Text-Based Tanya—Week #82

welcome to text based weekly Tanya class before we start learning we're going to mention that there's a member of this class a regular member of the class one of the pillars of this class who uh bashem is on the way to a complete recovery we want to all have her in mind pesel Lea Bas fra right our friend Paula she should have a raur L CA okay also today is the Y site of um Al um her should have an alyah and she should complete the that she began in her lifetime which is only one thing to bring mashiah amen okay um for those who are joining us for the first time this is text based weekly Tanya we it's text based bed it's every every word we read every word of the Holy Tanya and uh we started how long ago did we start year and two years two years almost two years ago no October 11th 21 oh so two years ago over two years ago two years in a few days so we started with the chapter uh not just chapter one we started with um the title page we started with the title page and now we're on chapter 48 um those who haven't been here for the first 47 chapters it's going to be tough to catch you up um but hopefully I I I know that you will gain I know that you will gain because there are rich ideas in every single chapter of Tanya that you can apply um and what I'll try to do is well those who are regular members MERS of the class know that my style of Tanya is very very much about the structure of Tanya understanding how one chapter flows into the next chapter and what's happening in each part of Tanya so I often will review and give a recap and explain what's happening and where we came from and where we're headed and what point the alab is making now and what point he's not making now and that kind of stuff so I do that anyway a lot I'll try to do that a little bit more even because we have new people um so here's a little bit of a review I'm going to go back to chapter 41 that's as far back as I'm going to go in chapter 41 the AL began to focus on two subjects which are interrelated two concepts which are interrelated who can help me out here who is with us what two subjects do we start to learn about in chapter 41 love and a love and a love and awe great and what do love and awe have in common are they both colors are they both ice cream flavors are they both models of cars what they're both feelings okay and and you you anticipated my next question which was and in this context what are those feelings directed toward now you can say when you do a Mitzvah right so or what we call kavana this is the motivation to do a Mitzvah the feeling of Love of hem and allwe of hem that goes into doing what Hashem wants you to do or not doing what he doesn't want you to do okay that love is to get you to do what hasem wants you to do and all is to back off and not to do what he doesn't want you to do okay all right now that's what love and all have in common that they're both emotions or motivations to do Mitzvah what makes them different I kind of already said it but let's just recap what makes them different oh you're using a fancy term there you said the assay very good that's very yeah very good okay you're getting technical you're correct love expresses itself in the in doing good and or expresses itself in the Su go away from what's not good very good okay so that's that's what makes them different there's sort of different you know it's like you have a car and you need to have the accelerator you you need to have the brakes so it's like La is the accelerator and awe is the brakes but it's to drive one car toward one goal okay now continuing my review starting in chapter 41 since we started chapter 41 we haven't just been talking about love and awe we've been Tanya is chiefly a practical book right Tanya is a handbook a guide book for those who are new uh T Tanya is not a book of just all the spiritual ideas and Judaism put in one place Tanya is a procedural manual in how to achieve your Peak function as a servant of Hashem so in as much as T is practical and it is guidance when we're talking about love and a we're not just talking about love and on describing them chiefly what has been taking up most of the pages since chapter 41 is descriptions of who wants to tell me what how to get the love and awe very good and give me a really short succinct to the point answer how does one get love and awe meditation meditation very good and what is meditation you sit on a mat and you hum and you zone out is that meditation no what is meditation thinking about the truth thinking would you say think about the truth yeah these are all truth Concepts that's true you could by the way God forbid but you could meditate on something false and make that very very potent but we try not to do that that's called worrying is meditating on something false yeah thinking about something that didn't happen and probably won't happen that you made up that's that's also a meditation but here we're doing healthy meditations so basically since chapter 41 he gives us things to think about that if you'll think about it it will generate either or love or awe very good that's it that's it so that maybe an oversimplification but that's definitely in my estimation that's that's accurate as far as a description of what's happening in these chapters okay so now we're on chapter Which chapter were we on 48 48 and we haven't had class in over a month and we missed you thank you okay I appreciate that and a lot has gone on in the world you've been listening have you been reviewing the old chapters or you listening to my new content new do you guys do sa Mitzvah okay sa Mitzvah is very important it's not