Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Sec 3 Chap. 10 - Prayer with meditation will take you very high!

welcome to tonight's on your class we are studying chapter ten period viewed in Garissa Trueba so there's four sections of Tanya the first one who could tame are in which we thank God studied in Seoul online you have shower you can una which deals with the oneness and the unity of God faith of God and that's anger we finished that now we're in ego it's truly a third section and we are in Perak you the tenth chapter and after that we have two more and then we'll finish this section we're gonna go on to the last section which will be great so it's a great journey of studying Tanya so we are holding now again in Nigeria Trula dealing with the idea of Trueba true verb meaning to say to touch of to return to God not repent but to return to God and as we discussed there's two different levels of Trueba there's the lower level of Trueba and there's the higher level of Trueba the lower level of truven is where you basically you feel bad you have remorse you're broken for things that you've done and that's the lower level of travaux what that returns the in God's name does your --have of hey and the hey when it returns to the verb that's the lower level of true VAR and then there's higher level of true love which when returned the hate to the first unit of God's name and that we discussed in the last two chapters and more importantly in last chapter chapter nine that true VAR e law is accomplished high level of true uh obviously after you do true but at our your remorse with what you've done wrong is by studying Torah doing mitts vote with tremendous joy those not just functionally after study Torah you have to do Mitzvah but you're doing it why because it's God's Torah it's Godsman sold and we want to cleave to God through Torah and mitzvot and we're happy about Terim it's fold that is what's called what true Verrilli so the oppler comes in this chapter para cute and says this that we spoke about last week truly law high level of Trueba you're studying tour because you love God right you want to connect to God you're doing it so because you want to connect the card last last week that's great the only thing the Alpha says is that is something that which is called um it's aru Sevilla a law that come from a wakening of above or my lamont that's gift from above down below verses in this chapter the author is gonna teach us a whole different and deeper level of Qi law where it's no Mottola milah where a person does the work in other words last week we spoke about when a personal studies Torah so think about it you're sitting down to study Torah whether it's coming whether it's the Prophet it was the writings whether it's Mishima whether it's Talmud whether it's Cabela's or whatever you're starting it over and it's great and you love God's God's Torah and you're really excited about it but ultimately whose Torah is studying God's Torah the light that comes into you comes because you're doing yeah true you're sitting and studying obviously there's two players here there's God through his Torah but you're and you're basically sitting and studying but that when you're studying Torah the Torah is a gift and the light of the toe is a gift so that's called like a gift from above it's like you go into let's say a restaurant to eat and you pay the bill true you pay the bill who did all the work right now if you made the food you would enjoy it much better because you made it so there's nothing you can't compare to something that you your hand even though you pay for it it does in this case even though you sit in studying Torah verses the part where you do the effort sanely what midsole you do a mitzvah God says put on fully and keep Shabbat kashrut whatever the mystery be the 613 m 248 positive right and three six are negative so anytime you do a mitzvah Wow and you're doing cuz you love God true very low high very high level however this myth so why is it also making you feel great what do you do true you put on the filling or you let the shops candles you kept Shabbat but the power in that fill-in is a goal so gift from above just like when you walk with like the example before and you're walking the restaurant you order a beautiful nice meal and you're paying the bill but you didn't work for it so you don't appreciate it as much that's the way human nature is so in other words that doesn't you shouldn't stop learning you shouldn't stop doing this phone absolutely just study Torah humans vote because you want to cleave to God or as they alter use the expression that you literally create a spiritual union a connection of the spirits us with God when we study Torah doing it sold out of joy and love and that's cultural a lot in this chapter the author comes and introduces a whole different level of chuva or a deeper level or higher level of truer law and that's where it comes new motto l'm ila where you're putting in all the effort you're putting in all the effort and when you're putting in all the effort wow what is that and that is prayer so when a person prays in order to pray properly it's not like Torah Tori you sit on you study to her Wow it's interesting this one said this that one's a dad that's one argues like this they talk about things which we can relate to it's it's it's a whole its intellect