Beit Mikdash: Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, what was special about it? Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

good day we're learning Tanya p giml i don't believe we reached chapter 53 but we did the last pic in the first section of Tanya called amim page IID to bring you up to par here the Al said from chapter 51 beginning that the is what God uses that level of Hashem to animate the world and he brought the the says and he uses the word I rest from the word within them within every single Jew that means that this idea of in other words the question is is it why why use the word I am amongst the Jews doesn't say that says I dwell amongst the Jews so the AL understands from that particular new word used in the context of referring to God to Hashem that we're not just talking about Hashem we're talking about a certain aspect of Hashem and here in again for a moment you see the way looks and takes what the RAM for example writes in the MIM that the T Hashem places in the T Words which are of human nature the eyes of God the ears of God the right hand of God and the Raam says you need to strip the the literal understanding of God having eyes or ears God forbid and it it's a reference to a certain communication method that God gives the world so the eyes represent an openness the ears represent a long distance you hear something from the distance etc etc so so too we could argue that the AL when he when he when he says that that there's a level called he bases it on the verse he's also thinking like the R's thinking why you why the use of the word Shakti if it's referring to God so he says no it's referring to a certain method and application of hasem of God in the world a ye dwelling V the animation the bottom line of God's aloofness and greatness and awesomeness which would make Hashem kind of distant from the world I'm bringing that somehow into the world into your life that is the I would say the ethos of the AL Point here from chapter 51 to 53 and looking at the word vti and of course he brings all the capitalist ideas and and everything else that's very nice but the the the the bottom line is you have to go back to what's his argument and and let me say just for the sake of clarity and those people who listen to this year online not everyone would accept this you ask someone who never learned was not interested in they'll say is God what are you trying to a certain level of God God you understand if you don't buy into buy into the ra theim and others that the that the Fig that the words in the T the figure of speech has a certain meaning and it just it doesn't just mean it's not just a metaphor in the sense because Hashem the tell with metaphors but it actually means something the right hand means right y You could argue the right of God that that it's a flowery way of of writing Hashem decided to to to give the T with those with those adjectives and those flowery words comes along the the Caba and and says no no no if it says if it says the right it represents a certain flow from the right and that's actually the reality and if it says the left excuse me if it says the left it's the actual left G and if it says it's actually mercy so then it's a whole different God it's not it's not the the the the god that's just God no no no there's there's manifestations is Gods so that's part of what is teaching over here now to more more specifically he taught us that when the yanuka which he mentions in chapter 35 says that the that the uming to don't don't diminish oil on the head referring to acts and then he says those make sure It's associated with the head on the head so that's what we going to explain in this chapter as well the connection between and wisdom intelligence and action and M which is very important because people have asked and continued to ask if you're real kik if you're really into the approach called what are you running around putting on fing with someone go into the SCH and learn understand God meditate spend time meditating you know the whole emphasis of is running around putting on fill sounds like it's a very important thing and a nice thing but it's not the so this should also become clear from this chapter to answer that practical issue as well and finally here is also explaining the importance of the being specifically in the b mikdash or what he called in the in the chamber of the holy of holies and he said in the last few chapters there's a chamber within ausa AIA and today he's going to begin explaining how the same chamber finds itself not only what we call in the world of is the spiritual but also in the physical let's get let's start [Music] learning when the first temple in the first B existed every we know that what made this the first basa M this different than the second b m it was the ark the AR and the tablets and the theas The Ten Commandments the B Kim where were they stored in the Holy Temple in the house Kim within the house a section called the holy of holies so there the rested malus this is the level called Mal of the first world of meaning that godliness was revealed over there rested there and it was invested the Ten Commandments with much more Revelation and much more powerful more than the holy the Chamber of holy of holies in the upper worlds this is this is an enigma how can you say that the the the the as it was in the K in the physical world in the B mikdash on Mount on right on har Maria right over there how could you say that it is more that it's more than the spiritual Worlds how could you say that why not the physical world limits God hashem's presence is not open look outside and you see nice things very nice things of but you have to scratch your head head and meditate and say stop it's all from hasem on and on and on in the spiritual worlds you don't have to scratch your head over there it's obvious to everyone the spiritual world is a world of angels and souls Celestial beings and it's it's they're having a party a party with what with hem so that's what Al is addressing now how is it that the in the in the bik is more revealed is more open than the the way it is in the spiritual worlds and he explains because the Ten Commandments represent all of the 613 of the the t comes from superal wisdom above what above what we call the world of Revelation in other words is the the seat of of of God's wisdom andem which is greater than God's revelation is in so when we say this is the answer is when we say that hasem rested in the it means he rest where in the ark and within the ark the tablets that set us the T so and that's greater than Al Gia the AL is Galia the revealed world as much as it's revealed it's still not open godliness but the T that's open godliness and that's the answer to the question the question is how can there be more of God in the k Kim resting compared to to the the godliness as it was in the spiritual Worlds the answer is that's spiritual and here it's physical but it's not physical you say the answer is yeah the t is physical take out a sa and learn you have a physical book and you have the the 24 that's physical you have it we have it on ter grow it [Music] continues and in order to engrave the T into physical tablets that were physical the level of godliness did not go through the same process of descending from level to level as the norm is going through the progressive chain of worlds to ending up in the physical world and why did it not go through this process because the physical world is under the DI the dictates of the physical