Ten Minutes of Meaning - Tanya (#60)

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

we've been dwelling on the definition of the beinoni. The beinoni is the one who externally does all the right things, makes all the right choices, yet internally there's a battle, there's a struggle, there's a war going on because still part of the beinoni's equation and the influence on the beinoni is the animal soul. Is that animal soul that's trying to distract and trying to get the individual to follow instinct and intuition. And it remains it remains. That's how chapter 13 began. Is that there there are essentially two lawyers or two judges. And the two judges are coming to different conclusions and they're judging and evaluating the circumstances and the situation. One says sleep in, eat whatever you want, look at whatever you want, react however you want. The other says what are you doing? You're so much better, you're so much bigger, you could regulate yourself. And what will determine who we are? Who rules over our domain? The answer is there's a third judge halacha gever ha'makhria. Who Kadosh Baruch Hu ozer ha'yitzer tov. The third judge is the almighty. When the almighty swoops in, the almighty weighs in, the almighty tilts the scales and he brings a third judge because we don't want a hung jury. What's it called when you have two judges? So, Hashem himself is the third judge who tilts the scale. You'll say, "But where is Hashem?" I don't know. When I woke up this morning, the alarm went off, I wanted to sleep in, I got out of bed. Where was Hashem to help me decide? There was one side saying, "Shluf keson." The other side saying, "Get up and get going." Where's Hashem? The Alter Rebbe says, "Hashem is inside us." That godly soul, that godly spirit, that

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1. 1:00we've been dwelling on the definition of the beinoni. The beinoni is the one who externally…
2. 2:31light. Ha'ezer Ya'akov Or Hashem Or Nefesh Elokis. The assistance is the glimmer of divine light…
3. 4:01advantage to control the stupidity. Sicha achsiel, the fool that says, "Look and gaze at that.…
4. 5:34soul takes an oath. Even if the entire world tells you you're a tzaddik, consider yourself…
5. 7:06The yetzer hara says, take out your phone, scroll. You made it through all of Yom…
6. 8:37addict. So the addict can't just have one drink. The addict can't just indulge in one…
7. 10:08awe of the people in that room who are working, who are aspiring, who are conquering…
8. 11:39didn't have the higher power helping me, that animal would rule me. So, therefore, that's the…
9. 14:16whatsoever. Whatsoever Muuma. Whatsoever. So yeah, when the animal's in the cage, you look like your…
10. 15:49ferocious, destructive animal, we're continuing to feed it. So, it's not weakening in the cage. It's…

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