Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #3

okay that was my trick all along okay okay all right fine so we we've begun first of all good news we mentioned last week i refused leimer for uh rifkey rifka bass malkov ki bartswivka basmalka um hashem she's home now but we're going to continue to uh dive in for satellite for rifka bas malka also uh i'm saying it's it is malcolm right yeah okay um also we want to mention the yard site 32nd yard site of golda bass that that's uh connie's grandmother so i want to mention we'll mention that what's one second well say again the name really you're just guessing just making stuff find any other dedications dedication [Applause] yakov alonso got it okay uh great this is great do we have well i feel like this is misha bergson okay always okay so here we are class number three and we are still in the hakadomasama locket and the compilers forward we spoke about last week that the compiler the altera was very forthright about the inherent limitations of a book when you're turning to a book for personal guidance and instruction and for a path in life it can be very frustrating because um like we said first of all when you're reading from a book remember the limitations you mentioned about a book first of all you're reading through your own subjective filter right the reader is always going to sort of read into things what they want to find that's one problem and even if the book is based on torah and when we say toyota we don't just mean the written bible we mean also which is also torah so even something that's based on uh hazal on our which ostensibly it shouldn't be subject it shouldn't be so subjective it should have uh universal relevance at least to all jews because the jewish people and toyota are all interconnected and and that's all true in theory but in practicality who says you're going to be able to find locate identify and pull out the messages that are for you because we know the nature of toyota is that there is not one black and white approach to anything remember the alternative even in which is about as straight forward as you can as you can get is it us or is it mutter can they do it or can't they do it and always what's the answer well it depends right it depends all right and that's we joke about it but it's true because toyota is is is emis and amis is the entire truth the whole truth nothing but the truth so within the truth there's a diversity and he mentions how you have like the the the hasid souls and you have the voter souls so you have those who are more lenient and more those who are more stringent and you know beijami and base hillel and in the end you know you have to know how to apply it for you or rav i guess in halakhah is the one who knows how to apply it for you so that's in halacha even in which should be fairly straightforward it's not always so clear what the specific guidance is how much more so when we're talking about things that are inherently uh subjective like emotions he says love and of hashem emotions are very i don't want to call it wishy-washy at all god forbid but uh it's not as easy to pin down as a behavior governs behavior here we're talking about emotions which are very uh fluid yeah and uh ephemeral and and and intangible and so it's very difficult to nail it down and say just tell me one clear-cut instruction so and that's even when you're basing the instructions on ontario so those are the those are the limitations all right so i think the where we ended the cliffhanger last week we basically talked you out of learning this book we said it's never going to work for you why'd you come back so why in the world are we going to read this book and um here's here's what i'm going to tell you and i i uh battle a lot internally with what to say and what not to say uh the whole the i don't know if it's an art or it's a craft of of teaching is about internal editing that's that's what i believe based on experience also based on sid this and i said this whenever it uses teaching as a metaphor it always talks about tsim tsum right about self-restraint about what you say what you don't say so it's all about internal editing and i always grapple with what i should say and what i shouldn't say and what's considered saying too much both from the standpoint of cognitive overload which i try to be very careful about not to like say too much information so that you get nothing but also from a perspective of um i don't want to rob you of a process sometimes you need to go through a process to come to a conclusion and if somebody who's very passionate about a subject and maybe even has a very strong stance about a subject comes in and they they say their opinion very very clearly so uh it sort of robs you of the nuances that are to be discovered when you when you slowly come to that recognition on your own as opposed to just having somebody say it in a very uh forthright manner you guys know you're following at all what i'm saying right now yeah okay so in the end i think i'm deciding i'm gonna say it like really forthright and then maybe try to explain it a little bit and and yeah you know i i also have this is not one of my written rules it's my unwritten rules i don't have any written rules actually but my proverbial unwritten rules they have i don't know why they call unwritten rules when i don't have any written rules but these are my