Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #36

all right welcome to our weekly text-based tanya we are studying the text the holy text of the altarebes tanya the manual for the soul that's what i call it the manual for the soul he didn't call it that um what did the altar ever call his book yeah and say name yeah we call it tanya because that's the first word of the first chapter yeah and uh lakutyamura means compiled sayings because he says he got it from his teachers and several shall benin means the book of the regular normal intermediate ordinary guys which means the the goal of the book is how to be a regular normal ordinary guy right and we define that as somebody who may have improper impulses but has perfect behavioral control okay so toward that goal we started discussing in chapter 18 how to get an infusion of love and awe of hashem that would be enough that would be powerful enough to uh keep us on the right track and we said there's this dirty little trick this little life hack called tap tapping into the super jew switch which is triggered when you are put in a position of choosing between remaining connected to god or being separate from god and that we see throughout history the phenomena of jews who were even irreligious who would give up their lives in order to retain their connection to their jewish identity and their god so we say hmm there's something interesting going on there is that something we could use for ourselves and we're saying yeah well we could but we got to figure out how to present each moral dilemma to ourselves as if it were an all-or-nothing binary choice between absolute oneness with god and absolute god forbid disconnect okay sounds familiar that's what we've been talking about since chapter 18. okay so uh last week chapter 23 we spoke about it in in the positive sense that when you learn toyota when you do mitzvahs you're totally united with hashem which is obviously a desirable situation to be in now we're going to just warning you talk about the opposite side of the coin when you're doing the opposite stuff so then the opposite condition is true which is obviously and undesirable to say to say it uh mildly is an undesirable situation to be in um and what are we doing now remember we are presenting and i've said this disclaimer dozens of times while we since we've been since chapter 18 i told you we don't normally take such an all or nothing view of our spiritual growth but for this particular tool it is of necessity that we do because that's how the tool works that's how it works okay everyone is clear on that because i've said it a lot of times i i just yeah okay so perhaps okay scary chapter about what does it mean to become disconnected and this one opposite the other those are the words of the wisest of all men of king solomon who described that the world is composed in a way where there is a balance of good and evil counterbalanced counterweights so one opposite the other one corresponding the other we just learned in chapter 23 about how you become one with god through torah study and mitzvah observance now the opposite of that hey say that holy sh 365 biblical prohibitions and all of the rabbinical prohibitions violating one of those does the very opposite of what we just learned last week in chapter 23. the prohibitions are the absolute opposite of hashem's desire they are separate from the oneness of hashem in the absolute most absolute sense of separation so what we're driving at here is not just that you are violating god's law when you do a prohibition but that you are separating yourself from his oneness in the most absolute sense of separation why because they are the opposite of his desire we were saying last week that when you surrender to his desire so you're surrendering to him and you're becoming one with him and one with his oneness when you go counter to his desire you do what he said he doesn't want so you're not just rejecting what he wants or doesn't want you're rejecting him and his oneness what are you getting so upset about you know uh so you told me take out the garbage and i said no i don't care about taking out the garbage why are you why are you personally offended i'm asking because my wife said to me i was on the way out and i have to know how to make peace i said to her what do you care if i take out the garbage why are you so personally offended that make sense to you somebody expresses a desire and you reject their desire is it rational to compartmentalize and say well i didn't reject you i rejected taking out the garbage are you disrespecting her am i disrespecting her yeah i think so yeah yeah because she expressed a desire and i told her her desire doesn't matter to me but it's a trivial desire on the other hand it's just the garbage it wasn't a big thing does it matter here's the thing about desire a desire can be a big desire or a little desire desires aren't practical anyway when you talk about practical stuff so someone who messes up a practical job if it's a bigger job it's a bigger mess up a smaller job is a smaller mess up when you talk about desire it's all the same desire is irrational anyways it's impractical anyways because when you talk about a desire it's not about the thing if it were about the thing i'd just do it myself that's practical when it's about desire it's about the relationship is it important enough to you that i care about this do you care about it