The Ramchal's Essay on Fundamentals - Part 16 - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman

alpha Shana hey capella hawkmail Jana la voy de Zi Auden Vista blue some other Salinas God determined there be a limit of 6000 years within which a person or people can serve God and as a period in which they can strive to attain perfection via haka after those six thousand years he's hi - Shalom but Sora Harris the world will be renewed in a different form and this is the way he seems to explain the teaching which says that the world was six for 6,000 years but after the year 6000 it will be destroyed he doesn't say it doesn't put it that way that will be destroyed rather he says it will be renewed in a different form so he understands apparently that the teaching which says the world be destroyed means something like the world as we know it will cease to exist but it will be transformed into a different state that's how he seems to explain it and there are those strains in Jewish thought which which explain it that way Rua LaMacchia Sabo African and this new form that the world takes on will be fitting for what is to take place from that point on Dino which means ha ha no hon it's case the soybean law those who will attain eternal reward and pleasure for those who earn it who have deserved it for Thierry Mugler Shesha Salafi Mele and before these six thousand years transpire he netzer annoyed her Aman if Harris permits Allah shall am the chosen people have to attain their designated state of perfection Shizuku law Tech had varam Oaxaca Ellen it skills in order for them to therefore transmute that perfection into the type of eternal perfection that they're going to be happy that they're gonna have that's intended after the period of 6,000 was masa who's talking to a love she alcohol punim this is what we were promised at least for him soil is a he echoed Mazzara dahveed the venue through which this takes place is going to be a person who is from thee who was a descendant of David she er a hoo-ha Dunbar who is a who will be chosen by God for this purpose to catalyze the perfection of the Jewish people as much as possible in this world in order to bring the world to its conclusion and prepare them for the higher degree of perfection that's awaiting for them after the six thousand vias Russia at sleeve oh and God will also help him so that he will succeed in his purpose of bringing perfection upon the Jewish people and who is this medica Messiah this is the Messiah VNA mismo no value yasuke newest oil tycoon Goro through him and in his time the Jewish people will undergo a great rectification a great elevation the Kolob reenter I am on all of creation after them as well so that literally Messiah will catalyze the realization of the potential for perfection of the Jewish people and that will then have an effect on the rest of the world as well shaggy rooby hatov the whole had studying and good will be increased and multiplied in all ways in many different ways vo so Harada gamma ray and evil will be passed away we discussed this yesterday either it means that evil will be eliminated or evil will cease to exist because it is transformed into good been banished and Ageha the nephesh whether we're talking about evil that pertains to the nephesh well been martian okay a goof or it has to do with the body what does this mean what is evil that has to do with the body or the soul Dino live for Evan yeah say live besar this the heart of stone will be made into a heart of flesh so this also seems to imply what I was suggesting earlier and what I said explicitly yesterday that it's not going to be that evil is going to be entirely removed but that is going to be transformed into good and he gives an example of that for example a heart of stone turns into a heart of flesh it's still a heart but it changes character so that heart which was hardened to goodness because of the yet Sahara it was calloused to spirituality because of evil that soul will become no longer hardened and calloused but soft and spiritually sensitive like flesh Volusia Tiki Barber's veneer domineer Tia the tow bus and there will therefore be increased the inclination within people to lean towards goodness who both in shallow you masquerade acclaim air clout in a way that they will not be drawn after materialism at all Elian not to Tommy la voy de Villa Tora these gob rubra but rather they're always going to be drawn towards Torah or towards the service of God in towards Torah these gob Rupa and they'll become strengthened through it the connect is a to be olive of our waha and commentor to this will be people's sensation of serenity and Harvick I know exactly how to translate that how do they do it in English that's what it says it says in quote well rather he will can constantly lead towards serving God and following his Torah right and in this manner yes man will strengthen himself and then in kind of quotes or brackets as as spiritually okay spiritually then what as a result prosperity and tranquility will increase okay that's it tranquility and he says our focus is prosperity so tranquility I said serenity and hvala he says prosperity prosperity implies material prosperity I wouldn't have quite translated it that way but I would have said harvick ax is like a a widening of one's consciousness so he will be serene and if there may be there's a word for this but that's it I'm saying like a of a higher consciousness unlike people who are constantly nowadays in pursuit of material well-being they are not at all tranquil they are constantly looking for more and more and they become very narrow-minded as well but as opposed to but but in contradiction to the way many people act nowadays and these times people are going to be