Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Sec4 Chap 23 “The key to draw down the greatest blessings”

- tonight's hanging class we're studying Tanya we're in the fourth section of Tanya called the gerotor - kodesh the holy letters of the alphabet we were holding chapter 23 and Hebrews called pericardial now since Tanya is the Bible of mysticism so every chapter teaches us foundational important ideas and more or less I would say every chapter self-contained but obviously there are things are explained more in other places less in other places but at least you have a complete blessing tonight and it's happened to be a beautiful chapter a really really beautiful chapter and it gives a lot of inspiration in two groups group groups that move study which you'll see is very very powerful but I think the key message that we can take away from this chapter is then here the album is going to teach you the key to draw down the greatest blessings because one we will want to have like great nami great the greatest blessings in our lives so here in this chapter on teaching those kind of draw down the greatest blessings the author begins by quoting from a Mishnah mistress actually in ethics our fathers were searching we are studying now ethics are positing pass over the world and the Mishna says like this Essaouira cherish min molesky material screen out truly abhinaya I'll translate ten people that are sitting and a preocupada they're studying Torah not just snoozing but here we go sitting and they're studying Torah they're reading and discussing it they're involved in a in-depth deep conversation in-depth study of Torah so the Mishna says Sheena the divine presence shreya rasping a.m. now that's a pretty pretty huge prize in other words the action that we do is we sit and study Torah but now only recent studies know we're sitting in a group of ten people when we do that the Sheena which is the presence of God shreya is internalized than the person now what does that mean so the author explains like this that the whole reason why we were career long we created why are we creating if that's that question it's an important question those the first question is why we created this reason that reason after makes a statement he says the whole reason why we were created was for one purpose one purpose only and that is to elevate ourselves the whole reason why we were created was to elevate ourselves that means if you don't know this you live life you won't enter but all that yourself you miss like the moat in other words we true we have to live and we have to eat we have to sleep or if the drink I mean that we need the places we need a place to find shelter and transportation I get it mean all those things for survival but that's not what we were created that's thing that we weren't created so that we she need a job to earn a living to live that's already created huh go beyond survival yes if they'll be on survival so we were created to elevate ourselves now how do we elevate ourselves so the question is what does it mean elevating yourself so we all know that we have a godly soul and we have an animal soul now the godly soul by default is gone what does it mean it's godly it just wants to cleave to God it wants to pray you want to study you want to mix Road it wants to live a beautiful holy spiritual life that is the role and the mission of the godly soul welcomewelcome chromosomes that is the role in the mission of the garlic salt wants to elevate itself on the other hand on the other hand we have the animal soul and the animal soul gained not after selfish way but just like our survival a possibly one called survival or living the animal soul wants to live and want to do anything and everything for self for so self necessarily bad but so it's all about self what are a vote in this world to inspire our animal soul that our animal soul should look for god and appreciate godness in this physical world so every single day every single hour every single moment there's a constant struggle between the godly soul and the animal soul the alice's leave me alone and whatever wants to do doesn't necessarily mean bang he just wants to even do me nothing which we all know doing nothing is not necessarily a great thing because it actually can bring you to the work to the worst things so just wants to nothing if it has to work to survive or for other reasons that motivated it does it but it has no higher interest other than self it doesn't think anything else on yourself it will get along with someone else long as the other person's feeding cells but past self doesn't go what are a vote in this world to inspire the animal soul than to think outside itself this is another human being that has a me the concern whether it's a family member a friend the community person or random stranger about about the fact that God is an exile to be concerned and to be would like to do something to get gone out of exile when we're in exile God's in exile as well yeah now in order to inspire the animal soul to be inspired that's work that's real work that's real so comes along the author ever and he says the whole reason why we were created was to elevate ourselves now in order to elevate yourself there's two ways to elevate yourselves I'll introduce two Kabbalistic ideas and that's as follows is something we'll just called isus little top dog and there's something which is cold he's elusive la la' let me translate the submersible attack that means you work on yourself to be