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people had a lot of questions about
about about teachings of
cabala and the other would go around um
answering people's questions answer the
questions of the scholars about it was a
new something that was re that was not
revealed till then also PE also he
answered people's questions in general
in Torah learning to show because people
in the time when when kidus was revealed
people were were afraid of it because
the B came there's this
is the
B came very soon
after and after I believe is name Jakob
Frankle right these two guy what Jacob
Frank Jacob Frank Jacob Frank those two
fellows were false mesiah and they
caused a lot of problems in am
and when the B came starting
teaching people were afraid that here is
a new is another type of Mia another
type of of a new someone who's trying to
change their religion and people were
very
afraid and in fact they that those two
fellows and we're talking about
approximately 300 years ago um so those
maybe a little bit more but those um
those two fellows that were one after
the other um both used mystical cabala
so automatically when the was teaching
which is the teachings of cabala of the
secrets of Torah automatically people
Associated the B with those two and
therefore there was a biger position to
the
BM um so the AL who was a follower of
the M who was the who was the follower
of the B he was two generations after
the
bmov he was continuing on this mission
of teaching in the secrets of Torah
which is a whole
different um thing to talk about maybe
next class why we'll talk maybe at the
end of this class a little bit why did
they the B and then the follows the B
understand that in our gener in our
Generations it is so important for us to
have these teachings to give us strength
in our observance of God inem but this
was the B and the AL would travel all
the time for two for two reasons one is
to to answer people's questions in
general in Torah learning to show them
that here the people learn they also
learn Torah and they all also know Torah
and they could answer other people's
questions and also to answer questions
about so one time he came to this town I
believe it was
chov and he came to the BET M and
everybody has their questions and the
says I'm going to going to sing a Niger
now to sing a niceic Melody it was a
very
um we don't know which Melody it was but
it was a very deep
Melody and he just sang that Melody and
everybody's answers questions were
answered and it was just mystical but
basically it seems that the AL with it
was had the ability with this nigon to
bring to connect everybody with their
Essence with their with with with their
Essence and and they were able to
connect with the source of the answers
you in other words sometimes we have
questions and figure out answers how
that that is something that we deal with
in Tanya in chapter 3 how does it happen
that suddenly you have a question and
you have the answer for it or you you're
you come with a new brainstorm with a
new idea because we have deep in our
soul it's called kill this ability to to
to to come up with new ideas with new
understanding with new insights so and
that's deep in our soul that's really
it's it's a little bit a littleit Beyond
us it's it's an area in the soul that is
a little bit beyond so he was able to
connect them with that so in a sense I
think that that story symbolizes what Al
is trying to do in Tanya he's trying to
do the same like what he did with the
nigon he's trying to connect us with the
depth of our souls to see to understand
the treasures that we have deep inside
to understand what's really going on
within us that that with that we could
solve all problems s that we may have in
our lives so therefore it's considered a
very very fundamental book for for for
generally
for okay so what what the next thing I
wanted to do we're going we know in
Tanya the focuses on a lot on different
types of Foundations in in Judaism in
our Nish but
generally very generally there are three
themes in Tanya if we divide okay in
Tanya there's actually five parts so we
are focusing now on the first part the
first part of time has 52 or 53 chapters
53 chapters and in these 53 Main
chapters of Tanya we we'll divide into
three
themes and the First theme is going to
be about who it's on on the on the paper
who am I the second one is going to be
how can I have real inter internal
happiness and the third is what is the
purpose of creation what is the purpose
of my creation so in a way the beginning
of Tanya deals with the First with a who
am I and then the second part of Tanya
deals with uh with the second issue
about Sim but happiness and the third
part of Tanya deals with the purpose of
creation so we understand there's a lot
to talk about but we'll try to talk
about these three because today is an
introduction for the Tanya so we'll try
to touch each one of these three themes
a little bit to give us a general idea
of what we're going to do in Tanya okay
so um so let's start with the first one
who am I so there's a famous there's a
famous cic story of we know that the
Alba unfortunately lost his daughter her
her name was darara when she was very
young she just got married she just had
a
baby uh she had a a young a child I
don't remember exactly how old he was
but he was not five yet he was in his
and took on himself to raise that child
his grandson and his name wasel and he
