Tanya: Shaar HaYichud V'Haemunah - Shiur 8

2:36 Right? You guys got that? So in a certain way, as we're going to express, Gvura is not the opposite of chesed. And gvura is a part of chesed, because gvura allows chesed to come into being. In other words, what's the chesed? Let's go back. What's the chesed of Hakadosh Baruch Hu? Hakadosh Baruch Hu is taif. He wants to have a hespashtos of his taif. But if it wasn't for gvura, then we wouldn't feel like something other than Hashem. And in order for us to be in independent existence that can receive from Hashem, we need to feel independent. So up until now we've been saying gvura is the opposite of chesed. But gvura is not really the opposite of chesed. When you think deeply about it, what is gvura? Gvura is the attribute that allows chesed to be chesed. So in a certain way, gvura has a bit of chesed. Yeah? Gvura. But just stay here for a second. Don't get into chumash or something.

3:42 Just make sure you understand the logic of this. Yeah, you're always looking to go into 20 places. Just stay here, yeah? Is, up until now, what have we been saying? Chesed and Gvurah are opposites. Now what are we saying? Gvurah is Chesed. Why is Gvurah Chesed? Because if it wasn't for Gvurah, Chesed couldn't be Chesed. So there's a Chesed of Gvurah. The Chesed of Gvurah is that it allows Chesed to be Chesed. Otherwise it would overwhelm the person, right? Make sense? this is how gvura in a certain way is a division of chesed so guys remember every single midah has divisions of other midahs so when we say chesed, chesed, gvura, teferas, netzach, chod, yisod, and malch what do we really mean? chesed has seven divisions within it there's chesed, sheba chesed gvura, sheba chesed how is gvura a subdivision of chesed if it's its opposite? the answer is no there's a subdivision of chesed that's called gvura that allows chesed to be chesed it contains the chesed so that the chesed can actually be chesed.

4:48 you understand? okay. Now, what's the raya that this is true, that gvura is really part of chesed? Because we've already said many times that when it comes to Hakadosh Baruch Hu's attributes, when it comes to his midos, he and his midos are one, right? You can't say God is chesed, God is gvura. By him, it's all one. So if all of these midos are one, then what does that tell you? That chesed and gvura can't be opposites of each other because in Hakadosh Baruch Hu's world, they all operate as one. You understand? So, Chavar, the Altar of Rebbe is making big moves today. You have to get, each one of you have to be in it to understand. Again. Up until now, what have we been saying? There's chesed, that's Hakadosh Baruch Hu bringing the aura into the world, and that's where creation comes from. But if there was no gvura, chesed would overwhelm it, so you need gvura to temper the chesed.

5:50 But really, chesed and gvura are opposites. Now what are we saying? No, gvura is a subdivision of chesed. Why is gvura a subdivision of chesed? Because it's what allows chesed to be chesed, otherwise the chesed couldn't have it. What's the raya for this? It's because all the midos really have to operate as one. They can't really be opposites, because all the midos are attributes of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, and Hakadosh Baruch Hu is one. So all of the midos of Hakadosh Baruch Hu are one. You understand? So chesed and gvura are really one. They're different midos connected to one. Correct. They can't be opposites. They have to work together. This goes into Eliyahu, a Navi in Tikkun Hazayur, talks about, that you at Hakadosh Baruch Hu are the one who binds and unites them. Without you, there is no unity above. This is as we said before, that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is one with his Midas. What does it mean, Ki Hashem Hu Elohim? Because remember, what have we been saying?

6:53 Hashem is the Midah of Chesed. Elohim is the Midah of Gvura. Right? So up until now, we've been saying Hashem is on one side, Elohim is on the other. Elohim was the Magin, and then Nirtakit was the shield that protected us from Chesed. But now look what he says. What does it mean, Hashem Hu Elohim? G-d is Elohim. What does it mean, Havaya is Elohim? It means that Havaya and Elohim, which means Chesed and Gvura, are really what? They're really one. So even though they have two different, they're two different attributes in their source, in their Atzmius, they work together. They're not against each other. They work seamlessly. Okay? Because Chesed, without Gvura, won't really be Chesed. For example, if a mother loves her son too much, it's destructive, right? So there's gvura that's built into that chesed. So that she won't destroy her child with her love. It's not working against it. If you don't have gvura, it's not chesed.

7:55 So chesed by itself could be overwhelming and destructive. You need the gvura of chesed, not the gvura of gvura. You need the gvura of chesed for it really to be chesed. Chesed, otherwise not chesed. It's like good cop, bad cop. Yeah, but good cop, bad cop is what we've been saying up until now. But they're on the same team. Exactly, good deal. Once they leave the room, they have the same goal in mind. The landscape of a priest here, talking about gvura and chesed, like in politics though, you have the liberals chesed. Okay, but saying it without getting into politics, that to me, once I hear politics, I turn off because I can't hear any of the nonsense that goes on today. But it's true, but again, I don't want you to think of it, up until now, you've been thinking about it as like, this is the liberal view, this is the conservative view, this is the good cop view, this is the bad cop view. No, it's really, I think it was Ezra said at the end, it's really saying, no, it's all one, meaning it wouldn't be good cop if there was no bad cop. Yeah.

