Tanya Kuntres Acharon 5b- Lakewood, Learning Torah w Humility - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

So good today. We're learning the lessons in Tanya we're using for the uh contrain of the alterba. We're middle of essay number five and we are at a very interesting example that the alterba gives the the nuda that he explains here that the point that the alterba is seeks to explain is that even in those parts of tyra that aren't frequent or will never happen because the technicalities ities that are that are necessary for them to be be a a violation of a mitzvah loses a negative commandment like the anakas the um disturbed the destroyed city you have to wipe out a city because of its sins and idolatry etc and other examples aren't uh the details that are required ired to accomplish with with verification that that's the case are so detailed that it'll never be. So if that's the case, what's the point of learning about it? The number two and number two, how how do we see the godly energy there too? That's one nuda that he explains here. And while he does that, he goes into the whole concept of Clippus that that Clippus that they they give the they're the life force of gloes. So that's where we're at. Now I want to go right to the text here and that is Yeah. Uh that is on page we'll go back to 356. Yeah, that's what we're holding. We're actually holding 356 in lesson um where the alterb is now about to give us an example. Now this is as far as I remember the only place in Tanya where the alterba talks about this. The idea literally means he crinkles his hair. He plays with his hair. He makes hair dos hairstyles. You know, when I was growing up, I heard to my father over and over and it he ingrained this into into me and my and my brothers that there are like three things three the three ABCs of being aid one was you know identifying with the with the being his following his directions and all of that learning is number two that one should that one needs to go to alabi yeshiva I'm telling you what my father said he didn't take it from any bible and any book this is what he got from his by osmosis from learning eight years inad from 1950 to 58 this is the walk away the the takeaway so the Second thing was to learn in a kabad. And the third thing not to have frontal hair. Not like not like uh people who are bald and don't have hair. We're talking about people who have hair but they make nice hairds styles because they want to look a certain way. And this was I guess in for what my father picked up in yeshiva. was a very ugly a very ugly trait I don't call even a trait a very ugler behavior which simp you know showed that there's something inside that's really um a blockage to being a a kayali a vessel for godliness and kite and all of that and mind you we we see that in general take very very short haircuts and we know that hair is associated Cyrus as it's called in in Kabal and is associated with the clip. So therefore you take off as much hair as possible. So some go to the I don't want to say to the extreme but some go to the point where they take everything off like a zero haircut and some and so one or two whatever that's you know but the idea is to remove the kipa. So when you when you play with your hair you're entering a domain of kipa. Now the alterb it's it's interesting that he he he mentions it here in this you know section of Tanya because you would think is that there are worse sins there's worse grievances than playing with your hair but you know in in real kabad and authentic kabad these things touch the very core more of your connection because as I said Barak it's not just about the behavior of playing with your hair um crinkling your hair it shows it shows about it it demonstrates something deeper that's going inside that's happening inside you and what is that you that your yesesh your ego your arrogance um is in control that the physical appearance is more important than the spiritual refinement. Okay, this is a a background to what the alterba says here in very short words but I I I felt since he mentions it, it's so important it would be important to just elaborate a little bit so you have an understanding what he's getting at. So let's learn inside now. Someone who crinkles his hair and similar acts to this. The person at that moment receives their vitality, their energy. May I the clippers from the chambers of the negative energy the clippers as it says in therefore therefore even the particular details that have never became practical issues in this physical world Nevertheless, their root of their life force is an actual mitzio. Now, this is very important. This is the answer to the question is the question is that in not there's no this and this mitzvah will never happen because it's the to get all the technicalities will never take place. It can't it's it's an impossibility almost. So says I understand practically they're not going to happen but spiritually they exist because you have to look at the root here this is you have to look at the root of the of the of the aa what is the trigger to the aa yi every aveda has a trigger you know someone who who who you know who has who has an addiction the trigger. There's something deep going deeper going on inside. And and if you could, you know, deal with that and cure that and refine that deep deep issue that triggers the behavior, the behavior will fall will stop or at least be minimized. So that's what says look at his words. Very powerful world words. They actually exist in the spiritual chambers of the cliffus and even those details that possibly never will will never never did never will be. For example, errors and unwitting