Text-Based Tanya—Week #68

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

um before we begin today's lesson we want to dedicate the learning today for Rafael hayam mayor Ben simakasha a young boy who needs our prayers and our help and Hashem should send a speedy recovery complete and speedy recovery okay this is text-based Tanya we're still in chapter 39 Tanya we're still in chapter 39 and we started speaking about kavana about the intent the emotions with which we Infuse our mitzvahs and we were speaking about um different levels of intent yeah okay and the different levels of intent depend on where your emotions are coming from either you can emotions are coming from either you can get them from meditation or you can get them from the hard wiring of the Jewish soul and depending on where you got your emotions from that's how high so to speak the Mitzvah is going to reach the Mitzvah that was fueled by that intent so the higher intent goes to Bria and the lower intent goes to utsira remember all this yeah all this yeah and we spoke about the the malachim being emotional creatures and that's why they're called hyus they're called animals and they're attached to yitzira which is a more emotional world as opposed to Bria which is a more intellectual world and that uh basically when we do the Mitzvahs and we learn Taylor down here with the right intent so we're creating we're creating reward for ourselves we're creating reward for ourselves after we get up there to Ghanaian and that's where we left off we said right before the two dots right there's a kiskar mitzvahimitz foreign it is above and and uh uh limited created beings

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1. 0:00um before we begin today's lesson we want to dedicate the learning today for Rafael hayam…
2. 4:46are diminished enough so that finite entities very lofty fine identities souls and Angels but I'll…
3. 9:25objects were able to maintain it all day long no matter what they were doing eating…
4. 14:09what energy is most obvious the emotions the emotions okay which one we didn't even speak…
5. 18:52sometimes when you're trying to when you're trying to describe something that's really lofty and indescribable…
6. 23:32that Mitzvah is the world of it's Europe okay very good but you're saying that loved…
7. 28:14when you serve Hashem without arousing any awe or love even in your brain right even…
8. 33:17so too it's impossible to be motivated to serve Hashem if you don't at least he…
9. 37:54okay so that sounds like you're thinking a thought about it it's causing you to Value…
10. 43:13into your Toyota that you're learning for that reason and then unfortunately the title that you're…

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