Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #10

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 so last week I thought that we finished chapter five and then uh I realized that we didn't die I'm in chapter four right I thought that we finished chapter four and that we were ready to start chapter five but excellent so we have a little bit of chapter four left which is actually perfect because this part of chapter four Segways straight into chapter five Segways straight into chapter five just to review what the rest of chapter four was speaking about very very briefly we were speaking about the lavushim remember that term the new term the garments of the Soul as opposed to the koi or the capacities that we learned about in chapter three and now we we learned about the outer expression of the Soul either outer expression of the Soul either through thought or through speech or through action okay now at the end of chapter four we started to get into this idea um that remember what we said towards the end of last week don't be mistaken and think that these garments are secondary to the soul just because they're called garments don't let the the metaphor of garment mislead you mislead you because normally if you if you think about a person and a person's clothing obviously the person is incomparably greater than the clothing right I mean that's that's a that's a no-brainer that a human being's worth is greater than even even the nicest outfit so don't be don't let that metaphor confuse you and and think that the voucher are on a lower level than the nephesh itself actually the opposite is

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1. 0:00all right so last week I thought that we finished chapter five and then uh I…
2. 4:40a but really no created being not even lofty level spiritual created beings are really able…
3. 9:46condensed himself the word we use is symptom he condensed himself within the form of the…
4. 14:55or he's wearing many layers of garments because after all it's the king inside of the…
5. 20:04what's up with this grasping a Cole Seiko Kisha masculine basically azamusco any mind any intelligence…
6. 25:15some type of Escape some type of Otherworldly state and what we're talking about right now…
7. 30:20have an opinion about it now when you're knowing hashem's opinion your mind your finite little…
8. 35:29whether you agree with it or not which is pretty wild yeah my question Mike but…
9. 40:38this is the unique advantage of the Mitzvah of understanding Terror over all of the physical…
10. 45:48becomes food for the soul it's life within you mean from the life of all lives…

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