proverbial unwritten rules one of my proverbial unwritten rules of teaching is that you should always have something in every class that you're not sure you should have said because if you're not right that's life right because if if you're playing it too safe right if you're playing it too safe there's no risk involved then you know there's well they say no pain no gain no risk no reward okay so here's what i'm going to tell you on one hand tanya is a universal jewish book it doesn't belong to any group or or movement um i wouldn't even say that it is the exclusive birthright of the siddham and when i say what i mean in the most general uh inclusive way of including every single strain of of of of siddhis tanya is a general book uh like like uh like uh meredith from the rambam it's just a thing that jewish people learn in order to be educated and to understand their role as jews and and that's true at the same time i don't want to pretend that tanya is learned the same all over it's not and i think one of the big differences and learning tanya okay so if i have a full disclosure everyone understands i'm a laboratory okay so learning time with obamacare i think one of the biggest and some people say daffka don't do it they'll say dhaka learn tanya but not with not with khabad don't know people will say they'll say don't learn okay and i i hear that by the way because you don't want somebody who's so uh you know uh chauvinistic about it you know a little more objectivity right i get that i totally get that um but here's what i'll tell you there's a huge there's one huge point and i didn't have to tell you any of this i could have just said it i could have just put it out there as if everybody learns it this way i decided i'm going to tell you what's going on and be transparent about it the answer to the question that we're grappling with right now in terms of the altered own question about the relevancy of this book the answer to that question can be understood in two vastly different ways i'll tell you the two different ways one way before we read and say we'll go inside we'll look what the altadeva says and and you could see both of them in the text but i'm going to tell you my messiah the tradition that's been handed down to me one way of looking at the text is the altered says well you're right books are inherent inherently limited but i'm writing this book for people that i know in real life and since we've sat down together and talked in the past so this will sort of just be like review from our previous conversations so it's not like getting to know somebody through a book you already know me and now the book is sort of like crib notes to refresh your memory okay and you can definitely read that in the text and i know people who teach it that way they teach it that way now of course what is the implication for us that comes from that is that the altitude answer to his question about the limitations of a book really isn't answered for us it's answered for some people who live 200 years ago in white russia following so i'll tell you how we understand it we a little barbecues okay unless i don't even mean all of khabad i'm sure when there's not time to get into a chabad history lesson but lubavitch is one one strain within khabad so it's not even all of chabad but the rebel shab the fifth rabbi grandson was the cemetzadek and that's eddie's grandson was the rebel shop whose birthday by the way is tonight you know in an address about the fact that the altar stealth is in yiddish so i'm telling you the language that he used the expression they used that the altar wrote himself into tanya in other words tanya is not a book that the altar ever wrote tanya is the alt-rebe in book form and therefore anyone who learns tanya who opens up that book is speaking is conversing with the altera so that's a very different way of understanding it we're saying is that when the altareba will say i wrote this book for those who know me he's not just speaking about people who lived in white russia 200 years ago he's speaking to anyone who's reading these words right now those who know me to fully grasp this you have to appreciate the idea of a rabbit and by a rabbit i don't mean a a communal leader or a teacher or even a miracle worker none of that is relevant here when i'm talking about it but what i mean at least pertinent to our present context is a term that we refer to as nishama claus an aggregate soul or a hub soul a soul that is intrinsically connected with all souls now the truth is all jewish souls are connected to all other jewish souls so it's really not that much of a kiddish once you understand the idea of ah so the role of arabic doesn't really it's not that much more radical the only idea that's a little bit different is that the rebe is the acronym rosh bene israel so if all jewish people are one organism one body with various different organs and limbs so arab is like the head of that organism but really all jews are united we're all one one person the jews are not a people they're a person so if there's a member of the jewish people who is an aggregate soul or a a neshama claus then they know you already and you're connected to them already and in fact that is the entire premise upon which the this is predicated in other words this book is a substitute for one-on-one guidance with the alternative meaning you wanted to go have a