Tanya - Fourth Perek - Part 2

3:07 Sham atamotse anvas nusu Wherever you find God's infinity, there you will find God's humility. So this is already a very big deal. We're going to get into this in depth now. Humility. Wherever you find God's infinity, you will also find his anivos, his humility. Now we're going to have to understand what's the connection between infinity and humility. What does that even mean? Now, a little bit of an introduction. When anyone is given a shiur, okay? Well, I'll do it like this. Imagine the following scenario. You have a graduate school professor, okay? Who's teaching astrophysics. He's teaching the highest level of physics. This is why I didn't want you to use it. He's using the highest level of physics. He's teaching the highest level of physics.

5:00 I waste my time going to hear him speak to a bunch of first graders. After all, I've been through elementary school, middle school, high school, college, and now I'm in graduate school. I pass first grader any, right? Except for one graduate student. One graduate student goes because he knows that in that class he's going to get something that he would not get in the graduate class. What's he going to get? Meaning, there's Exceptional brilliance in saying something at the highest possible level, right? There's even greater brilliance Taking something that is way beyond our comprehension and being able to boil it down boil out all the extraneous concepts and make it understandable to a six-year-old Right, so there's two different types of shirim One type of shear is where you walk out of the shiur and you go. Well, that was crazy I totally lost them. I had no idea what he was talking about. It was amazing Rebe nachman rebe nachman rebe nachman What I do is I use that letter, like I just think when he continues the sentence, I'll just

6:34 think, okay, that's what I do. Okay, alright. But then there's the Rebbe, who's an absolute genius, who knows the information at the possible highest level. What's his genius? His genius is that when you walk out of Shear, it's so simple you don't even know that the Rebbe added anything. You're like, I get it, like the Rebbe didn't say anything. No, he said a massive amount. You just didn't cop it. So I'll tell you, my Rebbe, shlittur, he was like the second type of Rebbe. Because my Rebbe's shir was so crystal clear, everything in the shir when you walked out was like obvious to you. Al-Qiddeikach, that there were guys that wouldn't prepare for the shir, they would show up to the shir and they would understand everything that my Rebbe said. And they would go like, I don't think it's such a great shir. Everything you said was like obvious.

7:25 Rav yachov kamenetski Rav yachov kamenetski Rav yachov kamenetski Rashi bov tarradas Shishom Sheer An so the talmidim would get upset, they'd be like Rebbe wanna learn all the fancy stuff, we're not gonna learn any Shmaitsa we're not gonna learn Shmaitsa Ok, so we're not gonna learn Shmaitsa. We're not gonna learn any Shmaitsa we're not gonna learn like all these fancy things Rebeit Hchiachvot, very Posh HaShiach One day Rebeachu came in and he blew the boys away, quoting every single little thing Guys were like, Rebbe, what happened? That was amazing He goes, last night I didn't prepare You have the line? He was saying every time when he would give Sheer, he would prepare that all the answers to all those tzaytsin and all the answers to all those shemitesis, they were in the Sheer, they were in. He just made it so simple. When he didn't have time to prepare, so then he had to show them all the other stuff. But the godless is called Simpson. Being able to take the infinite thought and get it all the way down to the bare bones, that's greatness.

8:49 All of us, you don't declare everything to prove everybody wrong, but prove that you're right. So what about the stuff that we still can't understand? Protester

10:26 B'Tzim seym haqadosh Baruch Hu ritzonu g'chach maso batayag mitzvos atonu g'chach sameh What is a halacha? A law. Right, it's a law, but it's more than that. What it is, is the distilled essence, the tzimtzom, right, of God's will and wisdom In Action In This World Okay? So that's, yeah absolutely, it's a big statement. We start off and we're always like, okay, what is a halach? Like, everyone is like, why should I do these ahalachs? Right? Why should I learn tariq? Well, let's think about what a halach is. Halach is God's will, as we're going to see, right? So God's will, as we said a moment

11:49 Will and Wisdom So somebody says, I really just don't know why I should keep kosher. Fair, very fair. But let's start from the beginning. There's a halacha that you're supposed to keep kosher. What is that halacha? Right? That is God's wisdom and will distilled down to its essence, practical for this world. If you knew nothing else, that would already be an amazing revolution in the way that you saw keeping kosher. Right? So he said, why should I keep tahrassim ashbah? The world is not infinite but it's an expression of his infinity. Yeah, so would it be correct to say like that?

13:23 The same way that the lampshade does not really diminish the light, it just diminishes our perception of the light. It's what allows us to be in the room. So too when it comes to the halafas. Bensi. Why is it just a lot in the whole term? I like the very last words. Haik very good, and obviously be Anzhi says Rebbe it can't just be the halacha, right? Because that's just what we do, but what about the Torah itself right? So the altar comes and says the actual heifzah, the actual object I don't mean the physical object But the heifzah, in the in the abstract terminology, the actual letters of the Torah are the distilled essence of the will and wisdom of God and not just that the Shabbah HaGados Umejosheh Chachmenuzal And all of the joshos of the Torah are all part of this. Why? B'chday, I'll get to you in one second if you want to answer Jonathan's question from before.

