Tomer Devorah: Chapter 10 - Merging with Thought, Speech & Action - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman

I'm cast top of the page okay so we'll continue with what seems to be the last section of the safer and remember in this last chapter chapter 10 the author is going through some general ways in which we can connect to the zeros not only in daily living which has been more or less the theme throughout the whole part of the book but more specifically how to connect to the rows through the different stages phases of the day so we've gone through sleep dream state waking up learning tour throughout the night diverting chakras and now we're up to what's the next phase which is after after the morning prayers so other thing that brings us up to yo say me Shawn go save me Shawn okay remember we're talking about using prayer which is corresponding to malkos and the pay the mouth in order to elevate into the sphero's using malkos as a kind of a venue or a gate way into the sphero's in order to elevate himself in the world up to to Ferris the source of Torah so that then the chef-owner should come down through that tree that tree of life back through himself and into the world so he becomes like the tree through which the blessing is dispensed from the spiritual realm into the physical realm and he's going up there and picking those fruits and bringing them down for the world so the next state would be the state of Torah and that's what he's going to discuss here joke say me Shawn no say me Shawn he goes out from there from where from that gate that gate of mallows I think we mentioned that Malthus is referred to Terra Terra is a char so yo t me Shawn he goes from their meaning goes out from there goes out from the show and we said the shoulders where prayer takes place that corresponds to maltose meaning that's the place from which the chef was brought down into the world so now he goes out from there Oh Lila beside her Terra he now elevates himself with the mystery of Torah white Ella he goes up she looks like Michonne he goes out from there and up into the sewed of the Torah the reason is because filler the beit knesset is a place of trilha and that's malkos that's the lost of the sphero's that's like the emoticon the lower mother we spoke about how a person is surrounded by two women right his wife and the Torah or his wife in the Sheena but there's actually an elevated dimension of Shekinah which is a above that and that's actually malkos in be no excuse me to Ferris and Vina where bina is also n so that Torah actually reaches to a higher place than that of Prayer Torah excuse me prayer goes into thee into sha mine through the Shara mine through the through malkos was the Torah which is the Shah and it goes in there and it affects what it affects moving in through the sphere olace its effect moving into the sphero's but Torah insofar as connected to D Ferris and to Ferris is the son of AVI nough and Beno the empty cross Mina is like an N as a mother so that Torah actually reaches to a higher place than prayer itself of course you cannot not pray and prayer is an important thing but the coif of Torah is even higher than that of prayer Easter feast acaba I said by Alma Karishma who looked into the Torah and he created the world so that Torah is actually a source for creation whereas Fila is a purpose for creation for example colors for who created the world and until Adam came to pray for rain nothing grew from the earth after Adam prayed then rain came and things were created were brought into fruition but you see that Torah is a source for creation and prayer is the purpose for creation so by prayer one is actually fulfilling the purpose of creation having creation be turned back towards its source but the source is in Torah and therefore first a person prays and then a person goes into an even higher level which is the which is limited or itself the Torah is the way of maintaining the world even though breezy young even though bricio Malaya hook' shemites Asante if it weren't for my covenant my briefs which is the Torah then who cares my father it's lil Santi all of the rules that govern creation I would not be in existence so that Torah has the power of creation the purpose of creation is to have therefore that creation turned back to its creator in prayer but the source is actually in Torah so Yahtzee me sharm my person would then leave depart from that lower realm of mohos and Olay and be elevated now even higher masada Torah whom is conscionable bestowed me to see ohm and he connects to the Torah in the mystery which is associated with the essence of the quality of day and day is Hesed like we say Taurus Hesed al leshawna now that's a tourist I said Torah is it Univ kiss it and therefore the time for learning prayer excuse me the time for learning Torah is primarily during the day you're actually not allowed to learn Torah Shiva Tov at night the written Torah is not allowed to be read and learned at night you can learn the written law yeah you cannot you can learn Torah pitstop together with commentaries but just to read the Torah right why because the Torah the meat of Torah is press it and and and and and unless it is prevalence specifically in the day and therefore Torah has to be learned specifically night by day night that's torsion if tough first we can learn subito about pay first we can learn torture by pay by night why because tor chappal pay is the elucidation of the torsion of Tov you're finally in terms you know the oral torah is the elucidation of the written Torah and therefore