year this means a one-on-one audience but what's that why do you want a one-on-one audience with it with the rabbit because you heard he's a great consultant because that because he's an expert no that's not why uh hosted would go to this with the altar but not because he's an expert or or because he knows a lot or even because he has a rocket edition he could read minds or whatever else you think that arabic can do that's not why you would go you would go because you feel that my soul root is bound up in this sadik and they know me in ways better than actually i consciously know myself so that's not based on an intellectual relationship that he's the teacher he knows stuff he's going to tell me that's based on an underlying metaphysical bond so the same reason you would go to the alta rabbit if you were in white russia 200 years ago and you go to the altar and say guide me rabbit tell me my direction in life tell me how to serve hashem better the reason you would go ostensibly the reason you would go is not because you think he's so smart but because you think he knows your soul because you're already linked you're already connected well that's the same reason you'd open up his book because you think that this is someone who knows me you think this is someone who knows you already so like i said there are two very different ways of approaching this this is this is the definition of the scope of effectiveness of this book is being defined right here and now in the compilers forward depending on how you answer this question you're going to determine at least from your perspective the the ultimate relevance of this book one way of looking at it is it was relevant at its time but the the author acknowledges its limitations and but but it has historical relevance or whatever however you want to say that it has some type of importance to us today that's one approach and there are those who take that approach and they can support it with the text and i understand if they don't have the same message that i have i completely understand why they would say that and that's fine i'm not here to argue with anyone but another approach and the approach that i was taught to take is that the one-on-one personal audience you are meeting the altar who already knows you and knows you deeply and knows you on a essence level and that's what the book is and why is it possible how is it possible because of who the author is because of the because it's because this is a book written by a tadik and the shama claus and so the book operates differently than than than the normal books even normal torah books yeah would you say that works for something like that or something for that effect is this exclusive no it's not exclusive to the altar no i'm not saying that the algorithm was the only one who ever accomplished it and uh we see that there are people who are makushir literally i mean the makusha is a is a la shana kurdish word it's hard to translate into english connected it doesn't do it justice but there are people who are connected to a to a rabbit through a safer and it's not just you know oh like shakespeare lahavdo it's a real connection it's a real relationship so uh you know i'll tell you also that it's parenting you're referring to the parenting thing always go back to that you got to put in the plug for when are we doing the next thing this next summer you're ready got it booked all right because we know your birthday it's always on your birthday thereabouts okay um the the alt rabbit used to say that so the balshantav hada had a grandson named bharara rabbarakhmeshabjar who was a rabbi in his own right and the baal shem tov i mean the the al-taraba used to refer to the balsam de vezaid because the al-tarabha's spiritual father was the maggit who was the we spoke about in this first class and the margaret's rabbit was the balshampton so the the the altered was the basham so he used to call him and it was known that he he would tell her that barack biological grandchild of the balshamptiv and not only the biological grandchild but the maternal grandchild which alpi kabbalah is an even closer connection we could talk about that another time but maternal grandchild is the closest you can get to a person biologically is to be their daughter's son we'll talk about that later but um yeah i mean it has to do with the gestation basically you can't be born from the womb of a man because they don't have one but if the balshamptiv has a daughter and then the child is born from that daughter so it's as close as you can get to being born from the womb of the balshampta basically if you think about that okay so the reboro had that had that advantage and yet the altareba used to tell rabbot he said you are the biological grandchild but i am the spiritual grandchild do best and he meant this with pride that it was an advantage that he was the spiritual grandchild so the rabbi asks a question according to hasidis it doesn't make sense why it would be seen as advantageous in any way to be the spiritual grandchild over the biological grandchild siddis explains to us that the relationship between father and son is far deeper incomparably deeper than the relationship between teacher student so i'll explain to you how it brings it out teacher student is what's called seiko it's an emanation like i was talking about before the the the art or the craft of teaching