Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Chapter 13 - "The Beinoni" G-D Helps him succeed.

Oh No welcome to tonight's Tonya class we are studying tonight chapter 13 at Hebrews called period gimel we are going to be discussing more in depth about the personality the neshamah the soul of the benoni now since some are new and some of them are before so in short basically the outer describes different spiritual personalities namely one being at Sadiq who's completely righteous a Russia someone that is wicked and we are talking about the Ben Oni so we're gonna go in depth a little more to learn about the Baney just to give a general overview and we're gonna go in depth as as follows the Boehner Nia is someone that in thought speech and action 100% solid and strong meaning to say is like this what does it mean solid and strong because every single person has in Hebrew it's called the yates @ OV and he ate Sahara or in English it's called the good side the bad side the evil side in other words we have two two energies within us we have an official kiss a godly soul and inefficient bahamut's an animal soul now what Sadiq he killed this animal soul so he's driving just was never sold kiss just was the eighth's of tove and he has no distractions in life the rostra basically his he disabled is never locust eating it rid of it but he disabled that he disables gates at all and the full force the one that he listens to and he follows exclusively is as the hrrr and his nephron Bahamut the bane only that's really the art that we're dealing with this week the heart and the art that we doing with this week of the life of the main need because the baton is somebody that his Yates ur Tove is there an active his Yates aha is there an active his natural kiss is godly souls on fire and his official Bahamas is also alive and well so the question is what is he is he italic well you can't say he's a Sadiq because he has the animal soul Iraq could you say he's a Russian oh because he has his Yates atoll so them like but what is he is he just confused but the answer is he can choose and the answer is we're gonna learn today at the bay nani and we discussed at length last week we're gonna go deeper into today at the bailey basically and again in his thought all his thoughts from for the life of the mainly the bay Nene his thoughts are all what godly and coming from the eights atolls it means he thinks positively he thinks happily here he thinks about God he thinks about godliness he thinks about helping people he thinks selflessly all his thoughts 100 because think about your thoughts are working one 24/7 so the fact that his thoughts are constantly involved and immersed in godliness that's great his speech is all God and godliness he speaks positively he has compliments he has nice things to say he's talking Pleasant words uplifting words inspiring words happy words happy thoughts and so on and so forth his actions are all godly dustman throat godly doesn't transgress that's a pretty high level pretty high level almost like a tonic right so what's the difference almost like it's what's the difference the difference is very simple true in the world of thought speech and action there really is no difference between a tonic and a Bailey they both are 100% on the same level where plays out the difference so as we mentioned before the Beynon that tada killed his animal soul so he has no urge or anything stirring him to want to do something forbidden for sure not and even they do something permissible this to indulge in in physical pursuit pursuits or enjoyable pursues it's not for sake of God fun no interest not that just doesn't that doesn't come on the radar the bein on the here's where the struggle Romania's the bein in the his animal soul has eyes and sees the world I mean so lies and has an urge to do things which are inappropriate and or to do things which are appropriate but not necessarily godly and therein lies the battle so the battle never comes to the world of thought speech and action because then he would go over to the category of Russia but the battle is only in the urge level I really want to do that you know it's like you really want to eat the piece of chocolate but you don't eat it see you like a bane any there right you can if you think about it that's not the whole question but the points and you have the earth so the sonic has no urge for it zero it means nothing to him the brain he wants it but then he stops so here we're gonna learn today what takes place because you want to know about the battle because by knowing the battle that's you know how to overcome it so the Optoma explains the answering term that the outer we uses he says that it says the which refers to the mainly it says zev is a Schulten using the term of ashoka fate what's a show fate a chauffeured is a judge now what does that mean it means like this if you have a court case right and you have three judges sitting there so you have one on the right one on the left and the older judge that basically so to speak he's the one that you know sways the vote so if you have let's say you know one one one judge that says hey this one's right and the other one says this one's wrong what do you do one against one so whoever the third one picks that's where it goes to if he says it's wrong it's wrong it because it's right it's right or it knows we've got we go based on the majority same thing happens also the GAVI soul says oh I just want to pray I want to study I want to do mitzvot I just want to have positive thoughts godly thoughts right and that's what and that's what I'm talking to my soul level now ina Mille Sol says what's wrong with sitting down now for an hour and gossiping we're not killing anybody right or just going out and doing something maybe not necessarily the most