Text-Based Tanya—Week #87

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.

weekly tax Bas Tanya this is chapter 52 52 okay out of how many chapters 53 53 oh my goodness we're getting so close to the end okay I am sick I have a cold my throat is sore please apologize uh if I don't sound normal or even perhaps to some degree act normal noral not normal we learned that right we're not normal we did learn that in okay we don't do normal chapter 51 one we said we're going to wrap things up here and we're going to return to a concept that was brought up way back in chapter 35 there was a metaphor a three-part metaphor in chapter 35 that originally comes from the holy Zohar what was that metaphor oil flame oil Wick flame excellent that imagine a little lamp an oldfashioned lamp burning oil Wicken flame so when we do Mitzvah the flame that we generate meaning the the presence of Hashem that we are drawing down into this world The Godly light that we are causing to settle into this world that's like the flame the body is the wick and the oil the fuel that keeps the wick burning are the Mitzvah that was in chapter 35 and if you'll remember back to chapter 35 36 37 we f focused on the importance of action action action action and then just in case you might think that action was the only thing

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1. 0:00weekly tax Bas Tanya this is chapter 52 52 okay out of how many chapters 53…
2. 4:20okay no we know I have my tea I have my tea hold on we must…
3. 9:38world the life force comes off of that brain so to speak like another analogy like…
4. 14:38concept yet so what we're saying is this indwelling presence which we call sh or you…
5. 19:50great you are 100% right that's the obvious next question so let me continue the next…
6. 24:31to understand Torah is not um laws that respond to reality Torah is laws that create…
7. 29:26world yes yeah and how does that relate to Nature I don't know you'd have to…
8. 34:20thees has to come through kma because this way it doesn't nullify right so it won't…
9. 39:35also and then what happens in turn after the Torah is invested in the ma or…
10. 44:26create that world okay right one Steam and other isid and other what the same subance…

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