"How to Feel When Things Go Your Way": The Baal HaTanya on Vayishlach

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There's the night challah, and we challah, and real challah, and I finished mine. Rest of the guys are still eating. Um we learn something different every week. So, this coming week is Yud Tes Kislev, which is Rosh Hashanah Hasidus. It is the Yom Hillula of the Maggid of Mezritch, and it is the Yom Hageulah of the Maggid's talmid, the Alter Rebbe, Baal HaTanya, the Shulchan Aruch. And uh we're going to learn something from the Tanya. Now, [clears throat] we usually try to do something that is parsha related. So, we have something parsha related from the Alter Rebbe, from Iggeres HaKodesh, siman beis. Iggeres HaKodesh are letters, various different letters that the Alter Rebbe wrote at different times. They're not in chronological order in Iggeres HaKodesh. Siman beis, the second chapter of Iggeres HaKodesh, is a letter that was written. In fact, it says when it was written, and which is unusual. Uh there's only a couple times in Iggeres HaKodesh where there's a kesserus, where there's a like a subtitle that says when the letter was written. Here it says very clearly at the top of the page acher beosai mi pay beis. Not peanut butter, but Petterburg. Yeah. Which was temporarily called Leningrad, and then back to Petterburg. Well, you you the Yiddish is Petterburg or Petersburg or however you want to say it. Anyways, Petterburg was the imperial capital of the Tsar. That is where the prison was for those who were charged of high treason, which the Alter Rebbe was. He was kept there in prison in Petersburg for 53 days, corresponding to the number of chapters of Tanya. A lot of people

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1. 0:00There's the night challah, and we challah, and real challah, and I finished mine. Rest of…
2. 3:10So, there's a tradition that the way you read it is like this. Acharei Bi'osi Mi'Petersburg,…
3. 6:20probably diminished even the even the guaranteed hased that he had, which was it which was,…
4. 9:31to Hashem in a more intense way and uplifted above and above, tzarich liyes yassir shfal…
5. 12:48So, he calls it later uh the uh the clip of the Ishmael Hasidic clipper. Yeah.…
6. 16:29Gemara's answer is Shema Yigra MeChad. David knew he was a chassid, but maybe the maybe…
7. 19:47Hashem does kindness for me, I feel more entitled. Kol sha'ah chesed gadol, the greater the…
8. 23:01And of course, the Chassidim are relieved. They're absolutely relieved that the Rebbe has been liberated.…
9. 26:16Alter Rebbe says, "Do you know Reb Elimelech?" He says, "Of course." You know, he was…
10. 29:35the Misnagdim will warm up to you and reciprocate. But, we didn't get to that line…

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