14:50 B'chday shech kal'an ishamah Oruach v'nefe shebe Gopah Adam Tuchol ha'zigam betayto Why is there this symptom? Why is there a distilled essence of God's will and wisdom? Because what does God desire? He wants the entirety of the soul. Nefesh Ruach Neshama L'chaiman pomasha eschul L'chaiman b'maisedimir makshavim

16:05 Shavat Dibar Mysa Tureh is one with his thoughts, God is one with his will. The will and wisdom of God are embedded in the Torah. So the Torah is one with God. I, but God is beyond understanding. His will and wisdom therefore are beyond understanding because the will and wisdom of God are one with God. God is one with the Torah because God is one with his thoughts. Correct. They mean they're one. They're one thing. And therefore I shouldn't be able to understand the Torah.

17:35 Vay'a Dei Zet teshla be'ch be'chul essevichin osel Vishlo shalu vusho me'ilu. And now what is the impact on the soul? The soul with its three garments of Machshavah, Dibur and Meisah on all ten levels, meaning Chaf me'bina das Gassid Gevur at the Faris Netzahod and Yisod will be clothed in godliness. The impact is communion with God. Go around, questions? Can we stop again, what was it? Right after Torah, so we get to understand. L'chaim makomash'eshu l'chaim behem be'maisativamash'shavah And you'll not only be able to understand Torah, but you'll also be able to do what he wants you to do in this world. What was that? Let me go around, then I'll get there. Ok, Benzi. If we understand Torah, the person should read it like that. As we're going to see, even though we don't understand God in the sense that I can't grasp the infinite, I can only grasp that which God distilled for me to understand.

18:53 So by grasping on, as we're going to say, I don't want to jump ahead too much, but by grasping on to what God did distill, I'm connected. There is some connection because at the end of the day we're fine. We can't understand more than that. Mikey, how are we doing? Clear? Because remember, if it's not clear, that's a chisarun in me. Because I have to be able to distill these thoughts down. I don't mean to say that you're the first Gree. You're the first time learners. Bible clear? Bible has your jet legs. I'm just more getting over statement. Okay, but you're hanging in I admire it. Michael two thumbs up. Roy. Alright, so right after He gives the loans, the three lubushim and after that. And then after that my soul will be because remember each part of my soul there's three parts of my soul each part has ten parts.

20:25 Yeah, and then your soul and then your... Remember each one of those nefeshurach and neshamah has ten parts. Right? And then it will be able to be clothed in godliness because each one of my souls Rosham's Ten Characteristics on all three levels will be engaged in godliness. Three levels of the soul. Each level has ten bachinos and now through these levushim of the soul I connect the attributes of the soul to godliness. Sami. Do you want me to write it up? Okay, definitely will. In general, can you use the board more?

21:45 Chazal Tov Yachim We've been misquoted to each other. So very often tell me them coming to go, especially the guys that are in Ristainir, Teshir and N'Tanya. They go to him and they go, but Rav Burg said, right? And then they come to me and they go, but Ristainir said, and there's this made up beef.

23:16 It's totally made up. It's like, no, no, no, you can't do both. Like, why not? It's all presentations of the same material but from different angles. Neither again as far I don't know what you mean when you say Gaza and Shammah and I again I may be referring to the Gemara and Brakkos over there. I'm not I'm not sure exactly what you mean That's why I'm not gonna respond to it. But again both your Steiners and I would agree and this you don't need much for is The Zohar says the Eiraisu ve'kuch abrichu kulachad So yes, that's a simple understanding we're getting again We're only at Shlav Aleph and you could spend years probably talking about what that means But I'm not prepared at this point to go any further No. Where do you draw the line between Hu Chazal is and who sown Rabbi of a congregation in some cities?

24:14 Yeah, there's the famous story. I don't know how I told you guys this after Moshe Feinstein passed away by the year of in Brooklyn. What, the what? The Arab-A'udhir of the Arab-A'udhir of the Jewish society. Not all rabbis are created equal. There's no doubt about that. And what we're speaking about here is specifically those that are part of the missoura. What I mean to say is as follows. Okay, that's fine. We don't disagree. We're not disagreeing just to be clear. There's no Sparty in the post in the world and there's no Ashkenazi post in the world that would say that it's not Elu ve'elu teverelu kimchayim. And it was Ma'chlokustin, Rav Moshe and Rav Adyoseif, Ma'chlokustin, Sama'reb, and Rav Avatreeb, Ma'chlokustin, all these gudelim is not what we're talking about. Everyone agrees Elu ve'elu teverelu kimchayim. We all, again, it's too large a conversation for right now but it is an important conversation to discuss how Ma'chlokust is the Rosh ha-mishim Rosh ha-mishim Rosh ha-mishim Rosh ha-mishim He had at least 6 months worth of material so he's really the best person to speak to that but for Sivisah Sivir right now we're speaking about Bali Mussodar meaning not your local Orthodox Yengizor Rabbi who gets up and says whatever he thinks of you

