Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #13

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.

So, we're in the middle of chapter seven, yeah? Can anyone corroborate we're in the middle of chapter seven? Yeah? Okay. And if you remember in chapter six we began to speak about what's kedusha and what's klipa. And we had pretty categorical definitions for them. Kedusha is anything that is totally surrendered to the service of Hashem. And sitra achra, literally meaning the other side, means anything other than that. So, if it's not dedicated to the service of Hashem by default, then it's the other stuff. But then we said but there are gradations. There are gradations. And we spoke about irredeemable klipa and redeemable klipa. And then in chapter seven we started speaking more in depth about the redeemable klipa, which has a technical term, it's called klipas noiga, which literally means the shiny or luminescent klipa. It is a husk, it does cover the spark of godliness within, but it's not entirely opaque. You can see how it can potentially be used to serve Hashem, how the godly potential within it can be unleashed and harnessed. And we spoke about various different examples, like eating in order to be able to settle your body and be able to think better and therefore learn Torah more sharply. We spoke about even using humor and wit to sort of get the mind flowing in order to be able to again to learn Torah better. Yeah? Sound familiar? Okay, fine. So I think Does anyone remember exactly what I think we got to ach mishahu bazel lebasar veseve yayin. However, yeah, that's where we're at. Ach, however, however is a pivot. Notwithstanding the fact that we just said that one can elevate the mundane and direct its energy to the service of

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1. 0:00So, we're in the middle of chapter seven, yeah? Can anyone corroborate we're in the middle…
2. 5:53The gufei and then at this moment that he is misusing the klipas noiga and turning…
3. 11:56shamayim last February? No. No. Because I don't know. Whatever However they would bust you. Okay.…
4. 18:01Now, you go to the Four Seasons, they're not bolting anything down. They want you to…
5. 23:51because of his lack of intent. And as soon as he picks back up the focus,…
6. 30:29part of life. And it in itself is neutral. It's a biological act like eating. And…
7. 36:18foods where the food itself was perfectly redeemable, perfectly useful and it just got misused. So,…
8. 42:02it out. Right? I don't know what it is. But, so definitely Tanya is super super…
9. 47:54that's inherently permissible. So, the food was kosher food and it was just squandered. The opportunity…
10. 53:49acts of of of intimacy. So, it's not where Oh, I should have had a better…

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