The Beginnings Are Wedged In the Ends

last lesson we spoke about how the essence which is really what siddhis is although it isn't any of the particular levels it is compatible with all the particular levels and uh we demonstrated that by showing how this could be could enhance each and every one of the four levels of torah interpretation so with that in mind let's continue to uh chapter 18. alpihan now you'd say according to what we just said in the beginning of chapter 17 which i just reviewed for you just now you've no divers we can now understand the words of our rabbis which they said alcama miles protest about the various different virtues or features qualities of siddhis shizuo inyana shallaxed canal that that particular quality is the essence of this that's where we're talking about the beginning of the sikh remember the very beginning of kuntrus says we spoke about different descriptions of this we said well those are all specific descriptions so they can't be the essence ah but now we're gonna revisit it and say like this the very nature of an essence is that it doesn't exclude or negate the specific descriptions to the contrary it is totally compatible with all the particular levels and in fact we're going to say even even more than that although each one of these particular definitions of siddhis is only a manifestation or an expression of the essential idea of say this like we already said back there nevertheless that's the key word through them exclusively miss bhattas athmus muhusa is how you really see the essence of siddhis me how do you see in essence who she it is in its permeating penetrating all the details odd all the way down to what le prata yes the very tiniest granular detail the canal be indiana bengili latsum like we said before the difference between a giloi and an atsum a revelation or manifestation and an essence a manifestation is a particular manifestation and the essence is not particular but yet found within all the particulars so here is the kids here's the novel point that we're saying at this point not only like we just said in the previous chapter is the essence compatible with all the particulars but really this is the irony this is the paradox if you really want to see the essence it's in the particulars that's the point here how do you see the essence what's an essence an essence is in everything it's not limited to one thing so therefore how can you see that quality when you see how it even comes down to the most granular little details so it's dafnka like he says the word daffka dhaka it's it's exclusively when you look at the the tiniest details and the lower the better the coarser the better the more pedestrian the better because that's what proves that it's an essence we're talking about because essence is not just just going to manifest itself in in one way or in another way it's going to manifest itself in always including even the lowest ways so when it goes all the way out to the lowest to the farthest reaches that's where you see that it's really in essence let's continue valpia this all accords to the principle this is from sefer yetzira there's a kabbalistic principle that the begins are wedged in the ends tafka specifically where can you see the highest of the high when it comes full circle back to the lowest of the low everything's cyclical the lower you can find sid this manifest so this is the essence but the lower the lower the manifestation of until something as low as dealing with the animal soul remember we're speaking about that before see this as a way of transforming the animal soul the animal soul is low not like the godly soul godly soul is high but when you see how this how has deals with the animal soul which is low ulamates are even lower than that not just refining one's animal soul but refining one's portion in the world that's even lower allah adam because now you're not just talking about the outer reaches of the person you're talking about the outer reaches of the world outside of the person himself but when siddhis can reach that far misbahta ozba yes that's where you see its essence so it's a paradox the essence is not the manifestation and yet how do you see that in essence is really in essence by the fact that it is present even in the lowest level manifestations i like that okay therefore let's continue emphasized in many of his talks she called indian shalem the siddhis any concept you learn siddhis you have to bring it into action why kylie dey veda but because when you see the concept brought into action that's where you see the essence of it what are we saying ideas are abstract action is concrete right you know about the rabbi who he did a capital campaign for years he raised 20 million dollars to build a campus and on the very last four years of sleepless nights permits builders craziness fundraising and finally he got that building built and then uh the last day there was there was the ribbon-cutting ceremony and they had just paved the parking lot and the rabbit came out a minute before the ribbon-cutting ceremony the mayor was going to be there and everything and the cement was still wet in the parking lot and these little boys came up from hebrew school and they were playing tag and they ran through the wet cement and they tracked it all up and the rabbi you know says after years of hard work you know and now he just he couldn't he couldn't hold himself back he just flipped out he starts screaming at these kids how could you do this and at that moment one of the little boy's fathers pulls up to pick him up from hebrew school he says rabbi didn't you tell