was later on theed he was a Reb later
on so one time the grandson of the ALB
the author of Tanya is sitting on the
laps of his grandfather and he's playing
with his beard and theab challenges him
he's start is's playing with him and
he's challenging him he says tell me
where is
zi right where's grandpa so he points on
the beard he says no this is the beard
of zi where is zi say points on his hand
points on his eyes and he says no this
is the eyes of zi this is the hand of
zi and that went on everything he said
he showed him it's not really zi it's
just the hand of zi the eye of Zade the
nose of Zade so finally the child was
very smart he left the room and after he
left the room the room he said zi he
called his grandfather and he said yes
so when he turned to him he said yes
says that's
zi so um
so this story could um give us a little
understanding about ourselves because if
we ask if each one of us would ask
himself or herself what am I so we could
start thinking about the fact if I'm
married I'm not married if I'm a mother
or a father if I'm a son so this is not
who am I
that's that's that's important but
that's not who that's my not my essence
you could think about your career think
if I'm a dentist if I'm a doctor if I'm
a if I'm a lawyer whatever it is again
this is something this is not my Essence
we could think about how much how
learned I am what kind of of diplomas I
have that's also things are additional
to my
Essence so the in the Tanya what we're
trying to to figure out is Who Am who
are we and and us and usually we don't
even have time to think about it because
we just go with a flow we're we're just
busy all the time and we find we we
we're under pressure we don't have time
to think
and sometimes it happens that we start
thinking to ourselves who
who who who we really are right it could
happen God forbid when there's a tragedy
or when there's a big Sim there's a
wedding there's there's a a child birth
it it happens in our lives sometimes
that we stop and we really want to
understand who are we in essence
so this is the the this is the focus of
the beginning of Tanya to give us the
understanding who are we in essence and
we're going to learn that that the our
Essence is actually divided into two we
have two Souls and we're going to try to
understand the essence of each one of
these
souls and if we able to understand that
we could understand the battles that the
struggle the conflicts that we have all
the
time and um and and we if we know that
that could be the foundation for our to
be successful in our lives to run our
lives to to to be Victorious and to
leave our lives the way we should that's
the first part the second part is about
happiness um each one of us for
sure has a list of reasons why it's they
we cannot be happy there's a lot of we
could have family problems we could have
financial problems we could have um
security problems health issues there
could be a lot of reasons why it's hard
for us to be happy and if we ask
ourselves how could we make ourselves
happy so we could all think
of ways to make ourselves happy we could
think try
to go go out to see go out for a trip to
see the nature listen to music basically
do things that will help you run away
from
reality um also some people have the
attitude well I should always always
focus on the good things I have on the
on the half a cup and the Half Full Cup
right um be happy with what I have thank
AEM for what I have focus on that or do
things I like to do like I like to help
other people like to be or I should just
be and whatever just do things I love to
do that will make me happy or just be in
a positive environment be around people
who are positive so there is many
secrets to how to be happy but if you
think about it all these things that we
just
mentioned may be temporary temporary
happiness it may bring temporary
happiness it this happiness could is not
we're not it's not necessarily going to
be long-term happiness it's going to
help us for the moment to feel happy and
in Tanya what we're looking for what all
of us are looking for and what the Tanya
is going to answer is what we want to
have it's called in HEB we want to have
happiness with life we want to be happy
with what we are and what what we have
and what the W with with our situation
and this is um what the t is going to
focus on there a a
famous um there was once a um a
comedian who was like number one
comedian everybody loved to go to his
shows and one time uh psychologist
happened to be by happened to be there
by the show and he he really saw this
guy is really good like he really gets
everybody to laugh and he decided from
now on all these people come to him all
the time with problems of depression
he's going to send them all to this
comedian and it helped it worked they
all had a laugh when they went to him
and they all became
happier
and and uh it was amazing one time a man
came to him and he could see this man is
really
depressed and right away after he a
little talk with this with this uh
patient
he realized he said to him you only the
only way I the only medicine for you is
to go to this show so the guy says it's
not going to work for me so he says why
it worked with so many people I'm sure
it's going to work with you says the
problem is that I am that
comedian so so we we could understand
that if you're able this joke actually
has a lot of we could take has a certain
message that we we could understand that
