Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Sec 4 Chap. 7 “How to brighten our souls with a G-Dly light”

welcome to tonight's tiny class we are studying Tonya as we study thank God every week we're starting the fourth section of Tonya and the name of the section called eager Ithaca desh holy letters we're holding by chapter 7 pairings ayan and negara so kodesh and as I always say in the beginning of the class since this is the foundation of mysticism we call the Bible of mysticism so the every single chapter is very very powerful in every single chapter has a beautiful lesson and message and obviously very heavy down-to-earth Kabbalistic ideas and teachings so the theme of this week's chapter chapter 7 and gerotor qodesh is about how to brighten our souls with the godly light in other words what does that mean it means as follows we all know that we have a physical body and in order for our body to live we just don't not feed it we eat we drink we sleep we take care of our body on a physical level same thing also because we have Anna summer we have a godly soul we have to feed our soul why because what happens if a person doesn't eat a drink and get dehydrated you got headaches you got something you can get sick unfortunately so you have to feed your body in order to grow and to be healthy vitamins whatever you take to take care of yourself physically the same thing also spiritually if you want your in a summer not just to be in the summer part of you but to be alive and to be well and we'll talk Kabbalah language to lighten up your summer you know someone should be glowing in order to brighten up your in the summer how do you brighten it up so you need food for that how do you feed the summer you feed the summer by bringing in the godly light so we bring in God's light into notice almost even in a summer is part of God but just like our body is our body but we don't feed it it just won't operate appropriately the same thing also especially in Florida if you don't drink water you ain't gonna you're not gonna be hydrated so the same thing also on a spiritual level in order to in order to to feed the soul you have to and to grow and to glow you have to obviously feed it what with the godly lights this chapter the altar is going to teach us how we can take our nationís that we have and we can brighten them up and the best way to brighten them up it's not by eating sushi but by bringing in the godly light in trying to summer so the body needs one type of food but the neshamah needs doesn't have a food in the food that in the summer needs is basically the godly light of this kena and the question is obviously how do we bring that in so the optimist art of this chapter with a saying that we say every single morning in the prayers and the preliminary prayers and it says as follows a shrine over motto hulk' know I'll translate well Minoan Gurule you know and in the in the prayers we say we add we continuing that may offer you were to say no but the autorai quotes over here the first part of the verse of this statement and he explains the first part not necessarily the last piece what does it mean what does it what does it mean our strain it means like this a shrine oh I'm sorry what we're happy okay ASHRAE no we're fortunate we're blessed we're grateful a shrine know we're mullah Shire now with an iron which is the first of materialistic wealth but moonshower where we're truly truly truly really really blessed on many many levels my toy how great is it toy comes some good how good it is right a shrine oh my toy Calcagno now how Cana means our part now what does that part mean and that's what the author is going to explain I'm annoying how sweet is is so sweet is already much much a high level it's really sweet it's not only we're fortunate not only is it good but it's also sweet a lot of things in life is goods but not everything is sweet so my mom I know yym how sweet is good I roll a new our lottery and will soon talk what is that a lottery mean it it continues with John resume quote here my officer say no how how nice it is our inheritance but let's leave that alone because it's not what we're talking about today in Tonya now what does that mean doctor says Auto explains that's referring to the two different types of godliness that signs in our soul there's a godliness which is called Calcagno and apart apart obviously of God and there's a part godliness is called go relay knew a lottery and those two aspects shine in our soul and the question is what are these two aspects volcanically related because if volcano and girl related whatever that means is what causes us to be our strainer which we will shower to be bless and to have target to have good and to have knowing which should be sweet so wouldn't we want to know what it is you want to have like you're going somewhere wouldn't be nice to have ways or some other kind of Google Maps it's all you got to get there you want to know what it is so what is this volcano what is this Gurule know that caused us to be astray no to be blessed and to beat or even to be good and I have a sweet life so the optimist art softens and asks a simple question what are we saying ASHRAE new motto Calcagno our part was referring to part of God it means we have part of God within us so the author asks a question one second God is infinite God is everywhere so is it possible to say how can you parts and God what does it mean parts God is everything what does it mean kokaina what does that mean parts so the optimist on seven explains this by way of introduction is like this we know how many cohosh own how we call God what God has many names but one of the names we