Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Chapter 15 - "The Beinoni" - "As A Servant of Hashem (G-D)"

welcome to tonight's tangent class we are studying chapter 15 which in Hebrews called Perez valves and today we're going to learn about the bay noni which we've been discussing the last few weeks specifically the bay nene with a special title and a special title we're going to learn today is about a Boehner knee that's a Ovid ello Kim over with an eye in which means he serves God in other words up until now what we learned was what's the status of a nanny in terms of italic or Russia and a Ben Oni the intermediate which basically was that a Boehner knee is somebody that in thought speech and action he's 100-percent all those thoughts of our God all his talk is godly those actions are godly he never transgressed etc he's not exciting because he still has his evil and collation stay alive and waiting to take over he's not a Russia because he doesn't sin so he gets the status of Boehner that was what we learned with the status the baby then we discussed and learned about that every single person could be a Ben Oni it's not earth-shattering and it's not like this you know impossible task could be a beta need because every person whether you in the mood or not in the mood you can still behave and not transgress yes you can still choose choose to speak positively and kindly and hopefully and peacefully etc and you can choose to have all positive and holy and beautiful thoughts naturally discussed till now today the altar rub is going to introduce a very very important concept and that is as follows so in other words because we learned that the Bailey is someone that in his thought speech and action is on par so what happens now that's it he does actually he's only like a robot in other words he does he does know he's not supposed to he says when he spoke doesn't say was not supposed to he thinks when he spoke you know he spoke the thing and not what he's not supposed to think but inside there's still that animal soul that's trying to take over so if we didn't have today's clients chapter 15 ok so you have like a you know like something that you an illness that's connect so to speak maintained but not obliterated so here the author comes listen there's something which is called an ova dello Kim a Boehner knee that serves God and what is a painting that serves God see basis it on on a verse in in the prophets malahide that the Prophet says there as follows you should the shaft every time you should give a look and see the difference being Saavik for Russia a righteous person and a wicked person then leave it the lock in someone that serves God and someone does not serve God so you see puts in four classifications sabic Russia over the Kim and someone doesn't serve God so what does that mean if he's a sad day for sure he serves God and it was a Russia in for sure doesn't serve God so is a over the limit description what in description for we know it's alec is your rushes to the artist is no the prophet is speaking about the topic the Russia and the Ovid a low Kim and the one that doesn't serve God is two levels of the beanery two levels of the beanery in other words like this there's one level of the Boehner knee which is an over the look him he serves God now what does that mean he serves God so that means as follows again the fact that he all the thoughts are good and all the speeches gold and all the actions good that is the status of the B&E that's the vanity here we're saying you can have like a star you know a crown on top of the head of the bay Nene when he is also besides the regular baina knee which he's completing thoughts Peter action he is someone that's an overt allocated what is over it mean oh that means work work now what does it mean work so the Optima explains what the concept of work means follows can he said like this here you have a Ben Oni good he's batting he's getting all checks but his animal stole his animal soul is strong and mighty and waiting to take over and give him a hard time to obviously stay in line but you're not doing anything to defuse the animal soul so comes along trait in Chapter 15 not ever says you have an opportunity to take the animal soul within you and defuse them and weaken it if you get rid of it totally that's a topic that's a whole different level if you're able to get rid of the animal soul that's a righteous man but if you're able to weaken it or soften it which is a constant battle but as long as you're working on weakening and softening it that it's not as strong as it normally would be then you're going under the category of leeway the same you're serving God now why is it called serving God because this is real hard work why is it real hard work because there's something which is called behavioral and the basic Boehner knee is behavioral he controls his actions which but you in the mood of behaving you bathe he controls his mouth that means wedding in the mood of saying what you want to say you just want to lash that you control it you want to say ok and you control your thoughts that's not major work that's behavioral controlling your behaviors work as the author explains is called avoid apne bees when a person teeny means internal when a person works on an internal gifts and abilities now we're talking about that when a person goes to what what's your internal attributes so for example your emotions what are your emotions so we know we have there's a seven in total but generally speaking is to Casa de navarra which basically is a ver in Europe loving along God so the question is very very simple the bane early as we discuss several weeks ago you know it's alex love for God is like one hundred percent and therefore there's no animal soul there at one hundred percent love for God there's no room for anything else no love for anything else and a lot for anything materialist took anything enjoy in anything but physically enjoyable he wants to have a relationship of God and that's a greater joy obviously the Russia has zero interest in God the Boehner knee is already somebody that again the godly soul has its love for God with the animal souls also excited about life but he controls himself in action so avoid the previous means that you're going to try to work on hard of all the means work as if you're working and you're not breaking a sweat and a workout if you're working out you're not breaking a sweat are you really working out that's like a walk in the park so although the means you're breaking a sweat you're going to break a sweat and fight the animal soul of yours to the point where it's real opponent which