appropriate we thing but all right five minutes we can enjoy life a little bit right so that's the other judge the animal soul he ate Sahara what happens now how do you come to a conclusion so here comes a beautiful concept the author who teaches us that there's another player here what's the other player who's the third the third is God God comes in and says guess what you really see you're struggling with the animal soul I see how much you really want to study and you want to pray and you want to have healthy thoughts and happy thoughts and positive thoughts and after mystic thoughts and so on and so forth and I know the animal Souls giving you like a hard time he's testing you but because you're fighting him he say no we're gonna right we're gonna be positive we're gonna be optimistic we're gonna you know treat everyone nice even though maybe they weren't nice to us but it's one against one I'm gonna come and I'm gonna give you a little push I'm gonna help you out so God is the middle one he's the middle strong judge it helps out now that only works because the godly cells working or if the godly soul goes to sleep God's not gonna be the second one God will only be the third God will only kick in as the third not as a not against God is not gonna fight your animal soul for you if you do your part God will help you push it through but if you don't do anything God sign in the equation so when the godly soul gets up to do his part and the animal soul fighter he'll win now this is a constant battle constant battle so because a constant battle you have to always be on guard and on the lookout knowing that at any moment when you start like getting tired you know you're getting hungry that's when the animal soul knows you're clean I don't know some of those every single weak point you have that's why they say you want to live a valley life always make sure that you fed always make sure you're not thirsty right you're not exhausted because if you are the animals soul will get you so you always want to make sure you guys stay at you stay ahead of the game now the altar with the elves now with another thing and this is extremely important what happens is let's say you're in a good rhythm you ever get in a good rhythm you know life is going good you know we don't listen thought speech and action you're doing amazing because action you would never sin and you only gonna do positive things speech you only gonna say positive things you've never even think I need ever say anything negative and and and thought it's all positive you never even say anything negative it's all godly right so you have a good rhythm now you have a battle with a god with the animal soul so you fight you say listen you know what thank you very much have a good day god helps you doing good correct is determinate in america which they borrowed it from here and it says fail you buy success what does it mean failure by success failed me in fights exactly doing great action is great speech is great thought is great you even have like you know the battle is going good you have got helping you you're right you're standing up for your rights God's helping you're doing wonderful so what can happen is you can think yes what I'm doing great you got a made so you go sit down and you start relaxing alright you start relaxing so what happens the minute you close your eyes I don't mean physically you mean that you close your eyes and you relaxed you say oh everything is wonderful means I have to do any work you think for a second you don't do any work guess what happens animal soul kicks in the eights hard kicks in and before you know it you now going backwards so therefore the out reverse says therefore a person even though you're doing great in thought speech and action and even though in the battle you're doing great and you've got helping you but in your mind have a little sign and say but the truth is let's be honest am i myotonic no because I have an animal soul so I'm I'm like a Russia I'm not like a Russia god forbid in action I'm not like a Russian speech I'm not like watching thought but I am like a Rasta because I have an active animal soul I know as I am like a sonic and thought speech and action and that's true 100% you can pat yourself on the back for that but you are like a Russia Nilan thought speech and action there's you got to put the card strike you know in thoughts but the fact is you have an animal active animal soul that is every moment trying to take over fine you're winning he never got his foot on the on the on the playing field he never got involved in your thought speech and action I grant you that but he's still alive so the author Arthur who says you should always think of yourself like key Russia not rush so what's on Team Russia and key Russia macho means you're wicked you're not wicked it Russia means you're like Russia what does that mean you have one of those components of Russia namely that your animal soul is alive and well and feisty and loaded up with ammunition ready to take take over so by doing that you're always on guard how you always in guard because you know what as life is great is guess what I'm not arrogant to think that I can't be attacked there's new thing you can't be attacked if your your bulletproof your fail-proof your attack proof guess what now you're sleeping and while you're sleeping the enemy comes in and now you've finished so failure by success comes from here okay awaken aware which what the author was teaching us so far as two things number one is that the battle is constant and because the battle is constant you have to always work at it and don't be don't don't be afraid because ultimately God will come and help you God will help you but how do you remain alert always know that I have unfortunately my animal soul is live and