Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Chapter 19 The Unique & Special Love that we have Hidden within us

so we're starting tonight chapter you'd tests which is chapter 19 and tonight's chapter we're going to be learning a very very important concept and the reason why it's important because it's something that we each have and if you have something you won't know what it is like imagine you had a treasure you never knew you had it you can have your whole life and you didn't know you have the treasure here today the Opera was going to teach us about this treasure that we have now what is the treasure so we've been discussing their last few weeks the author explained based on the beginning of the book of Tonya based on the verse in the Torah where it says that it says in Deuteronomy that to serve God with love and awe and all the mitts load right 613 mitzvot what to do with love and all like it's eat easy to do so that the chessmen Hamish that's very very easy for you to do it in thought speech and action and y'all favorite at the beginning of the time yard that he was going to explain to us how it is really easy for us to accomplish that now up until two chapters ago he never really addressed the issue he's giving introduction who we are spiritually Ana Shama our souls are thought speech and action all our emotions our intellect etc a couple of weeks for the outer istic fine now I'm going to tell you how you can do that so what do you say how can you do that so we first he introduced a way which is through meditation but that's still not that's fine it's great but when and that's an easy way to do it you meditate about God you love God and then all of a sudden you can do everything but that's not easy just carved my old very easy so last week doctor explained to us the house is very easy are you awakening within us this name quote-unquote I have that mr. Terris that means we each have within us a hidden love when we able to harness that hidden love that's within us guess what happens whoa you can do every one of the 613 commandments the 248 positive the 306 are negative you can love God you can be more of God and it's easy so obviously in order to awaken that hidden love because it's hidden we have to really know what the hidden love is what is it so last week we learned two components of it one what is what is the source of it and relax we discussed the source of it comes from the highest level of hokhmah and in deer we have the a or anus of the infinite lot if infinite power of light of God and that where do we get this beautiful gift of this hidden love we got it as a gift from the patriarchs because of their self sacrifice for God and therefore we got this beautiful gift of a Vanessa terrorists okay but still what is it we know the source it's in the highest level we know how he got it but still what is it so this week the author was going to explore in chapter 19 - to us what it is because you gotta know what it is once we're done knowing what it is in this chapter in depth two components to it in next week or in the outer explains the practical aspect of how knowing what it is and now we have it this can help us in a real way fulfill his promise in the beginning in the book he Carvalho had a mode that is very very near to observe God with lot with with the love and all all the commandments and the practicality is already gonna be next to you but in order to have the next we have to know what this love is so the author explains as follows and he says like this that is a verse that says near Hashem knishmas of them the candle of God is the soul of man now why is that important to us because what did we say last week this log that we have the album ceteris what fuels it the fact that we have on a Shama it's not that we have created love we we patriarchs gave us as gift them which is in the summer then the summer creates automatically the album so the Alpha is a byproduct of the fact that we have in the summer the minute we have a neshama we have to love automatically so in other words if you want to know about the love you want to know what the neshamah so the verse says name Hashem knishmas other simple verse now what does that mean you want to know what the candle of God looks like that's the soul of man you honor the soul of man a candle of God what is that practically so the altar explains very very practically in this chapter chapter 19 he says as follows if you look at a candle a candle is made up of either oil or wax you have a wick of fire which is basically the flame we're just pulling up now if you give a look at the what's taking place in this in this experience so you see whether it's a a candle or it's a based on oil that you have the oil you have the wick and you have the fire if you watch the fire what's the fire trying to do it's trying to go up in other words if you didn't have the wick that was there was consuming and the oil that was fueling the fire or the redness what would happen to the fire it would just go up or just go now why does it want to go up if the fire leaves the wick what happens no more fire think about it when the fire leaves a wick no more fire so here the fire wants to go up but guess what if it pulls away from the wick what happens it goes away why would the fire want to do that why wouldn't stay and very nicely people said oh nice fire people don't close to the fire obviously I'm giving an example of a wick but you have the bonfire if it expires but here every time that the spiritual component the practical point of any fires it wants to go up means it wants to leave once it leaves it disappears why does it want to do that so the author explains because we know there's four