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Tanya chapter 33 part 1 - Joy through the unity of Hashem · Food for the Soul

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  Okay, so good morning everyone, we will dive straight in where we're late, we'll miss out, time is done, right?
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  So chapter 33, we finished the heart, we finished the live and we're going to start the journey moving forward.
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  How to be happy? How to be happy? We already explained in different ways that there is a faith in Hashem,
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  But everything is going to turn out for the good and whatever is not good. It's cleansing for my sins, for my sins and
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  Whatever I don't understand is part of the Godly plan and so on and so forth
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  especially to understand that sometimes it's a test
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  sometimes
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  the Yetserara
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  Nefes b'ameed, that the ballistic soul is pushing us down to be said as a trick, as a strategy,
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  a strategy to make us sin, to make us forget about what we are supposed to be doing.
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  So if she doesn't work rationally to convince us to do something bad, she's trying to
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  to depress us, to make us sad even through worldly matters or make us sad because of
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  spiritual things.
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  And the real doubt I brought earlier is, it depends on the time.
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  If you suddenly get sad about what you did last year, in the middle of the day, this
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  is unlikely to be a holy worry.
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  You know sometimes you get worried, what should I do, I did such bad things, now is not the
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  time for it.
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  We said everything is going to have its appropriate time and that's the measuring stick the
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  author of left off in the end of chapter 29 give or take that you could be happy because
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  even if you think you should be sad or depressed or regret your wrongdoings, nevertheless
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  this is just not the time, now is not the time for it.
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  I think I shared the story, there was once a chassid who didn't have money and his wife
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  told him, how come you're not worried?
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  How come you're not worried or concerned about the fact that we don't have money to buy
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  anything?
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  What did he answer?
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  He said, he thought for a while and then he said, I should be worried, it's really
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  a concerning thing but I just can't right now because I'm busy, I have a shiur
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  sooner than I have night prayers, tomorrow morning after tfilah I could designate some time to
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  be worried.
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  Like you're right, I should be worried, I just don't have time for it right now.
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  So the mental occupation that we choose really depends on what we give attention to.
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  So many times you're right, I should be sad or depressed about all my wrongdoings in
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  the past.
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  But now Hashem asks me to serve Him with joy, now Hashem wants me to be proactive and do
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  good.
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  So, you're right, I should do chuvah, not now.
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  And that's a legitimate question, a legitimate answer.
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  I should do chuvah, not now.
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  Now I'm busy doing mitzvot.
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  Now I'm busy connecting to Hashem directly without regretting my past because the depression
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  will pull me down.
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  After elaborating on the idea of Avat Isra'el, after elaborating on the superiority of the
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  Nishamah over the mastic soul, we'll continue with the journey in Tanya, and after that
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  it says, another strategy on how to be happy.
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  Okay, are you ready?
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  Everyone wants to be happy, right?
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  But one of the things that America was founded on, right, in the constitution, declaration
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  of independence, that America is based on liberty, equality and the justice and the pursuit
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  of happiness, right?
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  That is one of the foundations of America, what I'm saying correctly, what can we take?
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  liberty in the pursuit of happiness she said also justice I don't know maybe
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  justice there was added later on yeah yeah we don't get justice so happiness
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  actually it's not such a Jewish declaration but nevertheless it's a lot
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  of good things and writings here but that's not the foundation but it's good
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  to know that everyone does want to be happy let's channel it into dedication
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  to our show. Chapter 33, page 147 in the red tanyas. By the way, if you're if you really
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  want if you're gonna do this longer, maybe we should start getting the bigger tanyas.
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  It's more comfortable to read. If you feel like this is not comfortable, just speak up.
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  Okay. Because if you guys are not going to say that it's too small, then no one's
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  going to be motivated or incentivized to upgrade. Okay, just letting you know. This
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  This also will be the true joy of the soul, especially when one recognizes at appropriate
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  times that one needs to purify and illuminate one's soul with gladness of the heart.
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  Sometimes you feel like, I need some joy now, I need some happiness now.
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  page 147, you have it? You have it? You found it? It's page 147, chapter 3-3, here you
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  got it? Okay, so it says, if someone feels like he needs that push, that spark of joy
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  in his soul, so what should he do? We're going to suggest to your meditation, which
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  which is unique, and you would say, wow, what does that necessarily have to do with anything.
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  But this is going to be a foundation to be truly happy.
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  And the key of what we meditate about is Hashem's unity.
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  You know what's unity?
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  All together.
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  What's Hashem's unity?