sensitive another un being you think about it you meditate on it you read on it you discuss it you work on yourself and with time you develop certain gifts and skills to be concerned about someone else other than yourself that's called a solution or maybe you do the work for yourself you work on yourself but then there's something which is called the solution to what a law which means God throws you like a gift like a moment of inspiration and the moment of inspiration can come just out of the blue just one day you woke up on the rush I wonder something great today where'd that come from it just happens that's called a gift from above now it can come just out of the blue it can come in something great happens to you so all of a sudden you realize how life how great it really it is and how great it could be it can come from a challenge it could even many reasons if you comfortably swing to the right the swing to the left it's right in the middle another swing just out of the blue that's called ISA rusev Laidlaw a gift from above but then there's something which is called a source alone tactic now obviously we only have power on an issue solute on top we only have power to work on ourselves once in a while God throws against we can pray for God to throw us the gift and sometimes he will sometimes he won't but when God throws us a gift it's actually very nice now there's all this big discussion of mysticism what's higher what's greater and the answer is very simple what's really real is when you work on it yourself but in the other hand what can get you to a higher place is when it's a gift because it's a gift it's something which we could've done your own now so the Opera verses like this when 10 people get together and study Torah 10 people the magic numbers 10 3 10 more than 10 - but the minimum is 10 when 10 people get together to study Torah then what happens is God gives you as a gift estreno which is god's presence the infinite presence of God Shriya comes into your life even if you're gonna feel like the magic globe you don't feel like that like that strong energy of peace so this fact and happiness you can't even describe you you feel like you're like you walking like you don't want to stop or you're free you're gonna lose it and then you feel great you feel that so that's called screen assure you what does that mean what does it mean it means like this there's different types of spiritual energy this is an energy cold creamy creamy means we discussed many times in Cibola Saturday morning you have a cup 8 ounces you have 8 ounces water so you have the vessel you have the water that fits in that's perfect now be cool because it fits it's perfect but guess what you're limited to 8 ounces on the other hand there's times you have a hundred gallon jug but you have no way to detect get access to it you open the spigot or throw you away from the pressure so it's heavy amount of water in huge but guess what you can access it so the gift of light is when some have miraculous and again it's a miraculous thing when somehow you can tap into this hundred gallon tank of water as in the analogy you can tap into this infinite + blessing which normally if it came into your life you'd be totally it would blow you away literally spiritually physically it blow you away that comes into your life so the author says that cleaner that we're talking about here is the infinite part of God the one it's usually just market you cannot internalize it however when ten people get together and study Torah you know what happens that infinite blessing becomes part of your life now he hasn't going to adhere why but obviously I think it makes very simple sense because to ten Jews to sit down a whole study together there's no degree in the same time right in the same place the same subject and to you know not to and to really have a beautiful study session it takes a lot of breaking down of a lot of the animal Souls and Eagle Souls it also eat the ego the ego part and within us and so on and so forth and that obviously I think God's through that because we know the greatest blessings come from a student from unity okay that's not a discussion how it works but the point is when 10 Jews sit down and get together the Skeena the infinite life comes within us now once this comes within us this allows us because it's a gift from above to affect the greatest elevation within us because what happens is when that powerful energy comes within you who feels it not only the godly soul the animal soul feels and that and when when the animal soul feels it it starts flying like the godly soul so the shereena lights up it allows you to absorb the hundred gallons oh yeah it doesn't make sense but it works I can't explain it that's how it works that's the gift that is the gift that's the yeah now we all know everything in Kabbalah is not theory everything is backed up traced back to the Torah everything goes back to the Torah so the operator says where we get this magic number of 10 right we're gonna where we get can yeah 520 like you like it ten what's it's not a random number me right like you agree with y'all throw alright where do you get this number of 10 from yeah yeah exactly we're gonna come from okay so there's a concept night or cold we actually say that recently in the prayers and Foley so are you there's thirteen principles where we learn things out the Torah one of them one of them is something which is called a zero shop what does that mean as a Russian ah it means like this