out mushrooms in the
back over there
okay
all right
so atsilos is a lofty world it's so
lofty it could hardly be considered a
World
Bria is the next World
Bria is already more of a solid world
where the entities there already have
more of a concept of self
now it's still very very lofty it's a
spiritual world the world where
angels and souls reside
and very very lofty angels for that
matter but it's uh it's lower than at
silos
even lower and over there
you have more sense of selfhood where
the entities have a greater sense that
they uh
they're they're surrendered to Hashem
but they they feel like they exist and
they have an existence which they
surrender to Hashem
and then yeah that's Asia Asia is the
lowest world
and Asia has two parts to it it has the
spiritual a part of asea and has the
physical part of us here Asia is the
only world that has a Physical Realm
the physical universe is totally within
asea
that's that's the lowest World okay so
it'll be helpful for the next couple of
chapters to remember
Asia okay
um
so what did we just say we said that the
Angels serve Hashem with instinctive
emotions
and therefore they're called animals and
therefore the tadikem are higher than
them because the Sadiq him have free
choice they don't do it instinctively
automatically they do it by choice
and therefore the level of the tsadiq is
higher than the level of the Angels the
angels are on what level what did we say
where's their Dwelling Place
the Angels Bria Bria
and the level I'm sorry yitzira I'm
sorry thank you thank you yeah yeah and
the level of the sadikim
what
so here what we okay so things are going
to get more complex later because
there are angels
yes there are different Angels yes yes
but right now the angels that we're
speaking about the highest the angels
that are called animals are on the level
of yitzira
and that Sadiq came around the level of
Brio so the angels are on a lower level
why not
okay we'll make a motion to change yeah
the term why sweet
everything's here because we're talking
about dimensions
at Silas is also here everything's here
I mean
it's all right here the question is what
do we perceive
these are not spatial these are not
Realms that are made of
three-dimensional space it's not like
you can locate them on a map
there are other planes of of reality
it's a good question
I don't know
I'm not sure if there's a way of knowing
specifically which Angels they were
but the generic Angels stom angels are
Hayes and they're from the level of
yitzira and they're emotional they serve
Hashem emotionally
I thought instinctive that's the same
that's synonymous emotional and
instinctive or synonymous yes yeah okay
let me explain that better
um when I say emotionally I mean
instead of the emotions being born from
intellect it's just they go straight to
the emotion
which is why we call it instinctive
as opposed to the level of that sadikim
where they start with the intellect and
they meditate and they create emotions
so we're talking basically about two
levels of kavana intellectual and
emotional now all kavana is emotional
because all kavanas love and all of God
but the question is are the emotions
from emotions are the emotions from
intellect you follow
good okay
uh
uh no they're from one or the other
okay
we're talking about generic angels
don't get confused there are higher
level angels
in the world of Bria
they serve Hashem with love and awe that
are
intellectual loving all
right
like it says over there which is a
section of Desire
here's your taxonomy
when you go to your uh
tour of the higher worlds
tivium
you have Heiser kadish which are
instinctive which are intellectual your
commission because of a time like it's
explained in
vital's it's high
but I have those Shiba name who the
difference between them is
IRA
hello
the Middle East of Hashem are shining
the emotional traits which means the
love and the awe of Hashem
equations
like it says
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that the six spheroes that means the
emotional spheros are called the six
figures they
they hang out they nest
in yitzira
so follow this the four worlds
have different characteristics
yitzira
is generally characterized as
corresponding to the emotions the six
emotions you know what the six emotions
are
you say
no not malcolors that would be seven
you really want to get confused
okay you know what go ahead since you
brought it up it's not an emotion what
is it what is it it's not an emotion it
is the receptacle where the emotions are
deposited and then turned into
expression
yes and which world would that
correspond to
if the six emotions correspondence
okay good
making something out of it right okay
all right
good
hmm
recycling is expression well I mean
Marcus's expression it's not recycling
it's it's not it's
taking the raw materials and building
something out of it
okay
how we doing
hanging in there
are you wishing for earlier chapters of
Tanya they didn't speak so much about
