Ep. 23: The New Tanya: Tanya Hasholaim with Rabbi Mendel Kaplan

So that it's not only that the Reb's idea is being fulfilled, but the Reb's idea is being reaching every home and probably more every many more Yiddish. That's definitely very exciting. >> If you've been enjoying this podcast, [music] please like and subscribe so that others can enjoy it as well. In addition, if you've benefited in any way from a monkin podcast and would like to give something back, you can do so today at their.org/donate. I'm Yasi Cayman. Welcome to among byer an ongoing fabin about life as aid our vibrant connection with theb and inspired living shaped by the way he teaches us each and every day. This episode is dedicated and formed by sh and shindi dan. We experienced a few technical connection challenges during this recording, but we worked hard to make the final version as smooth and enjoyable as possible. Thank you for your understanding and enjoy the episode. Rabbi Kaplan, how are you today? >> Fine. Thank you for having me here. >> Thank you for making the time to be here. And um I wanted the reason why I wanted to have a conversation with you. I think that uh there's a number of things we could discuss uh that I would be interested to discuss with you. Um and perhaps uh a different time we would do that. But uh for today's conversation, I would like to focus specifically on the amazing project that uh you were uh and that is um the Tanya Tanya Hashim that just came out. So uh let's do that. >> Okay. I'd like to mention I'm in the sense of editing but of the project. >> Okay. Obviously that so but I I think it says in the book I think the the title was there there's a title for you that had that that said that you were the initiate I don't know initiator the >> chief editor of the project >> the chief editor that's right >> okay very good so I get before we get into this specific Tanya and the kesh of it. I want to backtrack a little bit to Tanya Bakl. So I think that might be a good way to uh today everyone that learns Tanya usually they are introduced it they're being taught it or they're learning it with some type of pir and I'm curious when Alba printed the Tanya there was no perushim on the Tanya and I want to know I don't know if you know the answer to this question but in the in the first generation or you know how were people learning Tanya right when it came out? Do you have anything to say about that? >> Uh okay. At the time when it came out, there was what Alterb explains init that the Tanya was really a continuation to private consultations which the had with during and the says it's not I'm just giving out now a safer and people should start learning a this is a continuous conversation. We had we're discussing you're bringing your questions yourim. So at the time of they looked at the not as we are starting to learn some kind of this is not the way wanted them to look at it. It's a continuation of a conversation which the had with them just the conversation was moving from private consultation to the safer and this is why explains in that the general rule begins with a question. The general rule is in other words we are talking here about people who are discussing their issues. I want who want help and generally are very general uh they don't deal with the particulars of the problems of and and [snorts] the challenges which each individual has. And this is why people are not interested in learning. They want to hear they want to consult with the Reb. They want to hear it from the Reb directly. And the Reb explains the Tanya is different. Why is it different? Because the Tanya is not I'm just giving out to say the Tanya is given out to people who I am already in touch with who already came to me with their issues. And right now I'm just continuing the convers the conversation with that. So that's that's the way that had the Tanya in mind. We are talking here about people who have a background not just a background of which I mentioned the Tanya but a background of connection with the with the alterb and they see the Tanya as a continuation to that background. Now you would ask okay that's for that generation. was for later generations. So really the says in that refers not only to his generation but to generations to come. They're all considered mak of the alterba. But in practical terms says himself that those who are not able to from the tanya itself the way it's given to them they're not able to find and understand the individual instructions for themselves. So they should ask the in other words the comes together with an oral tradition through the and from generation into generation. And indeed that when you learn Tanya for the first time it should always be from a teacher. You should you shouldn't just open and start learning because the Tanya is accompanied by a Turkish has to come with learning from a teacher. Now if we are asking whether whether the Push Matan and so on whether they are a substitute for a teacher I am not the one to say that probably it's always better to start with a teacher but maybe at le maybe maybe some maybe some of it maybe at least some maybe some help there is also in learning with the Jewish >> so it's a it's a it's not it's not only a safe but it's a a living docu ument. >> Yeah. Yeah. That's that's that's really what the market is all about, >> right? And I guess this leads us right into the this Tanya that we're going to talk about because a lot of the Tanya is in the Tanya they're giving by theim. And obviously if that's the way the Tanya is supposed to be that there's an oral tradition to the Tanya as well, it makes perfect sense why there's so many from the on the besides the give. Um let's move on to the to this Tanya Tanya Hashim. So I understand that the whole project and the final product that uh came out of the of the Tanya Shalim um is based on a project that the Reba himself initiated and revealed that he was working on. So if you can please uh elaborate what is that project that the deba was working on? What did he say it is? What