misdeeds like when giving tithing, you know, when you m bea you govern the way you did it with you have to give the 10th sheep and your of your of your sheep. So you stand there with a um a matzliff something that a dye and you count one two three as the sheep go by and when it comes to the tenth you you you splash the the kind of paint on on the animal to to signify that this is the 10th. What if the person made a mistake and he and mistakenly he thought the ninth is the 10th and he splashed he put the red eye believe on the ninth sheep instead of the 10th. The lai have been major this kind of eventuality that cannot be deliberately as clipper al and thereby cause a clip to light upon it. One second one second. So the the is like this when it comes to toim mistakes something we're very familiar with the word mistakes accidental unwitting misdeeds right errors and unwitting misdeeds right in other words you made a mistake you counted the 10th she the ninth sheep as number 10 when really it's not it's number nine. So why why there is there is there some connection to kipa then says as a sidebar the concept you know is not applicable to an intentional sin right what's the law when when do you when do you when does the titus say you go to to um Right? Not when it's bee it when it's accidental. That's the is not applicable to it for the clipper to rest upon it. But the guy goes possibly. Okay. Now says here an astonishing thing. He says possibly. You don't find the he's kind of unsure. It could be the in such a situation you know like this when it comes to amaze it amaze it there's no there's no escape route for amaze it so says if that's the case maybe by amaze it there isn't a domain of clippers associated with it it's like beyond the pale one second Now there's a here there's a note from the and he writes it seems to me the wording of my grandfather he doesn't say grandfather but it's ded as his grandfather where he says possibly it may be those words possibly it may be it we see that it wasn't but wasn't sure it wasn't clear to him why Because accidental sins, mistakes come from then we then then we do have a root for them called the chambers of so that's why is questioning and is unclear at least here to in his writing that surely there's no chambers. He can't say for surely there's no chamber in let's continue. In any event, it does exist. If not in clippers, then at least keeping in mind the distinction between having the sacred and the profane in the super wisdom that was given to Okay, we have a say that every novelty that you come up with so you're teaching on Fridays you told me and you come and as you prepare a kesh comes to you a a novelty a novel idea that was already given in a blue in a blueprint form to siadish whatever a future seasoned student will in the future come up with a novelty Everything was given to Moses to Mosha on the there's a section called the the queries the questions of who posed hypothetical question possibilities that he was escorted from the house of study as the gam relates And the detail in if he was wrapped up in this is a different gum um which speaks about he was wrapped he was like you know kind of u quarantined quarantined and and and it was a hypothetical questions and they they took him kind of serious and all of that. The question over there was look what it says here whether a firstborn animal can be considered to have directly opened the womb and hence be sanctified in either of two hypothetical cases. According to Rashi, it's a question of what happens if the person assisting in the birth entirely wraps up the animal as it is born. According to the Raen, Rash's grandson, the question involves a multiple birth with a cow being born together with his the the firstborn bull and wrapping itself completely around in something extremely unlikely to even occur to ever occur. Nevertheless, all of these detailed queries were given to for the extension of superal wisdom is the in the laws of infinite since it's actually clothed in it. every detail of superal wisdom the the found the founded the daughter. So listen to this is called father right in a isma because because is the the seed the nuda the point the idea bean is the mother the the mother is the takes the this the semen and develops it. So bina is the developmental process. Is and bina's aim. Malus is the daughter. Brata is Aramaic for daughter. Malus is known as we say ino malus. Malus is the mouth which we call the oral ta right because we talk it out. It's not written. then is clothed in the laws of the oral ta as they are as they are to be found in their source and malus of so let's go back the theal wisdom finds itself in the daughter you hear that the daughter is malusa is malus so which is which is which is finds itself specifically in which you say out with your mouth. We continue and from is drawn into will now conclude by explaining how this brings about the refinement of the sparks. Remember we're talking about that even amidst low sessay there's somehow the refinement of sparks even though it's not proactive it's passive low don't do and he continues it's known the nurturing of the clip you derives from the hinder part of the 10 spherus of holiness And most precisely from the garments of the belly and more precisely they derive their nurture from the garments of that are intermingled with clippers. So in other words the evil of the clippers in the world of are intermingled with the good. It's known that they receive their nurturing from the state of garments. And when one studies the laws in speech and in thought, they become separated and dis and distinct from the sacred. It says of to separate etc. The clip