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0:02 All right, say good morning. 0:04 Good morning. Let's begin. 0:05 We're picking up in paral or same PDF that I sent out on uh on the chat just uh just two days ago. 0:15 So, we left off in the middle of page 10. 0:17 If you remember again one of the incredible things that happened in yesterday's sh is that was able to give us the different categorical designations of chuva and specifically we're focusing on the first category which is called chvidis instinctive or innate 0:36 chauk then went on to explain that in this category of chvativis there's two subcategories of chivis guffanis and chvativis nachis there's what we called instinctive physical cha and ultimately instinctive spiritual chva. 0:53 What's in store again then we're focusing what's instinctive physical cha. 0:57 So explained that sin causes discomfort. 1:03 Sin causes discomfort. Sin causes what said illness. 1:07 Sin causes literally physical difficulty. 1:10 So what happens when a person is in a state of physical discomfort? 1:13 What occurs? What occurs? 1:15 They're going to try to remedy it. 1:16 That's the nature of the human condition. 1:18 I just want to if I'm if I'm uncomfortable, I want to be able to change that at some point. 1:24 So therefore, if cook says the process of chuva tisgness is because sin creates a sense of physical discomfort, I'm going to want to address that. 1:36 I'm going to want to alleviate that in some way. 1:39 So I pick them up now on page 10, the middle of the page about about four lines down from the top. 1:48 Medicine medicine. So what's medicine, right? 1:54 What what what is the entire discipline of medicine? 1:56 Someone has an ailment and what's the goal? 1:59 What's the goal? The goal is fix it. 2:02 The goal is address it. 2:03 In other words, they'll say, you know, no one ever comes to their doctor and say, I I think people don't come to the doctor and say, you know, this is bothering, this is bothering. 2:10 And doctor says, you know what, there are people with bigger problems than that. 2:13 Don't worry, you you know, you you'll be fine. 2:15 You'll be fine. Obviously, are there incurable things as we'll discuss? 2:19 There are. But lame me, the whole aoda of medicine is to be able to cure illness. 2:25 There's a problem. What can we do to address that particular problem? 2:32 He goes on, he says, but here's the here's what's incredible. 2:41 In the same way that medicine is unable to address everything and say, here's the interesting thing about medicine, right? 2:49 A person could be ill and sometimes you could address an illness, maybe even cure an illness, but interestingly enough, can you restore a person to what they were before the illness? 3:05 And this depends, right? 3:06 Certain even major illnesses, barashm with advances in modern medicine, we can cure, we can treat. 3:14 So you're no longer sick but doesn't necessarily mean that you are what you were before. 3:19 This is an interesting idea says he says says so in this first model of sin literally creates physical discomfort literally creates physical difficulties. 3:39 When I'm in a state of physical difficulty what am I going to do? 3:41 I'm going to address it. 3:42 I I I don't want to I don't want to be like this. 3:44 So therefore, if sin causes physical difficulty, sin causes, it's even illness, then of course I'm going to want to do chuva. 3:52 And this is not motivated out of any lofty spiritual ideal. 3:58 What is it motivated out of? 3:59 Comfort. Comfort. Care. Personal care. 4:02 Same way if it's too hot to mess around the air conditioning, too cold to mess around the heat. 4:06 Not because of some lofty theological idea, but because I want to be in a state of comfort on the most basic human level of chuva. 4:14 Sin causes discomfort. Chuva is the process through which I restore my comfort equilibrium. 4:22 In the same way that modern medicine can't cure every physical ailment, cook says the one unknown is can cha cure every physical ailment. 4:37 Could cha address every element or every aspect of discomfort? 4:41 He goes on medicine, we haven't found the answer to every single thing. 4:51 We also don't know in chuva what's the scope of chuva what's the full power of chuva what's the full measure of chuva so these answers we don't have said this is a very profound line says the one thing you don't 5:14 know and this this goes back this goes back to the this goes back to the to the introduction ction which is which is says as much as has been written about chuva and as much as we understand about chuva there 5:30 is so much we don't understand about chuva so one of the things that is saying is chuva has the ability to restore physical equilibrium it has that power it has that power what we don't know is to what extent to 5:46 what extent and I will say to me this is a very profound line because really what Drak is saying is one of the great unknowns about Shabba is in general how much could cha restore you to where you were prior 6:02 to the sin you know I tell you something interesting a lot of times like with end of life issues in right so the big things that often come up is you know let's say a person is dying he's dying some 6:18 type of terminal terminal condition and often the shy come up like how much intervention should you do for a person who is clear is you know is is is on is is towards the end of their journey you know how 6:31 much do you have to do and again because often medical intervention comes with its own negative consequences also so how much do you have to do and one of the interesting shilus that that that avoic has to ask a doctor 6:45 is can if you do if you go ahead and you do this process, you do this medical intervention, can you restore a person back to their baseline, you know, to what they were before this last so to speak, you know, 7:00 medical hiccup. Can you restore them to their baseline? 