Text-Based Tanya—Week #87

weekly tax Bas Tanya this is chapter 52 52 okay out of how many chapters 53 53 oh my goodness we're getting so close to the end okay I am sick I have a cold my throat is sore please apologize uh if I don't sound normal or even perhaps to some degree act normal noral not normal we learned that right we're not normal we did learn that in okay we don't do normal chapter 51 one we said we're going to wrap things up here and we're going to return to a concept that was brought up way back in chapter 35 there was a metaphor a three-part metaphor in chapter 35 that originally comes from the holy Zohar what was that metaphor oil flame oil Wick flame excellent that imagine a little lamp an oldfashioned lamp burning oil Wicken flame so when we do Mitzvah the flame that we generate meaning the the presence of Hashem that we are drawing down into this world The Godly light that we are causing to settle into this world that's like the flame the body is the wick and the oil the fuel that keeps the wick burning are the Mitzvah that was in chapter 35 and if you'll remember back to chapter 35 36 37 we f focused on the importance of action action action action action and then just in case you might think that action was the only thing that mattered so then in 38 39 and 40 we focused on kavana on the feelings you put into the actions and then 41- 50 we went through all these meditations to create more and more emotions to get us to do the Mitzvah with love and awe so we definitely don't discount the importance of emotion but if you remember back to 35 36 37 action is ultimately the bottom line make sense okay so that's where we're headed we're headed toward understanding action but what happens is in 51 we bring up this question and I said remember last week I warned you and said do not tell me this is really Technical and Abstract I I don't see how this applies to my life don't say that because I already know that you're going to think that I I'm telling you that these chapters are very technical and abstract and cabalistic last week we said hey what does it mean that the sh that hashem's presence dwell in the holy of holies in the temple isn't Hashem everywhere so then we answered and we said well you know what it means it's like sort of the soul is in the body and the Soul makes the body alive and the whole body is alive the whole body is equally alive it wouldn't say the one part of the body is more alive and less alive yet we know the way that life enters the body is directed through the brain the brain is what disperses the Life Force to all of the organs and Limbs and is aware of everything going on in all all the organs and Limbs and that's sort of what we mean when we say that Hashem dwelt in a special way in the holy of holies we don't mean to say that he wasn't everywhere what we mean is that the holy of holies and the Temple served as a sort of brain in the sense that the brain is where the life force is directed from and emanates outward from to the rest of the body remember that okay all right so let's try to finish chapter 52 all in one shot today and as I said I'm sick so take it easy on me I told them I'm sick I can hear you can hear it yeah and I'm really sorry so uh if you would like to help me with my raur then just take it really easy on me this week don't ask questions yeah don't ask questions just accept Okay good question nothing don't comment don't don't comment don't think just okay like ring put in the corner it's okay no we know I have my tea I have my tea hold on we must have that absolutely okay all right I'll check in with you to make sure you're understanding okay I always do that bud did you ever notice that I always check in and make sure you're understanding we should say yes yeah and you should just say yes even if you don't that's correct that's right just yeah we got it we got it we did that for so many years which is why we're here oh that's true okay okay we're not going to repeat that trauma okay fine okay everyone understands right yes yes yes okay now if you don't understand you're allowed to say you don't understand but just then yeah let me explain it okay 52 just like in a person the main place of his life force the revelation of his life force is in his brain then all the other Limbs and organs receive from the brain so too by way of analogy by way of analogy the main way that the life force enters the worlds to enliven them is through the faculties of and which are called called brains and those are in turn in invested in the to and the mitv remember back in chapter 3 when we spoke about the T SP we only spoke about the 10 spheres because we're speaking about the 10 Soul powers and we're saying the 10 Soul powers are a reflection of the 10 spheres so we're talking about the 10 spher now he actually adds one Ro which is C he says normally when we speak about the intellectual SP we speak with the three intellectual the three or and then the seven emotional here it mentions four because rain uh he includes with them um different models of the SP will interchangeably use uh well they call it Cina and some will use this is CER is a crown literally and it means the will like the will encompasses or goes like like the crown goes on top of the head the will sort of moves all of the the the the SE it directs that the will directs the thought process and is that H what is hasm yeah we're talking about hashem's SPO we're talking about hashem's SP so he all the worlds as you know are built up with these building blocks of the 10 Sphero so basically we're talking about how the the 10 Sphero operate that in every world the world the the dimensionality of every plane of reality is the 10 sphere ice and the three in ual faculties plus r which is sort of an honorary intellectual faculty are the brain of each world you understand we're saying like every Universe has a brain just like every body has a brain every