us that anyone who gets angry it's like he worships idols rabbi says yes but that was in the abstract this is in the concrete ideas are abstract action is concrete where do you see the essence of siddhis not in its ideas of course it's everywhere i shouldn't say not in the ideas but where is it more evident that say this is an essence it's much more evident that citizens in essence when it's brought into action something that can reach all the way down into action is truly present everywhere if it can only be brought down into the world of ideas but no further then you don't see that it's an essence but where do you see citizens in essence that it's present everywhere and at every level when it's brought to the lowest to the to the furthest reaches and that means physical action concrete action okay let's continue chapter 19. [Music] we said in chapter three that sid this is infinite but really all alter is infinite remember i said the the jews are like everyone else only more so citizens like all of toda only more so so this is infinite but all tata is infinite kane gambit so too this quality of cities that it the the lower it goes the more you see its infinity it the same thing with all of taylor lahath when you see how tata goes down to the lowest realm meaning the physical realm and and turns it into a vessel for godliness who gamble this applies to all all torah allah of course mainly it refers to this but you can see this with all of tata how if if toyota's truly infinite then it's not relegated to the lofty realms see we think of infinity as that which is so high it never stops going it keeps going high high high right well there's la maila mila adenkatsu or la mata mata infinity isn't just that which is so lofty it's also that which is so grounded it's not just that which is so great that nothing's too great for it infinity equally is that which is so low that there's nothing too low for it nothing so trivial that escapes its grasp or is you know too too insignificant for it so where do we see the infinity of toyota we see the infinity of toyota not just that with the higher you go the the you know you never stop finding toyota the hashem's wisdom goes to the highest realms and beyond it never stops but really more so the fact that you find the relevance of toyota the lower you go the lower you go you keep going and you keep digging and toyota continues to be relevant what do we mean low we're talking about human lowness we're talking about our dark twists and turns of of character we're talking about our our personality defects we're talking about yet sahara we're going to say the dirty word in a second yitzhahara okay let's this is the meaning of the saying of our sages hashem says look i created a yetzahara an evil inclination but don't worry i created tater tovlin tavlin means a spice or a remedy in the old days remedies were spices that's why by the way you're not allowed to take medicine in shabbos because it's a rabbinical decree lest you grind spices at any rate the double meaning of toblin will become important later that's why i'm defining it now as medicine or spice but let's continue seemingly this saying is strange of all the worlds this physical world is the lowest that's what it says in chapter 36 of tanya that there's it's the tactic that there's no no world lower than the physical world um and in this world itself hashem regrets that he created the tahara you know it says that uh in the modern sukkah that the eights of heart is so bad hashem was like man i shouldn't have done it you know now obviously you have to understand what that means because how can hashem regret something he didn't know what he was doing but keillo as it's as if he regrets it and um the point is the physical world is the lowest and then in the physical world the itsahara is the lowest there's no yields so hard in spiritual worlds up in heaven the souls and angels don't have zahara right it's a purely physical phenomena it's a phenomenon that plagues physical beings embodied beings now all the worlds compared to tata are insignificant right because traders infinite and worlds are created and uh and and therefore therefore finite well therefore parentheses vulcan therefore having a hard time in life and he says hashem your traders my escape because toyota is infinite the worlds are finite no matter how big my problem in this finite world is tata is bigger and david said that as a praise to hashem nana shall say but he was punished for it there's a whole letter in in the gerus okay of tanya about this so if david was punished for even saying that toyota is greater than all the worlds well he said they were greater he said they're greater yeah but you you still compared it to worlds you compared something infinite to something finite that's not a compliment how do nicole chicane so how much more so angel how can you say that the whole purpose of tata is that it should be a remedy for the eight sahara you follow what we're saying here david was punished for even comparing the infinity of theta to the the finitude of the worlds even though he said it was greater now you're going to say the toyota's greatness its function actually the definition of theta is it's it's really good for dealing with yet to hurt us that's how you first of all you're talking about a phenomenon of this world the physical world the lowest world and of phenomena of this world it's like the lowest of the low because that's like as bad as you can get sorry to use a bad word but and now you're going to attribute toyota's greatness to that that it gets stains out of your rug that's