so exciting it's very technical it's it's the but I want to encourage everyone to do I do every single day sa and Mitzvah I want to encourage you to do sa Mitzvah because saer and Mitzvah takes you through all 613 commandments so you get an overview of the entire T and as the re said the re is the one who initiated the idea of daily ramam study that when we learn meaning the complete to meaning all 63 Commandments withus meaning the entire Jewish people men women and children because learning sa mitzah is something that everyone can do it's not exclusive it's not elitist then we also have Schamus hits we have Security in the entire land of Israel so it's all interrelated I want to really encourage you to do sa Mitzvah right now but thank you I'm glad that you got myuk by the way this morning I sent out the best video ever of all time you got it already from Yeah Yeah from tamir's daughter yeah are you yeah she sent me that video at 3: in the morning I was in the middle of rambam I was like last night I finished well everyone who's learning three chapters of rambam u h and then we're then we're starting uh what did we do we finish him M put him and what did we start oh it was so late last night I can't even remember what what H did we start and um anyways but I got this video from her cuz she sent me a message saying that she's listening to uh Shen my old Shen classes from three years ago and I was like that's amazing you're learning Shan I said everybody is watching the news and making themselves crazy can you tell them that you're watching Shen so she's like yeah as soon as I get off duty I'll make a video and she filmed this video and she actually held up the book The felig edition of of trust which was I sent it to uh gsy who's the sponsor gsy Fel who sponsored the he's the felig of the felg Edition I sent it to him right away I was like your book is uh in the right hands right now so that live on Wednesday sh I thought about it I but I I did sh but I'll tell you what Wednesday is gonna be we're gonna do a an unveiling of what Wednesdays is going to be what yeah I'm just wondering we're almost done with our cycle what's the plan okay over okay so I don't want to say what we're going to do after because that's a whole other other discussion I want to try to learn actual Tanya today but I will say like this what I would like to try to doem is to finish the 53 chapters of Tanya Tanya volume one at least is 53 chapters I would like to finish 53 chapters by utas KV utas KV is it's the day when the AL the t's author was uh liberated from imprisonment so I would like it gives I think it gives us like five six more classes I I don't remember exactly but I would like to try to finish by y Tes kli and then after y Tes kli we could figure out what we're going to do but this is the Tanya slot Monday's 11 is the tan slot and then Wednesdays at 11 is a different slot which we'll talk about later yeah you just said volume one has 53 chapters there were volume two there are there's a volume two there's a volume three there's a volume four there's a volume five oh wow yeah yeah and at last time I tried learning volume two I had a big big class just like this and then we started learning volume two and everyone ran away yeah I didn't run away really I not not everyone ran away a lot of people ran away there were some I like true loyal people who stayed but we had a lot of defectors why' they run away you want you want my theory I mean maybe they were just busy maybe they had a cougle in the oven I don't know why they ran away you want my theory why they ran away because chapter one I mean not chapter one volume one is about self-perfection so a lot of it's like introspective it's spiritual psychology and people love to hear about themselves volume two is cosmology it's about the nature of the universe and creation and how Hashem creates the world in an ongoing process and uh so people didn't want to hear about that they want to hear about themselves they don't want to hear about God can't they be interrelated I think so I think they're interrelated but that's yeah but by the way that brings me that's a perfect segue chapter 48 is really unusual in the first volume of Tanya in that there's not a lot of psychological insight in this chapter it's interesting chapter let me let me intro chapter 48 chapter 48 and 49 go together and I'm not even sure really why they're two separate chapters like it all every time I learn timey I'm like why is 48 and 49 separate chapters they they feel like it need they need each other to complete the thought 48 is more of the metaphysical stuff um 49 is the psychological application which is more in line with the with the flavor of volume one of Tanya which you know psychological application how we actually do it in our own mind and heart um so but chapter 48 is more of the metaphysical Stu stuff so this might scare you off which is fine actually it's probably a good thing if it scares you off okay chapter 48 you ready oh we have the word meditation right there when the intelligent person will be misb that means when he'll meditate on the greatness of Hashem or the infinite one by the way anyone who brings a t you can follow along I see some people have tanas just glancing around see about maybe a quarter of the people have Tanya text it's all the same text there's only one official version of Tanya so so when you'll think about the greatness ofm that he is like his name he's called infinite and you know what he is infinite a no end he has no end there's no end to the light that spreads forth from his simple will and that light that spreads forth from him