25:47 Yeah correct that's what he means he means when Chazal meaning Chazal and Gemara and Mishnaes and Tysefte and Bryce things like that Yah! So like you said before about Mitzvah's sermon All right, so again, same thing because there without getting too much into it, I'm going to be giving Shire Bezre Hashem on his soon, but it'll probably be in the other Shire that I give from 3 to 4. Maybe I'll send a recording of it. But basically the Torah itself gave license to the messorah. In other words, the Torah itself recognized the need for having Chazal, and they were given license to protect the Torah, asusy al tetos. Qquis mondor habana are not new mitzvos. Because that was the baltos. They are just protectors of old mitzvos. And that creates a whole scenario of vashr fais, a beautiful piece. When mitzvut there abbanon could be a cheiluk of a mitzvut there arais. I'll give you a classic example of this. Qquis suv FAmidir abbanon. Because the rabbis did it to protect women from getting The Ramban and the Koteris Terechos Kedushin writes, the mitzvah is the Loshanar Ramban, there is Lisa Eesha, he's talking about the Doh Rises, you know how in the beginning of the Ramban we always list the Doh Rises?

27:12 In the beginning of every new what's called in the Ramban there's a Koteris, there's like an index and he lists. In this section we're going to discuss the following 10 mitzvah doraisos. In the coteros over there in Hechazeshos the Rambam lists the mitzvah of kedushan as lis se isha b'ksuvah kedushan. So have the Rambam... What was that? Mitzvah kedushan? Yeah, but why did the Rambam say kesuvah? Kesuvah is me darabana. You understand? Sometimes the darabana can become a cheilah in the doraiso. It's too big for right now, but it's a great question. But yes, it's definitely part of the Tzimzom. Yeah? This Droshah doesn't just mean making... no, no, no Droshah means not to be confused with the Rabbi's Drosha that he gives about politics. Tovya. Why is it? No, no, no, no, I have I have 10 attributes of my soul. If I don't do a mitzvah, then at that moment they're not clothed in godliness.

28:33 What was that? As we'll see... Big Beit Sowah. Yes. Yeah. I didn't actually mention this the other day, and I bring it back up, that we spoke about earlier in Tanya, who prepped the lockdown. I was thinking about the whole idea that parents, Makhshaba, during their intimacy, have to accept direct effect on the Levush. Correct. So this is the Levush, so Bishas and Mitzvah. I have a different Levush, how does this Levush that I'm in close with, with Kedushan? Sometimes when a person comes from an inappropriate intimacy as we discussed, the soul itself is fine, but the soul may find it challenging to wear a certain levushim, meaning they'll be plagued by Mach Shavazaros, or they'll have, you know, it'll be difficult for them to to arouse themselves to actually go ahead and do the mitzvah. Now, again, you can mend the begotim. It's not over at all, either, like we saw, Chav chav chav chav chav chav chav

30:08 The Beguvam are actually engaging with the infinite whereas the soul is one step removed. And is that this whole idea like a riot to what we were talking about earlier in the beginning of the time when we say the Shabbos, how much will you consider Tanya and... Mm-hmm, very good. Very good, very good. Yeah, our last question I'm going to go back there. You're good. Okay. I was reading Shnayim Mikra. I was catching up gracious last night, last night. And so there's this guy who said he was the one who created the first idol. And then after 300 years, I don't think he died, but he was taken out of this world. Lachlanji to make it to the place that way he wouldn't be able to sin anymore or something like that because he was like creating the world for the down. I had also worshiped so I said take my other world. So it's not like a direct violation of the free will that we learned.

31:05 Great question. Way beyond the scope of what we're discussing right now. I just thought about it right now. I appreciate the question. Okay. Let's move forward in perek dawah kalibes. B'lachhein Nimshl'ah Torelemayim Now very often we hear things that our B'yims say and they just say it and it's like, okay, everything is like, you know, like sometimes you start to roll your eyes like I've heard a million times before and I don't even know what it means, right? Like everything somehow gets compared to Torah, right? Like water is compared to Torah, red is compared to Torah, right? Like all these things, like everything is, and like, and it's like we know and that's really a reference for Torah. Like every time, it's all just a reference for Torah, right? Ma'a ma'im yodim yodim ymakam gavo al-makam namukh Just as water flows downwards, it goes from a high place to a low place.

32:23 Kachath taira yordom yimakam kavoda shri tzva'inib echachmasu yis barach V'ayraisu ve'kuch bichal kulachad V'lesmach Shavat Visebe Klal Om yisham nossu v'yorda b'seisara madreikos m'madreikil amadreikil v'ishtaushlos al llamos Auch Nislab Shabbat varam gashmim Don't worry I'm going to go back. Ve'anyoneh ha'el mazash hain rov mitzvos a'tora ku'ulam ve'chosei. Okay. So Torah starts off in an exceptionally high place. What's the michubad place that Torah begins with? Begins as the will and wisdom of God. Because remember what we said guys, a rise to the kuchabichu kulachad. So the Torah in its initial, let's say in its essential form, what is it? It's the will and wisdom of God. And as we said, less machshavat tviseh biglal, nothing can possibly understand God. So in its highest point, what would you say about Torah? It's impossible to understand. However, the Torah goes on a journey. Look at the words. Om Misham nassev Yeridh starts to journey downwards, just like the water in a river flows downwards. The Torah starts to journey downwards.