well and therefore in a certain way I'm almost like a rush not in Russia in practice thought speech and action or in you know taking over of my decision-making but inability to take take me over 170 rush again I can be just like a Russian I don't if I'm not in top of situation so what am I supposed to do if you want to stay awake and you want to stay alert for sure you ask for God's help so what's a simple way what we discuss what's a simple way to stay strong so we know that the best thing you can do is he busy with who with God because the last thing you want to do is do nothing because those thing is doing nothing doing nothing means you're leaving room for the animals soul to take over so what is the best agenda to stay a Ben Oni and not fall God submitted or left who knows could have been me become a tonic very very hard why because you have to get rid of the animal soul and that is a very very hard task it says King David his whole life King David his whole life he worked and getting his animal somebody end of his life he got rid of him whole life but until then he was right he was living the life of the bane of me correct so in other words so how can so you need to have an agenda because if you're not going to be proactive in fighting the animal soul it's going to creep in in other words there's no such thing as sitting idle you sit idle you're going to be attacked so you have the proactive so how can you be proactive so therefore the we have two to two simple solutions how to be proactive one is very simple first one is study Torah when always 24/7 usually busy studying Torah now what happens if you study obviously if you besides if you have a job you have to work or if you have kids to take care of or yourself to take care of your spouse your parents whatever you have whatever you have be too busy with fine that's an exemption but your default setting is what am i doing I study Torah yet so I pray and I do mitzvot and everything but since I have a lot of 24 hours a day seven days a week which is a lot of time and if I'm not going to actively be busy and filling that time 24 hours a day seven days a week right months years etc what's going to creep in the animal soul they Yates's arrives ready to ready to creep in ready at any moment he wants to take over the wheel so therefore what are we supposed to do this study Torah now so therefore if you get up in the morning you have your daily schedule there's no gaps there's a gap you're studying Torah what happens when you're studying Torah think about it when you're studying Torah you take out a book whether it's a hummus or missioner Talmud whatever may be and you're reading Torah so first of all you're holding a book your mouth is moving because when you study Torah by the way if you take up a book and you just look at it that's not studying Torah starting tour requires two things saying the words and thinking what you're saying so if you're just looking at the words just like looking at a painting I mean it's not all a study it's interesting with an Torah study Torah study means you're sitting there you're reading the words and you think you are you saying we're sitting with a Cobb Russa wit with a study partner one is reading one is listening right you're thinking what the other one's saying and you're having conversation about it so as long as you're constantly studying Torah guess what do you think the animal saw has a place to put his foot in know you're busy no rule I'm studying I'm discussing I'm thinking about there's no room what happens when you stop studying telling you doing nothing guess what happens immediate takeover and immediate takeover that's not good so therefore you supposed to study Torah constantly now so what happens if you're abandoning or you'll want to be the bane of me so obviously in action you only do miss old don't you transgress speech you only say you know godly things positive things tore things etc thought is always positive happy healthy loving kind thoughts and now you're filling your time all your time is filled with a Torah study correct so the question is that's great how come you how come you know that sadiq number two that was number one oh we didn't get the two whoa very good we didn't get they keep you waiting get food yeah no we didn't get well get the two in a second once I wait so how come you know it's Alec you're filling your time constant tourists that want you Sadiq and the answer is again no because the truth is the truth is that in action and in speech and in thought you're filling your time exclusively with God your godly souls they is the primary force and the active force on all levels the animal soul does not have a foot in because basically guys are busy and there's no etrem to get its foot in right yeah but what's the difference the difference is very simple the minute you stop studying Torah you can study for ten hours straight and in being our spiritual I see you know I'm gonna go not to go to sleep because sleeping you're sleeping let me just go chill for now for an hour and do nothing the animal soul was not he's not dead he's not he's waiting he's waiting so here's the thing it's almost like because you got in because you're getting such a high from learning you feel great okay now let's go sit down do nothing well let's gossip a little whoa you know was gossiping your animal soul he just look over so but but it's a dick that will never happen because animal souls killed is dead by the Beynon you still have an active force waiting to take over and he's very patient and the minute you stop learning so in other words they're Bailey yeah we saw where we doubled when we will get to the second in a second and I didn't forget you so yeah you can fill your time with studying Torah animal soul get involved keep her busy good you