a person is allowed to illuminates and elucidate the Torah through the torch about pay that's the oral torah at night when things are less clear and neat elucidation therefore right tour shiva tov is done specific a date which is the time of the light which is the time of look I said and torch about page so that's sort of tab and talk about pace to be done at night what is what what do you mean Oh Tosh tour Shiva stop that Torah that is kitab it's written yes yes like the word Kotel good Teva no just reading mr. brewer brings a person really should do that the person really shouldn't do that yeah the one exception would be to him even though till him is the Torah you know tell him is the way it's harsh epic style it's part of the written Torah still a person was allowed to read to hell him other forms of other forms of tour shiva kitab which are written I mean strictly speaking tortured if I was referring to the Commish the five books of Moses but still that was extended to other forms of written tour as well in the scriptures Moses not supposed to really really just read any of the scriptures without the commentaries without making it some type of a learning experience the exception is to help tell him but in any case Oh miss naeema : and then a person insured conduct himself according to the Torah and the Hesed the meat of Crecy that's generated into the world who has it all day long I chose the miracle until Minho Jude as many people cut it off and view it the other way around they kind of view its filler as being like hezid and Torah being Din why because they think that like Torah is something that you have to kind of like put yourself to the grindstone the self-control and the self-discipline you need in order to learn or to have your mind trained on the thought yeah but the Torah they think excuse me trilha they think is kind of more fluid more expansive in terms of hezid but it but it's really the other way around being engaged in Torah is an active cressid like I said tours Hester dollar China he's actually involved in the power of the source of creation and therefore when he's bringing that power of the source of creation into fruition by learning Torah he's actually sustaining the Brya sustaining the creation and that's a tremendous act of Hesed it's like a kurdish babu yeah like it says if it weren't for my covenant meaning if it weren't for the fact that my people are involved in the Covenant of Torah right then location my heart so Santi people are engaged in Torah study night and day then then then the the the the forces behind the sustaining of creation would not exist in the world would go back to TOA though like we signed for example in cabassa torah yum ha she she buddy who lost my voice what's wrong and it was on the sixth day the god created all of the heavens and the earth and so forth and so on what's young ha ha she she but the world was created on condition if the Jewish people will receive the Torah on the appointed day which is the sixth day of Sivan mo Tov wonderful everything we find if not everything goes back in Reverse to tovo a state of desolation so you see that the Torah and being engaged in the Torah is actually the greatest Hestia that you could possibly do because it is sustaining all of creation clearly when you give charity or money or food or help somebody you're helping sustain that person so when you're learning Torah and therefore sustaining the old you have no greater HESA than that where's trilha is viewed as being less like that it's true that Chile is involved in opening up the gates of Sheva and things like that but it's about grappling with dinning judgments should it be given or should it not and if it's given to what extent and if not until when so true is really grappling you know that's why it's called Tefila leads patel all right like lass says - exactly Russian but too late I mean you start II don't know exactly the lush in there but the point is I was grappling with God Leia says until she until he gave me a son and she called him enough Tully because she grappled with God yeah so that that really in essence Torah is Hesed and truly is more about kind of din and therefore when it is daytime and that is the time when the light of the Sun comes into the world and regenerates all of the powers of growth in the world a person should be gauged in learning Torah so that the power of Torah is also pervading the world and simultaneously involved in maintaining on a spiritual level the sustenance of the world but if a person can't learn all day long most people are not fortunate off to do that yeah then a person should at least learn just after Domini just after dominating person should learn so Marcos was like that field and the Torah would be the seed which he seeds the field so that the produce would be given to and benefit the rest of the world and as long as the person can learn he should do so but even if you can't learn at least something after doffing he should learn and should go on this way if he's able to learn all day long until min huh what does min her what happens at miracle should miss kasha patois at that time he connects himself with for what's for the meter of grow which is Denny and the reason for this is minima is from midday on so you have six hours of morning and six hours of afternoon 12 hours to the day correct 12 hours of the day 12 hours of the night the first six are tested that's morning the second six hours let's get score that's afternoon so that the time for Cosette is until midday which is why for example components were offered until