angels and worlds
I warned you a couple weeks ago that
these chapters are tough remember when I
told you a couple weeks ago I said I've
been dreading these chapters for a year
oh you weren't here a couple weeks ago I
said I've been dreading these chapters
because I'm talking about angels and
about higher worlds and it's
sometimes it can feel like well what
does it have to do with me okay but just
hang in there it all has to do with us
and we're going to get through this
all right
um
this is the way the malach and the
angels serve Hashem all the time day and
night without rest serving standing
before him with awe
foreign
you have the whole Camp of Gabriel on
the left Gabriel is an angel of that's
why his name is Gabriel
yeah an angel of on the left
is
cool then you have the angel Mahal who
is on the right love has it on the right
however
that was yitzira let's talk about Bria
you understand yitzira is an emotional
world and everything there is defined by
the emotions the six emotions which the
six emotions basically break down into
two categories right and left love and
awe we know this we've learned this
before
everything in yitzira comes down to
emotion that's how we categorize
everything in utsira we categorize it
emotionally
because that's the
That's the basis of reality in that
world
just like maybe in the physical world
you would speak about things in terms of
their physical location
you would describe everything in terms
of where it is on the emotional Spectrum
is it right is it left okay hold on hold
up this is highly complex I just want to
push through here
however he says however
but he is a higher world than Utz
there is
which is the source and the mother of
the emotions
you could use a bit to call him like it
says this
eternal mother
the Supreme mother nests in the three
sphere eyes
which are the three intellectual spheres
which is
okay very good chapter three yeah that's
you're saying where it says that the
intellect are the mothers of the
emotions that is in chapter three
excellent I was gonna even ask that but
I didn't want to break the flow but no
that's great that's great that you
remember that okay
does everyone have the map
just just let's not get let's not get
complex let's just keep it really really
super simple okay how many worlds do we
have okay so far we've only spoken about
two of them really
we spoke about Bria and yitzira okay
we really only spoke about Bria brie is
an intellectual world yitzira is an
emotional world that's all we said for
yeah just the right and the left
correspond to the ventricles as well I
don't know
I don't know I'd want to get complex I
don't want to I don't wanna
no probably not okay
do we have this much clear
am I losing you in the back
yeah
yes yes yes
our our emotional Angels there so you
have the camp or the camp of Gabriel in
the camp of Mahal you have the Buddha
camp in the Hassan Camp once you're
defining things in terms you're talking
probably about yatira because that's
where everything gets defined according
to emotions what we're going to say
the email I'm not going to say much
about it I just want to keep it really
really brief it's BINA
and it's in which world
but yeah that's it that's all you need
to know that's all you need to know okay
okay
okay let's keep moving here
look you know I I was just talking to
somebody not in real life but an email
who told me she is in a Tanya class
where they took eight and a half years
to get through Tanya oh my God and I was
thinking what
no they met every week but you know what
they did you know what they did
every interesting question that everyone
asked they would discuss it
we don't have time for that okay so yeah
I know sometimes it feels very harsh
when I'm like I don't want to talk about
it it's too confusing but we would be
here it would take us eight and a half
years to get through time yet so okay
I don't have a source for it if that's
the thing I don't like to say things
based on maybe not I don't like to say
things
when somebody asks me is this this
I don't like to rely on
um
my my common sense if I've learned it
explicitly then okay
all right
let's keep moving let's keep moving this
is tough stuff
yeah don't worry about left and right
though because just it's not Exeter
Shava just because
okay because left and right here means
and they're different uh
emotions okay all right
all right
where are we up to
um
therefore you with me yes okay
Kim
this level the level of Bria
is the dwelling place of the sadikims
nishamas
is
love and awe that come from
Bina and Das
of the greatness of Hashem
and as explained before this level
of Love is called rusa de liba it's a
level of love that specifically comes
from intellectual appreciation
and that is what the Sadiq have and
that's why they hang out in brioche
because Bria is an intellectual world
um
and from this from this love this
intellectually born love that they have
they create a garment for the soul in
