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Unconditional Love is the only way to bring people including family back to G-d - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin
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so welcome to another episode of the
Dolphin Show
Tanya Tanya chapter
46 one of the most amazing chapters
because it's so relevant to us and today
I'll answer the question that I asked
yesterday Al take a look guys at the top
of page s the beginning of the chapter
he says
quote is there's a straight path for
man that's equivalent that's equal for
all no difference whether you're great
not great Russ
everyone and it's very close to
you not just once very but twice very
very close to you
to ones with an ey means to a to
arouse with an olive and a he he is to
illuminate the love that's that's that's
deeply wedged in your
heart so we had in the previous chapter
45 you turn back one page to page s the
beginning of chapter 45 there the AL
begins there is a right path a proper
path before man but it doesn't say the
cover
and here in chapter 46 he does so the
question is why so based on what yes yes
yes he
says do that mean or just un right now
it means it means Yen it means Yen I
mean we can
extrapolate uh about the overall idea
but not that there's
a a doesn't have a so you know this is
so refers right now to to to to uh to
anyway so the question is why does he
add
this and remember the the the the
wording is very much based on the
mission statement of Tanya which is on
the title page the Tanya came to address
the issue of
is near from the
from
right it's not far from
you it's not across the sea the Torah is
near you the AL says we need to
understand how that is because seemingly
for us what's near as G is material
matter not spiritual not Rus not
godliness so that was the overall
mission statement of the Tanya over here
when he employs in chapter 46 this
language
of it's also a reference back to what he
said earlier so so all of this is
answered the following way what is the
abund that he what is the thought that
he that he says here that's unique which
we're in middle of and we're going to
get to in a moment but at least we
learned the mush of a great king Mel God
ver right what's the look at Mel God ver
it's smack in the middle of page s he
says there's a a very Mel God a great
king ver and and and doesn't it's not
just a repetitious word but implying
that not only is he great in his own
sense but he has many U many subjects
which make him greater because the
subjects realize his
greatness when he
shows his his Great and Mighty
and here look at the adjectives here to
a
simpleton who's
disgusting the lowest of human of men
number
four another word for disgusting number
five that that dwells and lies in filth
I mean could you get any more
descriptive about someone who is who's
messed
up now five different terms to explain
how how messed up one can be one you
might be and this
me this great king who has subjects who
recogniz his greatness look the next
words he descends to him he doesn't
bring him up to him first and say hey
clean your up act up put on a shirt a
clean shirt put on a tie put on pants
and socks and come here like a man he
doesn't say
that he goes into thez the King goes
into
thez like Rabbi M he goes into the bars
in in in in in Jerusalem over there
with he goes into the
bars to sleap out the
souls so he lowers from his place of pre
honor he doesn't just go himself
he brings an Entourage he want he shows
that he wants to show this simple
disgusting fellow I love you so not only
am I'm going to go myself I'm going to
bring all the from Caren stol and mayure
him with
me okay it's hard to
imagine but that's what it says
here and then he picks him up he's in
the bar and he picks him up
he hugs
him he first gets him out of thez the
guy is smoking dope over there and and
dancing with girls and somehow he pulls
them to the side and he says put the
cigarette aside put the dope aside and
he puts his hand around him and he says
I love you and you're a ye and come step
outside with me for a moment right
that's what it says
here and then says let's go for a walk
he says no no no no I want to go dance
over there and and smoke up he says
you'll do that later right now we got to
go for a nice walk to air
out and he brings him back to his his
Palace he doesn't just take him in to
the room of go riches and the room of
art he goes all the way into his private
quarters in the chambers m
he goes to a place where no one even
from his ministers and his servants can
come in it's exclusive quarters and yet
he sleps in the shle her into
him and he unites with
him with true
closeness and hugging him embracing him
and kissing
him he attaches his very essence from
his soul and his heart and soul to the
person now you imagine that this is
going on so the question is what was
necessary for this to
happen until this chapter
46 there was a prerequisite for this to
happen and that was meditation now in
his kabad ethos believes his Bon not his
bed
isolation as
bre teach but rather his Bon meditation
reflection is the necessary
step to develop the
relationship that was everything till
chapter 46 in 46 he says that's not
necessary it's not
necessary
because the love we're talking about
here that's inherent in the Jew's heart
is reciprocal automatically when the Jew
feels that God loves me and this is the
answer the answer to be to be M of every
Jew every child every
teenager everyone is show them that you
really love them in your
heart and if they sense that you love
them they will love you and if they love
you they'll improve in their behavior as
well will it come overnight not
necessarily that's and so so this
this this method of chapter 46 is the
method in the T that is for every one of
