What's Your Reality: G-d, Self or Money? Diff bet Torah study vs Mitzva observance - R Chaim Dalfin

good morning good afternoon we're learning Tanya Panic half gimmel now I'm preparing this chapter the rest of the chapter it's a very hard chapter since I've learned Tanya as a young teenager this chapter always gave me a hard time or my mind has a hard time grasping fully the intricate ideas but will do as best as we can you know sometimes when you get uh in Hebrew or no it's called a joke you know Juke is a bug and you get a joke in your head you kind of when you're young you you have you're fixated and say oh this I could I can understand well this I can't stand understand well it leaves a um a mark years later you know and um you kind of it'll give up and the truth is that as you grow and mature and and develop your brain it shouldn't be that way even if you don't understand it fully but you can understand it better so this is the attempt to understand this chapter better today until now the altareb is talking about the the the the the the the accomplishment when we do mitzvahs and this is a very fundamental chapter in Tanya what's the difference between a Mitzvah when we do a Mitzvah and when we study Toyota and since each and every one of us does both every day it's very important to understand the difference and the ramifications from it we'll talk about at the end of the chapter which really will give us a better understanding why certain paths in Judaism in Theta emphasize Mitzvah observance and others emphasize color study if you understand this chapter very well it will clarify that okay what did he say till now he said that Mitzvahs are compared to a varim to limbs of the body in which the limbs of the body The Ear The Eyes the nose the mouth etc etc they fulfill what the soul wants the Russians we call it this the desire of the soul the soul wants to move its lips the lips move the soul wants you to walk somewhere you walk somewhere so the relationship between the action and the soul is the command of the soul to something outside of itself I.E its limbs and the outdated says this idea is emphasized in the statement of the tikkunizar this is on the third line on page to in the beginning of the chapter he brings a statement from desire akadish which is that's on the towards the end of the second line all one and then he brings another statement from what's called tikunim which says 248 Commandments are like the 248 limbs of the king those are not one and the same it's two separate statements number one Hillel one is said in Zohar and Juana number two one talks about Taylor and God being cool all one in unity and the other one employs different language referring to Mitzvahs that the 248 Mitzvahs are like of rum 248 limbs of a king and the altered and this chapter 23 looks at the particular language in desire because he says that that language is indicative of two different types of of of of of a realization of application and that itself that the altareba has this analysis is fascinating it's because most people learning Zion even those that learn zayana learned I promise you they never they never picked up on the difference or never even thought there's a difference they swallow it in one in one breath yes he will wait hold your horses hold your horses don't be impatient you know by now learning citizens you need a lot of patience if you don't you know if you don't like that style this is the wrong casinos anyway what's the difference so before we get to the difference you have to know what had a limbs of a person operate how do they operate when there's a command coming from the inside so the alternative explained to us over here it's it's two separate ideas to separate entities there's the soul then the shama the nephesh that has a rotten it has a will that means it's already two soul is the one right is there a Russian honeyfish is two and this Russian of the nephilis this desire of the Soul says move your lips move your hands which are the actual organs so the the mice of the other the act of the person when the person does a mitzvah is subordinate it's TOEFL it's bottle to the Russian on that fish and it's wonderful but nevertheless it's too joining and it remains to no one is going to say that my limb after it did the Mitzvah is no longer a limb that's ridiculous it is a limb it's a limb that obeys now guess what what about when the limb doesn't obey if the limb was transformed that it's no longer a limb when it does a Mitzvah how can it be my that there's a time when the same limb doesn't do a Mitzvah when it's supposed to do a mitzvah what does that prove to you that your hand your mouth your limb is independent and as much as it's it's a subservient to the will of Hashem when it does a Mitzvah it's still an entity that's bottle to a chef finish with Mitzvahs now page 56 uh we go to smack the middle of the page after the two dots and now he talks about the flip side the virtue of learning data with your thoughts we're not talking here about Hillel reading words of Taylor now we're not talking about that we're talking about thinking a concept you learn a piece of Gabbana piece of mishnah what does it mean you use foreign when the brain thinks this idea of Tatum and then also when the mouth speaks words of Taylor Swift shall never surely kiss here we're talking about the inner garments of the necessarily kiss I want to make it very clear we're not talking about action we're talking about the thought process and the speech that supports the thought process the speech that follows your thought so we're not talking about our Behavior put on feeling could someone put on film without knowing about feeling yes without thinking about feeling absolutely just