33:29 Be'sei Ser HaMadrei goes from Madreigel Madreigah, goes from one level to the next, right? and thefoot is water in the book, like, anywhere, anything goes out or it's like... I don't know why. Water in the book is water. Water basically goes down. Very good. Because it's a natural flow. That's what we're trying to harp upon. It's the natural flow. It starts off... Because, remember, as a function of God's perfection... it's beyond our understanding. But anytime you find God's perfection, what do you also find? His humility. The distilling, it comes downwards. Right? So, one second, let me just finish this line then I'm gonna get to you. And it goes from one level to the next. Remember guys we discussed the Hishtashulah Sohlamos, the four worlds. Altzilos B'riyitzirah Siyyah, I'm not going over it again, we spent a couple days on it. There's four worlds when God created the world, it goes from one level to the next.

34:15 So there's Torah in its most pristine, essential form. Then there's the Torah of Atzilos, the Torah of B'riya, the Torah of B'riya, the Torah of Yitzira, and the Torah of Asiyyah. So it goes from one level down until what? Until it takes on the character of this physical world. And that's why the mitzvos are all physical. I'm going to finish with this last sentence. I'm going to turn it over to Benzi to ask this question. One second. What was that? Are they all physical? So he says, Shehin rov mitzvos atorah k'kulav ve'chosem Most of the Torah is like that. But here's what's critical, guys. All right, so we're looking at the total physical. It's why is the total physical. It seems like almost a letdown, right? Like if we were picturing spirituality, if Mikey and I were thinking of a religion, right? And we're picturing spirituality. What would we picture?

35:13 Meditation, some mountain top in Tibet, right? Travel, and the whole point is to leave the world. Not to leave the world, to bring God down into the world. Why? Why is that so fundamental? Because what's the whole direction? Everything is coming down. So it takes on the physical character of the world. So you can say to yourself, what am I doing already? Putting on fill-in, unwrapping straps, that does not seem like a particularly spiritual activity. Right? Yes, exactly. It's a physical activity because the avodah is to uncover godliness in the world. That's why God was midsommtzeim, his will and will. Vistim into the mitzvos which are worldly. Remember what you said we were talking about? What it's made up of. So you said like water? Earth, air, fire and water, yes. So it's like the water over there is out of the tower? Yes, for sure.

36:09 There's going to be a deep connection between them. Ok? Is there the three levushim only for this one? Right. These are the three levushim in this world. After you die, there is no Mysa. The soul there is after you die and the Olaman Hashemos is the essence of the soul of God. Don't need any action. So why do your Levushimadu? Because it's what allows me in this world to engage with godliness. If I didn't have the capacity to act, right, then how would I interact? The more you Levushimadu Chaddosh and the more Chaddosh will be. That's right. That's correct. And the more my Levushimadu Chaddosh, meaning let's say I only eat appropriate foods. I use my body appropriately, I speak in an appropriate way. That's very good. We're going to get up to this. There's a whole chapter in Tanya about that. Excellent. What are you learning Tanya on the side? You're going ahead? There's a whole chapter. What was that? Yeah, so it's a big chapter in Tanya. What happens when you bring these things into yourself? Very big, very big acic. So what's more, what's more college? What's more, so it comes out. This is a big tire from the Altar Rebbe and from the Lubavitch Rebbe.

37:32 It comes out that in the times of Mashiach, as the Pustoch says, Ani v'leichev alachhamor. So if you follow, there's three donkeys mentioned in the Torah. So there's Avram of Enu's donkey that he saddled to go to Aqedel Sitzchuk. Then there's Moshe Abenu's donkey leading up Bilaam, because Bilaam was the perversion of his donkey. That's why Bilaam had intimate relations with his donkey. So Moshe Rabbeinu put his wife and children on the chamor, and they were rochevalachhamor. Avromavinu Shippmallopespic shippmallopespic shippmallopespic and shipp both

38:59 Shabbat hayedech himself will learn from the physical world something about godliness that he didn't know before meaning we always think of like the soul knows everything about god and the body knows nothing about god but in the very very end of days the body is going to teach something to the soul that the soul never knew namely the infinity of god is so infinite that even the body is as equally godly as the soul that's a very deep concept say I can't again Yes and no, yes and no, it's all part... We'll see, we'll see, remember only four chapters into this. You're gonna see how it develops. The body has parts, it brings up... Correct, and that's why it's so amazing that the body that has parts that could die is also the possessor of infinite godliness. Which is why in Tanya we're going to see that the Nefesha Muhammad, as much as it's our enemy, it's not evil.