it's enjoyable you don't have to really work too hard you have to put the time in when you're doing Amit so yeah you have to be dedicated during the Mitzvah but when you're praying prayer is not something you say okay fine I pray you open the book and you read the words that's I'm player that's reading words what is prayer what is prayer very good from your heart pray and Hebrews called a void - Sobolev work of the heart of vada Sobolev so it's two things when you starting you're using your brain when you're doing on its far you're using your hands true yes we're going to talk about it soon that you can obviously add the heart to everything you do and now let's leave that for a little later in the chapter but for right now the idea of starting Tony you don't have to be spiritually motivated an atheist couldn't study Torah and enjoy it because it's brilliant wisdom know and many atheists - studying Torah 80 it's close to a little because tonight it's good deed well I never a lot of all the are good deeds it doesn't be inspired but prior me by default by default just like a hand in your hand prior you need a heart and you need to work on the heart you have to work on softening the heart players work because prayer is opening up your soul opening up your heart to God and that doesn't that does not happen by itself that doesn't but why doesn't have myself because God wants us to do something which is called transformation God wants us to do real work real spiritual work is only in prayer when a person decides they want to pray so we know the prayer service is broken up from the morning you see modani the blessings they can do so can determine which I'll explain a minute what it is the Psalms they need the blessings before the Shema the schwa the blessings after the schwa the Sean s ray Wow like it's huge but it's not just about pages of words and it's not just about Psalms and something about Sh'ma and the blessing before and after their spirit there's a technical structure but more important in a spiritual structure focus for example what's the what's the heart of the shortness of the of the prayer service what is the heart of the prayer service that's right exactly so smiles hardly prayer service the wonders of God and what is the goal of the Sh'ma of the one that we get to the paint of oneness of God what's the goal practically the verse it says in the first section of smile via hafta so the goal of the whole prayer service is what we should come to a place via hafta what we have to mean you love God now you can say you love God but that's not loving God in other words the Rambam writes the rap how do you know practically that you're loving God and he gives an example an example actually gives us so it could be real he says let's see for example somebody never met a woman in his life those life he sat and studied he was like in a box you study then he prayed he played with his friends he's never involved with a woman and then one day they take the box off and they say okay guess what we're gonna put you on a sugar faith in the right age and when the hormones are poppin we're gonna put you on a shelf date was a beautiful girl a nice girl good character attractive physically and spiritually and he goes out on a date with her that's it's a religious setting so there's no in you know physical contact and they get to know each other and they go another date and now they get to know each other more and at some point as Emily said they fall in love now what does it mean there's no physical contact so that he's excited about her he's really excited about her and they turned me out the Rambam right is showing you almost like sugar like crazy sure you give up Tom it he's obsessed with her like 24/7 whatever he's doing he's like thinking about it he's like madly in love I'm sure something you guys experienced that in your life of course there you go that that you can talk to you Ferris about that okay so here's the point when a person as the Ronald rights is like in love oh my gosh 24/7 you want to see them you want to talk to them you can write so dr. Amin writes that's the same way you should feel about God if you love God if you're thinking about him just when you're in trouble that's not love that's like you know hey Dad I need help right if you if you really love God from when you get up throughout your day even before you go to sleep and throughout the night you're dreaming about one thing God if you're excited about God you know the 1/2 the way what are you thinking about God 24/7 24/7 you're thinking about God now we can't just I love God we got to develop a relationship like for example in the exam out I gave you if the boy he never went out with the girl and they never spend quality time together quality and quantity time would he be in love with her know if he was still in his box he wouldn't be in love with him so you got to spend time time talking listening enjoying each other's company and with the time also the love goes and fire now so we got up in the morning and we want to be on fire with God's now with the girl you see the girl with God unfortunately out again if you do see God always it's great it's one of if I'm happy for you I'm sitting this class doesn't apply to those do you guys can definitely write you write but but not most people are physical beings we see physical things we don't start