is totally one with his Essence meaning it's not something secondary to him it is one with his with his very own essence now in theory alternate universe if reality would have come into being through a process of cause and effect and not through simum all right you got to define those words okay I will creation is a process a multiphased process one critical part of that process maybe even the basis of that process something called simum simum is a concept that the Aral writes about it well this is a contentious issue because there was uh a very there was a very serious debate about what this means but I'm going to Define it the way the Alba defines it because we're learning the Al's book means the Divine concealment how the infinite makes it appear as if there is a place that is devoid of him where he is hidden he cannot be seen and that is the prerequisite for creating a world because if hashem's Infinity is unbridled there's no place for finitude for for worlds so he says here if Hashem had not created a timum a a pocket of conceal M within which to build finite worlds we would never have been able to produce a creation if it would have just been ilol he calls it Ila which is cause and effect like a rubbe Goldberg machine where one thing triggers another thing triggers another thing but each step is sort of linked to the other um and there's no radical leap where it becomes categorically different and other words I guess without syum even if you'd have various different stages those stages would just result in different types of Infinity but with simum infinity is able to give rise to finitude or at least the effective experience of finitude you guys following you're not following yeah if Hashem hadn't done the Tsum there would be no such thing as a finite creation not even a spiritual finite creation it would just be more and more of him now the reality is there is only more and more of him but that's now how that's not how we experience it can I see a question yeah is that carnivore theide well it's not like it that is it it's not like it that's what it is what you're describing the subjective ego is the psychological experience of this phenomenon called simptom when you were saying that right right so what you're describing is how the human mind responds to that phenomenon so it's one and the same concept okay yeah I said there wouldn't be a finite world like the talmud says that the distance between the Earth and the firmament is a walk of 500 years don't don't worry about what that means the point is it's a finite amount also between each firmament is another walk of another 500 years again don't worry what that means the point is though there's a number there's a number it's finite so how does an infinite God produce something that's finite I just told you through Tsum now Not only would there be no physical world but even the spiritual World which we call ganen which is Mother which is the residence of the great Souls also the Angels but that they're also finite even these massively spiritual entities like the souls and the angels are also finite they're not physical but they're finite because after all there is a limit to their understanding they don't know everything they know more than us down here in a body but they don't know everything there's a limit that's why there's also a limit to the pleasure that they receive in Basking in the ray of hashem's presence which is good because if there were no limit to it then it wouldn't be pleasurable you know why because then they wouldn't have a subjective experience because if hashem's presence were unbridled then then there would be no subjective experience of it the angels and the souls would just be subsumed within it so in order for it to be pleasurable there has to be a limit to it you following this yeah but isn't it going to be pleasurable in om Haba and it'll be unbridled we're talking about Haba Haba is limited if it were unlimited it wouldn't be pleasurable pleasure is an experience to have an experience you have to be distinct from The Experience if the experience is in infinite then you become subsumed within it you're no longer having it you're part of it so the whole point is even in the spiritual Realms like ganaden the nature of reality is finite and if it weren't finite then souls and Angels wouldn't have an experience of it it's very simple it really is it it is simple it's it's unfamiliar it's unusual it's not the way we normally talk but it's not an overly complicated concept it's not an overly complicated concept I thought that where Souls became no no no no you said that that either you experience godl or you are yeah we've spoken about that before yeah I don't want to get derailed but yeah to become one with God you do a Mitzvah down here and feel nothing up there they feel everything that's not becoming one with God that's having an experience of God okay the idea of becoming one with God if there was only Infinity that's the idea of like before God created us like before yeah before God created that's right yeah before God created people always talk about idea right what does that feel like what was your subjective experience of reality before God created there was no that there was no such thing as a subjective experience or rather his experience was the only one yeah got you got it you got it okay it's impossible to have pleasure from something that's infinite truly infinite and not become canceled out of existence and returned to your Source V now I just want to remind everyone why we're learning this ultimately everything from chapter in chapters 41 through 50 is about love and a and