elements fire ear water and earth earth is the lowest in terms of smoke horse then you have water right then you have the wind and then you have fire fire is the most refined element what is the goal of this fire it just wants to leave it wants the voltage source everything comes from God earth comes from God water comes from God air comes from God fire comes from God you don't see earth running up to God right and that would be pretty funny right you don't see the water running up to God right can smoke horse and the ear it's you know it's moving but it's not looking to disappear the only one that's unique that want to disappear is fire why it's fine I want to disappear because it's all we find is that it's true this materialistic world it really wants to go to God but it's gonna disappear he doesn't care it does not care fire does not care if it goes out and it becomes nothing why cuz I want so come close to God now this analogies are extremely important so we have to get the analogy I'll be easier to understand when it comes start a summer so again here's a clear clear clear distinction the fire is willing to give up its position it'll be gone why because where's it going if cleaving to God so the fire is focused on what where it's going to has zero interest whether it keeps the spot here you want your cake and eat it fighters think that way it wants to go once we won't go abroad so the author explains that's the same exact scenario with honor Samba in a summer which is a part of God operates near a son ich muss up in the same exact way the soul that we each have then the summon that we have what does it want to do please the gods now if you have a body right we all have body we have a soul now the body wants we all know eat sleep drink sit in the couch right I mean you can film the rest of the blanks what does the neshamah want the summer independent of the body left alone what isn't a shaman want it wants the Cleaves our God whether it's pray or whether it's Torah study whether it's meditation whether it's doing a mitzvah anything that will allow it to cleave to God it wants to do if it's gonna eat it wants to make a blessing obviously but does the soul have an interest in materialism eating sleeping zero-interest I mean literally have two people taking you know one in one body the body in the soul the soul wants to leave just like the fire wants leave the soul wants leave so the soul in its fired-up state right no pun intended in its fired-up state what does the soul want to do what it wants to cleave to God now what happens in the soul goes on a high spiritual high what minister I just want to cleave to God praise and studies guess what if you're really into your prayers and your studying and you're doing mitts vote you can forget about eating drinking also you just totally you're like in love with God right it's a great now what happens if that is the soul praise and studies and doesn't its vote and forgets about itself what will happen to the soul go into the soul it will leave the body and what happens in the body will die it would dully so since it will die guess what it's over there's a soul care no just like the fire does not cure the soul doesn't care doesn't care Wow so in other words now let's bring it back what what is the expression practically of the soul the love it has for God so the love that the soul has for God is what type of love doesn't think about itself has zero interest on it selves now the October explains as two types of loves what does that mean there's a love that the source is in Kozma and that's what we're explaining right now because chakra what is hokhmah chakra is humility and that is strictly wants to cleave to God then there is a love that's based on vena what vena understanding understanding already is me understanding you see in what's not about me I just want to cleave to God what does God want right Cochran's made up of two words what's two words Kolak ma so you know if you're in the state of hokhmah the highest level we solar shining you ask one question what's the question what does God want whatever God wants I do now think about that life life if you're able to have zero agenda I mean zero agenda the body is zero agenda the person is your agenda the selfish part is zero agenda and you sincerely ask as in the word of hokhmah co-ack the power of ma what and you ask what does God want is there any heavy weight on you zero what's my question what does God want for me and whatever God wants guess what happens I just do it so I'm light the experience is light and life is beautiful there's no struggle when you're asking what does God want is what do you hit a struggle if I come to you I say hey what does God want you see God wants right now for example a sit and learn told her there's no struggle I didn't say I want to do something else if I can't you say listen I really want to go right now shopping I want to go eat and you know what do you think God wants so so now there's a you that wants to do shopping and want to go eat or whatever could be and you also you know God wants your study talk we have a conflict fine but here I'm not saying I want to do this I want to do that the question is a simple question what does God wants me to do right now God wants me to study I'm ready to study God wants you to pray I'm ready to pray do I met somebody do it there's nothing heavy I have no I have no agenda you're like flying with zero resistance you're flying with zero resistance whoa you can fly much quicker much higher much happier peace and all levels there's no me there's no you know people struggle why do people struggle is because they have all these wants and desires wearisome there's no I have no