Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #17

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.

welcome to chapter 10 10 very good you're in the right place i think they're teaching chapter nine down the hall right now so you're in the right classroom last week chapter nine we introduced the parable of the small one small one city small city and the small city was being fought over by two kings both who wanted what was their objective each one total control 99.9 percent okay so the small city is the body the two kings are the two kings are the animal soul and the godly soul and both of them want total domination in other words they want that all of the three garments thought speech and action should be expressive of their desires alone the denizens yeah we learned that word yeah so we understand the nature of the conflict now what we're going to do i'm going to telegraph to you what's happening in chapters 10 11 and 12. happening in chapters 10 11 and 12. we're going to talk about how this conflict plays out in three different personae one persona is called the tsadik and that's the subject of this chapter of the present chapter chapter 10 it is that we spoke about back in chapter one remember back in chapter one we said that the gemara says there's five categories of people tsarik with categories of people tsarik with russia rashford and then we didn't really get back to explaining what this sadik russia benini was all about now we're starting to get back to the tata grocery banning the discussion that we started in chapter one so we're going to focus today on the tsatik to sum up this chapter i'll say it like this think about the conflict that was described in chapter 9 and think about the godly souls fantasy

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1. 0:01welcome to chapter 10 10 very good you're in the right place i think they're teaching…
2. 4:38say ra is selfishness when he completely gets rid of the selfishness however he has not…
3. 9:50eat rat droppings less than the amount that the usda prohibits being included in your food…
4. 14:55i i'm on a practical level there's not only it's not going to speak to him…
5. 20:14people's evil because he's not jealous of it he's not jealous of it you know the…
6. 25:30are still purpose his head it's not coming from him it's not like he's sitting and…
7. 30:09and here he explains because one is directly or i should actually say one is inverse…
8. 35:48is not to pursue that level now what level is the book about pursuing you have…
9. 40:57[Applause] it's subjugated to the point of being practically negligible but if you trace how it…
10. 46:07born a tsadic well i don't want to give away anything that we haven't learned yet…

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