Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #6

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.

okay i think it's working i think it's working all right okay so uh good morning thank you for everybody who participated in the campaign and as mentioned before and i'm going to mention again because we're recording and it's going to go online charity with a d c h a r d y dot com forward slash r s t is the campaign page and it's still open we officially finished the campaign last night but the matches are still matching the donations coming in so the whole nature of our conflict our duality our contradiction but we don't know yet how and we're not going to find out yet today either another thing that we sort of left unresolved was the discussion of the two souls from vital and we spoke about part of it we spoke about one of those souls do you remember the one soul we spoke about in the end of chapter one yeah it is the animal soul although we did not call it navish obama's we described it as a nephesh of clipper and citra we said it's in the blood and it is effectively the vitality which animates the body but it's not just a life force it also is a drive it has a will of its own and that will expresses itself in various ways some of them are as character defects and we talked about the different four elements and how they manifest themselves as different character defects and we said because it's clipas noiga it's the type of negativity which has admixtures of good it also has some positive character traits which are native to the jewish person not something that you have to work on or acquire so it's not really anything that you've accomplished but

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1. 0:00okay i think it's working i think it's working all right okay so uh good morning…
2. 5:08so it's not just saying it's a hey look at the cop mom is really literally…
3. 9:45it's not like either it is integrated or it's not integrated even in the process of…
4. 14:19is from toyu that's why it is so wild because it's from this lofty level of…
5. 18:55you blew it into me so this soul is likened to breath and the shama itself…
6. 24:34bubbles will tire you out in a minute or two is because physiologically where the air…
7. 29:13likewise by way of allegory metaphorically speaking the thought of the souls of the jewish people…
8. 33:56this is an expression of the essence of the father what do i mean by the…
9. 38:33biological reproduction that just like the sun has the same dna as the father the soul…
10. 43:28how come every jew ultimately is essentially the same and yet we see for ourselves it's…

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