Universe has a brain and it's the of that world which is basically the the toyra as tah exists in that world like the code the code yeah yeah great well torah's Torah well yeah well down here you tell a story about uh an ax gored a cow and inside of that little story of an ax going a cow you have secrets of Torah in higher worlds they just learn the the secret I mean Torah is Torah yeah but the way of learning the level the level yeah it's not like different rules or different outcomes but it's like the level at which which it's perceived one of the things that happens after embodiment is that the soul goes up and relearns the Torah it learned down here and says wow that was a lot deeper than I realized that's amazing and that's part of the Delight of ganed okay that brain is the source of Life Force for all of the beings in that world the life force comes off of that brain so to speak like another analogy like the sunshine shining from the Sun or like the aforementioned analogy of the life force that emanates from the brain to the limbs so the the Torah of each world is sort of the source of the life of each world now this Source from where the spreading forth of the life force occurs is called alad Scalia which is two Aramaic words the world of Revelation or Mata m means the like the aristocratic lady a lot of times in gar y off stories of like some Roman matron will have an argument with one of the rabbis so matrona means like the aristocratic lady iMat the lower mother who's who's the higher mother beina Bina is the higher mother who's the lower mother Mal Mal are the lower mother they're both feminine or also it's called and it's from the word I will dwell within them because this level is the first part or this this is the first place of revelation of of the infinite in each world where things become revealed from this source is drawn down to each individual creation the amount of life force that it needs and then that life force dwells within that being to enliven it okay but we're supposed to be nice so just trust me I know that this is a you didn't have to tell me you have no idea what's going on I knew you had no what's I knew 30 seconds ago you had no idea what's going on I wanted to finish the sentence I had to hold myself back internally I said I should explain to them right now what's going on I said no because then I have to back up to the beginning of the sentence so the most efficient way is just finish the sentence and then be like okay I know that probably people don't know what's going on okay we just this is not hard at all it's not hard we just described a function that function is revelation Revelation taking life force and revealing it we said that it has a bunch of names we rattled them off we said it's called Alaya which means the revealed world it's called Mata the aristocratic lady it means IM IM the lower mother and it's called the indwelling presence and I'll give you another word for Ino it's called malos the lower mother yeah so we were talking about M now we're talking about the lowest SP like what happened here is the highest we said okay so understand something that the Sphero are patterns that repeat themselves in every the structure of the 10 SPO repeats itself in every world so the lowest spher of the previous World becomes the highest of the next World you following upper world is correct like malus of the of the higher World becomes CER of the lower world yeah we discussed this once what we discussed this concept once yes it's come up before yeah it's not an uncommon concept yet so what we're saying is this indwelling presence which we call sh or you call it the lower mother and it's because it's nurturing it's feminine it's nurturing it takes care of of that which is beneath it like a mother taking care of children um that's the the term that we use to describe when a higher degree of spiritual energy concerns itself with a lower realm so we're just describing the structure of the universes of the planes of reality that in each one of them there's this sort of um jumping off point from when all of the life force emanates okay all right that's why this level is also called which is a phrase from TM say it in H this level of the place where the life force emanates out from the source The Source it's called amam the mother of children it's also called the aggregate of the Jewish people it's like the source of all the souls shim because that's the source from when the different levels of souls come out whether it's in AAS or Bri the same pattern just repeats itself on different levels it's all just emanations from this level we call it's likened to sunlight that comes from the Sun but the itself which is the beginning of Revelation the way that the infinite becomes revealed it's the source of how this Revelation takes place in each world and like we're saying in each world it's relatively only a certain limited amount of light that becomes emanated it's not possible for each of the worlds to receive the light of its that that light should really be able to settle in that world unless there's aush a garment which hides some of that light from them so they don't become nullified out of their existence when they are revealed when their source is revealed to them like light from the sun is non-existent in the sun there's no sun light in the sun in the sun there's just sun no sunlight so there has to be some type of lush don't confuse the word Lush here with laim that we were introduced to in chapter 4 remember in chapter 4 we we use the term to mean a person's thought speech in action yeah it's not the same thing Lush here means some type of a screen or filter that allows the life force from the to enter a world without undoing that world when you're revealing too much of the Creator to the creation you could undo the creation okay is this only on the what is this only on the low every world this is this is this phenomenon