call God as we say Hakadosh borrow hoo ha kadosh kadosh the holy barak blessed who he is who referring to God him God so in other words what when we refer to God we say 3 words how cuddly SH the holy borrows blessed who he is now what does that mean that college boy who on a spiritual level what does it mean on a simple level here comes Bronco he's holy he's blessed what does it mean practically so the author explains as follows that God is mammalian God fills all the worlds now generally speak fills fills God's presence is all over the world now generally speaking when we refer to mammalian sigh hey that's that's God is what he encompasses the word and the moly wins he fills the world here and we refer to a different different level in the power of God over here without referring to is that the way God literally fills fills the world were world and he quotes them he quotes a verse which says how low E as hashamayim SR it's an e Molly so God says the heaven the earth I referring to the essence of God male I fill the whole heaven and I fill the whole earth what does that mean practically so if I tell you if you have a cup of eight ounces and there's eight ounces of order so I asked you where's the water in the cup and what's the response everywhere if it's an eight ounce cup and there's eight ounces of water and I say where's the water in the cup and what's your answer every part of the cup every pot yeah if it's an eight ounce cup and there's eight ounce of water every part of the cup so when we say I mean male God says I feel the world heaven and earth in our terminology just like the cup is full from top to bottom with the water and there's no place that's lacking the water the same thing also God is fills the world everywhere so in other words God I need the infinite part of God is all over the place heaven and earth and there's no place in this world where God is not now so God fills the world in every place so guess what let's have coffee with God right closet wine up if God's everywhere and he is everywhere so let's sit down have coffee with them right let's take him out to Starbucks or else you were taking fire a car I think I'm on a trip with you and by the way you do God isn't Starbucks and it's all over but that's like but but we know God's everywhere we know God's everywhere but if God is everywhere so why can I sit down and have really expects with him or whatever else I'm not everyone here to advertise Starbucks I was giving an example you guys go there but why can't right and really but what does that mean so God is really everywhere so hello let's have a two-way conversation but what's the answer and the answer because even though even though God is everywhere and that's what it means how borrow who so even though I need male God is everywhere but what is the first word Sarah Cardoni SHhhh God's God is called the what does mean cutleries Kadesh means that he is separated what does kedusha mean comes from separation so in other words God is separated from the world so you say hey listen let's let's sit down and have a talk with God well you want to talk to God who will God's Way above it Kadesh he's way elevated from it well inside we just a tiny moly but we just certainly Mollie God is everywhere now you tell him he's College he's elevated then is he any male or not I mean any male and he filled the world he definitely filled the world and the answer is very good the answer is both it's hard for you miss capri on there like for example if I tell you right now I'm here some here am i right now somewhere else no from here I'm here I'm not beer and if I'm here am I here no God could be here 100% fully and I say listen let's go out and have a coffee and the answer is he's not here but you just told me is here and the answer is yes they're both correct so and there really are correct by a you mean if I'm here I'm here and I'm not there and if I'm there I'm there out here by God I am here God sent me God I'm here fully but on the other hand what I'm totally elevated out of the world and that's the definition we say how college borrow who God is totally a one hand he fills the world on the other hand he's totally disconnected from the world now what does that mean so God the infinite part of God is totally disconnected so how did God come down into this world has he filled this world in every single detail because the something which is called in Kabbalah which is called eight seven eight sense amines that a contraction of power a contraction of energy a contraction of light that means if God revealed himself Annie Molly like God would be in the infinite power like he's in the higher world guess what they wouldn't be a physical world knows the infinite revelations what God has outside of this world she looked at high or etc near God is felt and seen in a minute way a matter of fact if we were able to take a journey up tot salute guess what we could experience the ain't soul for higher we could but we can't obviously but the so how did God - God came down to this world there was a process called a symptom which means God obviously had to contract the light so it shouldn't be a strong quantitatively and it shouldn't be a strong qualitatively and there's again there's a many many levels of contraction of since unum until God was able to create this finite physical world now how many sorts women are there and as many so generally all know there's something which is the call the four worlds at solute Bree I it C Razia and every one of these worlds which means God is more contracted from one level to the next here in this chapter the optimism doesn't go into the four world since women but he actually