39:55 And that's gonna be a big thing that we're going to learn. He must have got evolution in this world. You don't have evolution in the next world. That's how evil is. That's what evil is. You learn from the world. What was that? It's all about evil. It's all about evil for you. And therefore it may have something to teach us as we're going to see. No! It's not. It's not. That's not the truth. That the body is intrinsically bad. That the physical world is intrinsically bad. It was the whole thing. Yeah, you were saying that more like the humans are just going to be partier. There's no way that the Rosh said, yeah, it's true. Listen, we're all exceptionally bad. Shabbat Nitzotzos Roshan I'll tell you what, ask me after Shira. Okay, Tovya. Shh, shh, shh, shh. One second, one second. Yeah. I didn't say the body was infinite. I said it could teach the soul something about infinity. Yeah.

41:27 It's a question of friend pose to me. How many of the times do you have to ask? I wonder if he's as... I'm sure that he is an authentic person who's only asking for pure intellectual reasons. So if that friend of yours happens to be in a yeshiva that starts with the letter G, so... or a good... or a letter E, so then you can ask that friend if... I think I got it right on the second try. Maybe. Do you have a question for the Haalachos? What's that? He's saying that because of the haalachos and the haalachos. What's that? Wasn't he the same? I'm just saying I would ask him if he also asked the same question about Rachal Wichuk. What? What's the matter? It doesn't matter. Okay. What's the matter to me? Rachal Tzuva. Shhh. We have to say that I said the letter E. Okay.

42:47 Was that right? Now, I was expecting Bentsi to come back. I was expecting Bentsi to come back and ask me the same question they asked me before but he didn't probably because he trusted me. Right? What about, we spoke about the haalachos, but what about again? What about the Torah itself? Not just the halachos of the Torah, but what about the physical Torah itself? So look at what the outer-ebbe says, ubit seru fei ossios gashmias bidiyo alaseifer. But the actual permutations of the letters, the ink in the book, esrim ve'arbus varim shibetar nivim ksuvim, the 24 Books of Tanakh. Meaning all of it is what is intimately connected with Hakadosh Baruch. Kadesh te kom ach Shavat vie sebhein so that the human mind can understand the godliness. Now can I understand God? No, but what I can understand... You're like a taste of it, right?

43:36 Correct, I can understand what he gave us. Meaning, so the Torah itself is going to be a chafz of kedushah. So what are we going to do with the Torah? We're only going to treat it very appropriately. The literal ink on the paper to us has kedusha why because that is the will and wisdom and it's written for Meaning it can actually go into a word meaning you can never be able to think about like this if I say the word rose Right now you all just thought of a rose, right? But the truth of the matter is what did I do? I took an infinite concept in my head put it into a finite word, right? It's a finite word that you've also identified with the infinite concept in my head So now the infinite concept in your head popped up, right? B'Nevuach How is that just that it seems more just like a story?

44:27 That's obviously Yom Tov, Mass of Anansal Qedusha, libel, all written benevuah. How is that just, it seems more just like a story? I'll tell you what, go learn the parish of the GRA on Miguel Sester. Come back and tell me if you think that it's still just a story. Were you at Rustinus' Wail of a Tail, Shira on Night of Yom Kippur, Le Grand Sefriona? Yeah. You ever think of that before? Some pretty wild stuff, that Vilna going, no? It just, it seemed like just war, but it happened. Yona didn't actually, like, he doesn't say that Yona did it. What, you think, were you at this year? Were you at Rustinus' year? Yeah, but it's like it was so long that I think the only people who don't know, who was your question again? Well, his question was, it just seems like a story. Gílüe of the Hester the revelation of all that was hidden it's like the one where we probably

45:55 I barely see these things as a story anymore. Sometimes people say to me, I don't know, Noah seems like a ridiculous story, like the world was being destroyed by a flood and one man had a boat. In my mind at this point where I'm up to in my learning is the story is a vehicle for the ideas that are much deeper. That's in a coming book! You can't spoil it for a week. No, I can! For example, Come Tonight by What's Book, Come Tonight at 10.30, if you're gonna be there. It'll be a good example of... Just... And I'm only taking two words. Getting deep into one ration. How long did you believe that those stories are allegories? I believe that they're true, right? So the truth of the story is not limited to the story itself but to a thousand levels of depth and beyond that every story is conveying.

46:51 So you're saying that these are important stories that God felt? Yeah, I'll give you an example. The story, if I was writing the Torah, because I'm only a person, I would have written that Avarim Vino walked into a keshanayeshi, walked into a furnace. Tawrah is a furnace and he didn't die that is a miraculous thing and the Torah makes no mention of it, it alludes to it in one word and the Medash picks up on it and the Medash tells the story that they had as a missourah but the Torah itself doesn't see fit to say it and there is a reason for that in other words the Torah only alluded to it which again, the Drashah it was still meaningful, it was still part of the infinite symptom of the Torah but there was meaning it wasn't mission critical in the sense that the Torah

47:30 And the English thing was never anything. It was a really good thing. But it was a big thing. You did not need to developers. Not anymore. You needed to know. You needed to know. You didn't need to ask people what they needed to say. It was much more mission critical to say lefch, for example. But that's why I don't get caught up with people like, what does it even mean? There was a boat and the world was destroyed. Yeah when you start to learn it. You start to go, wait a second, does the word t feibin mean boat? Actually word teibin means word. That's what it actually means. And then you start to ask yourself, what would that mean that Nah went into a word. And then you start to learn about the connection between Noah and G-d-k-h, and Stal-d-f, and Eve andafa. Khemptzalah I'm going to discuss all of this tonight by the Parshaan Starry. Actually I'm not sure which Parshaan Starry I do. I have two shirv that I can do. I just realized that I can give a second. Yeah, Toviyel. Yeah. Shh shh. Shh shh. No. No, the opposite.