going to any basement any day of the week most people just put on their children how many people when they put on their children they take a minute two or three a reflection and ask himself what am I doing and they and and they reflect on in in other syndrome as well there's one or two lines to think about God will suckale the awesomeness of God on and on right most people don't do that and by the way it's a hello question but I'm not going to go into it now because the kavana of the filling part of the midst of them and this is discussed in in negla not in cities there's certain Mitzvahs where the kavana if the mitzvah's bereft of the cavana it's missing in the Mitzvah it means you haven't done the mitzvah not you've done half of them it's you haven't done the mitzvah then there are other Mitzvahs where the kavana is not necessary for the Mitzvah so even if you do the middle without the kavana you've done the midst of this is a discussion you go into brisk and Tamir and to others and they should be discussing this if they haven't they should be but this is a big discussion in England if the Covenant of these other Mitzvah how much part of the Mitzvah is and the air and depending on what we conclude whether you've done the Mitzvah or you've oh you're not on the Elizabeth there's no such thing as doing a half of our mitzvah either you've done them and so you're not in the midst but that's not the discussion here the discussion here in Tanya is that when we talk about the difference between Toyota and Mitzvahs which is chapter 23 we're talking about the difference between the behavior mode of action the limbs do the mitzvah versus the thought process and even the speech that follows of the Torah that you thought about he calls that doubted upnemium the inner garments of The Godly Soul the coast game Netflix of the kids actually surely he says not only the garments of The Godly soul but The Godly Soul itself that's invested in the Taylor study now you'll notice that the academic employees here when he talks about terrorist study not the word Bittle but the word so this chapter if I were to give a one-liner on this chapter this is what I would say it's the difference between Bitcoin to God versus yehud with God to God means subservience to God whereas means Unity with God and that's why drama uses the word here Manish when you learn Taylor with your mind and your words and you understand it there's a Yahoo that's considered accomplished but you could Gomer with an absolute Unity but that's an alien and he says clearly okay next words it's not just like a chariot with a writer who says go horses go move and the horses listen they don't want to get a patch but guess what as great as America is in its subservience to its Rider it's still a horse it's a horse that listens it's a horse that follows but how much of the horse is one with God only that part of the horse that's in the mode of behavior what we're getting at is having to listen listen what you get your heads you guys have good heads what we're getting at is like this that when we talk about subservience to Hashem vis-a-vis Mitzvahs how much of the eye is is is is subdued to God is but to God that part that's relevant to the action that means there's a part that's not relevant to the action it's totally independent and guess what that's where it comes out to haunt you you ask us a question you see a person Gus Taylor misses all day or something one day he's out the left field what happened the aspect of of the self that was not one with God came to the floor it came out and that's very wild and then then wild and independent and wants to do its own thing because there was never yehud there was there was only Bittle so The Virtue Hillel it to answer your question because you are a little impatient I'll give in to you the answer to your question is the virtue of Torah over a missus's the virtue of yehud versus Bittle now can I ask you Hillel could you say summarize that in your own words or you need more time to think I'm not gonna let you at 66 or 70 I don't know how old you are get away with it you're going to be fresh and you're going to be thinking okay okay but but just know that that's what we're talking about here even if you didn't get it yet and like I said it took me a long time to at least get to what I'm saying now right and I heard this from my teacher Khan and at six in the morning I was listening and my son came in and he took a picture and he sent it out that it reminds him 30 years ago when I prepared Tanya shirom he remembers me sitting and listening to abiola now 30 years later he thought I mastered it and he says look my father is again listening to his teacher because he needs to give a share and I said that's the one type that's what Tyrone study is but anyway so I I do it I'm Main and Mr Shell we have to make a big fat bring it anyway so again I want you to see the words cleverness it says it's not just a chariot okay look at the words here it it is itself is God it's not that the is making you closer to God it is God that's only by Taylor by mistress it's making you Visa the action the limb closer to God but it's not you that's the advantage of Torah learning over Mitzvah performance again Midsummer performance that's right that's right [Music] that's right that's right foreign capacity like the sanctify a particular limb or that's right that's exactly right that's exactly right that you're on the right page good um that you think about and you're speaking about him are the specific inner will of God as expressed through the hello which is that so it ascended and God's will that this item for example is permissible or he's your exempt or zakai or your meritorious just the opposite but says be