Tanya Igeres haTeshuva 2b- Secret accomplishments of Fasting for one's sins - RC Dalfin

so these two chapters Ina which we're learning now which is the alus tretis of Chua I like I told you in one of the earlier classes that this very much is in line with the overall theme of that this for this thing is near you and not just near you but very near you that's a the not only is it regarding who I Who We Are The faculties the garments the the instruments the tools the everything that's discussed in the first section of Tanya and not only the ideas of faith in God reconciliation of God in the universe which is the theme of the second section but now in the third section it get us CH that once said and he believes and understands that the Al's cover page the title page isn't just for and it's not just for but it's also fora as it's known that the Al was the one who composed and wrote T and he wrote these three sections the upcoming section which which is is is so eagerly waiting to study um that the children of the AL took letters that the Al wrote to to yeden and primarily about giving SED to and attached it connected it to the printing during their time of Tanya but initially when Tanya was printed the first time and and during dala's lifetime I don't believe that the fourth section getes was printed that was that was put later by the children who felt it was important and at when we get to learn about those letters I think you'll understand why but going back to the theme of this Chua this is kind of the culmination this is what I want to bring out this is the culmination of the B the culmination of the ban is the chuva now now you probably say well chuva should be before I'm not going into that analysis now why is it get us at chuva the third section when the alter had the T printed the way it was printed Thea became it was the third section right remember we had a discussion when we learning says the term as will be explained and if we look up those references we see that refers to the first section in t so the explanation that theim gave to that is that initially in thought the AL wanted to print first and then but when it came time to print for whatever reason he switched it around but the Lang anguage of not with a would mean as we explained which would be the more correct language when you're printing sh as the second section to why does it say because the AL originally thought of printing that first but he didn't for whatever reason but the geta everyone agrees was the third section and as I think I told you there there's also the version of AA in Mad this whole this whole Tanya all three there's an earlier version that's not today's version that's known as madur and in 1981 I believe gave instructions to print it which you have to understand that's a very big KES why you know this is the T you don't want to confuse people with other versions this was the version the final version the ALB chose and theb in 1981 said no he said let's print the first the first version madur and because there are things there nuances that explain things in Tanya that are not explained in the Tanya as we have have it now and this was a uh I I remember this was uh such an important project to the re he wanted it printed very quickly I forget by which date I forget now and he had a a staff working on it literally Around the Clock cuz the timing was so short to get it done and they got it done and could be the gave each one a signed copy of that Tanya that's called madur so it Madura has also a another version with slight amidations of CHA that's important to know we're not you know my was of that genius he was able to see the differences and and and talk and explain you know average people you know like us learning T you know we would we wouldn't pick up on a lot of the fine nuances you know people who are very Steep and have a great background can understand the Nuance of a v or no V you know even if it's just a difference in for example what would be the difference you know CU making up making up gatria isn't not it's not what we're talking about we're talking about understanding with SE the difference between adding a or not you know anyway but going back to I just want to the first two chapters are like the part of chuva and says that according to the forsaking sin and saying I won't sin again you're about to sha and I forgot to mention it's important to to mention the gar supports that the gamar says when it comes to Kush maybe I mentioned it but it's worth mentioning again when it comes to make to to marrying a a woman and someone is a russer he's known to be a russer a Russia to marry Alin it's it's an invalid kushan oh I I said it I said it I remember now regarding Witnesses but I think the gar says the gar says it regarding the man himself marrying the woman so someone who has a under the he says to himself I'm I'm doing CH I'm coming about I'm not doing the sin anymore the says how it's a good k k what do we see that the the thought of saying I won't do this anymore has a is the terb used in in ttic circles Thea world the idea has an impact it has an effect and the is that that K is a good kadush but the man has been sinning till he came under the he was known as The Sinner of Sinner of Sinners makes a he Chua the gar says he has a real thought of chuva his chuva is accepted so that's the first idea and we call that okay so is to the AL then says there's what we call I I showed you yesterday the language without says it the completion of Chua the the the the the taking of Chua and making it uh beautifying it how through Kap kapora means we translated y Kipper to forgive to atone but means to rinse away to wash away the schutz and filth that was created by the stain by the sin for that the says in begins this way the three elements ofap one for the for a MIT say that you didn't do a positive Comm you're supposed to do two for a m Lo that you weren't supposed to do violate and you violated and three for M that has it's punishment M bz excision and execution by bz Etc so those those three those three categories are all details in kapar not details in chuva that details in K or if you want to say in in complete cha in but in English the words complete chuva implies that that CH is not chv that's wrong it is CH you're b as soon as you say I'm not doing this again and and you really mean it you're abouta and all the virtues that are attributed TOA are for that t and for that you don't need them Kipper like I told you the you sinned with every every every woman in the world and everything else that he did as the says go he gave a scream and he said hasem I'm yours I return to you and he died but says in one moment in one in one turn he became a to Shu that's you know what that's pure Chu then there is K and Kap teaches is something that Chua wants and needs because if you don't get rid of the stain there's always a stain so yes here your kadushin is a good kadushin you can become a kosher AIS that's all helically true but you have a stain you have baggage and and you want to get rid of that baggage says okay the M gives gives us ways how to do that that was pretty much chapter one and part of two the