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  Unity of our Hashem with who?
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  What is the Neshama?
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  What is the Neshama with us?
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  More?
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  God's unity with what?
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  World.
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  With the world?
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  Very good with everything.
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  Unity, when we say,
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  Hashem melokainu,
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  Shema Yisrael,
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  Hashem melokainu,
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  Hashem?
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  Echad.
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  Echad.
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  Echad means one.
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  When we say,
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  Hashem is one,
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  we literally mean there is one God
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  not two gods, right? There is one God and not God in Buddha or God in Jesus or God in, I don't know what,
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  spaghetti monster. The movement, you know spaghetti monster.
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  That's not a religion, it's not a religion, so whatever. So yeah, long story short, so that's why
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  we say Hashem Akkad, God is one and not two. Come on, that's what God needs to tell us,
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  to not believe in idols. So yes, in many ways, there was a need to
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  decorate that we do not believe in idols. But it's more than this. Many people think that
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  there's two things. There's God, and there's the world. When I dropped this, why did it fall?
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  Gravity? Why? Or different words? Nature of the world, right? What does this have to do
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  do with God? Nothing. Many people say, okay, this is the world, and there is God. If God
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  wants to make it stay afloat in the air, he needs to do a miracle.
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  What? Okay, we'll get to that in a second. I'm saying the people saying, there's two
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  things, there's nature, there's the regular conduct of the world, and then there's God,
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  right? Do I exist? Yes. Do you exist? Yes. Does the table exist? Yes. So how many
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  things are there in the world? Me, you, the table and God. Right? That's for sure. I
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  didn't know about anything else right now, but like these four things for sure
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  exist. No? So what do I mean? There's one, God is one, there's God and there's
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  me. No? So that makes us two. No. It's one and the same. So God, so I'm not a separate
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  entity. Yeah. And the table is not its own thing. Like, look pretty, pretty solid to me.
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  It's the same time and yes and no, like if it looks like separate but in the truth it's
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  not the same thing.
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  Okay, true.
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  What about the sun, the moon, the planets, the stars, they're all existence, right?
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  They're all like things.
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  So technically one could mistake and say, okay, it's God, God created and now there's
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  God and the world.
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  two things, God could still control the world, God could still intervene in the world, God
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  could still say what's going to happen here or expect us to behave, but it's its own thing.
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  Now that will be a problem in belief, but furthermore we'll see soon that like if you
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  really want to be truly happy what a great meditation you could think about is God's
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  unity with everything. Once you understand how Godly everything is, including me, my being
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  and my whereabouts, whatever happens to me, it's going to help me view everything in a
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  completely different way and realize how lucky I am, how what a merit I have to be a Jew
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  in God's world and God actually turning to me and asking me to do things, we mentioned
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  that in the pahala a while ago, that like imagine you suddenly get a phone call from
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  Trump, he says, hi Esther, I want you to, not Esther, Esther, yes, hi Esther, Trump
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  calls and says, Hi Esther, I want you to design my new room. I want you to make me a painting
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  or make or by me coffee. How would you feel? I'm saying no, but like the president of
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  America calls you to ask you to help him with something. She's a conflict of interest,
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  But we'll still do it.
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  No, you'll feel honored, right?
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  No, Putin, who's Zelensky?
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  Zelensky?
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  I don't know.
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  Trump is more.
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  Trump is more.
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  Okay, we're recording everything, by the way.
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  We're recording everything, just letting you know it's important to...
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  So it's like, wow, he's calling me, he wants me, he needs me.
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  is like an honor. So imagine God calls you and says, hey Esther, God calling and says,
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  hey I want you to make a bracha for me. I want you to light shabbat candles for me. I want
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  you to do this or that for me. How lucky, how joyous should you be? Should we be that
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  the creator of the whole world from 8 billion people chose you to express him, represent
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  him, do something for him, it's the biggest honor and joy possible, especially we're all
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  one with him.
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  So, we're going to see a few concepts of happiness and joy then, how could you walk
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  around you know people today struggle a lot with identity and purpose and why you know
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  like, why am I here? Why am I what makes me special? Why do you know like kids are today they send kids
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  even to therapy to to help them with with with their identity and they they feel insignificant.
