Tanya Chapter 5 How to CAPTIVATE your mind

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

Okay, Shimon. So welcome Shalom. New peric hey of the Tanya the fifth chapter of the Tanya. This is going to be an unbelievable section of Tanya. It's a it's a it's a new concept big adult. And it's essentially the extremely powerful transformational nature of learning Torah. But about Tanya explains in in one But about Tanya explains in in one illustration what it means to learn Torah and how the mix of learning Torah is different than all the other mixes. Nothing compares to it. You see this in the other star but the way the Tanya explains it is wondrous. It's going to be very mind-expanding and we're not even going to take any substances. Yeah, that's that's the way to do it. To do it the natural way. And the Torah is going to the Tanya explain and you're going to see your explain and you're going to see your brain start expanding as he brings these concepts for us. And this is a very very one of my favorite chapters. I know I say that every single chapter but this is really one of my favorite chapters of Tanya. And I think after you learn this you're never going to look at Torah ever again the same way. You're never going to look at anything any mix of the same way. By now seeing the world through the lens of what Torah learning really is. of what Torah learning really is. So let's jump in. Peric hey will it taste of spare. Let's explain deeper something that Elijah the prophet said. I'm just coming off Pesach. So we're all high from the teachings and from the Torah of Eliyahu Navi. So Eliyahu Navi says bear hate of lotion to see some. Let's explain very well be hated of lotion to be so. Shalom that Eliana said lace Mach Shavua

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1. 0:00Okay, Shimon. So welcome Shalom. New peric hey of the Tanya the fifth chapter of the…
2. 2:04Shalom that Eliana said lace Mach Shavua to be so about club. That there's no Mach…
3. 4:35Why did he use that word as opposed to usually the way we talk is, "Oh,…
4. 7:08So, masku means chachma, umaseg means bina. So, when your mind chachma's something and bina's something.…
5. 9:45almos, imagine your mind swallowing this idea, grabbing and swallowing it. Completely enveloping it. And you…
6. 12:20has been grasped or let's speak a little bit of Hebrew here, gehapht. It's been hapht,…
7. 14:23percolating and integrating. And you're going to be in much different place next year, in much…
8. 16:57presentable. Okay? And it's not a halacha shiur right now in in the halachas of of…
9. 19:31we're talking about God. Because God and the Torah are one. Which means when you learn…
10. 22:04cloud." There's no one can grab you except through Torah. Through Torah, you're literally grabbing, so…

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