How a Wicked Man Thinks

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

Okay, Baruch Hashem. We're in perek yud aleph of the Tanya. This perek is the perek of the rasha. Going to talk about the wicked one. I don't mean wicked good, I mean wicked bad. Like really bad. The same with the other rasha of the other tzaddik rasha. In summary, we explained there's five types of There's five categories of human beings. There's tzaddik rasha which we talked about, the tzaddik that does everything good. He's from the aliya. He doesn't He doesn't have a fight. He in fact has turned his yetzer hara into an ally. Then rasha, then tzaddik rasha, the tzaddik has totally subdued the yetzer hara, but he still is not moyis the rasha b'taflus, and therefore even though the yetzer hara never speaks up, it has not yet turned into tov. And then we talked about the beinoni. Beinoni has tov and rasha. There's this constant battle, which we're going to talk about in the next chapter. And then we have the rasha v'tov lay. Rasha v'tov lay is a rasha, but he still has a voice that's calling him home. In other words, we're going to see different categories of this rasha, but it's somebody who he wants to be good. He doesn't want to mess up his life. He wants to do something meaningful, but you know, means well. He means well, like they say. Even though meaning well is a very good thing in our in our world. We we believe a lot in that. Meaning well matters. Meaning he's trying, but he falls prey to the yetzer hara. The yetzer hara actually gets to his thought, speech, and actions. The baininy would never allow himself to indulge a bad thought or to speak a word of lashon hara or to do an action of

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1. 0:01Okay, Baruch Hashem. We're in perek yud aleph of the Tanya. This perek is the perek…
2. 2:39And he'll make him, "Yeah, I'm the gossip man. I feel so good." He might really…
3. 5:16have the inhabitants of the kingdom listen to his voice. The other king says, "No." They're…
4. 7:55fight like he just goes for whatever the time is telling him to do. Mhm. And…
5. 10:30them and then they put them in piles and they exploded all the lighters together. They…
6. 13:15good is very loud inside of him. And also, the good's voice is not muted except…
7. 15:52cuz it's not callous. That's callous. But I got lashon hara it's it's not even a…
8. 18:30contamination from the thoughts. Another answer why it can be worse is that the evil action…
9. 21:05America still such a thing as Sunday. So what do you do on Sunday? You learn,…
10. 23:41I only mean the strip part cuz many nice Yidden and frum communities there. That's what…

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