48:32 The opposite. It's saying we're not doing that. We're not taking... the infinite cannot become finite. That's Christian, right? But we can distill the infinite down into the fact that the finite can now contain it like... No, because it's like you have to be careful to distinguish between God becoming a person, right? Which is Christianity, right? And the lampshade Tossid seems like you did the light in Qedim. You're in that room with the light, you just think that the light is coming. When we get to Shai'it for that moment, then you start to think to yourself, I have my own mitzvahs. But it's what it's, it's, Simpson is what allows for the creation of the world. Not that, not that the infinite has become finite. That's fear. Nitzotzos Yeah, yeah, okay, so all of the Torah is God's will of Muslim and all and it's all

50:07 Kodosh and it's all you like the actual ink itself, right? So but many parts of the Torah are I might say just but for the purpose of the question I say just are just simply the telling over what physical people like finite people have done and the thing is that what happens if they chose not to do that like Was there a path predestined? Was Noah predestined against Abba? It's really exactly what we're just talking about. Okay, we'll see. So, I think you and I are very smart and I think you know how to create your questions into the Tanya to get them answered, but yeah. Sounds like my father. We're talking about how Rebbe said that it's a Christian idea to say that He would limit Himself into a final form, right? But at the same time, I'm limiting He saying He can't limit himself.

51:20 That He can't put Himself into a final form. This is a very famous question. Can God create a rock? Can God create a rock? You can't lift. So there's two answers to this question. I'm just going to give them to you now and give them to you fast. I actually wrote that one on the website. Oh, you have it on your list? Okay, good. So I'll tell you the first time I ever heard this question. I was in fifth grade. I was in Yeshiva Benetoro. And they started a program for the kids in the shul after davening. This is a yeshiva that's like very philosophical and very anti-chassidus. It's like a very philosophical, very philosophical yeshiva. That's the yeshiva I grew up in. So in fifth grade, I'll never forget Rabbi Marshall Gisser. Most of the time he had a group. It was like maybe seven or eight kids. And they were gonna like teach us the ways of this yeshiva. Okay? It's very beautiful yeshiva.

52:14 And so they put out Entomans donuts and you have to understand like my kryptonite is Entomans donuts. And specifically... So those journeys are not like you do. In my mind there's two levels. Brownies are serious business, but Entomans specifically the ones that have the crumbs on top, the crumb topping. When we grew up we called them rat duty donuts. The, uh... But... And they would literally give like each kid... Glazer Grey Asher Chawkulan Cover your killing me I'm in the middle of a fast, you guys are Gosh, they're killing me. They don't sell antemosines. So the um... So one second. So they put out like boxes. They got like eight boxes of donuts. We would all sit with like a box, like an individual box. That's all my eating disorder like. I remember that. And first year ever was fifth 5th grade! What was I? I didn't turn 13,000. Ten years old! Ten years old, they're like, can God create a rock? You can't lift. There's two answers to this question. Answer number one, but I need to tell you both. You have to be able to sophisticated to hear two different answers. Answer number one. You ever hear the famous philosophical question, what happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object? There's a problem with that question.

53:46 What's the problem with that question? Meaning you can't set up a philosophical question where the terms themselves destroy the question. If you're saying it's unstoppable, it's immovable, right? Because it's illogical. In other words, by definition, if you start it up by saying this is an unstoppable force, the second half of your sentence can't be, and there's an immovable object. No, something can be unstoppable, something can be immovable. No. It doesn't make any... Right, exactly. So when you start off and you say, can God create something that He can't do? Which were the words that contradict themselves? Can and can't. Right? If you're saying God who's kol yachol, can God, the same thing. Can God, who's infinitely capable of doing everything, do something that He can't do? But the question already broke down before you even got to the answer. Ok? That's approach number one. But I'm going to give you...

54:49 So you're saying that He could. Ok, I'm not saying He could. I'm not saying He could or He couldn't. I'm saying the question itself is ridiculous. It falls apart. Because you can't start off logical questions where you create terms that automatically go against each other. That's the slavat. But now I'll give you a slav bed. No, of course God cannot create a rock that he can't lift. Why? Because perfect means not imperfect. Right? So when you say... Perfect means not imperfect. Meaning if something is perfect, what's the one thing it can't be? Imperfect. Imperfect. Is that an imperfection? No. Because perfect by definition precludes imperfection. In other words, as a function of God's perfection, Tanya Rebbe Nachman Shabbat Al-A'laib. I'm not sure if you're ever saying the same thing but what I hear is that for God to keep God.

