That is why this world with all it contains is called the world of kelipot and sitra achra — despite the fact that this world, too, receives its vitality from G‑d’s holiness. The post Chapter 06 – Part 3 – video podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

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Chapter 06 – Part 3 – video podcast

Now, each of these three distinctions and grades — Nefesh, Ruach and Neshamah — consists of ten faculties1 The post Chapter 03 – Part 1 – video podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

Chapter 03 – Part 1 – video podcast

In addition [to its ten faculties — discussed in ch. 3], every divine soul (nefesh elokit) possesses three garments. The post Chapter 04 – Part 1 – video podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

Chapter 04 – Part 1 – video podcast

Next his contemplation will give birth to the attribute of Chesed, expressed as a love of G‑d, so that his heart will glow with an intense love of G‑d like fiery flames, with a passion, desire and longing, and a yearning soul The post Chapter 03 – Part 2 – video podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

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[Only] concerning repentance out of such great love has it been said9 that [the penitent’s] premeditated sins become, for him, like virtues, since through them (through the sins which previously had distanced him from G‑d) he attained when he repented to this great love. The post Chapter 07 – Part 4 – video podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

Chapter 07 – Part 4 – video podcast

Now these three “garments” deriving from the Torah and its commandments, though they are called [merely] “garments” of the Nefesh, Ruach and Neshamah, The post Chapter 04 – Part 2 – video podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

Chapter 04 – Part 2 – video podcast

כי על ידי דביקה בתלמידי חכמים, קשורות נפש רוח ונשמה של עמי הארץ ומיוחדות במהותן הראשון ושרשם שבחכמה עילאהFor, through attachment to the scholars, the Nefesh, Ruach and Neshamah of the ignorant are bound up and united with their original The post Chapter 02 – Part 4 – video podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

Chapter 02 – Part 4 – video podcast

In the previous chapters the Alter Rebbe elaborated on the composition of the Jew’s divine soul with its ten holy soul-powers and three soul-garments, and his animal soul, with its corresponding ten powers and three garments originating in kelipah. In the present The post Chapter 09 – Part 1 – video podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

Chapter 09 – Part 1 – video podcast

We shall now learn what is necessary for the rectification of permitted words not spoken for the sake of heaven.ועל דברים בטלים בהיתר, כגון עם הארץ שאינו יכול ללמודAs for innocent idle chatter, such as The post Chapter 08 – Part 2 – vidoe podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

Chapter 08 – Part 2 – vidoe podcast

ועוד זאת במאכלות אסורות, שלכך נקראים בשם איסורThere is an additional aspect in the matter of forbidden foods, for which reason they are called issur (“bound” and attached): The post Chapter 08 – Part 1 – video podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

Chapter 08 – Part 1 – video podcast

ואף דהקדוש ברוך הוא נקרא אין סוף, ולגדולתו אין חקר, ולית מחשבה תפיסא ביה כללAlthough the Holy One, blessed be He, is called Ein Sof (“Infinite”), and 5 “His greatness The post Chapter 04 – Part 3 – vidoe podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

Chapter 04 – Part 3 – vidoe podcast

The Alter Rebbe now addresses a difficulty arising from his previous statement that every soul emanates from Divine wisdom. Since all souls emanate from one source — Supernal Wisdom — it should follow that all souls are of the same level and rank. How then do the various levels and ranks found in Jewish souls […] The post Chapter 02 – Part 3 – video podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

Chapter 02 – Part 3 – video podcast

Concluding the discussion about the Tzadik (discourse only, no text used) The post Chapter 10 – Part 4 – video podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

Chapter 10 – Part 4 – video podcast

But concerning the rank of the “complete tzaddik,” Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai’s statement6 applies: “I have seen ’superior men‘ The post Chapter 10 – Part 3 – video podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

Chapter 10 – Part 3 – video podcast

Hence, according to the abundance of love towards G‑d, so is the extent of hatred toward the spiritual sitra achra The post Chapter 10 – Part 2 – video podcast appeared first on TanyaClass.com.

Chapter 10 – Part 2 – video podcast

Tanya – The Book of the Intermediates (Likutei Amarim) – taught by Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasnianski

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