Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #52

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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.

We are continuing chapter 31. and we're dealing with the question of when it is appropriate to intentionally invoke a negative emotional state in order to counter a different emotional state a different negative emotional state so does anyone remember that unique type of negative I say in quotes emotion that can be useful yeah frustration does anyone remember the exact word in well China kadish in the Holy tongue that the outdated uses does anyone remember my joke about the lion at the Seder Morrow very good last week I said why did the lion love the pesos because he got to have more Roar yeah but why did I tell them Aurora joke you're bitter so the word is mirus means bitterness and bitterness is negative it is negative but it's uh not a real negative thing it's actually a yeah atfos is negative negative atifus is just blah sad at first it means yeah atfos is yeah not clinically depressed but uh yeah it's sadness not productive counterproductive apathetic numb Ness is productive because it's a motivator and I give you the the metaphor of like the the Tough Gym coach who knows how to yell at you without making you feel like giving up okay and it's all internal we're not yelling at anyone else and no one's yelling at us this is internal stuff okay all right so we got up to the point where we had this extended metaphor about the princess remember the beautiful pristine pure princess yes who's the princess we are right very good yes well maybe you should listen to this metaphor you are the real you I'm talking about the real you your your deepest uh spiritual self this this beautiful little princess that comes from the palace her father's Palace the king Hashem and she had to go on on a mission she

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1. 0:00We are continuing chapter 31. and we're dealing with the question of when it is appropriate…
2. 5:46and Tatum you do good deeds that when the body does hashem's will so at that…
3. 11:30but the reality is the body is still the body and the soul is going to…
4. 17:10therefore which aspect of this story is more relevant to you could I could do an…
5. 22:55on Consciousness So Divine Consciousness here means consciousness of your own Divine yeah what just to…
6. 28:41that's what's getting frustrated because we're explaining when we're learning Tanya the never syphilis is understanding…
7. 34:26well something works hard but in a totally different way than we were because it's not…
8. 40:10very important question because otherwise it's just self-pity with no resolution and it just saps us…
9. 45:55she's coming down for the effect that she'll have on her body and her animal soul…
10. 51:35coming up okay nothing okay um the imkane A5 is if so this is going to…

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