is it exactly? >> Okay. So if we start from that actually the story of the we could start it from two angles but uh you started it from here. So uh we'll go with that. >> I I I only ask questions to to to to guide you but if you want to start from a different angle. >> Okay. No let's start with this. >> Okay. The Reb printed the Tanya for the first time in Trial and then the Reb added at the end of the Tanya and so on and there was a Reb wrote introduction to those and there the Reb writes about his plan. It's actually this this is printed in every single Tanya printed from till today. There is this with the outline of the Reb's plan and the Reb says that we are working is working on a plan of a complete edition of Tanya which will include and the Reb names three things. One is obviously references to sources and so on. Then a pir a short a short commentary on the words of the Tanya and a collection of explanations interpretations of the and this the Reb writes about this plan. It's printed in every single Tanya since and the M of the plan will never never materialize. Uh but the Reb himself there was actually the Rashimus of the Reb. The Reb himself wrote Marquis and Nor and the Tanya. They were printed in the series of the rushimas and they were meant to be probably part of that project. But the direct relationship between these two projects is not completely known. In other words, there is this general project to give to give out a complete addition of the Tanya and then there is which the Reb wrote himself which obviously would were to be incorporated in somehow in that complete edition. But the exact relationship between the two is not known. >> So you're saying because the Reb wrote those much earlier than when he wrote that he's that he's working on this >> mostly. Yes. uh almost all probably over 90% was written earlier even though the rabbi completed adding more and more some of them probably even after the but yes probably over 90% is written before before that anyway it's definitely that when the writes that he is going to give out this that he's planning this obviously it would have been incorporated in it one way or another but in actual it didn't there was it didn't advance and later years I think in early the instructed who was the head of at the time and the Reb told him to add it and liquid and again there oh there was a discussion exactly what way to do it. Uh it ended up being that it was printed not on the page of the Tanya because I forgot to mention and the said there was writing that the plan is it should be actually on the page of the Tanya Tanya in the middle and everything else surrounding it. And the Tanya it was there was it was printed in in a booklet. It was just the way it is and afterward the whole and so on. However, uh it did see some people think some people thought that this Tanya in other words this cont these booklets and by that's really where the plan was going. In other words, the plan was changed from a plan of having surrounded by Pirushim to the to this Tanya which would be given as the Peritan and afterward the collection of of Pirushim. But recently actually uh it there was a letter from the Reb written around that time short a short while after the started coming out. So there is a letter which wrote it's printed in English. What's interesting we did not know about this letter when we started the project. We find it just a couple of years ago where the says clearly that the reason why the original project is not yet happening in other words because I don't have the time for it. And he says that the project of Rabbi is in other words that's not fulfilling the project the way it's supposed to be but being that the project is not yet happening. So as a beginning uh something which is somewhat similar to that project this was the Tanya of Rabri. So is the is the project supposed to be the completion of what the Reb's project that the Reba wanted to do or it's supposed to be something else may maybe take it from there. So eventually uh okay the project did not start as a project to fulfill Reb's plan of Shalom. This is not how the project started. This is this is the second angle which I was was trying to get to. Uh the project started and I wasn't part of it yet with the rashimus rebas and the rebashimus were found afteramos in the reb's room. Nobody knew about it before it was found at the time. And just like just like there are other uh together with a few other uh and other things there was also a special booklet which had and it came out the gave it the name and this is how it came out and in booklets of of Now when it was g out it was again it was published by visak underb as I mentioned and when they edited the rashimus uh they decided again I wasn't yet part of it at the time they decided just in order to be a domain to be a little more than just themselves to had a collection of Perushim of a Perushim from the Reb and the Tanya. So at that edition of the rashimus. So there [snorts] was the Tanya it was surrounded by the rashimus and additionally there was a liqu of the Tanya collected from all and from the Reb's letters. This was published at the time in the early uh no 1990s under the misgo. Then go some 15 years later, there was interest in publishing a new edition of those and Rabbi Brook and probably others thought that it would make sense to expand that liquid. It should include not only the but also from the other from and also to update with things which came out after that and so on and that's where that's the first time when I got in the picture the idea was to expand that liqu which was published with the and to add to it other bur from the reb which weren't included in that original uh liquid spushi and then once and and and I and I was asked uh the uh even before they actually started to run the project they asked me to make a a sample of a few sample pushim how it would look like and then they came out with the idea since we for adding pushim from the Reb and since we know that the Reb had an idea of adding Pushim from