what does that mean practically that you're going to create in the animal soul that has zero interest in having a love for God he loves to eat he loves to drink he loved to do whatever's enjoyable for its own self but you're going to create a love in the animal soul in the nepeta bahama so you should want to love God that he loved God and if and when you're able to go against the animal souls natural instinct to love itself and to love would eat things enjoyable and you're able to so to speak transform the animal soul where it loves God now you're talking about that now you're talking work so when a Beynon he goes ahead and says you know yet thank God we got the behaviors under control we do all the right things we say all the right things we think all the right things wonderful that's great it's wonderful but let's talk about now your animal soul does your animal soul feel the love for God it doesn't and that's why it's bothering you for this thing on that if we're able to create then your animal soul should have a love for God and it's still going to be an animal soul that's a big but there's no more animal soul anymore it's obliterated but the main leads you have an animal soul but this animal soul is going to have a love for God if and when you're able to do that that's called a voter so obviously how do you do that it's not a great thing to take your animal soul wouldn't that be a nice thing the animals will say you know I love god I love God right yeah also look at is way I agree but the question is you have to have to educate it you have to inspire it yep directed you have to help it so the question is how do you go about doing that so here the author is going to explain today in chapter 15 a method and technique how you could work on your animal soul and the author explains as follows there's something which is called we all know parents what's parents a husband and wife right and when parents create a union and so healthy union guess what happens children come out there's an amazing thing to parents get together and children come out what does that mean that's a natural thing God created in the world when parents mother and father get together in a healthy way in a spiritual way in a godly way cetera children combat so in other words are the children do you create the other children are the children do you create children oh you create a union between husband and wife beating parents and children happen so in other words if you want to create a love for God you don't you can love God no love for God is a by-product of what of the parents getting together with the parents who are the parents that are creating the love for God and the answer is in Kabbalah what's father and mother LACMA and veena hoffman's father vena's mother like as Kosmos ideas the flashing ideas like the father produces the ddd seed and bina as the development of it that's the mother she do nurtures it develops it's in the moon with nine months and so on and so forth so the process between father and other create the children the same thing also the process being Mabini will create the emotions the love and all for God's so in other words other verses you take that analogy which is a real practical application of it and you get up in the morning what are you do in the morning you dive into shower you first you watch negative answer and you see Madonna Madonna you watch Nega laughter and then you get to pray right now what happens when you pray so that's the final prayer means prayer could mean you take a prayer book and you read words that's called reading words that's not fair that's reading words of the private prayer book what is prayer trailer actually he was called a voice at cielo the work of prayer what is the what is the goal of Prayer the goal of prayer is when you read the prayers you before you jumping before you get the feeling you read the prayers we eventually you get to it but you have to get there right you read you read the prayers you read the prayers and if you think about then you start thinking about the prayers what is the message behind all the prayers love it oh god you're jumping I'm jumping and jumping and that's fine yes your prayer jumping connection here okay yes but how you how you connecting this is this is going to be a meditation 101 Freya 101 right honey what happens when you pray whatever can you pray so you put you to god you're jumping to the gravity your trumping today to the children it takes nine months it takes quite a bit it takes nine months to produce a child you're like popping them out right your gratitude is great i agree but you know it's a process right what it's a process come down to us maybe we're going downtown I am I am innocent and I I understand but again you're going to pray like you're reading the prayers right what is the essence of all the prayers what is the essence if you read the praise and you think about your reading what you're really thinking about thinking about is the pneus of God read every prayer whether it's a blessing right or to Psalm or two different prayer what are you thinking what is the prey describing how great God is right God created this and all the trees and all this waters and all the you know angels and right all throughout the prey it's all about what how great God is all all you're jumping to the or more oh you said it's great we have all your junk with it first you got first first we have to meditate a little person has a meditative all they can get there you know holiness holy holy knit holiness holiness is one step at a time I know you're excited we all excited we probably get excited we got no we're excited about so the point you're correct but I wanted person I think I don't miss the first set of six steps exactly so the first step is you gotta say the words and you gotta think the words and you'll read the words the words are all talking about from many different angles about the greatness of god this is this data so far but we have data what's the data how great God is how great God is now as you start thinking that's like that can emotions yet as you start thinking about how great God is and you think more of how great God is and you think even more of how great God is and you and you're like literally your your your mind lights up you have your mind lights up I see it I got it intellectually we're not talking emotionally yet Wow God created this and God creates that that he maintains the world and you know every and you say the prayers you read them you think about what you're saying hebrew english whichever one you understand and you really think about this like great awesome God and you start