Your Body Remembers EVERYTHING | 10 Minutes of Meaning | Tanya #37

The until now we're until now the batan has been telling us about the three negative kipos the categorically negative kipos that are a total eclipse of the orient of the light of the ribon and uh and that automatically inculc within us a negative residue that we keep and we'll talk about in this paric is going to tell us what's necessary to atone to erase to repair for the damage done and what we absorbed in the residue that we carry from having engaged with that which is categorically also again the alterba introduced us to the idea the t of the language that which forbidden is also that which is permissible is mut also and mut mean bound and unbound tied and untied that which is forbidden is tied to the world of sitra to the other side to the dark side and that which is permissible is tied to the world is untied it's unbound and therefore it is dependent on our intention so kipas noa which is a partial eclipse the orient can peak through does come down to our intention and the attitude the mindfulness the intention we give it will determine its value or not so but we did talk about there are limits to good intention when a person engages in negativity when we indulge the when we indulge that alter ego, the sahara, the sitra, whatever name you want to give it, but that voice that sabotages our own success. When we give into that negative energy, then it leaves its impact on us and therefore it needs to be repaired. And that's what we're up to in the second section here of it says the shimmenu even after kipos noa experience has reverted to holiness from the domain of the three kipos a trace of it remains. Because if you eat forbidden food, if you eat for food that food that's it is bound and tied to the other world to the other side, our eating it actually becomes absorbed into us. The food, the drink, they become part of our flesh and part of our blood. It's not just the pleasure from it has been impacting our nishama, our soul, but it means we literally absorbed it. And so whatever negative experience that we received from absorbing it into the body, it needs to be purged. It needs to be repaired. It needs to be removed. How does that happen? So says the the body was temporarily home to these three negative kipos. The body is the place that absorb these three negative kipos. So the body has to undergo. What's is the cleansing after death? The body was a vessel was a cle. The goof was the vessel. It was the vehicle through which we experience free will in this world. The nishama is the engine. It is the computer that drives the free will. But the gof is what is the vehicle, the instrument through which we express the free will in this world. That free will can help us make the right choices. choices that transform and elevate choices that can do mitzvah, but it can also lead us astray to choices that are negative, to choices that bring us down, to choices that contaminate. So the body that might have been a vehicle or instrument for the wrong choices, that body needs to be purged. It needs to be cleansed before that body can really return to the dust from which it was formed. The body needs to experience something which will cleanse and which will per which will purge it. And that's the to cleanse it and purify it from the So if we misuse this vehicle, this instrument called the body, if it leads us to make choices that weren't in the realm of permissible where we could give good intention, but we're in the realm of that which is forbidden, that which were tied to the other side, the dark side. If the body was the instrument or vehicle through which we expressed free will to indulge in worldly pleasure, so needs from the impurity of if we engaged even in the neutral things but with the wrong intent or without the right intent or if we indulged the Jewish demons which is what we call the dark side the other side the alter ego the self-sabotaging voice so we need to do something in order to remove it what is this what's this idea of the that if with our body. We watched, we ate, we said, we did the wrong things. So our soul ascends on high and our soul under goes its own process which the alterba will elaborate on. But the body also needs its cleansing process. So according to our tradition, after a person passes away, after the soul is extracted from the body, we don't use the word death. If you look in the Garaz did not use the word death described death as a person doesn't die, the body dies. The soul never dies. The soul is extracted from the body. The soul has existed since creation itself. And the soul's existence is eternal. We are immortal because we are a piece of Hashem. And we can't die by virtue of the godliness in us. We are eternal. We are immortal. So we existed since creation and we will exist eternally. We have immortality. But we're partnered with the body for a finite short certainly relative to eternity a short amount of time. And why is the soul put in the body? Because the body only has the soul only has free will through the instrument in the vehicle of the body. And that's what gives life meaning. making the right choices or the wrong choices, drawing closer to Hashem, of becoming more distant from Hashem, listening to that impulse or overcoming the dictating over thee of the nephselves. Those are all the choices that we make. So when it's time not for death because people don't die, bodies die, but what and that moment of can be by the way a moment of tremendous bliss or a moment of extraordinary excruciating pain. what determines which it is our relationship to it. So a person who spends their time here in this world and a person who thinks I am a body and I have a soul. So when you discover no you are a soul that has a body that's painful. It's a painful reality. And when the soul is extracted from the body, the body then is in pain. The soul is in pain because the soul has this harsh realization, this reality check that I thought all along I was a body that had a soul. And now I come to realize I am a soul that has a body. And that harsh reality check can be unbearably excruciatingly painful. That's why in that moment we don't leave somebody