us and that's why he
says you can't say that if you tell
someone first you meditate once you
meditate then you'll understand about
God and then you'll appreciate your
fellow Jew that means there's a
condition
attached you can't call that close it's
not close it requires meditation which
requires
study so you got to study so hey you
have to be patient to study and listen
number two you have to think about it
meditate reflect number three you have
to then Express
so all these steps are are prerequisites
and conditions that's not very close
that's that's a job you know it's like
come work for me but you have to do a b
c d to get your
paycheck it reminds me some uh someone
was working for a wealthy person who
gave him a job and he would come in 10
11 12 he would roll in after he daved
and
and the fellow saw that he's not
producing what he needs but at the same
time he didn't have parosa so he said to
him you know what I'm going to buy I'm
going to buy a store for you and and you
man the store and make parosa that
way and do me a favor leave this job cuz
I need people here to be here at 9:00 in
the morning and start working it was say
Factory
okay someone someone has their someone's
not muted or something I don't know oh
Mark
anyway one second one second
so Mark Mark mute yourself because we
can hear you
mark
okay so the uh he this this this
schlepper who was a good guy but he just
couldn't get his act together and he was
a holy guy was Ding and learning you
know he has to now check in 9:00 he
wants to dve until
11:00 so he said he had you know he had
some he said to this wealthy owner he
said a ESS which means you can't you
don't have money enough to buy food for
your
family know he basically said to him
what's your problem you know you're
doing me a
favor cuz I don't
have now you want me to meet your
conditions and if I don't meet your
conditions you won't be able to eat
tonight you'll be able to eat so leave
me
alone now in the business world this
doesn't go of course and in the normal
World it doesn't go and the bottom line
is he did release him and he bought him
a store and he made parosa from that
store the rest of his life you know much
of his life but why why did I think of
it this story that I heard recently
about this person is
because when you when you attach
strings good strings holy strings
conditions there's still
conditions and when you have a condition
you're putting a you're putting a a
burden on the person
it's like I'm going to I'm going to
spell it out so that's Crystal Clear
it's like you say to your kid or your
grandkid or your friend's kid or someone
who comes to your house I'll let you
stay
here you know if you behave in
accordance to the terms of my
house now you have all the right to say
that you have younger kids you have a
family you know but at the same time
understand that that is a
condition and some will accept it and
some will say bye-bye I don't need your
favors the AL in chapter 46 introduces a
new revolutionary way of loving every
Jew and having that feeling and he says
learn from
Hashem
Hashem made no conditions and he's we
going to see soon and he took us out of
of Egypt we were low lives we were
immersed in in the in the Egyptian
culture we didn't deserve to leave do do
do we understand that we were no good
I'm sorry we were no good we were
worshiping
Idols Hashem says you're my people and I
love you and I don't care I'm gonna take
you out that's what we're talking about
unconditional love
no conditions and that's the answer why
it's why this love of chapter 46 of
the like the reflection of of one's face
on water which is automatic so is the
heart so when when when so this is the
this is the recipe you want to help
yourself someone find within yourself
the true love that you have for someone
and that person will sense it and the
person will
reciprocate it doesn't mean to say
they're going to start grow a child what
like a yeah but yeah but like a parent
in a child when the child is not doing
what the parent
wants a parent in a child the child does
what the parent wants big deal talking
about a child that doesn't do what the
parent wants and a child who
Rebels
So when you say a parent and a child it
depends what kind of parent to kind of
child we're talking about when there's a
Schism when there's a difference when
there's argument when there's when
there's anger
right but it's supposed to be
unconditional love you're not supposed
to put any conditions on your children
if your children you know decide to go
off the yeah you throw
out y only it everything it's supposed
to be but it ain't that way
okay you have a child who's smoking a
shabas I'm just whatever right and you
have younger
children you want him to come him or her
to come into your house smoking and and
the younger siblings to see that and we
know I don't want to go into this now
cuz supposed to learn Tanya and we know
factually proof that when one child
Rebels it impacts the other children in
the home and usually there fallouts
second and third sibling as
well so it it's it's it's very easy to
you know to to say this but to implement
it and to again it's not even
implementing the behavior here is
talking about the real feeling in your
heart this is not easy this is very hard
I really feel in my
heart this this is this is the is not
you know about uh you know do this Gula
and you press this button and all of a
sudden you get this this not this is an
avoid that a bany that a person who's
who's working and works and it takes
time and and I've seen it I'm sure
you've seen it in the community in
families where parents I mean the whole
movement I'm sure you have it in we have
it here in America entire uh groups are
teaching parents and having
shabbatones about this issue it was so
natural and so easy you know and from
