Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #47

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 weekly Tanya what chapter are we on 29 we're in the middle of 29. what problem what issue challenge yes apathy we're talking about what to do when you can't get excited spiritually excited maybe you can get excited about other things but we're talking about being excited about the right things and it's just not working and we're not uh we're not able to feel it uh and we said it's very very dangerous in fact said it's very very dangerous in fact uh could be more dangerous than sadness um yeah yeah because it's this uh it's it's a it's like it's emotional death when you slow down and you feel nothing numbness numbness yeah numbness is more dangerous than than pain I mean pain pain could ultimately ultimately motivate you but this is just numbness um so we introduced a so we introduced a an analogy or a metaphor from the holy Zohar that says if you have a log of wood that won't catch fire so it's usually because it's too dense it's too coarse so you smash it up with a hatchet and turn it into splinters and then it'll it'll catch fire so too um if a person's body is not getting ignited so to speak with the passion of ignited so to speak with the passion of the Soul you got to break up the body and what does it mean to break up the body it doesn't mean to physically break up the pieces of the body it means the identity of the body my self-concept as an embodied physical being with all of the trappings of being here in this world meaning

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1. 0:00okay weekly Tanya what chapter are we on 29 we're in the middle of 29. what…
2. 5:41spiritual qualities or material qualities and and the answer may not be so cut and dried…
3. 11:25the reality but at an at any rate this is a self-administered intervention where it's brutal…
4. 17:25food is my materiality your food is my spirituality so when I if I were sitting…
5. 23:06this chapter applies to a very specific situation I guarantee you that it does not currently…
6. 28:42emotions it's not binary it's not you did it or you didn't do it it's not…
7. 34:28I believe that a lot of the um the Smashing of the ego that needs to…
8. 40:20stop digging we didn't bring you in here until we were ready to make we knew…
9. 46:01like it says he gives you the source okay even if you say smile hamita yeah…
10. 51:48okay you're blocking the the the obvious truth and so you're dysfunctional and you're causing me…

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