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0:27 All right. Good morning. 0:29 Good morning. Let us begin parak alf of chapter one. 0:36 So this is actually quite fascinating because here as much the the introduction of course was almost like a beautiful window into cook and about his feelings on shaw. 0:48 Now again in chapter one we begin to get into the dynamics of chuva. 0:52 But first what does in a very methodical fashion is to create what we'll call a framework for chuva. 0:59 So what does this mean? 1:03 So writes as follows. 1:09 There are essentially three different frameworks associated with chuva. 1:13 What are they? Number one, alfuvativis, which we will translate as almost natural or instinctive chuva. 1:24 Okay, we'll define each of the categories. 1:26 B chuva emun a chuva ultimately a faithbased chuva and gimmel chuva an intellectual chuva. 1:36 So there's essentially instinctive innate chuva chuvativis faithbased amuna chuva amunus and instinctive chuva excuse me intellectual chuva chuva says of cook let's analyze now today we're really just going to focus on the first of the three categories what does this 1:57 mean ultimately now I'm sorry now in what we'll call instinctive or innate choua there's two other subcate categories. 2:10 What we would call a natural or innate physical chuva and chvais a natural or innate spiritual chuva. 2:21 Okay. So now a lot of categories here to unpack. 2:24 So let's start first haguanis. 2:25 So the first thing we're starting with is what we call chuva guanis. 2:30 Natural instinctive physical chuva. 2:34 Okay. What does this mean? 2:35 Here we go. So the first this first category of cha which cook is calling chvais. 2:49 So again natural instinctive physical chuva is based on on on a very simple premise. 2:56 Well I don't know simple based on on the following premise. 3:00 In general, when a person sins, an a is against the a goes against nature. 3:08 Now, now what does this mean? 3:10 The world is programmed in a certain way. 3:12 Like tell us looked into the Torah and he created the world. 3:19 Now, what does that mean? 3:20 What that means is the world itself is the blueprint. 3:23 Excuse me. Torah itself is the blueprints for Torah. 3:26 Which means that it's Torah itself that's embedded in the very fabric of creation. 3:33 Which then means that when a person does an a by definition, what I'm doing is going against the very fabric of creation. 3:42 Right? It's not just that that an a is against the will of God. 3:47 And a ver is against the very fabric of creation because again we often look at Torah in way too limited of a fashion. 3:55 We look at Torah as a body of knowledge or a body of laws that God gave us to guide us to how to live our lives. 4:00 That is true. But Torah is also the very master plan for all of creation. 4:07 So everything in the world, everything in the universe ultimately is embedded in Torah and Torah is embedded in everything. 4:15 This is the idea that we believe that when you look in the world everything has kadusha. 4:21 So why why does a tree have kusha? 4:24 Why does a tree have kadusha? 4:25 Why do the stars and moon? 4:26 So of course on a basic level they have kadusha because they were created by god. 4:31 But on a deeper level somehow even the trees and even the soil and even the heavens everything is embedded in the framework of Torah. 4:40 So therefore, Torah by definition is intertwined with the natural world with nature. 4:46 When a person sins, a person doesn't have they're essentially going against the very laws of nature. 4:52 Right? The ways of the way the laws of nature are set up are set up is that a person follows the Torah, which by the way, just interestingly enough, if you look for example, let's say in par so the Torah says, 5:06 what happens if you don't listen to the mitzvah? 5:09 Listen to the mitzvah. 5:09 The Torah outlines a whole series of curses. 5:12 But among them, what does the Torah say? 5:14 I'm going to withhold the rain. 5:16 Now, what does withholding of the rain, for example, have to do with transgressing the Torah? 5:22 Okay, you could say it's a punishment. 5:23 Hashem's saying, you're not focusing on your spirituality. 5:26 I'm going to prevent you from acquiring material wealth as well, holding back the ring. 5:29 But on a deeper level, it's brings this down. 5:32 It's not as much a punishment as much as a cause and effect or an action and a reaction. 5:38 When I behave a certain way, the natural world responds to me in a certain way because we're in harmony. 5:46 We're in harmony. So if I'm living a life of Torah, I'm living a life of spirituality, then I am in sync with the natural world. 5:53 But if I'm not living a life of Torah, I'm not living a life of holiness, then what what ends up happening is I'm not in sync with the natural world. 6:02 Well, what happens when you're not in sync with the natural world? 6:04 The natural world doesn't react to you the way you would like it. 6:08 So therefore again there's going to be a problem with the rain. 6:10 There's going to be a problem with paranosa. 6:11 There's going to be so there's going to be a problem with with many different physical things. 6:16 So this is important to understand that living a life of spiritual connectedness makes me in harmony and conssonance with the natural order of the world. 6:27 By the way, where else do you see this? 6:28 Where else do you see this? 6:30 Let's say think about this just a second. 