wants have no desires and not that I'm I have no personality I find out what God wants I work for God's sound like I'm a bored soul I have no agenda have no personality have no standing life no no my stand is very simple I am here God created me God put me in this world he sustains me I have a simple question what God want for me and the answer is whatever God wants I'm ready to do is there any stress in that life no stress is that any struggles no however what happens when my love is based on bina what a means based on being a being as already I have a mind I understand things I'm a capable guy right that can figure things out and I think I should love God in this case okay my loving God absolutely but why am i loving him because it makes sense to me what happens when I'm up to a struggle Idina doesn't make sense it's too difficult well it's my love comes down because I decided and now I have existence to my decision so now it's not going to be as strong but the point even when you do decide that you love God it's not in the same level when you're just doing it what does God wants so two people can be let's say in a loving relationship a god one sources from hokhmah which as we translate the avidin cetera stay hidden love there's no obstacles whatever God wants life is beautiful and simple he knows in simple English clarity really clarity and clarity is a big if to have clarity the one that hasn't they built doesn't have the building to connect right now with hokhmah but big sense them to love God you know it makes sense you you know your love you know your God has created the world he created me and my I shall serve Him can't go wrong you know he's the boss so but in the other hand I have desires to I have an agenda to I have things I want to get done so now really this I could conflict but I agreed to be some listen to me submissive to God that love is not the same level so in other words back to our point which we're trying to get clarity in what Allah mr. terris means what's the hidden love the hidden love means that the source of the love comes from - Shama which comes from hokhmah and over there the only question is what one question what does God want from me and as long as I ask what is God wants for me guess what happens I love God I'm willing to do anything and I have zero resist the minute is of me and my understandings mm it's your understanding I got God gave you a brain and it's your understanding but guess what you're not gonna be flying smoothly you can have resistance it's not about bad and good it's not about right and wrong we're just trying to identify when the album is ceteris which is based on karma is revealed and you're operating a life based on your hidden love for god guess what happens you are truly in love with God with zero resistance that is the album ceteris now think about it you're able to like live your life you get up in the morning right you say okay well it's God walk me today you just do it where's the struggle there is no before you go to sleep me say you know God great day today what do you want to do tomorrow and okay I got it we'll do it tomorrow so therefore you take out the homeless right you take em according to Jewish law this is how God wants me behave no problem a lot of people take out the code of the Jewish law all right Oh God wants me to do this but you know it doesn't really apply to me so oh you know you just created resistance so the problems you're struggling with yourself cuz you created a struggle because you're bringing yourself to the table get yourself out of the table and ask one question what does God want you will have a happy peaceful simple life you'll be enjoyable with yourself you'll enjoy yourself because you're not struggling you'll enjoy being with other people other people enjoy being with you although it's a homerun it's a win situation so that is the author explains Dan is basically the idea of the album ceteris when it's revealed but here the alter egos and explains take it a step further not only is the album cetera apply to you as an a human being but to every experience that you engage in you have the power to make it a godly experience a holy experience and Hebrews called Kadosh or god forbid the opposite of Kadosh in other words and the author explains what is the definition of something that's Kadosh something that's holy what does it mean something's only so the optimist says what does it mean something is holy that means that the only presence that's there is God's presence the minute there's your presence there it's not holy it's about you so you'll see you have to do something whatever may be any mundane act and you say to yourself what does God want me to do how do you want me to do it I'm ready to whatever God wants so whatever whatever you do becomes a holy experience in other words think of a simple thing you're going to eat dinner right so you can say hey I want to eat this I won't eat that whatever may be right or you can say hey what does God want to me what does God want me to eat kosher healthy and so on and so forth and you make the blessings what happens it becomes a holy experience that you go on asleep right so you've notice think cuz you're tired so you're born asleep because you're tired or you know what god I had a good day and the evening prayers tomorrow want to get up early to serve you I gotta go to sleep so it's all your connecting it to God see the more you ask the more you bring God into your life and less of what you want then it becomes a Kadosh a holy experience the more it's about you it's not Kadosh it doesn't mean it's bad it just means very simple you want the stamp of colors from your life one kind of questioner if that's