the from the biggest speakers and rabbis
there's Fallout okay I don't have to say
names you probably everyone knows it's
not it's not it's not a secret here and
what what's the
answer but what I'm saying is that the
not what I'm saying what I'm explaining
is that the
the in chapter 4 46
is unconditional love and therefore and
therefore you can
say you can't
say if you tell me you can only come
here if you don't smoke on shabas you
can only come here if you cut your
ponytail you can only come here if
you're a
mench that's they're all acceptable but
that's not K that means you're telling
me that I'm only accept accepted if I
meet your
conditions God's conditions hashem's
conditions I want to be accepted as I am
so now you'll say wait wait wait wait
wait wait wait a second the mitv are
conditions there reward and yeah this is
a this is a explanation explained in
other other places in this is beyond
reward and punishment that's the point
reward and punishment is one level of
T and there are people who can only
operate that way reward and punishment
for right and wrong up and
down but you know when when it all falls
aside when it happens to your own kid
then you say come save my kid who went
to the the the the Harry christas in the
70s from Williamsburg they call house
save my kid but I thought you hate us we
don't go like right oh no no no but yeah
but but it's my kid ah it's your kid
when it comes to your belly button it's
all acceptable and who's the address
kabad then then we say kabad it's all
right go ahead go do whatever you need
to do but save my kid right what's the
point that if you would AAL yeah the
same thing the same thing oh I love Kad
you know why you fed me in naobi I
wouldn't have any food except over there
so they're great
right but this is we're going off on a
tangent I want to stick to the point
here in is saying that this
of which we need to develop develop in
the sense of to realize we need to
realize is is a is and one more Point
all the levels of one second one second
all the levels of the love and and and
Aang Mark you with me right all
everything we've said till
now this this would be the mindset if
you can't do a go to B you can't do B go
to
C
right in this chapter drb is saying no
no the more see you
are the better the relationship is the
greater the relationship why cuz A and B
have
stuff conditions
stick see is an
outcast the guy doesn't know from
anything
says God loves him God loves
specifically him you know why because
he's
shirtless his
conditionalist and when he and when and
when he when he will sense God's love to
him he'll trop everything and just say I
want to be with you god whereas
whereas Mark do me a favor put mute
yourself whereas everyone else everyone
else until
now everyone the the the love and awe of
everything till now was a love that that
was based on a condition on
terms okay Misha one point but short
please because I want to learn inside go
ahead I just GNA say that that I don't
think we're going up in a tangent at all
because it's specifically this point
unconditional love that there's a reason
that go out to Tim and go out to capu
and they and it's only for that reason
it's only for that reason that's right
because otherwise what why would they go
why would they go why why why put
themselves so I'm just saying I don't I
don't think we're going off on right
okay okay but but I I I want I want to
add to that because it's
important the reason to go is to is to
reveal godliness in Kimba too it's not
just to find the hippie and the Israeli
that's a mistake it's because Hashem
this is the the
belief Hashem this is the belief Hashem
says mhia will come for messiah to come
the ordinary way is the world needs to
be involved so you need to get every
part of the world to be involved in the
process of mssiah of re which is
revealing God revealing God everywhere
in anyway so we need to go everywhere
the fact that there happen to be guys
there or girls there who want to get
closer to God who need to get closer who
need a meal so be it but that that's not
the that's not that's the that's the
normal way what you were saying is the
way the schia thinks so I'm going to go
here but let's say let's say someone a
husband and wife go out let's say to
Montana to Wyoming I mean I mean to
places where there's so few Jews and
amongst the
Jews 80 90% are
intermarried so what are you going there
for you're going to have shilas of
kahuna and Aliah is and Min I
mean right how can you give him a Leah
how can you not you have to talk to
rabbis it it's it's a big CH listen I
tasted it the Marin County which had a
great amount of assimilation I could
tell you
firsthand
right it's not not even a question so
they why go there why not why not go to
to par and Williamsburg and work with
the she say they from already yeah but
they didn't learn
Tanya they didn't learnis they didn't
learn this they didn't do this you know
this idea that we must
go all the way I remember yank JJ
he who was um like an ambassador for the
Reba he was always say why do you guys
want to go to Tim Baku why can't you be
in Brooklyn we have here 500 bill
buildings with Jews whose kids don't go
to a
Yesa you want to do take a building and
work the building no got to go out right
it's cool to go to California to Fresno
fres Fresno to
Westwood it's cool to go here oh you
know that's why I'm saying all this is
not the of what the re and in mind in
the previous Reba the idea is wherever
the a every place in the world needs to
become more Godly so we're going to go
all over the world and not put
conditions he's there she's there these
type of people that is the real and and
that's coincides with what we're
learning here
of it's very near you again because if
you start putting conditions even on
your H just give me one second I want to