is all about concealment it's about what you say what you don't say what you you know the internal editing so first of all the teacher only says part of what they know second of all even when they say part of what they know the student only hears part of what was said by definition there's always the the the you know telephone broken telephone game right there's always a breakdown in comma in communication okay so a student really only gets whatever messaging the teacher was putting out there and even from that that wasn't everything that this the teacher really knows it's not everything it's not even everything that the teacher actually said um whereas a child and a father we're not talking about the emotional bond here but what we're talking about is that a child gets the dna from the father talking about a biological child so they automatically get the father's essence and the classic illustration of this is there's something the gemara talks about it a genius who's the son of a mentally deficient man and yet this genius inherited his genius from his father who was mentally deficient so the question is how is that possible what do you mean how is it possible because even though the father was mentally deficient that was only incredulous let's say he had a head injury whatever but he wouldn't genetically pass that down to his child his child would rather inherit the father's fullest potential even potential that the father never realized i mean you could have a you could have like a musical talent that would be carried in a family for generations and one day somebody starts playing the piano like well where'd you get this musical town i got it from my great great great grandfather but from that from the greater grandfather to now nobody touched the piano so it was undiscovered the point is the reason why the essence the essence of the father gets transmitted to the child is precisely because it's a biological relationship it's physical the idea of physicality and this is not the place for a whole long a long exposition about this but physicality is the medium for transferring essence that's why souls had to come down to bodies in order to do to do mitzvahs because up in heaven we have a subjective experience of god we experience revelation of godliness it's only an embodiment where we do mitzvahs and we can have intimacy with god through doing objective acts called called called mitzvahs so physicality is the this is the only medium in all of the worlds for the transmission of essence spirituality can only transmit a a a a glimmer a glimmer of something okay so the teacher-student relationship is a glimmer the father child is essence so that eva asks how was the altar bragging and saying i am the spiritual grandchild when we all know according to siddhis that that's not as intense of a bond as the biological father child bond especially a maternal grandson like barack was okay following so far okay so that ever answers like this that when when is this true everything we've said is when you're talking about a regular teacher student this is true with a regular teacher student but a rabbi and the khasid is not a regular teacher student the madrid says resemble their creator and what does it mean that sadiq resembled their creator well one of the manners in which that sadiq resembled their creator is that hashem gave us himself through title hashem did not give us a book that he wrote he gave us himself through a book that's why anoichi when hashem introduces himself in this series in the ten commandments and he refers to himself as i the personal pronoun first person pronoun says i wrote myself and gave myself through the medium of torah so torah like we say the zayur says hashem are entirely one so tata is not a book that god wrote torah is god in book form so what does it mean then follow the next step we said sadhikam demon labadom that said resemble their creator one of the things it means is that just like hashem was able to put his essence into the medium of torah so too tzaddikim uniquely not like a regular teacher can put their essence into their toyota so it's not a regular teacher-student relationship where you're learning stuff that the toddix said you're actually becoming connected to the tsadic and in a way that's a deeper connection not only than a regular teacher-student relationship but even deeper than a familial relationship a biological relationship deep stuff so that's the understanding of why anyone would have sought out the altar in his time if somebody would have gone yukidus to the altareb and asked for direction in his time again it wasn't just because they thought he was smart or even that he had ruach edition he could read minds or whatever else they thought about the altareb and when a hustler went to the altar rabbit because the the house had understood that this person and i are are already connected he understands me uh in ways beyond what i'm able to consciously understand about myself and therefore i'm seeking his guidance so what i'm telling you is that when we approach tanya we approach it in that way we say that this is not just a very very wise rabbi wrote a lot of really good advice and we're going to try to see how much we could apply it that's not how we look at it we look at it as the altareba took his holy yehidist simmer from lyajna and he put it into the pages of this book and when we