is recurring every s on every single level and what's this phenomen getting enough Life Force to the world that the world should exist and be alive without nullifying it out of existence so we need a lush we need a garment we need a garment so what's the obvious next question what are the government great you are 100% right that's the obvious next question so let me continue the next words here and what is the Garment Bish that can hide and enclothe the infinite light and it itself won't get nullified it's a good question cuz how what are we going to find what material can hold this or and it itself won't get nullified yeah it is his will and his his wisdom etc etc means and the beina and the Das which are invested in the T and the mitz which are revealed to us and our children what does that mean and Etc that are revealed to us and our children what does that mean the emotion what you were saying 10 to me 10 minutes ago what does it mean that are revealed to us and our children what we do what were we talking about 10 minutes ago um the beginning and the question that you asked isn't there one t in all the worlds that was your question right okay so what does it mean when he refers to hashem's that are revealed to us in our children yeah yeah you could use the word Hala meaning the the level or the form of Torah that's relatable to our embodied experience all even though we know that that's just the level where we relate to it we know inside of it there's much deeper truth but the point is what did he just say here he said that we need a way for the life force that's emanating from the malus of the higher world to safely enter the next world without nullifying that world so it enters the of the next World which is the to of that world that like we say to comes from the higher Which is higher than the world of Revelation for he is wise but not in the knowable sense of wisdom we finish the sentence ultimately invests himself in his and he and hisma are one so what we've just described is that in every world I like the word code that you used in every World there is a code code not meaning like a secret code like get your decoder ring but code meaning a rule a set of rules a set of fundamental rules every world has The Code by rules I don't mean arbitrary rules like a bunch of guys get together and they vote to put in a stop sign on their on their block by rules I mean like natural law like the rules of like how gravity works you know things that are or when you examine the structure of uh human DNA you see there there's a certain pattern there's a certain underlying rule how how it works universal truth we're talking about inherent structures so what we're saying here is that there is a an inherent structure that governs the nature of reality on each plane of reality that's why it's very important to understand Torah is not um laws that respond to reality Torah is laws that create reality so in each world the way that the life force that enlivens each World enters each world is and is able to be passed on to that world is through Torah as it exists in that world hashem's wisdom as it is accessible on that level and each level accesses hashem's wisdom in different ways for us the most relatable level is although within that is contained even the highest levels so ultimately it comes from the highest but it goes down down down down down down down level after level until finally it becomes invested in the 613 Mitzvah as we know them 613 actionable items that exist in the physical world not Concepts not abstractions and as the t comes down world after World the also follows it and is invested in it in each world and that is the holy of holies in every world you think holy of holies is just a physical spot on earth it is yeah but it's not just a physical spot on earth holy of holies was yes where the K God the high priest would enter only one day a year on y Kipper it is the epicenter of the physical world it is the location of the AIA the Foundation Stone from which the entire world was created the physical world was created um so yes the holy of holies is a is a spot is a location but holy of holies is actually a concept and that concept reiterates on every single plane of creation and the holy of holies is basically the place and I don't mean a physical location because we're talking about spiritual worlds um is the place where the life force for that world enters that world and can be garbed in a way that will protect that world from being nullified by the life force which enlivens it and that is the Torah as it exists meaning the Divine code or the rules for reality as it exists on that plane of reality yeah so the Torah the holy of holies so the Torah is the holy of holies yes yes it is the place it which is the access point to get The Godly energy in a way that we can handle what is okay so there there's two different things going on here there's not 10 I know we use 10 different terms but we're talking about two things one is call it intellect which the words that we used for that wasad we also threw in r as a fourth part of that cohort um we call that the to we call it the brains so that's one concept and then we have another concept which is or Mata or IM or malos or alalia all all names for concept so we have two concepts not not 10 Concepts we have like a bunch of terms there like 10 terms we've been using but we're just talking about two concepts talking about the intellect and the and the mother so we're we're explaining the relationship between those two entities basically how kma invests itself or rather how malus invest itself within in order to enter the subsequent world how the the nurturing energy that the Universe requires just like the life force of a person comes through the brain that nurturing energy which each Universe requires comes in through the code of Torah as it exists in that world yes yeah and how does that relate to Nature