Tanya (Part 8): Chapter 1 - Temperaments Based on the Elements

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

all of us a prescription to better understand our soul on shama to get into our kishkas and our internal sense of self and to better be able to therefore regulate our sense of self. The uh Balatani is the book of Benonim, the book of inbetweeners, intermediaries, the book of those who are neither entirely wholly righteous, who instinctively and intuitively do the right thing with no struggle nor those who are rash, those who make poor choices, but those who find themselves in a place in a position of challenge of struggle who are living in the real world and even those who make the right decision and come to the right conclusion are benonim if it involves and engages a struggle. So in this opening paric the bat has been defining for us by process of elimination who and what is a benon. If this is the halen it's we aspire to merit to be worthy to be called a benon what does that mean? So towards the end of the paric he's answering all the questions we've seen until now by telling there are two complete independent souls that every Jew has that on the one hand we have this

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1. 0:31all of us a prescription to better understand our soul on shama to get into our…
2. 2:12soul. One soul stems from the kipa. Kipa as we began to define last week is…
3. 4:18how I eat and the music I listen. Oh, that's neither a mitzvah nor an a.…
4. 5:53the rebl explains the explains that animal soul the soul the life in which we are…
5. 8:00how we were designed. And now we have to learn to train the animal. We have…
6. 9:37and quiet, reserved and reticent. There are temperaments we have and the temperaments that we have…
7. 11:44inflated ego. The eye, it's rising. Me, more followers, more fans, more likes, bigger influence, more…
8. 13:21angry and extreme in humility and never having an ego because they are self-destructive. They destroy…
9. 15:30mocking, boasting and otherwise conversation. So the element of air our sensory, physical, material soul experiences…
10. 17:09are these websites? Something in me. What are these genetic testing websites? 23 and me. 23…

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