Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #49

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

it this is our weekly text-based Tanya class we've been going for over a year what chapter are we on now 30 that is correct okay we finished 29. now oh you're hoping it's happy well it's not well okay so I'll answer your question chapter 29 was a little bit harsh and it needed to be harsh because it was addressing an issue of apathy apathy is very dangerous and it taught us a tool of um breaking through the apathy through this sort of brutal process of introspection of making an inventory and cataloging all of our our misdeeds and I'm not going to get into it again because we spoke about it for a few weeks but the point of it was to break down the ego so that it would stop blocking on the the flow of of Godly Revelation um Chapter 30 is going to kind of build on chapter 29. um and it's also about getting the ego out of the way you know but it's also getting these out of the way for the purposes of of of emotional well-being because if you remember I told you since chapter 26 who've been focusing on emotional well-being since chapter 26 we've been talking about how to defeat various types of emotional dysfunction so just to review chapters one through eight we learned the whole until I'm talking about the whole Tanya let's review chapters one through a we learned about the anatomy of the soul the the two Souls the ten faculties the three garments if any of this sounds unfamiliar go back and watch the old recordings um chapters 9 through I'd say 15 we introduced how that war between the two Souls looks and what it what happens in the three Persona of Sadiq Russia vainani

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1. 0:00it this is our weekly text-based Tanya class we've been going for over a year what…
2. 5:23something to consider Lake you should follow the advice of the sages be humble or lowly…
3. 11:07in contrast you have a person who barely ever goes out into the marketplace he gets…
4. 16:38wrong picture about what the chapter was teaching like they remember what it said but not…
5. 22:28that to you I didn't say that it exempts him from doing what he's doing I'm…
6. 28:24look at the degree of struggle like for this guy I know the end results are…
7. 33:40looking at somebody who not only is not admirable but to the contrary evil worthy of…
8. 39:24explanation surely knows mysticism he's not invoking a mystical explanation he's invoking a psychological explanation he's…
9. 44:50in his doing good like davening with intentions admits we are now fish to pour forth…
10. 50:49the Russia Gomer when you lose okay so I I said abroad I just didn't have…

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