because you care about me and i care about it and if the answer is no then you're not just rejecting that thing you're rejecting me so hashem says i don't like it don't put will and linen together i don't like it and you say nah it's okay it's fine it won't bother you so what are you rejecting the fact that it's too much of a bother to refrain from mixing wool and linen i'm just picking an example that i don't think anyone has a particular lustful craving to go out and do right because i don't want to offend anybody by using your favorite sin as my example so i doubt anyone here has a has shotness as their favorite sin so i don't want to offend you that i'm you're making i'm mocking your favorite evader but you tell hershey no i can't be troubled can't be bothered i'm going to mix wool and linen and it's okay and it won't affect our relationship and the answer is no but it does affect our relationship so here's the point he's making it's not just i'm choosing to do a sin it's i'm choosing to disconnect from the person or i guess in this case the god who has expressed that that thing is sinful because what makes it sinful is the fact that he doesn't like it and now you're saying well i don't care that you don't like it right so when you do the thing that he doesn't like it's an absolute separation from hashem and the absolute most profound sense of separation continue literally on the level of the spiritual negativity called idol worship and other gods well went from zero to 60 pretty fast there all of a sudden we're talking about idol worship but you knew that's where we're heading because i told you from chapter 18 that this is the hack that we're going to figure out how any violation of hashem's will is akin to all-out idol worship mahmoud haste because of why because of the concealment of hashem's desire as mentioned above in other words don't ask what was the sin how big was the sin what was the nature of the sin that's not the point the point is does it conceal or reveal his desire when i do a mitzvah i'm revealing i'm manifesting i'm expressing hashem's desire in this world when i do a sin i'm blocking the expression of his desire so why does it matter which desire it was it doesn't and not only do we say that at that point you the sinner are making yourself separate from hashem but we're getting even more particular more granular your three soul garments your thought speech and action remember we spoke about that back in chapter four this is basic tanya i'm not going to review it those thought speech and action garments also become part of this separation from god also the soul itself which is invested in those garments the soul itself is now at this moment separate from god all of it the soul the soul's garments are now over on the side of the negative spiritual forces called idol worship not good so you thought it was just a minor infraction and here we find out well does it matter what the infraction was if you tell your wife i don't i'm not going to take out the garbage and it shouldn't bother you you shouldn't take it personally after she told you please take out the garbage or let's make it a prohibition please don't leave the house for class without taking out the by the way this isn't this didn't really happen i actually did take out the garbage before i came to class but my wife did not ask me this time [Music] she's asked me in the past and it's become conditioning so i but it's i i just don't want anyone to be worried that i actually had this conversation with her but it's a realistic it could happen it's a realistic conversation so imagine my wife says to me please do not leave the house for class without taking out the garbage and i turn around and say to her it's not such a look you're not gonna leave me over it so i think i'm gonna i'm gonna just walk out the door and not take out the garbage so probably she won't leave you over it but you know what it's called the separation from the person right it's a it's a it's a rejection of the relationship so don't say well look there are vaders that i would do and evaders i wouldn't do and depends how big of an evader that's not the point here the point is does it connect you to hashem or does it reject hashem does it express hashem's allness or does it reject his allness okay furthermore the aid and furthermore let's continue furthermore elizabeth actually the soul of the sinner and his garments are worse than the spiritual forces which with with which they are united at the time of the sin so you've joined the bad side and you're like the worst of them all you're lower than that this is scary stuff we don't normally talk this way we don't normally speak this harshly but when you go over to the sinful side and become one with the sinful side red rover red rover you actually not only become part of it but you become worse than it how are you worse than it the negative spiritual side doesn't have a physical body it's a spiritual energy and because it's not in a physical body that sort of blocks things and masks things it has clarity it knows its job it's it it's bad but it's bad because it was programmed to be bad okay it's just doing its job the it doesn't send forth its destructive angels in a way that's independent of its uh assigned programming the commandment beelam like bilaam the wicked sorcerer said i'm not able to transgress what hashem has said meaning i'm just doing his bidding yeah i'm evil but