Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #53

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, welcome to weekly Tanya, text base. We learn every single word of the holy Tanya. And we try to explain it in plain English. We're You know what chapter we're up to? 31 32. We just finished 31. 32 is live, lamed base. Lamed is 30, base is two. La- lamed base spells live, which means the heart, the heart of Tanya. We'll talk about why it's the heart of Tanya. Why is chapter 32 called the heart of Tanya? It's an interesting title for a chapter or nickname. I guess it's really more of a nickname. Um but it's really more of a nickname. Um but let's get some context first how we got here. Right? Context? You want context? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. 32 comes right after 31 31. Okay. What was And by the way, the first line of chapter 32 is that through applying what we've learned in chapter 31, taking that skill, we'll be able to do another skill, which will be the main focus of chapter 32. So it really one flows right into the next. it really one flows right into the next. However, you want to hear something shocking? I don't know, shocking, but it's interesting. In the original version of Tanya, meaning the pamphlets that used to circulate before the Alter Rebbe gave it to a printer and they put it into a bound, you know, books used to be very expensive. So the way that most uh texts circulated in those times, which is not that long ago, a couple hundred years ago, was as manuscripts, written pamphlets. And um

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1. 0:00All right, welcome to weekly Tanya, text base. We learn every single word of the holy…
2. 6:10context. Over here, we're saying on a on on the level of truth, real philosophical truth,…
3. 12:30and size them up physically. I mean, I'm not claiming I'm like expert in aesthetics, but…
4. 18:45a guy and he doesn't know about a basic concept in Yiddishkeit. So, you're the one…
5. 24:53them like the how how how weird it is, this idea. Where are you going? You're…
6. 30:56So he says like this. There was this child who was murdered. The defendant is not…
7. 37:03Is that the ideal? That the bodies should not be separated. That we are part of…
8. 43:14And sometimes the ulterior motive for loving somebody is more refined, more noble, but it's still…
9. 49:21Chased him off. He told him, "Get out of here." He asked Hillel and Hillel accommodated…
10. 55:35the same idea. Just the mitzvah that most clearly, vividly exemplifies that is identifying with others.…

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