talks about something totally different and he says that when to cut the light comes down to this world it gets broken down to not four to four worlds level of time it actually gets broken down to into six hundred and thirteen the channels of energy so this infinite light went through all the tinsel of all the worlds and then it comes down here and it literally gets sprayed out into six hundred and thirteen channels of energy now from these six hundred and thirteen channels of God's internet came down to these six hundred and thirteen finite channels from every one of these channels was able to create one Mitzvah which now it makes sense what's the hall you know what we call a Mitzvah a Mitzvah what is the Mitzvah mean I'm it's on one hand we know as a commandment but a mitzvah also means Safa for me to make a fever it's a way to connect so those every single Mitzvah that exists in the world is an opportunity and a vehicle for us to connect to wash em so whether it's filling whether it's kashrut whether it's Shabbat whether it's learning Torah again all 600 every one of those is a way to connect our sin why is that a way to connect sure Michelle because everyone this meets vote come from one to six hundred and thirteen channels of energy not only that but each and every one of us have what how many lives in our body 613 where do we have the energy that gives every one of the 613 lives in our body the power to exist that all comes from what for the 600 eternity channel Avenger came down through the 10th amendment so the the contraction of light that goes down to the 613 channels of energy creates a 613 mitzvot the energy behind it and creates a 613 limbs in our body 248 positive it's well 3 6 or negative mitzvahs and all the different limbs that we have in our body now that the algebra says guess what he has news for you we handle 600 we went from 4 world's got the 613 which is major I mean try to keep track of 613 flows of energy right but guess what they all tremor says every one of these 613 channels of energy gets broken down into molten two more channels both more channels up until that we use the word infinite infinite strands of energy so it's not any more 613 we're talking about infinite strands of energy and think about it every little we know a lot of details measurements time you do it a lot of specifics the code of the Jewish law is filled with what's why the code if it's so simple just tells the midsole and the answer is it's different variations when it applies run doesn't apply that for example what we're getting ready now petition above so initial that you know is on the ninth of our weapons and falls out in Shabbat we don't fast and we do it on Sunday so when when is the fan start when do we make our dollar again there's so many details they all come from what they all come from literally from the infinite channels of energy that are flowing through that that creates the many details of the mitzvot yes literally infinite same thing also with the limit of our body we generally have 613 but from there it also shoots off to obviously infinite possibilities now so what happens like this so we here we're going to go ahead we're going to go into the of business you know the of business is it's called a matchmaking business you only want to the matchmaking business we're going to answer the matchmaking business okay so now we're gonna try to make a up why this should look nice because you take two people and you make a good sugar why is it exciting because really what's a Chinook what's a match really it's two halves of one hole that will come back together why people so excited about it you know people that the person getting engaged its excited the person that makes the match everyone the family and friends why people so excited because there's nothing as great as reuniting two halves of one hole there's nothing as powerful as being whole and that's what can you do if you had a dollar bill or $100 well that was 20 and a half and one half was in the garbage what can you do with the half you can't do anything with it it's a half a half a bill go to the store try to buy it's a $100 bill I was torn in half and someone threw away half of it and you walk into the store you take $50 worth of groceries and you want and you bring them hands although do you think you're walking out with the groceries no way well I better that's very very nice but it's worthless and when someone else walks in an hour later with the other half he's he getting something nothing the only way you're gonna both get something is if the two of you meet up and you put the two halves together and they match up Oh guess what now not only you're getting nothing you'll walk out not only with 15 you'll walk out with $100 worth of goods what does that mean every single neshama is only a half when you meet your other half ah now you have a whole so now you can talk but until the sugar happens it's it's not like it's a half it's like with it's a half it's useless because as a sugar cause that being whole so the goal is actually keep low excited out the ignition of anything you make a sugar can really uniting really to have someone home now so what happens like this what we just learned there's 613 strands of light which again could be infinite law strands of light that goes into the energy of what of the Mitzvah the 613 also goes into what into the 600 limbs in our body so you have 613 energies in the midst votes that are flashing away can't really do much with a mitzvah imagine you had Commandments and no people will do it what were those clans me worth nothing and now can you imagine you have a person and has no Commandments