How to read God's mind | 10 Minutes of Meaning | Tanya # 25

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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.

your coffee yet. That's okay. I'm entertaining myself. It really doesn't matter about you. Okay. Perrick Dal, we last left off talking about the greatest way that we can connect and unite, integrate with the ribon, with the Almighty is through Torah and through mitzvos. That even our inner thoughts in essentially our lavushim are garments of the soul. But when does our soul unite, return to its creator? through the observance of mitzvah and through the learning of Torah. And that's exactly what the Balatanya elaborates here on in Perk H in chapter 5. A little esoteric and complicated, but we'll learn it together. I'm the farthest thing from an authority. As I say, I don't teach Tanya, I'm learning Tanya out loud and uh hopefully we'll learn it and make some headway together. So again, we established in Peric Dalid that the greatest bonding experience with Hashem is through Torah study and mitzvos. And now we'll talk about why that is. Last parak we quoted the holy tells us in the name of Eli Yahu that no thought can grasp you. No thought thinking alone leak thought alone cannot grasp the almighty. So what does that mean? That sounds like a riddle or tongue twister. Say it again. When your mind processes and masters an idea, what we're trying to understand is told us no thought can grasp Hashem. So what does it mean thought and what does it mean grasp? In order to appreciate and understand that statement, we have to define our terms which is always true. What is a thought and what does it mean to grasp? When your mind processes and masters an idea,

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1. 0:32your coffee yet. That's okay. I'm entertaining myself. It really doesn't matter about you. Okay. Perrick…
2. 1:36Yahu that no thought can grasp you. No thought thinking alone leak thought alone cannot grasp…
3. 3:11you understand something, we absorb it like a sponge that picks up a puddle of water.…
4. 4:52captivates us. When you're exposed to something, when you heard a gishmak, a schmoo, when something…
5. 6:26diluted or distorted by too many but it's when we're actually able to meditate and contemplate…
6. 8:04Your mind is absorbed in it and is captivated by it. We are absorbing the idea…
7. 9:42there's in the beginning when you open the inside of your gar there's a to say…
8. 11:17to know so when we come to know to absorb the ideas authored by Hashem and…
9. 13:02circumstances, even those that might be highly unlikely first of all to extract and extrapolate the…
10. 14:38yourself or someone else in anything physical. There's nothing as high as the merging, the union,…

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