if you have a verse in October that says whatever it says and as a we'll call it a buzzword in there you have another verse in the Torah and it says whatever it says and there's a buzz word in there that the two buzz words match up on the same word so you can learn things from one to the other so does and the Talmud you have this a lot in this verse it says X Y Z and and it has this buzz word and this word says X Y Z oh no actually ABC and it has his buzzword so all the things that apply here apply here and vice versa and again table goes ones are great at great length so the Opera course is like this there's actually a verse which we learned in the Torah portion in two or three weeks ago depending if you on the American side call of the Israeli seconds you know off now one week of the total course I don't know if you know that you traveled Israel so here we're doing one point for the other do you know there it's it gets straightened out in a while but the point is a couple of weeks ago Rogers and where the Torah Torah selling is a very powerful commandment the famous commandment important commandment the one that we should all know so Chaz McConnell yes God says vinegar - D I will be sanctified this sorry that's the buzz word amongst Bonet assaulted Jewish people in other words a simple verse is saying is that God says I'm going to be sanctified I may be holy we're the touch where they stroll amongst the Jewish people now what does because of me does that mean our stomach in her head in the room the other like what is the sight of me now again you can you can say a lot of things we don't know what it means so it says in the Talmud like this there's another verse the other verse speaks about when Cora fought against motion of a no and motion rain returned to God God you here to help me in this one what we call before I need a Swiss little halo I need you to bring in the troops from heaven it's a big war here and I don't like fighting what was doesn't like fighting so the verse says God says he buglar separate yourself separate yourself me Tony ha ADA from the community knows the whole community was there Moses came chorus campus there everyone is Jim special is a fight everyone's around right so God says he bought them separate yourself out me 22-8 there amongst the community now so again you have the buzzword me too we talk now who was a community they were basically they were the they were the tribal leaders right and and open and there was news that there was the new were the twelve tribal leaders and to them separate themselves toward them we're not part of the whole war against against much already know and so there was left ten so he bottled with enough to eat okay that was left over a kind of region then carnation is ten so we know over there that ADA is referring to ten people a does ten people well actually I'm sorry the story was not the spies but the combination of this story with the spies so within a does referring to the story the spies and ADA over there means ten people the ten spies beside the two that work that went out of the way so now so in that story which is a negative story about the spies not about Korra about the spies and if you have a story yeah there it says the word either the buzzword is a though now what does it say there in reference to the ten people use the word type and in where God says Vinick dashi I'm gonna come only for 24 days rolled so we know just like the community over there to firm to ten people so sending also in sconces out I'll sanctify myself means when there's ten people so anytime you have ten people how do we know that God said I'll sanctify myself because it's said because it says he bought me Turks are aided over there it was referring to have a community of ten and that's all you know we have ten people question was asked whoa the source for ten is aware whether it was 10 people left in the community but that was a negative story why would we learn out about a minion about ten people sitting in studying Torah the greatest light coming in from a story bubble so obviously we know that we learned you need to have to tell people but why would you learn it from there so the author explains very fascinating shows like this because moisture Boehner was saying when somebody has wrong ideas inappropriate behaviors normal things you can reason with them you can reason with them you can deal with them however when someone goes and becomes neurotic out of the box there's as we call it like you have normal behavior of not normal behavior so not all behavior if it's normal within reason you can deal with it whether it's therapy whether it's discussion with its wounds whether it's love as long as it's the issue is on a previous thing a level but what happens if the craziness is coming into the arm logic in other words it's beyond logic what do they call it when a kid has a temperature temper tantrum what are you gonna say logically try to any even an adult to whether or not only kids right what do you know you can't do anything there if it's if it's hitting a hosta high level so that's that words point just like over there when we learned about 10 people it's where it was negative in such a terrible in which you couldn't elevate this any also been exactly what comes in to us is a very very high level of energy that comes from the level of knock if that comes into our life so the author brings the lesson how do we know again 10 from the story of Ibaka return five eight over there ADA means 10 and