the world of sugar which is the higher
Ghanaian there's a guy named
so when these nishamas finish up after
120 and they get up to Ghanaian which is
Bria they say here's your wardrobe that
you made here's your clothes that you
made
all yurusa the liba these are levusim
now that you get to wear in gun Aiden
commercials yeah
The Higher One
ah
hello
all right this is a very very technical
line here
we're speaking specifically about the
level that is specifically technically
properly referred to as nashama
because there are other yeah they're
different levels of the soul and we've
been pretty sloppy about it so far
because it hasn't made a lot of
practical differences
this is the way I explain it you know
kabbalah is like math and so this is
like engineering so sometimes for
engineering purposes
we don't have to get so exact with the
math as long as the bridge will
stay out stay up right like okay so now
here's a little bit of a kabbalistic
thing don't get too nervous okay
we're talking about specifically the
level called nishamas which are
themselves intellectual
you know the different levels
specifically corresponds to intellect
the level of the tadikim the level of
their soul which is ruach
ruach
corresponds to emotion
is
and also all the other Jews who are not
sadikim who are generally serving Hashem
with instinctive loving of God
is foreign
through the
column the pipeline between the Lower
Granite and the higher ground
which takes them up to the higher
grounded which is
where they can have Delight in the ray
of the shrina
because
it created intellect only enjoys that
which it understands
if you don't understand it you don't
enjoy it Masha actually
meaning only that which it can
understand about the infinite
through
understanding hashem's
which are shining there in Bria
so what we're talking about is
you have these nishamas of tadiq and
we're saying the shamas we need really
nishamas meaning nishamas is opposed to
ruach
and they serve Hashem intellectually
meaning they think about the greatness
of Hashem to create love and all of
Hashem
and then commensurately they are
rewarded on the in in the world of Brio
which is an intellectual world and
basically what happens there what's the
reward the reward is the pleasure of
understanding Hashem
as much as can be understood
as opposed to what
when you serve Hashem with your natural
instinctive Jewish feelings for Hashem
and that would only go up to the level
of yitzira which is
well you know it's always Shabbos
get to go up to Bria
we have an Aliyah
yeah regular nisham is good to go up
uh
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yeah okay it's starting to get very
technical but let's just make let's keep
it very simple okay that Sadiq him get
rewarded in Bria because the way they
serve the Shem was with love and all
that came from from their intellect and
be is a world where hashem's intellect
shines
regular Jews generally are serving
Hashem with their love and avashham that
comes instinctively and so they get
rewarded in yitzira which is a world
where hashem's emotions shine yeah
whatever attached to Exotic
then you get the best of everything
that's the breath over in me
uh you know
that's true there you go yeah yeah okay
and and so do we go on if that's how you
take it then yes
yes very good
okay so you do you want it to take eight
and a half years to finish because I can
talk about this we could
yeah we could surf cheese and crackers
drink wine we could take eight and a
half years to go through Tanya okay all
right I'm sorry I want to keep I want to
keep especially especially because I
know these chapters are super technical
and by the way wouldn't you feel bad for
someone who has never come to this class
before and this will be their first time
no okay all right so let's keep moving
so
okay
Aiden finally
you mean because it's a high one and a
low one you wonder if there's a middle
one yeah like that's where Goldilocks is
yeah no I don't know I you know
Goldilocks a little this one is just
right this one's two this this one's to
that this one's just dry
okay
yeah
okay
yeah
yeah yeah
yeah
Reverend not Leah
yeah
oh my goodness I don't know
it's a very long chapter nine years yeah
okay let's keep moving
okay
um
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and this that these nishamas
Merit to
Ascend higher than angels
with natural love and awe we just said
that from time to time the even the
regular neshams get to go up to Brio
well hold on a second it means they get
to surpass the angels
because the angels are in Islam Hayes
are in yitzira generic angels are utsira
because they are emotional beings
instinctive creatures and so too most of
us are serving Hashem with instinctive
love and awe but yet
we get to go up the pipeline to Bria and
we're going higher than those angels how
is that possible how's that fair I know
is
because when they were in this world
when they were in their bodies they