what God wants as long as you ask what God wants in any experience you can create God's you know it's like you buy something koshered it's like a you know certification on that tells you it's kosher anything else you can have a certification and every action of your day and throughout your life of a kadosh right wouldn't really have any nice to have god's gonna stamp picados it's very simple get yourself out asked what God wants and the minute you do that guess what happens you get stamped with Kadosh and guess what it's feeds on each other it feeds on one thing to the next because you get into a habit of saying hey what does God want okay what do you know what God doesn't mean I'm not gonna do it and guess what happens it becomes very very easy it's like someone calls you up right and once it starts walking or to gossip whenever you Timothy so you can say listen I don't do that the guy tell us I really need your help okay so now you're in a thing or you can say hey listen God doesn't allow me to talk gossip negativity what's he gonna tell you go talk to God I didn't take the rulebook talk to him see how much life becomes easier it why because your life became a holy life you know it's a humbling thing to say God's in charge think about it because now I'm not in charge it takes humility tremendous humility to say God's in charge but what are you getting for it stamp then it's holy so in other words in life it's a give-and-take there's nothing that has pros nothing that's all pros or cons if it's all about me okay great I'm not the old guard I can make all my decisions but guess what it's not holy on the other hand it could be God's in charge so I'm not in charge yeah I give that up I'm willing to give that up but what am I getting God's stamp on my life you know you can't have everything either you're in charge and God's not and then it's not kadosh it's whatever it is it could be doesn't a second be nice be bad but still you're the one that's in charge or it could be I'm not in charge and I give that up grant you but guess who's in challenge this is running my life guess who I'm partners with it's like when you go into business right certain people don't want partners whom you'll do want partners this pros and cons both ways obviously the the the pros of having a partner there's more you have more give another mind and you have more assets to work with the cons I guess deal with somebody else now if that's a partner flesh and blood you have to decide whether it's worth it and so on but especially a partner with God in your life think about it so the partner the pro with having died as a partner is guess who partner God you can do anything and everything what's the con you give me no control not 50 percent 100 percent well it depends it as much as you give up control that's how much God becomes your partner so you can give God you can only give up 10 percent so God's only 10 percent partner but if you give up a hundred percent control guess is you pawns represent honor God and wouldn't that be nice to have Gaza partner I mean come on who wouldn't do that is it even a question anyone thinking about this or we're already right ie obvious a new concept but guess what you can start right now come you want to stop with ten percent twenty five give up control guess who's gonna run your life cars gonna run your life absolutely god helps those who help themselves willing to give up control that's the point you think it's easy to get you think it's easy to give up control it's very hard it's harder to give them control they're not to give them control that is God helps those that help themself and allow themselves to say hey you know what I'm giving up control so to me god helps those who help themselves if I sit in this chair and I say God helped me solve my problems I don't have to get out of this chair no we can gossip there standing no you think God's not gonna put you to work God puts you to work out of the chair I've evolved a problem obviously the code of the Jewish law there's a Torah there's no there's no free ride with God he puts you to work the difference is the difference is very simple when you say hey I'm God's helping me because I'm helping myself me says I'm help willing to help myself by giving them control accepting God as my task master makes a harsh word but God is my boss guess what happens now now God's really gonna help me and there's the more you give up which is not easy we all know that we all want to be in control but the more you're able to let go guess who's in control you like God is and you can have a much better life a much more happier life here let me give you a simple example they give them asta sysm it's actually a very powerful example we all have a physical body right and it says and it says in the writings sorry exa Aloka for my flesh I can see godliness so if you want to learn about God's you can learn it from your own physical body because your body is you so one of the things we find unique about a person's human body is that you have the physical body and then you have the the energy that supplies energy to the whole body now where is the energy coming from think about when a person does if you look at a person that's alive a person that's dead the same person right initially at some point you start you know decaying but initially the same person so what's in certain persons alive and dead very simple when you're dead there's no neshama it's not fueling the body when you're alive you have the soul which is giving it over energy right so basically what's giving the energy to the body the soul and what is receiving the energy the body now you ever see a healthy person complain of a headache for a hand