that's my job to be evil. and even though these entities are called idol worship or idols like the gemara says they refer to god as the god of the gods meaning they're fully cognizant of the fact that they're not autonomous they understand that they are just hired help venus the negative energy cannot break off it's not like in the christological sense of rebellious uh satan who goes into business for himself that god forbid is not a jewish concept that is not a jewish concept even the forces of evil are completely subservient to god and to the contrary because they are spiritual entities they have a certain clarity of their own lack of autonomy because they know they understand that their entire subsistence is coming from the hindu part the backside of hashem's will remember we spoke about that it's not the innermost will it's the actual actually it's the outer will or the hind part of the well but what happens is they received their nurture their their their pipeline they siphon it off in a way where they receive this life force it doesn't become actually invested within them because it's incompatible with them because uh they are actually evil and um what happens is they consider themselves to be gods which that is the it is a heretical denial of hashem's oneness i want to slow down here that negative spiritual entities are not atheistic they do not deny god's existence they're in fact because they're spiritual entities they are very very very clear on the fact that god exists and in fact that god exists as a superior or supreme being what their heretical belief is not that they're judged for because is what they're programmed for is not that they deny that god exists they deny that god is i hear this uh okay yeah okay yeah let's just silence it they're i'm usually not distractible but okay um so they do not deny god's existence they do not deny god's existence they know that god exists in fact they know that their existence is dependent upon his existence they exist they deny his oneness that's what he says because they say but we also exist we are lower deities we're not the big god he's the big god we're the little gods but we're also gods and that is the heretical view of these negative entities there's like three questions going we're all like that okay yeah um does he does about probably make a distinction between let's say the conscious and subconscious levels of when we're talking about you know not fulfilling god's will meaning on a general basis most people who don't do it would be like a showgig they essentially want to do it but they're not able to okay so this seems to despair it seems somebody's actually making like an intellectual decision okay so to answer your question we we are going to speak about this in the next chapter what the psychology of rationalization is he's describing the phenomenon right now he's not describing subjectively how one experiences it he's describing the mechanics what happens at the time of the sin it is what it is now you're asking well what does that look like as i'm rationalizing it and doing it he talks about that in the next chapter okay and i'm not going to answer but i'm going to say did what i say acknowledge that i understood your question okay and you're satisfied to wait until okay fine correct why is he talking about the non-physicality of the because he's explaining how when we sin we're worse than the energies with which we're being united because they being spiritual um their error is not as bad as our error first of all they're programmed first of all they're programmed to be that way that's their job okay our job is the opposite our job is to overcome that and to deny that view and to embrace the true view of hashem's oneness second of all even when they deny it there's only a certain point to which they can deny because they they don't have physical bodies see physicality allows you to become uh much more of a denier of reality because the mask the facade of materiality sort of plays into this whole illusion of autonomy that things exist on their own right so these these negative spiritual entities they don't have physicality so they're never as deluded as we are okay okay yeah so i'm just a little confused because the negative spiritual energies are akin or synonymous with gods negative gods they're called yeah well in in the ten commandments the refers to other gods there should be no other gods before me you're wondering why do we even give them the credence of referring to them as gods yeah i mean that's a classic question but obviously they are not gods uh in the sense that they think they are um because there is no such concept is it that we give them the power to be well that's one explanation that we give them that power god forbid we can give them that power or we from our perspective attribute to them that power another way of explaining it is that functionally for all intents and purposes they become as if they were other gods that's not the reality the reality is that the existence of these spiritual entities is just as absolutely contingent and conditional and dependent on hashem as the existence of the table or the chair they do not have just because they are spiritual and more rarefied entities doesn't mean that they are somehow epistemologically more sound or ontologically more sound than the table or the chair they have no existence unto themselves however their perspective is that not only