keep right but the animal soul still alive and well so because it's still alive and well it's waiting if you're atopic it's not waiting it's gone for the bane Ernie it's always waiting knowing that is and remembering that because these Russ forget you know we like you only have comfortable okay that's what life is good no no that's not the problem start when you say life is good keep on going keep don't stop so but the minute you stop oh creep in it no creep in so in other words we learnt this constant before word something which is called Moya Charlotte ll leave the mind rules over the heart in other words what does that mean the godly souls in the mind and the animal souls in the heart like studying Torah what you're achieving is Mona Chantal lives which means that your mind is taking control of your life and you're busy studying Torah and you're talking about Torah and you're arguing about Torah so your mind is very very occupied with Torah study and therefore the heart where the animal soul is quiet how can you get in there is no eating it into the door cause of stomach but you have to remember as great as life as when you're studying stop you're in trouble but you see the reason why you can get get into trouble is because you think like hey Wow I'm studying like this great there's nobody he's gonna get into the door you're right as long as you're stunning as long as you're stunning you stop studying you're finished now so that was one way correct that's one way that's one way the second way the second way is second always like this second always like this what we say again the godly soul has to be busy in a proactive way creating a relation of a God so one way of creating that relationship a supersuit or study the second way is by what mixed vote is true correct action but more in a on a soul level and soul level is through prayer because when a person prays whereas when you pray I'm not saying again let's the final prayer means prayer means to take the book the prayer book and read the prayers say them and also feel the prayers or if it's not a formal pray of a prayer book it's basically just opening up your heart to God in opening your soul to God in verbal communication meditative communication which is in a certain way in some spiritual level it's much more much stronger more powerful than the Torah study because Torah studies your mind you know your your reading and your studying and you think instead of uh this is more feeling but feeling now that lower level feeling a higher level of feeling a soul level right the whole soul is moving in prayer so in a prayer when a person prays and again in this case they're one of the bane and he prays guess what happens do you think the animal Souls getting in no he's busy praying he's in love with God and the more you pray and you keep yourself busy with praying and studying and you're all your free time guess what he's not coming in the door he can't come in the door but and even though as great as your prayer is and while you're praying you have this tremendous love for God in a tangible way you can feel the love that you have for God you feel the connection and you can pray for hours and you can look at yourself or someone cooking say oh my gosh and never someone so holy like this guy's must be atomic right but if you're really not at Sadiq the prayer service will not kill your animal soul your animal soul is still there so what happens after you stop praying the animal Souls taken over so you can be this nicest guy you can be this holiest person in the prayer service this most dedicated God through pray or a Torah study the minute prayer service is over guess what you know you're exposed you have an open door for the animal cell to come right in and take over however you see when the sadiq prays it's a whole different Prater because he's praying his godly souls praying and when he's done praying there's no animal soul to come in by the Bane only the animal soul still alive fine keep yourself busy you'll do great that's why we have something which is called regular mitts vote and we have something which is called mitzvah to mediate we have mitts vote that are there are consistent and constant constant so for example Torah studies when consistent and constant prayer service in serving the Talmud challah buy it should be the wish that so much to pray all day long she smiled color young cool person to pray all day long if you pray all day long what will happen you're you're plugged in you have a mix of similar to be happy right that is what cook consistent and constant mitzvah to love God consistent and constant to be in awe of God and as long as you're in love of God which is active active in love of God and that happens to prayer you're in awe of God right to proper meditation you're enjoy with God you're studying Torah you're praying where's the animal so hot room there's no room for him the party room was busy awareness on the party room gets emptied right the prayer left the Torah study left the joy left the love left the oil left empty party room he's coming at the party I don't blame them empty partner and partiers we would be working right otherwise happy making money right Judaism's about a party a spiritual party but which are the godly soul keep dowels allowed but the garlic but but by the way no I agree with you the goal is that the godly soul should inspire the animal soul that he should love the Jewish party he should love the joy and the love and the war and the prey on Torah study nothing you should have two different parties oh when we were praying and you're studying to the animal social feel left out included say don't you want to enjoy this piece of solid or this missioner or the piece of hummus or like let's look god I mean right let's get a love of God and enjoy bring him