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Tanya (Part 12)

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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foundational primary soul, why does the balatanya formulated as our second soul? Is it chronological? Is it for some other reason be it's uniquely Jewish? And it is the literal piece of Hashem that we have in us as we search for and look for confirmation evidence of Hashem's existence everywhere in the universe and the world. All we need to do is look in the mirror. All we need to do is look into ourselves because the greatest expression, the greatest presence of God, the greatest evidence of his existence is inside ourselves and the people around us. The Balatani describes the origin of man. That God breathed life into us. And where did that breath come from? Deep inside himself. Like the glass blower, like the individual who blows a balloon. It's easy to get out of breath. Speech comes from the external. Speech comes from the superficial, the surface. That's why you're not out of breath from speaking. But blowing up a balloon could knock you out because you take a deep breath inside yourself and blow into the other blew into us. This is where it comes from. And we last left off the was telling us that we come from just like the child comes from the brain of the father. Every Jewish person, every year is derived from Hashem through his thought and through his wisdom. We spent time, we won't repeat, you can listen last week about how in antiquity the until the modern early period, they believe

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  3. 4:39that and his wisdom are one. The problem is that the ram is not the final…
  4. 6:42However, in the way that Hashem constricts himself to appear and be available and accessible to…
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