I don't know you'd have to make your your question more specific what I mean is the way that that world operates the rules of that world the axioms of the world that you take for granted like that you can't walk through walls and stuff like that all that is dictated by the code yeah when you say Torah in that world you're talking about this let's say the amount or whatever word we could use to measure the world and the type of revelation of Torah in that world so how does that connect to like what was arcena what kind of Revelation was that was it the level they were at at that moment was it the all of it from every world what what do we experience what are you trying to understand was all of Torah ever revealed to us all of Torah well here's the thing Torah is still being unpacked because it's infinite the code was revealed to us all of the code was revealed all of the code was revealed to us but we're still unpacking it because it's infinite when mesiah comes we're going to have a whole new burst of decoding or uncoding the Torah it won't be a new Torah because the Torah was only given once but there's infinite amounts of information that can be pulled out of it yeah how much was Block in what how much of it was all all the whole thing the whole thing yeah yeah you mentioned before that those four worlds are not physical spaces right so which means that a person could be living physically in this space but in other world yeah does that mean that you could access the understanding of the Torah those World in this physical space yeah of course and we and we are doing it it's just like you don't have to be in the next World to understand the you are in the next we're all we're simultaneously in all the worlds right now but you're only going to be conscious of the lowest world because the definition of a world hel world's obscure so you're only going to be conscious of the lowest World in which you're in even though the higher worlds are contained within the lower worlds right but like what you were saying does it mean that we could experience all of the Revelation yes just not on a conscious level we're accessing all the benefits of it we just can't consciously perceive it yeah I think if you give an example yeah yeah that's this level don't know like we maybe not conscious of other theer world's oh so yeah okay so you're bringing up something very interesting because of P see you guys are a little bit you guys are a little bit disabled by your advantages poor little rich kid you don't realize you yeah a little bit entitlement you don't realize that there's a lot of the Hidden Torah stuff that is Torah from other worlds that you guys already know all this talk about Sphero and stuff basically if it's if it's any more uh spiritual than practical Hala you are glimpsing Torah from other worlds okay all right let's continue here I'm sorry what ready to continue okay yeah we have two and Rel right so let me ask you a question what does malus need to accomplish invest what what's her job to invest why is she investing in order to accomplish we could receive it right so there can be a world right and the world can exist and be taken care of great wait what's is that it's all hasem it's an aspect of divinity it's a sphere aspect ofinity that I don't think we're even talking about what we want here it's just the the reality of how worlds get built okay thees has to come through kma because this way it doesn't nullify right so it won't nullify the world T is yeah why you saying is a question you know you know full well what it is you just trying to understand you know what it is so that okay that's what we have clear so in other words the rules the rules in each world or the way they're the same rules in all the worlds but the way those rules are understood in each world like what happens when a ox Gores a cow okay those rules in each each world are the means through which the the life for that world enters that world so the more Torah we have in experience the more life the more sure sure okay Bina is included with the yeah they're all together okay sorry yeah could be a CLE is it a CLE yeah it is a CLE yeah yeah it is a a it's a vessel receives it receives the it receives the kma and then it passes it on yeah okay and this is all through the brain that L chapter 51 no well this is the the brain metaphor yeah we're calling this the brain the Torah of each world is the brain of that world and like we explained what is a brain in chapter 51 a brain is the place from where the soul emanates out to the rest of the body so what gives life to each universe is the rules of the Torah that exist in each universe and that's called the holy of holies in each Universe What's called the hly the Torah of each world so like it says in in and that the is and that um it is the revelation of life force that enters the world that's why it's called Speech it's also called Speech revelation of speech because you use speech to reveal your hidden thoughts to someone else so the the malos invests itself in Theus is the highest World Bri is the next World and then when that becomes invested in Mal of Bri in turn it creates theim in Bri by the way that's where the tal that we know talud comes from there yeah why does the talud come from there because Bria is an intellectual world it's a world of Reason tet is discuss is a discussion of reasons why do things why is the law the way it is mishna is here's the law is why is the law that way like it's explained previously in the name of the we explained that Bri is a world that's dimmed down relatively speaking fromus where the created beings can receive from the that's why comes from there it's all about reasons explanations rale the laws themselves meaning the the do this do that those are more an expression of hm's emotions kindness severity compassion that's where you get the final rulings of permissible or forbidden fitting unfitting