Three Layers of the Self (Tanya)

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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, now boys, let's learn. Baruch Hashem, perek dalet Matanya. Today we're going to talk about clothing. Clothing. It's good for the continuation of Purim. Costumes or dressing up. So far Matanya, what we've been discussing, the main body of what we've been discussing is the anatomy of your soul. We went through the core of the soul. We went through the core of the soul. Of what chochma is in your soul, what bina is, what daas. We spoke about some of the middos. I know these are all high-level words, but we're going to use these words now because now, at this point in the learning, we're developing a certain language together, which is a kabbalistic vocabulary. And we've been talking about that the soul itself is of the most powerful things in Basically, the most powerful thing in the world besides God. the world besides God. It's as close to God as anything. I don't mean close in physical space, I mean conceptually, it's the closest revelation. It's the closest That That's a very good word in English to talk about what it means that our soul is godly. It means that there's nothing that reveals God more in the world than the soul. The soul is a piece of God. It's a revelation. It's undiluted more than anything in the world. And even though, like we've been discussing, God is everywhere, discussing, God is everywhere, there's nothing but God. God is concealed in most of the world. To the degree that we call this world, this lower world, physical world, alma d'shikra, the world of lies. Even though on Purim yesterday, we hope people did it but that we get to a place where even this world is filled with God. Even this world, that your soul and your God

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7. 13:17measured in similarity. To the degree that I'm similar to somebody and obviously in the case…
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