8:57 So it's like a parent rebuking his child. Right, but when a parent rebukes the child, there's two ways of looking at that gvura. There's gvura, and then there's the gvura of chesed. Right? In other words, gvura can be a diametrically opposed midah to chesed. But here what we're talking about is when Hakadosh Baruch Hu wants to give chesed by creating the world, a part of that chesed, a subdivision of it, has to be what? Gvura. Otherwise the chesed will overwhelm the world and it won't come into creation. I'm saying it seems they're coming in a sense of gvura, it seems to come with strength, but overall it's just trying to help the child. It's all chesed, right. It has to be chesed. Exactly. Right. So there's chesed and gvura that's opposite of each other, and then there's chesed that has a subdivision of gvura that really allows it to be chesed. Because even though up until now, what have we been saying? Which name of G-d is associated with Tzimtzum and hiding the divine light and being this magain, this shield? That, we said, was the Sheymelechim, right? But he's saying now that even the Sheymelechim that hides the light of chesed is really what?

10:09 It's really chesed. It has to be chesed, right? Because the whole reason it exists is in order to allow the chesed to come into this world. שמי דייסו של הקבל ומי שייךת אימא בייך גמר Because when we talk about God's attributes, we cannot talk about God's attributes in terms of He has chesed and Gevurah has two separate things. Really, it's all one. וחו שמי אחד And this is what it means that we said that God and His name are one. שמי דייסו הן שמי סוף Because God's attributes are His names. So in other words, just like God's name is one, His midos are one. So we say in the world of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, when you say chesed and Gevurah, this is the mashal that Ezra gave before, it's true there's a good cop and there's a bad cop, but outside of the room before they walk in, what are they really? They're really one. There's one Tachlis. Everything that happens by Hakadosh Baruch Hu is one.

10:56 If that's true, then why do we just have one name for Hashem. We relate to different manifestations. And by the way, we do have one name for Hashem, right? It's just like your name is Yoshi, right? But there's Yoshi that's a friend, Yoshi that's a brother, Yoshi that's a son, Yoshi that one day will be a father, Yoshi that's a Talmud, but in all those names you're Yoshi, right? So same thing when it comes to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. His name is Yud Kevav Kevav. But sometimes he's Elikim, sometimes he's Kalshaka. There are different things that he does. The name Elikim is the Gvura, the Tzimtzum that hides the Shem Havaya so that we could have an independent existence. But really, really, just like God only has one name and all of those names, Yoshi the mechanic and Yoshi the engineer and Yoshi the father and Yoshi the son, they're all the same person. So too, God is one with all of his names. But Etzim, he's one. So every Mida that Hakadosh Baruch Hu has is not really opposite to another Mida. That's not true.

11:49 Is Elikim used for judgment? Yes. And then what's used for... Say that again. I don't want to get into every single aspect right now. I'm just trying to get you focused once again on one thing. Say that with love. And really, it's Gvura of Chesed. Because what's the Chesed here? I want to teach you the material. And if I let you take me over to every single type of judgment and every single type of Avos, and how does that work with what I learned in Shari'i? So then what's going to happen? I'm not going to have Chesed. So this Gvura... So now we're going to say a very big thing. And this is something that we've said many times, but now this is where the Outer Rebbe really says it. When we talk about that. When we say in the heavens above and on the earth below Ein Oud, Oud is the critical word here. There is none other than Him. So now, what does it mean there is none other than Him? So some say there's none other than Him, meaning there's no other God.

12:58 But what are we saying, guys? Not that there's no other God, but there is really nothing but Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Is this existence real? Relative to Hakadosh Baruch Hu? Don't freak out with free will. Relative to Hakadosh Baruch Hu? Is this existence real? No. What's the answer? No. Now, up until now, how have we been discussing that? We've been saying, because the Shem Havaya, is constantly fueling all of creation. Now we're going to take it a step further. Let's make sure we're all on the same page. Up until now, how did we say the world doesn't exist? Because the Shem Havaya, the Shem Yud Kei Vav Kei, constantly fuels and energizes all of this world's existence. Right? Okay, now. Yeah? So if Hakadosh Baruch Hu would not put that energy into the world, what would happen to it? It wouldn't exist, and it would be like it never existed. So up until now, when we look at the world, we say, does the world really exist? No, it's just being fueled by that energy. Now we're going to take it a step further.