natural physical world and the tablets and are acts of God and it's writing is Godly writing it was actually transcending natureal world what he's saying is you know what theor says the me the the the in the where right you could see a man and you could see a s normally you shouldn't be if if it was engraved right if if in the normal process it loses its form and that was the miracle that together with the engravement it kept its form so what that shows showed shows us is that the actual mik the writing of the Asos kept its Transcendence in the physical world not in the spiritual World otherwise we wouldn't be able to see the me of s and we did see it that was a miracle so in other words the is with demonstrative of experience a Transcendent Godly experience that's what Al is saying so the physical world as it goes through the progressive nature of hisus where the energy begins in ins and in Infinity then there's a contraction on the energy and then there's a minimization to Bri and then finally into this world that's the norm and what what's the result of that te nature the Sun the moon wonderful but godliness is not apparent and obvious by the L which were in the physical world contained in the Ark in the holy of holies in the physical world and over there you saw godliness clearly that's what Al's point is over here from the spiritual holy of holies in the world of AIA there com to be the physical world of physicality the world of which includes also the world so as great as that is it's still not the same idea as the Revelation in the holy of holies in the physical world in over here we had which refers to the which are in the Ten Commandments invest and they alone are only are united with the infinite God and that's we mean that the rested in the holy of holies of the first temple the B please turn your page to 148 by investing itself in the Ten Commandments that are engraved the within the Ark beness in a miraculous way and it's called elim and it's action of the Living God in the brackets the AL says that sometimes in Caba you have a reference to this that he's discussing here this greato Revelation it's called Al the concealed World in other words what was felt in the in the holy of holies in the in the B mikdash was the re concealed world not the Hidden World the higher World which is the world of is concealment which rests in so this was all the first temple the first Bas M what about the second temple in the second B it didn't have the ark and the tablets so what's going to be the argument there in other words Al is saying I'm telling you that the reason that why the in the because of the and the Ark The Arc right but in the in the second BD we know five items were missing including the AR right which means theas were missing so how do we see in the second B mik this great Revelation says now didn't Dell there Peters not that there was no the level of that there existed in the first temple B didn't exist there right cuz we just said that the way it existed in the first Temple was not through there the second B it went through the second temple it rested there in a manner of and in other words one and two and three it descended from this level to that level to this level till it came into the physical B and then a certain aspect of dwell there because it wasn't a Transcendent experience but rather a progressive [Music] experience even the second temple no one was allowed to go into the except for high priest once the temple the second was destroyed says there is not only for God to God his world where he where he is the four cubits the four the space of the of that's what God is so when you learn you have God and brings even if just one person sits on his own sits on his own his home and picks up a safer and learns the is with him it says in [Music] the with him in a manner of progression hisap and investment of the of the highest World goes into the of the next world and the third world and the fourth world is here why because the 613 majority of them are actual action oriented MIT even those mitzvas that are not action oriented but speech oriented and thought oriented right you fulfill the Mitzvah right we discussed this many times guys you to say the word out with your mouth so that's benching you have to say with your mouth you have to say grace after meals also with your mouth with your mouth so this is a rhetorical remark so we see that it doesn't seem to require action says wrong the the sages established the that thought thinking about benching and thinking abouton but not articulating the words is not like saying the words and one does not fulfill their obligation with thought and and intent alone when do you fulfill your obligation when you actually verbalize and articulate the words with your lips the and the sages established that the movement of the lips is considered action so this is all about Torah so in other words is saying here is saying that although in the second B mdash we didn't have the at the level of transcendent level because there wasn't an ark and there wasn't a nevertheless say Hashem finds himself in and that existed from Torah so even though the physical T wasn't in the physical Bas M but wherever a Jew learns there's God so therefore we understand from this that the identifies in particular with li Torah and in in in more particular with now is going to explain the connection between the not in Torah but with mitz and he says you talk about the 630 that with the seven RAB laws if you put them together what do you get K 613 biblical Mitzvah and seven rabic Mitzvah 613 7 620 which is the equivalent of the word kesser the crown kesser is it it it it hovers over the person's head the king's head is demonstrative of the superal will of God that's invested in God's and God's wisdom that's that's United with God's Affinity with the ultimate yeah we'll stop over here but this because tomorrow he starts explaining the connection the next part of to to all of this but this last was he wasn't he didn't spend time on it but this last is that mitz as well mitv both the biblical and the rabic Mitzvah represent the ker of God so you have in the Mitzvah God as well so therefore both through tital learning and through Mitzvah observance you have a connection to and unity with Hashem we'll see everyone tomorrow mem today need to make the best of the day it's the month of pu um and put him we know is Transcendence pu him is a day when we rise above limitations and as one of my Masia said leave the silliness for Tish and the seriousness for Pur it doesn't mean you should be a Square on P him but you know the the excessive drinking and making your silly and all of that is not it's not the energy and the truism of purm purm is a very holy day and one who observes the Reb faans that came down 9:30 um and started the to 2:3 in the morning and yet they said and they was singing and it was it it was very animated but you no one was uh you know shiker and people were listening to that they want to hear what the Reb had to say and the Reb always would say one person should dedicate should donate himself to fulfill the mitzah of so a person took a cup of uh he made a somersault and uh that was like the uh fulfilling the obligation of but it's it's the general message you know um and I'm not not saying people they want people want to dress up and all that but it has to be done with with in a way where it's respectful and not degra disgraceful to to to us okay have a great day good tomorrow 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