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Making ROOM for Hashem | Tanya & Meditation Part 9

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Rabbi Shais Taub

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okay so this is our Monday Tanya class and for the past I don't know a couple months already we went back to Chapters 41- 50 to look at the meditations the meditations yeah yes and two weeks ago we learned about a concept that is based on a verse in michley in Proverbs of King Solomon [Music] just as water reflects a face to a face if you look in the water reflected face looking back at you whose face is that it's your it's your face Cain so too does the heart of one person reflect the heart of the other and we explained this was in chapter 46 that it is human nature that the heart will reflect back emotions that it is receiving from another person it's automatic which is the beauty of it it's automatic and we wanted to sort of hack into that mechanism and use it deliberately for increasing our love of Hashem so we said like this if the heart will reflect back love that it is receiving so all we have to do if we want to feel more love of Hashem and of course we all we all want to feel more love of Hashem because that's the premise here and if you're going to say well why is it the premise well I could say well go back to the first class and I'm not going to explain it again or I could say all right I'll give you a quick one sentence answer which is it's azah or I could say when you love hem it enables you to do all the other Mitzvah properly or or I could say you're doing the mites anyway you might as well enjoy it okay so those are a few answers Wednesday and then you will love very

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  1. 0:01okay so this is our Monday Tanya class and for the past I don't know a
  2. 4:20chairs in the whole Five Towns standing room only yes okay all right so here's the
  3. 9:11illusion as Doug Henny he said they're not tricks they're Illusions what from the timum okay
  4. 13:57point of all of these Tim of the infinite allowing for the possibility of finite existence
  5. 18:59okay and even when they treat you the best still don't want to be there you
  6. 23:54mechanism when you feel loved you will automatically reflect love back okay and then we did
  7. 28:46so that you could exist and don't say well why are you making about me why
  8. 33:34like I am so they're holding the baseball so the grip that they have on the
  9. 38:24ever and ever and ever and everywhere so the fact that there's even a world is
  10. 43:33worlds and increasingly less spiritual worlds what does it mean less spiritual we're talking about worlds

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