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

it, whether you are a Lubavitcher strictly speaking or you simply benefit from Chabad houses around the world, but we all are beneficiaries of his leadership and our learning should be Nishmas. We will finish up the 11th perek of Tanya today. The last perek we were defining the difference between a tzaddik varah tzaddik vetov lo, complete tzaddik, the incomplete tzaddik, who each on the outside look exactly the same. From the outside, they're living the same lives, which are essentially perfect. They don't make mistakes. They don't fall prey. They don't indulge in appetite. They do the right thing, but appetite. They do the right thing, but the difference is their inner world. The entire difference is their inner world. Now we move to the rasha, rasha valo rasha vetov lo. So we began to go through the rasha, who is an incomplete rasha. The rasha who only occasionally, only uh in a very superficial way, only even in issur derabonan, a rabbinic prohibition, but nevertheless indulges the ego over Elokus. And such a person, while they do teshuvah, while they repent, while they repent, while they come back, but nevertheless indulging come back, but nevertheless indulging that ego inside them gives the definition or the title of a rasha. Even someone who sins only once a year, someone who sins once a minute, they have something in common, which is that there is within them this voice, this appetite, this drive, this instinct, this animal soul that is tempting them and that they want to indulge in. As opposed to the tzaddik who has either eliminated or conquered it. But the Russia has this ego inside.

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1. 0:31it, whether you are a Lubavitcher strictly speaking or you simply benefit from Chabad houses around…
2. 1:33come back, but nevertheless indulging that ego inside them gives the definition or the title of…
3. 2:34the other end of the spectrum. Somebody is a perpetual Russia. Somebody who regularly indulges that…
4. 4:11but they have a conscience. They have a compass. They regularly want to repair and return.…
5. 5:13And this is what our Rabbi said, according to the Reishis Chochma, that reshaim, wicked people,…
6. 6:44So, Ishbits and others understand that a youth is supposed to go forward and believe in…
7. 7:45So, that's the understanding. The Alter Rebbe's understanding of that even the wicked So, that refers…
8. 8:46al mai they have the animal appetite and and and drive. What could they do? This…
9. 10:16essentially adopted the identity of ego. That's who I am. That's how I live. That's what…
10. 11:16we saw two types of tzaddikim who on the outside do the same thing, but in…

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