13:56 So with the Shem Havaya, the Shem Yud Kei Vav Kei, So since the chesed is... Don't jump. You might say it right, but don't jump. Let's get it together, okay? Pirish. Even though this physical world, we see it. It operates independently. Right now, what am I touching? This table. What's this table? I would say this table is real. My physical experience tells me this table is real, right? I am the Efes Mamish L'Gaveh Hakadosh Baruch Hu. But to G-d, it's null and void. It's Mamish nothing. Why? This is as to what you were about to say. The name of Hakadosh Baruch Hu is Elikim, right? The name that we're talking about in Hakadosh Baruch Hu, what do we say up until now? Elikim is really what? A division of? Of Havaya. Just like Gevurah is a division of Chesed. Because God and His names are one. God and His attributes are one. It's all one. So when God comes to create the world, it's all Chesed, right? There's a little Gevurah in that Chesed, but it's all Chesed. Elikim is master of my limit, hides Hakadosh Baruch Hu in this world. But where is that from?

15:12 From whose perspective? That's from our perspective. Very good, Yoshi. That's from our perspective, right? So from our perspective, when we look at our world, what do we see? The world is real. But is Elikim real to Hakadosh Baruch Hu? No. No. In other words, Elohim, it's not that it's Mitzam Tzem him in any way, it's Mitzam Tzem our perspective. So, legabe us, we see this world as independent from God. Is this world independent from God? From Hakadosh Baruch Hu's perspective, it's all one. Elohim is the same thing as Havayah Tzem, because it's all one. So when we look at our world, because we're living under this umbrella of Elohim that we experience our world as independent, so we think our world is real. Up until now, we've been saying our world isn't real. Why? Because it's constantly fueled by Havayah. Now we're saying something even more than that. We're saying, what Elohim? Elohim is only our perspective. It's not God's perspective, because God and Elohim are one.

16:10 Isn't it somewhat Kfira thinking of God as different parts and not as one. Yes, not somewhat. It is. So that's exactly what he's saying. From our human perspective, we live under this umbrella of Elohim. So when our physical reality, when I touch this table, I don't think to myself, this table isn't real, right? But is the table real? No. Of course not. It's human to think that the table is real. But it would be kfira to believe, right, that God is separate from Elohim, right? Because by Him, all of Him and His midos and His names, everything is one. So when we talk about Elohim, what are we talking about? The human perspective on this world, right? It's human to see this world as other than Hakadosh Baruch Hu. We don't actually believe that. We just experience it that way. But even though we're human, obviously we can't... of what's happening in the spiritual realms and everything, why do we still have like a hundred different names.

17:05 Because that's all the... It's the same thing as saying, how could you say G-d is chesed, right? You can't say anything about G-d. It's a manifestation, right? So when I see this world, I see Hakadosh Baruch Hu's chesed, I see Gvura, which is a branch of that chesed, right? But it's all in this human arena. It's dumbing it down so we understand what it's talking about. Right, it's the human experience. The human experience is a simpsom experience, right? It's what allows us to exist. If you can't understand everything just like straight, so you have to like... Right, there's this filter of this. Shemel HaKimshim. Kel Shach Eshem. Oh, the refraction of the light through the cloud. Exactly, B'diuk. Okay, now. V'Lachayin... Gam ha'aretz u'mitachas la'aretz hein ayin ve'efes ma'amish l'gabeh Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Ve'ein enikris b'shem klal, afilu b'shem oid. You hear what he says? Ein oid. Right? What does that mean? It means, from the heavens above and the earth below, when G-d looks at this world, what does He see? Nothing. What would I look at? What would I see? I would see nothing from Hakadosh Baruch Hu's perspective. You can't even call it oid. What does oid mean?

18:09 More. There's nothing more. Ein oid. Like, from the heavens above and the earth below, there is nothing more than Him. All there is, is Him. Not because as we said up until now, again, this is not true, but up until now, why do we say? Because it's all being fueled by something else. When something is fueled by something else, its existence relative to that initial existence isn't real. Now we're saying something even more. What existence? The only reason we perceive existence is because of Elohim, but by Hakadosh Baruch Hu, Elohim is also His name. It's all one. Havaya Elohim, it's all one. So, Mimela, when we look at this world, we see the world independent by Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Ein Oed. There's no place for more. There's no moreness to this world from the perspective of Hakadosh Baruch Hu. There's only God. Right. Ein Oed Melvado means there's nothing but Him. Literally.

19:01 There's nothing that exists except for... It's all Hashem. That's right. Nothing exists. So why does Hashem want to be on the top. They say that. Now, we're going to come to that. Should we stop here? Should we go a little bit more? Let's stop here for today. That's a lot. By the end of this, if you still believe you exist, so then we can continue learning. If you don't believe you exist... Like Rebbe said, we've been dealing with this type of concept. This isn't inherently new. Right. But it's taking it to a new level. Up until now, we've discussed that the energy of the world... is what made our world not real, because we're really just being fueled by something else. Now we're saying, no, it's only real because we think of Elohim as two names. I mean, we live in this world, and in this world, that Kodesh Baruch Ha is different manifestations. Our human condition thinks that we're real. B'diuk. So it's an advancement of what we've been thinking up until now. I sort of...