Tanya Kuntres Acharon 6a- Hairstyles, Detail of Torah makes the world thrive- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

So we're at contra last section of Tanya essay 6 using lessons in Tanya 365. Let's read here for the note. The last two essays explained how the observance of the commandments of the mitzvah seek out the ex seeks out the exiled sparks the hidden in this world and thereby suffices it with godliness. That's what's accomplished through doing mitzvah. They also pointed out that the same is true of the study of their laws. The present essay which is essay 6 in goes one step further and explains that the laws of the transcend the world beyond any possible comparison. the laws of the Tyra and it's it uses the following when David Amelik when triumphantly brought back the araides the ark from its captivity in the hands of the Philistines theim it was placed on a wagon David had momentarily forgotten the stipulation of the quote on the shoulder shall they carry it. So commenting on this episode, our sages say that David's forgetfulness came as a punishment for his having referred to the laws of the Tyra as songs only songs. your statue quote. This is from Kufutes. Each verse there, each letter has eight verses. So for the letter Z, there's a verse that says, "Your statutes were songs for me in my place of terror." So I ask, why should the expression be regarded as an offense? Why should David Melik's calling me songs be considered an offense? Because that's what that's what he says. And in what way is it related to its punishment? What's the connection? These are among the questions discussed in this essay before us and at a greater length and etc etc. So let's go into the text. David, it's a question. When you read this verse is and everyone else supposed to read it really with a question. David, do it. Exclamation mark. Do it. David, you call them songs. That's all that you see in the Tyra is songs. Because he had referred to the laws of the Ty as songs. David hat was punished by being made to stumble in a matter that even school children knew. No. And that is that the artes is to be carried on the shoulders. That was his punishment. Next page. So behold in the says like this. the praise of the Tyra and its song that the Tyra is a him and a song to Hashem. So why is quoting the Z because the Zah does call Tyra not only a praise it calls a a song. So here the gumar says that dwood was punished because he called tyra just songs and desire attributes the virtue of tyra to song. How do you reconcile that? So obviously there are levels that's the the short answer to the question is it depends what level you're talking about. Let's see how he develops it. [Music] We need to understand what is the praise of Hashem of God that something's forbidden or permitted. Um, in other words, it's it's a compared to how great are your actions, God. Your thoughts are very deep. Why does the verse the question is why does the Pik make the deed precede the thought? Right? Normally you first have it in your mak in your thought and for your mak it comes to the p doesn't say that number one how great are your actions first the emphasis is on my action and only secondly how deep is your why is that so we'll explain that from From an appreciation of Hashem's great works, one begins to understand the depth of his thoughts. Just for a second, I heard this from Rabbi Gordon, but it's it's a good thought, good way. We see that the details of Msa from the from knowing the action, we understand the thought it works. H how is that? How is that? He says, take for example the computer. The computer, if there's something missing in the in the exact URL or if there's a a period that's missing, you can't find the the address. In other words, the details of the precise details of the mice of the action sets the right tone, gets you to the right place. So you could philosophize and have thoughts and all of that but if it's not associated with poel in messa and not just in my in the details of messa the thought is irrelevant and the thought can be just a a superolous experience that that's you know just ethereal and has nothing to do with practicality. Let's continue now. It is known that all worlds, the upper worlds and the lower worlds depends on the meticulous performance of one single mitzvah. You know, we talk about tipping the scales in our favor in heaven. It takes so it takes just but one mitzvah. We continue top of 367 that for example if a carbon is to be valid that causes what we call a superal unification and and causing that all worlds ascend to receive their vitality and their flow. However, if a person while bringing a sacrifice change the detail of the of the of the laws of bringing a sacrifice or doing what for example you know we have the aod service in in the musf and we also have an air of pes we read say the pes when you the blood of the animal it had to be done with your right hand for a righty what if a righty was mabble the blood with his left hand it's invalid so this is the detailb says here what if you did the carpet and you did everything except one little detail instead of the right you used your left so the the iseladam If you received ex the the blood with your left hand, it's invalid. For example, another example, the vessel that you used to for the for the for the blood was not a kosher vessel, rendering the activity