alone. Somebody now recently said vid for who's in the hospital maybe hospice of course we wish them well. But I told the family it's a they person should not be left alone. If a person anticipates that the end is near because of the pain that the soul might go through and extracted from the body, they shouldn't be left alone. On the other hand, a person who spent their time here on earth knowing that all along they knew they're a soul and they have a body. They're a soul. And just like the clothing I'm wearing, the tie I'm wearing doesn't define me. It's not me. It's something external to me that I'm wearing. So to the body writes like this, the body is a garment that we wear. And just like I care for my garment and I'm grateful to my garment and my garment protected me from the elements and my garment was the uniform that identified me and the garment played a role but it's not me. I take good care of it but I take it off because it isn't me. So similarly and so too the body is not me and I'm grateful to it and I'm thankful to it and it serves a role and it serves a purpose but it's not me. So when a person all along knows I am a soul and I have a body and now we see as shama the souls extracted from the body that moment if they knew that all along what they really were and they were living for eternity not the here and now and they were not indulging in the shadim the sitra the dark side of kipos noa three kipos certainly so such a person when the soul is extracted from the body not only is it not painful what is it how is it described the raam writes this many others write this It's described as nishika misas nishika the kiss of death. Kiss of death is glorious. Kiss of death is incredible pleasure. The kiss of death is when the soul is no longer it's unbridled, unbounded from the body. The same way when I get to go home at night and I could take my tie off, finally the day is over and I could take my tie off, my uniform off and I can enjoy and I can get more comfortable. So to the soul when it's able to undress from the body writes he longs for it not for death of course we don't glorify or long for death but he says I wait for when my soul can take the body off just like I wait for when I can take the clothing off. So the body whatever the body did live in its lifetime certainly a body that was less than a misus nika a body that did indulge and engage in the shiny in the kipa in the kipas noa that body needs to undergo its purification. It has to purge whatever it had previously absorbed through the pleasures of this world that were off limits that were user that were bound to the other world. How does the body receive that that purification? Through what's called what is so four angels come to the person and they beat him until the kipa has been broken and removed from the soul. That's called It doesn't sound so good, right? That's the idea. That's the idea. doesn't sound so good. That's supposed to motivate us in life. If you picture, if you have that image, that's why tell us that when a person is tempted to give give in to indulge that we're tempted to indulge and give in to that alter ego or that voice, think about if that doesn't work. If that doesn't work, think about ya. Why should it help to think about the day of death? The finality of the day of death, the permanence of the day of death, the of the day of death. Do we really want someone coming and beating the kipa out of us? That's a new expression. Beating the kipa out of us because that's exactly whatever is. It's beating within the grave. It's described as length in and uh and uh it's something that a person has to undergo if their body engaged in things it shouldn't have. In all the worlds the is about to elaborate here in the world of speech in the world of action in the world of thought the body has to undergo something to beat that out of us after after the soul's extracted from it that's how do we get out of so we have tradition this is brought down in Miller's uh commentary those who live in the land of Israel or those who pass away on a Friday are spared another maybe should promote that benef should put that in the advertisement make aliyah and don't get the kipa beaten out of you. Move to Israel and you don't have to have the kipa beaten out of you after death. Um oral already told us a person who passes away in Shabas it's a good simmon and they avoid others can avoid it the seventh of writes loving justice loving rebuke loving acts of kindness bringing guests to one's home and praying with concentration another suggestion spend four hours a day saying words of Torah and >> four hours a day saying words of Torah and that's how you can avoid in the next world. But in any case, the is telling us we don't know exactly what this looks like, how we experience it, does how do we measure if we did the things we need to in order to make sure to avoid it. All of this we don't know exactly, but it should incentivize and motivate us to realize don't give in to the kipa. Don't give in because if we don't want the kipa having to be beaten out of us later, don't give into it now. Now, if you say, "I can't relate to this." You certainly can because we know this was the old adage in exercise was a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips. When you eat the wrong food, so you're going to need a bigger belt. And when you do the wrong things with your body, your body absorbs the wrong things that you've done. In fact, by Stein, in his commentary, when he talks about this, he says um he he he compares it. In order for a person's eating to be holy, there must be holy intent. Otherwise, he allows the sitra to infiltrate. When that happens, the fact of his profane eating is impressed within reality. A stain is formed which is never completely removable. If the deed was permissible, it can be rectified. But the profanity it spawned remains ingrained in the person's body like the blood and flesh. By way of analogy, exposure to radiation above a certain intensity can prove fatal. But also, a lesser dose is destructive in the long term. Although the person is not immediately killed, the steady process of deterioration begins from the time of the exposure and