56:28 Amuk, was he predestined or not? Rebbe, we have 15 minutes. Let's finish the V'afilu b'chinas diburum aisa So what about, don't worry, now, right now God distilled his wisdom into what?

57:54 Vachfivu bachinas diburumayes teshalam maktam y madreigas mashavah G-d is on high. The wisdom is up here, right? It comes down. So you'll say the top, mashavah, can grab it. Did it go so far down? Did G-d's will and wisdom go so far down in the world that it can be spoken? That it can be acted? This is Tephisah Behan and Meslab Shabbahan. Not only can you now comprehend G-d's will, you can speak G-d's will. You can act in accordance with G-d's will. What's the value of that? Umey Ahchashat Teru Mitzvoseh Ha'Mabishim Kol Esebichinos HaNepesh Vechol tarya gevoreah miroshav adragla hare kulot sururobitsurach chaim hasashem mamish So now, you're gonna, this is the ultimate point now, the communion between man and God. If you've been following what we've been saying the entire year, this is gonna make perfect sense. The Torah now is something that belongs in our world. That's the symptom that occurred Ok. So now what happens?

59:29 Kashi What happens? All 10 dimensions of my soul on all three levels of my soul, meaning Nefesh, Ruach, Neshama. Each one of Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshama had 10 dimensions. My soul has the capacity for three levushim, Machshavah, Dibur and Mysah. We also said that the same way there are 613 mitzvos, there are 613 limbs and sinews to your body. The Positive Mitzvos and the Negative Mitzvos. Remember that? So now what happens when I actually do a mitzvah? And guys this is amazing. Before you even get to the reason for a mitzvah, right? People always want to know the reason. Tell me the reason. I'm doing it unless I know the reason. Before you even get to the reason, the altar of is giving you an unbelievable gift. Every part of your being can now be totally enveloped in godliness. All suksantra All three dimensions of your soul and all eserbachinos with godliness. Every time you do in Mitzvah, every time you speak a dvar of Torah and every time you think about Torah. So you know we have in the base of mejish, you know we have right now, right now every one of us in a total way is communing with God on an intellectual level.

1:00:55 We're speaking the Sheer into existence and then when we go out and take that into our mairuv and we daven, right? Then we're doing we're taking it into the world of action, right? When we go give tzedakah and in this way the person himself look at the Loshan Ha'are kulot sururah b'tzarachayim as-shem mamish. All facets of your life are enveloped in godliness Ve'or ashem mamish makifah uma bishah bei roshev ad-radla and the light of God truly, mamish, truly The light of God truly envelops you from head to toe, meaning is there any part of your being that is not interacting with godliness? Is there any part of your person that does not have the capacity to interact with godliness? No. The light of God will truly, when a person is doing a mitzvah, it's truly, totally enveloped in godliness. Kammosh ha-kassa tzuriyech sabo uxiv katzina ratzun tatran ushurid sonov ha-chamos yisbarach Amalubashim Taurasom Mitzozer That Reboseit is Perek Talid Chelek Beis Tomorrow... should we do it? Yeah, what was that?

1:02:07 Yeah, meaning it's just saying that all of you is the Ratsun of Hashem is Malubash in the Torah Edmondshos, it's closed in Torah Mitzos. Guys, let's go! Should we stop here for today, Abos? I went a little early. Let's keep going! Let's go into Heilid Gimmel! Okay, great! We have 10 more minutes. Actually, have we finished Heilid Gimmel? We finished with the parakeh today? Okay. The Lakhayn amru actually... even though it's four pages it happens to be very difficult... And now, based on this we're going to explain a mission in Abos. Yofa sha'acha sp'chuvah maisom tovim bar'el amazah N'kol chay'e eulam habar what's greater? This world or the next world? There's a time to say what I asked before, like what's greater, like the condition from like this close to the ocean. So look what he says, what's greater? The Teshuva. Was that? We'll see in a second.

1:03:02 The Teshuva Chazal say, the Teshuva and the positive mitzvos that a person can do while in this world is greater even than all of mabah. YaphID No, that's not Darshan. That's what the mission novel says. Yaphim means it's great. What does that mean? See what that means? Because kiy eolem Haba hushenenami ziv hashchinoshu T SAH? What is Eolem Haba? Eolem Haba is a place where we will understand God. We are going to get to a level where all Chumriy Cheissam in the world receives She's still in the light of God and we will therefore have no block between us and God. We will understand. We will comprehend God. One second. I'll be with you in a second. So what's the Tanu? What's the Pleasure? The pleasure is where Nana...let me just get through this and I'll get to you. Miziv HaShrina from the raise of the Shrina Okay, so it's like we'll understand.