what it is strange while pianal move on but according to our earlier discussion it is understood atsa material has exclusively demonstrated bazaar through this she table sahara that it deals with because it's ability to spice the yetzahara to improve it and in fact to transform it to good humidity that is a demonstration of traders infinity if toyota can take something bad and turn it into something good basically into its antithesis then it's got to be infinite so yeah on one hand it's like a real like like like damning with faint praise i think is the expression right you're going to praise toyota by saying it deals with the it's a huddle come on and yet no no you want to see the infinity of theta you see its infinity and that it can get that low and it can cause a transformation of the lowest of the low into something good in fact into the highest of the high the it's a hudder can be transformed and it can become an asset it can actually be a motor that drives the godly soul so that's where you see the infinity of theta let's continue the explanation of this is an islam all of the revelations even the highest revelations liaison begeth since they are defined as various revelations so therefore evil which is the opposite of light and revelation is basically antagonistic to these revelations uber mela therefore and beyo they can't transform ra into taiv rather qim rather what can they do they can fight against it and they can even eradicate it but they can't transform it they can't transform it transform transforming the enemy into into your friend is much more of a radical thing than just eliminating the enemy so the the various levels of light and revelation goodness basically it can fight evil it can it can even eradicate evil but it can't transform it is which is simple in the ultimate sense of simplicity you muslim would call it and it is abstracted from any form and therefore nothing can oppose it it has no particular manifestation so therefore it has no opposite it's everything so how can anything oppose it something has to be particular to have an opposite but if something is the essence of all it has no opposite in fact it is inclusive of all ubermelon therefore it the infinity the essence can actually take ra and turn it into can turn evil into good so yes i get it you don't want to praise trader by saying it's a good remedy for for something as low as the eight sahara on the other hand where do you really see that toyota is infinity when it can go to the lowest of the low and turn it into the highest of the high that's where you see it the fact that twitter is relevant in heaven and that in heaven the angels want to learn terra that's beautiful but it doesn't show me the infinity of toyota where do i see the infinity of tata they can get down deep into the into the nooks and crannies and it can be transformative there okay let's finish it off with this is also why regarding the level of trader which is one with hashem's essence it says it is a delight before him like a toy a pleasure thing a play thing why does it say that shrike vitanik [Music] what is hashem's delight hashem's delight is the refinement of the dark is the transformation of dark into light in other words you know they say where do you get the man who has everything penicillin what do you get hashem who's infinite if hashem's infinite he has everything so what what can you give hashem what hashem enjoys is the transformation of dark into light that's what the infinite enjoys that's what it means it is a delight before him exclusively through the transformation of dark and delight mr khakis shabbat the delight hashem is the light of torah miss bates pinemiusa that is what brings out its essence that aspect of trader which is one with hashem that's why we say the fun of in front of him meaning manifests itself on all levels in all realms they learn tater in heaven they learn tater down here there's levels right but the fun of in front of hashem meaning what is tata to hashem to hashem tata is this delightful tool through which he experiences the novelty of turning dark into light i guess that's if you're infinite you know what's what's amusing if if you have the dark and the light if you have infinity so then what is amusing what is pleasurable what's what's novel is when you can turn one into the other and that's what toyota does only toyota can do that because without toyota you know it's like a six foot man with a five foot blanket you know that's what it is without title so we're we're all like six foot tall men with five foot long blankets so you can decide if do you want your feet to be uncovered or do you want your head to be uncovered i know most people don't sleep with their head covered but some of us are afraid of monsters so we do cover ahead when we sleep but if you cover your head when you sleep the monsters know you respect them and they don't bother you okay don't anyways but if you're a six foot man with a five foot blanket what are you gonna do right okay you're gonna either have your head uncovered you can have your feet uncovered right becomes infinity infinity can turn the part of the blanket that's not blanket into more blanket it could turn your dark twists and turns of character into virtues why because it's infinite because it's infinite and therefore it's not just a particular manifestation of goodness which can compete with the badness no no it is infinity which can transform the badness into goodness and that's where we see the power of toyota okay that's uh that's all we're going to cover for tonight and i'm yeah we'll see you next week