The Godly Soul is the Most Real Thing We Have (Tanya - Class 19)

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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.

Very mature topic today. We're speaking of the godly soul, and we talked yesterday about how the soul is breathed into us, so to speak, by Hashem. And then when a person breathes, we learn from the Zohar, he breathes from his essence, and that's why he gets tired cuz he's pulling out from his essence, and so to speak, Hashem himself gave from his essence into us, which is amazing. Okay, now look inside the Bal Tanya. The Bal Tanya takes us one step further. Not only are we created through the breath, and we explained that the breath is the only thing that's the soul is the only thing that has breath referred to it, whereas everything else is referred to as Hashem creating it through speech. Now the Bal Tanya goes another step. It's a totally different analogy, and it's, like I said, rated mature. Someone told me there's a website today called Common Sense. It will tell you It will tell you any single movie how appropriate it is. The positive messages, swearing, this, it said it's I was very impressed. I was thinking about showing the guys Super Size Me 2 because I hear that the same guy You guys know Super Size Me? The same You don't know Super Size Me? Yeah. You've been living in a hole? My goodness. The guy lives on McDonald's for a month, and basically like has doctors following him, and they said like, "You You're dying. You're killing yourself." He pickled his liver, and he

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1. 0:00Very mature topic today. We're speaking of the godly soul, and we talked yesterday about how…
2. 2:35It's quoting from the Midrash Bereishit Rabbah, BeShlach Bereishit. Parshat Bereishit. Now, what does this mean…
3. 5:05So, what what was the first thing that I physically did? Well, I maybe cleared the…
4. 7:08part of the story which is man is created. And man was really created like a…
5. 10:11So, so they my wife and I, we were the first grandkids that had kids, which…
6. 12:16you know, my my father in heaven is that This is a sensitive topic because not…
7. 14:52but my sex education uh teacher in ninth grade was a Russian immigrant named uh Boris…
8. 16:55father. Now, what does that mean? It doesn't mean that you take a microscope and you…
9. 19:28Doesn't matter what the origins were, but we're going to see the more that a person…
10. 21:30physical. So, you need a medium. The seed is like the medium. It's physical, but it's…

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