they do have an existence uh but that it's a privileged existence that they have a status they have a status of gods well they are he said they're taking from the hindu side of god but that's where they're extracting their energy from right and because it's the hindu side there that plays into the illusion in other words if they had a face-to-face relationship with god then they would have to surrender but what happens is instead they get the goodies without surrendering to the relationship and that sort of plays into the delusion of quasi-independence so but i want to just make sure everyone understands the point of this chapter of tanya is not so much for us to ever try to wrap our minds sufficiently around the world view of a spiritual entity which would be probably impossible the point we're making is that whatever this worldview of these spiritual entities is it's not good i mean it's not good but he's saying yeah but your world view at the time you choose to separate yourself from god is even worse than their world view that's the point that he's making you understand we're just trying to make a point by way of comparison so we are being compared to what these negative spiritual entities but the spiritual negative entities of the negative spiritual entities right are a consequence they stay like they stay in the background they can't do anything and they're only a consequence of our sinning correct no no no no they they they can't they can't come into being unless we sin no they're they already exist hashem set them up hashem set them up and he gives them a certain amount of uh very diminished life force to keep them going exactly so they stay in the background until we sin when we sin we give them the energy yeah that's another thing so we feed into them right but he hasn't mentioned that yet at this point yeah right now he's just trying to explain that when when a jew chooses to do the right to when the jew chooses to do the wrong thing god forbid it's not just he's joining the dark side he's becoming the worst guy on the dark side because he's even worse than that it's like you join a gang and then the gang members are like whoa guy you're a little bit too intense for us like i don't know you're freaking us out okay all right let's continue here um they do these spiritual entities do not deny the existence of god they just see he's the god of the gods and that's why they won't go against hashem they will not rebel against hashem again i i want to make very clear this is not lahavdo like the christological view of a luciferian entity which rebels against god there is no such thing there is no such thing hashem is completely in control of all of his agents including the negative agents who are programmed to do this job witches which what about witches they're like from the other side and we were supposed to eradicate all of them at one time like the wicked witch of the east no weren't we supposed to once like get rid of all the witches get rid of the witches yeah house landed on here heard some polisher guy refer to the lady the dmv is shaytan yeah killed a bunch of witches he impaled them he impaled them right so it's like were they the spirits from the other side no there are people no witches are okay i don't want to get off into this conversation but yeah they're people they're sinful people they're yeah yeah yeah you wanna i'll tell you sometime later the crazy story about uh about the rebbe with the with the witch and and uh the amazon yeah yeah it's crazy story schleeck there who uh went to go yell at this witch to stop bothering uh this jewish lady yeah should i just just she saw his picture of the rebbe and she got scared all of a sudden she's like oh no when i tried to do the seance for this widow there was this man who scared me off and said don't talk to this soul and that was the man in the picture yeah it's actually it's a crazy story it's a real story yeah it happened robbie alperovitch in brazil yeah it's a crazy story okay i don't talk about witches anymore okay all right vm kane [Music] this is not the point listen people watching online i'm sorry sometimes it's class we get off topic but with always with interesting things it's never boring i'll probably i promise you that it'll never be boring what interesting conversation we've had the witches the most out there we should have like uh one one session just for all your crazy questions you know what will happen if we would have one session for crazy questions everyone would sit there silent be like i don't know i can't think of anything crazy i think that the question was yeah are those people tapped so in to the dark side that they live in the darkness they live in that world of just complete available and idol worship i don't know this is not talking about witches but this is this is tanya we're not talking about can i tell you what we're talking about we're not talking is when you're getting tired of waiting for your husband to make half a dollar and you want to and you you didn't eat then you want to pick a piece of the salad from the salad bowl while you're standing at the kitchen counter and it's only rabbinically forbidden to eat before abdullah what's the big deal that's sitra yeah picking at the salad nibbling before abdullah is citra we don't have to go all the way to the wood i'm saying why are we making this crazy straw man like because i'm not drawing a pentagram on my basement floor