in general why not add also from at that time the idea wasn't to fulfill the exact idea of the Tanya but just to expand the liquid Pushim which was printed in the together with other pushim of of a certain uh and and uh initially I was asked to make a sample and then uh uh our book secured funding and it started to run this project. What happened since is really at that time no one imagined the scope of this project. In other if you ask someone how many of the are there on now obviously if you want the entire is a so everything you can give out an entire encyclopedia of and call it a so obviously this is not what was meant was meant only things which are specifically written on the tany which refer not general bu for example if towards the end there was a few words about das so we are not going to put everything which it says which says about das as a you can't do that the idea is just things which are direct pushim which are which refer to theel itself so I thought how how many pushim aren't there. So, okay, it was imagined as maybe okay, maybe a two-year project or so. But what we started once we started actually working in it, we realize that it's much much more than that. In other words, even before I started working, a group of andite were hired just to make a in other words to look through all the of the and just make a make a list list of where there are So uh as a preparation for the project uh [clears throat] Rabbi Brook gathered a group of Galai to prepare a which means just to go through all of the stom of the and see wherever anything is mentioned about the he didn't have to uh learn it but just go through it and see wherever the me mentioned and to prepare just the based on the Pokemon for example Tanya Peric Gimmel is mentioned here and here and here and here and here and [clears throat] so on and once the mak was ready which was actually we started the the project was uh was already running at the time the was done while I was still working on the bureim the mak for the bur of the rabbim was being prepared and with the time we started realizing that it's a It's a really serious uh project and then with the time somehow the realization came that we are what we are really trying to do here is we are trying to get as close as possible to the original project uh which spoke about in his done it. Mhm. >> So >> basically around the middle of the project maybe not the middle but definitely after the beginning >> the idea changed from printing the rebim with additional borim from the Reb and maybe from the other >> but to trying to get as close as possible to the Reb's plan of which meant for example First of all that there would be a need to add other parts. For example, the Reb's plan included a pir meaning additional in addition to the bureim of the a running commentary on every word of the Tanya. This was part of the original project. We didn't start uh with this in mind. And also being that right now we are it's not anymore with additional burim but the general concept of liquid piushim and the tanya which the reb had in mind. So it didn't make sense anymore to have the rashima separately and the liquid piushim separately. the also had to be incorporated and and and there's a general plan and and and also there was a reason for that because in some cases in the Reb is discussing the same issues which he is also discussing in or in later and the conclusions are not always exactly the same or maybe some of the or maybe with added context and so on and so forth. So in the in the rashimus the rashimas are printed separately and then there was a liquid pushim separately and if you learn you learn each of them separately even though sometimes they are touching upon the same subject and here the idea became to incorporate everything in the same liquid fushing. So and so so once the idea came up okay we are trying to get as close as possible to the okay so what are we going to do with push so who is going to write a push commentary and so again uh this is also something which rab found everyone knows there is the which started as a shim which Rabbi Weinberg gave on the radio and which were then mugb edited the actual pages of the shim from which was giving his and was later printed the which encouragement spoke about it among is brought to you by we live in a chaotic world a world where for usim is a su We do not have the ability to hear and see the on a daily basis. Yet we know that the is very much with us and is alive and thriving more than ever before. One needs to only tap [music] into it. Provides you and your family with the tools necessary to tap into all of this. 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You can be part of through your financial support as well through visiting our website.org or through contacting us to setting up a meeting. Thank you very much. Enjoy the rest of the podcast. So, how did that work? Wberg would prepare the shim and then he would um he would he would write the shim give it to the reb and then the reb and then the reb would give it out and he would give the sh that >> yeah exactly like that he would write the sh he would write he prepared himself he wrote his sh word by word he wasn't like during the sh just freely freely freely talking he wrote word by word what he was going to say it was typed in a typewriter and uh he gave it into the Reb and the Reb edited it and gave gave it out to him before the sh in fact these pages are readily available they are online everyone could see the ghost and those now then and and the 80s I think came out this story and the then also translated to English lessons in Tanya and to Hebrew. So it so this theim didn't get their own from the they were but they re-edited based on those which had the reb and the when it came out the g the spoke about it and the is actually printed in the in the first volume of right in the beginning and here the describes the shimat using the words Yiddish words and a short per a short commentary which is which is exactly the same words which the Reb is using in his