in because if we'll enjoy that part he won't bother you for his own party you gotta make him part of your party absolutely absolutely it's our job we're gonna have a party animal Souls you cans feasible is that a goal and then once that goal is achieved there's no more animal soul now what do we do no it's oh no you know just know once the animal soul is gone and it becomes part of the godly soul that's the level of a topic the topic has a different service in the world we'll talk about it but you're right that's different the whole different service in the world but the topic has mainly as a different service now here comes an interesting dilemma Deltora deals us like this and he brings up a fascinating dilemma which it's an important level which and the reason why he brings up is because the animal soul or the naysayers or the mockeries will bring it up and he he basically confronts the issue head-on he said like this so what are you telling me think about this you go to synagogue and you pray wow you're in love with God right and you look at this holy guy you go ahead and you study right and you're studying on your increment trying this relation with God and then you stop studying you stop praying listen you you mean you need a break and all of a sudden the animal souls here taking over hey let's go party let's have a good time right so the question is hold on so the question is was that prayer service real was a Torah study real because if it's real how does the hand of the animals all getting in there how does the animal write an interesting thing the animal soul is so pervasive so alert ready the price absolutely it into almost any clevis check so there's quite a power there absolutely and I don't want to say is it more powerful than the guy but apparently no so we said before so we said before we said before that as long as the act regardless all stands up to it he has the edge because God what God will call in come and bring the troops into it but always on the edge yeah absolutely you're always on the edge you're always on the edge so it's always a struggle it's always it's there too it's there to keep going as hos absolutely say to keep you anything else I got it so back to the question so the question is right you ask yourself now obviously you're not really the guys doesn't really ask it's the animals trying to pull you down or somebody else someone else's annal trying to pull you down come on you're upright you you prayed two minutes later look after the prayer service you're ready going out and doing things in which an appropriate right or at least you want to do them or this is called Torah study so the answer is like this and here the author introduces a concept which is called MS what does Ms mean ms means truth Emmet's means truth so the question is well when your story studying Torah is this truly stunning Torah because if it is how come it doesn't last or if you're praying it is it really true prayer because if it's true play-acting one doesn't last so the author explains like this that there's something which is called ms Lomita so do you notice I said the word M is twice ms Lomita so the truth of the truth and then there's something we just called ms which is truth what does that mean like this truth of the truth is like the life of the time what does that mean that the life of the topic is he prays and he studies and he does mitzvahs and that's his whole life 24/7 so is he at sadiq 24/7 yes that's called the truth the truth it's real prayer it's real Torah study and the proof it's a it's a protection 24/7 family but then there's something which is called MS not la meto so because you can say that the Dana New Year is truth of the truth because the fact that's after the prayer service in a certain what since you can call it at Weir's off or after the Torah state wears off but it is 100% truth and the other explains why because because that sadek has no animal soul so the truth for him means that he prays he studies he doesn't Road and it has an effect there's nothing fighting it but because the baina need the dynamic of the beam in years that there is a godly soul an animal soul so therefore when he prays he is playing a hundred percent truthfully with the capabilities that he has when he's studying Torah he's studying were hunting truthfully with the capabilities that he has but because he has he's made up of a different dynamic than the God and the sonic he's the baby that has an active animal soul so therefore when he finishes praying and he finishes starting Torah the animal soul will creep him because of the dynamic that he has a living demon within him so is his prey of service Emma's a hundred percent while he's praying there's no other thoughts other than God and the relationship with God while he's studying the only thought he has is about the thing that he's studying and the relationship to God through through the study that he's stunning so it's a hundred percent real is it real where it affects in 24/7 no but it's a hundred isn't real like for example Downton give us an example where it says in the in the Torah that we light the candles in the temple Tom Mead coming means study right so means that he studying could mean study study means you light it and it's always on that means Tom 'add or tumin means you light it every single day that's all so steady steady means every morning for example nine o'clock you light the candles or every evening nine o'clock you light the candles that study so the point is this two types of study this steady which is 24/7 so that's the steady of the tonic 24/7 God God God God God prayer Torah study Mitzvah nothing else exists here's another study I have my prayer service in the morning every morning I'm doing my prayer service every afternoon I'm doing a prayer service every