what would we be worth like in the Talmud Rubio she says if not for the day of my Torah or later I'd be worth meaning it's hardly worth noting because the Torah gives me an opportunity to connect the gods so what happens here is you ready for the matchmaking here we go you guys are ready big models all over the person the human being that consists of 613 lives in his body meets up with the Torah that has 613 mitzvot and all of a sudden this human being who ever it may be says guess what oh my gosh I'm gonna go ahead for example if it's a responsibly for a woman to light the candles Friday night or if I'm a man I'm going i'm fillin or man or woman for example and you're gonna go ahead and eat kosher right now and you're gonna make a blessing or you can do a prayer whatever you're doing is you know what's happening right now is there's a of being formed a sugar-free teen who and who between the person and the Mitzvah now what happens when the Chinook happens everyone goes Mazel Tov everyone's excited that the same thing also when a person goes ahead and doesn't Mitzvah what happens at that time the sparks start taking place the light starts going off now why is it like or why is the light go off because when a human being a human being is a finite you looming right a mitzvah is usually with something physical so your being is finite or infinite finite a physical thing a book it's finite but what happens when the myths when the of the physical thing becomes a mitzvah becomes you will this godly infinite light goes into it and it comes in the other side in the yielding now you have so to speak the lights was a hold of sound the light show goes off now you have a sound the light show going off and when the sound of light goes off that becomes amazing now that's great that's wonderful now so what happens anytime person goes and does a mitzvah is neshama lights up with the light of the mitzvah which comes from the light of the infrared part of God that's in general great thing but we all know there's something in life called turbo-charged in other words you guys like cars right three of my cars all right so these cars and when you have a turbocharged then journalist look at the guys smiling you should put you in the camera the way you're smiling about the tree look at this guy oh my gosh oh that's a real turbo triangle changed he's turbocharged right so if you have a car that's turbocharged what happens now whoa now what does that mean why why you so excited the turbocharged because instead of going in whatever goes 60 miles of 80 miles all of a sudden you're going a hundred hundred make sure there's no cops around 150 and you're flying and you hear the engine racing now we also want to be turbocharged so if we want to be turbocharged what does that mean practically in our life so when you do a mitzvah the brain tells you oh my gosh guess what God asked me to do this I'm doing this the light is on what do I look like a non turbocharged car but what happens when I get excited about it now I look like I'm turbocharged when those the turbocharged take place so the omron says you know when the turbocharged takes place you guys are ready you want to be turbocharged you know in the turbo car takes place during prayers during prayer that's when the that's when you get turbocharged spiritually why is that very simple because when you do a mitzvah yeah you connected in front of light that's one for the light goes on but we all know we have mind or we have a heart so in order for that powerful energy to go from the mind to the heart and for the heart to be excited about it that happens through that happens when a person prays because the goal seen your behind to your heart now so therefore the algebra says how many mitzvahs are there the 613 mitzvot we have to observe all of them now God gave us all the Mitzvahed and in the Mitzvah is a part of God in us our souls are a part of God so anytime we do a mitzvah anytime we pray and specifically when it's turbocharged during prayer service then we are experiencing Calcagno what doesn't you know what does I mean a part of God you said God I need the right doctrine parts because God is really infinite but God put down his spiritual energy into 613 lights and it's always had also infinite amount lights but let's literally stick to the for a moment - 613 so God put down the six his spiritual energy into the 613 lights which goes into the each specific Mitzvah and each single put in each specific part of our body because every different Mitzvah expects a certain part of our body so when a person does a specific Mitzvah with a specific part of their body what happens now so we are connecting to hell Cain a part of God which is one of the 613 lights and we do the next part another part but Calcagno means when I connect we're connecting to the infinite light because everything comes from the infinite light but in this world that got broken down for how many say how many lights 613 which created the 613 mitzvahs which of which which created also the 630 limbs in a human being so when I do a specific mitzvah I'm lighting up that Mitzvah and I'm lighting up that part of our body so the inferred on purpose is our shrine over we're fortunate right what does that mean fortunate our soul is lighting up my title greatest Calcagno which means that what that we're lighting up a specific part of our soul with doing a specific Mitzvah now the reality is that we have to ultimately fulfill how many myths vote every one the six start entertain and guess what the other says you know what happens if you don't finish the 613 when you come down this world you given a list you know the list is