finish even if you put conditions on
your that's also condition and guess
what there were who put a condition or
asked a question and you know rebov told
them the Reb secretary who got you know
this discussed everything with the rebes
no thank you everyone knew that when
rakov asked you to go do you want to go
here and there it came from the rebba
and if
you uh what's the word if you uh
hesitated he wouldn't send you not as a
punishment that means you're it's
conditional we're looking for
unconditional yes
Hilo Hilo you're un mute you got to
unmute
yourself I want ask why is this not
chapter
[Laughter]
one you know you remind me of
com yeah you remind the answer to that
question is with a
story I see we're not going to learn any
Tanya today but okay um uh but we are
learning I know I know I know I know I
know it's all
good
um there was a a go shim they called him
from a city in Poland Ukraine z z
z his last name was Angel Rabbi shim
Angel they used to call it a shim shim
shim because you go right he was a
genius a bad
genius but his genius brought about you
know a wild mind which mean meant also a
little wild behavior in and he was kind
of bounced around
from the Yesa and
others anyway he he learned Tanya and
probably taught Tanya
and so he was learning um the Tanya
chapter uh chapter 28 which we learned
which drb says the other words
Al
don't be a fool to try to elevate the uh
emotions the midles of love if it's a
lustful love and all that and we
discussed it at the time I don't want to
go into that right now so so he the
languag
is don't be a fool
so said like
this uses those words only one time in
Tanya but if you really learn Tanya and
you know
well it's found on every l in every line
of
T without him saying those words every
line in Tanya if you understand it well
it's the same message don't be a damn
fool in other words come on Smart up guy
smart up don't be a don't be a stupid
you know you know what I'm saying
realize that there's a God there's
something greater
it's not about material you
know you know that whole message so I
say that to you Hill you say why did Dr
re say this he did say it on the first
line but it's it's behind the line it's
it's it's in the line every line in
Tanya is the same message unconditional
love for every Jew here in chapter 46 he
gives it out in verbage because we're
here we're learning about various levels
of love for God so over here he he
specifies it that
way I I don't hear that as an answer
because my the the question is certainly
the hashem's unconditional love is is
present in every line but we're talking
about a VOD and the the sense I get with
this chapter is uh that now that we've
learned from 45 chapters of uh different
approaches to a VOD oh one more
difficult than the next all of a sudden
we say well here's you know here's the
uh here's the room where you can go in
uh and be accepted it's uh it's it seems
like that that this is at
all what this is not the easy the
comment that I wanted to make is this
this reminds me very much this is the
practical
implementation of the Tomar the Tomar
says act Godly and like Rabin is saying
the go out to bring godliness that means
you have to be
Godly how does God behave you read the
all the the 13
of of of tolerating all of the insults
and and and all the things that go on so
to me this discussion is very much this
is the Practical implementation of the
the
iCal
and not I don't think it's an easy at
all I I I agree with I agree H I agree
with is on that on that this part uh
that this is not
uneasy this is not just like waking up
in the morning I mean this is like along
the lines Y is saying a father and a
child it's automatic love no this is a
lot of
work is it sounds well a reflection of
the face hey but you got to have a face
to reflect on the water find your
face so Hill but but but I I I
understand Hill your your question your
point but is's answer is the answer this
is an AA this it doesn't come from
sleeping and eating and indulging no
this comes from when a person empties
out the yes and the div and realizes
like he said that to make Godly you have
to be Godly you have to be bany which is
part of what we're learning the B then
then yeah AB what were you saying I
didn't hear you AB yeah I want to say
that this it's even more practive advice
for parenting if you have a kid that has
some challenges which I did have and and
initially my response was the response
most parents have you you can turned
away from but I realized that wasn't
working so I love them un I love them
matter what they were
doing and I kept that love open in my
heart the boys they all came
back they all came back that's the
answer cuz when when when they sensed in
you unconditional love truly it opens up
for them but again and I I want to say
you know you said they came back that's
great not everyone comes back back right
away but that's fine you know what's the
bottom line coming back don't commit
suicide be normal and just just live
life yeah the religion years it took
years it took years it it takes years
it's a and we need strong faith in hem
and and and when kids sense that
automatically I'm telling you they open
up and if they don't open up to you you
you or your wife they open up to to a
friend but there there is an openness
I'm telling you and and and things
change again of course we would like
them to to wear the yamak and the
and take it easy take it easy take it
easy people mature people wake up and
they see the greater picture they see
the the the the the the connection of
the Jewish people of 3,000 years they
see a war now that people want to wipe
out such a fine holy people what is
going on over here you know so it opens
up to us I do have to go now we will
continue IMM tomorrow great year take
care byebye love you
all
byebye