we're going to use these ideas to generate love of Hashem but not today okay but so just but just remember the point of why we're learning this now the details of I'm not going to translate the details of Tsum how and what this is not the place to get into it that's what he says right here here why does he say this is not the place to get into it my Tanya experts please give me some Nas why is he saying this is not the place to get into it because this say loud talk loud this is a recipe book because what's a recipe book what's a recipe book you said right that's what I always call it what is a recipe book volume one volume one of Tanya is a recipe book it's teaching you how to accomplish something practical okay going it's not going to get into all the Deep metaphysical stuff it will bring it up in as much as it's helpful to accomplishing something but that's not the point here there are other books by the AL himself that will go into detail about about the details of theim but not here however in a very general way he says let me let me Define in a very general way it just means the concealment of the life force that the life force is not revealed when it enlivens the created beings just enough light just enough light to keep them going in a finite way the light that the creation is made from is really really really dimmed down it's just enough to keep the creation going and actually has no comparison to the original light no comparison what does that mean no comparison he's going to he's going to explain what means no comparison what two things have no comparison the light down here the light down here the light or the original light okay no comparison even though the light down here comes from the light up there that is symed but there's no comparison what does that mean no comparison he's going to explain what it means no comparison what is comparison range could mean range it could mean comparison in math he calls it in in in in numbers one has a comparison it has a relationship with a million right thousand thousands is a million is a million thousand times a thousand is a million so the number one or one unit has a comparison to a million units which is what one is a million of a million something that it's truly infinite a Conn there is no number to express a fraction of it that even I can't do this math but a thousand thousand thousands so that's not a million that's a thousand Millions is that a billion and uh re of is a myriad myriads a myriad is 10,000 so 10,000 10 thousands I don't know what that is it's a huge number it's not Infinity that's the whole point it's not Infinity it's a huge number but it's not Infinity so he says that even if you would have a thous thousand thousands which I think is a billion or a myriad myriads 10,000 10, huge numbers the relationship between that massive number and infinity is not does not come close does not approach the relationship between one and the most massive finite number you follow it's a simple concept the relationship between even the most massive finite number and infinity does not approach the relationship between even the smallest number one and a massive infinite number comp infite INF are they so two things that are finite one is huge and one is Tiny there's still a way of expressing the relationship between them is it a million times bigger is it a trillion times bigger is it a quadrillion times bigger but there's a number to express it but when you say well what's the the difference between um infinity and one how many times one is infinity there's no times even if you say a trillion well is a trillion closer to Infinity a trillion is no what we're not comparing one infity comparing di infity to infity we're comparing we're the simum is not just a qualitative diminishment so that it's dimmed down this is what he's explaining here this is precisely what he's explaining the simum radically changes the nature of the light it changes it in a way that is actually essentially categorically different from the infinite to the finite which are incomparable that's the whole point he's making here he's he's not saying the difference between before Tsum and after Tsum is that it's dimmed down a million times a trillion times a gazillion times that's not the point that's the opposite of of the point the point is the difference between the light before the symptom and after the symptom has no comparison because it's categorically a completely different thing it's infinity and the finite and by the way within the finite there's tons of range you have the amount of Godly energy that's enlivening spiritual worlds like ganaden which is obviously a much bigger number whatever that number would be and then you have the the the energy that's enlivening the physical world which is a much smaller number but still the difference between the highest spiritual world world and the lowest physical world has a range there's a there's a way of expressing the difference between them but both of them are incomparable when you compare them which you can't to the to the infinite light that came before the timum now if you can tell me I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this how infinite becomes finite great this is not the place to explain it this is the place to know that that is what happened and why I just want to check in with everybody why are we learning this what's the point of learning this Dev to develop love and a okay fine when we talk about light are we talking about the Revelation when we're talking about light we're talking about the energy that we relate to as Creative Energy well everything that exists exists