last part of two of chapter two he speaks about tiniest fasting and he says that fasting isn't part of cap V confession is regretting what I did in the past getting regular stain those are all part of cap but fasting is not so what is fasting so taught us yesterday fasting is like the carbon you bring a sacrifice when the and the and what do we know that the carbon was brought to accomplish you become favorable in hashem's eyes and we explained that at length yesterday so we're not going to take the time now but this concept is a third n okay B and now V carbon SL Tinus fasting so this is where we're at now and already had told us that Tinus has various purposes one was which he said in the end in the first chapter to another know decree if there's a decree God forbid on a person or God forbid on a community and it's like you know through fasting we have the ability to un know the decree here in Chapter 2 says a higher aspect of fasting and that is to become favorable in God's eyes more than we were e by doing chuva but to to be to be even greater favorable so turn now to page sadik B and it's about seven lines from the top after the word the word on the line begins and there's a period and we're at that word the the third word on that line of [Music] based on this concept on this foundation on this the taught his students based on the the wisdom of Truth which is refers to the precise amount of fasts for various transgressions although these types of transgressions don't have are not punishable by exision or execution not execution death from from heaven for example the AR says for anger are you guys ready you have to fast1 fasts have you ever seen or heard someone do this well there are people that do this my friends how do they do it is primarily in the winter in the winter when the day is short so midday could be 11:30 A4 to 12 and they get up face 789 so they have a few hours and they don't eat right so if car the car B and ra is still having a minion 11 12:00 and you roll out of bed 9:00 or 10 :00 and you go into the car you d by the time you finish it's 11:30 12 and you go home and eat guess what you fasted a half a day if you do that 10 and 51 times or um I'm not sure is is is it considered a full day or half a day I forget now but somehow you can do the these 151 fasts so the Aral Tau his tal it says based on this concept that ESS is important to become favorable in hashem's eyes he taught them and he revealed to them the particular amount of fast for particular sins and gives the example of K and even regarding a reic Prohibition for example drinking plain wine meaning wine that was made by non Jews I for that sin of drinking non kosher wine fast 73 fasts okay okay and there are people that do this but they do it at least once in their lifetime and they have a mind I know that I drank non-coal wine once and I want that stain to be removed so I'm going to fast 73 fast okay so too regarding the desecration of the positive commandment the rabic positive the in other words right A Prayer the writes when you have a need you say to help me that's prayer but the idea of ding three times a day and the idea ofing and all that is says the AL that even for desecrating uh the you should fast 61 fasts so we got 151 we have 73 and now he tells us about um 61 fasts what's the AL why is he saying this he is pointing out to us I want to make it clear that fasting for certain prohibitions the taught his students this that means he encouraged them to do this why because he wants them not only to do and not only to have Kap but he wants them to become V you see so let me make this clear okay I I'll clarify that after we finish let me just go further so now finished with kind of citing the telling us what the did regarding fasting generally speaking these are the Al's words the SE the esoteric idea of fasting is a is a wondrous remedy for the revelation of the superal will of bless of God blessed be he just like look which it's written about a carbon that when you brought a carbon it's you caused a pleasant odor for as it says in the prophet yesah [Applause] quote this is when they they they sinned and they brought sacrifices showing how good they are so sh it says there Hashem says this is what you call a fast and this is what you call a day that's roem is God's fa special day God's happy with this absolutely not so what do we see that the opposite is true this type of fast in yes in that particular situation is not a but other types of fast which are sanctioned and Are Holy are considered [Applause] y look that's what he says from the verse in yes we understand that a favorable fast a fast that is positive it is a day that's favorable now what we understand from this last section here is that there's two aspects to fasting one is to become favorable hashem's eyes Vis getting rid of the a vestage of the stain any vestage of the stain that's why you have fasting 151 for anger 73 for uh drinking non- koser wine uh 50 and um and uh and 61 for prayer violations of rabic of rabic nature in other words even though you did Chua even though you did cha Kap you still need the fasting not for not for TR not for but to become then says there's another type of which is he calls why does he use the word the explained this once and and and the language is that it brings you why because it's not about it's not about sins the the concept The Secret of fasting is to put you in another place in a place that transcends which is what we call R look at the language you want to reach you do the fasting the fasting in other words velv you're not obligated to fast you're not o obligated to fast right you're not obligated to fast yet you take upon yourself the fast that's transcending that's going beyond the norm Beyond then you become so this is a continuation of's General concept if you ask someone what's the what's the novelty OFA chapter 2 the answer is to reach the state and understand the becoming favorable in hashem's eyes any questions ask me now if you have any questions or you could do it later okay this two chapters there's a lot a lot of and in it you know we did it very very briefly and as I said the after his mother's after his mother passed away he spent bring upon for Bringin going into details and details so I shared a little bit there's much more and the main thing is we should have a good shabas it's and for the world it's the Y of the Reb coming up G so this is the shabas that blesses it it's a time to a little focus and to understand what the Reba wanted of us what he wants of Cl Ro what and what he gives CL what can mostly is what am I going to do for it you know right the re is a big sadic but all sadik they need us they want us and the re said short a few years before he passed away I've done whatever I can to bring Messiah it's up to you and a lot of person people said o he was just explaining what the reality is if we don't do it ourselves mashia here mashiah there it ain't getting getting done what hasem will do hem could do anything but we have an we have a responsibility say take the bull by the horn shape him up ship him out and bring mashiah have a great CH and see everyone next week byebye