you see God always but guess what who's making everything happened behind the scenes it's God he's in front of the scenes to be problems we just don't see it so what do we need to do we get up we see the modani the first to acknowledge God's greatness right God gives us everything we do the blessings we do the sacrifices then we read the prayers about the sacrifices then we do the pursuit December we pray we praise God if God is so amazing get stop praising him you got to say it oh my gosh glad you made me the trees and the waters and so on and so forth the fish animals and that's what soaking the server is Wow it's to build up the relationship with God so that you can fall in love and smile so it's a build up every single day in chakras and we have it also for the evening service before you go to bed it's a love relationship we have with God a real role of relationship and stronger than with a new we're physically linked because God's infinite so we get we finish the praise then we do okay now we're getting ready to the blessing your smile and it's also about wow how cut those condos and all the Angels right all leading up to what to be after after the half the boom you know let's walk away the blossoms afterwards because we want to basically keep it and wanted to want to live with us all throughout a day now that was today's were after weapons tomorrow it's gonna stay the love is going to say the same place hopefully not hopefully it goes higher oh okay you're happy we're hopefully stay in the same place you want to grow light you want to go higher you're behind baby yeah well yesterday is breakfast is going to be good for you today I don't think so you want to be better you want every day together so the goal of a half day is that I have to show you what constantly growing more love and more love Wow now for sure with God I'm sure with God so in other words so in other words what does the author is saying here that what is cuvee law where its mill Mottola my law where it's coming from we were putting in the effort that's prayer because when you pray you got to read the prayers you got to understand the prayers you got to think about the prayers you got to appreciate the prayers internalized prayers and now get moving be excited oh my gosh god I love him and you constantly growing in that love of God when a person is constantly growing in the love of God that's called true very law on the deepest level because that's now you're transforming yourself now obviously this level of true very law we're transforming yourself it's primary force is found in prayer service but then the operator says guess what this idea of being excited in your love with God and you're growing with that when you're putting in the effort even insanely when you're studying Torah also in other words when you're studying Torah as I told you before it's brilliant so you can be an atheist and study Torah but dopplers there's no take the same passion of that love that you want to have with God and to continue building that deep relationship with God that loving really when you're studying Torah oh my gosh I'm studying God's Torah we're studying Torah and yet right so you're getting exact you're transforming yourself the second involves when a person doesn't Mitzvah mitzvahs and goodies at 39 so I'm doing good deeds then I'm doing God's good deed because God commanded me to do this and I love God and anything that God wants me to do or not do I'm gonna do it without me asking any questions you know why because I love God and because I love God guess what we're going to study right we're gonna pray we're going to do the mitts vote and I'm doing it all because I love God so you're taking now the mitzvahs which could have been just a functional act and you act internalizing and you're infusing it with tremendous passion and warmth love and that is what think about it it plays beautifully trouve are you returning you love the highest level because basically you're spending 24/7 in a loving relationship a god or is the author reasons to turn rulla rulla your spirit with God's Spirit and you're doing at the highest level because you you're putting in the effort that your prayer and your Torah study in your midst Road should be done one with tremendous love for God and as the after it brings down and tell us that after the prayers we say a laugh ha Hashem to you God nafsi my soul essa I bring up my soul in other words I want to cleave to you the whole goal of prayer services is but it is by through meditation now what happens is so what happens is when a person basically meditates when he does the preliminary blessings in the morning and when he does see the sacrifices or he does the song of praise of circle deserving the blessing we force mark cetera all that allows them to come extremely one with God and and that is basically definition of true real or true very law means that you're meditating through prayer and that allows you to become one with God on the deepest level now then the other one says one second we're sweeping a true very law right we're getting throughout the highest level how do I said you have to remember you have to remember that in order to start cleaning to God through prayer a strongest way and the same excitement in Torah study in doing the throat you have to by default EF by definition do the lowest level of true