it as it may regardless of which you're talking about with its kosher and answering all that it is it is God himself foreign or the combination of the words in the terror in the VM Superman the Torah and the prophets and the writings hey I'm shock isn't it saying that it's saying they are drawing down the will and wisdom of God is united with the infinite god with the ultimate unitya we had this earlier and Tanya God is the knowledge of our mother he's the knower all three together Etc and this is the meaning of the opening words of this chapter where he cites these that Gardens next to top and next page and not just that it's like the wings of the limbs of the king uh like are the Mitzvahs no the unity with the whole of the person as as he said it well is through Torah study specifically someone says why you need to study tell you to just do Mrs the answer is not all of you becomes one with God at the same time at the same time what's the advantage of Mitzvah performance over Torah the concept of Bittle subservience one second is it one second subservience and that it the flip side is to be to subdue yourself to the higher power to Hashem is much harder the the notion of Bittle is so much harder than the notion of in yehud when it comes to Unity you have to learn Tyra study Tita think about it understand it speak about it give it to our Tata it doesn't require and look like let me say this way internal study there is no opponent there is no opponent in midst of performance there is an opponent you know what the opponent is I don't want to do it I don't want to do it too bad why should I do because you say so I don't want to oh so when I eat listen to this when a Jew puts on film and he doesn't want to put on film or when a Jew fast and he doesn't want to fast whatever the case and is movable himself and he's and he subdues himself to the higher will God's will that that notion is deeper in from that perspective from the subservious perspective than a Unity perspective so we have a virtue in Memphis over Torah we have a virtue and color of him it says that's why we need both is Sir yeah I wanted to ask if this concept extends to those missions which we say a person is completely surrounded by so for example sukkah or living in Erich Israel that is the entire goof participates in that mitzvah or is it just can I get some favor some limb of them of the goof I think I think I'm I hear your question I think I understand the question in other words by misters like living in there sitting the sukkah yeah but one second sitting in the circle yeah but right right but but but the hill I mean is there your body has to sit in the soup your goof that that that's a neighbor it's a neighbor clally it's an a it's a general Aver but it's a neighbor [Music] in other words you you cannot let me say this way you can't strip in Mitzvah performance the Aver involvement the limb involvement in two ways one either but either or like you said a neighbor cloudy that's a good thought yeah let me push back on that let me push back on that one push back has to be spoken it's not just thought but it has to be spoke what what has to what has to be what when you're learning Torah thinking wait wait wait wait wait that's what we call the midst of limodator not Liberator for the sake of Linwood you're mixing two together what you said is it's correct as a Mitzvah one of the we're not talking about that that's already that's part of the Mitzvah relationship question yeah yeah we're not talking about saying it out we're talking about saying it out because it's part of the process of the mind to articulate and that was the emphasis there is tighter not the emphasis there is mitzvah let's continue top of 29. that's right that's exactly right you're on the right page that that's exactly without them is going to speak about in chapter 40. well you just said no that's 39 or 40. that's the idea of Limitless that's why it's so hard and that's why it's a it's it's a gevaldike you know we throw it around like it won't change I learned the Shimon learning shots oh really English was not not a simple thing and then is all about how to learn English has a later in Tanya even an emphasis which is a little different than a prime I'm just saying it's it's a topic of discussion how do you learn the schmuck but one thing's for sure that the Shema doesn't mean the mitzvah it means because even a Mitzvah here I think this is what you're saying it yes sir even the Mitzvah of learning it's not it's for the mitzvah it's for the limb there's a self-benefit what's the benefit I'm subservient to God tell you to study there's no benefit there's only one thing God Hashem quote the Zion Hashem I'm sorry Torah orisa Almighty it's not two becoming one it's one so when your mind becomes a Torah mind what happens Abram when your mind becomes a Torah mind your God we're talking about intramural speaking I have a question about the office yes what's the temperature and the Vegas very good question um there's the way Chabad answers it and probably the way other systems of hasidus answered the vehicles generally is not compared to yehud the comparison is usually between his cashiers from the word cashier right I'm not two things are tied together cashier versus another difference is brought between his palut hispylus emotionalism versus the vehicles and in that scenario the vehicles is much higher the example that given is the vehicles is that you don't realize that you're attacked you're so attached you don't realize like someone piece of art and understands art and they see the art and they're glued and they tap them on the back and they don't answer you why not because they've been absorbed by the picture it's not that they have