you know some things could make us happy
for the moment we could hear a nice joke
we could but we're looking for something
deeper something that could could just
make us happy without running away from
life we're going to talk about it soon
that usually people associate happiness
with running away from myself if I could
have a drink and forget about myself
that's when I could be happy and the T
could is going to teach us how we could
be happy with who we are with what we
have with our
situation okay then the that's the
second theme and we're going to the
third theme which is why was I
born um many times we don't think about
it people don't like to think about it
either because they don't have the
answer for it or because they they think
that the answer for it may be too heavy
for them
so um they tried to run away from this
question but it's a it's obviously a
very important question there a question
to ask why are we here and why did hasm
create the whole world and this is
obviously the most fundamental thing
theas came to teach us why what's the
purpose of
everything many people think about
what's life life is about raising
children about uh actualizing myself the
mesh to actualize myself right the mes
to deal with challenges and overcome
them them so again we're going to look
for something deeper about life there's
a story of of
the and he was he was uh his name he
oh I think he was somebody else actually
okay anyways this
fellow um he was a great and the wants
wanted to give him a blessing said I
want to give you a blessing of wealth
and actually he said no he said I'm
afraid maybe if he would be uh young he
would want it but I don't know anyways
he was he was already
older umid he was already grown up he
probably married off his children
already and he was afraid he says I I I
have no benefit from having wealth all
it's going to do it's going to distract
me from serving God properly having all
this businesses and all this money so he
said no I want to be able to focus on my
service of God God and then he say okay
I'll will bless you with long life he
says only in the condition that the
blessing is going to have another part
to it that it's going to be not just a
long life it should be a meaningful life
it should be life that God is part of my
life it should be it shouldn't be like a
peasant life of of someone who could
live his life without seeing God in his
life without hearing about God in his
life not that kind of a
life otherwise I'm not it's not I'm not
interested in it and it's very
interesting
because many
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times
one two more
books because normally if if someone has
the ability to get wealth or to get long
life right away would say yes without
thinking twice but here he were talking
about someone who worked on himself
that his concern is not just to have
long life it's not just to have a lot of
money it's
actually to to to to have a focus to
have a meaningful life otherwise why
life is not worth is not worth it not
worth nothing for him okay there's
actually a very nice story with RAB AKA
RAB lived in the time he was actually
one of the 10 Martyrs of the Romans um
so RAB AKA was teaching Torah at a time
that the Romans um forbade teaching
Torah and there was a guy his name was
papus and he went over TOA he says what
are you doing you're putting yourself in
danger you're putting everybody in
danger you should stop studying Torah
like this you they could kill you and he
said
I'll I'll tell you a story there was
once it's a famous story but okay there
was once a um a fox was watching the
fish running in the water and he asked
the fish why are you running like this
he says we thought that you were smart
you the fox is known to be a SM a wise
animal a clever animal don't you see
there is all these fishmen trying to
catch us so the fox says I have a great
idea I have a cave that no Fishman knows
about
come with me and I'll hide you there and
the fish answer back to the fox we
thought you were clever you know here in
the water at least we have a chance that
if the fish if the fishmen will not
catch us we'll stay alive but if we go
out with you we'll surely die we can't
live outside of the
water so RAB AA said to Pap the same was
with us with am Israel a Jew without
Torah is not alive if if I'm endangering
my life because I'm studying Torah I
might be killed okay there's a chance
they're going to catch me I'm going to
get killed a chance I'm not going to die
but if I don't study Torah
then in my in my perspective I'm dead I
have I have no meaning to my life and
that's not what I'm here for so this is
um this is this is something that thean
will help us connect with to understand
that we're not just here by chance we're
not just here to live x amount of years
and just to make sure that we wake up
every morning and we make sure we have a
good sleep and we have our food and we
have our we could pay the bills we know
that we here for a
mission and like we see this that that
just giving a blessing of long life is
not satisfying for him unless he knows
that that th that those
years adding to his life will be full of
meaning will be full of service of God
there's another story with the alter
while he was in prison also a known
story um so very the was in prison
actually for exactly 53 days which is
corresponding to the 53 chapters of
Tanya he was there from after Suk till
till 19 was exactly 53 days and it