at first like for example if you want to go to the tenth floor you can't go from the first floor to the tenth floor you through the second to the third you have to go one step at a time otherwise you can fall so you have to remember to do true batata first now what is true a Tartar true vertical means that you're broken you're bitter you're doing some serious soul-searching about the way you spoke because what you think about you're done and so on and so forth and that's something a person has to do when before you pray and matter three boys and that's why it says ain't onion little element clever droid when a person wants to go ahead and pray what means the goal of pray is to take us to the highest level of Shuba you have to have beforehand you have to have remorse you have to be have humility and you have that's compassion and so on and so forth yeah the Alturas is one second but it says another place that's omission er but it says another place in a Brice aw that ain't onion Lewis Powell let me tell you some car that where person should not begin prayer unless you're in a happy mood it means if you're in a depressed mood then you're not ready to cleave to God because love is love it's coming from a place of joy if you're remorseful and you're feeling bad and you're negative and you're full full of anger and all these terrible emotions and remorse and and bitter you can't god I love you so you need before you start praying you need some clean joy so how did it two go together stops is very simple it's like a sandwich you ready for the center of sandwich or the tiniest sandwich of true of true on so the first thing a person has to do is prove it at all which means you have to be remorseful oh my gosh I said this oh what's wrong with me I said this I thought that I did that right remorse after you did that now you gotta say oh my god but we got to be happy why even though I did everything work because God wants me to be happy for no reason so we're just gonna be happy so you switch from a negative emotion remorseful motion a bitter emotion to a happy emotion from there from there you go into prayer which is the highest level truly becoming one with God through the prayer service and to the obviously the ultimately when you get to be after but the author asked a very simple question and you know playing with people's I'm playing with the other people's emotions so here you're saying what are you saying you're scared up in the morning I'm exhausted right I slept last night I'm getting up early to go pray now to God and the first thing I got to do is I got a new low level trip I got to be remorseful okay finding it terrible oh my gosh I said they did all these terrible things right okay but I want to go pray no now you got to jump into happiness oh my gosh like how do you make that switch and then we're gonna go god I love you through a whole prayer service operative this is pretty intense intense deval from some car right before the avenue into love that's that's easy in great mood life is great guess what God's been great to us let's go pray because we love it and he's everything thanks then we have everything we do everything we are who we are thanks to them that's good but to go switch from the you know the negative remorseful regret and the the bitterness to go to joy that's a pretty big jump now some people can do it some people can do it but most people after some serious like beating they're finished finished so the optimist says if you can't switch and it's okay cuz many people can't so he have simple advice Neal you ready for this you should get up at the consult midnight midnight it's not 12 o'clock it goes by Shawn's money oh so you have to be back on the calendar what exactly is midnight so you have to get at midnight again it could be sometimes sometimes the it's around 12:00 so even one 1:30 you know we do sleep called sometimes like 1:15 1:30 but the point whatever whatever consult is when you get meal the night I fell asleep in it's peaceful it's dark that's when you have a good cry not a sadness but bitterness that's when you're remorseful for things you've done things you've said things you've thought that's it oh my gosh like was I thinking right that's when the bitterness comes in and will guess what you go back to sleeping of a whole night to where if the bitterness you wake up in the morning oh my gosh life is great God thanks for giving me I'm ready for a great wonderful day and then go on to prayer right so this way it breaks the gap now here's the problem could you get up every single night at midnight and get up in the morning and have a workday and taking the kids and whatever you doing right and it's pray and study not easy so the altmer says if you can't get up for tickets every night right ok I got it it's not easy it's a tough schedule tough schedule but then at least get up once a week do ticking huts house once a week one cheese at different cuts out so you don't want others new ones now which night should you do it Jewish question right okay one night which night so you have seven isoh pick from right and you want to pick what so you're saying something you're saying Wednesday Saturday and you're saying not Thursday matters not Thursday you know on Sunday okay everyone has ever has a good reason for this and he's not Thursday like not only did he not only is like is it