invalid. O a third detail. There was a separation an intervention of a foreign body between the coen and the vessel that makes it also invalid. The point being that is showing us here are three examples that if you did the act you slaughtered the animal properly you went to your line to the b mikdash you brought the carbon but there's only one little thing you did you you stuck out your left hand to do instead of your right hand invalid by mistake you took the kayie that's not kosher that's tummy invalid But I did everything else right and I slept from all the way to or wherever. You're telling me that all my hard work was for not because I stuck my left hand out instead of my right hand. It's a very those are details but that's the point. In the details you find the the essence. Let's continue. When when when these details are violated, you cause a cization, a nullification of the spiritual worlds in receiving their energy and their flow from the life of life, God, Hashem, who is Let's take the example of it says in when you put on a kosher parin you cause the revelation of what's called superernal wisdom of zo we'll just leave it at that but it's it's a high level which is the source of life for all worlds. Next page 368. Yet through the omission when you put on film of one required detail, they all are invalidated and the intellect departs. The same applies to the detail requirements of the prohibited commandments. The one who meditates, who reflects on what? How great are the works of God that through the multiplicity of the worlds and all of their hosts and how everything is literally null in comparison to the specific a a a minute detail that's a requirement of of of the title the title For this is the profoundity of the supreme thought and divine wisdom. The profontity is what mah it is the detail. You know we think the profontity of hashem is in the grandiose. Oh the big zah the big mah. It's the small guy. It's the small detail. Don't underestimate the power of the minute of the detail because for in the detail lies the kavana and the entire the entire depth of hashem the entire greatness of hashem depends on the detail. So if if a detail is invalid it's an invalid act. That's the point he's making. For through the observance of one minor specification, all worlds ascend and receive their sustenance, their energy, and their flow. When you don't have it, if it's the opposite, you make a change. You don't go forbid. It's not that way. This brings to mind the reflective state of realizing how God is so deep. which is in infinitely transcends the vitality of all worlds. He repeats the at least it sounds that way that the entire vivifying power issues forth from a minor requirement. This requirement being drawn from its source is namely the depth of Hashem's thought and he gives the example hair. Everyone you have your hair you like your hair. Yesterday we spoke about not combing your hair making yourself fancy and everything else. If you didn't hear this she yesterday's shar it's the only place in Tanya D speaks about hair dos. Okay. You know, I'll never forget when 19 91 or 1991 when we had our court case for our Kabad House in Marin County. It was a zoning zoning issue and for some reason we filed the the the the homeowners association with some individuals took the county of Marin Marin County to court not kabad because they the county issued us a use permit a variance So they took them to court and we were an accomplice. You don't understand. Anyway, but the bottom line is we had to defend ourselves. That's a it's a whole story. I wrote a whole book on it called Kabat House. All the court proceedings. Do we have any lawyers here? I don't think we have any lawyers here. Anyway, it's really a lawyer's book. You know, all the details. Anyway, so the the the Superior Court, the Marine County Superior Court judge, he wrote a 42page ruling against us, against the county, and against us. And um you know, 42 pages is 42 pages. It's not, you know, five pages. And I remember picking up Rabbi Schlomma Kunan, the the you know the head of Kabad houses in in California. He came he had to see a property of his in Berkeley. The mikvah building at the time was was owned by by Rabbi Cunin. He bought it back in the early '7s. There should be a mikvah in Berkeley and that's where everyone went. All the women went to the mikvah was in the beginning. There was no there was only one mikvah. It was there or San Francisco. And in San Francisco, I don't think it was a kabad mikva borab. And in Berkeley, it was built by kabad. It was borab. So everyone came from Marin, from PaloAlto, from from, you know, East Bay, North Bay, West Bay. Everyone came there. Anyway, um, so I picked him up at the airport at the San Francisco airport. I forgot what it's called now, whatever. And um I told him, "Rabbi Cunan, I'm in deep trouble. I had a 42page court ruling against us having a kabaras. What do I do now? You have any advice? Can you help?" So this is what he said to me. And and this is where you see experience, life experience is valuable. You know, us already AKs with the white beards, you know. Um, the young generation don't want to hear don't want to hear about us. You know, we're over the hill, but there's something they don't have. It's called experience. And they never will have it. And we have it. Our parents, the grandparents have it more. But