anything give a healthy person they complain yes complain about what rich snacks complaining I got it so that's not a healthy person that's a competitor I said a healthy person that's a clutter you ever heard a healthy person complaint healthy people again so they're not healthy obviously there's something missing and they wouldn't be clutching if they were healthy a healthy person nothing I asked for how you doing great now what happens when a person is not feeling well my hand hurts right my head hurts right my foot whatever it may be whatever part of the body right so what does that mean it hurts why is it hurt so what's the answer very simple the reason why something hurts or something's not you know something you not feeling well is because the neshamah is not able to send energy to that part of the body right so what is it that can do he's able to somehow whether it's Chinese medicine or modern medicine Western medicine they create an opening or they unclog whatever is blocked that the energy can flow back in and that's obviously I think the Chinese medicine is very big internet opening up the channels and so on and so forth Western medicine also in terms of like your surgeries etc now think about this if this soul was able to shoot energy all over like it normally does you feel great what happens when you don't feel great it's not able to come in now here's what the author explains fascinating when a person says I don't feel good it's the opposite it knows normally do you feel yourself you know you don't feel yourself when something's bothering you you've right so you don't fit how do you know you don't feel good because you feel it if your hand is hurting you all the sudden you feel let's say your right hand was hurting you how do you gonna turn you because you feel it now here's the question hold on if you're feeling it then you should be feeling fine the one you're not feeling you shouldn't be feeling fine it's the sea opposite right if Lexi a foot is hurting you what does it mean you're feeling it so if you're feeling it that's good do you means you know it's alive but when do you have pain when you feel it when don't you have pain when you don't feel it right this is the opposite here's the powerful insight because ultimately who gives us power God when we don't feel ourselves who is giving us full power all over God and we're feeling great when we start feeling ourselves our physical body what does that mean we're not feeling our soul and that's why it hurts me you say oh my foot hurts oh why are you feeling them foot why isn't the foot feeling God's energy because it's not feeling it's blocking God's energy that's why it hurts so in other words if the body was able to feel God's energy constantly wouldn't have any pain no like you never like you don't have pain normally because it's it's operating well God is able to send out all the energy to every part of your body so ultimately what is the real problem the problem is when we feel ourselves means that we're not feeling God's okay so in other words the basic difference between kedusha as we said before is God in control what's the opposite of kedusha clipper what is clipper mean which is the cleveland city which means the opposite of holiness is where God and godliness of the that love for God is not being felt all throughout you so everything you don't feel God and you're not in love with God guess there's a control of you not God right we call it Cleveland State or Accra evil forces and so on and so forth now so but the reality is what we say before every single person has this love for God the optimist is every person has it and this love for God allows us to be connected to God so what does it mean when we say that someone let's say that's that's wicked someone it's a sinner right they don't want they feel the love of God one that I mean do we have and don't we have it we learned that that the patriarchs gave a teacher one of us it comes from very very high source so if everybody has it how can someone even sin and as if you felt God's presence how can you sin so here the operator says very very simple that basically every single one of us absolutely received every one we see there's an inheritance this powerful neshama which is a part of God and this neshama allows us to have the greatest love for God up to the point where we're totally connected with God and it's therefore easy to do all the timeit's vote now but what happens when a person we call them so to speak spiritually sleeping and what does that mean spiritually sleeping it's not it's here's the distinction it's not that the Shama goes away the summers don't go away everybody has their summer within them no question asked and because we happen to summer in them we can have this tremendous love but sometimes the neshamah is sleeping what does that mean is sleeping when you're when a person goes to sleep are you there show you they're either sleeping so when you're sleeping do you hear things do you see things do you feel things no you're sleeping so the same thing else when a person sins or rebels against God what happens to this powerful love that he has for God it's sleeping so when you're sleeping you're sleeping so in other words when a person is sleeping who's so obviously is not a bad thing you just not in love with God now so what happens when someone sees a sinner or a belly a rebellious person and he's not in active force he doesn't have any active force as love for God he's sleeping so what happens such a person he still absolutely has on a summer it's just torment why wasn't this person is tested in other words simple example you're sleeping and all of a sudden you hear this huge noise right guess