was it was he understood that it was
something spiritual the reason why he
had to be in prison because there was a
prosecution in Heavens about what he was
doing taking the secrets of Torah and
giving it to everybody to understand so
there was it's like um it says that
whenever there's a great Nish a great
Soul having to come down in Heavens
there is a lot of angels who are not
allowing it they say because they want
this world they want this world to stay
dark they don't want that it should be
so easy uh they should be whenever that
great s comes to this world that could
Inspire so many Jews they're afraid of
it they they want to do they they they
say that if this s comes to the world
then we're not able to do a job we're
not be able to challenge the people
they're going to get everybody inspired
they going to get everybody holy so
similarly is about the secrets of Torah
which is another point to it actually
the secrets of Torah is supposed to be
secretive but obviously there was a time
when it had to be revealed but
originally for many generations it was
it was it was hidden so the idea of
revealing the secrets of Torah and the
idea of of giving so much Holiness down
here it was not a simple thing and
that's why there was a persecution in
heaven and and the alter was put in
prison not just because that there were
some Jews who believed that the alter
was doing something wrong and they
informed him to the government saying
that he was sending money to Israel
really he was giving money to the poor
Jews in Israel but they were saying they
he was helping the church government and
all everything else they accused them
for it was really something more
spiritual it really came from heaven and
really this is the idea of this is what
teaches us to understand that whatever
happens in our lives is not so and so
it's like we're reading now by ysep who
said to his brothers don't feel bad Al
don't be depressed because of what you
did to me Hashem arranged all this so I
could support you I could support the
whole world so to see that even though
they did Sin by selling him and they
were punished and the 10 Martyrs were
for the 10 brothers who sold ysep so
there was a punishment for it and the
Exile of Egypt was was part of it was
because the punishment for the for the
selling of of ysf so we do understand
that that the people who sold ysf were
punished but at the same time if
something happens we have to understand
that it's all coming from Heaven it it
it was arranged from hasem hasem wanted
ysep to be where he was and they were
just emissaries they were just
Messengers so the ALB of being in prison
is also something that really came from
heaven and that's why he was there for
53 days for 53 chapters of Tanya anyways
while he was in prison
um um the very soon they realized that
he was a really great man and a lot of
great people from the Russian government
want to have a chance to meet with him
so there was the M minister of Education
Who Made Who went into his seller to his
sell and he to meet with the Al
rabba and and he was talking to
him about about Judaism about things
from the Bible from the from the
Torah and one of the things he asked him
was about the story that when God right
after Adam ate from the tree from
atat um Hashem came and Hashem said aak
where are you so that doesn't make any
sense God says where are you God doesn't
know where Adam is so the AL answered
him what Rashi the commentary says that
Hashem doesn't like to surprise somebody
and and just say what did you do start
open the conversation he says where are
you and that was just to open our
conversation and then Hashem says why
did you eat from the tree so the
minister said to the Al I know what
Rashi says I want to hear your Insight
for this for this story so the Al said
you want to hear my my perspective I'll
tell you my
perspective there could be a man who is
in a certain age and he actually quoted
the age of this Minister which was
obviously shocking for him and he said
and hasem says to this person a where
are you did you fulfill your mission in
life did you realize that you're here in
this world for you have a mission you
have a you have a you have a purpose you
have there's a reason why you here did
you do anything to fulfill what how much
did you do so far towards your mission
in life and that was the answer that
gave him and actually I think that this
um is what the is going this is this is
the third theme of the of
the that theb is going to teach us is
going to show us what is the purpose of
creation the purpose of ourselves that
we could keep on asking ourselves where
are we holding with regards to
completing our mission in
life so these are the three major things
that obviously there is a lot to learn
about and uh we're going to see as we go
along Tanya to talk about these three
themes the theme of of um who am I this
theme of happiness and the theme or why
we he what's the purpose of creation
before we continue um we're just going
to give a
little a little
um um a few words about the Tanya in
general and number one uh the the Tanya
was written by the AL his name
wasman of leadi he is the the one who
founded the ofad he was a student of the
mid of MRI who was the student of the B
so the B is the one who started the
teachings of
General um and
the was the student continued in the
path of the B and then after that the
AL called the AL because inab there is
seven RAB rabbis and he was the first