and lighting candles so i'm like oh i'm not involved in the citra accra three levels and so you keep going there are no levels that's his whole point here is that there are no levels i hate to say this because we don't normally speak this way but gnashing a piece of salad before havdalah is just as much sitracha as casting spells on people you're saying citrus like the eights of horror yeah that's what it is yeah okay there's something that are illegible exactly right there yeah but these are all scholarships at times you're using that technical term that we learned in chapter seven any aveda is scholarships of timaeus there's no gradation innovators is it permissible or is it forbidden if it's forbidden bam it's shallow clippers of times and it doesn't matter if the prohibition is biblical or rabbinic there aren't we learned about gradation right so i'm not understanding how we apply we're not doing my gradations anymore i told you we took a really sharp turn and we're going we're there's a very specific path we're on right now in this context there are no gradations they don't exist okay the person who sins is worse far worse than the sitra and the klippa itself which is called idol worship uh he's more separate from god than they are yes he's more of a denier of hashem's oneness than they are in commission now he quotes from the arizon the negativity of this world meaning the physical plane the lowest plane of all the system of worlds is the lowest he calls it the the dregs like when you have a barrel of wine you have the dust that settles on the bottom this is the these are these are the drugs this is the thick stuff that you can't sift out it can't get refined it fell to the bottom of all the worlds and it is the ac he calls it the taclosabira because it's the ultimate refinement because these this is the real gunk the real garbage the real lint trap in the dryer that's where we live basically we live in the lint trap of the universes and lint trap was by the way that was euphemistic because really it's not a lint trap it's like some disgusting like like a greasy ball of hair that's plugging up your your shower drain very fast because until you heard okay that's why in this physical world it's a tough world it's a rough neighborhood all the deeds of this world are difficult and hard and and evil and that's why evil people are successful in this world because it's a low world and it's a world of concealment ah okay actually now we're getting into the psychology of it a bit the subjective experience he speaks about it more in the next chapter as well our sages refer to um okay they're in in particular say there's a description of i'm not going to get into a whole discussion of the original context but a man who places a warning upon his wife because he suspects her of immoral activity so the wording is kisiste when when a man's wife when his wife will literally turn aside or deviate from the norm from the modest path and that word kisiste is related to the word stus which means folly or foolishness and therefore our sages explain that no one will do innovator now we're speaking homiletically when we're not speaking about the original context of this woman whose husband suspected her of immodest activity now we're generalizing it to all inappropriate behaviors that no one will sin in any way unless they have become overcome with a spirit of of folly the point he's making here is that there's a mechanism of self-justification that convinces us that we are not playing with fire that we are not dancing around the edge of the cliff that is called stuss da filo isha hamanafis shiddai takala haisa going back to the original context about this woman who her husband suspects her of immoral activity even this woman let's say she really was doing what her husband suspected her of doing she would have held back she would have refrained if not for the spirit of folly meaning you're talking about somebody who i guess this is only a hypothetical character so no one get offended here but we're talking about a weak person she's a weak person she's not she's just a hypothetical lady she doesn't exist okay but this hypothetical lady is morally weak she's not such a morally strong person but even this morally weak person if she would have had clarity about what's happening she would have certainly controlled herself the point is she didn't control herself because she lacked clarity so what was the problem the problem was that she had a lustful desire or the problem is that when she had a lustful desire she didn't have clarity about what the stakes were the real problem is she didn't have clarity about what the stakes were okay hamacha what does this folly do it covers up the love the natural love that the soul has for god this love for hashem that desires cleaving to hashem and his faith and his oneness and it never wants to be separate from hashem and his oneness affilonate limits and this part of the soul this love within the soul of hashem this will give up its life in order to not be separate from hashem by worshiping idols in fact that the soul will not even agree to allow you to perfunctorially bow down to the idol even if you don't mean it even to do it as a hollow act just to appease the idol worshippers the koshkin like bishops so obviously it's much easier to deny your your desire and we're going back to the original case about this this woman she has this lust she has this