absorbed the picture see if it's they have absorbed and there's a day and when you tap them they should go like that but if the picture has swallowed them they don't exist and they physically exist but they're not there so that's an example that's given for the vehicles and it's a very high level I would say that in our scenario the vehicles would be more like and that's what I'm saying to you is you won't find I don't recall seeing a discussion the difference between vehicles I again could be but I don't remember such a thing because the way I do I did learn the difference between vehicles and the spirals so it seems to me that vehicles with me more a lot more in line with the idea of as we're discussing it here let's continue nope can't continue because it's every time and there's a lot to say wow as much as I wanted to finish we have to continue tomorrow on the day after so it's a long Pedic let's just learn a little more a little more um since the supernal will that's me you had look just follow the language here the alterab employees have read the word right he stays away from the word Bittle why because America because he's not talking about Mitchells now now in the section of the section of Italian that talks about so is united with the infinite God and the ultimate Union who begin with Gandhi is revealed for labor Hester upon Him beneficially keys and is not concealed at all at all into Godly Soulful of hashanah's garments happening at the time when a person thinks and speaks of persons evolved in the concept so then the Soul and his garments again the word the fourth time on the page are united mamish and he has the word mamisha at the time of learning again of six times seventh time like the unity of God's speech and thought with God's Muslim Canal as we said earlier for there is no separation between God and God's word which is different than our word now the only time there is a separation is when clip is a formed through transgressions the unity is much greater and this is a fascinating thought Unity of learning Taylor is greater than the supernal worlds Maisha we talk about the celestial beings and the angels and the and all the Holy Rollers says the altareb on page 29 and second chapter 23 when Aid learns hashems the unity is greater than the what's what what exists in the heavens so you think that up there wow there's such great Unity guess what learning here a piece of data thinking data is even greater why why is benefits because when you learn tell you that God Superman will is revealed in your soul benef again I'm emphasizing words here because it's important he doesn't say once who he says who who because the Torah itself is United and all the supernal worlds they received their vitality may all the highest from the light and the energy the superna worlds the angels and the souls and all the celestial beings receive their highest from our Torah type of study China for it is the will wisdom of God it says you've made everything with wisdom theme which is Torah is above everything the he he and again and he emphasizes twice the word he he not just once for he he and it it is it's the will of God is called the periphery energy of God she he penis machine it's such an energy that cannot invest itself within the world it enlivens and illuminates from above in a hovering way in a motive way and again and this hovering energy of God invests itself in the soul and in the garments in a revealed way when because when one studies the words of potato I we don't feel it dripping says it's an age-old problem but the answer is if I'm wrong right if I have a god deals deal with Jose but you know when Hashem revealed himself to I think it says the avocado they themselves didn't see it it says they must lie you because their source of their so-called the muscle like Mazel Tov they're muzzled their Source saw it see here we are were there any title with discussing this in German do we feel it the answer is maybe you don't but your source every one of us has a muzzle I forgot even though you yourself don't see it your Mazel sees it so clearly in the brackets is a fascinating thing in the brackets if you were to see it you would flip out could you imagine we would stop doing our work it would be like time we want to just bathe in the glory of God in the glory of Hashem qashem is he he hides the accomplishment of Torah study from us so that we continue doing what we have to do the upper world is a fascinating bracket the upper world you think hey they're higher the souls the Angels they see more of God says the outrama is just the opposite they're only seeing a mere reflection and that they can handle we don't see anything because Hashem wants us to continue being here and not to flip out and run away somewhere and give up and say well I want to be is a mountain with God no he wants us to work he wants to learn here so and the and the reward is is that we have all of the benefit of that is accomplished but we don't see it now this doesn't mean to say by the way that from time to time you don't get a glimpse and that's a matoma that's a gift but someone went to say hey I learned my Davin I want to see the results in the bank thank you very much guess what it's brought down that if a person really hard of us put so much effort and diligence title study they will get glimpses through a dream through other things it happens yes hello yes what's your relationship between the use of the word you hood here and the use and the concept of that we've learned elsewhere we're gonna basically that's going to be tomorrow's share in the share but basically no it's very good because you're on the right path no no it's very good but but basically the the yehud over here has two aspects