When Good Intentions DON'T Matter | Ten Minutes of Meaning | Tanya #36

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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.

look wonderful and healthy and others that need a little bit of work and improvement. But it is the mirror we hold up to ourselves, the MRI machine that reveals ourselves that Tanya has helped us discover how to be our best selves and we're up to paras. I just want to mention we are in the middle of our beer global campaign. We're asking all those who listen, learn, watch, read, benefit, who gain value from Bocarone Synagogue to please help us, help us spread Torah, help us spread Tanya, help us spread light. And you can enter a raffle to come spend chabas here from which there is nothing redeemable, entirely and utterly negative. There's nothing valuable or redeemable. caught up in the world of what we call is the balan is the word and mut is and means tied up and bound or untied and released. Why does forbidden mean tied and bound? Why does permissible mean untied and released? Because that which is forbidden is tied to the world of sitra. It is tied it is bound together with it. And that which is permissible is untied. It is released. It is free. So the three kipos are entirely categorically negative. The fourth kipa kipos noa has a partial eclipse. The light does shine through. There is something redeemable. That's the area of the animal soul where it all depends on intent. It all depends on intent. Technically the eating, the sleeping, the tulle, whatever we're doing or whatever we're on technically is permissible. What's the concentration? What's the

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1. 0:31look wonderful and healthy and others that need a little bit of work and improvement. But…
2. 2:35intent? And here the alterba now moves over from the intent we give to a kosher…
3. 4:08the energy to to sit to learn. I'm eating this food to have the energy to…
4. 5:41intentions cannot transform or untie that which is tied and bound to the to the world…
5. 7:47>> Chicken parmesan. Thank you. That's what I was looking for. So a person sits down…
6. 9:19nature of the forbidden thing is not altered by the intent because the prohibition is objective…
7. 10:51permissible things they're untied they're unbound they're not inherently or absolutely or objectively bound and tied…
8. 13:00And that desire we have that desire we have that does not originate from the animal…
9. 14:31mitzvos and that changes us but our soul is not inherently superior or or different so…
10. 16:04every time we make that mistake and we indulge that impulse, we've been taken over by…

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