onward. Or to site another example, some poisons like lead ingested even in the smallest quantities can never be removed. Any immediate damage can usually be overcome. But the cumulative effect over time as more and more of that material enters the body can be extremely dangerous. In the same way, even non-holy act even if permitted, even if rectified and elevated to holiness leaves a mark of profanity. So a person can degenerate spiritually merely by doing things that are permitted by the steady accumulation of mundane actions is liable to draw him out of the realm of holiness. A decent person who never deliberately commits a sin, who merely allows himself a so-called normal life, can in the half hour or afternoon he devoted to activities devoid of holiness, create a mark of profanity in his body that cannot be removed. It's very startling and it's very a powerful image and that's not accidental. That's intentional and that's by design. Meant to motivate us, meant to incentivize us, meant to inspire us, meant to be mindful and conscious and conscientious and present in what we're doing. And then the says the only one who doesn't have to avoid is somebody who lived their entire life and derived no pleasure from this world. Somebody who lived his whole life. And what does that mean derive no pleasure from this world? So the tells us an example like whom like auadi the great publisher and redactor the editor of the Mishna who koval tells us said on his deathbed that he never enjoyed any pleasures from this world. Now we know tells us elsewhere that was extremely wealthy. He was very rich man. He lived in a palace and he served and he had all the delicacies in the world. What does that mean that he never enjoyed the pleasures of this world? He was a wealthy man. But the votar tells us from whose table neither lettuce nor radish nor cucumber was ever absent either in summer or winter. Okay. Today that we wouldn't be so impressed that what you said. Today we'd said he had the the most expensive tequilas and single malt. He had shakureri and meatboards. He had herring stations. Nothing was ever missing. It never in those days lettuce, radish, and cucumber didn't grow in every season. How did you have it? Unless you're incredibly wealthy, somehow you accessed it. So if he was so wealthy and his table always had these delicacies, how could he say he never benefited from this world? So the reason the bal gives us as an example is because kipas no those things radish, lettuce and cucumber represent that which is permissible. It's not a mitzvah. It's not it's not tied to the dark side. It's a that's unbound, but it's all the intent you gave. So here the is testifying about he's rebi he's our rebi he's called he's rebi because he enjoyed the pleasures of this world but always did it to serve hashem he endowed it and imbued it with the meaning of a hashem he didn't live an aesthetic life he didn't deprive himself of pleasures here is a perfect example of the permissibility of enjoying this world a good meal a good a good suda enjoy this world but the kavana the mindfulness the presence while we're enjoying it is to serve hashem I'm telling divor I'm singing beautiful I'm hosting guests I'm energizing myself to go back to learning and to do I'm doing it because I'm finding hashem in this food the magnificence of its deliciousness the it's giving me the life force that is hashem and the food that I'm eating so is the prime role model of a person who was wealthy and who had access and who enjoyed this world but didn't enjoy it from the perspective of he didn't absorb it into the bus of his body that he needed he was so present and so mindful in all that he did that he didn't enjoy any pleasure ever in this world that wasn't part of the formula of so much so that he didn't need any he didn't need the he didn't need the kipa beaten out of him because he never gave in to kipa he lived his life without ever having given into kipa so we'll pick up next week that now turns to another activity which is permissible according to but it's spiritually damaging and requires cleansing and that is things that technically are permissible to speak about technically but they're not part of the holy realm of learning. So if you're analyzing the Super Bowl game and you're talking about how terrible the Patriots are and how the guy streaker got more yardage than they did, I didn't watch the game. I just found out afterwards and I admit I'm gonna have to have the clip of beaten out of me. I got a little hana from hearing the patriots lost. I got some hana from that. I have to do chuva for that. I have to do tikllin for that. I got some hana from that. I admit it. I'm a work in progress. I'm working on myself. So those are there's nothing. It's not it's not gossip. It's not it's notif it's not it's not part of the realms of that which is it's but it's not elevated. That's noa. So what's the repair? That's not we're gonna get to the next. It's not so much better than >> it's not so much fun. >> Chuva said >> chuva can. Yeah. So chuva can help. Chuva helps. What exactly helps the gof? The gof still needs to go because the radiation. You could do that's exactly what was giving as the mush. You could do all the chuva in the world over the fact that you ate lead. You could do chuva on the world of the fact that you were exposed to radiation. But the reality is your body doesn't care about your chuva. The facts of the lead and the radiation don't care about your feelings of the chuva that you did. The reality is you absorbed it and it needs to be purged. There are these other ways to purge it. The body can be repaired. I guess there's I don't know I'm making this up but if a person were exposed to radiation or lead maybe there's some oxygen chamber they can go in and get better. So our oxygen chamber is four hours a day. That's our oxygen chamber. We need to do things that's our so however the radiation was absorbed is there's some formula for the way it's purged. That's not the same as chva. Chuva effects on but these other things lofty things they affect the g to avoid the later on in life will pick up with this next week. Stay happy, stay healthy and stay holy. and get that body.