desire for this forbidden relationship so obviously to deny one's desires is painful but how painful on on a scale what's more painful to be tortured to death for refusing to renounce judaism or to not give in to a lustful desire obviously being tortured to death not for not renouncing judaism is much more painful well this same woman again hypothetical woman would have been capable of enduring torture and death in order to not renounce god so how come she wasn't capable of refusing her lustful desires the clarity that was the only factor because when they said worship this idol or were going to chop your head off it was so clear to her what the stakes were so then it was like no do whatever you want to me there's no way i won't do it because it was so clear to her whereas when she was in this mode of this lustful desire she didn't have that clarity the rochester the the the capacity for self-rationalization kicks in and convinces her that it's not an all-or-nothing proposition it's not complete disconnection from god exactly says you're going to be fine yeah it's bad i know it's bad i'm not saying it's a good thing but you're going to be fine after you do it that's the dos i don't even think the mind comes into play at that point i think the emotion takes over at that point the mind is there because if you've had a little inkling of thought you might see hashem in the picture well it's interesting the way he describes it is that the the real pathology here is not that the emotions get carried away and and i would argue that that's what emotions are supposed to do it's nothing there's nothing pathological about emotions getting carried away because that's what emotions do the pathology is that the mind the mind's whole job is to cool you off and it indeed it has cooled her off in the wrong direction the mind is supposed to mitigate the emotions it's supposed to say let's calm down here okay so it did actually calm her down it calmed her down to not be repulsed by doing the sin emotions are made to be excited that's what they do so there's nothing dysfunctional about her emotions what's dysfunctional is the mind whose job is to calm you down actually did calm her down it calmed her down and said don't worry you won't get struck by lightning so the is actually in some ways is a misnomer because we translate it as a spirit of foolishness thus we translate often as foolishness but it's not foolishness in the sense of being absolutely um vapid the truth is it could actually depending on how smart you are could take on a a semblance of even hyper intellectualization because that's its job is to calm you down through rationalization or as i've told this class before what does it mean to rationalize rational lies they are the rational lies that we tell ourselves so the ruach dos is not this berserk mode to the contrary it's it's cold and calculating it calms you down and says you can do it it's okay you won't drop dead you won't be separate from god it'll be okay we'll deal with it later it's fine you deserve it it's that your your situation is different you i already have it's insanity well it's not insanity in in the sense of love being deluded about reality um because no because then it would be like you know the insanity would be like well you are the uh you know you're the princess of of the such and such kingdom and uh that so you got to go fight that dragon i don't know some weird i'm just making up some delusion okay at any rate this this is it's in touch with reality it's just a very specific narrative that if the mind is not working the way it should be but that's not insanity oh i i think hashem wants me to eat meat this week because then i have more strength and then i could serve him well that's a very from rationalization the example that you gave right then there are other rationalizations which are not religious based which are more like um look you know look well the beautiful thing the beautiful thing about the mind the beautiful thing about the mind is that it it settles it settles and it's settling which is good because when you're getting hysterical you got to calm people down but that power is a double-edged sword you can settle people down in a in a detrimental way which is instead of a person having the natural panic mode that they should when they see something that could separate them from god kasper shalom the rule comes in and settles them down and says it's not going to be a big deal you're going to be okay it's called the spirit of folly correct but but it's not folly the way that we normally think of it like it's just it's a bunch of three stooges gags it's actually much more insidious than that because it sounds smart it sounds smart it's not a bunch of clowns it's actually very laid back and calm and reassuring it's actually when you're in a really crazy time in life the ruach dos is probably the most healthy sounding voice in your life because when you're freaking out and panicking the rush dust is like this very calm reassuring voice now it's common reassuring for an evil purpose to make you ruin your life but you don't think about that at that moment because that's its whole job is to make you not think about the fact that it's making you ruin your life it's telling you you're not ruining your life that's its job okay let's let's continue here for a little bit all right all right um being so this hypothetical woman she has made a distinction