the homage and in their safe time it's all you studying in Shabbat 613 so we come down to this world from were born till we die we have a mission and the mission is to get all the mints I mean just a checklist but to really get into a turbocharged player right to do all the 613 mitzvot what happens if we the end of our life and we only did 612 pretty good whatever that one you didn't do you know what happens you're on the next train back down there come back that you hang you're going to come back don't say that come on you know a lot of myths out in your life you do big lips of that okay but the port I gave you whatever you come back to one but you're right you imagine the only there huh either only three hundredths you're gonna be coming back to do the other 313 and guess what you come back and you do another 103 back again the the point is that we all have to ultimately fulfill every one of the every one of the commandments there's no saying uh I like this one I'd like to know you got to like more or learn to like them all here's the guy who do more but the fact is we all know the comma tells us that the expression is about Google your father my uh sorry sir which mrs. do you like the best and for example to give example certain people love the midst of census they made sure that they had the best sittest and they made sure other people have warts answers and they make sure that it was available all over the world or for example certain people kashrut that meet the only 100 in culture and i'll make sure that this kosher available for other people or if someone else fill in and I'll make sure that they put on tefillin they get the nicest Pierre and they'll help other people put on tilling and there's so many myths mon sure everyone has their things certain people it's about hosting guests for Shabbat certain people it's about Shabbat again if certain people junk them that's their thing yontiff oh my gosh they're certainly odd simcha I got it but the point is so someone excels in a certain mr. or for example there are certain periods of history that certain mitts vote to president pending on what was going on in that period of history or for example certain families have certain causes etc now so what happens is when a person is excited about a certain Mitzvah so the Opera says what's the reason why somebody's excited about this Mitzvah versus another Mitzvah like why if you have to do all 613 why you're excited about one over the other and the author says there is no reason why you know what you're excited about it the honors that's going away no that's a that's like you win the lottery ticket you win a lot you couldn't you couldn't work on being excited about something when a person naturally is excited by certain Mitzvah that's like wouldn't need a lot of which means you want it that means that God gave you for some reason in your soul and their offer it plays on the word there might have a society trade that means by him it was Zohar was totally letting up this Mitzvah when a person is excited about a specific Mitzvah that's because God gave you that lottery what's that called Darrell a no now what happens when God gives the opportunity to be excited about a certain let's work and be prey or could be totally study it could be helping somebody can be Shabbat it could be a kid this club it could be anything right whatever you're excited about that's a gift from God that mine I am that's already obviously sweet because that's already there's excitement great excitement it's like a double turbocharged and that is obviously called war that's the idea of what my name which is totally totally totally sweet now so in other words what's the ultimate teaching us in this chapter it's a very powerful chapter chapter seven the album is teaching us as follows that ultimately we want to live a passionate life a life where our souls are charged up and the way our souls are going to be charged up is by connecting to the 613 lights that came through the infinite light that came down to the 613 limited lights and by connecting to the mid smote and when we dukes every every and each and every specific Mitzvah then we bring osho tremendous blessing to us and we bring a good life to us in Calcagno let's draws from that specific light that comes down to us but then there are times we get we're totally like excited about certain this fold that is already going real and that's a gift that God gives us and that gives us tremendous sweetness and greatness and another important less than the optimum teaches us is that ultimately we want to have the real power and we want to permeate our lives not only intellectually but emotionally but to be turbo lien charged and excited about Judaism about studying Torah and by doing them it's worth every single one of them we have to spend time praying because prayer has the power that it takes all this powerful energy and it literally brings it to every single part of your body your mind your heart to your feet till you're ready to actually have real simcha and to really be excited so this is really a great chapter it gives you the guidance how you can brighten up your soul with the godly light by doing every single Mitzvah possible with tremendous excitement and enjoyment and obviously certain ones obviously even greater excitement enjoyment and then we'll all be blessed as a shrine you will be old blessed I tell you volcano will be the fortunate and lucky we'll have every single Mitzvah we'll be generating we'll be connecting to the infinite light of God and the mana younger Elena we'll always have these wonderful extra gifts that will be sweet and lovely feature and every one of us