Tanya (Part 4)

What’s said in this shiur

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

together with you and making our way and trying to understand. So the begins with the with an author's introduction which we're not going to read word for word but I'll summarize for you before we dive into the opening per the first paric of Tanya and here the balatanya essentially justifies the writing and the publishing of seafanya. Why does he have to justify it? Because the first half of this introduction, the balani explains why you cannot compare what you read in a book, what you learn in a safer with what you can derive and can extract from contact with a Rebi interpersonally, sitting and connecting, listening and learning, consulting and confiding. How can one begin to compare the one-on-one what one sees in the saddak? How the saddak can see what's in your heart and in your soul? How they can respond to your reaction to your question to how well you absorb with when one reads a book. He describes the danger when one reads a book, they're reading it through the filter of their own mind and heart. They're reading it through their own understanding which has limitations and therefore may be superimposing on what they're reading. And therefore he writes anu the author's introduction in fact was a letter a pastoral letter that was sent in 1795 anomnu anamu is known today in an acronym as an we use an to describe hardcore kabad labavaturure authentic genuine raised in the tradition the anash anchu and the balatana writes this letter 1795 to Iraq should bless them and should protect them. Which is interesting because he's writing that letter to those who are in that community around white Russia in that area whereas is spreading to his disciples and to his who have been coming to see him on mass. And he's writing some of this letter to explain why he's unable to

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1. 0:31together with you and making our way and trying to understand. So the begins with the…
2. 2:03the tradition the anash anchu and the balatana writes this letter 1795 to Iraq should bless…
3. 3:38teachings and they said yes we've started to record it and he was very bothered because…
4. 5:12and that was the ideal way of communication what could be done there was no choice…
5. 6:44that the author achieved the very feat which he argued could not be done to write…
6. 8:47and don't be wicked. And even if the whole world's going to tell you you're such…
7. 10:20obvious reason why the advice of consider yourself like a wicked person would be counterproductive, would…
8. 11:51down. And how can you work to serve? The skip in our step with joy in…
9. 13:21able to just live life and all I care about is my pleasure. Pleasure seeker." That's…
10. 14:54a Russia. I might as well carpeyed. I'm just going to go have the pleasures of…

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