Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #7

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.

Okay, we're continuing now chapter 2. If you remember, we left off with a question and if you hadn't asked it, I would have but it organically came up in our discussion which was if it is true that every Jew possesses this inner identity which is godly. Then how is it that we see so many different levels and different kinds of Jews as far as their discernably what what appears to be their spiritual capacity? In other words, why isn't there just one uh spiritual level which is exhibited by all Jews uniformly? So we're going to get to that question, but before we do, we have to settle one other thing. So just remember that's where we're going to get back to. It'll probably take us about 5 minutes, but we have a another point that is on the table has to be dealt with. If you recall last week we were speaking about the idea of this godly soul being one with God. We used a couple of metaphors or allegorories. One was about breath. How breath comes from deep within the person. So Hashem's breath is the godly soul which comes from deep within him. The other metaphor or allegory we used was that of a father and a child. The biological reproduction that the uh we said that the brain of the father becomes the seinal drop which then builds the entire child. And we spoke a little bit. I'm not going to do this again in going through the going through the the biology of it. But we have an issue right now to address which is that we basically said that if the Jewish people meaning the souls come from the level of Hashem's Hashem's wisdom then that means that

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1. 0:00Okay, we're continuing now chapter 2. If you remember, we left off with a question and…
2. 5:03the matter stands. It can be corroborated by kabala. How so? How do we explain that…
3. 9:42though on higher levels that we're not dealing with, obviously, Hashem transcends even his own attribute…
4. 14:40we've been oversimplifying. We're just calling it, but really there are subsets. There's nish, there's ru,…
5. 20:10his his own toenails are getting their sustenance from his brain from his brain. Like it…
6. 24:58Like the like I say just say translate anyone who is greater than his fellow his…
7. 30:17not? The question is how can you know um everyone can reach the level of or…
8. 35:50can reach over that cap. I didn't say that yet, but how do you how you…
9. 40:40your own embodiment trauma. You are going to heal your own embodiment trauma through your relationship…
10. 45:37But now you're telling me there's another factor that affects somebody's spirituality and that is the…

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