Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #36

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.

all right welcome to our weekly text-based tanya we are studying the text the holy text of the altarebes tanya the manual for the soul that's what i call it the manual for the soul he didn't call it that um what did the altar ever call his book yeah and say name yeah we call it tanya because that's the first word of the first chapter yeah and uh lakutyamura means compiled sayings because he says he got it from his teachers and several shall benin means the book of the regular normal intermediate ordinary guys which means the the goal of the book is how to be a regular normal ordinary guy right and we define that as somebody who may have improper impulses but has perfect behavioral control okay so toward that goal we started discussing in chapter 18 how to get an infusion of love and awe of hashem that would be enough that would be powerful enough to uh keep us on the right track and we said there's this dirty little trick this little life hack called tap tapping into the super jew switch which is triggered when you are put in a position of choosing between remaining connected to god or being separate from god and that we see throughout history the phenomena of jews who were even irreligious who would give up their lives in order to retain their connection to their jewish identity and their god so we say hmm there's something interesting going on there is that something we could use for ourselves and we're saying yeah

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1. 0:01all right welcome to our weekly text-based tanya we are studying the text the holy text…
2. 5:10from his oneness in the most absolute sense of separation why because they are the opposite…
3. 10:59at this moment separate from god all of it the soul the soul's garments are now…
4. 16:19but what happens is they received their nurture their their their pipeline they siphon it off…
5. 22:05is that functionally for all intents and purposes they become as if they were other gods…
6. 27:18heard some polisher guy refer to the lady the dmv is shaytan yeah killed a bunch…
7. 33:00the negativity of this world meaning the physical plane the lowest plane of all the system…
8. 38:07the idol even if you don't mean it even to do it as a hollow act…
9. 43:46well that's a very from rationalization the example that you gave right then there are other…
10. 48:51because right now it's working so behind so deeply that it's just not accessible on any…

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