the sixth hour that's midday and prayer can be prayed until the sixth hour chakras can be prayed until the sixth hour but no later why because chakras is has it the truth is a pillar persons really supposed to pray at daybreak well at sunrise that is which is the sort which is the custom was the source for the custom of diving what we call nets whenever sunrise exactly yeah sunrise I said the break of day but that really means dawn I meant to say sunrise yeah at sunrise what is that now 6:15 something like that yeah so as the ball of the Sun kind of rises above the horizon and the light of the Sun starts to enter into the darkness of the world so that's a time when a person should ideally be be praying but that time goes on throughout the morning right which continues the meter of tested throughout the morning but the the pinnacle the quintessential moment of the the crescendo of Hesed into the world is when the sun rises above the horizon certain right right which basically signals the end of din of the night the completion of the growing Hesed of dawn onward right and then from that point on the day really starts to two waned I mean it waxes it's true I mean it gets stronger during the day yeah but but but but but Cassidy the pinnacle of hesita at that sunrise and then as the Sun rises moves towards the middle of the day it leaves tested and was more and more to the direction of DIN so that from afternoon on would have did why because the meter of Hesed that is the quality of day starts to diminish from midday on the diminishing of the day respondent corresponding to the reduction of the meat of hezid corresponds to the growth of cavora right which has its kind of pinnacle when at sunset and therefore a person is engaged in Tour learning for the whole morning for actually the whole day cuz the whole day is really the day of Hesed there's really the quality of his'n but that has it starts to wane from midday on okay you can dive in chakras which corresponds to hezid which was instituted by Avril Lavigne oh right that's it until midday tell me there I'm just trying to say ideally should be done at sunrise look up hill it should be done by the fourth hour but it isn't done by the fourth hour of the day it could still be done until midday but no longer why because from midday on the quality of cressid is no longer pervasive enough for a person to connect to it through the filler of chakras which was instituted by Avram whose meter was high said rather that becomes the time to darwin minho which was instituted by its Huck yeah and then and the attribute is going to be put on all day long well I mean really tooling is something that can be worn all day long and if you're not gonna wear it all day long then at least when a person Davin's but nowadays the customers to wear it only during Chakri's yeah but if a person didn't wear didn't well them during Chakri's you could put them on anytime during the day and ideally when he's diving at minho so I've noticed to what extent filling or necessary associated with with with the day or night I mean technically speaking you could work filling at night as well we don't do that for a specific reason unlike titties where it's it's the Mitzvah specifically by day and not by night you don't fulfill the myths of cities by night like it says I'm sorry and you shall see it the blue thread or the myths or the other Mitzvah right the time is for the midst was at a time of the day that you can see it at night when you can't see it the no commitment no obligation she's not sure guarding chilling but we don't like showing at night for different reason because nighttime is the time when people kind of go to sleep and if they had to land on then they might that feeling might become disrespected in that way so I'm not sure to what extent feeling to necessarily associated with hesed or not but certain that Philly is and therefore Chakri's which was instituted by Avram is Dunn's position by day until midday but from midday on when Cressida is diminished and moves more and more towards the direction of din that becomes a separate time a pair of time for a separate type of prayer which is that if you talk like it says yacht saw its hawk the tsuyama saw day there's no us Arif Yitzhak went out into the field to to converse and towards the evening and therefore that's the source for the idea that get stock was kind of involved with communing with God in the afternoon evening time before dark and that corresponds to Din Johari Bob okay Nick Shabak I said Mitzvah law so in the morning he connects to the meter of cassette with his prayer uber Yom and then during the day pity Faris better Katara he connects to the meter of to Faris through his Torah learning Oh the Erev but in the evening meaning the afternoon evening big for big for Casa de Navarre lucozade Benitez Yan Xiu bar the basic NSS the F had bestowed hug of or Kadosh also but Sadiq I said because they let me - Jung sure who bar the basic message I would think perhaps in music in me does young all this should be done in the context of coming into the basic NSS where he does the following his Myakka had bestowed agua he connects and unifies himself with thee the meter of gore Kadosh also puts out of Hazzard like you did in the morning with the meter of Chi said you know so what's the shot here in the morning when he's praying he should have in mind that his prayers are in order to bring down Braja blessing and sheva bounty to the world in the afternoon when he prays which is a time of din he should have in mind that he's actually sparing himself