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  We're going to see that Atanya is going to answer exactly these questions. How could you feel
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  insignificant? How could you feel meaningless? When the Creator of the universe clearly says
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  he wants you and needs you to accomplish a specific mission, you specifically, from everyone to do
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  something for him and how close he is with you while you do it. So it's like, oh you command me
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  and he's like, you're present together. So let's dive a little bit into this concept of unity of
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  Mashem. It's going to be a little bit of a Kabbalistic intellectual piece and then later
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  we're going to get back to the Fabrion part, to how it's actually going to affect our
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  lives. Again, we're going to realize that like how lucky, how joyous, how we should
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  be dancing on the streets. I know who talks to you, if Trump doesn't talk to you, imagine
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  a celebrity you admire. You know, or I don't know what, someone you really like, I want
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  to give examples of random guayim, but like imagine someone you really, and then they
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  like, you know, they see that they stop or they come to you, there's all these like,
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  you know, when they do the selections today in Israel, you see sometimes the presidents,
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  They go visit the school, visit the family, they want to show that they're like simple
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  people.
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  So, it's a great honor for anyone to get those visits.
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  Okay, let's look inside the words of the Tanya.
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  Let him concentrate.
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  Let's actually go around and let everyone read a little bit.
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  Yeah?
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  Page 147.
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  Let's start with Emma.
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  Let him then concentrate on the fifth line, chapter 33, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, yeah, sound five
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  rows from the top, let him then concentrate.
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  Let him then concentrate his mind and envasage in his intelligence and understanding the
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  subject of his blessed true unity, how he permeates all the worlds both upper and lower
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  even the fullness of the earth and its blessed glory, and how everything is of no reality
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  whatsoever in his presence. And he lives as one alone, and he has her in lower realms.
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  To hate him also...
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  The other way, we swap, we swap, we change, we flip pages. Next page, as he...
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  As he was one alone before the sixth phase of creation, he is also in space wherein
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  this world was created. The heaven and the earth and all that are opposed, he alone showed his
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  face. And now also this is so being one alone without any change whatsoever.
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  So we see here what, thank you Emma. The unity of Hashem, first of all, he gives us a title and
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  a subtitle. Let's focus on the unity of God, subtitle, how he primates all the worlds. He's
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  full of everything, upper and lower. What's the upper worlds of the lower worlds? We mentioned
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  that there's a lot of levels of worlds, there's the potential worlds, there's theoretical worlds,
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  there's the planning worlds, there's the angel worlds, there's a lot of worlds that
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  we could speak. Behind every, imagine you see a printed book, behind the book there's
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  a story in the mind of the author, right? So, the book exists on two levels, printed
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  paper and in the mind of the author. Are those two the same book? Technically
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  same book but this one is in the thought world and this is printed. So we
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  see that the same item can exist on a spiritual level or on a physical level.
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  And obviously in the spiritual level it could be more refined, it could be more
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  details and the physical is more like a narrow down idea of the same
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  story. So too as God as a Creator and the creation, same thing, we see here this world behind everything
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  there is a spiritual world that actually says that every flower has an angel that comes to it every
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  morning and tells it to grow. Every flower has an angel, every grass straw has an angel.
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  I don't understand an angel, to be honest, I'm not a big angel, a scientist, I didn't
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  ever saw an angel, but I can tell you the following, that there is a specific godly
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  energy for every item in the world, especially if it grows and is alive.
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  There is an angel for every animal, what's an angel?
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  I don't know.
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  could be that this is like the channel, the charger, the entity in charge of this item
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  in the world. It's almost like the spiritual version of everything in this world. What
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  we see here is physical. We see a table, we see a flower. This flower is obviously
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  representation of the godly power because God creates it. From God who is infinite to a physical
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  flower, we said there's a lot of contractions, a lot of seem to mean, a lot of limiting of the energy
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  till we get to a specific channel of energy to create this item. That will be called an angel.
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  An angel is going to be a spiritual entity in charge of making this flower grow.
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  there's actually it says in the in the creation of the world that God told all
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  the trees to grow each to each their category basically to every type of
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  tree to grow in their own groups what does it mean all the this type of
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  tree, and that type of tree, that every type of tree will be distinct from the others.
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  Okay? But it says, minneh, it seems, I forgot the words, God says to every type of tree to
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  be created in its own way, and then God says, let there be grass, greens on the floor, not trees,
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  on the floor. It says, a basooka later, and then every grass grew in its own
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  category, in its own type. Not all the grass and flowers the same, not all the
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  vegetables the same, rather each one in their own thing. And it says, one second,
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  Hashem didn't tell them to group in categories, just said, let there be green
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  on the earth. Not so many different types. The Midrash explains to us that they did the
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  Kalvachomel. You know what's a Kalvachomel? Kalvachomel? Kalvachomel, you say every morning
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  before, how do the 13 ways Rabbi Ishmael says, the 13 ways how to study Torah? Have you seen
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  know before? What are the 13? Say it every day? No, you know 13? One, three, you know the number?