describing his plan where writes in Hebrew it should be a short commentary. So the idea was okay that's that's where the purish has to come from. And we have to take and turn it into the purish and the so this is how this uh the second part of this project in addition to the purushim we had the of the were incorporated as a commentary under >> so it's not um it's not directly it's kitser of it's like shortened. >> It's not I wouldn't say it was shortened, but it was uh re translated and edited. In other words, the safer wasn't exactly the same as the sh in which the was that there was a different editing, a different project, there were something where things were added and so on. What we did we decided let's go we start from the beginning we'll take the pages as we said they are available the pages with the go and we'll start from there and I wouldn't say we shortened it but we did change things based on the idea that these are not anymore to be told orally but they are they are the purish and so for example for example When you give a sh sometimes you repeat things a couple of times especially if it's a if it's idea which is a new idea or idea which is not easy to get or understand. So you repeat it a couple of times and would write it actually a couple of times one after the other. So in this case yeah we omitted some of those uh of those uh repetitive explanations also. For example, if you take the you would see that many times at the end of the per there is a story or in other places there was a story how the story came in that's a sh given on the radio at the end of the shabber would conclude sometime with a story which had to do with the issue at point there's no need for those stories when you are printing out a push and so yes we did go through the entire from its from it original pages and we did we we re-ransated it because uh translation of the children in Hebrew which is available uh didn't exactly fit the style of of the so everything had to be translated again and we added it in a way which would fit with for for the safer. One more another point is we mentioned the of the now those some of them are indeed printed in the you will see on the bottom there are sometimes from the Reb and you have the lo the words of the Reb and they are translated to Yiddish. So some of the are indeed incorporated in the but some of the are not like long but they are corrections and smaller additions to the sh and those are generally were incorporated in the sh as just part of the sh and nobody knows you wouldn't know from from reading What are the ideas which the Reb added this something which you only see in the original pages. So what we did in the when we wrote the pir is that in addition to writing translating and editing the actual whenever there is a from the even if it's the smallest it was also added separately in the liquid. So there is we know there is the these wars are not just part of the sh they are actually in addition the app of the reb and the also when the safer was published we don't know exactly how much in other words it wasn't it wasn't edited the safer wasn't edited by Rabbi Weinberg himself it was given to other edited editors to work on [clears throat] and it seems Especially when we look through the pages, they weren't always aware of the full meaning of meaning of every ago of the so we had to read all of those aoras immediately from the kesh to see exactly how they fit in. For example, sometimes changing from one thing to another. So we had to go through through every word of the every word of the >> and based on that we added both pirush and also we edited it added added it in the in the in the liquid firushim now that time when we were working on that that's when rabbi found that letter and which the rabb clearly says that the is still on the table and just we didn't have a time yet to do that and project is only a beginning of that. So this obviously encouraged us to try as much as possible to get as close to to the Reb's original plan. So this is so indeed in we have all of the three all of the three parts which the spoke about in the we have the which as we said is based on the We have March. Now those March are also based mainly on the rebus because the rebels include many also on the and we added more where it was necessary. And then there is the liquidim which which incorporates everything both of from and also the purim of so this is how the came into being. In other again we didn't plan on nobody sat and said okay the wanted to give let's do it. No that's not how we started. We started in one way but then eventually we got into into it trying as much as possible to fulfill the rebon. So again we can't say that this is this is the reb which the reb actually meant. don't know exactly but we can try we can say that we tried as much as possible to get as close as possible to fulfilling the reba's plan. So what is the um my first thing firstly did the rebba have in mind to according to you what you're understanding was the kavana to have a liquid of all of the of like like like like there is in the shalom or do you think the kavana was to have like a selected Well, I can't say that for sure because the the as far as I remember the Russian does not say all of the pure but I think even when uh when the when the Reb gave Rabbi Kitri instruction instructions about how to prepare his so I think the Abbott did tell him to to not to make a collect ction but to to put everything and indeed Raik added everything which was available at the time by the way since this is we're talking about 50 years ago since then there are things which weren't printed yet which are printed now many more and many more sources but I think what did try to collect everything which existed at at the time in print yeah so based on that we did uh so So we can't say for sure this is what the reba meant but that's that's the way we did our our work. We we're trying to get everything which is possible from the >> and the the liquid the liquid of the is it um is it the lash or it's a rewritten