going oh my gosh this is like beyond belief is if you got to like a beautiful like scenery you know the Grand Canyon or whatever I need a place of nature and you'll now if your eyes are closed you don't get excited right if your eyes are opened and you see it and you start thinking about this whoa who made this I mean like you have to make one small thing which like a hold the production God made all this whole amazing world and the skies and the war right so you start going oh my gosh I love this guy I love this God so the love comes as a bribe product of what of real meditation and then you're almost like an or of this car oh my gosh he's like very powerful and you become another not afraid but in or Europe means or so another so Baltar says when a person goes ahead when do you do is write pray that's the purpose of prayer service now you pray chakras in the morning min Han the afternoon mire of an evening if you say let's say the schwab before you go to bed or before you make eat something you make a blessing or after you eat something when you go to the restroom when you come out throughout the day if you're doing another bed so and so on so it so what's the purpose of every single Mitzvah it's the stop is to think about this great God writing any blessing borracho de Xiang Yu blessing God God the king of the world you know it's words or do you actually think for a moment he's not the king of a town a country a king of the world awareness of his creation exact very good i like that awareness saying there you go i'll be a final but you got a bingo so your we're of his creation of its recreation of his powers of his infinite abilities and we're finite so as you become more and more we're and as you meditate more and more of the greatness of god during the prayer service all of a sudden you create this like lunch for God's this feeling now the feelings kick in not feeling just kicked in without without thinking but you basically you pushed or flip forest or inspire the emotion you inspire the child to come out the child mean love or the child meaning or of God how by in Hebrew it's called he's buona notte which means an english meditation being a weird whatever the train you want to use so as you practice is bringing us what happens now who gets excited and halves love and all four god only the godly so no the god doesn't need that the galley sells one with god the animal soul gets excited oh my gosh actually the animal solves getting excited about God well listen thank you because you inspired him you helped meditate so what happens now now the animal souls inspired now when is this during Dominic during prayer because you're doing active meditation which creates the inspiration of the emotions so obviously during prayer service or especially the middle of prayer service your emotions the love and all of God's is at a peak set a peek a great peak the peak of what whoa ones after prayer service yeah it dies that totally dies down dies down custom inning but throughout the day there is some kind of residue we're not stupid remember more or less about the inspiration I mean it's create some it still remains some kind of fact so it so it's in our memory not maybe actively a hundred percent power but it's whatever percentage with its at 80 50 30 20 from ten percent memory of love for God so now what happens throughout the day not only are you a bane only in action and thought and speech but you also did a voter the prayer service of other that created within you that you still have the fire the fire means has a love and all forgot so not only during the prayer service but throughout today that fire remains within you so the Optima says that is called it or you delegate why because he proactively through his prayer and through his meditation he created that his animal soul should be inspired have love and all four god that was hard work you think prayer service is easy no most people don't want to do it all those people's find you know a bridge version just to say they prayed the prayer service is not meant to be easy how could it be easy you have an animal so you trying to tame it's like trying to trying to may discipline or train an untrained wild dog a wild animal rather than the only dog try to train an untrained wild a wild animal you think it's easy no sometimes you can get bit by the animal right this cases of Miami with is where they bit the Trinity so all the trainers right so you each have a wild animals in us we do we cap it wake up we each have a wild animal than us we bite and we bought absolutely absolutely so we each have a wild animal than us and we're and this wild animal wants to be wild because it's tangible things be wild and our job is a training you think that's easy no not easy at all so it's a lot so that's why it's called a boda its work its work to train that animal you can give in to the animal you get the animal run run your life they all have to work but guess what it was running your life the animal what kind of life is that and i love that throughout the day the fire remains within you absolutely you do the work that if you do the work the fire will ring and you throughout the day okay so when a person does that I've odo now he's called what and over the look in so in others you see clearly without ever saying is that over it means that you're working you're breaking a sweat you created something which work then there's just before because till now you had an animal that was wild undisciplined untrained and now whoa he's like excited about God's he never had it before and not only is excited when you're doing the meditation even has some affect them it has like a residual residual effect on him right and guess what next prayer service starts again and you keep on slowly training him him her whatever the animal soul just like you would train any animal 100% the same exact way now so when a person does that and continues to do that what are you called you called an over the ochem now so if you do that you're a banal e which is an over the looking what happens if you don't do the up over the him then you remain only but you know you're not considered so on that serves God now the algorithm brings out another important point in there is as follows what happens as somebody we know that God created one with different personalities and different peplum temperaments so what happens if for example you naturally love prank you like praying you enjoy pray you enjoy studying Torah you enjoy doing midst fault you enjoy it so the author of a says even though you're enjoying it it's great you were vainly but you're not as one that's serving God serving