Sefer Tomer Devorah: Chapter 9 - According Oneself With Malchus, Feeling Alone & Empty in this World

This Torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com. Okay, welcome everyone. We continue in safer Tomer Devorah. We're in perek tishi, the ninth perek. How can a person train themselves in the mida of malchus? Malchus is the seventh s'fira. The Zohar Kadosh tells us about the mida of malchus. Malchus is compared to the moon because less migarma klum. It does not have anything on its own. And it's considered the aniya. Yesod is the oni. The yesod is mekabel the shefa from the upper s'firos. However, malchus is a mekabel everything from the above s'firos. And malchus therefore is considered less migarma klum. Malchus is the s'fira of David Hamelech. And as we said, it's compared to the moon. It's like a mirror. The mirror it reflects everything that's opposite it. Um and the fact that malchus does not have anything on its own is not a chissaron in it because the more of an entity it has, the less it's able to reflect and to give off what is given to it. In other words, a mirror it because it's clear, it's able to be a perfect reflection. But if a mirror would have color, it would skew everything that's uh everything that is sent its way. Therefore uh malchus is the kli which is mekabel all the shefa from the upper s'firos. And therefore the less it is an entity, the more it's able to mekabel and give off the shefa. The same thing with avodas Hashem. The way to be mekabel shefa from above is to consider oneself ayin. And when one prays and makes themself like a pauper that he doesn't have anything as the Gemara says in Rosh Hashanah, kol shana she'rasha betchilasa mesha'eres besofa. Any year the Gemara says in Rosh Hashanah any year which is poor in the beginning is wealthy and successful in the end. Now rishona lekulan. The first aspect of acquiring and training oneself in the mida of malchus shelo yisgoa libo bechala'av shelo. One should not be arrogant in anything that is his. By the way, I saw last night that malchus is really the hidden aspect in the foundation of din. We take the word din, dalet yud nun. And we take the nistar of the word din. So the dalet, you have the lamed and the taf. The yud, you have the vav and the dalet. The nun, you have a vav and a nun. So lamed and taf is 430. Vav and dalet is 10, 440. Vav and nun is 56. So that gets you 496. That's the gematria of malchus. The hidden part of din is the numerical value of malchus indicating that the foundation you know, something which is hidden is uh called the foundation. You don't see the foundation of a house. The foundation of a word is the hidden part of the word. The foundation of din is malchus. So in any event, back to the ranch one should not be arrogant in whatever they have. Vi'asim atzmo tamid ka'ani. One should always make themselves like a pauper. Veya'amid atzmo lifnei konai and establish themselves before their creator kedal like a poor man sho'el who's asking umischanen and beseeching. Ulehargil atzmo bemida zu and to train oneself in this mida. Afilu she'yiye ashir, even if you're wealthy, yachshov v'yishuv she'ein davar imai mikol asher lo umma. That nothing will cling to you. You can't take anything with you. You can't take any possessions with you, any valuables with you. V'hu ne'ezav. And a person is really inherently forsaken. Saruch lerachamei haborei tamid, always needing the mercy of the creator. She'ein lo kol davar. What do we have? We don't have anything ela ha'achila she'lo. Achila, only the food that we eat. V'yachnia levavei, one should humble his heart. V'yehe oni atzmo, make himself like a poor man. One should always consider himself totally and utterly dependent on the good graces of the Almighty. Even if somebody is wealthy and has resources but it is so easy life is so tenuous that in a moment a person could really uh lose whatever he had. Um yistav od lemasev, all the more so during the time of prayer. She'zeh skula nifla. This is a wondrous skula. A wondrous skula to have your prayers answered is by reckoning yourself a oni. Kedalim ucherashim dafaknu delasecha. That is a wondrous skula to have the attitude and the feeling that we are hopeless. Ulehefech mizeh. And the opposite of this, one who feels that he has and he owns and he is entitled to ne'ema veram levavecha, your heart will be haughty. V'shachachta es Hashem Elokecha. She'hashichcha chitzonis nimtzes sham. External forgetfulness is found when people have often when people have resources then they begin to forget Hashem. V'David hisnaheg bemida zu harbei. David conducted himself greatly in this mida. She'amar, David reckoned himself and considered himself ki yachid v'oni oni. I am all by myself. I am poor. So the question is why should a person view themselves as if they're all by themselves? A person might have a wife and children and a family and extended family and hundreds of cousins. But as the Chofetz Chaim writes in parshas Naso that ultimately when you go to your final resting place, when they put you in the grave there are no friends, there's no family. The only the only entities that accompany one to the grave is the Torah that he learned, the mitzvos that he performed. That's the only uh commodity that has access after the kvura. And therefore it's worthwhile to try to increase these kinds of friends while one is still alive realizing that th- this is the only currency that uh is active in all worlds. Says the Tomer Devorah, she'arei kol anshei beiso. All of one's household members saruch kol echad v'echad, each one saruch le'ezor atzmo. Needs to help himself. In other words nobody could help a person in the heavenly tribunal, in the heavenly court. Everyone has to fend for themselves. Ma kulam elav, what could anyone do for you? Afilu ishto even one's wife ubanav and children, ma yo'ilu how will they help him? Be'oiso nishpat lifnei haborei. When a person is judged before the creator, there's nothing anybody could do for you. They don't let people uh defend you or or speak up for you. O de'eis iluk nishmasai? Or at the time that a person's soul departs, nobody could help you. Klum yelavu el ad kivrei, they can only escort you to the grave. Ma heim lo be'eis dino, what could they do for a person at the time of his judgment? Mipasach hakver v'eilach, from the door of the grave and on. And therefore a person should focus on the fact that he is David Hamelech says ki yachid v'oni oni. I am single, I am all by myself and I'm a poor man. Even if David had many wives and many children and and a lot of family and a lot of money, but they only go to a certain distance and after that they have no access. Lefichach yashpil v'yasakin atzmo. Therefore a person should lower and correct himself betzad hamida zo and this is the essence of this particular mida. Okay, raboisai, have an easy You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com.