based on the push of the of the >> Okay. So here we we had uh let's let's go back to to the Reb said this was in other words it's not fulfillment of the project but at the beginning and beginning and something which is similar to the project and I think why is it only in the beginning I think at least part of it has to do with this. In other words, you wouldn't see, it's not very common to see someone taking and starting learning from it. It's used mainly for research. Yeah, you want to know what's there. So, you can't it's not it's not something which you could open and learn. And one of the reasons is because Rabbi Kri in other words based on uh whatever was available at the time it seems he had he was the head of he couldn't put his entire time in this only soik is indeed uh we could call it it's like copy and paste version so to say in other words wherever there is something from uh from one of the he would copy it the way it is and put it in place. For example, if the rebab speak about a certain which is very common by the way speaks about a certain part of the Tanya and different mam. Now sometimes it's never exactly the same word for word. Even the bure is not always exactly the same. Sometimes it's different burim sometimes other wording. So he would put one next to the next to the other. This this piece this piece and this piece. So you had all the sources in front of you but you didn't have really you couldn't make of it many. So we already in the beginning of the project we're discussing whether we should keep the exactly the way it is or with minimal editing in order to make it more accessible more possible to open Italians and learn from it. and decision was made. There was discussion that it wasn't me. was it was discussion and it was decided the purpose of this is for people to be able to open a safer and learn it with and for this we have to we have to make it easy to as easy to learn as possible even in the expense of keeping the exact lotion now and I I won't elaborate on It's not we didn't it's not we didn't take we didn't translate it to a different language or even to a we didn't take something we didn't write it for example in modern language we didn't it's not we're not trying to make something which is different from the the the language the style is the style of the in and we didn't change the style or to make it more moder or or different. But in order to make it easier to learn, we did bring together from different memory for different sources to make it one thing. We did add a few words here and there to make it easier to understand. Obviously, we didn't addim. It was we add we added and just connections or change a little the order anything which is meant just to make it easier to understand how how how the how the page goes whenever we felt that we need to add a little more than that in other words if you read the purge the way it is maybe you wouldn't understand and there is we need to additional explanation. We didn't add it inside. There was a and and in the bottom we wrote it could mean this and this and we added and and made this clear that that this is from the this is our suggestion. We didn't add inside any substance which is not from the but we did addit a little bit of language to make it more more accessible and easier to understand. For example, let's take the rebims. The rebims are written very very short in code. You print it the way it is. It's very hard to learn. So yes, we have to add a few words to make it easier to understand. But again, not words of substance, but words which makes it easier to learn and understand what it is. So again we didn't keep the exactly we kept the style of but in order and these things make it more easier to understand and we think this is possibly one of the reasons why we again we don't know exactly what the Reb's plan was but from the Reb saying that project was This seems to indicate that the wanted more than just copy and paste of pieces but something which is a clear which could be learned easily with the so that's the approach which we took and this is how is >> okay very good so um I want to zoom out a little bit because you said a lot of different things of what the Tanya incorporates So if you open up the Tanya, can you go through how it looks and what each section is? >> Okay. Uh should they actually be there's a safe actually? I can open the safe, but I don't know if it's you wouldn't be able to see much probably in the >> You could you we could try. We'll see. We'll see if it goes through the camera. We can see if it goes. You see anything here? Okay. Okay. So, here is an example. We start from the beginning of a peric. That's for example, this is peric zion. So, as you can see in the in the safer each per is separate and has its own show blood. This here this is a sh of we added here the the piece here is actually from the because Rabbi Weinberg the beginning of each perk before he started actually learning the per inside he would give some kind of introduction about the peric actually he started it a little later not from the very beginning but afterwards it became a seda and this printed in the sha at the beginning of each peric. So we took this part and we put it right in the sh of of each peric where it was missing in some places it was missing. So uh we wrote our own but uh generally this is from the introduction to peric. Then you open the peric itself. So here you see this is this is the tan inside under the tanya. Right under in the T of the again some of them from the from the and some we added and under the actually section of and the which is where we brought quotes from the where it was important and so on and so that's quotes from those Then on the side here it's only on this page and other pages it goes to the other page too. That's the purish that's from the it's parallel to the Tanya itself. So you could you learn the Tanya and you can learn it with the shim around it and the large print the words of the Tanya. small print is at the shorim and then in the in the bottom