one Al means the the older one he's the
the oldest the the the first and um and
he took the of the what he learned from
the and
the he brought it into isation of into
logic into intellectual understanding
organized an intellectual understanding
and his main book is a here he did this
job of taking the the the the
foundations
of and organize it in a very clear and
logical
way um and the the RAB rashab said that
the Tanya is considered the written
Torah
of of in general we know that we have
the written Torah not only written Torah
there is a lot of there talud and there
commentaries there's thousands of books
so the same with the T with regards to
cabala and teaching that there the and
on the Tanya there is more than 2,000
books written based on the teachings of
Tanya so this is like the written Torah
of um the Tanya was printed over
5,000 uh Editions of Tanya all over the
world almost in 10 different languages
almost only the languages that you speak
and um and we as we could as we're going
to see the message of Tanya relevant
even though they were written over 200
years ago they're relevant to to us
today as
well we'll start with the front page of
the Tanya okay that I just said before
it's just a few words that the wrote
about the Tanya just four lines that we
could see just from those four lines a
lot about the T not everything is
written on this page is written about
we'll start from where it says it's
seph this is you see it says seph seph
what it has two
names two names safer is the
book yeah or very good okay it's called
Tanya because the first word is Tanya
but he called it look
means a
collection of ideas so we that's the way
he called it we call it Tanya I don't
know if he called it Tanya or not but um
but he he calls it I'm I'm calling the
the collection of of uh it's like when
you have stats ofar ofarim of Articles
collection of Articles so we could see
the great humility of theab he says all
I'm doing now is just collecting some
ideas
this is the first part and what next
page another another
page one more more more like this yeah
another one more and that's it yeah yeah
that's it and this is called
bem It's called The Book of the the the
we know that there
is um tadim and tadim we're going to
learn in t are those who don't have any
challenges and any
struggles or or different type struggles
that we that we can relate to so this
book is written specifically for people
like us that have challenges have um
Temptations and inclinations this book
is talking for all of us and then again
with his great humility he writes me all
I did was I compiled
ideas from different books and really
he's focusing on two major books the
books of the ra maharal of Prague one of
the greatest cabalists
the maral of prag and till today we if
you go to Prague you see the of the
maral in prag and the
sh the one who wrote the book that's the
two major cabalistic books that the says
I based my my book on these two on these
twoim and plus
others and I it's collection from
different teachers teachers from the B
and the again he is saying all I did was
I took ideas that I taught I learned
from these books and I learned from
these rabbis and I put it
together and
um okay and again this
is a safer that gives a new whole new
Clarity a new whole new picture about
life and yet the AL is just saying this
is just compiling some articles you he
if you see the name of the book you
don't think you know today when they
make a book to make sure that the name
of the book should really catch you so
it wasn't about giving a loud name that
will catch everybody's
attention you know he gave a name that
in a very humble way this just compiling
some articles and he says the the
foundation of this book is on the on the
verse that mosu said the day he passed
away he said a famous verse that says
like this
that it is close to you m before he
passed away he he he was he gave a long
speech longest speech ever for 30 for 37
days he started the whole the whole
fifth book is M speech to before he
passed away
started till he passed away Z so and
then the last
few
from and on is
the day MH passed away moshu did gave
his last message okay so in that last
message he
said that don't think Judaism is
overseas or you have to
fly there no there's no airplanes you
don't have to fly to the sky you don't
have to go overseas to be able to
follow it is very close to you to follow
the and it's it's three things this is
also one of the things that talks about
that there is that the Torah demands of
us to secure or to guard three mostly
three parts of our being which is your
mouth which is
speech your heart which is thought last
is action speech thought and action in
Judaism are the most
important um that one should should
supervise his thought speech and action
every moment of the 24 4 hours which
seems to be very difficult but MOS says
it is close to you it is easy it's close
Okay close doesn't necessarily mean easy
but close means it's doable it's
possible so the AL is going to explain
to us because many of us think that
Judaism is impossible especially when we
understand in Tanya what Judaism really
demands of us it's not just about action
it's also about speech and not just
about speech also about thought and 24
hours a day 24 7 is's never off time so
it seems impossible so if we learn Tanya
we're able to understand how it is close
it is
possible and actually the AL is hinting
another point