the same goal and it has the word toys so over here it means tardy and over there it's such a negative experience so we have the contrary brings in the huge positive positive experience experience now so in other words in other words in this what happens like this so if you have 10 people plus then you have vinegar - tea which means the screener itself the infinity know where it's usually market comes inside you however if it's anything less one two up until 10 you're gonna get you're gonna get star you get reward when you study told me get a reward God God God gives you a reward for sign Torah ever when it comes to like the high level that you need attention that you need ten people now which part the part that's behind the physical that's the tenth understand it I don't understand we're ten Dominion comes from understand why they'd arrived at Number ten to numerical ten why can wine at nine when at eleven a dog means a community that community that we're referring to was a number of ten people right and in that verse it says twenty at the buzzword in this verse where it says God resting his presence it has the word twenty so just like in the other words were just Toyota's referring to a number ten then say they also over here in order for God to Russ's presence you need the number ten there's nothing less than it and that anything more than that right you got it I'll accept it okay okay it's okay it's more of a Talmud class well we don't mean that specific point but you're right that's right it's right now let's accept because we're with let's go a bigger fish to fry right you guys like that huh okay but let that correct let's leave it that's more or less than ruling but go into the other subjects okay okay now this powerful energy that comes in let's go back to now just hundred gallon tank they were trying to tap into huge right guess what because we find a people handle it no so the truth is the ultimate reward of that will receive after 120 when our souls leave our body why but it is too powerful now God does a kindness not a kindness that he gives us a reward the reward we're getting for sitting 10 people and studying that he allows us that even though the full appreciation and the full internalization of that power fund could only be after 120 minutes all these are body because it's too powerful for us but God allows us to experience some of it in this world now what happens if ten people just get together just ten people get together down even stunning talk I'm not talking doing negative god forbid but ten people get there and then I'm selling time so obviously they draw that also very very high energy the highest energy comes when ten people get together to study Torah now the author explains that even angels even angels that showed up in the presence of ten people studying Torah they don't have the ability to handle that powerful energy there's to receive that powerful energy you have to be a vessel for it and the only way you can be a vessel is again by studying Torah with ten people and that allows you the gift that you're able to internalize that powerful blessing from God now therefore since the author of mapped out spiritually what happens when ten Jews get together to sit and study Torah you bring down a frontal schema the infinite presence of God comes down to your life so therefore he says now that you've seen this new reward that you get which is the highest reward you can get this world and it's something we need to do to elevate ourselves so now he starts inspiring thanks scedule time to get at least ten people together and ten people sit and study Torah because this way you'll bring down the highest level of energy into this world and God forbid he says that you should get the other ten people and just sit and chitchat and just gossip and talk about you know whatever nonsense stuff why because what happens like this it works both ways it's like a seesaw ten people get together and you study Torah what do you say what happens you're drawing in the scheana into this physical world what happens when ten people get together ten people get together and they start bowing they're not studying Torah but there is gossiping and slander and craziness right so what are you doing not only you're not drawing in the screen oh you're actually pushing out the screen up whatever godly presence was there you're literally pushing it out and the outer rings down he says one of the reasons why we are in exile is because of Sheena's pushed out think about it if God was in your life you mean exile would we all be collectively an exam though so why are we in it what does exile me what does that zombie this personal exile and this global exam right what is it what does exile mean the concept very simple exile means God is not revealed what is what is redemption when God is revealed so when 10 people are studying together in studying Torah God revealed but if 10 people are sitting and not studying Torah or gossiping slander and whatever talking crazy stuff or whatever they're talking not only aren't using the opportunity to bring God in you're actually pushing that out and if you push them down guess what you're causing the screener not to be here and you're causing us to be in God look longer both personal and the global ghullam - sarcastic judging God's judging judging judging your station what kind of dog why isn't God judging well he's not letting machinae blow out where he's cuz Syria because of a conversation they'd rather let me expose