open the book we can enter that yehidis room that's how we look at it and you hid this is happening now and the relationship is happening now that's how that's how we look at it okay let's look in the text and you are free to to see it both ways and indeed i encourage you to see it both ways and if you want to see it the second way i want that to be your choice and if you want to put that on the shelf and say you know what let me see if that's an idea that can grow on me that's probably a sensible thing in fact anyone who never heard this idea before ever in their life and is ready to immediately believe me i'm that kind of concerns me so if you heard this idea and you're comfortable with it fine if you never heard it please reserve judgment but like be open but don't be too don't be too open like let it grow on you let it in other words i have nothing to sell here if the alta dev is capable of reaching you through the pages of this book he'll reach should you yeah yeah yeah that's what you're saying yeah well you said it better than me but yeah that's right yeah yeah we can't make it happen i mean our willingness is what is our contribution yeah that's right okay so let's see what happens okay so we know the inherent limitations of a book we all talked about that ah however um i'm talking to those who know me and recognize me by the way this term yeh dai umakirai comes from the gemoda it says everyone sees where we are everyone has different copies of tanya so maybe you can find the ah [Music] okay this expression yay daimakirai is actually from the gemara it says you know who rakov was yeah who was rakhov she ended up marrying yeshua she helped the spies yeah that's my bar mitzvah haftara by the way it's my bar mitzvah yeah and um the the have taught us she says she was in isha zaina some say say that's lush and vasana she was a grosser others say it means that that she she had a grocery but she had another occupation as well anyways uh rakhov and she was apparently this uh incredibly uh beautiful woman and in fact the gemara says that anyone who even says her name they're gonna experience a very intense uh reaction and then there's a there's a debate among the sages and he says i said her name nothing happened to me he says well you had to have known her like it's those who know her and reckon if you knew her in person then you would have you know that intense reaction but that's where that that's where that expression comes from so those who knew her in person so the altar is using that language those who know me and recognize me it's like uh yeah pretty intense right so i'm speaking to those who know me and recognize me we've spoken together we've shared affectionate words they revealed to me already all of the hidden matters of their heart and mind regarding the service of hashem alayhim titiv milosi lashania ate safer to them my word drips forth and should be like a pen my tongue should be like a pen trace shameless compiled sayings that were taken like it says on the title page from the different books and scholars sages who are whose souls are in paradise okay so there you go i mean he's saying yeah there are limitations for books but this shouldn't be a problem because you guys know me like i said that you can you can interpret you guys know me the way it is very clear in the text or you can interpret it according to the message that we have and then the fiduciary and this was and the mash beam from from all of the generations this is this is the path that that we have okay so now the the alternative goes back to referring to the fact that these uh that the information here is called from various sources he mentions it's from books it's also from sages he says some of the ideas here were hinted to in the letters from our sages in the land of israel he's talking about mendel harudakar also known as who was one of the talmudia maguin he was a colleague of the altera but he was a senior colleague in the altar viewed him after the passing of the margaret the outfit viewed him as a as a rabbi and he was part of the hasidic aliyah they went to i think i mentioned this in the first class first to tsvas and then to tavaria so the alternative says you'll you'll you'll pick up on a lot of the things i'm talking about here we're we're we're stated by the mendelhauer docker in his letters albeit in maybe more uh more obliquely okay some of the things that i'm writing here i heard personally from these sages when they were here meaning here in in white russia with us and all of this stuff i'm writing here is answers to the many questions that people ask for advice all the time okay call ahad one according to their level 8 says hashem in order to get counsel in their service of hashem okay so he's reiterating again the kind of book it is it's a it's a manual it's a guide it's uh it's advice in fact not so much you don't hear this anymore but apparently historically there was a time when siding referred informally they referred to tanya as lakute aitsus the the book of advice or the compilation of advice okay because that's the point of tiny tiny is not just an encyclopedia of acidic ideas tanya is a practical guidebook it's advice why people came and they asked the alternative how do i do this how do i bet and he was giving them advice he's saying i'm not but we're not doing that system more we're changing the system now all of