because doesn't only mean thought also
means emotions which also in Judaism we
understand to have a complete Mitzvah it
has to be done with emotion and this
really seems impossible for many of us
how could I really have feel emotion of
love of of of hem it seems that
something that you can't just feel so
the also teaches us how we could create
emotions of of aan of love and awe to
Hashem which is very essential like just
a little statement it says in the Zohar
that it's like a bird that has two Wings
every MIT is like a bird and the two
Wings is like the emotion of a of love
and awe is like the two wings of the
bird that bird cannot fly without it so
he made a the darar says that without
doing a mitzah without no feelings it's
it's causing that the MIT cannot really
fly high it's it's limiting the Mitzvah
so it's this is actually one of the
things out there Ro in T and and when he
came out of jail one of the great
Scholars challenged him about this this
is like how could you say such a thing
and the Al said it says in the Zar he
says no I need a source in the tud so
the tud is the the Gar so the AL says
actually I could show you a source for
it in the tal and he pointed in the G I
believe it's it says over there that
there is a a contradiction between two
verses in in One Source it
says your kindness is still heaven and
there's another verse in that
says your your kindness is above heaven
so the gam asks it's a contradiction is
it above heaven or below heaven one
verse says this way one verse this way
so they says so the tamut says this is
talking about observance of the mitv so
we're saying like we say t is Torah
Torah Mitzvah is kindness is the light
of God to the world so it says this is
about someone who's doing and this is
not something not lishma what does
lishma means for the sake of connecting
with hem which means that you're doing
it with feeling of love for Hashem of
that you really want to have
relationship with hasem that's mean
lishma the means that you're doing it
for the for the cause of having a
relationship with God you're not just
doing it because you're scared of that
you may not uh lose your job if you're
not going to going to fulfill if you're
not going to keep
shabas God May punish you and you'll
lose your job or whatever that's not
called lishma when a person is afraid of
being punished or a person wants to have
a big paradise and that's his motivation
for Tor Mitzvah that's not called lishma
that means lishma he's doing it for
himself dma means that you're doing it
because you're appreciating God and you
want to have a relationship with hem so
the Tam says that one who um one who
does a Mitzvah without feelings of LMA
then the Mitzvah goes above heaven and
if he doesn't have that feeling it's
below heaven so this is exactly what the
Zar says because really we know that all
the in the talud there's two parts
there's the part that that is theic part
it's back the the the the the the the
the the details of all the laws and the
reasons for them but then there is a
whole part in the tud that's a medish
and it says that the medis is really
full of cabala just that it's hidden and
it's hidden in like in stories that
sometimes we understand the St sometimes
the stories don't make any sense and
just like in the Torah we know there's a
lot of M mystical messages in the simple
stories that we read in the
Torah so the so this is part of the
medis that in in the the part of the
tamut talks about whether it's above
heaven or below heaven and this is the
source for what the in and he so this is
important so we understand based on that
that it is very critical for one to
serve God not only with his thought
speech and action also with his emotions
and that's the question and and when M
says is close to you to serve god with
your heart which means thought but also
means feelings of the heart again the
question Rises how is this easy how is
this not again not easy close how is
this close to me how it seems that it's
impossible I could never get there so
the is going to address this in the in
Tanya now for the emotions are we
talking about the seven SP right seven
spirit is is is is emotions
yeah so now clarify all this
properly how is this very close and it
says the real the the the the way that
it's very close
is it's in a long short way and the and
and understood when the a long short way
he's referring to a famous story in the
T the story goes with RAB Yeshua Ben
Kan um
RAB said that once
um a little child won him um he was
walking and he came to a fork in the
road and he he saw a child there and he
asked this child I need to get to get I
need to get to this town over there the
certain Town tell me which way should I
take so the child says look this is the
long short way this is the short long
way so what would you do so he he
decided he'll take the short long way
sounds shorter so very soon he saw it
was very short because after a few
minutes he already sees the the the the
outskirts of of the city but then the
road take took him to Gardens and
Orchards and there was a lot of rocks on
the way and there was fences yeah he saw
it's going to take me hours to get there
if I take this way so then he went back
and he said to the child what did you
why do you say it's a short way it's
very long and he says I told you it's a
short long way so then he k him on his
head he says you're fortunate am Isel
that all of you are so wise from the