in her mind between the prohibition of this illicit relationship which she has rationalized for herself and the prohibition of bowing down to an idol she will not bow down to the idol but she will rationalize the illicit relationship why what's the difference is it the gravity of the sin no it's the clarity that she has in one case over the other and this this is this is the is the rationalization now anyone who studied chapter 19 your ear should be perking up this ruach does is able to numb her all the way up to but not including the khakha of her nephesh valayad baklal but not including the era like mentioned above in chapter 19 the light of hashem which is invested in the that is unassailable so what happens is remember we spoke about chapter 19 the kayak that is precognitive on every conscious level the rationalization has completely overtaken her however on the preconscious level the level of kokhma she still has clarity now a lot of good that's going to do her in real life because that's not where her decision-making is coming from right now but we're just stating a fact that even at the point where this this rationalization power called the ruachtoss has dominated her to the point where it's going to mess her over and make her think she can do something wrong and not feel bad about it even at that moment her shebang this precognitive faculty is still pristine and unassailable and and is is completely not subject to the delusion that has overtaken the rest of her faculties okay now wouldn't it be nifty if we could somehow tap into that and get it to express itself and to overtake all the other faculties yeah that would be nice and what are we trying to do precisely that so at this point we gotta tap into that hawkmoosh banefish which still has clarity because right now it's working so behind so deeply that it's just not accessible on any practical level we got to trigger that to come out in full force so that she can actually align her behavioral choices to that yeah and that would happen if she had never made that distinction then the then all of her faculties would be aligned with what her shebang knows having made that distinction all of her faculties are now subject to this delusion is unassailable it is not subject to the delusion but it's not really helping on a practical level because on a conscious level she's unaware of that clarity that she has it's funny because i she has clarity but it's on a completely unconscious level so a lot of good it does on a practical level right all right alva emma the truth is the stark truth is that anyone who does any sin even what we call a minor sin is going against god's will so it doesn't matter if your wife said uh stop making fun of my mother or if she said don't leave the house without taking the taking out the garbage it's irrelevant what the request was to deny the request is to deny the relationship but don't confuse the two because here we're talking about the of the nephesh and the ratzing of hashem so anyways we're talking about two different parties so when a person does any sin he's completely absolutely 100 percent not 99.9 separate from god more than the spiritual entities of idol worship itself and more disconnected than even all the yucky things in the world that come from the the negativity shaheen behemoth foreign we are more separate even than the yucky creepy crawly things like it says that and that preceded you and that was created before your pirish even the lowly creature called the nap mosquito that it takes in but it doesn't give out it's just a blood sucker it's the absolutely most useless thing it's just a total parasite shi klippa yes this is the lowest thing que demas licia heita but it's higher than a person who is actively sinful in the moment bistauslas rita as far as the level of divine will that is that is running into it the kosher king uh he's lower than all the nasty scary animals lions and tigers and bears he's lower than them because they're just doing their job they're just doing their mission they don't deviate from their mission or commission kosovo like it says the fear of you of man will be upon all the predatory animals like the sages say them a predatory animal will not attack a person and unless the person appears like an animal if he retains his human dignity then the animal will not attack him but siddique of shayne salamanca who retained their tsalam elekim they retained the image of god called kaffiyun kamayo kameha kazu bazaar gabi daniel begetrois then all the animals are subservient to them like daniel in the lion's den so i'm going to stop here and uh just sum up in 20 second summary what we've said so cause someone give me a pen just so we can mark off where we got up to because we did not finish the chapter we got up till daniel and the lions then okay um but the point is that just like last week chapter 23 through doing the mitzvahs and learning tater we're one with hashem here by deviating from hashem's will any type of will it doesn't matter the rabbinical biblical doesn't okay that is complete separation to what extent more than the spiritual negative entities with which were we're uniting because they're doing what they were programmed to do we're actually willfully choosing it and so yeah this is pretty bad pretty scary don't have bad dreams we're going to be finished with this in a couple weeks and then we'll get we're going to move on to some other topics