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  13 ways and strategies, how to study Torah, right? How to decrypt the Torah. The Torah has a lot of
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  words. How could I learn things from it? 13 rules. How to analyze it? Could anyone mention me
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  one of the 13 at least?
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  Open the Sidhu.
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  Rabbi Ishmael says there are 13 ways that Torah is analysed.
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  I am patient, so I should open the Sidhu and give me at least one.
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  You know where it is in the Sidhu?
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  Okay.
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  Right before Hodu.
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  Well, you passed it, you passed it, you passed it, right there before that, before hudu,
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  one page before, don't know, yeah, one more page, one more page on the bottom.
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  Let's see if anyone else found it, you say it, Rabbi Ishmael O'Mal, before hudu, before
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  we start the prayer? You have it?
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  No?
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  Rabbi Ishmael Omer.
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  Show me the story.
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  Exactly. One second.
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  One page back. That's the page I've opened. No, it's there. The other way.
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  The other way. Yeah. In the bottom. All the way in the bottom, the last two lines.
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  All the way in the bottom. Rabbi Ishmael Omer. All the way in the bottom.
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  Rabbi Ishmael says, yes, exactly.
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  In the 13th Torah, it could be that girls don't say it, don't take me wrong, I wasn't like...
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  You know this piece? You say this piece?
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  We know it.
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  What?
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  We know it.
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  Okay, so you know it, what does it say?
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  It says it was expanded.
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  So we're going to start, we're not going to go through all 13.
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  But the main ones are, Calvahomir is the first one, Gzerah Shavah, for example, what's
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  Gzerah Shavah?
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  Did you ever learn this?
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  We should do maybe a shiur, maybe next Monday we'll do a shiur on this topic, okay?
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  We'll do, we'll go to the 13th and we're going to study what they are, how to learn
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  Torah from one to another.
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  I'm going to sub next week again, so I'm going to do a shio specifically on those 13.
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  But the first one, kalvachomel, is to learn a severe condition from a light condition.
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  For example, does the Torah say you're not allowed to marry your daughter?
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  No.
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  The Torah says you're not allowed to marry your daughter's daughter.
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  The Torah doesn't say you don't know how to marry your daughter, no it's not, I'm going
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  to mean understandable, understandable from who?
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  Well, why can't you touch her before, like, wouldn't you both?
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  Well, it's a separate question.
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  What does it mean?
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  The Torah tells us, if I tell you that your daughter's daughter you're not allowed
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  to marry, your daughter for sure not.
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  Now, it's almost like in Torah, you say, oh, who said,
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  the Torah doesn't say that?
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  Rabbi Ishmael teaches us, there's a way to learn
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  the severe case from the lenient case.
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  If in the lenient case, I tell you no,
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  then in the severe case, I'm sure gonna tell you no.
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  Another example.
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  This is a little example,
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  so I'm gonna open another halachic topic.
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  Let's say, if I stole $1, or I stole $100, and for $1, I need to get punished and arrested.
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  Then if I stole $100, for sure I'm going to get arrested, I need to get punished, right?
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  Why?
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  I just stole $1,000,000.
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  Still?
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  If you get the punishment, you're still going to get the, as a joke, about the million
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  dollars is one time a big a big millionaire who wanted a Hatan son-in-law for his
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  daughter so he went to the big Yishiva and he asked the main Rabbi Rabbi could
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  you send me the top students okay the first student comes in and the
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  millionaire asked the young student tell me if you find a check of a million
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  dollars on Shabbat on the floor what do you do no no I'm not not touching
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  So no, no, you're not you're not good for my daughter
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  He calls the second guy in asking him if you see a check of a million dollars on Shabbat on the floor
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  What do you do? So I put my leg I put my foot on it and wait after till after Shabbat
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  And then I take the check says no, no, you're not for my daughter
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  So then the third guy comes in he asked him if I what do you do if you find the check of a million dollars on Shabbat?
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  On the floor says if I find a million dollars. I don't need your daughter. I
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  Don't need your daughter anymore
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  So, kal vachomer means that if on the small thing you get the punishment, on the big
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  thing for sure, kal vachomer, kal linient, kamur, severe.