starting on the bottom and continuing to the next page that's the liquid push they have you see the first one has an al given and so on and then the sometimes in certain pim the liquid is very long you have pages not here you have pages let's say in per kish or here per You have p pages which are entirely the liquid pushing because these are parts where there are many pushmen and then in the end of every perk not in most there is a kit. What's the kits? That's from the kitsim and of the we know that wrote actually two versions [snorts] of kitsurim in addition to and the rebba printed them in the safer actually gave it out to everyone I think in so every so the is printed at the and uh of so that's basically how it works. You see the there was the introduction. The introduction is really part of the and inside we have the three parts the on the bottom right under the text and the side the and the rest of and towards the end of is the from where it exists >> in the back of the um of the bay. I saw that there's a very rich uh and beautiful pictures of fromb. So what what are those what are those that are in the back of bay? Okay, [clears throat] that's a ski this is uh now because the safer as we said is taken from the burim of all of the rabbid to that uh now the burim of the rabim and the are divided let's say into two parts there are some burim of the rabbim which are written specifically on the main ones we know the that's wrote and and itself directly referencing the that's there's also from the and for example there is and there are which is of the It's specifically written on the actually from the there are multiple memorial from the which the beginning of the m the purpose of the m so to say is to explain a certain part of and then there are the pushim which are just scattered all over many and so we decided uh that's really also based on uh Uh and the way the Reb published the at the end of the Reb himself wrote a different manuscripts where it was published from and so on so forth. So based on that we thought it would make sense here too to add such a description of the sources which we have from the so obviously the description can't include all the but thoseim which refers specifically and the a description of where it comes from what are the mach what are the manuscripts and so on and so forth so [clears throat] so that's a that's in the back of the Tanya with a we printed such a description of all the sources starting from the alterb the memorial of the which are directly on the Tanya with a few with copies from them. These are not copies of because he almost all of them didn't write himself but some of them are of the and from the other. So we so over there there is so again that's a description of all sources from the rabbim which are directly related to Tanya including many copies and uh my book made sure to make the copies in the most be and and the best quality possible and the color and so on and so forth. 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Give me if you have any examples of something that sticks out either that is different than way people thought chat is or something that you realize that was interesting to you while you're working on it something that uh okay there are many many of those I'll say something very small which I realized in in that go of and and the first of it's a it's a small thing but which I think it represents very strongly the reb's look so I like to repeat it and the the inf of that is bringing proof that doesn't mean just someone who has more mitzvah than a [snorts] but means a whole complete different thing even even has no is obviously someone who doesn't have and he brings the proof what the proof because it says that there aren't many around this shows that doesn't mean anyone who has more than because there are many people that have more mites than so here is where explanation you explain it in simple terms you know it says that there are only a small amount a small number of and therefore it doesn't fit with the criteria area of more than because there are many of those. So that the Reb added here a few words. I'm trying to remember the exact words but feel feel in other words I want to put emphasize that when you are talking about Eden you have more mus there are there is a very a larger feel a a great great amount of such I didn't want didn't actually I I could look it up exactly if you wait for a second I'll see exactly what what are the So we're here uh the the words the following words that if tadic is someone who has only any anyone who has more measures than a why are we saying why why are we saying that there are only there is only a small amount of because many have have more mitzvah than a Reb added the following words go. In other words, you see the Reb is not being it's not such a big hidden it's not you're saying okay there are more goen so many here every single in the world so many have more go so even though you could say okay that's not bringing hidd But we did incorporate it as a page of the Reb because that's something which shows the Reb's look the rebal [clears throat] and then the Reb puts it right in the first Ponta or I give another example where the Reb is actually changing the words along a similar line and this is in Peric where per is discussing the concept of the which is the way it's in different and the and that is saying that meaning vast majority that's a simple meaning vast majority is evil. There's only a very limited amount of good which is mixed into into the clip. So the [clears throat] how do you understand generally the term if you say would mean majority is bad. You see, not just majority. The biggest majority, the vast majority is bad. There's only just a little bit which is good. But again, the Reb here is changing the meaning. And again, I in a second I'll I'll find the Reb's actual words. So again the word Rabbi W translated is it's almost completely bad but the Reb added a few words. Reb adding tail and and and now you read it is tail. In other words, the Reb here is