Tanya (Part 58): Chapter 12 - The Beinoni Doesn't Bear Grudges

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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.

right but they're still not a Tzadik because the inner world that matters, it counts. And even though the Bainoni is able to have the right of the heart defeat the left side of the heart while they're davening, their godly soul is what is inspiring and forming their life. But as soon as they close that sitter, while there is a residual positive impact of that connection, of that Tefillah, there still is the reality of the god of the animal soul that's trying to get it to indulge, to follow temptation, to follow impulse. And the Alter Rebbe in the bottom of Tanya ends this para, Pericles, by telling us something about the Bainoni's self-control that extends over Bainoni's self-control that extends over not only religiosity, davening, and Halacha, positive and negative commandments, but also interpersonal. Also the relationship the Bainoni has with others. V'chein b'dvarim she'bein adam l'chaveiro. In human relationships, the Bainoni shows such self-control. Mi yatzar olo me'aleiv l'moach eizeh tinah v'sinah chas v'shalom. A thought of ill will or hatred, god forbid, rises from the heart up to the mind. So this Bainoni has a conflict and tension with another person and anyone else would have been tempted to get angry, resentful, speak negatively o eizeh resentful, speak negatively o eizeh kinah o ka'as o k'peidah v'domah, or any thought envy, anger, resentment. Eino mekabel klum b'moach uvirtzono. He categorically refuses to embrace those thoughts in his mind or with his will. This Bainoni doesn't embrace those thoughts. This Bainoni is able to say, "I'm not going to indulge this tension. I'm not going to enter this machlokes, this conflict." V'ahavta l'rei'acha kamocha sh'b'moach uvirtzono hu b'libo, and the opposite is true that the brain is able to overrule the heart. The heart feels anger, resentment. The heart feels hurt, but the head says 1 second. Could

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1. 0:30right but they're still not a Tzadik because the inner world that matters, it counts. And…
2. 1:00Bainoni's self-control that extends over not only religiosity, davening, and Halacha, positive and negative commandments, but…
3. 1:30resentful, speak negatively o eizeh kinah o ka'as o k'peidah v'domah, or any thought envy, anger,…
4. 2:01hurt, but the head says 1 second. Could this have happened if it weren't the will…
5. 2:31get revenge at you. The safer writes on the prohibition of revenge. Why not? Why can't…
6. 3:01Shimei ben Gera, and his advisors wanted to kill him, and they offered to say David…
7. 3:32getting Hashem. And Shimei told us says the something incredible. He says that if you realize…
8. 4:02decide and determine what we're meant to do next. But, I thank you. I thank you.…
9. 4:32the bainoni has. So, even though the bainoni lives with that tension internally, the bainoni is…
10. 5:03to be, and you were just acting on his behalf." And so, Yosef has the capacity…

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