7:03 And cook says, you know, one of the mysteries of cha is, can I be restored to my baseline? 7:12 So, does Chuva take me back somehow to where I was before the sin? 7:18 Can Chuva really transport me back to who I once was? 7:23 Or is it that Chuva race is sin? 7:26 Ches powerful like that. 7:29 But I can't be restored to that baseline. 7:30 Other words, I'm someone different. 7:32 I'm someone different going forward. 7:34 And then cook says this is one of the great mysteries of cha and it's fascinating because it's the same mystery for medical healing, right? 7:42 So medicine knows person has an illness. 7:44 We could go ahead. 7:45 We know, let's say we know with certainty we could cure this illness. 7:48 What's the one thing you don't know? 7:50 What's the person going to be like after the cure has been administered? 7:56 Who are they going to be? 7:57 Who are they going to be? 7:58 Right? Are they going to have all their same abilities? 8:00 Are they going to be the same person? 8:01 Are they going to be the same? 8:02 Right? Are they going to have the same energy? 8:04 So, it's fascinating. Cook says the same thing the same unknown in the world of medical healing is the same unknown says cook in cha I know the cure will work who will I be after the fact what will be will 8:23 I have that baseline is it going back to what was or is it going to something new says this is the great unknown he goes on he says he says says, "Let's understand what we've started out with over here is 8:43 the most basic level of chuva. 8:48 This chuva to this roughness, instinctive, inherent physical chuva says, but this chuva can't stand alone. 8:57 This chva has to be tied in to the other spiritual forms of chuva namely ultimately again as we're going to see there's another level of physical instinctive cha which is spiritual instinctive chuva ultimately chuva based on amuna and intellectual cha 9:18 so is saying is this is an incredible place to start incredible place to start but ultimately again not a place where we could end so said essentially This first this first model of chuva. 9:29 This first it's not even model but this first like unit of chuva is for lack of a better term like almost like what we would term a utilitarian chuva. 9:39 Right? Because this chva says I'm in discomfort. 9:43 What do most of us do? 9:44 What do most people do when they're in a state of discomfort? 9:48 What do you do? 9:48 What do you do? 9:49 You alleviate your discomfort. 9:51 That's what you do. 9:52 Shouba causes me discomfort. 9:54 And this model of cook is saying physical discover. 9:57 Therefore the first model of chuva is I'm going to engage in a process of cha and again also the one thing we were not discussing or cook is not discussing over here is what is that cha like what what exactly 10:10 does that process even look like. 10:13 So cook's not even discussing that over here right he's just outlining kind of like the theological construct of it. 10:20 So I know that it'll alleviate my physical discomfort. 10:23 I know that and again all of this based on the idea that Rafuk feels that chuva does produce physical negative physical results. 10:31 Again I want to I want to go ahead and repeat the uh excl not exclaimer exclaimer disclaimer sorry disclaimer from from yesterday is saying that sin causes illness. 10:44 He's not saying that all illness is the result of sin. 10:49 And this is a very important theological idea because otherwise we get into a very a very detrimental and erroneous theological place where we assume that every single bad thing that happens to a person is because of that is not a 11:03 true statement. But yet says it but it is true to say that sin itself absolutely causes physical distress. 11:10 Chuva could alleviate that. 11:12 I run to the first level of chuva cuz I want to leave my physical distress. 11:16 The great unknown is I can take away the illness. 11:19 I can take away the physical difficulties. 11:21 What will it restore me to? 11:23 The same way that medicine doesn't know what the cure will restore you to one of the great unknowns of chuva. 11:30 Can I ever become the person I was? 11:33 Can I reclaim that? 11:34 Can I reclaim that past identity? 11:36 Or maybe that's not the aboda. 11:38 Maybe the aboda is to let go of that past identity and merit hashem move on to someone new. 11:43 We'll still stop you for today. 11:45 We'll pick up on on let me get a little bit on Sunday. 11:49 We'll pick up right next week on the next category which is chuva tis inherent inherent or innate spiritual chaot.
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