because Hashem is making it exist so it's his Creative Energy yeah you just said that there's even a finite way to the energies between the spiritual world yeah what instrument measures that like what do what words do we use for that so it's interesting there are tum can mean different things there's the tum arishine which is a radical timum where there's no comparison before and after then there are relative Tsum which are like what we were saying before a dimmed down version so for instance between one world and another world you can maybe like metaphorically say it's like you have a window and you have different translucent uh curtains and how many layers of those trans translucent curtains do you have when you know the first curtain is is 25% % opacity and then you do two curtains and now it's 50% opacity and so on and so forth so it's our ability to see or is there something yes subjectively our ability to see yeah is being is being screened or filtered and that's happening within the different worlds which all which are all finite even the loftiest of the spiritual worlds is a finite world but right now what we're comparing is Hashem himself his Essence before creation and then everything else within creation even the loftiest spiritual Realms of creation okay all right and as I as I said before the purpose of all this is to bring us to more love of Hashem and because we learn every single word of the Holy Tanya we are not going to get to that application today there's no way because he doesn't explain it until chapter 49 so you're going to have to hang in there with me but I'm just reminding you why we're learning this all right and those who are new to the class will know I am very I pride myself I think I'm very good at keeping things on track so we could definitely have a really cool discussion right now about simum but I'm not I'm not going to allow it to happen because I know it's not the point alab even told me right now it's not the point he to told me that's not the point right now okay all right so let's continue so too like we're saying the difference you know that mathematical example the difference between one and a billion is still there's a comparison but the difference between even a billion and infinity there's no comp comparon so he says the same thing basically about hashem's infinite light new term but rather what happens this light remains Transcendent and surrounds the worlds and is called sa Alman which literally means it surrounds all worlds this light of Hashem which is too vast to be contained in a finite world so the world is bathed in that light because the world cannot contain it now what is this concept of this sa of Colman this Transcendent light or encompassing light we're going to talk a little bit about that here all right so this is our second cabalistic term of the day the first one was timum now is sa of colan and a related term Mak which we just used which Mak also means surrounded now I want you to know he says that when we say which means surrounding or makif which means Transcendent we don't mean it in the spatial sense I don't mean spatial like the Israeli restaurants where they say can I get today spatial I mean spatial like related to space in the spatial sense because there is no physical space space time in the spiritual Realms so then what do we mean when we say there's a light that's so lofty that it cannot enter the finite Realms it surrounds the finite Realms oh it surrounds it it's hovering around it he says we're using spatial terms but it's metaphorical it's not surrounding or hovering in the spatial sense it's a it's a concept we use terms that are spatial but it's not actually talking about space it's not like well where can I go what direction do I walk in order to find this hovering light it's not what it means he's going to explain but rather this is what it means when we say surrounding we're talking about in terms of Revelation Revelation because the light that's revealed in the worlds we call that enclothed invested now also that's not inside like oh can I cut it open and see it that's also not spatial it's invested in the world shim what it means is that the created beings are able to perceive it in other words we're talking about two types of Godly light one one that enters inside of creation the other that surrounds creation but neither of those descriptions are spatial they are conceptual when we say there's a Godly light that enters creation what we mean is The Godly light that results in something discernable so the fact that things are moving around and have life you see that you see the effect that The Godly light has on them so that's called invested within it but then hold on then there is light that we call MAK or SE that is also very much present in fact I would say it's also not only around it's in everything but we call it surrounding because the effect that it has on existence as we know it is impossible to discern we do not see the result of it and cannot see the result of it so when we describe light that's invested and light that's surrounding what we mean is light that results in something discernable from our perspective and light that's off the charts we have no instruments even the angels have no instruments for identifying it okay yeah what we going to say I was going to just ask is that so that yeah so very good so the corollary to is M he didn't use the term but that is the term halash is the same concept halash is like La meaning clothing halash is the same as mamal yes so why is he using that he's there you know what there are a lot of different technical terms that that are