the advice is in the book okay so then the question becomes well why did we change the system what was wrong with the old system okay now obviously if you understand everything we're reading here in the second perspective which is this is happening now so you totally understand why the system changed because if not for the book we wouldn't even have a chance to have this connection right okay but as far as contemporaneous why was there a change in the system theatre is very simple there's not enough time it's just time limitation thing i cannot give everyone personal answers the gam also forgetfulness is common forgetfulness is common meaning to say the out there was saying i i i spoke to you about this like i barely have enough time to meet with you once and you're coming in you're coming twice to ask the same question we've been over this right so how about this how about i write it down and now you have it you have it you can come back to it okay so the system of writing it is sort of like a practical thing that first of all a lot of people are asking the same questions there's certain questions a lot of people are asking so why answer each person one at a time you put it all in one book you can serve many more people that way right but second of all a lot of people are asking the same questions repeatedly so not only the two people ask the same question but sometimes one person asks the same question twice or three times or however many times okay alkane therefore based on these needs resham te kola chuvas alcola shilas i wrote down all the answers to all the questions these are all the questions that people ask in how to serve hashem again this is not questions all the questions that ever could why is the sky blue that's not the point these are the questions people ask in in terms of how do you serve a chef so all the questions people ask about how to serve a hashem i wrote it all down in this book this is preserved now in record now everyone can have it as a reminder between their eyes it's accessible we've got it out there now and you're not going to have to push each other anymore to get into yakidas this is the one-on-one audience why because the book is the new yorkers rather that did similar things with um with dollars and people complained people complain about dollars imagine that how accessible that ebba was that in his late 80s standing for hours on his feet and standing there as long as anyone wanted to get in line right how accessible that i was standing there in his old age just to meet anyone who wanted to meet him right and people had the nerve to complain about that he said but i want to you hear this i want a one-on-one honors because earlier you know when laboratory was much smaller people used to okay you had to schedule it and you had to wait a while but you get to come into the numbers room and you have your one-on-one and then they gradually phased that out then it became groups and then they phased that out and it became the sunday dollars and people have the nerve to complain about it and and that episode but that is that i've also said the fabregas and in fact people would write to them and say i i need a personal answer and the number said i answered you at the fabregan but they didn't want no because the fabregan everybody's there i want my personal that's your yohides in other words if you trust the rebbe enough to know how to guide you trust the rebel enough to know how to guide you and if he's telling you i can get you what you need through this medium through this format then let's go with that okay so the altar is saying don't you do not have to tackle each other to get into this anymore the this is here it's in the book it's in the book okay because in in these countries in these pamphlets you're going to find tranquility for your souls going to put you at ease the eights in the good advice hashem in any troubling manner matter in aveda sacha again it's not going to answer why is the sky blue obviously not why is this guy when i say why is the sky blue i mean i'm sort of making fun of philosophical questions this is not but rabbi why you know no this is not stumped a rabbi this is not any philosophical question but if it's a practical question that people need in order to serve hashem it's here it's here okay fine and again you could take two approaches to how the alternative and manage that you could say one approach is well he had a lot of experience he advised a lot of people so he heard all the questions so he knows what people ask or you could say altareb is connected to the people reading the safer and he knows exactly what you have on your mind how because it's a spiritual thing and it transcends time and space now that i was speaking to you okay or you could just say he had a lot of experience and he knew a lot of people he heard a lot of questions you could look at it however you want to look at it okay so basically saying people should be confident in this because hashem is you just trust in hashem it's going to be good the book's going to work the book is going to work umisha dai tickets are now you're going to come to me and say but i still have a problem i believe you i believe you that the book works i'm still not so sure i'm going to be able to use it so the alternative says misha daitech somebody whose mind is not capable of fully understanding the advice in these books here's