greatest to the to from the oldest from
the greatest to the smallest and then he
took the other way which was very long
because but it was a it was a straight
road it was a paved Road it it was it
took him around and around but
eventually he was able to get to the
city so the alter of said that this is
what Tanya is about Tanya because I
think today especially we all looking
for the short way for the for the quick
way for the shortcuts and the AL says
that this is not going to be the case
over here to really have a proper proper
service of God it's going to be a long
way which means there but it's a paved
way it's going to be a lot of chapters
that again there's 53 chapters a lot of
learning a lot of working um a lot of
commitment but um but it's going to be a
short way because if you follow it and
you and you you're able to get to your
destination you're able to get there
this is um could be similar to um when
you when you go on when you imagine
somebody's doing a barbecue and never
did a barbecue before and so he's at
first there's very strong fire in the
barbecue and you get excited oh it's so
much fire I could cook the meat very
very fast this way and if you're going
to put the meat there while the fire is
burning very strong what's going to
happen the outside of the meat is going
to get burnt and the inside is going to
stay raw but someone who knows knows
that you have to wait till the big fire
goes away and uh it's going to be and
and the fire and it's going to be just
the fire of the coals and it's going to
be a very slow cooking it's not going to
be so fast not going to burn but it's
going to it's going to be it's going to
go on it's going to it's going to make
the difference it's going to cook the
meat so we're talking about the calls
actually symbolize also the inner fire
that is something that has to go within
something cannot be external if we're
looking for shortcuts it's usually
something very external something that
is it's not so deep and it's not really
meaningful this is a long short way
which means that it's slowly to work to
take another step by step but the is is
promising us that it's a it's a secure
way it's a paved way that if we go step
by step with the teachings of Tanya
we'll get
there um um okay so one more
point
theab in in the introduction says that
people may think that I'm Different
everybody thinks that they're different
and their problems were never addressed
so the AL actually says
that it's true there's a famous gar that
says that the same way that nobody's
face is the same nobody's mind is the
same in cabala it says that that the
reason why it's called panim face is
called panim panim means pth it means
you're inside so the the face is a
reflection of your soul and that's why
usually the place to see if if the the
mood of the person if he happy or sad or
depressed or or excited or whatever it
is it is it's usually on the face and
also see the character of the person is
is on the face so the face is reflect
reflecting your soul your inside
now nobody's face is the same and that
shows that nobody's inside the same so
it's a obvious thing that everybody's is
different everybody everybody everybody
has different problems different dilemas
different conflicts nobody's exactly the
same but the AL says so that's where we
could think well the Al wrote this book
how could he answer me I'm Different I
was never in in the history of the world
in the past in the future I'm the only
I'm in I'm different so how could he
answer my my dilemas so the author ever
said that this book is different than
many other books based on theory he said
this book I wrote after I had private
audience with thousands of
Jews who felt comfortable with called
the private own with theab and they
poured out the heart the the secrets of
the hearts to him asking for advice and
based on that he
learned what the
common
fundamental that we spoke about in the
beginning of class issue that could
solve everybody's problems so again like
we said before in the beginning of class
that it's just like in medicine we know
that if someone could figure out the
source that that someone could figure
out that that all your symptoms are
because you your lungs or your heart or
your blood or whatever it is need needs
something needs to be cleansed or needs
to be strengthened that could answer a
lot of symptoms so we understand the
same is spiritually that the AL saw a
variety of problems and he s and and and
he had experience with it and he saw the
foundation the foundation of everything
and then um RAB you have anything else
no I want to say if anybody has
questions sorry oh comment
oh should have done we should have done
it earlier but yeah came in like so I'm
sorry the introduction something that
two Souls yes two yeah oh well you could
divide them into more but
um generally it's two
or oh okay so yeah each Soul has
different elements to it like every soul
has five parts to
it so we're going to talk about
parts right we could call we could call
we could call five
yeah we could call it five five souls in
one Soul yeah I mean you could call yeah
when women teach T what are women
allowed to teach T sure
why to me it's like a a course spiritual
Psychology
101 maybe it's 2011
it's
like no it's for you anybody wants RT
just proves everything in its own time
you know we tried this about a year ago
and uh yeah finally you know have
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