what happens the alarm clock goes off right but the intentionally unintentionally right it's always banging on the window what happens you wake up and when you wake up guess what your fully functioning every party by it was like sleeping your hands your feet your head all of a sudden you're fully awake Oh what happens when a Jew that could be even a sinner and a rebel intentionally or unintentionally or never really or maybe he was brought up and never knew about his Jewish identity right so either you were never you never brought up with your Jewish identity but you're Jewish or you grow up and you went away from Judaism and all of a sudden one day you're gonna wake up call something your life is shaking someone passes away something terrible happens to you a car accident that happens a lot people you hear terrible news about something or something great happens and exciting thing happens you witness it oh my gosh that's we go out in the world what happens all of a sudden when you standing like by a tests own test you hey do you believe in God right are you willing to you know come to a church or worship idolatry then what happens all of a sudden just like if you a signal you wake up oh my gosh and a damn point and you wake up what happens when you wake up that soul of yours which has that love for God which is hidden which is sleeping all the Sun wakes up and you're able to out of the blue create this huge love for God that allows you to recommit or commit to loving God being an or of God and doing every one of the midslope every one of the four Contracting Commandments even though they got asleep and what happened all of a sudden and the answer is because you never lost it and you always had it the only thing was I was sleeping so some people it's fired up and some people outside fired up but we all have it it's something which we all have it belongs to us we just got to tap into it so either we tap into it on a regular basis or there's times where everybody it's a wake up call everyone you know it's hard to find somebody does not have a wake up call everybody gets a wake up call Olsen what was the wake-up call here's not the also a higher ideal of God guess what you have it within you and just also wakes up like you actually wake someone up the sleeping how do I walk hello you start walking because you know how to walk you just were sleeping for a while right sometimes people can sleep for a long time you'll go into a coma etc right so the same thing also spiritually at any point a person could wake up now what happens when a person wakes up and here's the most powerful part there also a sense that let's see for example somebody was you know he know they were Jewish you know because we all know were Jewish every way and we knew that God is the God you know intellectually emotionally but you know all the issues are what we doctor explained Tania where's the battlefield in thought speech and action but you know I'm not interested like you know in doing the Mitzvah I'm not interested praying or you know thinking positive so I want to I want to be Who I am right what happens when a person gets awakened when a person is like almost have woken up from the sleep so what happens then is not only as his love for God fired up his all for God gets fired up as well but that creates a situation that he doesn't go back to living a life and he was sitting or disconnected disconnected whether he just never knew what he chose to disconnect what happens then is not only does he get fired up in his intellect and his emotions which he would never really cut himself off from God but it brings him back full circle that he will connect to God in thought in speech and in action which obviously before it was he wasn't he had zero interest in because once you person wakes up boom guess what now is he walking is actually running because he realized oh my gosh I was sleeping all this time so in other words here you see um with the author was explaining is that every one of us have this beautiful gift the gift is our neshama which our neshama has the power to have this tremendous love for god and by having this love for god we can connect to God on the most deepest level more than somebody that's that meditates and thinks because this is basically like on the simple level what does God want I'm ready to do it and when you take that and you bring it into every part of your life you can create that experience and everything you do everything that you knew can become a kadosh a holy experience and even if somebody let's say for example is not actively doing that by through like a challenge or something out of the ordinary happens in his life he can wake up as neshama up to the point not only where he'll go back to like you know living half or half asleep but he'll be fired up to to start living a life in his thought and speech and action that every one of his thought speech and action will be fired up with a tremendous love for God obviously next week the Arthur was gonna take this concept that we learned today about what does it mean to you know what does it mean to really have this love for God now that we know what it is and we can see how we can translate it to all the myths votes that we do 613 right the 248 positive 3 to negative a lot forgotten or forgot how we can translate this love that we can bring out this love and it can be fired up every single day every single hour they and everything that we're doing we can have this love so that's all for next week but today at least we learned what this love is which is very very powerful because this love has the power to give us an amazing life because we can really be in love with God in such a beautiful way