would use their love and awe to
subjugate the Citra the other side
that is in their body
remember the angels are and they're
completely spiritual so they're not uh
hindered by physicality but the nishamas
when they're in the body yeah they have
what to overcome they have that
challenge of embodiment
whether it was to go away from Evil and
to break their desires
or whether it was to push themselves to
do something good so they were pushing
against some resistance and because of
that even though they are instinctive
but they're being instinctive in a way
that's more challenged and therefore
ultimately reaches to a higher level
yeah
and the souls in bodies are agents of
free choice to choose to choose evil God
forbid
and when they subjugate that negativity
they cause the glory of God to rise up
through the world in a manner of the
advantage of light that comes out of
Darkness okay so that explains why the
nishamas that are not Sadiq in the
shamas that are serving Hashem with
instinctive love and all
why they are able to ultimately surpass
the Angels who are also serving Hashem
with instinctive love and all because
the Angels aren't doing that in us in a
context of any resistance or challenge
we didn't get there yet
I said that
if they choose good the capital of to
subjugate the other side the stalker you
cut it
and it causes the glory of God to rise
up glory of God
like the advantage of light that comes
from dark okay
we
overcame yeah yeah
you know we're only talking about the
The Souls of non-sidaikum right now
because the souls of tadiq we understand
why they belong in Bria because their
love and all of God was intellectually
generated so it makes sense that they
get rewarded in an intellectual world in
the world of Bria now we're explaining
why regular souls should ever go up to
Bria even once in a while on Shabbos
38 that the light was from Covina
so this is colada right
right yes correct yeah we're still on
the same theme yeah saying that they
have that struggle take away that
instinctive like
the fact that they have that struggle
magnifies the value
of the spiritual energy that they're
putting out meaning it may be
categorically the same spiritual energy
the angels have meaning it's instinctive
loving of God but contextually it's
different because the ones that the
nishamas are are putting out has to go
through this resistance of a body
so it takes on greater value and lifts
their reward to a higher world
that's that's a wonderful question yeah
so then it should go even yeah I'll just
repeat what
yeah
yeah you should go even higher than at
Sonic because it's also doesn't have
resistance yeah so I believe the answer
is that at the end of the day even
though that Sadiq is it Sadiq they still
had to do their Sadiq
mission in a body it wasn't like an
angel who got to do the whole thing in a
ethereal State okay okay let's keep
going
a
call let's see how far we can get
mother in the show
we're talking about the level where the
nishamas Hang Out
literally where they stand
however their Torah and their Aveda
what's the difference you're talking
about the nishamas themselves as
entities and then we're talking about
their output their Toyota and their
Avida
what they what they accomplished
so you have
the nishama
as an entity unto itself
and then you have the creative output of
the nashama what the nashama was able to
accomplish
so now let's talk about Terrace
become absorbed within the tenspheres of
those worlds as opposed to the nashamas
which are observers in those worlds
they're not one with those worlds they
are inhabiting those worlds but their
Toyota and Aveda actually becomes part
and parcel of the fabric of those worlds
which are godliness itself
where the infinite light is completely
won Virginia
and categorically what are we talking
about that the level
of
when when they serve Hashem with
intellectual love and all then their
Tire renovator becomes one with the the
sphere is of Bria I mean they serve
Hashem with instinctive love and all
then they're telling innovator become
one with the
with the spirits of yitzira
um and within
themes
within the Spheres of Bria or even
within the spirits of yitzira for that
matter is invested the
which is utterly one with Hashem is
are totally one with the emanator
himself the infinite one
may he be blessed
okay so we're distinguishing between
where the nishamas hang out after
they're being rewarded
the nishamas as consciousness
so they are observing they are
inhabiting those spiritual Realms they
don't become on one with the scenery
they observe the scenery that's
pleasurable for them but then their
Torah and Avada that they put out those
actually become absorbed within the
islamice themselves and become one with
the godliness
either either both levels but depending
on which level of service we're talking
about then we're talking about a
different world yeah
yeah
is not accessible
yeah we haven't said that yeah we
haven't talked about any way of getting