separating the from the and the Reb is saying means the majority of the is almost completely bad. In other words, don't take as more than not the majority as bad. Vast majority is bad. No rub means the majority is almost completely bad. The minority is still good. And even the majority is majority is only almost completely bad. In other words, the addition of is really reducing how much evil is in there rather than increasing the amount of evil. Now again they said completely new of the words it doesn't mean vast majority but it means the majority is almost completely again this is incorporated in the printed but it doesn't say that it's from the if you learn the from the you would read through it and you wouldn't realize how the is changing here completely the meaning of the word I don't think anyone No one else knew how anyone realized how to change the meaning of the words from the vast majority to a majority being almost completely. So this another example where the Reb is actually changing the meaning of the words and giving it a more positive tone. It's not almost completely bad but on the contrary even the majority which is bad is really only almost completely bad and not really completely bad. So that's just a few examples from the beginning of of the same of change small changes which the Reb is saying which are changing uh how we understand his words. Uh now there are a few places that in other words those small changes there are literally literally hundreds of them that's not that's just a few examples from the beginning but there are some places where there is a which is I believe at least by me a change the way I looked at at at I don't know if it's Italian general at least a certain part of the Tanya and I will give one example for that and this is from the beginning of Perh and Tanya. H is the beginning of a new section where later introducing the concept of this really begins in hey uh to explain the word of la the importance of mit action and in the beginning of the perk says that What's the purpose of this part of the Tanya? Yeah. So, one of the one of the again that's from the second volume. So that rebel saying [clears throat] they won't be depend on since they are not able to completely defeat their to completely change it into into good. So Once the came down to it seems that they are working everything which they do is in vain they're not able to come to to conquer the just keep fighting and fighting and fighting it's legal that's in vain and uh to explain that I give the whole concept of how how important is the mitzvah is because mitzvah which are done with action so they involve the so whenever you do a mitzvah which which involves action, you're actually changing and and and elevating a certain part of but let's focus on that question. The question why did the bonyim come down to legal to to toil in vain? There are when you learn it there are obvious questions. First of all, what do I mean? Why did he come down to the very beginning of we already learned that Because the most you have is only a glow only in you could actually reach you could reach through learning especially learning which creates and through in general you become one with so what kind of question is why did the bonim come down to haz What do you mean? They are gaining to they gaining mitzvah. They are gaining which you don't gain in higher elements. Why are you saying it's legal? Why is it to work in vain? That's one question. Additionally, okay, so you could say yes, it's true that there is the advantage of coming down to learn to fulfillment to be Mia. But for this, you don't have you don't need to be a B. You could be a Tadic is also learning and also being Mia. So maybe the fact that they are not sadikim that's not the fact that they came down to but the fact that they are rather than that's in vain because what are they gaining from being no actually if you pro before that explains that the has a special from the desires two types of two two flavors. There is aim there is a sweet flavor which is provided by theim and then there is things which are not naturally sweet. It's an acquired taste so to say but through a verd you are able to turn them into something which is and this is and this this is through and the explains in how only the benon through his so he is providing this type of special madanim which desires so we just explained what the need for the bayonim the bayonim they are created those they are fulfilling the desire for their so why are we saying here that it's legal to work in vain so these are obvious questions which obviously Rabbi Weinberg also discusses and he gives various explanations each one of them he's answering in a different Okay. And the Reb first of all he he rejects Rab's explanations and the Reb says that the idea here is really hidden in one word that the Reb is saying here. What's the purpose of the coming down to and to be in the to be enclosed to be to in the in in the question over here the question is not Why are you coming down to Alaz? If you're coming down to Alaz, there are many, there are many advantages in Maz. There is in there is there is a void in no question why you came down to why you came down to also understood there is a you are fulfilling. You are able to fight the and you are causing the special You are bringing great gilo a great pleasure a great the question is not why you came down to and not even why you came down to the question is why your why your had to be slavish had to be internalized inside why the confusion why do I need to have such which is mixed in together with I don't always know what is what is if the purpose is kafia so let we have an let we have let let's have an outside and we have to fight why is this is why does have to be part of me that's what asking In the name of the bon the bon is asking I have no problem with being I have no problem with not being but why do I need is part of me why is my needs to be mixed in together with you is give me puties outside and I will fight why why is that that when is involved