experience is invaluable. It's uh you can't you can't you can't buy it at Sears and Alexander. Alexander doesn't exist anymore. existed in my days in in in Brooklyn. Anyway, so so Kuna says like this. This is listen what he says. Says, I always ded I always prayed that when my enemy when my opposition will attack me, they'll do it in a big way. In a big way with a big splurge all over the newspapers. So you're telling me you got a 42page? You should be thankful the guy wrote 42 pages against you guys. Imagine he would have written one page. You wouldn't have what to poke holes in and find his errors. But now that all 42 pages, you can choose page 12, page 17, page 28, and you can find this thinking is wrong and this thinking is wrong and shoot down his argument. That's what he said. And he was so right. Because when we appeal to the the state the state appellet court, they shot down the 42 pages like it was excuse me toilet paper mamish. But why I'm saying this is because of the hair where this was after the 1989 San Franc Bay Area earthquake for those that remember. I mean I lived through it. I remember exactly where I was standing when the earthquake happened and um so the court building was was dilapitated was was at a commission was was you know you couldn't go in was dangerous so where did they have the court in a plush highrise around San Francisco downtown San Francisco and I went in there I've told you this many times I went in there was mish you felt what the go says the the human court, the civil court below is analogous has a similarity to to the heavenly court to God's heavenly court. Why do I feel that way? cuz we came to such a fancy building and the and the room the the plush the carpet the the chairs it was like I never you know I wasn't I wasn't in that world it was very fancy a very rich feeling and then they were the three judges were seated on top on a day it it was mish and we were all below it just you know laavd I say laavd remind me of the reb was faban. The Reb would sit on top by the tables. Behind them are the elders and we all were below but in the basement of 770 with broken benches. Okay. And here it was in a a high-rise of San Francisco new building. And then came their lawyer who who wasn't the law. I don't know if he was the lawyer for the lower the lower division. Tall guy. Uh I think he was Italian or Irish. You know, this guy was a mover and a shaker. He knew the body movements. He knew he was like it was a show. And what stood out another thing is why I'm reminding myself about this and telling this long drawn out story is because of his hairo. I remember he had so much hair but it was stylish and it was like and we had our lawyer was Sanford Rosen Sandy Rosen. Look him up. He was the lead lawyer in the 1974 Kent State Ohio case the shooting. The lawyer there who won the case was Sandy Rosen. He was born in Crown Heights in the Crown Heights Hospital on Lefforts and Crown on Lefforts which is now base Rifka. And he was a Jewish boy and he was in the same class as Alan Derswood's at Yale. And I remember meeting him and you know he's a yeid and he comes from the east coast and it was a really uh we we we related you know but I remember when the first time I met him he had a a briefcase and that briefcase reminded me of my rebies my teachers who came to yeshiva in the 19 late in the 60s and 70s7s and it was it was like so reminiscent of 80 years back, you know, that little briefcase and you bent over and you walk into your you know to your job. It was like it was it it wasn't it wasn't those the new briefcases the square ones that you know had the locks. This was like the I forget. It was it was it was maybe stronger. It was uh you know leather leather brief. You know what I'm talking about those bags briefcases and and and and here it is. Sandy Rosen in San Francisco 1990991. He had such a briefcase. So I say to myself, Hayam Dolphin, oh my gosh, how is this guy going to put up with this Italian stylish, you know, mafioso? It's like going to be a wipeout. He came into court, he was quiet. The other guy was throwing himself and making and shooting and saying lies. And my lawyer just made one point. I've told you this. They accused us of religious entanglement. And that's against the United the United States Constitution, the separation of church and state. And religion is not allowed to entangle itself into church. And right and look what this Yale Yale genius came up with. He said it's not entanglement. What the government did for you, what the what the county of Marin did for Kabad was it was religious accommodation. And guess what? The three judges bought it and they said he was right and they overturned the lower court's decision and the rest is history. I mean they went to the to the state supreme court and was thrown out. It was not even a case. But one of the things that stands out about this I forget his name, you know, was there this hair do. So we're talking here about hair. Hair can be very powerful and the proof is that hair keeps on growing and it's attached to the skull. In other words, hair has has vitality, has life. If it wouldn't have life, it couldn't grow. Yi, so the fact that it's growing shows it has life. But it can easily be abused when you start playing with your hair. That's what we learned in yesterday's shar. Now doesn't talk about the this aspect of hair, but he speaks