evening I'm doing my prayer service I have my my study sessions and those are steady for the hour or two that I dedicated to study you'll pray whatever maybe it shorts true now compared to the level of atonic is that truth no but it's not about comparing here yeah you want a cold sonic level truth of the truth absolutely but the level of the bane and he is truth for his level while he's thought while he's studying it's not going to cool and it's truthful also good is consistent knows if he studied one day and tomorrow he's missed three days that's already that's not truth that's not consistent truth means that there's a pattern that's truth and consistent so if you do if you study every single day the same amount or the same amount of time if you pray every single day chakras Monica Meyer that is aren't untruth and it's consistent and its study because you're doing it every day obvious if you break that down already now ready you broke that itself was broken but a Boehner needs consistent he prays three times a day he studies you know X amount of hours a day and so on and so forth so while he's studying is truthful and the fact that it's consistent is truthful now obviously yes compared to it there's a level it's not that truthful but the reality is the beta knee has to do the work of the Boehner knee that something doesn't work in the topic and as long as the bane and he does his work consistently and enthusiastically and with his level of truth it's 100 percent considered true and so a hundred percent considered truthful so in other words someone says to you outlook you prayed and are you doing this you studied now you have all these sensations one hundred percent all I prayed I was there one hundred percent while I studied I was there one hundred percent now I don't have that protection so that's what I want my my now I'm the urge is coming in what's the answer as we said before keep on studying keep on praying actually use this production and you see the reality is that the way God created us God created us that our mind works 24/7 you can't stop it like users on what do you thinking about now nothing that's not true you think about something you can you you couldn't you can choose what you think you're not looking at random thoughts in you so therefore the salic naturally 24/7 he's thinking about God his relationship of God how he can bring peace to cleave you're closer to God because wait you're a question for what what is when you get rid of the animal so what was the tally do he's thinking how he can bring the world closer to God right he's think he's seeing how you can bring the world cost about one second but the Boehner knee the Boehner knee on the other hand he has to be busy constantly filling his mind because the will last thing you want to do as it says in the Talmud a person that's bored could bring to the worst sins because nothing is bored you got to be busy with something you're either gonna choose what you ne busy with or by default someone else we have good friends always busy with good stuff come to this place for comes do that mister come to our class come to an event well maybe but if not someone negative or whatever is gonna pull you into something no good so the key point in the altar but I think the key message out there is giving in chapter 13 of Tanya's as follows to know that even though yes in action you would never do certain things and you only do the right things and a speech he always gonna say the right things you would never say anything wrong and it thought you always in a positive thoughts but know that you have an animal soul that's alive and well and it's constantly trying to get in but don't give up because the godly soul has power and as long as you're willing to fight it God will help you God will help you but remember that you never even is when you're gonna be successful remember that you didn't kill the animal soul and it's waiting and therefore you have to be busy studying Torah praying thinking about how you can have a relationship with God thinking about your love for God think you've not how you can be happy how you can make other people happy and the fact that you're still struggling and this is what long feel for the fact that you're struggling that's because you have an animal soul with inside of you that you can control so don't get down on yourself oh my gosh like I stopped praying and stop studying excepting my throat guess what it's just gonna take me over okay fine you know that but God gave you a remedy you have just plenty of story to study you can live your whole life plenty of Torah studies honey there's plenty of prayer you can do there's plenty of mitzvahs you can do there's plenty of joy celebrations you can go to we make a such joy celebration be busy with you know making for cooking for Shabbos making Shabbos whatever it's as long as you're busy with something good guess what you're not busy you're not giving the animals old is he so what else you can't complain that the animal soul wants to do something the only you can do is be proactive and get busy with something positive before it gets busy with something negative and that's why I think this chapter chapter 13 is a very very important chapter because it gives you the brutal honesty about the reality of the life of the veining and the life of the veiny on one hand is great because the fact is in thought speech and actually doing wonderful and even in the world of you know your godly soul you in the right place but no the animal Souls fighting you you can fight it you'll be successful because God's there with you and as long as you keep that in mind you're not gonna fail because of you success because you'll know that successful as you are you know that if you don't keep on working on it in a minute you can be taken over