what you do this book was given along with a a a complementary system it's not just a text you see this by the way till today the problem of people who approach tanya just as a text divorced from any other context that's not the way the book was given says the system for the book is you read the book you try to find your personal answer but if you don't you foreign you should explain yourself to the people in your town the experts the tanya teachers of your town the local masb the vena nuhu and they will help you understand so the alternating very clearly the book works but you have to also get someone locally to help you out as you're unpacking it you need a spear for sure okay now yeah what is the root of the word tanya and why is it this is your favorite like we said before the book's not called tanya it's called it's called the kutiyama don't worry about it right now because i have three minutes and i want to finish the no it's called the alternative is called it's assembled it's is there root to the word yeah of course there is but i won't talk about it right now of course okay so now the altera speaks to the local experts and he lets them know that they are essential to this new system that he set up so the altered says and i'm requesting of them i'm pleading with them the the the local teachers shalom they shouldn't put their hand on their mouth like you know being quiet making silencing themselves shall she shall to conduct themselves with false humility please it is not the time to be humble if somebody comes to you and says i'm trying to learn tanya i've taken it seriously i've adopted this book as a guide in my life and i can't figure it out and you think you may have an explanation for them you're not allowed to withhold it from them serious stuff listen to what he says the kenoida it is known the great punishment for somebody who hoards food this is called food somebody who wants to learn tanya and they can't learn it it's like somebody who can't get food it's like they're starving so if you have the ability to feed them and you don't do it it's a terrible thing so on one hand it's a terrible thing if you're able to help them and you don't help them and on the other hand the gay de la scar how great is the reward there's a verse that says hashem will enlighten both of their eyes what does it mean both of their eyes the teacher and the student kiara shampoon of alayam urpne malachim because hashem will enlighten the the face of both of them meaning to say that if you want to really and this is so true it's true every single time too if you want to understand tanya better teach it and every time you teach it you understand it better because it's endlessly wise and you never understand a fraction of it so the more that you teach it the better you understand it and of course we yearn for the days the fulfillment of the prophecy that it says in conjunction with the times of meshiach that no longer will one person teach another person about god because everyone will know god personally so obviously the ideals mashiach should come and nobody's going to need a teacher but until that time it's very important and the teacher who refuses to do so is doing a terrible thing whereas if they if they agree to do so they're doing a wonderful thing and side benefit it's gonna it's gonna enlighten the teacher as well okay and just to finish the verse here kimalahod is death hashem the gamer because the world is going to be full of the knowledge of god when the comes amen can you not say that's the prayer that that should come to fruition okay the rest of the dhamma is uh legal stuff regarding the prohibition of copying the book as i mentioned to you the this was a real concern first of all cost a lot of money to print the book it was very expensive printing was was almost prohibitively expensive um so it was protecting the interests of those who had put forth the the money to print the book but also as i mentioned to you that there were falsified versions of tanya in the end it didn't help because the alter went to prison anyway um after the tanya came out and uh so that was but that was a that was a real concern about people having um bootleg versions of tanya okay anyways so just let let me wrap up here because we finished the malacca hashem we're going to be able to start chapter one we'll start uh and then when we when we get to chapter one the first word of chapter one is tanya yo we'll tell you why it's called tanya what i said when we get to chapter one next week god willing the first word of chapter one is tanyan we'll tell you why it's called tanya although i never normally do and i'll tell you why because one of my pet peeves is when tanya teaches see one of the things tiny is so rich you could teach one word a class not exaggerate you could go a whole class on each word and my one of my pet peeves is especially should i say this yeah why not i'll say it in laboratory circles where they learn tanya with kids in school what happens is they learn a thousand things about one word and then you say what is the book about i don't know because they never got the big picture so normally i would never say what tanya means because i want to move i want to get to the the big picture but since you asked i'll i'll i'll tell you next week here's a cliffhanger for next week okay okay all right so next week i'm at hashem chapter one yeah