synonymous and each brings out a little bit different Nuance but we don't do that here we don't do that here okay you could also call or pimi inner light those are alls we can discern we can discern them yes that's what he said don't know well when you see when you look at creation and the creation itself is evidence of a Creator well evidence of what aspect of the Creator the aspect of the creator that Express itself within the finite and is therefore discernible but at the very same time every created being also is the result of a Divine energy which we do not identify and we do not subjectively have any way of experiencing it that's the S and that's the sve yes but we can't even relate to that we can't relate to it because it's infinite and that's what infinite means infinite means categorically unrelatable if we can't experience it why was it created well that's an interesting question but let me just answer this is not a blowoff answer and I'm not trying to be glib but is the only purpose for something to exist that you should be able to experience it if a man says something and his wife's not there to correct him is he still wrong the philosophical question like just because something can't be experience subjectively I mean that's not a reason that it shouldn't exist Rabbi isn't it comforting to know that it does exist I don't know I have no idea I I'm not something surrounding I don't want to tell you how it's supposed to make you feel because at this point he's going to take the yeah okay you could feel comfor comforted by it by the way you're not wrong or right if that's that's how you feel about it that's how you feel about it but is that so big light created or just is oh now okay all right all right it's a valid question I didn't want to get into it it's a valid question it's just annoying because I don't want to get into it you're 100% correct sove is also just like male is a projection of Hashem and not the essence so is also a projection and not the essence hashem's essence is beyond both s and male but I don't want to get into what that's why I didn't want to get into it I think seems like is the biggest Creation in all of this okay what do you want to say about that everything is it is hasem everything just is right and Hashem exists when hasem has to conct right that is the creation because everything else well yes that's that's exactly what we're saying we're saying that the entire phenomenon of creation as we know it or created existence as opposed to what as opposed to hashem's Absolute Eternal existence the entire phenomenon of created existence is the product of simum that is correct that's correct okay like I'm saying it backwards I'm well can say it frontward and backwards they're both true ofes this existence of simp yeah and by the way the second volume of Tanya goes into detail about all this kinds of stuff which is why everyone ran away last time we tried to learn it okay all the volumes written by they're all the Alit okay the invested light basically like we said what does it mean it's in it means it's expressed in Creation in a way that we can discern [Music] it but the light that doesn't Express itself in any way that we can understand because it's off the charts we don't call that M rather we call it we don't call it invested we call it hovering surrounding encompassing but again like you said we're not using this in the spatial sense it's not a spatial term therefore since the worlds even the spiritual worlds are are ultimately finite the only Divine Light that's expressed through them to varying degrees depending on the level but the only Divine Light expressed through them is extremely diminished is just enough to keep them enlivened in a limited fashion see there's your question by the way he says but the main light that's not timized says K so much because at the end of the day saal are also I don't want to get into it but saale ultimately are both related to Creation even though male is the one that's expressed through creation and saive can't be expressed through creation yet the very fact that we describe saiv in terms of its ability to be expressed or not expressed within creation implies its relationship with creation or non- relationship with creation but that itself is a relationship with creation as opposed to hashem's Essence which is beyond both of them yeah is that what we call the light of the no that the infinite oh oh that which has is neither which is above or we call it Atmos the essence yeah okay the fact that we're putting words to it itself is yes correct yes okay so this light that is not soed is called it's called hovering or encompassing because it can't be revealed within the finite worlds and here is a metaphor you want a metaphor here's a metaphor you like a metaphor but AR we talking metaphor we're always talking metaphors okay here's a here's another metaphor H you guys can visualize this this metaphor is a visual metaphor so if you're a visual thinker and you want to visualize this and do a little mini mini meditation right here and now be my guest okay here's the musall here's the metaphor I got a wrap up soon this physical world we know Hashem fills the whole world his glory fills the whole world we know he is everywhere Hashem is omnipresent he's everywhere in the world like it says Hashem says do I not fill the heavens and the Earth is om presentent he's everywhere nevertheless we all know that his presence is not revealed everywhere but rather it's revealed in a very limited fashion which results in beings that have very little discernable life force which he refers to as inanimate and vegetative