liable exempt like it says also and then what happens in turn after the Torah is invested in the ma or the life force is invested the the the life force of is invested in and it is you have the same phenomenon and repeats itself over and over again what happened in to happens from Bri to and creates the the beings of he mentions the is an emotional you know this is the emotional level that's why he was also saying that the in is emotional it's about the din it's about is it good or is it not good that's more of an emotional thing that's in in it's more intellectual explain it why what's the thought process behind it that's where comes from comes from the final ruling which is also an expression of the infinite it's just the way that is related in in which is an emotional world the reasons of the laws are still there but in it's the reasons are hidden within the final rulings the final rulings are basically an expression of's emotions what he likes what he doesn't like it's an emotional thing whether to be to engage in and to release something and allow it to be elevated or to express gura and to say no this thing can't be elevated we have like three lines here but all of this stuff that's happening in all these worlds is an expression of the highest in the highest world it's just getting translated in each world according to the the the the color of that world so to speak it's all from it's all one with the infinite is present in all of it of and in the is the infinite so the infinite's present on all of these levels is just getting translated in each world in terms that are consistent with the style of each world yeah yeah right exp I I just did I said in every world yes well cuz you're in the last world that's like you saying hold on a second I just used I just uh used uh a carrot carrot PS were invented 500 years ago did I travel on a time machine what era do I live in do you understand my Marshall do you understand my Marshall what explain that to everyone else because that was too weird of well we're in the culminating level so we've got everything from the previous levels yeah Sor I don't know if carrot pelow were invented 500 years ago if you research it they were either invented surprisingly recently or they were invented in Antiquity but I don't know okay re said um so and then everything moves through each world yeah to create and then and then get to create to create that world okay right one Steam and other isid and other what the same subance you want to use that as an analogy different states of one thing yeah you could use that okay let's finish it off we really have we have two lines here and then it comes down we spoke about it goes from to Bri and from Bri to now let's do the last one and then from there it goes down to AIA by the way it's not just for General worlds every World breaks down into subw Worlds unlimited sub worlds it's fine it's the same structure over and over again you don't have to memorize a new structure and what all that happens is is invested in the Mal of every world and it goes down and is invested in the holy of holies of every World which is thead of every world of the next World the subsequent world now we understand what it means in it's in actually means is in a way the of every world because keeps coming back and reiterating on every level through the Mal of that world through the which is invested in the holy of holies of each World remember we have these two things we have the the indwelling presence investing itself in the holy of holies which is the to or the or the or the brains of each world of the next world that's how every world gets created and that's how you get all the beings in each world and the nishas and the the souls and the angels in each world World those are created through that through the malus of the previous World investing itself in the holy of holies of the subsequent world all of them are created by the Divine speech which is also called Divine speech is also called that was originally spoken in the 10 utterances of creation of braus the beginning of of creation so what we've explained here is a very basic basic understanding of the structure of reality that the way that worlds exist is that the life force the infinite life force invests itself in malus of one world that malus emanates forth but is then invested in the TOA of the next World and that becomes the brain so to speak or the nerve center of that world now you're all looking at me like what but here's the thing I want to explain to you I already told you that we're not going to explain practical application of this so if we take that off the table and I just say to you I know you're thinking what is this have to do with regular life I cannot think of how this will ever be useful I already took that off the table and said we're not going to do that today so I'm just going to ask you one simple question even though you can't figure out why you need to know this do you understand the basic concept that we learned B it's a just we described the a structure it's a pattern a repeating pattern okay so we have a lot of different words don't get intimidated by all the different words the the words are synonyms they're there to help you the synonyms just give us different ways of saying the same thing hopefully one of them will click and or through the combination of all those terms you get a more well-rounded understanding of each concept but basically like said there's two concepts here there's the malus and there's the the but is the amation the most filtered on this level was it like every level has its own filter every level has have its own has its own filter but they're all comp they're compounding so by the time you get down here it's filter upon filter upon filter and put back put down another right they don't remove one to put back to put the fil we're the most filtered sure okay all right so amazing we finished chapter 52