his surrounding his community his family in the world from negative types of judgments and harmful things and midday is generally viewed as a time where harmful forces start to have more of a sway over the world so that for example apropos to the period that we're now the three weeks the base of meekness is described as being destroyed specifically in the afternoon towards the end of the day the destruction took place or it's brought down for example and then war that when a person sick the sickness weighs had more heavily on him in the afternoon a person might be it might be not not feeling well right he wakes up the morning feeling you know decent and then as the day progresses right he starts to feel more and more sick until he's like it really feels bad by night he goes asleep in the morning feels ok again yeah so this is also described as being that the forces of dinning in the world are weighing down upon a person and causing his weakness and cause him to be more susceptible to his weakness his spiritual weakness and therefore this is a time when the prayer should be directed a person's prayer should be directed towards warding off negative forces protecting a person from types of harmful things and we find for example that the war says Eliana V was only answered in Mincha loyal amis our exhibitors Mitzvah key Lorna Nellie lol Oh bits for the sermon huh person should always be very careful and meticulous with his prayer the min caprara because Eliana V was answered specifically at that time what's that event talking about the Jewish people at that time were steeped in idolatry and there were Jewish priests of idolatry and LEL kind of invited them to a challenge and his purpose was in order to convince the Jewish people to come back to the fold so he appointed the he he made an appointment in har Carmel that the priests of the bow these a priest of the of the of idolatry of the bow should meet with him there on the top of the Carmel Mountain which is outside of Haifa on top of high for a part of - have you look at it and he said to them each of us will call out to God and the one who calls out to the true God so his prayer will be answered and a fire will miraculously come out of heaven and accept his sacrifice so he says you guys go first you know the story yeah so they build a pyre and they put an animal on the pyre and they start calling out to God and of course to their gods excuse me and of course nothing happens so in the Algiers it makes fun of them and says hey it's still early in the morning maybe your gods haven't woken up yet shout out a bit higher shout a bit louder so they shout out a bit loud and of course there's no answer so he says maybe your gods are upset with you you need to atone yeah so they started cashing themselves and doing all types of forms of South flow cell flagellation until they were losing with blood and basically this went on until midday and nothing happened this was this time of Hesed then mid day comes and lel says it's my turn he orders of hired to be built and he orders a trout to be buried to be dug around the the pyre and then he orders barrels and barrels of water to be blown come and poured on top of the wood and the pyre until they again became waters logged and soaked and and the whole moat became full with water and then he said on Naini hashem on a knee three words boom fire comes out of heaven burns the sacrifice burns all of the wood right steam is evaporating from all the low the water that's soaked around the wood until the flames lap up the last drop of water until the mopes and then the whole things go yeah and the Jewish people are like wow yeah until that time mili I said how long are you going to be straddling the fence that's a little term that's used there that term comes from the Torah it's Charlie a fancy says how long you going to be straddling offense one leg here and long there there one leg two the idolatry and one leg to God look how clear the message is right Sam who I will keep when the people saw that they cried out and that's what they said Hashem who I became a sham who Elohim they cried out a shadow king which is why by the way at the end of Yom Kippur we say those phrases and then we conclude by saying schmeyer oh that okay - oh no - so far because throughout the year a Jew may stray away from God and his commitment to God might be called adulterated and he might become confused with interests and other things but by time young Hashanah and the sol o or jonah associate associate River and Yom Kippur comes along it becomes clear to him I mean it ain't no Corrado there's only God at the beginning pinup of that day he cries out at San Joaquin which my son came to seven hot so Ellie I was only answered at this time why because the Jewish people were straddling the fence and very horrible things were happening plagues and droughts and other types of things and a Leo came and prayed during this time of minta in order to nullify the dinning nullify the reason for these negative judgments which was there straddling of the fence there having doubt on inconsistency in their commitment to God and he nullified all of that in order to protect the Jewish people from destruction and from an outbreak of tremendous damage that could have been brought to the Jewish people so I know they was was prayed for specifically from minimal time in order to nullify these dinning and usually we find that Mincha is the most difficult of the prayers to be committed to specifically for this reason because it's that time of the day that we straddle the fence there's