to that level
so yeah you just spoke
Jessica
yes because we said that ultimately the
sphere is
are like those little Russian dolls
right
right there you go okay
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themselves don't become one with the
spirits of the four worlds
rather they stand there hanging out
either in Brio or utsira respectively
depending on how they serve the shed in
this world
and there in the in the in Ghanaian
whichever level they pertain to they
take Delight in the ray of the shrina
who is
which is the infinite light which is one
with the spheroes of the respective
World which they're inhabiting
and what is this light of the shrina
that they're basking in it is the light
of their own Torah and Aveda in other
words they are getting to see the effect
that they had so the pleasure that they
have
is basically they go to the vacation
home that they built
through their Toyota and Aveda while
they were in this world
because the reward of a Mitzvah is the
Mitzvah itself you follow the reward of
emits was the Mitzvah itself
so every time
that the souls and bodies down here
whenever they serve Hashem through
learning
doing mitzvahs
so they are creating
um
their own reward their own intrinsic
reward and then when after 120 years
when they go up there they bask in the
light of that which they made
okay
the next word
next two words
is the island silos
and he's going to start talk about it
silos
um
I don't think we're going to get into
that I don't think we're going to start
that I think it's a great place
to pause so let's just tie this all
together make sure we understand what's
going on okay
okay just just tie this all together
okay someone give me a pen so I can Mark
what we got up to thank you and I just
want to explain okay here's here's all
we need to here's all we need to know
okay
here's what we need to know
I'm going to ask you a question you
should this is like on the SAT as long
as you write your name correctly you get
200 points okay
what chapter are we learning everyone
gets at least
200 points okay 39. what book is this
from
oh you guys are doing wonderful okay
and what's the main topic in these
chapters
have on okay fine so today what do we
what do we learn
we learned there are two different types
of cavana in fact we learned that in the
end of chapter 38 there are two
different types of kavana there kavana
is loving all but where do those love
and awe come from either they can come
from meditating on God which means
they're intellectually generated or they
can come from
your native
emotions just the fact this is how
you're you're hardwired
we said that Angels generally speaking
are all
that second type they're emotional
that's why they're called highest which
means animals and that's why they
generally belong in yitziro which is an
emotional world
with Jews there are different types that
Sadiq him they serve Hashem with
intellectually generated love and all so
their reward is in Bria which is an
intellectual word what does it mean it's
an intellectual world it's a world where
hashem's intellect shines in a revealed
way
what does it mean
well it means that if you were to go to
Bria
what would you perceive what would be
the reality up there what would be your
conscious experience
it would be
hashem's intellect
you say well what does that mean
so all the Deep Mysteries of the
universe and Beyond
would be clear to you
and that would be profoundly pleasurable
yes
yeah when we learn to see this
when we learn to see this we got that
yeah
but in in Bria that's what it is all the
time that's what it is that's what the
world is
and that's called Gane the higher
grenade
but if you serve Hashem with your
regular love and awe meaning the fact
that it's hardwired in your neshama you
inherited it as a spiritual descendant
of the Patriarchs
then that's only going to take you up to
yitzudo but even if you only get up to
yitzira and uh Shabbos they give you a
special Hall Pass and you get up to
you why why should you surpass the
Angels because you overcame a challenge
and the angels didn't have to overcome
you had a body
and then we said you should understand
that the nishamas
go and hang out either in Bria or utsira
respectively
but their output the Torah and the Avida
that they do doesn't hang out in utsira
orburia respectively it becomes part and
parcel of the world
so basically when you go there and it's
like you go to a Art Gallery of Art that
you made so there's the nishamas like
the guy going to the art gallery but
he's the artist and the art on the walls
that's part of the the gallery itself
though that's his Toyota entire that he
did
and that's what the scar mits for
Mitzvah means the reward that he's
getting is the pleasure of
basking in this environment that he
himself created
following what we're saying
okay
is it temporary it's temporary until
there's a resurrection and then all
those Souls
come back to their bodies in the