like this it's an example take for example this room for example has in it why fight that's why for anyone see if anyone sees my understanding was it was over but it's here the Wi-Fi signals are here now if you have a smartphone and you've had it open to accept the Wi-Fi you'll have full access to the Internet you can state or on it right you can watch you know our lessons afterwards online right down there YouTube channel right okay what happens if your Wi-Fi is off you have a phone that's useless for right now what wallets off so you gonna say ah we're gonna blame someone one night phone's not working hello open up the Wi-Fi own you'll bring it in you shut off the Wi-Fi you're gonna push it out what has got to do with it God's here God is God is here no but so knows then you bring up a point which may just clarify God is here when we're receptive God becomes revealed there's but if when we whether we're receptive and that God is still here yeah it is so yes maybe the point to clarify he's not gonna God forbid God's leaving God doesn't leave doesn't leave here's now some old self-esteem you don't like me I'm we're walking away God's right here he's not leaving he's not gonna cry he's not gonna go to Cole's mommy is daddy God's here the difference is the differences and this is this is I think I'm happy you brought it up because the key point God is always here and God is always revealed from God's perspective the question is our eyes open our eyes closed we have to we have to accept a signal exactly so when we're studying Torah and we're starting to attend people you what happens didn't like oh god Thank You Shirley happy was here a whole time our eyes open up yeah and we get to see the why fight that was there a whole the whole time versus we start if we start talking now as kite we're taking ourselves to the dungeon this is Bert lead right the spiritual drums are some happy yeah absolutely God doesn't go away God is here God was always here God is your God will always be here for us all's we need to do is just open our eyes how do you open your eyes very simple study Torah how do you open your eyes wide get full what's called t1 or you know the highest level is the highest level internet flowing you know like you can't even handle it so strong by studying Torah with 10 people that's the power of 10 people study Torah let me see people give me people or do you mean men no anybody started minion that took that we're not talking appraisers in a study session we told my specific perfect again can we clear this class has nothing to it what a minion of tourists of praying this is Torah sunny this is our ultimate ultimate again a sorrow see I used to him 10 people that are sitting the scheme the Torah and the studying Torah is unto a prayer service matter of fact this brings a greater cleaner than a prayer service different different concept okay different dancer Cobra have you brought it up absolutely yes now so therefore what happens like this let's go through they so what do ten people come to shul naturally for the prayer services now what happens like this before the morning prayer services you know I took business yeah it's debatable with you can we say hello to somebody walk is you get up in the morning the first thing is you know you get ready you do you put down your glass things you have to pray there's no there's no possibility really right to get distracted and have a conversation yes that's if they totally I remember wrong you can get it early to have a conversation or talking about not idle stuff and gossip I mean you have to be right really off the wall you rather be sleeping right so generally senior people get up in the morning they want to be productive so so that was I don't have to I don't have to warn you or encourage you inspire you not to get involved in any aisle conversation in the morning that's a given I mean your animals soul knows that that's silly okay I rather be sleeping obviously the best thing you get up in the morning and you can get a get in just a study session before thousand yeah it's great and then what happens after you do the chakras prayer service right you should sit down and study so I'm talking before you engage in the world because you want to have you charged up right you need to be charged up what happens you come later on today if you worked or whatever you do and you come for the medical service the afternoon service so take swab everyone together but it services are called five six seven whatever the time is so you come a half hour before don't sit down and stop gossiping and talking at the latest politics on the latest whatever there's that the other thing get ten people study talk then what I'm going to do the afternoon service been closed and there's usually a gap between men carmine so for example you know in Shabbat here we have not Friday it's Friday because I mean you're my then we just go straight to the chibok but where's Shabbat soon we have men car and we always have a class and show her arms even come on why because you don't have a class people might end up not saying they do you know they go into the library simulations right so the operators guess what hello this is your prime opportunity when anyways you have to hang out in the school because you never get numbers even come out of so use that timeout wisely to bring the Skinner within you away right now what should you start in that beer for bring in there could be for bringing about anything so what should you study Sal Gerber