like this blurring between day and night where things aren't so clear I mean it's true I have to dive in but but I'm at work and I got this important stuff to do it's sure I got a diamond but I got this phone call I have to make you know well it's true I have to dive but I know my kids are home and they need to help with the homework and like all types of things happen the first day at the beginning of the day in the end of the day is kind of like a no-brainer all I have to do is get up and go down in the end of the day so my day is coming to a close anyway so I'll go to show them they went home okay the real challenge is min huh real challenges Minho well it was like you know I'm limbo between day and night and uncertainty about shall I be totally connected and extra extra meet myself from what I'm doing or should I not so it's that time that a person has to exercise self-control which is also Brewer and connect to God through the prayer of Minho okay because yeah episode of or could they also have it sort of has said well then they Liz they between these times of davening chakras in the morning and his afternoon prayer yeah which is in the afternoon he should tie himself who benzene is a kosher Hasina a mobis would also he should tie the Shema to himself during his meal I was referring to I guess the fact that a person job in shop is in the morning mins on the afternoon sometime after a shock race and learning Tory goes and eat something hot chakras his daily bread where's person supposed to not eat right away but what about the third hour that did by the position of hot chocolates by the sixth hour of the day that's mid day that's after diving and learning a bit at least learning a bit but it's specifically after Dava noon and you're actually not allowed to eat before diving a person who wakes up there's not allowed to eat he's not even allowed to drink most things other than water until he finishes diverting the reason is because the Donora says i'll before they're done don't sacrifice on the blood and one of the explanations that the camera offers on that on that verse in there are several is don't offer sacrifice meaning don't pray which is in place of the sacrifices and don't know I'll Tallulah done I'm sorry but the puzzle goes out to clue are done it's talking about the corn Pesach and it says don't eat the cotton pants off on the blood and there are several reasons several explanations what that verse means but the core says alcohol are down which means don't eat until you've prayed for your blood meaning don't eat food before you've prayed to God for that sustenance oh I have the food right here in front of me no but you're not allowed to partake of that until you pray to Hashem and thank him for what you have and also pray to him that you'll be given more and once you have taken care of your spiritual needs and addressed and and and and and and expressed the fact that your food is dependent on on God then you can go ahead and eat from the food that's fine about praying in general chakras yes chakras you require to pray chakras before heating meaning you're not allowed to eat before chakras you're a person is allowed to eat before Mincha and Maariv as long as he's gonna have some reminder that he's that he's got to pray because being involved in the meal might cause him ultimately to to forget that he's got to pray you'll have to do it with reminder but chakras are not allowed to eat that all before the prayer it's true there are exceptions I said you know the eagle had a drink allowed to drink water you're also allowed to drink things like coffee or tea as long as there's no sugar although if we're gonna talk holloko some say that in order if you need the sugar to make the tea or the coffee palatable then you're allowed to put sugar in it as well so that you're not like indulging yourself by having sugar you're just making the tea palatable it's worth digestion or what the teeth should I mean no tea and like coffee like well to warm you up you're allowed to drink more than just water you can have water with with coffee or tea for example but you're not allowed to drink something eat or even drink something which would be like indulging yourself before actually praying for your praying to God for your needs I'm just saying it's brought down if we're talking Holika that even though sugar and sweet things would certainly be prohibited but if it's doing it for to make the car forty pound well you can do so because you're not really doing it for the sweet drink you're just using the church and they're those who will extend if we're talking haha that idea even further allow you to put milk in your coffee or tea with your sugar because uh because the milk makes it palatable why would a person do that I think they say that coffee or tea is they what's the term yeah a type of a stimulant and it is important to relieve yourself to have a clean body before darvany and therefore there will be some who will be lenient on drinking coffee and tea with sugar and milk even if it's a stimulate it helps them prepare themselves for a prayer same it's not the right word still it's not the right word but there's a meaning it stimulates that digestive that there's the last part of that digestive process yeah so this was it diuretic because that for urine or for yeah so this is not just your and it's that's what we're talking about number two yeah that's what finally talked about number two all right I think we're gonna have to stop here in order to do the rest sufficiently so will those other seven finished tomorrow then you