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Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Chapter 15 - "The Beinoni" - "As A Servant of Hashem (G-D)"
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Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Chapter 15 "The Beinoni" Level 4 "Beinoni" As "A Servant of Hashem (G-D)" A Beinoni thru "Avoda" "Meditation" in Prayer of "The Greatness of Hashem (G-D)" has the power to arouse "Love & Awe" for Hashem that will allow him to over come his Evil Inclination at the time of Prayer & all thru his day. Live Tanya Class at Chabad Thursday Evening at P.M. A Project of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida 5620 Winkler Road Fort Myers, FL 33919 239-433-7708 www.Chabadswf.org [email protected] A Special thanks to David Perez for Video Taping the Class
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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