about another aspect. Look inside, please. Man's hair issues issues forth from his brain. is known from. So why does he bring this here? In other words, he's bringing this here to tell you is like this that on one hand hair is an obstacle. You could use it to to abuse abuse to to to show off to show off to be playful with your hair. Remember we learned yesterday the language hill misal bisaro I think he used the word frickling freckling I forget the word you used yesterday you know playing with your hair it means curling in Hebrew curling okay in curling you know this yeah right exactly sounds so on one hand the hair is an obstacle on the other hand hair comes from the brain And that's what makes it grow. Is saying that the same is true with this that we're talking about here. The of one mitzvah of one of of dict of one piece of the detail on one end you could say it's it's nothing. It's like only a detail. But he's saying that this detail in this detail constitutes the entire experience. That's the message he want he's getting at over here in this section in Tanya. We're going to uh stop now and meet. Um yeah, we'll learn more tomorrow. We'll finish it. We'll see. Anyway, any questions? I know I still one second. Um Hil, I didn't get back to you yet. I hope today to look into it. Yes, Misha. Okay, we've got long to work it through. Okay. Yeah, she and gone tomorrow. What? We can call today sheer here today and gone tomorrow. Yes. Ma, what are we talking about? So, it's the ultim speaking about the trip. You speaking about the trip? Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Yeah, I'm glad you brought up that word cuz that's that's what I heard growing up in from my father. Get take it take your chup off. I don't know. Chup is not an English word. Troop what kind? It's a Yiddish word. I don't know where it comes from. What you mean? Moa, how do you explain what shook means? Chup means that the front hair here. Yeah. But yeah, but yeah, but you see it. You can see it very motion. You can see it very see. Look at Brim and Cotish. They come in with their hat like this perched like this almost somehow not falling off their head. They've got their hair is short here and they get this big bunch of hair right there. Right. In English is called the qua. It's called the qua. qua. That's exactly it. Mosa, you explained it well. Mosha, you said the right word. That's called a ch. I don't know if it's yiddish or polish or Russian and and if you walk through what if you walk through certain neighborhoods, you cannot not see every buffer whose pas are down like this. They're just walking. They're constantly playing with their pas constantly. What does it have to do with? Well, going back to the crinkling the curling the hair. No, no. They Oh, what? You're Wait, wait, wait, wait. You're saying that they're they're be they're be they're they're beautifying themselves through through curling their their payers. That's what you're saying. Okay. What what I what I grew up with is what Misha Misha said before, the chup, you know, and he said it well. You know, you see their hats are back. It's it's obvious they they they want to I never thought I never thought of whatever I never thought of that that that have these payers that they're on the contrary is what they do in Burough Park also. I of course they do but but they they they it's like a nervous hazard. Wait. No, no, no. They believe it has to do I have to check with these guys my friends here. You think it's bitter? I think No, they they say they say it has to do something with I I I don't know. I I I think there's something that they they say that it's a soldier with holiness. Whether it is or not, I don't know. But I I I don't believe that they're they're trying to show off through curling the pace. That's what you're saying, right? I'm just I'm making an observation. They're constantly playing with the pas curling the pace. Walking down the street. It's see it all the time when I'm driving to work. Every is out there playing with his pis. Okay, everyone. Good conversation about chup and pis. You have one tomorrow. Z is I have an idea to answer. Hello, by the way. What? Your grandson's question. Oh, we we you want to hear it now? Yeah, you got a minute. each resides primarily primarily in a part of the body right associated with the brain the heart or the liver and then spreads from those organs to the other to the rest of the body. So and any individual cell is replaced. So when that when the the the the kayak from the neuron ceases in that cell, it's replaced by a new cell that receives the receives the the life force. Very good answer. Very good. Very good. Hill, put your grandson in touch with with Dr. Iser Dr. Iser the cabalist. Classic. There's a classic philosophical uh puzzle. If you take a ship and you have a pile of wood and nails next to the ship, you take one nail out of the ship and replace it with one of the other nails. Then you take a board and you replace with a board and you take Right. It's an identity question because essentially you you remove piece by piece the original ship, but you rebuild it. So which is this ship? the one that has the new parts or the one that was rebuilt with the old parts. It's a classic philosophical Yeah. Your grandson's question reminded me of Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Have one tomorrow. Byebye. Take care.