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  So if the law in a light case is printed in the sinu, kal vachomer, so learn the
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  hard things from this lighting. Now, why did we mention all of this? Because the grass made
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  kalvachomit. If the trees, Hashem told them to come out individually and there aren't so many
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  types of trees and God still told them to be grouped up and each one grow in their own way,
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  how much more so grass that we are so widespread that we should be different
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  than distinct from each other and have different categories of grass. Now, the
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  Midash al-Sra'id way, like what do you mean, the grass made a calvahomer? Since when could
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  grass think? Since when could grass have an opinion on the matter? The flowers
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  had a conversation all the flowers at the meeting and decided to have different
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  colors and as I know we can't all be blue let's let's let's divide the answer
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  that there is every every creation has an angel and the angel is the channel
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  that creates that specific that specific grass or that specific flower and
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  And that's how they divide that's how they had it's almost like the angels that the source of energy
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  Is in charge of making those things grow so it's almost a shem delegates
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  creation to a lot a lot of like I
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  Don't say subcontractors, but like channels and each channel does the one thing so behind every physical item
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  There's an angel that creates it and gives it the power. It's a spiritual representation
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  Now, okay, we can see the angel is also a presentation of a of a higher energy and higher and higher
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  We could keep reverse engineering all the way to get to the source
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  Anyone in tech reverse engineering? I know what that is
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  Reverse engineering
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  No, no encoding
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  Yeah, you buy probably
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  Just an AI now. I'm saying like see you're not familiar with it. Okay
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  so basically you could back trace all the way to the source. So this is just a
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  glimpse, so I said that behind everything in the world there is a creator, there
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  is a higher world. And we say that Hashem is one, not just in the lower
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  worlds, rather also in the superior worlds, not just in the physical realms,
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  realms, rather also in the spiritual ones, and he's the same before he
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  created the world, and after he created the world. Did anything change by God when
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  he created the world? He didn't become God plus one? Why not? He created the world.
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  Why does God in the world? Does the world exist? Yes. So did the world exist
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  before? Before some created it? No. So what is there now? Two things, right? God in
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  the world. God became more. You know, someone's like, there was
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  the woman if she's pregnant or not pregnant? No? Of course, that's a woman, woman plus baby.
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  It's very distinct, very different. Okay, we're not going to fully answer, but
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  you need to know the answer. The answer is that before Hashem created the world,
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  and after he created the world, there's no change in a certain way. The answer could be
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  because it's compared to infiniteness. When you have infinite energy, infinite money,
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  infinite anything if I give you if you have infinite money and I give you another dollar do you have
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  more money now no technically yes but not really because you anyway have infinite so there's no
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  no numbers so what you added is insignificant so step one God's unity God's unity with creation
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  God is being the one and alone and the higher and lower realms before he created the world
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  and literally after the six days of creation, same thing. And if that's what we say,
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  so also now after the world was created, God is technically present here just as much as he was
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  before. It's not like Hashem created a space that is actually void of him, whether it's one with
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  So let's say a little further inside. Page 149. For all things created in Chaya, do you want to read for us?
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  We're on the seventh row on the first column on page 149. For all things created.
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  For all things created and modified.
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  No problem, let's continue with Sarah.
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  For all things created are notified beside him in their very existence, as are notified
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  their source, within their source, mainly the essence and substance of the soul.
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  Which are its 10 facilities?
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  Faculties?
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  Faculties of Montenegro, etc., where in the element of letters it's not yet found
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  Um, we are to their end of movement in the garment of thought, as has been explained at length in...
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  Chapters 20, 21.
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  20 and 21 are known there.
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  So, what are we saying here? You called?
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  No.
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  Oh, okay. I was worried.
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  Everything is nullified to Hashem. You know what's nullified?
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  What's nullified? Which word does it come from?
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  No.
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  Now, now is zero, right? How is it zero in French?
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  So
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  In there's other language you say now zero nothing nullified means
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  nothing
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  When we say that everything is nullified to a shem
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  We say it's almost nonexistent
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  Compared to him, but it does exist but it doesn't exist does exist but doesn't exist back and forth
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  I'll give you an example.
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  Before you say a word, let's say you say good morning, we say hi Esther, okay?
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  Before we say hi Esther, do these words exist in my mind before I say them?
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  Before I say them physically, are they in my mind?
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  What's the proof?
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  You can hear yourself thinking that.
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  That I say them, if I wouldn't be thinking about those words, I wouldn't be able to
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  say them high-aster because it needs to be in my brain the words high right otherwise it wouldn't
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  come out this way good morning now I say it it shows that before that they were in my mind
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  now before I said good morning the words in my mind there's endless words in my brain
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  how many words could a person talk in his life woman could talk infinite
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  No, I'm just kidding, you just have to like insert that.