tells you what you should study interesting he makes suggestions oh he tells what the study he says first of all starting to inner dimensions of Torah now the inner dimension of Torah could become bottle of list at the end dimension of Torah specifically we know in the Talmud there's two parts to top of it well as many for this covenant just two there's the analytical part a Talmud this one says this and that one says that and how do you know like the discussion here before how do you know it's a minion the toy it's got a the right that's one part of the Talmud but then there's another part of the Talmud which is woven in and that's why the Thomas very interesting in the town was called an Yaakov and that is and you read it looks like stories simple stories interesting stories stories that to be you can make me cry to make you happy you make me sad old urban type of stories in a column it's called an Yaakov and actually pulled out all the stories in the HG mater section of books called a Yaakov yeah but Hebrew in there but in English they have even tapes of it in the oven online I mean so there's different rabbis anything it classes online you can listen it's very very interesting things now some of the stuff look like like simple stories but the Opera says that in these stories are some of the greatest secrets of the Torah greatest secrets are in woven in these stories so you're reading a story you're listening to this story mom okay interesting story gonna know in those stories you have a lot of the secrets of the Torah in there and now they have the Altima something you study the secret to the throw the a knock and you know what happens it actually wipes away sense if anybody needs a cleansing can sins can all go to a car wash at all right get cleansing some sins to the options by studying apples that will cleanse us for sex I'm from any sins that we've got from the done not again not we're not saying go ahead and sit it and come and clean them up don't send to begin with but just in case you've sinned so that's a good way to clean up the clean up some of the sins now also the album says it's important to study Jewish law Jewish law is very important why for example Shabbat let's say the law is about there's a lot of laws of Shabbat some of them are serious the God forgives you transgress them could be some serious you know punishments for it some are simple but the point you even know the hollow home you know the laws he have not observed Shabbos properly now not only that but for example there are certain things that you might like might not even realized how that it's halal like for example he says like klutzy for example when it starts getting dark you now see them have dinner when it starts getting dark kind of what if you try once to start getting it to wait if that mire first and again small things that when you learn it's really really interesting but we learn the Shabbat we learn you know how long halt every weeks we start from the beginning we rolling into chapter thirty now but through like Shabbat we know everyone saw me go through the little Shabbat that I'm told and so on and so forth so that's some simple like simple laws like for example let's see let's you have a friend and you haven't seen a friend in 30 days and also you see them so there's a bossing it's a lake right you never learn to halakha see you couldn't miss someone that's in the 30 60 90 days awesome you see them guess what you don't want to make the blessing so why should you lose out and doctor says you can't like this is a Jewish law it says you can't so I didn't know I don't know it's not an answer because why could meanwhile you missed the opportunity to serve in its volt so learning how law is very very important because you need to know how what to do and suddenly like in Syria this is so much like we know for example we all know this laws about Shabbat and kashrut and filling in family pure milk but there's many many hello hold that we we don't know how the hold making blessings on different spices and so on and so forth different blessings which come first which bless and you make first something's a lot of a lot that the more you study the more you get to know now so what happens nope finally you inspired okay let's 10 people we're gonna bring the screen in it's wonderful I'm ready to do it and you ever once it's time to start studying if 10 people just like again like you said the screen is there but now it's becoming reveal to us this intense Tina's becoming reveal to us now don't be a fool don't get up and leave the class you have the screen right there you're gonna walk out while the screen is there like why would you do that I mean it's like it goes through practical such what's doing me hello get the skier there enjoy the screen up the optimum send it off and he gives a beautiful blessing that whoever will listen to his advice his recommendation we blessed with a secure dwelling I mean to say is like this living securely it's probably one of the biggest blessings you can get because you can have a house that you want a home with your chapter he maps out for us the opportunity and to show us the power and learning with ten people the tremendous gift that it creates learning attempt people and what to learn but more importantly the blessing is besides the greatest infant of blessing we're joined on the screen and that's fulfilling our life's purpose but will to live a secure and happy life and that's obviously the greatest possible blessing