running after the service of God in Torah and the more they do so the more tranquil and the more again open mind is not quite the right word but you think but they have a more expanded state of consciousness yeah so is it fair to assume that most people today haven't perfected in that because we're so drawn towards materialism and material types of pleasures that's that's that's a logical to assume it's just right frightful to think yeah on the other hand were simultaneously challenged with with things having to do with the Munna well that's neshama there's a nephesh rockin neshama rook is like spirit and generally it's associated with our with our verbal or emotional plane as opposed to neshama which is more of the intellectual plane yes I'm started to say you know it could be that we're actually working on all three yeah but there are you know it could be that you know we have a mixed of all many different many different people it could be that there are many many people who are generally more challenged with things having to do with physiology and others more with philosophy there's no way really to tell that it's hard to tell it's hard to tell where we're at no way anybody any particular individual is but but the I resolve does right based on the Gamora that the things that a person finds most challenging are an indication that those are the things which he needs correct and it needs the most work on and it seems like most people are very challenged by sleep and by sexuality that's what it seems yeah it seems like that's really you know most people's impediment to serving em nowadays are that denieth yeah sleeping in yeah sleeping and sleeping and sleeping I just a lot of people just doing you know they're just sleep sleep people have very difficulty good to get up well it doesn't matter how is asleep the hours of sleep it's to get up and serve a Shen yeah and and you know I would say that's associated with the the realm of the belief another person kind of wakes up and sincerely a wholehearted believes that there is a creator of the soul and there is a restorer of the soul and there is a returner of the soul and he and he has just done all of that for me we'll jump out a bit Wow what we just right and then the other thing yeah and it seems that the other area of great challenge is what the other thing that I mentioned and meaning the drive the drive to be and you know the drive to express that and be involved in that and anything that has to do with that we're very very distracted by it I think you know it's very distracting but look at the billboards and advertisements look at the magazine yeah my humble opinion I'm trying it seems to me that these are two of the greatest challenges and I think they had to do with belief and sensuality Kabbalah he's saying that Kabbalistic Lee the things that a person finds the most challenging as a sign that these are things that he needs to correct from a previous reincarnation and that would have come from God at some point maybe maybe maybe it's based on verses these teachings are based on verses but there might be understandings of those verses which are more divinely inspired just lie simplicity its know it could be explicit can be implicit overcoming very big struggles that you can get to a point it's a very big struggle that even the thought of overcoming it it's as though you've done a mitzvah by trying to avoid it and so even though we have all these big challenges our ability to fulfill the mitzvot like being graded on the curve is also very true as well so even though we might have these temptations when we go out and we see you know temptation if the mere fact of us looking away from it could in itself be a mitzvah sure yeah yeah for sure it's it's sort of mere ah it's you know if any you know very little it's or not he's making an active proactive effort to refrain from evil it's like there's a homeless guy across the street and you have sadaqa and you want to go give it to him but there's cars crossing and takes about five minutes before you can get across street and then he's not there but the fact that your intentions were to go over there and give him sadaqa you still get that Mitzvah mm-hmm mmm very good what happens if a person intends very much he intends very very much not to transgress but he does then what so he's got a look at does he look at his very strong intention and effort not to or does he look to the fact that ultimately did like that I don't view it that way Hashem will reward him for sincerely not wanting to and doing what he could to avoid it and realizing that he's a spiritual weakling and indentation which has tremendous challenges and he says good job good job he's like swimming upstream it's almost like it's a lost battle but he's fighting the battle so a Shem says good job it's not about the ruh it's not about the result it's about the effort like a mitzvah and I'd say I begin a mitzvah that's true that we often say that it's al Shem gum row but this person still gets the effort for he certainly gets the reward for for making effort in the midst oh yeah yeah so he might not get the reward of the Mitzvah when he certain gets rewarded for attempting to make the Mitzvah and that's kind of like what he said and we said it Michelle Vitello meets Travis Tomas a person has the intention to do a mitzvah but for whatever reason beyond his control he's not able to do so even if somebody else does it it's not like he gets the minutes and I don't we say no he if he had been able to do it he would have done it what does it mean to say it is associated with the was that different in the person who you know really intended to I'm not sure you might again you might be getting credit for the fact that he's putting on the film