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  Technically if there wouldn't be a limitation of talking, people could talk endless.
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  The brain is no limit of words.
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  So do the words good morning exist in my brain before I said them or not?
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  Or the words high-aster, more specific, because good morning I could say many times.
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  Say, this is very specific that I just thought of it and now it's in my brain.
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  Are these words existent in the world of talking in my mind?
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  They're not actually existent because they're insignificant, they're like nothing, they're
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  like another drop in the water, imagine the whole ocean you turn out a drop, the drop
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  is in the ocean, yes but like if this water is actually infinite and the good morning
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  is like nothing in the big picture, right? Compared to everything. So this is the example
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  the altar ever brings to the world and to creations compared to Hashem who existed. You can say
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  the good morning is not there but the good morning is not significant or independent.
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  Sheila, do you want to read it? Sheila? Do you want to read for us another illustration?
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  as is explained elsewhere by means of an illustration from nature, mainly the nullification of the sun's
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  radiation and light at their source, the order of the sun in the sky. For surely it is
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  greater than the light from all of them, but for there too, and even more strongly than
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  in the space of the universe. So there in the sun, the light is nullified within its
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  source, as though it were nonexistent, nonexistent at all.
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  Because English is even hard English for people to speak English, so don't be surprised if
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  you don't.
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  There's actually a new tanya which is great, it's called tanya in plain English.
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  It's basically a tanya translated into English, like the English translation translated into
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  English.
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  Because this is English that most people don't understand.
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  So they made a new tanya that this English is translated into simple English, amazing
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  project.
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  So it's called tanya in plain English, you can even find it online.
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  the sun and the rays of the sun that shine here. When I see the sun shining here, there's the whole
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  sun, this big bowl of of of gas and fire and and then heat and light. There's one string of light
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  that comes and then there's through the whole forest, there's a little hole and then the
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  light shines into the forest. You ever saw that where it's like dark in the forest and you see
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  like the rays of light shine through, you see the sun, if we go back and take this sun that
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  I see this light here, I go back in the sun, before it came here it was there, right?
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  And before it was outside coming out of the sun, where was it?
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  It was inside of the sun.
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  So let's take the same, this is the sun, this is the light, that's actually a weight
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  but doesn't make a difference.
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  So let's take this section of light, I'm looking back and I'm putting it here.
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  This piece of light was in the sun before it came outside of the sun because it came outside
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  of the sun, for sure the light existed inside also, but it's obviously nonexisting at all
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  because compared to the whole sun, and in the sun this is the source of it, so it's
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  It's not like it has its existence there.
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  You could start getting used to the sounds of the hearers.
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  The whole wind through the whole New York has the steamers that make the noise.
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  So if you hear that, it's all normal.
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  If you wake up in the middle of the night, it's like, it's still fine.
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  It's part of the New York experience where you don't have your own...
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  It's the rats.
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  What?
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  The rats.
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  That's not the rats.
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  it's that don't scared the girls more than they're scared. So we're saying that the same way that the
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  light you see it in the sky, how much more so it is the way it's inside of the Sun, but there it's
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  nullified within the source as though it was not existing at all. So this is an example, we need
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  to keep thinking that imagine you are a ladder in God's mind, you are an array of light inside
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  of the sun.
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  Imagine that this is a God, this is Esther, just for conversation purposes, let's make
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  it clear, no it's Esther, and she technically it's an independent entity because God created
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  human, right? The only thing is that God is not limited to being here, right? God is also the
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  sun is bigger, it's here and it's here. Now Esther is part of the sun. So technically it's here but
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  it's also just full of endless light so the existence is completely irrelevant.
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  So one and it's there, on the other hand it's technically not there because it's completely
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  nullified and insignificant compared to the greatness of the sun.
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  And technically the whole world, our whole world is part of the sun, not the sun literally
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  like God as the sun.
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  So taking the entire universe is part of the endlessness of Godliness, so it's completely
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  nullified within its existence, as if it was never created. This is a theory, you
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  don't have to like have it like settle in your brains yet, but this is just the
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  theory. Slowly we're gonna expand on this a little bit, see how we could make it
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  a little more tangible in our brains, and then try to see how this could make
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  us happy. This is a nice concept, how do I become more happy in my day-to-day
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  day life by knowing this. Okay? Until then, turn not to get burned by the sun and have a great day.