God means that you're breaking the habit in other words here's an analogy says for example they the Talmud it was customary listen to this it was customary to study every piece of Talmud you studied 100 times 100 times imagine so you read it and you studied again and again 100 times that was that was normal that was standard standard procedure that's why they need the column by heart most people write those days but one of the song did 100 100 ah I can do a hundred under one that's it now you're pushing it right your personally out under on you're pushing it I'm if you think about a hunt you there any hundred what's the big deal 101 but you know there's a breaking point the breaking point is 101 so Talmud said somebody studies Talmud a hundred times okay very nice my student like everyone else hundred times no we're giving him a nice like everyone else good right he gets a check someone does 101 whoa he won like the big lottery why because the answer is very simple because if you did it 90 so far so what everyone knows 100 either a hundred 100 you get Aundre one now are you going against your nature you're going into nature so the same thing out over stuff like this when a person goes against the nature it means if your nature is to study and your nature is to pray and you need to do to do my throat there's that you also have a breaking point we'll only study up until here oh you only pray up until here or the only doom it's everyone has a limit because we're fine by definition because we're fine human beings great as we advance ourselves we all have a breaking point right like we love Travis right but the minute sharma's is over okay I've dollar we right we got it we gotta go hold on that's your breaking point you can keep silence an extra five minutes now that's called an overt why drugs you're saying yeah I know Travis is over everyone's leaving but you know what let's get an extra five minutes it's called actually toast for shabbos you're adding the shabbat or for example let's say you know you used to saying for example 10 pages in the prayer book auntie concentration level looking from one to ten is a two and tomorrow instead of the reading temperatures you're going to read 11 pages and instead of concentrating on level 1 to 10 there's two even order three Wow now you're doing a boda obviously view on level six going to three is not doing anything the point is whatever level of concentration you're at whatever level quantitative exercise you do push the bar ooh now we're talking about them as long as you're within your bar there's no other over there that is an over double Kim now there is another way to inspire your animal soul to love God but also it's not considerable Kimber I'm gonna explain to you what it is and that is as follows the Opera says that every single person has within them a hidden love for God we all have enough God created us so we have a natural hidden love for God so let's say for example you know I'm like level of bein me thought speech and action i'm doing amazing right but i don't have to love sex a hold on a second created me you connect your hidden loves and olson that comes out right and now your animal soul loves god that's great you got your animal soul to love God but there's no work there because you called in something which you already have you didn't create anything by it's a good thing to do it's like the emergency switch you know what you're not feeling the love say what I mean love God created me come on go beyond your limit no right but you have that love with it and you can bring it out so it's a great thing to know to pull out love because you always want to be in love with God's here we're saying is that ultimately what's real avoda when you go beyond your limits you create the love you create that child how do you create that love how do you create a tour by meditation by his bonnet and by that you don't do during prayer service also you can do any time throughout day you stop and say you know what I want to be inspired you know enough of living you know this life of you know dysfunctioning and feeding myself and just moving from one step and next step and not really living let's really take a moment right I look around and see oh my gosh look how great God is right he Grady ourselves he graded this beautiful world he gave us oxygen he gave us water he gives everything I mean think about look at he's creating all the stuff and you create as you talk about how great God is and all the thing you know what I love this God let me think about you never do this all for me you know I mean all of him oh my gosh I can't do this type of stuff now what you do you created in your animal soul a lot for God the more you do that a your animal soul gets now excited it's literally creating you're creating what real love that didn't exist before you're creating real or it didn't exist as you create a create that what are you doing you're taking your Bailey level to a level of serving God whole different category so in other words this chapter and tanya is extremely important as you know we always discussed every single chapter in tanya is like a foundation of mysticism this chapter is extremely important the reason why it's so important is because this takes you out you can get stuck into being robotic that's number one this brings you out to be a real person the units to robot be you have the power to fire up your animal soul and it gives you simple technique which you know if you go to modern meditation they all take it from here simple technique of meditation but meditation that not meditation it's out there but it's real meditation that creates results what the results are creates it creates within you a real love it fires up an emotion that didn't exist that emotion never existed you you literally created something from nothing by meditating you create the love for God and you created the armed guard and it's not great you have the power to create yeah and that's basically what's called an over double Kim and this chapter chapter 15 really teaches you such a powerful thing how to be able to become from a regular Boehner name which let's hope we all in that level right and we're going to obviously all for hire which obviously keep thought speech and action up up their fullest but more importantly work on being what an over double Kim someone that serves God and by serving God we literally have to work on ourselves to go against the grain but we go against the grain we will create real emotions that will be fired up with a love and all four god that will give us true energy of joy and happiness and fulfillment in all areas of our life