but not necessarily the midst of filling that he's putting on right that's what you're saying too it doesn't mean to say that he gets hundred percent and he gets nothing he might get a hundred cent of the Mitzvah and he got might get reward for trying to it and before and beyond that there's even a source to indicate that he gets a reward as if he had done it himself more because of what he was the Dinant that he was saying that if a person in sincerely intent and sincerely intends to do something but it's preventing to do some prevented from doing so because the reasons beyond his control God says I see that this person would have done it if you had not been barred from doing so so as far as I'm concerned I'm gonna give it the credit as if he's done it so in any case in this state of it in this plane of existence people are going to be living there for in great tranquility and expanded consciousness what you see is not the case nowadays people are not at all tranquil they're very uptight and they're not at all of expanded consciousness they're actually quite narrow-minded but after the world is is it's changed it will be what quite different Villa you MOT soon ezekiah there will not be harm and damage ve'lo have say diamond not lost claw at all velu masha haste eagle and redeem and this is what was promised to us by the prophets for example Isaiah who said though Yael they will not cause evil malloy ashisu and they will not destroy the whole ha kochi and anywhere on my holy mountain the author seems to understand that the holy mountain is not a reference just to Mount Zion or Jerusalem but the entire world the entire world would become like God's holy mountain and therefore therefore be no evil and no damage and no destruction Oh in the text we haven't seen yet so let's see below he a sickly boy them nor will there be foolishness in the world by which he means to say spiritual fullness there will not be folly Ella : of avoid see you Malaya hokhmah all of the hearts everybody's heart or anybody who merits to be there will merit to have a heart which is full of wisdom varroa Hakodesh a shuffle how bizarre and divine inspiration will be poured upon all flesh boy Phoenicia you school ah call in order that all will merit through this great knowledge Bleeker she clown without any difficulty at all boom ah sha na na v and this is what was said by the prophet your Asheville has Lukey I'll call boss ah I will pour forth my spirit on all flesh so that this spirit excuse me that this flesh physicality will become anointed with the luster of spirituality and it will glow and glisten in the light of a sham vena Houston Ogilvie alderman or Vltava people will be happy and they will be elated through great goodness spiritually speaking and I imagine the material bounty will follow and suit for him his dad King Babar is Baba and they will cleave to God believed him the phone of avoider Salima and they will serve God in a complete whole in perfect way while you deiay you miss Allen the whole game Aloha all Italy in this way they will be raised level upon level and we spoke yesterday about how even after resurrection there will be a mobility there will be a an upward movement Archie Aguila Masjid Suraksha gildo until there will each person will arrive to the level that he is intended to arrive Lavar me men are lamotte's oven it skills poquito soy la la forma Meno in order to pass navami Meno to pass from it to his eternal State once this world has been renewed so you see from here the author is saying that I think it's implicit what he's saying here is that did that we talked about yesterday but even after resurrection that would be an issue a period of movement of mobility where this soul is moving the person along gradually until he attains the level that he is going to enjoy for the rest of of eternity and each person is going to kind of come to rest at the place where his initial effort sent sent that soul in the trajectory of right so one person here another person here I was rested here every person according to the place where that trajectory that he set for himself levels off so it's quite interesting when he says that there's going to be state where P people have serenity and like I said Harvick ah a widening of consciousness even though here he said prosperity but people are not going to be as we've seen eating or drinking and they're not going to be engaged in the material world at all in the way that we're used to so it's not talking about material prosperity at all there's not going to be eating or drinking or any of these things they're gonna be bodies but no but no material functions the question is why would therefore God create resurrected bodies if they're not acting like bodies which is by the way one of the major reasons why the commentaries who understand the text that we're talking about yesterday as you initially suggested say that the world to come is talking about a spiritual world no eating no drinking no procreation spiritual world not physical why because Rambam says what we the point of their being bodies if they're not functioning as bodies rather must be talking about a state where there are no bodies but majority of commentaries disagree with the Rambam in this and say that no we're actually talking about a world to come where there will be no eating no drinking no procreation despite the fact that there will be bodies and that's the novelty of the teaching ah the questions we asked what's the point of having those bodies if they're not engaged in bodily functions so one of the answers that's given is that these bodies were responsible for enabling the soul to attain this spiritual up leading state the soul was in the body and the body did enable the soul to have mobility