1:04:02 Ev sha'lu shom Nivreh and it will not be possible for any creation. Afilu me'al yonim lahaseg kiyev ei'so ha'arame'ar Hashem, v'alachayin nikrib ishem zivashtina. Meaning, even the highest, highest level creation in the world of Olam Haba will only be able to attach itself to what in Olam Haba? To the zivashtina, to the rei, to the rei of the sun, but not to Hashem himself. Abalakadosh Baruch Hu b'chvoidim atzmo less machshavat tvizube Klal But God Himself remains beyond human comprehension. We will understand all of the ziv hashchina. But God Himself remains beyond understanding. In Olam Abba. Listen to it. One second. Rabbi Sey, you guys are all going to jump down my throat. It's great. Just give me a second to finish the idea. I'm just saying that in the world to come, the roaming room is standing in the Rei of Ashaq. Correct. But God Himself is less machshavat fisah bechlah.

1:05:03 Kiyim kashier tfisah u miss labeshah es betoru mitvos sehah. Azei hitfisah behenim miss labeshah es bakadosh baruchu mamash. Do'erayz tzivu kuch bichu kulachah. The only way of attaching yourself to God, not to his zivashrinah, not to the Rei that's emanating from his godliness, But to God Himself as where? In the Torah. Because remember, I've got to get to that last line because it's the line I've been waiting for to get to. Can M'chabek have... Let me get there. One second. Correct. Because anything that I understand is only going to be about God. How do I engage with God Himself? I can only engage with God Himself in the place where He distilled His essence namely Torah and Mitzvos V'ashah ha'torah nislamshah b'tvahrim tachtonim agashmim I but Rebbe the Torah is so physical It would appear to us that spiritual would be greater the spiritual experience of Olam Haba would be greater than the physical experience of this world Ha'rei'sa khemechabek es hamelach derach moshol.

1:06:13 This is what I've been trying to get through the entire day. That's why I didn't want to jump ahead. So now we're here. We've arrived. Barch Hashem. When you hug the king, you do not say, I hugged the king's clothing. Right? If you hug someone, right, if I give a hug to Jonathan, I wouldn't say right now, like, I'm holding on to Jonathan's sweatshirt. I'm holding on to Jonathan, right? So when I'm holding on so to speak to the Torah, right, I am khemechabek el amelacham, like giving a hug to the king. No you're not giving a hug to the king, you're only giving a hug to the king's clothing because it's enclosed in physicality in this world. Yeah, but that's what I just like I wouldn't say I hugged the king's clothing. When I learned Torah into God's physical mitzvos, I'm engaged with the symptom of God Himself.

1:07:02 Ei Reis Tzavikuch abrichu kul hachat. This is an amazing thing. When a person wakes up in the morning and they say, I'm going to go to the Beit Shemezh, I'm going to sit and learn Gemara, what's the most boring thing in the world? I'm going to sit and learn and get in this year. No, no, no, no. The opposite. Every time you engage on a mental level, on a speaking level, of course when you actually fulfill the mitzvah that you're learning about, right? So you're enclosed in godliness. Gevreh, somebody asks me the following question, which every year guys do. Why is this relevant to my life great question amazing question, but what they're really asking is this They're really saying this thing that I'm learning is not practical But start one step beforehand and all of a sudden the question narrows I'm not saying it's not an important question, but it's a narrower question Right because now that I know that God and the Torah are one every time I interact with the Torah What am I interacting with God Himself even in Olam habo where I'm interacting with the Zivashtina Sh'a'en Hefresh V'almailez Hiz Karvuzo U'dweh kuso bam melech Bein mechad kokashu l'vush echad bein sh'al vashkam l'vushim, meachavish u'gufa melech v'tochim.

1:08:02 It doesn't matter if the king is wearing one layer of clothing or ten layers of clothing. It's not the same. It's the same. It's the same. It's the same. It's the same. It's the same. It's the same. It's the same. It doesn't matter if the king is wearing one layer of clothing or ten layers of clothing or a thousand layers of clothing. When you give the king a hug, who are you hugging? You're hugging the king. D'echainim amelach mechab kobezroh Gamm kesheem me lubechas toch me lubashav Even if the melech is only holding on to your zroah, onto your small limb, yeah? What would you say? Khemoshikposingh Zola The Pasakh and Shear Sheer means with Yitzchim Yeezhel means with Yitzchim YChristmas Biemina Tachat-Keny That God draws us closer to the right Shiat Torah Shen'Tamim Yeman It's specifically referring to Torah why does Torah bring us closer to God because with Torah I engage with Hashem and that is better than understanding about God.

1:09:13 I'd rather engage with God, not just about God. You hear the difference? So in Olam Abba, my knowledge is only about God, right? Because I can't actually understand God Himself. But through Torah, what am I engaging with? God Himself. So there's an advantage in this world that doesn't exist in Olam Abba. Shehib, Achinas, Chasseh, Umayim, and that's why Chasseh and Mayim go together. Questions? Before we go to Ma'ariv, we have two minutes. Mike would you mind getting this There's a in a certain way a lesser engagement of godliness in the world to come than there is right now in this world. Ezra last question Am I gonna get tomorrow? I'll pick it up again with you guys tomorrow. Don't worry. I'm not abandoning your questions Is there a way to Every time you learn Torah you're directly interacting with God but through his clothing No, because God is God remains infinite and we are in our finite form Okay