physical world
Resurrection I think
so well we spoke about it we spoke about
it in uh in chapter 37. it wasn't we
spoke about Chris Mason
and we said that our physical actions
our Mitzvahs create
ultimately culminate in creating the the
world of chaos Mason where the physical
world is so refined that it's holier
than any heaven
right
to the pleasure of being the tour and
it's just is that also part of the do
you remember
no that's not a debit no no no that's
that's uh that's reward in the afterlife
okay
yeah now you're you're you're on to
something because you're you're sensing
and this this is
this is a good place to be right now
you're you're wondering tell me if I'm
right you're one you're sitting here and
be like okay
he's talking about chapter 39
the levels of heavenly afterlife reward
and I and and you're thinking yourself
yeah but
at the end of the day how what does that
matter like what's
tell me that Indian terms is that what
you're saying basically like translate
this into terms of this world
yes
yeah it sounds a little bit like we
shifted like we were making a difference
now it sounds like we're making an
afterlife for ourselves
and we'll go up to heaven get rewarded
it's like Henny Youngman said that my
wife and I went to marriage therapist
and said you have to go out twice a week
to uh have a romantic dinner so that's
yeah I go Monday she goes Wednesdays
right so Hashem will be down there we'll
we'll go up there never the twin shall
meet okay so yeah you ask you're asking
good you're asking good
that's why I said when the Resurrection
comes
will have taken place and those nishamas
are going to empty out from Heaven why
would they hang out in heaven when God
is down here
ah okay now you're asking very good and
this is why these nishamas
um
okay this is why when we talk about the
nashamas with the level that they go to
why this really matters remember I said
that kavana is also important
not just action but it's not important
for a different reason than why action
is important it's important for the same
reason why action is important
remember we spoke about the idea you
could create a bit of a talk to them
through your actions but it doesn't have
enough cavana and therefore it'll be a
dark dwelling we want to make it a
bright dwelling when Michelle comes so
here's here's the deal
how do you know how can I quantify
how bright the deity was going to be
that is commensurate to
the level to which my Toyota and Aveda
are able to reach in the spiritual
worlds
which is dependent on kavana so
basically what I'm saying is with a
kavana
of a higher level
I'm reaching a higher world but that's
not the end of the story the end of the
story is and therefore when that light
is ultimately revealed in this world
with the derivative it'll be a higher
light that's why all this stuff matters
because ultimately we're talking about
not the end of the story isn't you go to
heaven and you hang out there forever
whether it's Bria or it's yusira the end
of the story is
what level of light is going to be
revealed down here
that's why it matters
no that happens after comes
so okay basically during this life you
get nothing
we have a virtual we have a virtual
assistant I don't know no not really
then after 120 you get the spiritual
reward
not really it's a it's a it's a bank
account it's a bank account it's a bank
account so in this world you just serve
you don't worry about there's no reward
in this world okay then after 120 over
there is no stop stop it just serve just
work we don't have time for reward you
don't check your portfolio just keep
keep working okay
so after 120
then the souls go up to heaven whether
it's utero or it's
depending on the level of cavana they
had but that's not the end of the story
the real point of it all is and then
after mashiach comes when the souls come
back to the titanium down here how
brightly lit will that be
that's going to depend on where you
deposited your Toyota Nevada
whether in Bria or in utsira
right so that's why just focus on the
work right now not on
weekends
they they appreciate it we don't
appreciate anything but we we can we can
do it
wait hold on hold on
one second I just I just want to make
sure one thing's understood then I want
to finish okay
does everybody understand one thing
one thing no okay
Sky Mississippi okay
one thing I just want you to understand
do you understand
what difference it makes whether the
mitzvahs
go up to this world or to that world
what difference does it make
the revelation after that's what I
no it's not personal right okay so one
more point
in Ghanaian in the afterlife that's
personal because it's only who whoever
earned it will be able to get that level
but when it's revealed as a Dirham down
here it's objective it's for everyone in
fact even the animals will see it in the
willful eye with the lamb and all that
stuff oh wow yes okay
okay okay so let's
finish okay we're finished we're
finished okay finished