through the world and perform the tour and the mitzvahs and things that got it to this state of reward and since God is a perfect judge and is not macapa jaco birria he doesn't withhold the reward of any creature so God in His righteousness has to has to reward the body as well the body had a part however is a partner in this perfection that's a way of putting it but the relationship with the body for the soul is different than the paper to the person but I really realized your point but but nevertheless the the body is a living organism the venue through which right the person did it chain this perfect that's why it's a partnership without the soul the body couldn't have done it without the body the soul couldn't have done it so that that's true but what the point here is that that what earned the reward was the body soul combination so therefore what should deserve the reward and enjoy that reward should also be the body soul combination so those those physical bodies are nevertheless going to be spiritual eyes so that when their reward in the world to come they're not rewarded in material terms the body is rewarded in spiritual terms which means the body itself has to be spiritual eyes I think there would be a physical finite dimension to the body but that body is not going to be dependent on food for example or drink it's going to be a spiritual eyes body which is somehow also delighting in the presence of God sleep is not mentioned if I remember correctly but presumably the body will not need to sleep the soul will not need to be rejuvenated any more still intact still alive more implies even alive there's a certain good more which implies even alive every Nachman spoke from within the grave after having been dead for several generations therefore this is the idea that the bodies will be resurrected in order for the body to receive its reward for its part in attaining the world to come only that reward is not going to be this worldly it's going to be next worldly and therefore these are going to be spiritual eyes bodies which will not need physical maintenance and and it will be something akin to the idea is like like an analogy if you take a piece of iron or some rusty old chunk of metal from the ground it's very dark and opaque and and and material but when you throw into a fiery furnace it absorbs that energy to the point where it can become glowing a glowing red piece of energy yes a glowing a glowing piece of energy and not a dark opaque piece of Earth even though it's the same thing what's the difference the difference is it becomes transformed because of the energy that is imbued with in it that's infused into it and so that'll be the difference between the body as we know it and the body in the world to come the body in the world the body in this world is really like an opaque dark piece of earth it's like a clod of Earth yeah but in the world to come the soul is going to be so brilliantly shining within the body that the body becomes imbued and infused with that energy that you no longer see a body what you see is soul you see a emanating piece of spirituality and that's what that that body is going to be like and that will be the eternal state according to most opinions this period of resurrection is going to be involving a spiritual eyes body which is elevated by that soul living symbiotically together on that person's level of perfection forever and that represents the the greatest degree of perfection because it is the reconciliation between well with others otherwise seem to be the polar opposites of the physical and the spiritual but rather this is going to be the extreme expression of the oneness of God showing that everything in fact is one both minute material and spiritual are all got and people going to be living on that kind of palpable level of realization of the oneness of God everywhere Rambam however differs and from the reasoning that you just suggested what kind of indirectly was that in the end of the day as great of a body as there may be during resurrection and the Rambam certainly agrees with the fact that there will be resurrection and those resurrected bodies will be different than the ones we know but it's nevertheless a body and not a soul and therefore this idea of resurrecting the bodies in order to give them reward is only temporary and once that body has been fully rewarded in a spiritual sense the person has to die and the souls are divested again of those bodies so that now the soul can attain its pure complete and perfect reward in the spiritual realm uninhibited anyway by a body even though that's a spiritual body it would still limit the reward of the soul so according to the Rambam the period of resurrection is a great period of reward but primarily for the body in order to reward it for its role but once that's done the soul has been liberated entirely from its body and unfettered able to enjoy the complete and perfect pleasure of God forever the most other commentary is different which was different with the Rambam in this point the Cobblers as well and say know that that great pleasure that the Rambam is describing existing for the soul without the body actually takes place with this for the soul together with the body but but those are the two ways of looking at it according to Rambam therefore then even after the soul leaves this body and goes to the soul world and even after that soul is returned to the bodies in the world of resurrection bodies will still die at some point after resurrection returning back to the soul world for the world to come part 3 which is in a period of the of the ultimate reward let's end here so that you guys have chance to take a break before this class and we'll continue again more of this next time you