inanimate objects don't exhibit any life force although certainly they only exist because of Life Force right there's energy in all matter or rather I should say all matter is energy even a stone is is enormous energy it just doesn't move around then you have a plant plants don't run around and do stuff but they grow so they have a little bit more they express a little bit more energy but the point is that in this physical world you have beings that exhibit very very little life force so there's the light that has a relationship with these limited beings in a way where we can only describe it as sa we can only describe it as encompassing because it's not the the the creative life force is not expressing itself through the stone in a way that's discernable where the stone is doing stuff he says basically you have light that is hidden because the low world can't handle it so here's the [Applause] metaphor a person imagin something a physical object that he has seen or is seeing so picture I don't know Red Rubber Ball now the entire dimensionality of that object that you're picturing in your brain is contained in your brain because you've seen it or you are seeing it it's interesting by the way he says something that you're seeing cuz even the thing that you're seeing your brain is Imaging it even though you're physically seeing it right now we say that your brain or your mind is surrounding that thing right like if I say think of the Red Rubber Ball okay do you have it in your mind yeah it's in your mind right so your mind is encompassing that image that you're picturing and that thing is encompassed by your mind your mind is encompassing it and the thing is being encompassed by your mind however as we all know the ball that you're picturing is not actually in your brain it's not actually there it's there as a concept but it's not actually physically there okay so this is the metaphor but regarding AEM of whom it said my thoughts are not like your thoughts when Hashem imagines so to speak the creation has it in his mind he's actually surrounding like think about now not a little Red Rubber Ball but the planet Earth hasem is obviously thinking about the world in order for the world to exist so he has it in his mind but it's not just conceptually in his mind it is that's where it's located not physically but in actuality that is more actual than physicality hashem's knowledge of the world is that which causes the world to exist so clearly it's in his mind right now I have like three lines left in this chapter it's uh really I try to end right at the end of the hour but if we can push for five more minutes it really will only be five minutes unless someone ask me an interesting question in which case I I'm not going to answer it but I think we can be finished in four and a half minutes which is what I'd like to do we finish with chapter 48 because after all I want you to find out in chapter 49 how all of this we just learned today will help you to what love and all of hem okay so let give me so that we can do Mitzvah so that we can do Mitzvah right you're gonna take your love and all I have a question I but I can't do it because I'm promising we're going to finish in four minutes okay okay all right nobody leave afterwards but let's let's well everyone can leave afterwards anyone who want ask a question don't leave afterwards okay I'm going to be finished in 3 minutes I'm bargaining myself down here okay it'll only take three minutes going back to what we said at the beginning of the chapter if it weren't for the timum this world that Hashem is picturing wouldn't exist in the world as we know it in a finite way yet hashem's knowledge of creation is totally one with his Essence it's not a separate being from his Essence his knowledge and his Essence are not two separate things so if we say the creation is a product of his knowledge and his knowledge is one with him we're saying creation is one with him like says is the knowledge and the knower and that which is known through knowing himself he knows all creation and not through acquisitional knowledge like when a person learns something new and that new knowledge becomes part of him but rather Hashem knows everything by knowing himself because nothing exists outside of him it all results from his true existence and this matter like the says is impossible for a human mind to fully understand says and by the way the cabalists agree with the explains and also according to the so the two major schools of cabala the and the both agree with the amam this is a concept that you're going to find in all of Jud ISM and that is what what concept is that he and his knowledge are one so by knowing something it's really him knowing himself and by knowing himself he knows everything the say that and this really is what syum is this is the or the spiritual concept of like we explained in chapter two this knowledge that hm has of the world even though it's clearly resulting in the world's existence is not invested in the world to the contrary the world is invested in it and that's what sa means even though the entire existence of the world is a result of AEM thinking of it hashem's thinking of it or his knowledge of it is not invested in it again not in a spatial sense but in a conceptual sense but but to the contrary the opposite it is existing within his knowledge and that's what we're talking about when we're talking about save or makif encompassing Transcendent okay that's the end of chapter 48 what are we going to do with this emotionally that's going to be chapter 49 okay I want to let everyone run away and I'm not leaving I'm gonna stay okay