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Text-Based Tanya—Week #64

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Rabbi Shais Taub

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all right text-based Tanya we are in the middle of chapter 37 excellent starting from chapter 35 the altareva was comforting the beanie the baby had an existential crisis he was asking what's the purpose of a life where you will you will never be rid of your internal conflict and the altitude says yeah that's true you will never be rid of your internal conflict only at Sadiq can manage that but don't worry about it because um you're inside your inner experience is not really the end-all and be all well what's the end Olympia your physical actions your behaviors so the vanity had been thinking that the Albert told him to focus on behavior is a sort of like a consolation prize Well if you can't transform your heart and your mind okay so at least act act as if but now the outdo is explaining since chapter 35 that no no really the end-all be-all is physical action and he explains that in terms of the hashems deepest deepest desire is to be revealed in the physical world and the way that happens the way that's brought about is through our performance of mixes so this chapter we've been explaining the mechanics of that how there's uh an allotment of the clippersnaiga of the neutral spirituality that makes up most of this world and it is assigned specifically to each one of us as offshoots of of souls each one of us is an another offshoot of the 600 000 original Souls that left Egypt and each one of us has a certain part of this physical world to refine how do we refine it well by using it as a Mitzvah object obviously that's that's that's an easy way to use a physical object for uh to that's an easy an obvious way to use a physical object

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