and basically yehudi law is is the gift it's the highest the best but it's not the expected the expected is there is a world and you know this is drama says in in Shariah I think some of you are learning he says what does that mean we say every day both of Shame that's true but the the unity of God as it's expressed through bottle shame is more where we are is where we are we are in a world and this world is to begin with there is no world that's the feeling remember when we say there's no world there is a world just knock on your table there is right it was the famous story with the hustle who came to the river and he said lay down a table I'm going to give you Schmitz I'm gonna give you an account I'm gonna give you patch I'm going to give you Lama testimony malcus there's no world boy are you gonna jump up and down when those whiplashes go on your be you know backside the attitude the mindset is all there is is God so that yehudi low reality is like not a reality it's a gift it's a high it's a higher experience so when he talks about yehud here we'll see tomorrow that he talks about two aspects and the expected one and what's we can work with is is a gift anyone have any less yeah what I would say so in in in in a comparison absolutely the Godless said that you're referring to in chapter 12 and Tanya and other places is definitely you know it's like you know the muscle is not a good muscle but imagine you becoming Einstein overnight you wake up in the morning and you're a genius you're a genius you know I have I have children who'll remind me that I'm not you're too quiet it's it I I what it blew your you blew your uh what's it called the um the electric box the fuses it's good it's good it's good we hear it once and again and again I I can't tell you I can't tell you how many years I'm trying to understand these Concepts you know and uh maybe it's a Chantel mashiach comes and each time you understand another word when you learn and you teach it you guys have added to my understanding I think about it you know so you know this is by the way Maisha this is what the mittler rabbit the second rabbit wanted he wanted that two hasidi Chabad when they meet in the street they should talk about the saying is what he will use before yehudillah talk about things that are like way out of your you know Norm but it shows your your engrossed you're looking for something more and really hasidim especially what did I say I see in a cabbage in the community I'm talking about real chabaddicks everyone's real but you know people who are involved in understanding God through see this that's that was a tips that reminds you I was amazing for me to show him at that time I was staying at King George 21. so he walked through I told you about that was that was my creatures every day you know when I went to a friend of mine in in in their showroom coming out of the the hood it was Mama's the hood the market the mayor sure I'm shook you've been there walking up it's a it's a steep walk up I forget the name of the street oh umaran Street I think that you walk up building you walk up and then you hit a street Ethiopia Street it's a narrow Street and you walked down and it hits uh yafo and from there you go across into the uh to you know to the Ben Yehuda and then I go up to King George every time I did this I'm telling you I felt I'm going from one world to another world yeah no but if I I tried to inculcate the feeling you know it inculcate the feeling like I told you when I was in Boulder I I felt like I'm in a different world and it was beautiful and no people weren't you know tripping out on me in front of me you know what I'm saying but just it's just a different culture than Brooklyn or bet Shemesh you know you know what I'm saying so when you look when Michelin had been wanted that when two has said they meet they should talk about God's unity and these ideas what does that show it shows that that's who you are that's who you are and you should know children grandchildren when they see this even if they're not there at the end it makes a big impact and they see what's important to to a yeet what's important to us is oh so I was telling you about mayor Sharon so on the way it was a hot day probably 100 degrees I was thirsty and there's a kiosk over there and I went in I wanted to buy a drink and the store owners Hasidic Jew and he was speaking to another person and he's speaking Tyra out loud and I'm standing there like this waiting to get my drink and pay for it no acknowledgment and I just said it will pay for not drink I want to buy a drink he turned to me and he said to me repeat after this if you can't wait till we finish tied up go to another store now you know there's the root side of it hey you are a store you're supposed to sell me a drink but on the other hand think about what's hashuv what's important to this Eid and his friend not the few shekels he's making on the drink or the whatever he's making that's why I felt he's like it's all about he's learning he happens he has to make a few pasta and he has to make a few shekels so he opens the store for a few hours but if you come in middle of him talking Taylor it's like you don't exist you know so you see how you could take everything say you're a rude guy if you're open you see it's 100 degrees outside I'm switching I need a drink give me a drink take one out just give it to me no just lets me wait right on one hand is very rude on the other hand where is he coming from he was engrossed in Toyota okay pushing it's like like he didn't see me well if I was standing there so the middle that ever wanted my show that we should be so engrossed in understanding Hashem in that way Heather have a great day good cheers bye so thank you