is from holiness through Torah study. When we when we study is ser one of the other one of the accomplishments that we happen simultaneously is we separate the clipus. How does TA accomplish the separation and refinement of the clippers when the issue of superal wisdom originally in was unable to affect this and there came about the ad mixture of good and evil in the worlds of this is according to what we know say an was this is an answer in in to the uh the prophet's query. Why was the land destroyed? Why was the land of Isel destroyed? And the and the answer is for they did not recite the blessing before Torah study. What does that mean? Does that make sense to you? Doesn't make sense, right? Because of that, you destroy. So the inner explanation, the deeper explanations are follows that people of those times failed to draw down the infinite light into the study of tira because of their own ego. They didn't study tyra with with with anos with modesty with humility. They studied with ga. They studied for a selfish reason. Evil cannot be separated from good by alone. It must be studied in the proper manner. You hear that? This is such powerful words. Just by studying tada barak doesn't yet remove the clippers that are found in the world because if you study ta with ga and yesesh and ego and a sense of you know sense of ego that ta study unfortunately is has an association with the clipus. The only way to ex to to to get rid of the clippers is based on the you have to first make a that's why in the morning blessings we say why must we say the answer is so we think because just like every mitzvah before you do a mitzvah you Say before you eat an apple, you say before you learn to learn, you say the explains and explained at length and in other places is it's much deeper. is because otherwise the without the humility with of without you having humility when you learn your is associ and means recognizing that this is Hashem's and you're you're a you're a nobody and you have a to learn it and to expound upon it but don't become you know big from it the big shot you know means not that he didn't actually say the blessing in the morning or whatever before they learned. Of course they did, but they didn't connect with the deeper me idea of a braha which means recognition that it's and all of that. So that's what he says here that these clippers won't be released from the study until it's let's continue. This is by drawing down the infinite of God and which is enclosed in that sorts out the the clipus because the infinite light that's within it's equally true regarding the study of laws of prohibity and this is his answer. This idea doesn't make a difference to whether you're studying about mitz or mitzvah lo positive or negative commandments. Even those that most probably will never occur are still infused with the infinity of for the study itself accomplishes this purification. And this light is drawn into the supernal wisdom that um by the um the supernal light is of man who's occupied with these laws above. When Hashem when we learn Hashem learns as well. When I im studies his source above I call it Hashem but his source above engages in study as well. This is cabalistic the locations in the source of the feminine of the. So what we have over here is a very interesting um approach to TA study. You know listen we would learn a lot of but the alterba gives you the truth. He wants you to know from the very beginning that if you're learning TA with an agenda, it's Clipper. And we've seen this in history. We've seen this and we see this people who somehow take the Toyota and they have an agenda. Whatever that agenda is that t of study creates kipa and if it creates kipa it's negative energy it's not good for you it's not good for the world so there needs to be a sense of humility generally speaking have less of this issue than others litish people and you You know the tush of people are always into the kdush the novelty. You know they say about the brisker they go over to a rambom and they roll up their sleeves. Now I'm going to take apart a rambom. So of course it's a it's it's it's a saying but the thought is what counts. Yes. Yes sir. What I happened to meet somebody once who uh was a dropout from Lakewood and when I say a dropout from Lakewood I mean he was a homage he was a col I don't think he was married but he was a years in in Lakewood and um it got to him that the whole the whole point was to upluck somebody else. There was a contest who can upswag and he said they would even talk down about the roshiva in their own learning that they were like up like it was a it was a whole contest who could be the best like who could have the best argument and he said he became so turned off by the whole thing that uh it really like destroyed him. Look uh O sh to say there aren't people you know lakewood and ponovich and mir in the literacy of shivas that are learning terra without I'm not saying ga and ego but the when you seek to to be madish when you seek to be novel automatically the ego comes it's it's in everything in life right you know so so in other words the territory the mechanism of in of of style and flavor and culture in in in these communities lends itself more to this you know ego oriented by there's a big emphasis on the bit on the you know kind of the obliteration of self you know even though we have plenty of gver you know plenty of yeseshas you know I'm not going to go into it now but nevertheless Yes, in this aspect have this more this sensitivity more to the anoid or at least one you you know what I'm saying? So this is what said here we will continue tomorrow. Have a great day everyone. Bye-bye. Thank you.