6:32 When do you have right when do you have in life? 6:35 When do you have your greatest appreciation of nature? 6:39 When does a person appreciate nature most? 6:42 When spiritually I'm in a good place, right? 6:45 When when I'm doing I I think if I know that I had a day filled with a like yesterday, you know, I I have a day filled with aas. 6:55 It's interesting. I I find this that you're much less likely to be moved by a sunset or to be moved like by a starlet sky or to feel the in the rustling trees. 7:09 You don't. But when your nam is plugged in, I'm feeling all of that. 7:15 I'm feeling all of that. 7:16 Why? Once again, because when I'm living the life I'm supposed to be living or at least aspiring to do so, then I am in harmony with nature. 7:25 But ultimately again if I'm not living the life I'm supposed to be living then nature and I we're not on the same page. 7:31 So therefore says of so this first level level of chuva what we call natural instinctive physical chuva says as follows goes against the laws of nature. 7:56 Now everything is right. 7:57 The laws nature itself nature itself is is intertwined with spirituality with Torah with okay said this is very interesting and and this statement itself is going to require a lot to unpack. 8:16 Rook says every negative behavior is somehow is somehow going to bring about illness and pain. 8:27 Illness and pain. What DFuk is saying is that when I behave in a spiritually negative way at some point that manifests itself physically manifest. 8:40 By the way, the pragmatic example of this pragmatic example of this was saras like this was saras. 8:47 Saras is not a simple physical malady. 8:50 That's why when we translate it as as leprosy, it's a little bit disingenuous because remember again leprosy is natural physical disease. 8:57 Saras is a physical manifestation of a spiritual illness. 9:00 I'm a person who is spiritually ill. 9:02 I'm a person who's speaking lashnar about others. 9:04 I'm a person who's coveting what others have. 9:06 I'm not in a good place. 9:07 Well, when you're not in a spiritual good place, that manifests itself physically. 9:13 Now, again, we always have to be careful with this. 9:15 Not to say that all physical illness represents someone who is sinning because obviously that's a very dangerous theological rabbit hole to go down, right? 9:26 So, really, every single person who's suffering physically, every single person who's ill or single person who's dying is because they're a sinner. 9:32 So we know again just because something is true in one direction doesn't necessarily make it true in the opposite direction. 9:39 But the idea of say is is the way sin works is will bring about some level of physical suffering. 9:49 That's the way it works. 9:51 Sin is going to hit you physically some way. 9:55 Whether it's your health, whether it's your paras. 9:57 Again I say I can't say enough. 9:59 This is not to mean that every single person who's suffering with their health or with their parasa is because they're sinning. 10:06 That that's not that's that that statement is not true. 10:10 But the other side is true. 10:12 Says every will ultimately bring about some level of physical distress, some level of material distress. 10:20 Therefore he says and man suffers from this. 10:25 Man suffers from this individual man, collective man, right? 10:32 This man what that means is this manifest itself on a personal level, manifests itself on a national level. 10:40 Turn the page. Page 10. 10:50 And when a person has this moment of awareness of awareness where they realize, wow, so much of my suffering and so much of my difficulty is because of the way I'm living and because of the behaviors that I'm engaging in. 11:05 Shab says, "So what does a person do? 11:12 What does a person do? 11:13 I want to fix it. 11:15 I want to fix it. 11:16 I want to fix it. 11:17 If I realize that I'm suffering because of my actions, ultimately again, I want to fix my situation. 11:32 So say this is incredible. 11:33 So what happens when I have this awareness that my sinful behavior is causing physical distress, either illness or problems with paranosa or other forms of of physical distress. 11:44 What do what do I do? 11:45 What do I do when I realize this? 11:46 What do I do? 11:47 I want to fix it. 11:48 I want to fix it. 11:49 I I don't want to live in a state of of disharmony. 11:52 So therefore, again, I begin to be pay attention and to fix my situation to return to be in sync with the natural order to listen to the laws of nature muser and Torah in order that my life tranquility be restored. 12:09 So we have to stop over here for today. 12:12 But this is what Rkook calls this first level of chuva tivis ganis instinctive physical chuva instinctive physical chuva says I know that some of the physical discomfort and suffering that I'm experiencing is because of the way that I'm living my 12:30 life because I'm at a state of disharmony with that in the natural world and therefore I want to fix it. 12:38 So why am I doing chuva? 12:40 Why am I returning? 12:41 Because I want to restore the sense of physical and material tranquility to my life. 12:49 We'll stop over for today. 12:50 We're not finished. We're not finished with this. 12:52 We probably get another two just on on this first stage of cha is helping us to develop a framework for all of Morning. 13:14 Good morning.
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