not you know is not picky not picking it exact saying it's not Thursday okay not Thursday and the answer is in busy Thursday but the midnight it's too chewy excuse me right and the answer is I hate to say to be pretty good last time this time I looks like you hit like a double negative Thursday night I hate to break it to you Thursday no you're on second Thursday night no one second the question is the question is the question is why Thursday night why Thursday night why why what's the catch in the Thursday night there's a reason there's not just on Thursday night why's that why Thursday night why enjoy good good good point good point now so why why Thursday night and the author explained is very simple because what's the goal the goal is the morning you have to pray write the highest level of true oh that's great but since you only doing it once a week if you did every night that's wonderful but since you only do it once a week once we've been doing it now we know that Shabbos Shabbos has the same letters as to shoot touch love to return and in other words Shabbos and this is very powerful shot this is true very low sharpest is the highest level of true though Shabbos itself comes Friday night Shabbos starts automatically you're in the highest level of true you want what God think about what connection you have to the materialistic world there's no work everything that's done all you do is pray study we have the practical questions here right eat some kosher food right make some blessings we have Tonya class right we have kabbalah class Shabbos is true very love the highest level not because of all the things to do because because the Travis is truly love we do all these great things on Shabbat and it goes together now so since Chavez's rubella highest level of sugar and what we say in order to reach the highest level you need to first do some serious repenting seriously more serious bitterness so since Chavez starts when Friday night and in the morning you're busy with your day and we're not gonna go switch them from repentance to to happiness so quick so therefore do it the night before Shabbos which is last night in for Shabbos to Thursday night so Thursday night guess what we have a new thing for my eyes we're gonna do now right we're gonna have Thursday night midnight prayers we're gonna be revenge lament about all the big in instruction and temple all the terrible things in our lives and we do some serious Trueba whether you do it in the Jabara house you do it at home but thursday night dr. BIR says click straight-up Thursday night that's true is gonna trigger the tile you got in some serious remorse that's Thursday night now what happens is so since Shabbos is the highest long trips therefore Thursday night you need to do that now so what happens is here's the procedure it's a Thursday night you do some serious remorse you get up in the morning obviously Friday morning get some car and then you pray to Allah and then you go into a couple hours later total true veil on Shabbos now when is the highest level like the peaks of true a lot on Shabbos one is the peak what is the peak if you got the picture of Thomas when is the highest point of true villa no but think a little deeper what were you saying this class what is that no getting close getting warmer very good exactly because what we say during the week when it's truly a law where you actually the highest level you're putting the effort into it when during the week during the week it's the prayer service during the week so if during the week it's the highest because you mandolin Shabbos itself is truly law so the prayer service Bock is the highest level of Chula player service in Shabbat and therefore you want to have the true we'll talk to Thursday night before and after finish off and he says the diverse it says makisi Cobb chef of God erases our sins Schubert like return to me peacock peacock in other words after we do the low level of chuhwa and God's will speed takes us out from the the muck that we're in then we're able to reach God on the highest level of truly so what did we see from this chapter chapter you'd chapter 10 pair of you an extremely extremely important idea extremely important and that is if you want to be able to connect to God in the deepest level the deepest level is when you put your heart and soul into prayer that will take you to the highest level during the week for sure and Shabbos even much higher but we have to remember that we need to do true vertical first so that happens through being remorseful and brokenness if you're able to do the remorseful and then go straight into joy then do it both in the morning if you can then do it the night before the remorseful part in the draw in the morning and in either 8 if you can through the whole week just at least Thursday night once a week once a week be remorseful for the whole week get a give it like a good break out and then you'll have your circle every single morning and then you'll have the greatest level of true VAR on Shabbat so it really really is a very very important chapter because all of us want to come close to God we want to be really really connecting with God and through these tools of doing a proper meditation and so you know some soul-searching we can reach the highest levels and be plugged in on the high on the highest places through true very long