Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #42

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 so last class we finished chapter 26. what was the theme of 26 simcha that's a Hebrew word what does it mean Joy um and we specifically spoke about two sources of the opposite of joy and how to overcome those challenges we spoke about overcome those challenges we spoke about in very general terms challenges that come from what we call worldly problems problems of this world meaning when life gets rough and how to overcome that and then we spoke about how to overcome challenges of a spiritual nature which we defined as guilt over our past misdeeds how to overcome the uh the feeling negative feelings the uh the feeling negative feelings that arise from that okay so that was chapter 26. we're continuing now to chapter 27. to speak further about the importance of retaining a joyful mood and how to overcome various sources of angst today's particular troubleshooting issue particular troubleshooting issue is similar to what we spoke about in the end of the previous chapter but it's different similar but different it's similar in that so at the end of the previous chapter we're speaking about uh when you feel bad about past misdeeds when you're feeling uh feeling bad about things that you've done wrong in the past today chapter 27 it's a similar source of negativity it it's a similar source of negativity it is it is spiritual nature it's moral in nature it has to do with feelings of being inadequate in a in a religious way but it's different in fact it's deeper it's deeper because in the end of chapter 26 we're talking about feeling bad about things that we've done in chapter 27 we're talking about feeling bad about things we haven't even

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1. 0:00all right so last class we finished chapter 26. what was the theme of 26 simcha…
2. 5:03in chapter 27 what we're saying is so important to be joyful you cannot do anything…
3. 10:40this this came from my own brain and I guess that's the kind of person I…
4. 16:22not to tell you to be Assad that but actually to remind you other you're not…
5. 22:04I identified it as such and not only did I not act on it because I…
6. 27:47should be happy not set up and now he's explaining this is very interesting this Insight…
7. 33:31by engaging in your little uh what do you call it your little isometric um moral…
8. 39:11who can't control their impulses at that point if they could just recognize that they need…
9. 45:01um that would overcoming that would that be within the same realm of um that fight…
10. 50:46learn how to live your life in spite of it and that's called overcoming that's called…

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