Tanya (Part 13)

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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.

in us but train and elevate and empower and enrich and take the animal impulse the animal instinct our nature the five senses the way in which we experience the world physically and to have it serve the higher soul which is the beginning of the second parag. The second parag deals with that we are all we're each a piece of God. And so when searching for God, evidence, proof, a feeling of Hashem's existence, we don't have to look everywhere outside of ourselves. All we have to do is look within ourselves because where Hashem can be found most poignantly, most profoundly, most potently is in the mirror is within our very self. So we last left off in the Balatana was describing that the truth is that all souls to a certain degree are equal an element of the soul. All souls are equal and that we all emanate. We all come from himself. as the metaphor of the child is born from the seed of the father and again in antiquity they thought that the seed began in the brain and from the brain descended down the spinal cord and from there the insemination the child was formed and we saw said that's protected connected to the pituitary gland other ways of interpreting the decision for conception begins in the brain and filters down but for our purposes the balatanya now talks about that that original seed of that conceives begins life has within it all of the potential within the person. So it begins as a as one cell and splits several times. In that one cell

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1. 0:31in us but train and elevate and empower and enrich and take the animal impulse the…
2. 2:04ultimately is the person's brain and the person's toenails. Every part of the person from the…
3. 3:35contributes what's contained in that original drop of seed how it evolves and develops and manifests…
4. 5:06I saw someone sent me shared with me this week uh the Reb was reviewing a…
5. 6:38Hashem is the father. From his brain descended this seed that's going to inseminate the world…
6. 8:11which is an essential expression of who he is so the love that we have for…
7. 9:45It's a description of common folk. It means that you don't have to be the biggest…
8. 11:16developed, evolved, descended into expressing itself in my toenail. My bone and my toenail come from…
9. 12:46wisdom he seated all of the Jewish people and whether we a particular Jew is a…
10. 14:21the toenail? What decides all that? The brain. So yes, the toenail says I come from…

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