which makes him my much harder it's not anymore I don't even always know what is saying what is saying they're all part of my personality I'm it's all mixed in this is legal this extra toil extra work which is caused by the islamus by a ban in vain by aik We understand why is there an islamus because through the islamus the is able to completely overcome and turn it into good and then turn it into that's but I abandon which I'm not doing it why is thisuous why is my personality mixed in when together without being able why is the part of me rather than being an outside force And here that's this question is only answered here. Why is part of you? Because when is part of you, it means that every single action which you take is involving the when you are being it's not just doing it. It's has to it's using so every you are being you are not only reaching with your you are also turning to a certain part of even as a and not only inadic and this is how you are fulfilling part of the of the often in other words from based on this explanation of the from Perh the entire look at is different because until we see the as an enemy that's what is it's an enemy we have to fight it if we'reim we are we defeat it so so strongly that we're either completely driving it out or even we are turning it into we are turning the enemy into a friend if you are a ban So you keep fighting your enemy. You're hitting it and you're hitting it and you're hitting it and you're never getting defeated. That's beforeh from the is not anymore just the enemy. It's a goal. It's a purpose is not only object to be defeated as an object to be used as part of your avoid to bring to the soilation of the really gives us a whole new look is from it becomes not an enemy but part of the goal of of our so and that's one that's one very strong example and there are a few more where a a a small answer of the reb is changing an entire look of of of a part of >> very beautiful for sharing that um I have a question that I'm thinking um the I want to blal this Tanya Tanya Shalim so far has I think it's another frontier in the ha of the Tanya and it's going out it's like a a new schlav in the in the Tanya being available to the world and everyone hears about and it's were born with it. Tiny Balp from when you're a little kid. And um what would you [clears throat] tell a person um is the importance? Why why do why do also that what is it about Tanya that they need uh that why is that such a central thing that Tanya is needed for for your life? That's a more a question for than to an editor of that's not I wouldn't say it's aim [clears throat] is in other words the Tanya is important for your life as I mentioned before because this is the way this is really this is that we as I said before from the Tanya is the way that is telling you how to deal with saying themselves that's a continuation of your that's and giving you and you are so maybe it could be said that if the Tanya itself is the with the you are getting the of the abment general including the Arab but generally speaking the concept of the concept is the Tanya is what tells the that's that's a manual form you can't start without if you want to serve the is the manual is adding to that also through the But generally that's the concept of Tanya. It's that it's not that the is not and the ability to learn and understand but the fact that Tanya is the the manual of instructions of how to serve this was before and continues after. >> Okay. Um, so I just want to end off that uh I spoke to Brook and uh I know that uh I believe that they printed 20,000 copies and it's sold out. You can't even buy it in any store. If you want to order it now, you have to pre-order because it's it's it's already being printed second printing and if you want to purchase a copy, you need to pre-order it for when it comes. um after so many years of uh working on it, how do you feel about the fact that it was received so well and so quickly and uh I mean it's a lot of to sell. What do what do you how do how do you feel about that? >> I can tell you this is one of the things which uh especially Brook was worried about it in the beginning. Okay, such a with who is going to buy it? A few people are going to buy it. But you know what? I think I remember told me I'm not doing it I don't care how many people buy it. I know the Reb wanted to give it. So I'm doing I'm doing it as a as a gift for the Reb that the Reb wanted it to exist. So I'll do it even though only a few people buy it. So uh I'll uh so I'll do it just as a gift for the Reb because the Reb wanted to have this kind of Tanya. Okay. But it looks like uh I'm sure it helped the fact that book wanted to make sure that uh was easily affordable and he was able to uh uh secure uh funding to sell it at a huge uh huge discount. So uh and and the purpose was that so that reaches every reaches every reaches every home and every every house but even that I remember in the beginning when the tan started being sold and within a few days 5,000 sets were sold. So Rab Brookke was very [snorts] excited. You know we sold already 5,000 sets. I didn't think I would say so I would sell so so many 5,000 set within a few days. Okay. But Bashem looks like people are going into it and are buying it and uh it was five 5,000 within a few days but 20,000 within a few weeks and uh I'm sure a certain large part of the second edition is also already sold. So that it's not only that the Reb's idea is being fulfilled, but the Reb's idea is being reaching every more every many more Yiddish. That's definitely very exciting. >> Okay. So uh I hope that uh this conversation that we're having is uh will will help the effort to get even more people involved. And uh if you're listening to this and you didn't purchase it to make the pre-order >> and uh thank you very much for your uh part in this uh in this uh I guess is it >> I think is the address. >> Okay.com and thank you for your I guess being part of this. So thank you for the conversations again. Thank you very much. All right. That's