Are you RELIGOUS... or SELFISH? | Ten Minutes of Meaning | Tanya #47

What’s said in this shiur

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

the difference between tzaddik, the rasha, two types of tzaddikim, and two types of reshaim, and the beinoni. Halavai, beinoni we aspire to be a beinoni. The tzaddikim and the beinoni all externally on the outside are doing the right thing, behaving the right way, making the right choices. It's the internal conversation, struggle, identity that's the difference between them. So, this is the 10th perek began unpacking exactly this, the incomplete tzaddik. Now, the incomplete tzaddik is the person that we look at and we would look at with unbelievable, incredible, endless, and boundless admiration. We would look at what the Tanya calls the tzaddik who's not gamor, the incomplete tzaddik, and we would look at this tzaddik and say, "Wow, makes all the right choices, does all the right things, never gives in to impulse, never indulges temptation, does everything right." That looks to us like an outstanding righteous tzaddik, and yet the Tanya calls him a tzaddik who's incomplete. And why is this tzaddik incomplete? Because though the tzaddik makes the right decisions in the end, in the outcome, in the result, internally, still there's some shemats. There's still a little presence of a little residue of understanding the capacity to use the material or the physical for ego rather than Elokus. As the Tanya has been developing, our lives are this battle, this internal struggle. What in the last perek you described as the war over territory. The guf and the neshama, the soul and the body are fighting. Who's in charge?

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1. 0:30the difference between tzaddik, the rasha, two types of tzaddikim, and two types of reshaim, and…
2. 2:00Who's in control? Who's the ruler and whose rules? Who owns the territory? We have the…
3. 4:04and you really are living Elokus, then you are repulsed by, you are allergic to, you…
4. 5:36instinct, this animal inside us, and we're not coming or seeking to slaughter or purge or…
5. 7:37Before you can come here, you have to to klipah, the nefesh bahamis, and turn it…
6. 9:07while we beat on him and worse, struggle with not staying up, go to sleep, stop…
7. 11:09possible to be doing Torah and mitzvahs but be doing them absent-minded, be doing them mindlessly,…
8. 12:41You could wake up in the middle of the night to take care of a crying…
9. 14:45shiur about America. Reb Chaim Volozhin had this mesorah that came from many. Reb Chaim Volozhin…
10. 16:18for Shina here on earth, live a life that people see you and talk to you…

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